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Installation

General for this Release Candidate: parallel installation

• This build is in release configuration
• the Linux and Mac packages can be installed in parallel to LibreOffice 5.2, but not run simultaneously - documents will be opened in the version you've started first.
• the Windows package will update a previously installed version of LibreOffice

Windows

• LibreOffice 5.4 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
• Note: LibreOffice 5.4 will be the last codeline to support Windows XP or Vista - later versions will require Windows 7 or newer.
• Windows builds of RC1 are codesigned with a new certificate issued by DigiCert (please report any issues with Virus protection software or similar)

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 5.4.0 Beta2:

1. bnc#758883 RTF import: fix unexpected bold list numbering [Miklos Vajna]
2. coverity#1409893 division or modulo by float zero [Caolán McNamara]
3. coverity#1409895 resource leak [Caolán McNamara]
4. coverity#1409896 dereference before null check [Caolán McNamara]
5. coverity#1412145 result is not floating point [Caolán McNamara]
6. ofz#2287 check multiply [Caolán McNamara]
7. ofz#2332 fix dangling pCObj [Caolán McNamara]
8. rhbz#1454693 Segmentation fault after clicking gnome-documents back button while presentation is being slowly loaded [Caolán McNamara]
9. tdf#33831 Media wiki export pictures as files [Arianna Masciolini]
10. tdf#36019 Security: Add some way to dynamically enable/disable extension installation. [Muhammet Kara]
11. tdf#37859 Odb data copied to Calc showed wrong encoding in Windows [Julien Nabet]
12. tdf#55631 FILEOPEN: CALC does not import DBASE with CP850 encoding correctly [Julien Nabet]
13. tdf#60780 'Save a Copy' command [Caolán McNamara]
14. tdf#71339 EDITING sigma icon (sum function) operating on selected range [Eike Rathke]
15. tdf#75256 (Sifr-Icon-Theme) [META] Incomplete Sifr icon theme [Cassandra Freund]
16. tdf#75788 certain inserted JPEG images appear black [Caolán McNamara]
17. tdf#80671 FILESAVE: MediaWiki exported footnotes appear in superscript tags [Julien Nabet]
18. tdf#81475 (Writer-Toolbars) [META] Enhancing Writer's standard and formatting toolbars [Yousuf Philips]
19. tdf#83465 FILEOPEN: RTF - Numbering list number font name not retained [Miklos Vajna]
20. tdf#84675 Add missing BASIC function and constant documentation [Olivier Hallot]
21. tdf#84834 .log files with certain size are causing writer to stop responding (std::bad_alloc) [Julien Nabet]
22. tdf#84909 (Impress-Draw-Toolbars) [META] Enhancing Impress/Draw toolbars and context menu [Yousuf Philips]
23. tdf#85594 (Calc-Toolbars) [META] Enhancing Calc's standard and formatting toolbars [Yousuf Philips]
24. tdf#85940 Accessing paragraph and character styles from context menu [Xisco Fauli, Yousuf Philips]
25. tdf#86119 TOOLBAR: Number Format Decimal and Standard doesnt show toggle correctly [Gulsah Kose]
26. tdf#89064 FILEOPEN .pptx slide with a comment has no view of notes [Paul Trojahn]
27. tdf#91602 WRITER: Crash on paste with Zoom - Page width [Michael Stahl]
28. tdf#91820 (Calc-Menus) [META] Reorganization of the menu bar for Calc [Yousuf Philips]
29. tdf#93968 Sidebar styles preview is broken for bullet styles [Caolán McNamara]
30. tdf#97743 Impossibility to add certain Wiki accounts in "Tools - Options - Internet - MediaWiki" [Julien Nabet]
31. tdf#98888 FILESAVE: Export to mediawiki inserts redundant emptylines in <ref> when before headings [Julien Nabet]
32. tdf#99074 web layout is not imported from docx file [Aron Budea]
33. tdf#99680 Missing images and charts when exporting to PDF (print to PDF works) [Vasily Melenchuk]
