Releases/7.4.0/RC1

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    Installation

    Windows

    • LibreOffice 7.4 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. 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 7.4.0 Beta1:

    1. cid#1504592 big parameter passed by value [Caolán McNamara]
    2. rhbz#2097411 libreoffice fails to build with Python 3.11: Fatal Python error: init_threadstate: thread state already initialized [Stephan Bergmann]
    3. tdf#36466 Add option to Select Visible Cells Only (to be copied from or copied to) [Dietrich Schulten]
    4. tdf#52602 Excel Visual Basic compatibility issue in LibreOffice Calc: NumberFormat to date/time [Eike Rathke]
    5. tdf#56580 logarithmic graph Y error shows as a diagonal line when apply negative error values [Kurt Nordback]
    6. tdf#58134 Reset Button in Options Dialogues does not Work with all Options [Noel Grandin]
    7. tdf#68335 EDITING: Maximum fixed line spacing limited to 10 cm [Gabor Kelemen]
    8. tdf#90837 re-base: Can't "Save As" file opened in view mode on top of the original file [Michael Meeks]
    9. tdf#91456 "Fade smoothly" slide transition is broken [dldld]
    10. tdf#98404 UX - While objects on a slide are being edited, notably text boxes, the new slide sorter Ctrl+Shift shortcut combinations (see bug 91909) incorrectly receive focus and move the slide [Gabor Kelemen]
    11. tdf#101285 Manage Conditional Formatting dialog doesn't remember position, column sizes, and range selection [Heiko Tietze]
    12. tdf#104428 exploded donut uses too small radius [Kurt Nordback]
    13. tdf#113002 LibreOfficeCalc: Pivot Table recurring data field name will added a simple quotation marks before number [Andreas Heinisch]
    14. tdf#115523 FILEOPEN Track Changes: Writer does not show the change in number of deleted numbered paragraphs [László Németh]
    15. tdf#115524 FILEOPEN Track Changes does not show the change in number of added numbered paragraphs [László Németh]
    16. tdf#117646 Clone Formatting not working for connector lines [Julien Nabet]
    17. tdf#119827 LibreOffice doesn’t interpret GtkBuilder’s “scale” attribute under Windows or gen, to indicate secondary labels in .ui’s [Adolfo Jayme Barrientos]
    18. tdf#126109 EDITING/UI: Slow when replacing string to number [Noel Grandin]
    19. tdf#126263 sending emails with attachments via "com.sun.star.system.SimpleSystemMail" can cause data loss [Mike Kaganski]
    20. tdf#126961 Cannot link to macOS address book - crashes and restarts [Christian Lohmaier]
    21. tdf#128196 filenames containing '#' get truncated when saving to GVFS smb:// paths (Samba share), effectively causing silent data loss [Julien Nabet]
    22. tdf#130252 Impress: Clone formatting not cloning highlight color, rather removing it [Julien Nabet]
    23. tdf#131506 [EMF+] FILEOPEN: PathGradient background no longer displayed [Bartosz Kosiorek]
    24. tdf#131568 CHAPTER NUMBERING DIALOG: List of character styles is not alpahbetical [Andreas Heinisch]
    25. tdf#132781 FILESAVE DOCX Style names incorrectly saved when using an other UI than English UI (testes with Hungarian und German UI) [Tünde Tóth]
    26. tdf#133023 Disable "Automatic *bold*, /italic/, -strikeout- and _underline_", aka "markdown" feature by default [Heiko Tietze]
    27. tdf#133675 Hyperlink dialog: select "Frame" by clicking the textbox [Andreas Heinisch]
    28. tdf#134210 FILEOPEN PPTX: Image shown with wider aspect ratio and different clipping - cropping not being applied [Mike Kaganski]
    29. tdf#134759 Tracking changes items appear while not being shown at all [Michael Stahl]
    30. tdf#135976 change tracking: Anchor to character deleted with backspace at anchor position [Michael Stahl]
    31. tdf#137145 Use Unicode symbols instead of ASCII in translatable strings [Adolfo Jayme Barrientos]
    32. tdf#137569 The symbols for kibibyte and kilobyte (KiB, kB) have the wrong capitalization [Adolfo Jayme Barrientos]
    33. tdf#137649 Calc Function Wizard - arguments not correctly described for LOGNORM.INV function [Olivier Hallot]
    34. tdf#137747 Calc Function Wizard - arguments not correctly described for POISSON.DIST function [Olivier Hallot]
    35. tdf#138400 UI Calc Wrong icons showing for format as general [Rizal Muttaqin]
    36. tdf#138748 Replace number format "Language" with "Locale" [Pedro Pinto Silva]
    37. tdf#138844 UI: Label "type" & Image in the image properties dialog not really helpful (self-explaining) [Seth Chaiklin]
