Releases/24.8.0/RC1

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    Installation

    Windows

    • LibreOffice 24.8 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 24.8.0 Beta1:

    1. cid#1266442 dereference after null check [Caolán McNamara]
    2. cid#1603631 dereference null return value [Caolán McNamara]
    3. cid#1603805 COPY_INSTEAD_OF_MOVE [Caolán McNamara]
    4. cid#1606556 overflowed constant [Caolán McNamara]
    5. cid#1606793 dereference before null check [Caolán McNamara]
    6. cid#1607629 uninitialized scalar field [Caolán McNamara]
    7. cid#1607891 dereference after null check [Caolán McNamara]
    8. cid#1609595 dereference null return value [Caolán McNamara]
    9. i#78474 Font effect "small capitals" change the Arabic font size in dialog preview [Caolán McNamara]
    10. ofz#69444 integer-overflow [Caolán McNamara]
    11. ofz#69809 integer-overflow [Caolán McNamara]
    12. tdf#33603 Presenter notes should be available in normal view as a scrolling pane [Sarper Akdemir, Thorsten Behrens]
    13. tdf#35568 QuickStarter setting not remembered after upgrade (win only) [Mike Kaganski]
    14. tdf#68034 Goal Seek unsuccessful if variable cell is empty [Xisco Fauli, Mike Kaganski]
    15. tdf#92029 should prevent autocorrecting into opening quote when typing 's or 't in Dutch [László Németh]
    16. tdf#92091 Mis-rendering of Persian text with interspersed references to English footnotes [Jonathan Clark]
    17. tdf#96787 AutoCorrect: After Removal of Replacement Entry the Replacement Itself is still Performed. [László Németh]
    18. tdf#99528 Better handling for multiline tabs [Xisco Fauli]
    19. tdf#107209 Text layout error; text lines overlap randomly in long "complicated" documents [Jonathan Clark]
    20. tdf#113975 Expand the documentation for regular expressions [Pierre F]
    21. tdf#127293 Add XLOOKUP function in Calc [Balazs Varga]
    22. tdf#131688 RemoveDirectCharFormats <Ctrl>+<Shift>+X usage tip [kubak]
    23. tdf#138258 Cannot use `'` and `"` to search for typographic quotes [László Németh]
    24. tdf#141773 Autocorrection for all languages doesn't work anymore [László Németh]
    25. tdf#144208 Slow File OPEN of 477 pages ODT with 282 comments and track changes [Noel Grandin]
    26. tdf#145735 qt6: Support video playback in Impress presentations on Wayland [Michael Weghorn]
    27. tdf#146468 Use same border preset tooltips between toolbar and sidebar [Kira Tubo]
    28. tdf#148569 Character highlighting: custom color color picker shows wrong colors with Skia raster on macOS [Patrick Luby]
    29. tdf#149461 OpenGL slide transitions not working properly with kf5 VCL plugin [Michael Weghorn]
    30. tdf#150582 Words with smart quotes/apostrophes get added to custom dictionaries via Writer but not Draw/Impress/Calc [László Németh]
    31. tdf#154226 Add links to documentation websites in on-line Help [Olivier Hallot]
    32. tdf#155212 Writer is very slow when opening a file that includes embedded fonts (macOS) [Patrick Luby]
    33. tdf#156717 Add minor version / OS to PDF producer metadata [Hossein]
    34. tdf#157009 Android: F-Droid listing lacks app icon [Michael Weghorn]
    35. tdf#157172 FILEOPEN PPTX: Curved connector adjustment values are not imported [Tibor Nagy]
    36. tdf#157216 FILEOPEN PPTX: object specific glue points of preset shape "flowChartConnector" are not imported [Tibor Nagy]
    37. tdf#157460 FILEOPEN PPTX: Elbow connector adjustment value has wrong value [Tibor Nagy]
    38. tdf#157529 FILEOPEN PPTX: Text shows that is invisible in PowerPoint [Tibor Nagy]
    39. tdf#158051 Problem with s in Greek Language [László Németh, Xisco Fauli]
    40. tdf#158110 Copy/paste of Calc comments fails when more than one cell is copied [Andreas Heinisch]
    41. tdf#158416 Infobars / banners don't use text colour anymore [Stéphane Guillou]
    42. tdf#158658 FILEOPEN DOCX/DOC/RTF Tabs closing header paragraph are wrapped and not flowing outside the page area [Michael Stahl]
