Releases/6.4.0/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 6.4 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 6.4.0 Alpha1

    1. cid#1441466 silence Untrusted loop bound [Caolán McNamara]
    2. cid#1448329 call GetSbData() just once [Caolán McNamara]
    3. cid#1448338 untrusted value as argument [Caolán McNamara]
    4. cid#1448412 untrusted value as argument [Caolán McNamara]
    5. cid#1448423 silence Wrapper object use after free [Caolán McNamara]
    6. cid#1448471 wrapper object use after free [Caolán McNamara]
    7. cid#1448492 wrapper object use after free [Caolán McNamara]
    8. cid#1448512 silence Out-of-bounds access [Caolán McNamara]
    9. cid#1448528 resource leak on an exceptional path [Caolán McNamara]
    10. cid#1452004 silence Explicit null dereferenced [Caolán McNamara]
    11. cid#1453991 wrapper object use after free [Caolán McNamara]
    12. cid#1453992 dereference after null check [Caolán McNamara]
    13. cid#1454633 silence Uncaught exception [Caolán McNamara]
    14. cid#1454847 introduce an explicit constructor... [Dennis Francis]
    15. cid#1454849 logically dead code [Caolán McNamara]
    16. cid#1454871 uninitialized member [Caolán McNamara]
    17. cid#1455157 sw: Memory - illegal accesses (WRAPPER_ESCAPE) [Michael Stahl]
    18. cid#1455158 explicit null dereferenced [Caolán McNamara]
    19. cid#1455208 uninitialized pointer field [Caolán McNamara]
    20. cid#1455209 wrapper object use after free [Caolán McNamara]
    21. cid#1455210 dereference before null check [Caolán McNamara]
    22. cid#1455211 dereference after null check [Caolán McNamara]
    23. cid#1455212 uncaught exception [Caolán McNamara]
    24. cid#1455213 sc: rowcol: check pDoc for MaxCol() or MAXCOL [Caolán McNamara, Eike Rathke]
    25. cid#1455214 uninitialized scalar variable [Caolán McNamara]
    26. cid#1455215 improper use of negative value [Caolán McNamara]
    27. cid#1455216 dereference before null check [Caolán McNamara]
    28. cid#1455325 dereference after null check [Caolán McNamara]
    29. cid#1455326 MoveSticky always has a non-nullptr pDoc [Caolán McNamara]
    30. cid#1455327 dereference null return value [Caolán McNamara]
    31. cid#1455328 initialize variables to 0.0 in LinearGradientInfo [Tomaž Vajngerl]
    32. ofz#12553 timeout [Caolán McNamara]
    33. ofz#18280 remove LinkedFile support [Caolán McNamara]
    34. ofz#18301 timeout in xlsfuzzer [Caolán McNamara]
    35. ofz#18414 drop apo anchor if it will be deleted [Caolán McNamara]
    36. ofz#18454 bad-cast to SwDrawContact from SwFlyDrawContact [Caolán McNamara]
    37. ofz#18467 check against end of buffer [Caolán McNamara]
    38. ofz#18528 null deref [Caolán McNamara]
    39. ofz#18620 timeout [Caolán McNamara]
    40. ofz#18646 ensure we are inside valid range [Caolán McNamara]
    41. ofz#18653 slow and uninteresting [Caolán McNamara]
    42. ofz#18660 don't parse past end [Caolán McNamara]
    43. ofz#18683 NotifyFreeObj override is not helpful [Caolán McNamara]
    44. rhbz#1766990 [abrt] libreoffice-core: (anonymous namespace)::signalHandlerFunction(): soffice.bin killed by SIGABRT [Caolán McNamara]
    45. tdf#38199 Writer EDITING: Why when I press tab in read-only mode, then the document scrolls to top? [Jim Raykowski]
    46. tdf#41205 PRINTING: clicking radio button "Pages" should select pane contents for page selection [Michael Weghorn]
    47. tdf#42748 EDITING: Numbering in numbered list doesn't show when affected by tracked changes [László Németh]
