Releases/6.2.4/RC1

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    Windows

    • LibreOffice 6.2 will require Windows 7 or newer

    New Features

    An in-progress list of features for this version is available here.

    Reported Bugs

    A list of annoying bugs still contained in this version is available from Bugzilla. On the other hand, the list of annoying bugs fixed in this version is available from Bugzilla. the full list of reported bugs is here.

    Collaborators

    The full list of people who have collaborated in this release is here.

    List of fixed bugs

    Bugs fixed compared to 6.2.3 (rc2):

    1. i#98792 Slide show needs idle callback [Miklos Vajna]
    2. ofz#14422 null deref [Caolán McNamara]
    3. ofz#14469 null deref [Caolán McNamara]
    4. rhbz#1691287 LibreOffice does not prompt for printer authentication [Caolán McNamara]
    5. rhbz#1696037 [abrt] libreoffice-core: operator&<SfxChildVisibility>(SfxChildVisibility, o3tl::typed_flags<SfxChildVisibility>::Wrap)(): soffice.bin killed by SIGSEGV [Caolán McNamara]
    6. rhbz#1699347 Crash in LibreOffice writer when I type a data in the YYYY-MM-DD format [Caolán McNamara]
    7. rhbz#1702810 Prepare for upcoming libebook soname version bump [Milan Crha]
    8. tdf#53029 There is no authentication function when printing using CUPS on the network with LibreOffice Dialogs [Caolán McNamara]
    9. tdf#82009 PIVOTTABLE: Black color on fields of Pivot Table Layout window (Mac OS X only) [Tomaž Vajngerl]
    10. tdf#82184 Improve installation process for non en-US locales [Eike Rathke]
    11. tdf#90753 gbuild: Move packages to autoinstallation in scp2 [Stephan Bergmann]
    12. tdf#97822 Trees missing arrows if OpenGL is enabled [Miklos Vajna]
    13. tdf#100986 Rotated text does not work with on Windows (old layout: Graphite only, new layout:all fonts) [Miklos Vajna]
    14. tdf#101854 RENDERING: Poorman's bold not bold on Japanese font on macOS (see comment #13) [Tomaž Vajngerl]
    15. tdf#103725 Font scaling does not work on Windows with the new layout engine [Miklos Vajna]
    16. tdf#103831 Horizontal text scaling doesn't work correctly when OpenGL is enabled on Windows [Miklos Vajna]
    17. tdf#105150 PPTX import: shape fill is not set to slide default background color [Miklos Vajna]
    18. tdf#107966 OPENGL: Format Cells/Borders/Line Styles - not drawn [Miklos Vajna]
    19. tdf#108423 Autocorrect while typing not replacing anymore (manually added to Replace-With) i'll, i've, i'm [László Németh]
    20. tdf#109376 Crash after accepting all changes from compared documents [Michael Stahl]
    21. tdf#112318 Animations set to start 'With previous'/'After previous' don't work when OpenGL is enabled [Miklos Vajna]
    22. tdf#113076 Italic set fonts are clipped on right edge in presentation mode with OpenGL rendering (HA or CPU rendering not affected) [Miklos Vajna]
    23. tdf#113289 ODT: footnote separator line does not show [David Vogt]
    24. tdf#113834 FILESAVE Crashes when saving remotely when service host is empty [Julien Nabet]
    25. tdf#114316 Context Menu doesn't open in full screen mode in Writer with OpenGL rendering [Miklos Vajna]
    26. tdf#114801 EDITOR DOCX Cannot use the highlight 'bucket' function with docx file [Tamás Zolnai]
    27. tdf#115262 Image object cumulative placement error affecting Print Preview and PDF export in .ods with irregular row height [Miklos Vajna]
    28. tdf#115843 HiDPI images in LibreOffice Writer are blurry with GTK3 backend [Caolán McNamara]
    29. tdf#116666 Fix Hungarian collation [László Németh]
    30. tdf#117891 Base table icons in Main window Tables list are displaying the Calc Template icon [andreas kainz]
    31. tdf#118302 Tabs' content in calc get deleted by accident (GTK3) [Katarina Behrens]
