Releases/6.3.0/Beta1

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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 6.3 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, 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 6.3.0 Alpha1

    1. ofz#14803 resolves; build failure [Caolán McNamara]
    2. ofz#15045 configuration unavailable during fuzzing [Caolán McNamara]
    3. rhbz#1713827 [abrt] libreoffice-core: (anonymous namespace)::signalHandlerFunction(): soffice.bin killed by SIGABRT [Caolán McNamara]
    4. tdf#42949 accelerating compile times by removing unnecessary header #include [Gabor Kelemen]
    5. tdf#43157 Clean up OSL_ASSERT, DBG_ASSERT, etc. [Shubham Goyal, Jens Carl]
    6. tdf#56738 Wrong encoding in comments for file edited by Mac OS MS Word [Julien Nabet]
    7. tdf#65587 Elements pane: Items not reachable without mouse [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
    8. tdf#66765 FILESAVE: saving sheet with some queries in it takes forever (~5 minutes) [Noel Grandin]
    9. tdf#69042 Add a "Release Notes/What's New" window to be shown upon first run [heiko tietze]
    10. tdf#79972 FILEOPEN: XLS/XLSX - Hyperlink document path not imported correctly for numeric content cells [Tünde Tóth]
    11. tdf#80853 Calc freezes while filtering large data [Luboš Luňák]
    12. tdf#83722 Untitled document from template is closed when opening additional existing document [Katarina Behrens]
    13. tdf#87965 Make 'Search Results' dialog optional from Find & Replace dialog [heiko tietze]
    14. tdf#90180 FORMATTING feature request: error bars style => error box [Winfried Donkers]
    15. tdf#90297 LibreOffice Math dark theme > dark text and background [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
    16. tdf#92335 FILEOPEN FILESAVE: Character style for bullets added every time docx document is saved [László Németh]
    17. tdf#97635 Beanshell Editor: Shift-Tab doesn't work [Andreas Heinisch]
    18. tdf#99938 Calc uses 100% CPU and leaks memory when calculating moving average of full column [Dennis Francis]
    19. tdf#100084 VIEWING: charts not displayed in .xlsx reports generated from ibm cognos (case-sensitive path for the .rels relationship files instead of case-insensitive) [Balazs Varga]
    20. tdf#101443 Wrong width/placement of Calc multiline scrollbar [Thorsten Wagner]
    21. tdf#101779 Templates window: line break not working in tooltip [Caolán McNamara]
    22. tdf#101826 textbox background fill lost when round-tripping in .doc [Justin Luth]
    23. tdf#105622 Highlight more than 64 cells in Calc formula [Shubham Goyal]
    24. tdf#108298 EDITING: Applying bold formatting to a large dataset is slower as it has been before [Luboš Luňák]
    25. tdf#108347 Searching a large dataset is slower as it has been before [Luboš Luňák]
    26. tdf#108909 UI: Menu bar items should be highlighted on mouse over (default Windows behavior) [Miklos Vajna]
    27. tdf#109158 slower loading of a huge AutoCorrect replacement table [Caolán McNamara]
    28. tdf#112000 Slow pasting of a big block of cells with even rows blank [Luboš Luňák]
    29. tdf#113241 Options for Number recognition in Writer tables deserve better default: turned on (only functioning when 'Number Recognition' is on!) [Cor Nouws]
    30. tdf#113714 Flicker when hovering over main menu with default rendering [Miklos Vajna]
    31. tdf#114245 LibreOffice will hang when moving or copying a few columns using drag and drop [Dennis Francis]
    32. tdf#114596 External forms for a database doesn't save data - closing form with dataloss ( see comment 30 ) [Xisco Fauli]
    33. tdf#115557 FILEOPEN DOCX Charts in footnotes multiply with every open and save [László Németh]
    34. tdf#115813 Position shifted while moving the handle of OOXML Callout shape [Regina Henschel]
