LibreOffice 5.2 Under the Hood Changes
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- Removed outdated
industrial
icon theme (Samuel Mehrbrodt, CIB) b4c937fc5209f3a05d3373593307a051bc810531 - Remove
ToolPanel
(predecessor of the Sidebar) (Samuel Mehrbrodt, CIB) 7dd77a12713c0557c5826d3541e97ef6120e1d00
Build / platform improvements
- Replaced embedded mDNSResponder code with a proper external tarball (Michael Stahl)
- Removed the large nss-pem patch from the bundled NSS, as it was determined to be mostly unhelpful (Michael Stahl, Giuseppe Castagno)
- Removed remaining uses of .src templates and support for them in gbuild. (David Tardon)
- Removed remaining uses of ARCHIVE flag in scp2. (David Tardon)
- Removed the need for perl Archive::Zip module during creation of installsets. (David Tardon)
Code quality work
- More than 20 unittests added to SVGIO import filter (Xisco Faulí). Commits
- Improved scalability of
com::sun::star::uno::WeakReference
with many listeners (Noel Grandin)
Code cleanup
C++11
- Finished replacement of
boost::ptr_container
withstd::container<std::unique_ptr>
(Michael Stahl) - replaced lots of
boost::bind
with C++11 lambdas orstd::bind
(Albert Thuswaldner, Nathaniel Pearson, Daniel Robertson, Fabio Buso, Helena Svobodova, Michael Stahl) - replaced
BOOST_CURRENT_FUNCTION
with__func__
(Michael Stahl) - replaced
boost::noncopyable
with C++11 deleted functions (Jochen Nitschke, Michael Stahl) - replaced
boost::mem_fn
with C++11 lambdas orstd::mem_fn
(Michael Stahl) - replaced
boost::assign::list_of
with C++11 initialization (Michael Stahl) - replaced
boost::next/prior
with C++11std::next/prev
(Michael Stahl) - replaced
boost::remove_reference
with C++11std::remove_reference
(Michael Stahl) - replaced
boost::is_same
with C++11std::is_same
(Michael Stahl) - replaced
boost::shared_array
with C++11std::shared_ptr
(Michael Stahl) - replaced some
BOOST_PP
usage (Michael Stahl) - replaced
boost::dynamic_bitset
withboost::optional<std::bitset>
(Michael Stahl) - replaced
boost::date_time::posix_time
with C++11std::chrono
(Michael Stahl) - replaced
boost::array
with C++11std::array
(Michael Stahl)
Automatic rewrites
Misc
- removed the
prex.h
andpostx.h
hacks that worked around namespace conflicts with X11 headers (Jorenz Paragas). - removed Windows 95 specific mouse wheel support (Noel Grandin)
- cleaned up includes of oox module with the include-what-you-use tool (Jorenz Paragas)
Test Infrastructure
- fixed issues with the Windows
SalYieldMutex
implementation and periodicTimerQueueTimers
that could cause deadlock by overflowing the main thread's message queue in tests that do multi-threaded Calc file imports (Armin Le Grand, Michael Stahl)