    32. tdf#118977 MacOS: Low resolution image when pasting screenshot from Preview to Writer [Tomaž Vajngerl]
    33. tdf#119890 Default directory for my documents is not xdg-user-dir DOCUMENTS [Takeshi Abe]
    34. tdf#119965 Tooltips on macOS don't match platform styling [Tomaž Vajngerl]
    35. tdf#120270 No update to refs to sum cell after undoing change in sum range [Dennis Francis]
    36. tdf#120585 Pie chart segment rendered as rectangle when anti-aliasing is off with gtk3 [Katarina Behrens]
    37. tdf#120754 Crashes on UNDO [Caolán McNamara]
    38. tdf#120797 Comment not displayed on hovering with gtk3 and kde5 [Katarina Behrens]
    39. tdf#120865 KDE5: Can't move down field to see text with breaks in LO Calc [Katarina Behrens]
    40. tdf#121337 FileDateTime("\\nonexistent\smb\path") returns bogus result rather than throwing error [Stephan Bergmann]
    41. tdf#122172 OOoSpotlightImporter causes mdworker to crash repeatedly. [Tomaž Vajngerl]
    42. tdf#122244 Installer DMG window on macOS has a misplaced "bin" folder icon [Stephan Bergmann]
    43. tdf#122487 Wrong Naming of Drawing Objects [Caolán McNamara]
    44. tdf#122599 Classification: Signing: paragraph signing doesn't change to invalid when the paragraph is splitted with Enter [Caolán McNamara]
    45. tdf#122767 Artifacts from comment popup with OpenGL enabled [Miklos Vajna]
    46. tdf#122780 FILEOPEN DOCX Crash with too long Template tag in app.xml [Caolán McNamara]
    47. tdf#122926 FILEOPEN ODT Slower compared to the past [Noel Grandin]
    48. tdf#123054 FILEOPEN DOCX Paragraph style changes (regression) [László Németh]
    49. tdf#123058 VCL=qt5 filesaver doesn't add extension with checkbox checked [Michael Weghorn]
    50. tdf#123204 EDITING Not all special characters appear in the AutoFilter window ( Hungarian ) [László Németh]
    51. tdf#123228 selection from Firefox themes (own theme) no longer works ( Firefox changed the API & removed the footer images) [Muhammet Kara]
    52. tdf#123285 DATA LOSS: Writer AutoFormat "Delete spaces and tabs at end and start of line" dropping characters from text with built-in paragraph styles [Michael Stahl]
    53. tdf#123291 UI: Hex color input box for changing column chart node color doesn't work [Caolán McNamara]
    54. tdf#123313 Undoing ToC insertion in middle of word causes assertion failure [Michael Stahl]
    55. tdf#123421 FILESAVE XLSX Calc creates corrupted pivot table [Dennis Francis]
    56. tdf#123472 Unable to create file on gvfs mounted volume [Stephan Bergmann]
    57. tdf#123550 Paragraph Option: Orphan Control or Widow control should be tri-state [Caolán McNamara]
    58. tdf#123684 FILEOPEN PPTX: Slide background fill imported with wrong color [Miklos Vajna]
    59. tdf#123750 KDE5/ Plasma: LO Filedialog isn't showing removable devices [Michael Weghorn]
    60. tdf#123832 Libre Office ver 6.2 (x64 Setup hang up while trying to install [Mike Kaganski]
    61. tdf#123855 export to xhtml from writer no longer preserves footnotes as hyperlinks [Michael Stahl]
    62. tdf#123859 Move slides in LO Impress -> slides disappear and finally it leads to crash [Katarina Behrens]
    63. tdf#124026 KDE: Can't resize any toolbar [Katarina Behrens]
    64. tdf#124032 MacOSX: Macro-Dialog: Background-Color on TextBoxes don't show [Tomaž Vajngerl]
    65. tdf#124219 soffice won't launch because of missing symbol cairo_surface_get_device_scale [Caolán McNamara]
    66. tdf#124240 Untranslated strings for Table of Contents, Index, Bibliography, etc. [Julien Nabet]
    67. tdf#124241 Window too large to get to okay on 1600x900 display [conditional formating, cell style] [Caolán McNamara]
    68. tdf#124292 KDE5: Fractional scaling makes most UI and rendered text look bad [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