    48. tdf#42949 accelerating compile times by removing unnecessary header #include - See Comment 57 [Gabor Kelemen, Tomoyuki Kubota]
    49. tdf#45904 move java based api tests to c++ [Jens Carl]
    50. tdf#49813 Enhanced autofilter popup window (Data > Filter > Auto Filter) should be resizeable (too narrow) (width too small) [Caolán McNamara]
    51. tdf#50916 Allow more than 1024 columns in calc [Eike Rathke, Aron Budea, Michael Meeks, Noel Grandin]
    52. tdf#54204 Hyperlinks between documents not works if link contains anchor at the end [Tünde Tóth]
    53. tdf#76441 FORMATTING: MM:SS time input if formatted as such [Eike Rathke]
    54. tdf#80731 Incorrect syntax does compile, MID without end bracket [Mike Kaganski]
    55. tdf#84257 Menus, dialogs and sidebar having the word 'page' rather than 'slide' [Muhammet Kara]
    56. tdf#86188 FILESAVE Comments to footnotes corrupt layout when converted to DOCX or DOC [Kelemen Gábor]
    57. tdf#93300 Style formatting overrides direct formatting when using conditional formatting [Eike Rathke]
    58. tdf#95374 FILEOPEN DOCX Margin import error. LibreOffice imports with -1cm margin that should be 0cm [László Németh]
    59. tdf#97038 FILEOPEN DOCX Image aligned to page instead of table [Xisco Fauli]
    60. tdf#97361 Make unittests more pythonic [Mayank Suman]
    61. tdf#99602 FILESAVE: subscript in character style not converted into docx [Justin Luth]
    62. tdf#104017 FILESAVE: DOC: New rows are displayed on table after RT [Miklos Vajna]
    63. tdf#106638 FILEOPEN PPTX Arial (Corps) changed to Wingdings [Mark Hung]
    64. tdf#108065 [FILESAVE DOCX] Gradient property of the data series not preserved when saved as DOCX [Balazs Varga]
    65. tdf#108202 Text in 'Insert Slides/Objects' dialog should say pages and not slides [Muhammet Kara]
    66. tdf#108350 DOCX files must use C-fonts on IMPORT by default [Justin Luth]
    67. tdf#109135 SIDEBAR: Keyboard shortcuts don't work when a sidebar element is active [Jim Raykowski]
    68. tdf#109219 Mailmerge: cannot use CSV with space in the file name as Address List with MM Wizard [Michael Weghorn]
    69. tdf#112103 FILESAVE: XML element for table cell background no fill unnecessarily written in DOCX [Szabolcs Toth]
    70. tdf#112126 Pages named as 'Slide X' rather than 'Page X' [Muhammet Kara]
    71. tdf#113041 UI Busy indicator persists after Find all returns no key found [Muhammet Kara]
    72. tdf#114175 Draw uses the label 'Slide' in various places when it should be 'Page' [Muhammet Kara]
    73. tdf#114746 Improve CJK and CTL fonts setting in default Impress templates [Laurent BP]
    74. tdf#115967 Distorted formulas on printing to PDF or exporting to PDF for RTL text [Xisco Fauli]
    75. tdf#116071 FILESAVE: .doc style is lost after saving file as .odt [Justin Luth]
    76. tdf#117658 equations appear twice in pptx import [Miklos Vajna]
    77. tdf#117715 Settings from Conditional formatting should overwrite direct formatting (only number formatting remained in Comment 4) [Eike Rathke]
    78. tdf#117790 Caption order, caption positions for Lithuanian language [Julien Nabet]
    79. tdf#118526 CRASH: Notebookbar crashes in read mode [Jim Raykowski]
    80. tdf#120224 Reference field to text field in DOCX becomes broken after save [Michael Stahl]
    81. tdf#120315 FILEOPEN DOCX: Incorrect merged cells in writer table [Bakos Attila]
    82. tdf#120412 FILEOPEN DOCX Raised text created with Word becomes normal when the document is opened in Writer [Justin Luth]
    83. tdf#120734 Right click context menu contains "Remove Hyperlink" without a hyperlink present [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
