Releases/6.2.1/RC1

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    Windows

    • LibreOffice 6.2 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 6.2.0 (rc3):

    1. bnc#862510 oox smartart: backport fixes related to org chart [Miklos Vajna]
    2. cid#1371154 crash when running extension [Noel Grandin]
    3. i#124638 Picture background crash [Noel Grandin]
    4. ofz#12660 remove flys before removing trailing paras [Caolán McNamara]
    5. tdf#43220 UI: The Navigation Toolbox (top left of Navigator dialog) in Writer can incorrectly launch multiple instances [Caolán McNamara]
    6. tdf#70195 FILESAVE: DOCX export of empty header\footer exports wrong distance from top\bottom (seen only in MSWord) [Justin Luth]
    7. tdf#72987 [firebird db integration] big-endian LibreOffice unable to open little-endian embedded firebird db (found 2944.512, support 11.2) [Stephan Bergmann]
    8. tdf#79197 Unable to add track change comment when cursor is at the end of the tracked change [László Németh]
    9. tdf#87348 linked textboxes/frames don't work in .docx format [Caolán McNamara]
    10. tdf#87884 tabpages not displayed in Java/Python/basic dialog [Vasily Melenchuk]
    11. tdf#90694 Crash when deleting rows on multiple sheets [Eike Rathke]
    12. tdf#96892 Low precision in PDF export of SVG images leads to visible artifacts at high zoom levels [Michael Stahl]
    13. tdf#98211 RTL: Paragraph dialog justified combobox doesnt list 'right' [Caolán McNamara]
    14. tdf#98212 RTL: 'Text Direction' drop down menu doesnt update preview in alignment tab of paragraph dialog [Caolán McNamara]
    15. tdf#99631 DOCX import/export: with embedded XLSX loaded but incorrectly scaled when edit [László Németh]
    16. tdf#103703 When printing multiple duplex copies of a document with odd pages, the first page is printed on the back of the last page of the first copy [Gabor Kelemen]
    17. tdf#106463 Data Records Not Saved to External Firebird Database File [Lionel Elie Mamane]
    18. tdf#107416 Printing multiple copies results in multiple print jobs [Gabor Kelemen]
    19. tdf#107567 Text previews in Paragraph dialog not showing correctly for RTL [Caolán McNamara]
    20. tdf#108021 Text break is not supported for column chart X axis if text is rotated [Balazs Varga]
    21. tdf#109085 LO exits abruptly when logging off in Windows while LO is running [Mike Kaganski]
    22. tdf#110429 Width of page number field in Navigator to large [Caolán McNamara]
    23. tdf#113205 Icon of updates button on right end of menu bar is not visible [Caolán McNamara]
    24. tdf#113275 Last line drop down and expand single word check box should only be show active for Justified [Caolán McNamara]
    25. tdf#113849 FILESAVE: Saving a file as .docx format adds spurious extra page breaks [Justin Luth]
    26. tdf#115094 FILEOPEN: DOCX: Image in table is misplaced [Patrick Jaap]
    27. tdf#115941 base Record locater at the bottom of the displayed records is super small almost unreadable or useable [Caolán McNamara]
    28. tdf#116051 Hidden column causing right border to disappear [Ilhan Yesil]
    29. tdf#116071 FILESAVE: .doc style is lost after saving file as .odt [Justin Luth]
    30. tdf#116851 General Input Output error opening an rtf file [Julien Nabet]
    31. tdf#117276 Autofilter settings being reset in some cases [Zdeněk Crhonek]
    32. tdf#117713 UnoControlDialog is displayed in the wrong size (GTK3) [Caolán McNamara]
    33. tdf#117761 Snake Algorithm unable to display accurate layout. [Miklos Vajna]
    34. tdf#117935 Accessible text-attributes-changed signals should only be emitted when the text attributes have changed [a11y] second attempt [Noel Grandin]
    35. tdf#118038 [GTK3] Form dropdown lists are partially displayed [Caolán McNamara]
    36. tdf#118127 Format duplication in Hungarian Locale Settings [Eike Rathke]
    37. tdf#118879 Flat ODF document embed linked image [Xisco Fauli, Tomaž Vajngerl]
    38. tdf#119502 Firebird: Migration: Incorrect calculation of the length of the table name (Russian) [Tamas Bunth]
    39. tdf#119599 LibreOffice Writer later versions, 6.1, 6.0, 5.4.7.2 do not handle editing of styles of an imported rtf file. Version 5.4.3.2 allowed me to modify the styles correctly. [Miklos Vajna]
