Releases/24.8.0/RC2

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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 RC1:

    1. cid#1555302 different smart pointers managing same raw pointer [Caolán McNamara]
    2. cid#1557678 check of thread-shared field evades lock acquisition [Noel Grandin]
    3. cid#1606549 dereference null return value [Caolán McNamara]
    4. cid#1606633 overflowed constant [Caolán McNamara]
    5. cid#1606744 dereference after null check [Caolán McNamara]
    6. cid#1606914 double lock [Caolán McNamara]
    7. cid#1608071 out-of-bounds access [Caolán McNamara]
    8. cid#1608102 double unlock [Caolán McNamara]
    9. cid#1608112 copy-paste error [Caolán McNamara]
    10. cid#1608181 double lock [Caolán McNamara]
    11. cid#1608321 double lock [Caolán McNamara]
    12. cid#1608362 double unlock [Caolán McNamara]
    13. cid#1608516 overflowed constant [Caolán McNamara]
    14. cid#1608584 overflowed constant [Caolán McNamara]
    15. cid#1608592 double lock [Caolán McNamara]
    16. cool#9504 sw: don't invalidate num rules when pasting into bullets [Miklos Vajna]
    17. ofz#70412 integer-overflow [Caolán McNamara]
    18. ofz#70572 build failure [Caolán McNamara]
    19. ofz#70674 null-dereference READ [Caolán McNamara]
    20. tdf#46950 Hebrew: Spell-checking breaks Hebrew words at intra-word single and double quotes [Jonathan Clark]
    21. tdf#56408 Writer always breaks lines at text direction change, leaving orphan bracket [Jonathan Clark]
    22. tdf#67919 AXMenuButton's should implement AXShowMenu [Patrick Luby]
    23. tdf#67943 ACCESSIBILITY: Issues with tabbed dialogs on macOS [Patrick Luby]
    24. tdf#101686 Text render changes to RTL depending on zoom level [Jonathan Clark]
    25. tdf#108828 Improve signing with password protected gpg keys [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
    26. tdf#121140 Misleading GPG encryption option (save dialog checkbox) [Moritz Duge]
    27. tdf#122756 Unable to clone currency and other cell Number format in a Writer table [Oliver Specht]
    28. tdf#124213 A recovered document has "(Remote)" in the title [Mike Kaganski]
    29. tdf#126008 TABLES STYLES: Inserting or removing a row/column changes entire table's formatting (see comment 5) [Michael Stahl]
    30. tdf#129244 FILEOPEN: Blurred EMF image [Mike Kaganski]
    31. tdf#131722 FILEOPEN DOCX Date picker control placeholder texts first character goes out of the control [Justin Luth]
    32. tdf#136637 Firebird: Entering the sql command will cause Libreoffice to hang [Mike Kaganski]
    33. tdf#138093 FILEOPEN DOCX Date selector control resets to year 1900 if placed inside table [Justin Luth]
    34. tdf#146081 Reducing line spacing of Arabic will cause inappropriate consequence [Jonathan Clark]
    35. tdf#148554 FILEOPEN RTF Table cell widths change [Oliver Specht]
    36. tdf#148647 LO pastes previous clipboard content instead of latest copied from other app, depending on apps opened (Windows; see comment 11) [Mike Kaganski]
    37. tdf#149256 Ship LibreOfficeKit headers and library files with the LibreOffice SDK community packages [Hossein]
    38. tdf#155069 Make "Run Graphics Tests" feature experimental [Kira Tubo]
    39. tdf#156530 FIREBIRD: Copying a table from one database file to another gives wrong decimal numbers. [Mike Kaganski]
    40. tdf#157390 PDF export overlaps CJK characters when document has both vertical and horizontal text [Jonathan Clark]
    41. tdf#157829 Changing character formatting of wrapped RTL/LTR text in LTR/RTL paragraph messes up the wrapping [Jonathan Clark]
    42. tdf#158397 Freeze (beachball) when hovering with mouse above an animating gif or when opening presentation mode(macOS) with any backend [Noel Grandin]
    43. tdf#158510 FILEOPEN PPT/PPTX If audio file has absolute path in relationships and is not found, it should be searched from the location where the file is opened [Vladislav Tarakanov]
    44. tdf#158556 DOCX Document That Opens/Loads Extremely Slowly [Noel Grandin]
    45. tdf#158661 FILEOPEN: DOCX: extra character in block SDT [Justin Luth]
    46. tdf#158753 Chart wizard jumps back to chart type selection after dialog is collapsed for range selection [Caolán McNamara]
    47. tdf#159013 FILEOPEN: DOCX: "normal" header is wrongly copied into the "different first header" of the following section [Justin Luth]
