Releases/24.8.2/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 24.8.1 RC2:

    1. cid#1607212 check of thread-shared field evades lock acquisition [Caolán McNamara]
    2. cid#1607350 data race condition [Caolán McNamara]
    3. cid#1607370 check of thread-shared field evades lock acquisition [Caolán McNamara]
    4. cid#1607469 data race condition [Caolán McNamara]
    5. cid#1608206 double lock [Caolán McNamara]
    6. cid#1608497 double lock [Caolán McNamara]
    7. cid#1608532 data race condition [Caolán McNamara]
    8. cid#1619147 dereference before null check [Caolán McNamara]
    9. cid#1619294 dereference null return value [Caolán McNamara]
    10. i#109051 Support exit property [Mike Kaganski]
    11. tdf#61313 CONDITIONAL FORMATTING: Icon set should have a color reverse switch [Xisco Fauli]
    12. tdf#92064 LO unusable with Tibetan super long paragraphs [Jonathan Clark]
    13. tdf#100037 FILEOPEN DOCX Image arrangement (in Z dimension) not respected [Justin Luth]
    14. tdf#119785 RTL: DOC: closing parenthesis is displayed as LTR in embedded document [Jonathan Clark]
    15. tdf#127610 NB Tabbed View Not Centered (macOS) [Patrick Luby]
    16. tdf#129061 FILEOPEN PPTX: equation not displayed because Impress doesn't support inline formulas [Mike Kaganski]
    17. tdf#130857 Qt5 implement theming using native widgets (weld) [Michael Weghorn]
    18. tdf#133041 Sidebar: List style is not added back to hierarchy after undoing and redoing it (see comment 7) [Jim Raykowski]
    19. tdf#135335 UNO API: SwXNumberingRules::getByIndex returns font style name in BulletFontName [Ashok]
    20. tdf#143603 Opening a simple presentation has UNDO active [Mike Kaganski]
    21. tdf#149865 FILEOPEN PPTX: table lacks border (outer right edge) [Balazs Varga]
    22. tdf#151748 Bad Horizontal lines (kashida) in Arabic/Persian text inside a text box [Jonathan Clark]
    23. tdf#152142 RTL Text sometimes falls out of the text box [Jonathan Clark]
    24. tdf#152298 FILEOPEN DOCX Copying and pasting between table cells is slow (steps in comment 7) [Mike Kaganski]
    25. tdf#155488 Calc 7.5.x.y – Chart export as svg without title of the y-Axis [Caolán McNamara]
    26. tdf#155751 dBase: BETWEEN won't include first and last value in queries [Julien Nabet]
    27. tdf#159032 crash with smart justify [Xisco Fauli]
    28. tdf#160675 UI: Sidebar doesn't show width and height (nor X/Y coordinates) of object depending on timing [Caolán McNamara]
    29. tdf#161007 Report Builder Wizard fails [Julien Nabet]
    30. tdf#161256 Libreoffice crashes using gtk4 VCL on kde plasma wayland [Michael Weghorn]
    31. tdf#161444 When switching sheets, newly-focused sheet should fire object:state-changed:focused prior to object:active-descendant-changed [Michael Weghorn]
    32. tdf#161599 Extension is not handling formulas from MS Excel created files for all versions besides 7.3.7 [Eike Rathke]
    33. tdf#161705 LO crashes with undo/redo of page numbering wizard's created bookmarks [Justin Luth]
    34. tdf#161741 LO crashes with undo/redo of new header + some other change [Justin Luth]
    35. tdf#161805 Chart line properties: icon and gallery drop down do not open by mouse hovering (first time) (Windows, kf5/kf6, gen) [Michael Weghorn]
    36. tdf#161810 [DOCX] Justified text does not wrap correctly [László Németh]
    37. tdf#161876 Readonly attribute of target file is ignored on "save as" in an other format. [Miklos Vajna]
    38. tdf#162003 "System theme" uses Adwaita Light colour for page in KDE Plasma, instead of system colour scheme. (>= KF6 & Qt 6.7.2) [Michael Weghorn]
    39. tdf#162109 Unexpected, wrong hanging punctuation/letter with JustifyLinesWithShrinking (no space shrinking in the last paragraph line, if needed) [László Németh]
    40. tdf#162113 Font selection dialog messes up font variant selection when passing fonts without desired one [Caolán McNamara]
    41. tdf#162220 LibreOffice 24 justifies a wide range of paragraphs incorrectly (in the case of paragraph lines without portions, i.e. without text spans) [László Németh]
    42. tdf#162359 FILESAVE PDF/UA Comment exported as PDF annotation generates "Annotation is not nested inside an "Annot" structure element" error [Tibor Nagy]
    43. tdf#162431 Executing method insertControlCharacter in Basic without parameter nControlCharacter does not throw error [Andreas Heinisch]
    44. tdf#162455 EDITING Converting svg file to curves causes text in objects to disappear [Caolán McNamara]
