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Releases/5.0.4/RC2

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Installation

General for this RC: release configuration

  • the Linux and Mac packages can be installed in parallel to LibreOffice 4.4, but not run simultaneously - documents will be opened in the version you've started first.
  • LibreOffice for Mac OS X needs to be run at least once before installing a LanguagePack tdf#89657
  • the Windows package will update a previously installed version of LibreOffice

Windows

  • LibreOffice 5.0 will be made available as 64bit version in addition to the 32bit version. Installing the 64bit version requires Windows Vista or newer, the 32bit Version runs on Windows XP or newer.
  • Trying to scan with the 64bit version on Windows causes a crash tdf#92478. Please use your system's scanning tool as a workaround.

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.

List of fixed bugs

Bugs fixed compared to 5.0.4 RC1:

  1. tdf#94138 Form Control Text Boxes Print And Export To PDF Incorrectly [Tomaž Vajngerl]
  2. tdf#96072 General format lost on export to XLSX with locale using "Standard" as name for General format (FR, DE, SP...) [Eike Rathke]
  3. Stability fixes [Caolán McNamara]

Thanks to all who took part in handling the issues

Thanks to all who took part in handling the issues involved for the 5.0.4 release: QA-team, bugreporters, developers. Not covered in this stats of course are the many community members in other areas like l10n/translation and marketing, user support that also deserve a big thank you.

  25 Beluga
  19 raal
  18 Julien Nabet
  17 Maxim Monastirsky
  14 Eike Rathke, Caolán McNamara
  13 Cor Nouws
  12 Yousuf (Jay) Philips, Miklos Vajna
  11 tommy27, Matthew Francis
  10 Timur
   9 Katarina Behrens (CIB)
   8 Joel Madero
   7 Andras Timar
   6 Jacques Guilleron
   5 m.a.riosv, Regina Henschel, Michael Meeks, MM, Luke, Jean-Baptiste
     Faure, Alex Thurgood
   4 Terrence Enger, Mike Kaganski, Michael Weghorn, Lionel Elie Mamane,
     Laurent BP, GerardF
   3 Xisco Faulí, Samuel Mehrbrodt, László Németh, Gordo, Adolfo Jayme
   2 steve -_-, sophie, baffclan, Urmas, Tor Lillqvist, Stephan Bergmann,
     Björn Michaelsen, Armin Le Grand, Alexandr, Alex Kempshall, A
     (Andy)
   1 tmacalp, thanasis57, roumanet, retired, pierre-yves samyn, peter,
     lockheed, kompilainenn, k-j, immanuelg, ign_christian, grofaty,
     dg1727, chrys87@web.de, aybuke, andreas_k, actionmystique, Yvan
     Rose, Winfried Donkers, V Stuart Foote, Ulrich Windl, Tomofumi
     Yagi, Tomaz Vajngerl, Tomasz Nitecki, Timon, Thorsten Behrens,
     Thomas Arnhold, Technologov, Taylorh140, Stefan Glasenhardt,
     Stefan, Stang, Serhiy, Sean Young, Sean Russell, Roy, Rostislav
     'R.Yu.' Okulov, Ronald, Rolf S, Roger, Ricardo,
     Rajashri, Puggan SE, Pieter, Pierre C, Peter Moon, Pawel, Owen
     Genat (retired), Orwel, Olivier, Oliver Specht, Oliver Haessler,
     Oliver Brinzing, Norbert X, Norbert Bollow, Nils Smeds, Niklas
     Johansson, Naruhiko Ogasawara, Michael Stahl, Martin Vogel,
     Markus Mohrhard (retired), Marius Tolzmann, MAG4, Lior Kaplan,
     LEON REGENT, Kristoffer Ryhl-Johansen, Kirill, Kevin Suo, Keith
     Curtis, KOEHLER Christophe, Justin L, Juha, Juergen Funk, Juan
     Cervera, Jean-François Fortin Tam, Jan Bart, Jack, Jacek
     Piskozub, Ivan Saggiorato, Ingo Belka, Henrik, Helmut, Giuseppe
     Castagno (aka beppec56), Gabriel Diosan, Fabio Strozzi, Erwan
     Souben, Emersson Augusto Suarez Ortiz, Emanuele Forner, Elmar, E
     Alexander, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, Doug, Dorin Lazăr, Donald
     Buczek, Dominik Kopp, Dennis Francis (ldcs.co.in), Dave
     Richards, Daniel Rentz, Chu Chin Kuan, Christoph Lutz, Christian
     Lohmaier, Chaddaï Fouché, Carlo, Armando Villani, Andrew,
     Alexandre Figura, Aleksei