Releases/7.2.0/RC1

Windows

 * LibreOffice 7.2 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 7.2.0 Beta1


 * 1)  avoid OOM [Caolán McNamara]
 * 2)  indirect-leak [Caolán McNamara]
 * 3)  don't remove trailing paragraph if something got anchored to it [Caolán McNamara]
 * 4)  ENDNOTES: when .odt is exported to PDF, links between anchors and endnotes are missing in both directions [Georgy Litvinov]
 * 5)  UI: Navigator: heading with footnote displays footnote number full size [Jim Raykowski]
 * 6)  FILEOPEN UI Custom separator is corrupted in CSV dialog [Andreas Heinisch]
 * 7)  Text delimiter not used in preview until changed (CSV import OK) [Andreas Heinisch]
 * 8)  Allow resetting or removing personal information (author, date/time) on comments and changes [László Németh]
 * 9)  docx export: Text position in shape not correct [Attila Bakos (NISZ)]
 * 10)  UI: "View > Show Formula" shows the shortcut as "Ctrl+grave" [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 11)  Changes to table style do not propagate to tables using the style at selection [Balazs Santha]
 * 12)  Chart produces incorrect graph w/ some negative points when using large positive values in source cells [Andreas Heinisch]
 * 13)  Do not display the full path of the image bullet filename in the tooltip [Andreas Heinisch]
 * 14)  Problems with Ctrl+`(Grave / QUOTELEFT) shortcut in the View menu [László Németh]
 * 15)  Writer freezes when working with this particular ODT document [Michael Stahl]
 * 16)  FILEOPEN Negative margins coming from Word are not handled [Attila Szűcs]
 * 17)  Writer Page deck, incorrect padding of Header and Footer content panels [Heiko Tietze]
 * 18)  FILESAVE DOCX Shape jumps out of the frame after export [Attila Bakos (NISZ)]
 * 19)  FILEOPEN XLSX First page header changes to default header [Daniel Arato (NISZ)]
 * 20)  Fileopen and Filesave: XLSX with Boolean value wrong if saved and resaved, MSO repairs file [Eike Rathke]
 * 21)  Add "Available/Supported since version ..." to spreadsheet function help topics [Olivier Hallot]
 * 22)  EDITING Calc: After hiding a column, column breaks and row breaks are inserted [Eike Rathke, Ilhan Yesil]
 * 23)  Date format in Base is wrong.(zh-CN version) [Eike Rathke]
 * 24)  Show '???' instead of national charset (RU) in File Property dialog if I save it as docx [Andreas Heinisch]
 * 25)  Navigator's tooltip shows URI-encoded URL (with %%%) instead cyrillic path to file [Andreas Heinisch]
 * 26)  Dialog title bar contains URL-encoded character from filename [Andreas Heinisch]
 * 27)  Formatting all comments rather slow [Noel Grandin]
 * 28)  FILESAVE: Bug when you apply customized gradient to paragraph and then save/open [Justin Luth]
 * 29)  [UI] Please increase the 'needs save' indicator visibility [Heiko Tietze]
 * 30)  FILEOPEN DOCX: Time to open from 18 to 30-45 seconds [Noel Grandin]
 * 31)  Explain new Outline features [Olivier Hallot]
 * 32)  FILESAVE XLSX Textboxes Do not rotate text property incorrectly exported [Szabolcs Toth]
 * 33)  ALPHABETICAL INDEX: need to add thin space between page reference and f./ff. [Heiko Tietze]
 * 34)  EDITING: Regression in handling of the group separator in formula context [Eike Rathke]
 * 35)  IMPORT XLSX Not showing styles for dashed lines [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 36)  FILEOPEN: DOCX: document gets modified at import time [Regényi Balázs]
 * 37)  Calc: Edit Hyperlink in context menu doesn't work if link isn't selected (GTK3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 38)  FILESAVE XLSX Double file:// prefix when saving hyperlink pointing to file on network share to XLSX [Tünde Tóth]
 * 39)  REGRESSION Setting to repeat heading in writer tables no longer works [Bjoern Michaelsen]