    45. tdf#162507 Page layout reflow after pressing delete causes hang (involving tables) [Miklos Vajna]
    46. tdf#162524 Libreoffice autocorrects themself to themselves regardless of the context its used in [Ilmari Lauhakangas]
    47. tdf#162582 Find toolbar's "Search key not found" error message has incompatible colors in dark mode, especially its icon (Sifr dark theme only) [Heiko Tietze]
    48. tdf#162587 Error message "D'oh! You found a bug" in UNIQUE documentation [Olivier Hallot]
    49. tdf#162651 Accepting cell input after AutoInput had covered the adjacent cell does not redraw the entire area (Windows, kf5/kf6, gen) [Caolán McNamara]
    50. tdf#162656 Alt+X (.uno:UnicodeNotationToggle) deletes all characters like holding down the Backspace key [Mike Kaganski]
    51. tdf#162657 Alt+X (.uno:UnicodeNotationToggle) deletes a base character with Variation Selector (VS17 or later) [Mike Kaganski]
    52. tdf#162659 Embedded options in Options -> Load/Save -> Microsoft Office are not editable (cannot check/uncheck them) [Caolán McNamara]
    53. tdf#162662 FILEOPEN DOCX: layout loop with 2 pages and a complex full-page group shape [Miklos Vajna]
    54. tdf#162696 Installing a certain extension by dragging and dropping to Start Center fails and blocks UI (kf5/kf6) [Michael Weghorn]
    55. tdf#162707 FILESAVE DOCX lost paragraph style with lots of numberings [Miklos Vajna]
    56. tdf#162715 Pasting a text copied in another Writer session changes the theme [Mike Kaganski]
    57. tdf#162724 CStr() and Format() should produce localized output for currency values [Mike Kaganski]
    58. tdf#162725 DOCX smart justify: missing shrinking in last paragraph line with multiple portions [László Németh]
    59. tdf#162732 Vertical alignment = middle [Caolán McNamara, Heiko Tietze]
    60. tdf#162781 Table in DOCX may limit its width to an overlapping floating frame, instead of shifting down [Mike Kaganski]
    61. tdf#162782 FILESAVE SVG: semi-transparent shape text in a bullet list crashes [Miklos Vajna]
    62. tdf#162803 Spurious kashida in text box after font change [Jonathan Clark]
    63. tdf#162823 A password-protected Basic library in an ODB created in 24.2 is lost after re-save in 24.8 [Michael Stahl]
    64. tdf#162841 Re-saving a password-protected Basic library fails an assertion [Michael Stahl]
    65. tdf#162866 LO 24.2.1 "acor_fr-FR.dat" not read by LO 24.2.5 and later versions [Michael Stahl]
    66. tdf#162878 Reworked localized Impress templates look ugly in RU [Laurent Balland]
    67. tdf#162884 German UI and styles: footnote number position should be superscript [Justin Luth]
    68. tdf#162889 A11Y sidebar: warning does not disappear when page header is deleted [Balazs Varga]
    69. tdf#162890 A11Y sidebar: warning does not disappear when page header content is deleted [Balazs Varga]
    70. tdf#162899 Solver Options dialog should accept parameters of TypeClass BYTE and SHORT (it only accepts LONG) [Rafael Lima]
    71. tdf#162911 Inserting multiple Hyperlinks and undoing an insertion (Ctrl-Z) crashes Writer [Xisco Fauli, Michael Stahl]
    72. tdf#162926 Value/text in the Microsoft Word form is not visible in LibreOffice 24.8.0 [Justin Luth]
    73. tdf#162935 Variable assignment within a BASIC WITH block fails [Mike Kaganski]
    74. tdf#162937 Issues with resizing the Comment Sidebar in Writer [Rafael Lima]
    75. tdf#162938 Import of Excel spreadsheet with conditional formatting is not presenting the same in Calc [Xisco Fauli]
    76. tdf#162955 In the exported PDF comments are annotations with zero area bounding box [Tibor Nagy]
    77. tdf#162958 When using formula with Impress Style is lost [Caolán McNamara]
    78. tdf#162962 Scriptforge (python) doesn’t work anymore in LO 24.8.1 in Windows 11 [Mike Kaganski]
    79. tdf#162987 Executing .uno:DataFilterAutoFilter on a hidden spreadsheet crashes [Mike Kaganski]
    80. tdf#162988 A11Y sidebar: false warning about short hyperlink at top of page [Balazs Varga]
    81. tdf#162990 Oversized lock-icon with SVG themes [Ilmari Lauhakangas]
    82. tdf#163006 Layout loop control fires many times when loading a specific DOCX [Mike Kaganski]
    83. tdf#163042 DOCX smart justify: bad cursor and pilcrow positions in last paragraph line with single portion [László Németh]
    84. tdf#163064 --convert-to exports a broken OLE in a PPTX [Mike Kaganski]
    85. tdf#163086 The "Pin" button is huge after updating [Ilmari Lauhakangas]

    Translations

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