    69. tdf#124326 Undo after drag&drop changes the original formula [Dennis Francis]
    70. tdf#124327 Calc. Wrong render of legend's font in Chart (OpenGL enabled) [Miklos Vajna]
    71. tdf#124329 Published attribute of shapes in sheets regarding the now 3 anchoring types is missing [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
    72. tdf#124385 toolkit: UnknownPropertyException on setModel() call [Vasily Melenchuk]
    73. tdf#124386 Don't show all symbols [Caolán McNamara]
    74. tdf#124411 Impress: dragging image from file browser to slide replaces [Caolán McNamara]
    75. tdf#124469 table of figures and index of tables not clickable in pdf [Michael Stahl]
    76. tdf#124503 LibreOffice doesn't detect JVM because of unexpected java.vendor property value [Stephan Bergmann]
    77. tdf#124579 Basic Macro hang up when using (operation system) filepicker/folderpicker [Mike Kaganski]
    78. tdf#124586 Crash if switch from user outline numbering to chapter numbering with same paragraph style [Michael Stahl]
    79. tdf#124598 gtk3_kde5: Opening file dialog makes LO hang if KIO libraries are not installed [Michael Weghorn]
    80. tdf#124605 Empty Variant leads to the following operator being ignored [Eike Rathke]
    81. tdf#124613 FORMATTING: Page Style for First page number shows up a "1.05" (gen) [Caolán McNamara]
    82. tdf#124652 gtk3_kde5: Hang/crash when using folderpicker from Java extension [Michael Weghorn]
    83. tdf#124670 Lost of space symbols in DOCX document [Mike Kaganski]
    84. tdf#124676 FILESAVE: xlsx document with pivot table exported by Calc results in recovery dialog when opened in Excel [Dennis Francis]
    85. tdf#124698 CRASH: closing authentication dialog after LibreOffice [Caolán McNamara]
    86. tdf#124704 No values of variables shown by mouseover in BASIC [Caolán McNamara]
    87. tdf#124722 CRASH: after pasting, if deleting more text than fits on a page [Michael Stahl]
    88. tdf#124725 The LibreOffice Help Webpage- Can't search for anything after typing what I wanted to look for & pressing "Enter" [Ilmari Lauhakangas]
    89. tdf#124730 Writer Crashes when Creating New Style [Caolán McNamara]
    90. tdf#124756 Media objects do not trigger effects. [Miklos Vajna]
    91. tdf#124791 LO installer is missing UI language codes [Mike Kaganski]
    92. tdf#124794 Installation fails on Windows Server 2008 R2 [Mike Kaganski]
    93. tdf#124804 FORMATTING Image properties Borders not properly handled (automatically reset to default) [Caolán McNamara]
    94. tdf#124828 FILEOPEN XLS Crash with large spreadsheet [Caolán McNamara, Luboš Luňák]
    95. tdf#124919 Increasing text size in table only affects the first cell [Caolán McNamara]
    96. tdf#124932 UI: GTK3: in dialog Customize, the list Shortcut Keys doesn't get the focus with TAB, no other option to enter any widget [Caolán McNamara]
    97. tdf#124942 CRASH - 3D Slide Transitions in Impress [Caolán McNamara]
    98. tdf#124979 Assert when saving versions [Caolán McNamara]
    99. tdf#124980 Crash when defining a range [Caolán McNamara]
    100. tdf#124984 Organize basic macro: newly added module doesn't show up [Caolán McNamara]
    101. tdf#124990 kde5: unfinished DnD of a sheet erases all contents of the sheet [Katarina Behrens]
    102. tdf#125002 [Styles] Tab stop settings get mixed up during editting them [Caolán McNamara]
    103. tdf#125011 Can't duplicate an object [Caolán McNamara]
    104. tdf#125039 Regression from bug 123259 when anchoring a graphic as character [Michael Stahl]
    105. tdf#125080 LibreOffice crashes when adding icons to Gallery [Caolán McNamara]
    106. tdf#121337 propagate getGFileInfo failure less aggressively [Stephan Bergmann]

    Translations

    This build contains these translation updates: [1]. See credits for each language.