    40. tdf#119613 FORMATTING Incorrect number and date format for South Africa (en_ZA) [Eike Rathke]
    41. tdf#119661 Embed linked image via menu "links to external files"->"Break link" doesn't work [Tomaž Vajngerl]
    42. tdf#120145 FILEOPEN Multiple sections with different margins change 2-column layout to 4 in DOC [Justin Luth]
    43. tdf#120511 FILEOPEN DOCX Page break with page format change (from portrait to landscape orientation) not interpreted in a document containing a text frame and a table [Justin Luth]
    44. tdf#120625 kde5: Copy and paste of Calc cell not working [Katarina Behrens]
    45. tdf#120632 Text cursor disappears if row in Writer table right-click deleted [Caolán McNamara]
    46. tdf#120772 kde5: Drag'n'drop of image from file manager doesn't work [Katarina Behrens]
    47. tdf#120836 KDE5: LO Calc slow at 'Select all' [Aleksei Nikiforov]
    48. tdf#120877 KDE5: There is no Checkbox for some options in View (LO Calc) [Katarina Behrens]
    49. tdf#120993 Sub-optimal Colibre icon for "Add fields" in Base reports [andreas kainz]
    50. tdf#121002 Cells not recalculated after moving data within ranges pointed to by a shared formula group. [Eike Rathke]
    51. tdf#121069 Firebird: Migration: "unsuccessful metadata update" create FK statement fails when it involves a column name with special characters [Tamas Bunth]
    52. tdf#121111 FILESAVE: DOC/RTF: Paragraph fill becomes blue after roundtrip [Justin Luth]
    53. tdf#121129 KDE5: Missing features in open file dialog [Katarina Behrens]
    54. tdf#121388 Performance regression enabling automatic update of external links [Dennis Francis]
    55. tdf#121456 Writer: DOCX export from ODT: wrong tabs stops in TOC [Serge Krot]
    56. tdf#121469 FIREBIRD: Migration for table names with special characters fails [Tamas Bunth]
    57. tdf#121561 Writer: DOCX export from ODT: TOC title is not recognized by MS Word [Serge Krot]
    58. tdf#121665 FILESAVE DOCX Only one Manual Column Break remains after export [Justin Luth]
    59. tdf#121780 Clear the List of Recent documents -> 'this operation is not supported by operating system' ( not reproducible from the start center ) [Stephan Bergmann]
    60. tdf#121867 FILESAVE DOCX Zoom as Page Width not saved [Miklos Vajna]
    61. tdf#121978 Problem with new function SECOND [Winfried Donkers]
    62. tdf#122056 kde5: Impress crashes when at presentation end when Orca is enabled [Katarina Behrens]
    63. tdf#122091 FILEOPEN XLSX, Long X axis labels isn’t automatically break [Balazs Varga]
    64. tdf#122131 SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=qt5: Fonts, tooltips, toolbar icons way too large [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
    65. tdf#122224 FILEOPEN DOCX The formula field is incorrect in the table, when we change the number format [László Németh]
    66. tdf#122238 Backspace does not work in KDE [Aleksei Nikiforov]
    67. tdf#122239 Primary selection does not work under KDE [Aleksei Nikiforov]
    68. tdf#122241 Theme does not affect menu bar in GTK3 [Caolán McNamara, Julien Nabet]
    69. tdf#122250 Crash in: std::unique_ptr<long [0],std::default_delete<long [0]> >::~unique_ptr<long [0],std::default_delete<long [0]> >() [Noel Grandin]
    70. tdf#122253 KDE5: Crash closing full screen mode [Aleksei Nikiforov]
    71. tdf#122260 EDITING Autofilters not properly cleared [Serge Krot]
    72. tdf#122301 FREQUENCY: force array mode on arguments and immediate caller [Eike Rathke]
    73. tdf#122308 Crash: closing LibreOffice while warning about signatures is open (gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
    74. tdf#122346 Font features set in dialog are not applied nor font is changed [Caolán McNamara]
    75. tdf#122348 UI: dialogue Image properties: width/height ratio lost if immediately after changing either width or height, that is confirmed (thus dialog closed) with Enter (gen/gtk2) [Caolán McNamara]
    76. tdf#122353 Named-Range manager causes GLib-GObject-WARNING ... signal name 'selection_changed' is invalid for instance ... of type 'OOoAtkObjCompTxt' [Caolán McNamara]
    77. tdf#122356 Double-click on format in Format Cells:Number format closes dialog without doing anything [Caolán McNamara]
    78. tdf#122384 Lines created in Draw are not visible when printed (Windows-only) [Armin Le Grand]