    35. tdf#116431 Make the string "LibreOffice (Safe Mode)" translatable [Takeshi Abe]
    36. tdf#118150 FILEOPEN XLSX Chart width gets compressed [Tamás Zolnai]
    37. tdf#118699 FILEOPEN DOCX Accepting tracked changes has different result in LO Writer and MS Word in document with numbered paragraphs [László Németh]
    38. tdf#118719 Whitespace is not Hidden in Cases with Page and Column Breaks [Miklos Vajna]
    39. tdf#119109 Embedded table position off after switching from webview to normal view & back [Michael Stahl]
    40. tdf#119343 EDITING: copied and pasted cells containing formulas are not recalcuated (2) [Zdeněk Crhonek]
    41. tdf#119775 Incorrect keyboard navigation when insert table toolbar button is dropped down and right or down arrow key is pressed [Jim Raykowski]
    42. tdf#120412 FILEOPEN DOCX Raised text created with Word becomes normal when the document is opened in Writer [Jozsef Szakacs, László Németh]
    43. tdf#120423 LibreOffice Base -> can't insert special character in a form [Caolán McNamara]
    44. tdf#120731 Crash cuilo!makeAutoCorrEdit when open character dialog with large amount of text selected [Zdeněk Crhonek]
    45. tdf#120836 KDE5: LO Calc slow at 'Select all' [Luboš Luňák]
    46. tdf#120837 File saving at least 5 times slower [Noel Grandin]
    47. tdf#120905 Revamp the Bullets and Numbering dialog [Gülşah Köse]
    48. tdf#121241 MacOS: table borders aren't black but grayish ( zoom level < 150% ) [Xisco Fauli]
    49. tdf#121784 FILEOPEN DOCX Footnote and endnote changes are not opened as change in change control [László Németh]
    50. tdf#122293 kde5: Tooltips for toolbar icons not properly shown on Wayland [Michael Weghorn]
    51. tdf#122538 EDITING Table - Index Design: Index isn't sortable any more [Julien Nabet]
    52. tdf#122765 Legend interferes with pie chart after pptx import [Tamás Zolnai]
    53. tdf#122920 UI: XMouseListener is not called for top most window [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
    54. tdf#123762 EDITING Calc: Anchored objects are not effected by delete row/cell [Ilhan Yesil]
    55. tdf#123793 Can't step with keyboard to/between favorite special characters on group button [Jim Raykowski]
    56. tdf#123912 DOCX Text in protected form created in Writer is editable in Word [Justin Luth]
    57. tdf#124027 LO Impress: Unnecessary grey rectangle on the screen while demonstration (slide with video) [Katarina Behrens]
    58. tdf#124127 Arabic version libreoffice - icon numeric list on tools box look not good [Rizal Muttaqin]
    59. tdf#124271 Provide releases built with XCode 10 [Tomaž Vajngerl]
    60. tdf#124305 Multi-selection lost after promote/demote chapter/level in Navigator [Jim Raykowski]
    61. tdf#124364 Inserting a diagram leads to an error [Tor Lillqvist]
    62. tdf#124467 cannot disable wrap text [Caolán McNamara]
    63. tdf#124484 Impress crashes on slide show using "All displays" [Katarina Behrens]
    64. tdf#124572 tabs in calc (for sheets) and draw (for layer) style [Tomaž Vajngerl]
    65. tdf#124586 Crash if switch from user outline numbering to chapter numbering with same paragraph style [Zdeněk Crhonek]
    66. tdf#124675 CRASH: after moving the content down and undoing [Zdeněk Crhonek]
    67. tdf#124694 Video passing slide boundaries causes weird zoom in or shift (gtk2/gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
    68. tdf#124752 Copy/paste popup not working [Tor Lillqvist]
    69. tdf#124754 FILEOPEN DOCX Hyperlink in text box does not get blue color [Serge Krot]
    70. tdf#124825 Sync UI between LibO and LOOL [andreas kainz]
    71. tdf#124829 CRASH: cutting and undoing a sheet with external links [Zdeněk Crhonek]