    43. tdf#158914 Calc leaks RAM when using macOS accessibility [Patrick Luby]
    44. tdf#159175 macOS: instruments dectect leaks when open new calc document 5 times [Patrick Luby]
    45. tdf#159596 [LOCALHELP] Add Help page for Calc function XLOOKUP [Olivier Hallot]
    46. tdf#159680 Memory not freed after PDF export [Patrick Luby]
    47. tdf#159741 Pressing Print button followed by cancel is marked as document modification [Caolán McNamara]
    48. tdf#159771 [LOCALHELP] Add Help page for Calc function XMATCH [Olivier Hallot]
    49. tdf#159777 A11Y sidebar: No warning about paragraph DF used [Balazs Varga]
    50. tdf#159835 Styles pane burger menu not fully populated on the first attempt [Michael Weghorn]
    51. tdf#159906 A11Y sidebar: Too many issue reports about direct character formatting [Balazs Varga]
    52. tdf#159907 A11Y sidebar: highlighted text does not show its attributes in the Style inspector [Balazs Varga]
    53. tdf#159924 PDF export: Hyperlink name as tooltip [Tibor Nagy]
    54. tdf#159925 A11Y sidebar: Check for hyperlink name [Balazs Varga]
    55. tdf#159930 Minus sign mis-placed with format ".00" until save/reload [Laurent Balland]
    56. tdf#160170 FILEOPEN .DOCX: words pulled together, characters overlap in some line of hyphenated paragraph [László Németh]
    57. tdf#160401 FILEOPEN PPTX: wrong word order and font size when cap="small" on right-to-left text (Regression) [Caolán McNamara]
    58. tdf#160462 F10 key is marked reserved, but doesn't do anything (qt5/kf5) [Michael Weghorn]
    59. tdf#160490 FILEOPEN PPTX Automatically resized textbox is not exactly as tall as in PP [Tibor Nagy]
    60. tdf#160522 Generating Chart with more than 4 columns selecting stock first than column or bar: Only 4 colors [Noel Grandin]
    61. tdf#160541 Quickfind sidebar: present results with some indication of location in document [Jim Raykowski]
    62. tdf#160635 open or insert a TIFF image over 33,554,432 pixels fails in various ways ("Image Filter not found" in sd, Section dialog in sw, Push button in sc) [Caolán McNamara]
    63. tdf#160681 White background comment box drop down button in Draw [Caolán McNamara]
    64. tdf#160801 Writer crash when use clear formatting after insert page break (macOS only) [Patrick Luby]
    65. tdf#160877 Paragraph classification deleted after Print Preview or when opening file [Xisco Fauli]
    66. tdf#160888 Cannot unprotect protected macro library (hang) [Michael Stahl]
    67. tdf#161030 Vertical Tab dialogs--width available for Tab name is too narrow with jumping view of Tab names [Xisco Fauli]
    68. tdf#161086 bitmap image transforms itself depending on position on a page - SVG with an embedded PNG [Noel Grandin]
    69. tdf#161199 The shape is displayed on the wrong side and is invisible [Miklos Vajna]
    70. tdf#161204 Improve the outline of the active cell border [Rafael Lima]
    71. tdf#161213 Wrong SVG arrow end marker color [Xisco Fauli]
    72. tdf#161215 FILEOPEN DOCX Endless loop upon opening specific file with floating tables [Michael Stahl]
    73. tdf#161219 Exporting an XML filter as a package, in the XML Filter Settings window, results in a jar file with only an empty folder [Noel Grandin]
    74. tdf#161310 French missing translation insert autotext [Aron Budea]
    75. tdf#161338 Goal seek corrupts the data in Calc cell [Mike Kaganski, Rafael Lima]
    76. tdf#161346 CRASH: exporting to PDF [Michael Stahl]
    77. tdf#161348 FILEOPEN: Table is displayed on second page [Michael Stahl]
    78. tdf#161352 Macro recording: all .uno:ChangeCase* command uses are written as rem comment lines [Andreas Heinisch]
    79. tdf#161421 Not all hyphenation separators (hyphens) are displayed [Heiko Tietze]
    80. tdf#161461 Crash on second copy after pasting using Enter in Calc on macOS [Patrick Luby, Peter Hagen]
    81. tdf#161462 Goal Seek should remember its settings during the current session [Rafael Lima]
