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Installation

General for this Beta: parallel installation

  • This Beta release will install in parallel to your existing LibreOffice installation.

Windows

  • LibreOffice 26.8 will require Windows 10 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, 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 26.8.0 Alpha1:

  1. cid#561141 INVALIDATE_ITERATOR [Caolán McNamara]
  2. cool#15054 use the same cache strategy as CairoCommon does [Caolán McNamara]
  3. cool#15723 UnGroup of Diagrams needs some extra care [Armin Le Grand (collabora)]
  4. cool#15908 engine sw, SetHyperlink: ignore given text when there is a selection [Miklos Vajna]
  5. cool#15921 engine sw HTML import: fix lost background-color CSS after -webkit [Miklos Vajna]
  6. ofz#491538002 timeout [Caolán McNamara]
  7. ofz#494504031 timeout [Caolán McNamara]
  8. ofz#501319523 timeout [Caolán McNamara]
  9. ofz#515065180 integer-overflow [Caolán McNamara]
  10. ofz#516218705 bad-cast [Caolán McNamara]
  11. ofz#516502581 heap-buffer-overflow [Noel Grandin]
  12. ofz#517243149 integer-overflow [Caolán McNamara]
  13. ofz#518230883 integer-overflow [Caolán McNamara]
  14. ofz#518578175 null-dereference READ [Caolán McNamara]
  15. ofz#523165456 timeout [Caolán McNamara]
  16. tdf#33338 [WRITER] Autocaption: it should be allowed to set position for any type [Oliver Specht]
  17. tdf#37654 UI Slide names no longer visible in Slide Pane / Page Pane [Andreas Heinisch]
  18. tdf#38778 FILESAVE: character formatting applied to fields not preserved when saving as DOC or as DOCX [Justin Luth]
  19. tdf#42713 query design view loses SQL comments [Vissarion Fisikopoulos]
  20. tdf#45904 Move Java based API tests to C++ [Muhammad Naeem]
  21. tdf#56412 Resizing embedded object in RTL context in one direction makes the size change in the opposite direction [Jonathan Clark]
  22. tdf#58349 Turn Border button into a split button and remember recent border style [Andreas Heinisch]
  23. tdf#73888 FORMATTING/UI: when focusing on styles drop down using keyboard shortcut, text should be selected [Andreas Heinisch]
  24. tdf#75280 Convert inappropriate use of sal_uIntPtr to better integer types [RashmiVid]
  25. tdf#82404 CALC: Focus/selected cell does not change to A1 when corner selection button pressed to select whole spreadsheet [Andreas Heinisch]
  26. tdf#87012 REPORT-BUILDER: Charts without content if chart contain date or time [Vissarion Fisikopoulos]
  27. tdf#100244 CRASH: Pivot table seems to cause massive memory leak [Dr. David Alan Gilbert]
  28. tdf#112256 Insert Index makes diacritics invisible [Andreas Heinisch]
  29. tdf#113596 Default name of XLSX print ranges is displayed as _xlnm.Print_Area [Andreas Heinisch]
  30. tdf#114441 Convert use of sal_uLong to better integer types [Brian Yoon, alohapeakina]
  31. tdf#115376 Lists exported to EPUB are generating p elements instead of ol/ul + li [Julien Nabet]
  32. tdf#117190 Formatting is applied to outer table when Embedding a formatted table (using a table style) into a table cell [Jim Raykowski]
  33. tdf#117941 slashing and X-"striking" of text removed from RTL text when exporting to PDF [Jonathan Clark]
  34. tdf#119112 [EPUB] SVG images are rendered duplicated [Julien Nabet]
  35. tdf#128540 EPUB export: use (X)HTML markup to set text direction [Julien Nabet]
  36. tdf#130857 qt5/qt6: implement theming using native Qt widgets (weld) [Michael Weghorn]
  37. tdf#136540 Unwanted scroll when deleting all comments by an author [Andreas Heinisch]
  38. tdf#137107 Unwanted scroll to cursor when deleting header [Andreas Heinisch]
  39. tdf#137335 FILEOPEN DOCX Whitespace should not define paragraph height (CR formatting) [Justin Luth]
  40. tdf#143148 Use pragma once instead of include guards (Episode 2: Endgame) [Brandon Nhep]
  41. tdf#145538 Use range based for loops [Simon Chenery]
  42. tdf#145614 Convert #define to enum or constexpr [Furkan Ahmet Kara, Mehul Sharma]
  43. tdf#145716 Saving document as Word (docx) does not preserve paragraph space above/below correctly [Justin Luth]
  44. tdf#146023 Context menus in Formula Bar and in cell's own Edit mode should be unified (as much as possible) [Bhumi Talwar]
  45. tdf#146572 Last space on line ending with RTL text after LTR text is placed between them rather than at end-of-line [Jonathan Clark]
  46. tdf#147021 Use std::size() or std::ssize() instead of SAL_N_ELEMENTS() macro [Alexandru Ogrezeanu, Simon Chenery]
  47. tdf#147132 Flatten Basic function implementations [Furkan Ahmet Kara]