    84. tdf#121090 Change name (description) of 4th argument to VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP to "Sorted range lookup" in help and in function wizard (see comment 7, comment 9) [Mike Kaganski]
    85. tdf#121239 LO Calc -> Format -> Text -> there is no checkbox for option Double Underline [Caolán McNamara]
    86. tdf#121441 FILEOPEN DOCX, Footnote symbol created with Word gets another symbol before it in Writer [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
    87. tdf#121657 FILEOPEN DOCX Automatic Hyphenate created with Word disappears [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
    88. tdf#121661 FILESAVE DOCX Hyphenation zone created with Word resets default value [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
    89. tdf#121740 PPT (1,2 MB) with Equation 3.0 objects is slow to load (was better with OO and previous LO) [Noel Grandin]
    90. tdf#121963 button flashing - mouse wheel zooming breaks [Armin Le Grand]
    91. tdf#122232 UI: Pressing Enter in a protected sheet doesn't jump to next row in every case [Eike Rathke]
    92. tdf#123266 Improve the cursor/pointer images [Rizal Muttaqin]
    93. tdf#123290 android- cannot open files with writer (Android 9) [Christian Lohmaier]
    94. tdf#123851 Crash on start with KDE integration installed [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
    95. tdf#124267 User interface toolbar: shortcut key not rendered for Save as button enabled in toolbar [Caolán McNamara]
    96. tdf#124270 Editing: Err:522 on copying of rows with "Calc: threaded" enabled ( steps in comment 6 ) [Dennis Francis]
    97. tdf#124708 CRASH: Selecting all and deleting [Muhammet Kara]
    98. tdf#124729 Impress reliably crashes on THIS PowerPoint document in Linux [Caolán McNamara]
    99. tdf#124770 FILEOPEN DOCX: Wrong horizontal spacing [Miklos Vajna]
    100. tdf#124986 FILEOPEN DOCX: "text:variable-set" field has trailing quotation marks in "office:string-value" [brinzing]
    101. tdf#125038 specific DOCX: additional entries from MERGEFIELD not visible in Word are shown in LO Writer [Miklos Vajna]
    102. tdf#125191 If the presentation contains the same file names, the impress jumps between the slides [Jim Raykowski]
    103. tdf#125508 Frames around dialog widgets [Caolán McNamara]
    104. tdf#125688 ODS file with tracking changes enabled is takes 3 times longer to open (compared to without) [Noel Grandin]
    105. tdf#125778 FILESAVE DOCX Page break before TOC disappears [Justin Luth]
    106. tdf#126021 Calc - the time required to save some files (in xls or xlsx format) is up to 20x longer in 6.2.4 versus 6.1.6 [Noel Grandin]
    107. tdf#126128 Impress Page Setup dialog with a resolution of 1366 x 768 requires a lot of scrolling [Gülşah Köse]
    108. tdf#126324 PPTX: FILEOPEN: what's shown as a past year in MSO is shown as today's date in LO [Tamas Bunth]
    109. tdf#126627 CRASH: undoing redlinehide deletion [Zdeněk Crhonek]
    110. tdf#126767 Autofill doesn't overwrite data in continuously filled cells [Eike Rathke]
    111. tdf#126773 Date formatting issue when viewing Calc created .xlsx spreadsheet on iPad/iPhone [Eike Rathke]
    112. tdf#126796 Percent Stacked image in Chart Wizard is wrong for most Icon styles [rizmut]
    113. tdf#126942 Headings in Navigator Flicker [Jim Raykowski]
    114. tdf#126966 Sidebar: color selection too small for finger usage [Marco Cecchetti]
    115. tdf#127411 Broken mouse status in Impress status bar [Noel Grandin]