    79. tdf#122393 With multi line/row tabs, not all tabs can be activated with arrow or Ctrl+PgUp/Dwn [Caolán McNamara]
    80. tdf#122398 UI: Cannot specify min/max in axis scale or axis position. Limited between 0 and 100 [Caolán McNamara]
    81. tdf#122404 Extension manager stops responding after declining license during extension installation (gen/gtk2) [Caolán McNamara]
    82. tdf#122428 Comments of Tracked Changes are not Displayed at once [László Németh]
    83. tdf#122430 FILEOPEN: RTF: Incorrect font size [Miklos Vajna]
    84. tdf#122435 LibreOffice hangs when in Calc copying formula while in edit mode <F2> then leaving field with escape [Mike Kaganski]
    85. tdf#122437 MySQL native connector: Creating foreign key creates a relationship to the foreign key itself [Tamas Bunth]
    86. tdf#122449 Crash in: mergedlo.dll when closing "Edit Index Entry" dialog (gen/gtk) [Caolán McNamara]
    87. tdf#122452 FILESAVE: ODT: Show Track Changes is enabled after RT [Michael Stahl]
    88. tdf#122454 Impress UI: Drag'n'drop reorder animations leaves incorrect animation selected (Windows only) [Brian Fraser]
    89. tdf#122455 FILESAVE: RTF: Font size changes after RT [Miklos Vajna]
    90. tdf#122456 FILESAVE: RTF: new sections added after RT [Justin Luth]
    91. tdf#122458 Heading 1 style font (and others) fail to update when font family of parent Heading is changed [Caolán McNamara]
    92. tdf#122460 FILESAVE: DOC: Header/Footer are lost saving section to .doc format [Justin Luth]
    93. tdf#122467 UI: dialog Standard Filter from Data Sources: the drop down list Field Name is too narrow (gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
    94. tdf#122480 UI: dialog Paragraph (Style) height is too large; it runs out of the screen( with asian and complex text layouts disabled ) [Caolán McNamara]
    95. tdf#122484 UI: dialog Paragraph/Character, tab Font, box Family: search does not trigger autocomplete for font name [Caolán McNamara]
    96. tdf#122509 EDITING Calc crashes when manipulating Negative numbers in red on Currency ( not gtk3 ) [Eike Rathke]
    97. tdf#122516 Mysql/MariaDB - native connector timestamp values displayed as floating numbers in Table data entry mode [Julien Nabet]
    98. tdf#122527 Dot symbols in Calc Charts other than the squares are not available [Caolán McNamara]
    99. tdf#122563 FILEOPEN DOCX Embededd OLE object (XLSX spreadsheet) becomes small in Writer after a roundtrip between LO Writer and MS Word [László Németh]
    100. tdf#122589 FILESAVE: RTF: section at document start creates extra, empty section [Justin Luth]
    101. tdf#122597 CRASH: all chart dialogs crash if LibreOffice is closed while they are open (gen/gtk2) [Caolán McNamara]
    102. tdf#122598 Crash when stop macro recording [Caolán McNamara]
    103. tdf#122611 Crash in: SvTreeList::Select(SvListView *,SvTreeListEntry *,bool) [Caolán McNamara]
    104. tdf#122623 [GTK3] Extra tab with a down arrow in options that can't be clicked on. [Caolán McNamara]
    105. tdf#122625 FILESAVE: File size of Flat XML is much larger than for normal format when using linked images [Xisco Fauli]
    106. tdf#122627 'URL Recognition' in Options tab of AutoCorrect Options dialog is broken (gen/gtk2) [Caolán McNamara]
    107. tdf#122656 UI: Items are skipped when moving through the Fontwork Gallery with arrow keys [Caolán McNamara]
    108. tdf#122662 Menubar in opened forms is greyed out with VCL: gtk3 [Caolán McNamara]
    109. tdf#122689 Cannot copy text from/to Libreoffice to/from other application in KDE [Aleksei Nikiforov]
    110. tdf#122695 Impress: tooltip doesn't stay when hovering over Content Type selector [Caolán McNamara]
    111. tdf#122700 Writer - Can't change shadow color on tab Borders in dialogue Character style [Caolán McNamara]
    112. tdf#122701 Cannot disable OpenGL enabled in a previous version using gtk3 [Caolán McNamara]
    113. tdf#122711 CRASH: exporting a signed PDF [Caolán McNamara]
    114. tdf#122722 Hiding characters will crash. Crash in: SwAttrIter::CtorInitAttrIter(SwTextNode &,SwScriptInfo &,SwTextFrame const *) [Michael Stahl]
    115. tdf#122744 Changing units in paragraph style dialog's Font tab sets value to 0 [Caolán McNamara]