  48. tdf#148294 Manually created references are not exported correctly to .docx (referenced text lost) [Justin Luth]
  49. tdf#148507 The right column showing the row number keeps constantly expanding in size (even if still in the range of say 4 or 5 digits) [Andreas Heinisch]
  50. tdf#149631 Record Macro won't record inserting a page break of a specified type [Andreas Heinisch]
  51. tdf#153294 Use copy_if, find_if or remove_if to simplify loops [Furkan Ahmet Kara]
  52. tdf#154332 Incomplete/confusing sentence: ... "create a new document continuing to work on the original." [Bogdan Buzea]
  53. tdf#155272 FILEOPEN DOCX: invalid document: fldchar begin without fldchar end - lots of text is lost. [Justin Luth]
  54. tdf#157665 Implement a three-way comparison operator to replace ==, <, >, <=, >= [Furkan Ahmet Kara]
  55. tdf#158237 Use C++20 contains() instead of find() and end() [Furkan Ahmet Kara]
  56. tdf#160839 "Recent Documents" file open menu items filenames from remote sources have %20 instead of spaces (URI entities not unquoted) [Andreas Heinisch]
  57. tdf#162563 Remove remaining Java applet code and references [Gabor Kelemen]
  58. tdf#163309 RDF metadata visualization: show rdf:type content of bookmark metadata optionally [László Németh]
  59. tdf#163465 officehelper.py enhancements request [Alain Romedenne]
  60. tdf#164800 FILEOPEN DOC: hidden, empty paragraph now visible [Justin Luth]
  61. tdf#164843 Relative reference in managed names dialog gives #REF error, slow deleting of ranges on Windows [Balazs Varga]
  62. tdf#165742 Chartex charts are lost on input from OOXML and re-export [Kurt Nordback]
  63. tdf#166509 Particular document has lost almost all (CSS) content, and just shows 90 pages of empty paragraphs [Justin Luth]
  64. tdf#166641 Support bottom labels with a section or group title in our tabbed UI [Heiko Tietze]
  65. tdf#166779 Unable to export a Draw / Impress document to SVG from Basic IDE [Miklos Vajna]
  66. tdf#167545 Pasting aligned text shows it at the right side of the sheet [Balazs Varga]
  67. tdf#168013 Cannot set SUBTOTAL cell range in advance [Balazs Varga]
  68. tdf#168520 Give automated tests human-readable names [Brian Yoon]
  69. tdf#169787 [26.2] Ctrl + Shift changes horizontal alignment [Jonathan Clark]
  70. tdf#169913 Add an option to disable "typing replaces selected (highlighted) text" (it's not overtype mode!) like in MS Word [Andreas Heinisch]
  71. tdf#170096 LibreOffice Header Rendering Issue: Text and Images Overlapping in DOCX Files [Karthik]
  72. tdf#170270 Use C++20 ranges copy_if, find_if or remove_if to simplify loops [Brandon Nhep]
  73. tdf#170869 View > Whitespace ... when unticked, page count goes crazy. [Andreas Heinisch]
  74. tdf#171139 Use service constructors in internal Python code [Aristeidis Palamaras]
  75. tdf#171323 Remove multiple ways to close document in tabbed view [Heiko Tietze]
  76. tdf#171445 Remove multiple ways to insert a table in tabbed view [Heiko Tietze]
  77. tdf#171455 Misplaced option for page text grid - no reference to Asian languages [Adolfo Jayme Barrientos]
  78. tdf#171727 FORMATTING: Styles dropdown list should be customizable [Jim Raykowski]
  79. tdf#171924 pyUNO UI script fails to execute from Start Center [Neil Roberts]
  80. tdf#171950 PyUNO: IllegalArgumentException when setting ColorScaleEntries on Conditional Formats via PropertyValue sequences [Neil Roberts]
  81. tdf#172008 Blank Black Window in LibreOffice in Windows 11, skia Vulkan rendering (Intel Iris Xe Graphics) [Julien Nabet]
  82. tdf#172059 NOT WYSIWYG using pictures or shapes with transparent background [Patrick Luby]
  83. tdf#172256 Feature request: Show a warning when using the gen VCL backend [Heiko Tietze]
  84. tdf#172263 Missing bookmark boundary marks and labels at fixed line height paragraph formatting [László Németh]
  85. tdf#172333 Conditional formatting created via UNO isn’t immediately visible [Neil Roberts]
  86. tdf#172343 Opening and Closing and ODB file straight from newly launched LODev aborts whole soffice process [Dan Williams]
  87. tdf#172348 Extensions are not show on Writer's Tabbed Notebookbar [Heiko Tietze]
  88. tdf#172356 Add Show/Hide Page commands [Heiko Tietze]
  89. tdf#172358 Icon missing for Change Master Slide [Heiko Tietze]
  90. tdf#172368 Improve the contrast of text in donate banner [Heiko Tietze]
  91. tdf#172382 Some corrections needed for Line Numbering guide [Seth Chaiklin]
  92. tdf#172431 DROP function misbehaviour in corner cases [Xisco Fauli]
  93. tdf#172194 keep using "Insert Comment" until the UI is implemented [Xisco Fauli]

Translations

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