    116. tdf#127412 FILEOPEN: ODT: z-order of shapes is interpreted wrongly [Miklos Vajna]
    117. tdf#127458 Missing icon for the AutoRedactDoc uno command [Rizal Muttaqin]
    118. tdf#127540 menu About > Show License crashes [Christian Lohmaier]
    119. tdf#127579 FILEOPEN DOCX: Hyperlink color and underlining gets lost when saving to DOCX [Tünde Tóth]
    120. tdf#127603 "Tools - Macros - Run macro.." help rendering with F1 is inconsistent [Olivier Hallot]
    121. tdf#127645 LibreOffice Crashes or Freezes, if an Update of an Extension is Available [Caolán McNamara]
    122. tdf#127716 Add GlobalScope & BasicLibraries UNO object help pages [Olivier Hallot]
    123. tdf#127759 EDITING extend enhanced table selection with cut/insert mode: cut selected table rows and columns completely in Writer tables and insert them before the actual row or colum [László Németh]
    124. tdf#127773 HIG AutoCorrect Dialog update [andreas kainz]
    125. tdf#127791 Hyperlink dropped after restart [Caolán McNamara]
    126. tdf#127880 HIG Columns in Writer dialog Page Style update [andreas kainz]
    127. tdf#127908 FILEOPEN XLSX The custom position of vertical chart axis title changes [Balazs Varga]
    128. tdf#127909 Certificate path dialog doesn't show all profiles and selects wrong one [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
    129. tdf#127921 Presenter View of Impress 6.3.x doesn't remember slide after Slides and Close, as it used to, but returns to 1 during presentation [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
    130. tdf#127925 FILESAVE DOCX Custom visited hyperlink style resets to default. [Tünde Tóth]
    131. tdf#127927 Make Writer Character Dialog HIG conform [andreas kainz]
    132. tdf#127934 Make Cell Format dialog HIG conform [andreas kainz]
    133. tdf#127961 Auto-correction append/prepend NNBS (U+202F) to « » for correct typography of French language double quotation use [Eike Rathke]
    134. tdf#127976 [Icon theme] Change Navigator's Update icon in Master document mode (Writer) [rizmut, Rizal Muttaqin]
    135. tdf#127977 [Sifr theme] Create good icons for Set reminder, Header, Footer and Headings level show icons in Navigator [Rizal Muttaqin]
    136. tdf#127982 An array formula with SMALL gives blanks, where it used to work as in Excel previously [Eike Rathke]
    137. tdf#127993 Correct word in spell check is greyed out in 6.3.2.2. making it difficult to read [Caolán McNamara]
    138. tdf#127994 Tip of the day dialog get resized horizontally on every tip (gtk3) [Heiko Tietze, Caolán McNamara]
    139. tdf#128004 Customize: chosen category does not filter function list (non-gtk3 vcl plugin) [Muhammet Kara]
    140. tdf#128010 'JRE Required' message pops up when assigning BASIC Macro to customized menu. [Mike Kaganski]
    141. tdf#128058 UI: Option to open all heading branches at once [Jim Raykowski]
    142. tdf#128077 Always reproducible complete crash/lock of all LibreOffice windows - data loss! [Noel Grandin]
    143. tdf#128129 UI: Arrow Left / Right do not navigate in Sections list of dialog Tools > Options [Caolán McNamara]
    144. tdf#128130 UI: shortcuts missing for sections Options and Source and Destination in dialog Pivot Table Layout [Caolán McNamara]
    145. tdf#128166 Presenter console has gone missing recent master [Michael Weghorn]
    146. tdf#128188 Same numbering the first page when insert section [Michael Stahl]
    147. tdf#128189 configure.ac has a couple issues (patch attached) [Julien Nabet]