    38. tdf#139982 EDITING: Image anchored "To Character" inside misspelled word is removed when word is corrected with Spell checking and track changes enabled [Michael Stahl]
    39. tdf#140007 UNDO Find and Replace leads to errors [Michael Stahl]
    40. tdf#141128 Does Bullets and Numbering toolbar define "different paragraph levels" - as the online help claims? [Seth Chaiklin]
    41. tdf#141313 "Enable remote control" is unavailable in Impress options on macOS [Christian Lohmaier]
    42. tdf#141495 CONFIGURATION = EOMONTH function corruption [Eike Rathke]
    43. tdf#142293 EDATE function problem in a file saved as Excel format [Eike Rathke]
    44. tdf#142380 DRY: Use CSS variables to eliminate repetition [Adolfo Jayme Barrientos]
    45. tdf#142531 Online Help: improve online help css for Simplified Chinese language in Linux [Adolfo Jayme Barrientos]
    46. tdf#142770 [EMF+] Missed CustomEndCap for Pen Object support [Bartosz Kosiorek]
    47. tdf#143031 [EMF+] Brush Object with Type PathGradient is not supported [Bartosz Kosiorek]
    48. tdf#143055 Snap-to-grid button should be on more toolbars, optionally or by default [Heiko Tietze]
    49. tdf#144055 Searching "Find & Replace" leads to an empty page [Olivier Hallot]
    50. tdf#144303 Create Calc's Cross Cursor for Every Icon Theme [Rizal Muttaqin]
    51. tdf#145843 Incidental Crash on macOS with skia raster [Luboš Luňák]
    52. tdf#146536 Improper display of newly added text in front of formula object [Luboš Luňák]
    53. tdf#146762 Demote level of first list item with tab (and promote with shift+tab) and introduce ctrl+shift+tab to indent the whole list [Seth Chaiklin]
    54. tdf#147084 I can’t read tables with NVDA screen reader in Writer, Windows builds [Michael Weghorn]
    55. tdf#147265 FORMATTING - Currency format bug - "$ English (Canada)" displays as "BZ$ English (Belize)" [Eike Rathke]
    56. tdf#147529 MsgBox(missingArg) incorrectly succeeds [Andreas Heinisch]
    57. tdf#147822 LO Calc with RadioButton Crash in: ScUnoListenerCalls::ExecuteAndClear() - steps Comment 22 [Eike Rathke]
    58. tdf#148138 LibreOffice Dark Color Scheme: Text boundaries are Dark Gray 3 but should have a lighter color [Roman Kuznetsov]
    59. tdf#148522 Undo line color changes aligns text centered (and doesn't undo the line color) [Miklos Vajna]
    60. tdf#148624 Crash in: GrVkPipelineState::setAndBindInputAttachment(GrVkGpu *,gr_sp<GrVkDescriptorSet const ,GrManagedResource,GrRecycledResource,{GrManagedResource::ref(void),0},{GrRecycledResource::recycle(void),0}>,GrVkCommandBuffer *) [Luboš Luňák]
    61. tdf#148820 FORMATTING - Background color of Cells in Excel sheet with conditional formatting is not correctly rendered [Balazs Varga]
    62. tdf#148868 Quirk when changing the first character after a picture in a table [Michael Stahl]
    63. tdf#148901 "Left page border" and "right page border" options for Horizontal "to" position in Position and Size tab and Image - Type tab need updating [Seth Chaiklin]
    64. tdf#148941 Make label of the field for an image's text alternative consistent [Seth Chaiklin]
    65. tdf#148978 Business Cards in Writer don't show database [Julien Nabet]
    66. tdf#149008 icons for "Description" and "Insert Caption" are identical, but they should be different -- their functions are different [Rizal Muttaqin]
    67. tdf#149018 "Object" property dialog (and Navigator and UI elements) should be retitled "OLE Object" [Seth Chaiklin]
    68. tdf#149089 FILEOPEN: docx: get extra mini space between Chinese character when open docx file [Mark Hung]
    69. tdf#149126 Triangular shape created in ODP loses glue points saved in pptx. [Tibor Nagy]
    70. tdf#149204 FILEOPEN: Incorrect string in chart [Tomaž Vajngerl]
    71. tdf#149218 [LOCALHELP] Add pivot table formatting Help page [Olivier Hallot]
    72. tdf#149279 better vertical alignment in the Navigator [Jim Raykowski]
    73. tdf#149301 HELP for Navigator: Change "Content View" to "Content Management View" [Olivier Hallot]
    74. tdf#149311 When texts contain Internal Hyperlinks won't be export at all [Tibor Nagy]
    75. tdf#149314 When created a pptx file with PowerPoint with texts which ones contain Internal Hyperlinks these hyperlinks won't be imported at all in the Impress [Tibor Nagy]
    76. tdf#149325 VBA reference to a sheet by name, not index, crashes Calc [Eike Rathke]
    77. tdf#149351 SLIDESHOW: Feature request to add well known keyboard shortcut from Powerpoint CTRL+A [Gabor Kelemen]