    116. tdf#122748 Wrong language ([None]) in Spelling dialog if no errors found, and switching languages doesn't work [Szymon Kłos]
    117. tdf#122752 gtk3_kde5/kde5: save file dialog doesn't add file extension and misses custom controls when using LXQt [Michael Weghorn]
    118. tdf#122786 Format Numbers dialog produces wrong format codes when un-/checking Red or Thousands; only gtk3 [Caolán McNamara, Eike Rathke]
    119. tdf#122800 VIEWING The automatically break separates the words of the X axis labels [Balazs Varga]
    120. tdf#122808 CRASH while closing LibreOffice with Search for formatting dialog open ( gen/gtk ) [Caolán McNamara]
    121. tdf#122814 kde5: Cannot open menu using Alt + <character> shortcut [Aleksei Nikiforov]
    122. tdf#122846 CRASH: Clicking "Restart Now" after "Use OpenGL for all rendering"->"Apply" in Options Dialog [Xisco Fauli]
    123. tdf#122874 OPTIONS DIALOG: AutoCaption options not saved [Caolán McNamara]
    124. tdf#122878 Wrong wrap with shape in footer [Patrick Jaap]
    125. tdf#122880 GTK3: Auto Caption dialog doesn't show the list of elements [Caolán McNamara]
    126. tdf#122885 Crash when converting tdf#122811 file to Firebird [Julien Nabet]
    127. tdf#122889 Mail config dialog is empty [Caolán McNamara]
    128. tdf#122912 Another CRASH: "Apply"->"Restart Now" if UI Langauge is changed in Tools->Options [Xisco Fauli]
    129. tdf#122914 Opening a Style dialog's Borders tab adds Shadow properties to the property set in the style (again) [Caolán McNamara]
    130. tdf#122927 Writer hangs if I insert a graphic from the gallery as a list bullet [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
    131. tdf#122930 Cannot set paper tray in page style [Caolán McNamara]
    132. tdf#122931 CRASH: GTK3: Closing Bullet and Numbering Dialog after showing the graphics gallery [Caolán McNamara]
    133. tdf#122949 GTK3: Option dialog no longer has textboxes [Caolán McNamara]
    134. tdf#122951 An empty square is inserted as graphic in bullet and numbering dialog [Xisco Fauli]
    135. tdf#122958 FILEOPEN DOCX, Arrows go missing when opened in LO (shapes) [Caolán McNamara]
    136. tdf#122977 CRASH: "Tools"->"Options" "LibreOfficeDev"->"Charts"->"Default Colors" [Caolán McNamara]
    137. tdf#122990 Crash after trying to switch to Notebookbar (GTK3) [Julien Nabet]
    138. tdf#122991 FORMATTING: Regression from 6.1 to 6.2 in displaying times formatted as Time 876613:37:46 [Eike Rathke]
    139. tdf#122992 Multiple fonts not displayed in Font box REGRESSION [Caolán McNamara]
    140. tdf#123011 KDE5: on wayland the gnome UI is selected [Michael Weghorn]
    141. tdf#123013 Can not change Trendline name in charts [Xisco Fauli]
    142. tdf#123018 Quote menu item has no function in Notebookbar Groupedbar [andreas kainz]
    143. tdf#123019 CRASH: GTK3: Closing a modified Form several times [Caolán McNamara]
    144. tdf#123031 GTK3: Some dropdown lists are too narrow [Caolán McNamara]
    145. tdf#123036 Assert in customize menu add [Julien Nabet]
    146. tdf#123050 Crash in: `salhelper::Thread::run'::`1'::catch$1, installing theme [Xisco Fauli]
    147. tdf#123052 Shift+Tab jumping back/up to unprotected cells not working [Eike Rathke]
    148. tdf#123077 gtk3_kde5, kde5: Crash when minimizing file save dialog [Michael Weghorn]
    149. tdf#123080 TDF 64-bit linux builds require GTK3 with Wayland backend [Caolán McNamara]
    150. tdf#123089 menulist not expanded horizontally in dialog ( gen ) [Xisco Fauli]
    151. tdf#123122 Invoking the number format dialog the format code field is blank for a user-defined date+time format. [Eike Rathke]
    152. tdf#123128 UI: dialog Table properties in Impress too high (gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
    153. tdf#123163 CRASH when FILEOPEN of DOCX from scan and Nuance PDF Converter that also can't be open with MSO [Caolán McNamara]
    154. tdf#123165 Slow typing in document with pictures (gtk3 under X) [Caolán McNamara]
    155. tdf#123231 Chart set trendline format regression type Power twice [Caolán McNamara]
    156. tdf#123309 GTK3 Chart - crash when change symbol [Caolán McNamara]
    157. tdf#123320 Writer crash if Paragraph edited after delete of custom Character Style used in Drop Caps [Caolán McNamara]

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