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Installation

Windows

• LibreOffice 24.2 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 24.2.0 Beta1:

1. cid#1558174 bad bit shift operation [Caolán McNamara]
2. cid#1558833 uninitialized scalar field [Caolán McNamara]
3. cool#6893 ScFormulaGroupIterator::next creates columns [Caolán McNamara]
4. tdf#33201 UI: Highlight (not select) current row and column in spreadsheet [Sahil]
5. tdf#68364 Fields: Conditional text error [Andreas Heinisch]
6. tdf#76115 FILEOPEN: Calc can't read XLSX generated by certain software using backslash "\" as file name separator [Mike Kaganski]
7. tdf#86395 Allow sorting of bookmarks in the navigator in two ways: alphabetically and by order in document [Jim Raykowski]
8. tdf#105844 FILESAVE: Very slow saving with password compared to 5.2.5 [Michael Stahl]
9. tdf#108505 FILEOPEN: DOCX - Drop down list form field doesn't have correct font when at the beginning of a line [Justin Luth]
10. tdf#111969 right-click on right half of last character in selection loses the selection (Writer) [Justin Luth]
11. tdf#117651 AutoCorrect does not change preexisting text inside /slashes/ to italics, nor change -strikethrough- [Matt K]
12. tdf#123864 No feedback for screen reader when radio button for underline attribute changes [Michael Weghorn]
13. tdf#131575 FILEOPEN: LO can't open generated XLSX (without docsProps) that MSO opens - opens if [content_types].xml caps changed [Mike Kaganski]
14. tdf#140401 LibreOffice crashed due to custom installed fonts [Patrick Luby]
15. tdf#142695 Add info about double-click making commands sticky to all affected commands' tooltips [Matt K]
16. tdf#142926 On F1 / Help failure - No resolution path is identified for resolving errormesssage [Rafael Lima]
17. tdf#150695 The string "IgnoreAll" is probably wrong [Julien Nabet]
18. tdf#151456 AnimatedImages in Basic Dialog : StepTime is ignored [Julien Nabet]
19. tdf#152929 Sparkline ignore "High points" color when all values are negative [Julien Nabet]
20. tdf#153178 FILEOPEN RTF Paragraphs before table disappear or open inside a frame [Justin Luth]
21. tdf#153613 FILEOPEN DOCX: export puts page break before textbox, instead of after [Justin Luth]
22. tdf#154339 Plain text copied to clipboard and pasted to CSV is not saved. [Xisco Fauli]
23. tdf#154864 Changing starting number of numbered list does nothing [Noel Grandin]
24. tdf#155266 VIEWING / SCROLLING: very laggy jerky scrolling on macOS Intel Writer: scroll lag [Patrick Luby]
25. tdf#155876 [LOCALHELP] - Calc - Help pages about dialogs should provide instructions for the Tabbed UI [Olivier Hallot]
26. tdf#155877 [LOCALHELP] - DRAW - Help pages about dialogs should provide instructions for the Tabbed UI [Dione Maddern]
27. tdf#156156 Add Help button to sidebar [Stéphane Guillou]
28. tdf#157569 FILEOPEN: Incorrect formula font size ( fixed doubleclicking on the object ) [Mike Kaganski]
29. tdf#157740 FILESAVE PPTX: Explosion in the number of master slides [Balazs Varga]
30. tdf#158044 RTF import paragraph style attribute handling wrong [Oliver Specht]
31. tdf#158186 Mismatching config key name and property name in UI code [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
32. tdf#158250 impress templates : a few png images could use indexed colours [Laurent Balland]
33. tdf#158276 Since version 7.5.8.2 (x86_64) bookmarks in LO Writer do not hold alpha sort [Jim Raykowski]
34. tdf#158320 No more font live preview (on hovering) in Calc [Caolán McNamara]
35. tdf#158332 Areas from the context menu remain after exiting the presentation (VCL gtk3, DE kde and Xfce) [Caolán McNamara]
36. tdf#158375 Ability to disable active content in LibreOffice [Sarper Akdemir]
37. tdf#158379 Crash when trying to print specific RTF file (macOS) [Patrick Luby]
38. tdf#158421 Gradient settings for a chart wall don't work [Armin Le Grand (allotropia)]
39. tdf#158461 Flicker during live resizing when using Skia/Metal [Patrick Luby]
40. tdf#158505 Crash exporting Writer file with bibliography to PDF [Vojtěch Doležal]
41. tdf#158548 File encoding UI element focused on CSV import dialog, changes on unrelated scroll events [Michael Weghorn]
42. tdf#158551 Crash in: mdds::mtv::soa::multi_type_vector<sc::CellStoreTraits>::cbegin() const on Paste Special with Operation [Julien Nabet]
43. tdf#158556 DOCX Document That Opens/Loads Extremely Slowly [Mike Kaganski]
44. tdf#158576 Improve macro signature confirmation dialog [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
45. tdf#158583 FILEOPEN RTF: break splits paragraph across two pages [Justin Luth]
46. tdf#158586 FILEOPEN RTF: missing page break [Justin Luth]
47. tdf#158593 Expert dialog crashes when editing locked down "set" configuration [Stephan Bergmann]
48. tdf#158636 Wrong border behaviour when cells are merged [Noel Grandin]
49. tdf#158681 FILEOPEN: DOCX: Missing textbox in document [Justin Luth]
50. tdf#158684 CALC CHART XY Scatter Chart: line type "stepped" ignores parameters (de: "Streudiagramm / Stufen") [Julien Nabet]
51. tdf#158686 FILEOPEN RTF Crash when changing to print preview [Miklos Vajna]
52. tdf#158703 Crash if I use the space bar several times and then punctuation (French Locale) [Mike Kaganski]
53. tdf#158720 Crash for attribute string search ("oo", "uno", "ooname") in the Expert Configuration dialog [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
54. tdf#158739 Crash (assert): Inserting Formula and hovering over insert text leads to assert in Skia/Vulkan graphics (Win11) [Julien Nabet]
55. tdf#158762 Paragraph imported without numbering [Oliver Specht]
56. tdf#158766 Escape key doesn't work when editing a math formula [Mike Kaganski]
57. tdf#158771 Alt+F12 in Writer no longer opens the Options dialog [Xisco Fauli]
58. tdf#158785 Hyperlink: help-popup/Ctrl-Click are active one character past the end of the hyperlink [Justin Luth]
59. tdf#158794 Pasting a DDE link into a footnote / endnote crashes [Mike Kaganski]

Translations

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