    82. tdf#161498 autocontour function is broken (does not take into account PNG transparency) [Patrick Luby]
    83. tdf#161502 Calc: change Structure label of Function Wizard dialog [Bayram Çiçek]
    84. tdf#161508 Writer hangs opening a specific document with a table with table with some cells merged and a minimal row height [Mike Kaganski]
    85. tdf#161509 Built-in Microsoft Word style names are remapped on import but not on export [Mike Kaganski]
    86. tdf#161511 [CRASH] Macro using seekGoal crashes on a brand new document [Xisco Fauli, Mike Kaganski]
    87. tdf#161521 FILEOPEN DOCX/RTF Wrong inner margin in mirrored page, starting on Even side [Oliver Specht]
    88. tdf#161537 in BASE using a Form Based Filter Search, Filter Navigator no longer shows the name of the field [Jim Raykowski]
    89. tdf#161563 add "No Break" option to context menu of hyphenated words to exclude them from hyphenation. [László Németh]
    90. tdf#161565 Visualize words excluded from hyphenation [László Németh]
    91. tdf#161570 FILEOPEN DOCX: numbering of paragraph style is not applied [Miklos Vajna]
    92. tdf#161571 PieChart: Data Label Placement not exported to OOXML [Attila Szűcs]
    93. tdf#161573 open recent files: files that don't exist now display two error messages (Linux) [Mike Kaganski]
    94. tdf#161579 UserAutoSave: recovery file is not needed if document is successfully saved [Olivier Hallot, Justin Luth]
    95. tdf#161585 Error trying to register inprocserv.dll using regsvr32 [Mike Kaganski]
    96. tdf#161607 Chart: leaderLines color and width problem [Attila Szűcs]
    97. tdf#161616 Goal seek macro corrupts the data in Calc cell [Xisco Fauli]
    98. tdf#161628 DOCX: default hyphenation zone is 1/4 inch [László Németh]
    99. tdf#161631 FILEOPEN: DOCX: paragraph not imported [Michael Stahl]
    100. tdf#161635 FILEOPEN DOCX: smaller left padding for shape text than expected [Miklos Vajna]
    101. tdf#161637 spell checking: don’t suggest straight (ASCII or typewriter) apostrophe instead of the correct typographic version [László Németh]
    102. tdf#161638 CALC: UI: Option Text overflow moved [Olivier Hallot]
    103. tdf#161639 Expert Configuration help page does not provide proper "path" to the feature on macOS [Olivier Hallot]
    104. tdf#161643 DOCX: missing import/export "Maximum consecutive hyphenated lines". [László Németh]
    105. tdf#161648 Border styles in Calc's sidebar not announced by screen reader [Michael Weghorn]
    106. tdf#161652 Impress RTF clipboard copy: lots of unnecessary styles [Miklos Vajna]
    107. tdf#161653 The numbering toolbar dropdown no longer can select from the 8-block of options [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
    108. tdf#161658 Overlay selection in Math is wrong [Rafael Lima]
    109. tdf#161659 Hyperlink dialog: tab icons are not centered (gen) [Xisco Fauli]
    110. tdf#161708 Content control: color is lost when exporting to PDF forms [Miklos Vajna]
    111. tdf#161718 FILEOPEN DOCX Specific document is 2 pages instead of 1 [Michael Stahl]
    112. tdf#161721 FILEOPEN RTF DOCX Space and field are rendered after tabs flowing out of page area [Michael Stahl]
    113. tdf#161737 Regression: spell checking triggered by NNBSP [László Németh]
    114. tdf#161743 Should be able to return focus from function sidebar deck to cell with Esc key [Ilmari Lauhakangas]
    115. tdf#161779 FILEOPEN DOCX: vertical line with offset is imported as horizontal line [Miklos Vajna]
    116. tdf#161786 Manually entering "oper" in the formula editor will cause a crash [Julien Nabet]
    117. tdf#161796 Add a donate button to the start center [Heiko Tietze]
    118. tdf#161833 Wrap > Contour clips semi-transparent shadow [Patrick Luby]
    119. tdf#161844 Off-by-one error in rectangle size returned by XToolkit::getWorkArea [Mike Kaganski]
    120. tdf#161859 Typo in AutoText (Polish) [Julien Nabet]

    Translations

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