    78. tdf#149353 With "to paragraph" anchoring, cannot position an object at the bottom of a paragraph that extends over two pages or columns [Seth Chaiklin]
    79. tdf#149393 BASE and DECIMAL spreadsheet functions need cross-references [Olivier Hallot]
    80. tdf#149401 Save autorecovery information won't be confirmed while reopen LibreOffice [Tünde Tóth]
    81. tdf#149414 Change submenu label for formatting textboxes and shapes in Calc and Impress [Seth Chaiklin]
    82. tdf#149431 Sidebar width is not suitable in Writer when switch from wide tab to narrow one [xuenhua]
    83. tdf#149449 CSS class redefinition gets ignored inside SVGs [offtkp]
    84. tdf#149490 multiple copies of dialogs can be opened from undocked toolbars [Caolán McNamara]
    85. tdf#149502 CRASH/Hang: deleting sheet [Attila Szűcs]
    86. tdf#149507 CRASH: pasting and undoing [Michael Stahl]
    87. tdf#149509 CRASH: inserting page break in content control [Miklos Vajna]
    88. tdf#149524 Writer is crashing after a label has just been created [Julien Nabet]
    89. tdf#149529 Calc Insert Sheet + save Freeze [Caolán McNamara]
    90. tdf#149531 Excel Visual Basic compatibility issue in LibreOffice Calc: .Delete [Eike Rathke]
    91. tdf#149536 [UI] The Data Table dialog enables the button Move Row Up and disables the button Move Row Down when the opposite is needed (and vice versa). [Aron Budea]
    92. tdf#149550 CRASH: copying textbox [Attila Bakos (NISZ)]
    93. tdf#149554 CRASH: using empty transpose [Luboš Luňák]
    94. tdf#149572 "Left paragraph border" and "right paragraph border" options for Horizontal "to" position in Position and Size tab and Image - Position and Size tab need updating [Seth Chaiklin]
    95. tdf#149574 HANG: deleting sheet [Attila Szűcs]
    96. tdf#149579 VBA Range.Sort should expand a single cell range to Range.CurrentRegion [Eike Rathke]
    97. tdf#149603 MacOS Safari (Monterey) does not display LibreOffice HELP [Christian Lohmaier]
    98. tdf#149607 Help link for Year (Two Digits) interpretation wrong [Olivier Hallot]
    99. tdf#149609 LibreOffice 7.3.3.2 Calc Button [Caolán McNamara]
    100. tdf#149615 French UI (maybe other languages too): "No list" entrance appears twice in Outline & Style tab [Julien Nabet]
    101. tdf#149626 HANG during basic macro using com.sun.star.datatransfer.dnd [Caolán McNamara]
    102. tdf#149638 F1 (Help) on Table toolbar for Impress / Draw does not open help page [Seth Chaiklin]
    103. tdf#149647 LibreOffice Calc cursor not positioned correctly [Noel Grandin]
    104. tdf#149654 FILEOPEN: DOCX: Incorrect string in content control [Miklos Vajna]
    105. tdf#149665 Cannot enter a single quotation mark followed by on or more digits into a cell via keyboard [Eike Rathke]
    106. tdf#149668 FILESAVE: DOCX->ODT: Multilevel lists causing list numbering reset [Miklos Vajna]
    107. tdf#149679 CRASH: importing document in ScQueryEvaluator::compareByString<0> [Luboš Luňák]
    108. tdf#149680 Hamburger menu in Tabbed Interface does not open in the correct position in kf5 [Michael Weghorn]
    109. tdf#149690 Impress’ Shapes Sidebar is too compressed, dropdowns are misaligned [xuenhua]
    110. tdf#149692 CRASH: importing document from commandline [Noel Grandin]
    111. tdf#149708 DOCX Track Changes: Writer does not export change tracking of the paragraph mark of an inserted list item (see Comment 2) [László Németh]
    112. tdf#149709 EDITING Track Changes: Writer does not show number change of second-level numbered paragraphs correctly [László Németh]
    113. tdf#149710 EDITING Track Changes: Writer does not show the change in number of deleted numbered paragraphs [László Németh]
    114. tdf#149713 Hypenation texts show like available (with black colour) but are not. [László Németh]
    115. tdf#149748 CRASH: selecting None from Color bar [Miklos Vajna]
    116. tdf#149752 CRASH: importing spreadsheet [Luboš Luňák]
    117. tdf#149755 Bottom of characters covered inside bookmarks / tables on zoom levels < 150% on Win GDI render [Caolán McNamara]
    118. tdf#149761 Two set up of hyphenation section there are not help section and not jump there too. [László Németh]
    119. tdf#149787 CRASH: closing area dialog after closing Add color palette via extension dialog [Caolán McNamara]
    120. tdf#149822 Clone Formatting does not apply glow effects [Julien Nabet]
    121. tdf#149880 LibreOffice not showing correctly SVG [Xisco Fauli]


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