    72. tdf#124895 Multiple selected chapter promote/demote produce incorrect results [Jim Raykowski]
    73. tdf#124936 Help->About LibreOffice dialog does not specify whether 32 or 64 bit is installed [Takeshi Abe]
    74. tdf#124937 crash when trying to open a .doc file [Mark Hung]
    75. tdf#124951 'Open' button on Database Wizard dialog is enabled when it should be disabled [Xisco Fauli, Noel Grandin]
    76. tdf#125010 Bundled templates are not ODF valid: mimetype must not be compressed [Laurent BP]
    77. tdf#125051 EDITING: CRASH when start SpellCheck [Zdeněk Crhonek]
    78. tdf#125054 Font changed when typing into cell, in edit mode, with redline [Armin Le Grand]
    79. tdf#125103 EDITING Writer: Input fields are not exported when odt is saved as docx [Ilhan Yesil]
    80. tdf#125104 Changing page numbering to "1st, 2nd, 3rd,..." causes crashes when trying to change Page settings later ( see comment 26 ) [Zdeněk Crhonek, Caolán McNamara]
    81. tdf#125109 Calc swaps day and month of edited dates if the format's DMY order does not match the locale's MDY order and date acceptance patterns match both. [Eike Rathke]
    82. tdf#125128 Option's AutoCaption preference should show Above as default position of table captions (again) [Caolán McNamara]
    83. tdf#125131 CRASH closing LibreOffice with the tip of the day dialog open ( gen/gtk) [Xisco Fauli]
    84. tdf#125160 No drag n drop copy possible (kde5 vclplug) [Katarina Behrens]
    85. tdf#125170 XMouseListener: No mouse events when clicking into document content [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
    86. tdf#125181 The shapes 'star24' and 'star32' imported from OOXML behave wrong when using the adjustment handle [Regina Henschel]
    87. tdf#125207 extend "css:awt:XPrinterServer" with method getDefaultPrinterName() [brinzing]
    88. tdf#125211 Property "PickListEntry" should be added to css.document.MediaDescriptor Service Reference [brinzing]
    89. tdf#125229 CRASH when trying to modify a frame style in a ODT document [Caolán McNamara]
    90. tdf#125241 Loading a large autocorrect replacement table causes freezing in 6.2.x [Caolán McNamara]
    91. tdf#125254 Performance: A spreadsheet opens too slow on 64 bit OS and causes crash on 32 bit OS [Noel Grandin]
    92. tdf#125261 Applying autocorrect to text with URLs causes Writer to hang [Zdeněk Crhonek, Michael Stahl]
    93. tdf#125266 Hang when selecting Read Online Help (GTK2) [Caolán McNamara]
    94. tdf#125267 KDE5: Base 'Database Wizard' open existing database_file fails [Katarina Behrens]
    95. tdf#125271 Inserting this .mp4 file in impress leads to a CRASH [Caolán McNamara]
    96. tdf#125279 Custom properties with "_x005F_" keep growing escapements when roundtripping as OOXML formats [Eike Rathke]
    97. tdf#125281 Fileopen: EMF images in prix-immobilier-friggit.doc shrunk so not correct width [Miklos Vajna]
    98. tdf#125285 NB sd modules wrong usage of ObjectForwardOne, ObjectBackOne [andreas kainz]
    99. tdf#125297 List Format wrongly applied to text pasted [Noel Grandin]
    100. tdf#125298 FILESAVE DOCX Bookmark names and field references shortened in case they are 40 characters long and contain non ASCII characters [Adam Kovacs]
    101. tdf#125303 Autofit text function is not visible any more in mouse right click menu [andreas kainz]
    102. tdf#125310 DOCX Change tracking: deleting paragraph end mark inserts a page break [László Németh]
    103. tdf#125319 FILEOPEN DOCX Numbered paragraph loses numbering after deleted paragraph in hide changes view [László Németh]
    104. tdf#125325 Crash when changing assignments between Table indexes and Free indexes for DBase [Julien Nabet]
    105. tdf#125326 Tabbed Interface Add Photo Album in Insert Tab [rizmut, andreas kainz]
