Releases/24.2.0/RC2

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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 RC1:

    1. cid#1559856 dereference after null check [Caolán McNamara]
    2. cid#1559857 illegal address computation [Balazs Varga]
    3. cid#1559882 uninitialized scalar field [Caolán McNamara]
    4. cid#1559993 division or modulo by float zero [Caolán McNamara]
    5. cid#1583700 uninitialized scalar variable [Caolán McNamara]
    6. ofz#65480 integer-overflow [Caolán McNamara]
    7. ofz#65567 unset DiagramFontHeights on exception [Caolán McNamara]
    8. tdf#57187 EDITING: Justified text looks wrong as right aligned when breaking line with shift+enter [Mike Kaganski]
    9. tdf#73678 FORMATTING: Conditional Formatting lost when Click-drag Sheet2 tab to position 1 or adding, then removing an empty sheet [Matt K]
    10. tdf#77915 FILEOPEN [vsdx] shape color not imported [Andras Timar]
    11. tdf#98321 FILEOPEN: RTF checkbox font type wrong and size too big [Oliver Specht]
    12. tdf#99116 StartCenter’s hardcoded color scheme doesn’t work for high-contrast mode users [Yli875]
    13. tdf#100584 With an RTL sheet, make added sheets RTL as well [Andreas Heinisch]
    14. tdf#105844 FILESAVE: Very slow saving with password compared to 5.2.5 [Thorsten Behrens]
    15. tdf#119908 FILEOPEN: DOCX: Layout differences with justified paragraph. MS 2013 introduced a new "smart justify" that can shrink as well as expand. [László Németh]
    16. tdf#135478 Calc changes columns when scrolling down macOS or touchpad related [Patrick Luby]
    17. tdf#137691 FILEOPEN: Data table is missing number formatting: shows "250000" instead of "$250,000" [Justin Luth]
    18. tdf#139636 UI: Thumbnail in start center shows changes. Hidden expected [Justin Luth]
    19. tdf#144124 trying to paste older entries from clipboard manager (e.g. LaunchBar, Alfred, Raycast, iClip) pastes latest clipboard content on macOS (repro: comment 7) [Patrick Luby]
    20. tdf#151679 Clipboard contents on Mac cause trouble with clipboard recorders [Patrick Luby]
    21. tdf#154044 Undoing the first applied cell formatting only works for column A [Mike Kaganski]
    22. tdf#155266 VIEWING / SCROLLING: very laggy jerky scrolling on macOS Intel Writer: scroll lag [Patrick Luby]
    23. tdf#155649 EDITING Writer Heading (aka Chapter) Numbering Position Parameters Cannot Go Beyond 17 mm [Julien Nabet]
    24. tdf#156719 Insert menu contains duplicate accelerator hotkey [Stéphane Guillou]
    25. tdf#156723 [GRAMMAR CHECKER] False positives in pleonasms checkers for pt-BR [Olivier Hallot]
    26. tdf#156820 Crash when changing color with custom colour picker accessed from overflowing toolbar [Noel Grandin]
    27. tdf#157649 Dialog button accelerators should work without Alt key on Windows [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
    28. tdf#157742 FILESAVE PPTX: Green background from copy&pasted slide turns black [Balazs Varga]
    29. tdf#157783 FILESAVE PPTX: graphic elements change color on save/reload cycle [Balazs Varga]
    30. tdf#157784 In libreoffice calc, the names of the sheets are displayed in opposite direction now, which is annoying. [Andreas Heinisch]
    31. tdf#158254 Can not apply any cell styles to the right of area with content [Mike Kaganski, Xisco Fauli]
    32. tdf#158451 FILEOPEN DOCX Getting Hang issue on file having 'inline' group with child with text [Michael Stahl]
    33. tdf#158532 Toolbar buttons remain greyed out after pasting an image and quickly clicking out of it [Miklos Vajna]
    34. tdf#158608 The right context menu doesn't start with spelling suggestions in Calc (it does in Writer) [Caolán McNamara]
    35. tdf#158710 All icons and descriptions of animations behaviour in the animation list have disappeared [Jim Raykowski]
    36. tdf#158739 Crash (assert): Inserting Formula and hovering over insert text leads to assert in Skia/Vulkan graphics (Win11) [Julien Nabet]
    37. tdf#158743 SLIDESHOW: SVG images rendering full black/white during presentation [Armin Le Grand (allotropia)]
    38. tdf#158776 DOCX import: unnecessary shrinking of spaces [László Németh]
    39. tdf#158807 FILESAVE: PPT: transparency converted to black [Patrick Luby]
    40. tdf#158810 Template Management - useless Actions button which does nothing when clicked [Heiko Tietze]
    41. tdf#158826 FILEOPEN RTF Floating table with image creates unexpected page break [Justin Luth]
    42. tdf#158837 Crash in: int rtl::str::indexOfStr_WithLength<char16_t>(char16_t const*, int, char16_t const*, int) [Noel Grandin]
    43. tdf#158855 An extra empty paragraph appears after a table before a section break in DOCX [Mike Kaganski]
    44. tdf#158862 LibreOffice crashes when attempting to inspect a UNO object in the Watch Window during debugging after successful initial inspection. [Mike Kaganski]
    45. tdf#158900 A line with a long trailing spaces, followed by manual line break, moves the break to the next line [Mike Kaganski]
    46. tdf#158942 Skia/Vulkan: assertion failed when showing small tooltip [Mike Kaganski]
    47. tdf#158961 LibreOffice 7.5 Help Module Drop Down Menu Inoperative in Safari 17.2.1 macOS 14.2.1 [Ilmari Lauhakangas]
    48. tdf#158965 Find Record: Similarities dialog won't appear [Caolán McNamara]
    49. tdf#158971 Assertion failed when saving a specific DOCX [Mike Kaganski]
    50. tdf#158997 Calc Format>Columns>Optimal Width [OK] causes some columns to be too narrow [Caolán McNamara]
    51. tdf#158999 Incorrect rendering of empty paragraph with escapement set to superscript [Miklos Vajna]
    52. tdf#159018 Special characters changed with new version [Mike Kaganski]
    53. tdf#159026 Crash at undo: deleting table in footnote with track changes record ON and undo [László Németh]
    54. tdf#159032 crash with smart justify [László Németh]
    55. tdf#159034 fix shading position at smart justify [László Németh]
    56. tdf#159041 Notebook Bar: Bad UNO command for Statistics submenu in bar. [Olivier Hallot]
    57. tdf#159046 In Calc cut and paste block of cells including Math formula causes crash when saving [Caolán McNamara]
    58. tdf#159050 FORMATTING Format error in paragraphs formatted with justified text [Mike Kaganski]
    59. tdf#159085 soft hyphen triggers bad smart justify [László Németh]
    60. tdf#159086 UI Checkboxes under GTK3 not disabled when settings are locked down from config [Caolán McNamara]
    61. tdf#159110 LibreOffice stores URLs in files incorrect [Mike Kaganski]

    Translations

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