    148. tdf#128193 FILESAVE XLSX The Custom Position of vertical chart axis title changes [Balazs Varga]
    149. tdf#128208 OOoSpotlightImporter.mdimporter causes segfault in mdworker macOS 10.15 Catalina with particular malformed empty ODB file [Tor Lillqvist]
    150. tdf#128209 CRASH: Opening file with rotated text [Gülşah Köse]
    151. tdf#128218 FunctionAccess.callFunction returns object type where 'Double' result is expected. [Eike Rathke]
    152. tdf#128219 Document UNX-specific --record --backtrace --strace --valgrind arguments defined/handled in shell script [Olivier Hallot]
    153. tdf#128227 NAVIGATOR: Rename "Text Frame" to "Frame" [Heiko Tietze]
    154. tdf#128229 EDITING Protected change tracking setting not respected by Accept/Reject all commands [Gabor Kelemen]
    155. tdf#128230 Disabling of password protected change tracking is possible [Gabor Kelemen]
    156. tdf#128232 Crash when trying to delete unused User Field [Julien Nabet]
    157. tdf#128239 Make Paragraph Dialog HIG conform [andreas kainz]
    158. tdf#128241 Crash when opening print dialog (gtk3 only) [Julien Nabet, Caolán McNamara]
    159. tdf#128251 EPUB Export dialog’s labels are not consistently aligned [andreas kainz]
    160. tdf#128257 Impress bullets dialog update [andreas kainz]
    161. tdf#128263 Using trailing "_" with If statement breaks line positioning when debugging [Mike Kaganski]
    162. tdf#128285 Navigator heading selection jumps when context menu is open [Jim Raykowski]
    163. tdf#128288 MacOS LO language pack installer window can have wrong background image [Stephan Bergmann]
    164. tdf#128313 LibreOffice Calc Editing Find&replace results in Failure to respond - Program hangs [Caolán McNamara]
    165. tdf#128318 [l10n] Not translatable button label in paragraph style dialog [Caolán McNamara]
    166. tdf#128335 CRASH: cutting textboxes [Miklos Vajna]
    167. tdf#128341 python3 support for cs_CZ/thesaurus/dictionary-to-thesaurus.py [Mattia Rizzolo]
    168. tdf#128359 Assertion failure when inserting column after the last one [Eike Rathke]
    169. tdf#128364 Left arrow key in Navigator Headings root content navigation view leave subheading(s) selected [Jim Raykowski]
    170. tdf#128375 CRASH: Closing LibreOffice after cutting content from document [Michael Stahl]
    171. tdf#128393 gtk3: insert -> fields -> more fields crashes [Caolán McNamara]
    172. tdf#128399 FILEOPEN DOCX: Can't select text in table with rotated text [Miklos Vajna]
    173. tdf#128403 Inconsistent display and refresh of date formats FORMATTING / UI [Eike Rathke]
    174. tdf#128410 Dialog "Conditional formatting for" is too small, shows only title [Caolán McNamara]
    175. tdf#128413 Writing mode tb-rl is faulty for rotated custom shapes [Regina Henschel]
    176. tdf#128418 print preview with writer crash LO [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
    177. tdf#128427 LOCALHELP: Missing section title in the help page for customizing keyboard shortcuts [Olivier Hallot]
    178. tdf#128428 FILEOPEN: RTF: Incorrect length of space breaks tables [László Németh]
    179. tdf#128431 Synchronize padding in header borders it is not working [Jim Raykowski]
    180. tdf#128432 FILEOPEN: OOXML: Incorrect category position [Balazs Varga]
    181. tdf#128441 Crash in: mergedlo.dll (nvidia with device 0x2182 + Win10) [Julien Nabet]
    182. tdf#128447 XLSX: comment is displayed by default even without the <x:Visible/> tag [Justin Luth]
    183. tdf#128454 There is no easy way to delete a table in impress on iOS [Tor Lillqvist]