    106. tdf#125334 Text break is not supported for Bar chart vertical X axis [Balazs Varga]
    107. tdf#125335 Bar chart legend items order depends on the legends alignment [Balazs Varga]
    108. tdf#125339 Table is deleted after acceding the table [Noel Grandin]
    109. tdf#125346 PPTX export: Shape has wrong fill color comming from theme [Tamás Zolnai]
    110. tdf#125348 autocorrect replacement table default width is increased by long autocorrect entries and you can't resize it [Caolán McNamara]
    111. tdf#125358 Infobar's height is not recalculated after resized main window [Xisco Fauli]
    112. tdf#125360 PPTX: Shape fill transparency is not exported if the original shape fill is defined with a theme [Tamás Zolnai]
    113. tdf#125368 Add Karasa Jaga SVG Icons [Rizal Muttaqin]
    114. tdf#125369 Line break in tooltip doesn't work in Templates dialog (non-gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
    115. tdf#125370 crash: on open basic editor to edit macros [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
    116. tdf#125372 FILEOPEN: LibreOffice freeze opening document [Noel Grandin]
    117. tdf#125375 Can't select fontworks [Caolán McNamara]
    118. tdf#125384 Customization dialog opens with the wrong tab (gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
    119. tdf#125387 Fit to text checkboxes always disabled (gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
    120. tdf#125388 LibreOffice hangs expanding the filter dropdown list (gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
    121. tdf#125392 CRASH: if Select Address List dialog has more than 1 element (gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
    122. tdf#125394 CRASH: closing mail merge dialog [Caolán McNamara]
    123. tdf#125397 iOS App: Template URL - Crash when Opening From Template [Tor Lillqvist]
    124. tdf#125413 Menu is black (gen) [Miklos Vajna]
    125. tdf#125415 Flicker when hovering over submenus with default rendering [Miklos Vajna]
    126. tdf#125424 CRASH: Renaming template [Mike Kaganski]
    127. tdf#125436 Dialog box disabled to choose between Firebird or hsqldb embedded when creating DB [Xisco Fauli]
    128. tdf#125445 OOXML shapes 'gear6' and 'gear9' react badly on dragging adjustment handle [Regina Henschel]
    129. tdf#125447 Tooltip displayed by Redo button changes from 'Redo' to 'Re~do' when the button is sensitive in Draw, Calc and Impress [Caolán McNamara]
    130. tdf#125454 Math does not respect system theme [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
    131. tdf#125472 Crash vcllo!OutputDevice::RemoveTransparenciesFromMetaFile+0xa68: [Julien Nabet]
    132. tdf#125475 Crash after saving and/or closing document [Michael Stahl]
    133. tdf#125479 GTK3: close Customize dialog with X button [Caolán McNamara]
    134. tdf#125490 refactoring of autocorrect replacement handling breaks its search ability [Caolán McNamara]
    135. tdf#125497 It needs multiple backspace to remove one Japanese IVS character. [Mark Hung]
    136. tdf#125506 Helplines and snap guides no longer visible on macOS (antialising) [Xisco Fauli]
    137. tdf#125522 Mail merge: Hidden text frames are not completely removed [Serge Krot]
    138. tdf#125525 Pressing F5 after selecting a transition on sidebar doesn't start slideshow [Jim Raykowski]
    139. tdf#125548 When using kde5 vcl, tab first inserts a tab, and then the document loses focus [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
    140. tdf#125550 The color of the menu changes when opening a change tracked DOCX document saved by MS Word (OpenGL) [Miklos Vajna]
    141. tdf#125578 Safari sandboxing on macOS 10.14 blocks opening help [Christian Lohmaier]

    Translations

    This build contains these translation updates: [1], [2], [3]. See credits for each language.