34. tdf#101588 FORMATTING: Format Cells > Background > No Fill fails with non-continuous selection of colored cells [Eike Rathke]
35. tdf#103091 An applied conditional paragraph style looses feature on opening [Troy Rollo]
36. tdf#103311 Tools -> Mail Merge Wizard can't insert anything [Gabor Kelemen]
37. tdf#104640 Images with caption will disappearing ('white box') when changing anchor [Xisco Fauli]
38. tdf#104875 FILEOPEN: Opening xlsx file 15x times slower then in last version, performance speed regression [Eike Rathke]
39. tdf#104989 Problem with FILTERXML-Function in Basic (IllegalArgumentException) [Eike Rathke]
40. tdf#105566 Show InfoBar when document has invalid signature [Katarina Behrens]
41. tdf#105740 Applied background color is not selected when opening Format > Cells > Background [Eike Rathke]
42. tdf#106018 UI: Frame is named Object in image frame context menu [Yousuf Philips]
43. tdf#106175 Help viewer: <sub> tag is not supported in localized (l10n) help [Gabor Kelemen]
44. tdf#106366 "Open Read-Only" for document in use doesn't give "Edit document" button [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
45. tdf#106423 DBF dbase file will not open correctly [Julien Nabet]
46. tdf#106492 FILESAVE: DOCX: Extra section created during each save [Miklos Vajna]
47. tdf#107438 LO uses wrong element for user data "initials" in file [Eike Rathke]
48. tdf#107573 Rename Tools > Outline Numbering to Chapter Numbering [Olivier Hallot]
49. tdf#107618 FILESAVE: Header lost after saving to DOCX [Miklos Vajna]
50. tdf#107666 EDITING: No caret outside the textbox after inserting a textbox [Tamás Zolnai]
51. tdf#107700 Some font weights names not translatable in UI [Gabor Kelemen]
52. tdf#108098 Sheet comments toggle state should be evaluated when switching sheets [Gulsah Kose]
53. tdf#108118 Crash in: SwPageFrame::AppendDrawObjToPage(SwAnchoredObject &) [Michael Stahl]
54. tdf#108123 Crash in: writerfilter::dmapper::DomainMapper_Impl::getTableManager() [Miklos Vajna]
55. tdf#108259 Autofilter can freeze LibreOffice [Jean-Sebastien Bevilacqua]
56. tdf#108269 DOCM files can't be opened in Word after a roundtrip in Writer (until renaming) [Miklos Vajna]
57. tdf#108292 CRASH: When copying/pasting a Calc Sheet (multi_type_vector::get_type#1613: block position not found!) (steps in comment 8) [Eike Rathke]
58. tdf#108305 Keyboard F4 shortcut assigned as Position and Size crashes writer [Michael Stahl]
59. tdf#108349 Assertion failed when opening attachment from tdf#98888 [Michael Stahl]
60. tdf#108413 Text in form text fields no longer visible [Eike Rathke]
61. tdf#108416 RTF IMPORT: list numbering is bold in specific document where it should be regular [Miklos Vajna]
62. tdf#108418 MAILMERGE: "This document shall contain..." checkbox text is aligned top instead of center [Gabor Kelemen]
63. tdf#108419 GTK3: Transparency spinbutton is too narrowed in image's toolbar [Caolán McNamara]
64. tdf#108469 'As Character' image disappears after another image is inserted [Xisco Fauli]
65. tdf#108480 Undo from clone formatting does not remove vertical alignment from cell [Tamás Zolnai]
66. tdf#108486 Hyperlink character styles automatically assigned when opening Character dialog [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
67. tdf#108494 With cursor at specific places, classification positions watermark incorrectly [Szymon Kłos]
68. tdf#108654 CRASH while undoing paste on a new sheet [Eike Rathke]
69. tdf#108671 [EDITING] Named range gives an ERR result when deleting a row/column of their range, but the named reference erroneously remains fine. [Eike Rathke]

Translations

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