    184. tdf#128460 Exported Writer input fields are not imported correctly from docx [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
    185. tdf#128465 Not possible to paste a picture from the clipboard on a slide in impress on iOS [Tor Lillqvist]
    186. tdf#128476 Active Window drop-down in Navigation View Hogs Screen [Caolán McNamara]
    187. tdf#128480 Incorrect online help for accessing QR code [Olivier Hallot]
    188. tdf#128503 Document the "numeric first" behaviour of Criteria in COUNTIF() and the like (see comment 14 ff.) [Olivier Hallot]
    189. tdf#128504 FILESAVE: ODT: Text becomes an hyperlink after RT [Tünde Tóth]
    190. tdf#128521 illegal char in a bookmark name [Heiko Tietze]
    191. tdf#128530 (Korean Version Only) Two icons have reversed each other. [Julien Nabet]
    192. tdf#128562 Pressing F5 (Navigation) in Calc crashes document, corrupts user profile, and makes Calc impossible to use [Noel Grandin]
    193. tdf#128589 [LOCALHELP] Adjust help page to Comments new feature of 6.4 [Olivier Hallot]
    194. tdf#128593 Writer table cell's background color is always black [Zdeněk Crhonek, Szymon Kłos]
    195. tdf#128599 Crash when typing in the Authentication Required dialog [Caolán McNamara]
    196. tdf#128603 CRASH: Cutting a textbox in a reopened document [Miklos Vajna]
    197. tdf#128609 FILESAVE DOCX Solid transparency of gradient filled chart objects not saved [Balazs Varga]
    198. tdf#128618 FILESAVE XLSX Deleted automatic title of chart returns on save [Balazs Varga]
    199. tdf#128619 FILESAVE DOCX Chart gradients position is not saved correctly [Balazs Varga]
    200. tdf#128625 UI Multiple radio buttons selected in Error Bars dialog (non-gtk3) [Caolán McNamara, Gabor Kelemen]
    201. tdf#128627 FILEOPEN: Radar Chart is broken [Balazs Varga]
    202. tdf#128630 FILESAVE: PDF: arrows become narrower after exporting [Miklos Vajna]
    203. tdf#128631 GTK3: No mouse interaction with security warning dialog in embedded file [Caolán McNamara]
    204. tdf#128633 FILESAVE: PPTX: Bar in chart changes position after RT [Balazs Varga]
    205. tdf#128634 FILEOPEN: Clustered bar chart is partially displayed [Balazs Varga]
    206. tdf#128649 FILESAVE: XLSX: Calc save to xlsx flawed [Eike Rathke]
    207. tdf#128651 Undo of attribute changes on transformed custom shapes changes position and size [Regina Henschel]
    208. tdf#128667 Crash when pasting text with line wrap [Caolán McNamara]
    209. tdf#128679 Missing 32px*32px (Extra Large) Colibre Korean Icon [Rizal Muttaqin]
    210. tdf#128689 Request to Localize More Formatting Icons into Korean UI [Rizal Muttaqin]
    211. tdf#128716 Steps in Chart Wizard don't work ( gtk3 ) [Caolán McNamara]
    212. tdf#128717 Duplex option in print dialog (on Linux) not properly synchronized between both places [Michael Weghorn]
    213. tdf#128732 FILEOPEN DOCX The End value of Color Gradient Transparency on Charts decreases. [Balazs Varga]
    214. tdf#128733 EDITING Bar chart secondary X axis labels appear on the tickmarks [Balazs Varga]
    215. tdf#128746 Opening table properties window causes crash in development build [Caolán McNamara]
    216. tdf#128753 CRASH: Closing LibreOffice after cutting content from document [Julien Nabet]
    217. tdf#128758 Scrollbar in Extension Manager doesn't appear at first [Caolán McNamara]
    218. tdf#128767 CRASH: Clicking on Export Directly to PDF (gen) [Caolán McNamara]
    219. tdf#128776 EDITING Ctrl-drag of Writer table moves the table instead of copying [László Németh]

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