    48. tdf#159596 [LOCALHELP] Add Help page for Calc function XLOOKUP [Olivier Hallot]
    49. tdf#159776 A11Y sidebar: No warning about multiple tabs used for creating spacing [Balazs Varga]
    50. tdf#159900 FILESAVE PDF PAC tool reports possible unneeded use of Figure tag [Tibor Nagy]
    51. tdf#160139 Header/footer contents removed and cannot be restored after some paste actions (from shape; as RTF; Zotero refresh...) (steps in comment 2) [Justin Luth]
    52. tdf#160427 LibreLogo PICTURE SVG opens new window "untitled 1" and hangs LO. [Patrick Luby]
    53. tdf#160646 GIF don't animate in edit mode; are rendered as still images (Windows 8.1) [Noel Grandin]
    54. tdf#160976 FILESAVE RTF Footer content lost after saving from DOCX to RTF [Justin Luth]
    55. tdf#161421 Not all hyphenation separators (hyphens) are displayed in app, but are visible in blue in PDF export / print [Heiko Tietze]
    56. tdf#161478 Insert button not working properly when using the insert more fields dialog [Caolán McNamara]
    57. tdf#161568 VIEWING: Message for "no Search Results" sometimes not visible in Toolbar [Heiko Tietze]
    58. tdf#161709 Cell selecting fat border looks ugly especially if you selected some cell range (comment 6), it also can block content in other cells [Rafael Lima]
    59. tdf#161712 Crash when undoing after fill down while in edit mode (comment 7) [Patrick Luby]
    60. tdf#161729 Libreoffice crashes on close (macOS) [Patrick Luby]
    61. tdf#161771 Exporting a content control with an empty value to DOCX produces a document unreadable in Word [Miklos Vajna]
    62. tdf#161785 Autofill overlay drawn above the cursor after scrolling the window in Calc [Rafael Lima]
    63. tdf#161799 Slides copy from Candy, Freshes, Grey Elegant, Growing Liberty and Yellow Idea templates loose their format [Laurent Balland]
    64. tdf#161817 Internal outline in Calc's autofill overlay is wrong when zoom is below 90% [Rafael Lima]
    65. tdf#161833 Wrap > Contour clips semi-transparent shadow [Patrick Luby]
    66. tdf#161858 Writer crashes with Languagetool activated [Patrick Luby]
    67. tdf#161865 Base's Table Design View and Create View not editable anymore (Windows) [Noel Grandin, Xisco Fauli]
    68. tdf#161946 ScriptForge's CreateMenu method does not accept integer value for the Before argument [Jean-Pierre Ledure]
    69. tdf#161964 MATCH function doesn't work with Type=0. [Balazs Varga]
    70. tdf#161965 Presentation minimizer keeps the "Save settings as" box disabled on first run [Caolán McNamara]
    71. tdf#161970 Content control: bad widget position when combined with notes-in-margin for PDF export [Miklos Vajna]
    72. tdf#161979 Saving an ODT with an embedded metafile as HTML produces a total black image of the metafile [Mike Kaganski]
    73. tdf#161985 LibreOffice: Transparent objects in SVG being rendered in Writer when imported [Xisco Fauli]
    74. tdf#161987 Start center: donate button not displayed in GTK3 [Heiko Tietze]
    75. tdf#161989 Expert Config: Incorrect font and color of text in items (GTK3) [Caolán McNamara]
    76. tdf#161990 Subscripts wrongly positioned on PDF export [Mike Kaganski]
    77. tdf#162002 FILEOPEN DOCX: unexpected partly bold text with subsetted embedded fonts [Miklos Vajna]
    78. tdf#162010 Pasting in search field not working (MacOS) [Patrick Luby]
    79. tdf#162062 image countours for wrapping text around doesn't work any more [Patrick Luby]
    80. tdf#162072 Font fallback: not taking roman vs swiff (sans vs serif) hints into account [Miklos Vajna]
    81. tdf#162087 Database-range keywords are not detected if Calc is forced to English function names [Eike Rathke]
    82. tdf#162093 Excel keywords [#Data], [#Totals] ... are wrongly imported [Eike Rathke]
    83. tdf#162111 Trying to create a primary key while importing a table to Firebird database generates an error [Mike Kaganski]
    84. tdf#162115 Charset/collation data is missing in embedded Firebird [Mike Kaganski]
    85. tdf#162161 reexport of pdf created by XnView appears to be blank [Caolán McNamara]
    86. tdf#162171 Webp export: Content not visible [Patrick Luby]
    87. tdf#162180 CRASH: copying table from document, or selecting it with 2 × Ctrl + A [Xisco Fauli]

    Translations

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