 * 40)  Screen reader does not announce new spinbox value when changing it with up/down key (Windows) [Michael Weghorn]
 * 41)  Missing Decimal Places for Rotation in Sidebar [Katarina Behrens]
 * 42)  Bullets and Numbering dialog: Gallery items are listed with full path name [Andreas Heinisch]
 * 43)  Opening Chinese PDF files generated by XeLaTeX loses Chinese characters [Michael Warner]
 * 44)  FILEOPEN DOCX Line styles not recognized in Line Style dropdowns [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 45)  FILESAVE PPTX Textbox vertical top align becomes middle in PP [Attila Bakos (NISZ)]
 * 46)  FILESAVE DOCX shadow of rotated shape has wrong direction in Word [Regina Henschel]
 * 47)  CRASH: Clicking on filter by color dropdownlist (gen) [Noel Grandin]
 * 48)  FILESAVE DOCX Several Writer shapes textbox saved incorrectly [Attila Bakos (NISZ)]
 * 49)  FILEOPEN DOCX TAB_OVER_MARGIN not needed for compatibiltymode >= 15 [Justin Luth]
 * 50)  UNO object inspector: long class names are truncated (gen) [Gizem Ozgun]
 * 51)  Type of result of comparison of literals in Basic must be Boolean, not Integer [baltasarq]
 * 52)  Date format from MS Word not imported correctly [Mike Kaganski]
 * 53)  Make 'fat cross' cursor optional [Heiko Tietze]
 * 54)  Fallback glyphs are missing and the result text layout mess up [Mark Hung]
 * 55)  UI Custom slide show dialogs Select button needs a change in the dialog to work [Tibor Nagy]
 * 56)  FILEOPEN PPTX Custom slideshow to use setting is not imported [Tibor Nagy]
 * 57)  FILESAVE\XLSX\ standard filter date value is different after export [Balazs Varga]
 * 58)  LibreOffice Viewer 7.2.0.0.alpha1+ crashes on "about" > "show notice" [Michael Weghorn]
 * 59)  FILEOPEN PPTX Same slide title is not converted to numbered slide name [Tibor Nagy]
 * 60)  EDITING Rejecting TC-deleted image does not clear crossing-out [László Németh]
 * 61)  FILEOPEN DOCX Change tracking of images anchored to character is not imported [László Németh]
 * 62)  PPTX EXPORT: Text content is partially lost [Gülşah Köse]
 * 63)  FILESAVE ODS Save/Load new Calc setting “Same content on first page” [Daniel Arato (NISZ)]
 * 64)  SIDEBAR: First shape in each one of the Shapes Sidebar's sections does not work [Caolán McNamara]
 * 65)  UI Enabling display of data series on the secondary Y axis in Chart sidebar does not enable the secondary Y axis [Balazs Varga]
 * 66)  Impress: Bullet mode has lost while typing and text is not visible. [Mike Kaganski]
 * 67)  UI Chart Type dialog empty with unsupported combo chart [Tünde Tóth]
 * 68)  KMFL characters are not "swallowed" in a Writer textbox or shapeText [Caolán McNamara]
 * 69)  Crash: press Page Columns Button on Tab UI [Julien Nabet]
 * 70)  Gratuitous /> after image in exported HTML [Miklos Vajna]
 * 71)  Calc: Print preview zoom-out zoom-in buttons don't work in 'Tabbed' UI, nor in 'Grouped Bar Compact' UI mode [Julien Nabet]
 * 72)  LO72a1/b1: The Bullets and Numbering in Impress has unlocalizable Reset button [Caolán McNamara]
 * 73)  Standard filters involving "greater than" or "smaller than" (>, <, >=, <=) fail and hide everything [Balazs Varga]
 * 74)  FILEOPEN PPTX Slideshow setting “Start from” not imported [Tibor Nagy]
 * 75)  Basic: Round VBA compatibility function implements wrong rounding mode [baltasarq]
 * 76)  Deleting comment in Writer leaves visual artifact behind [Noel Grandin]
 * 77)  Empty area when opening comment popup menu in Writer for the first time [Caolán McNamara]
 * 78)  Comment popup menu button's arrowhead is larger (and uglier) than before [Caolán McNamara]
 * 79)  Crash when pasting cells with comments and "skip empty cells" option selected [Julien Nabet]
 * 80)  [EMF+] DrawImagePoints SrcRect support [Bartosz Kosiorek]
 * 81)  [EMF+] DrawString with Brush [Bartosz Kosiorek]
 * 82)  [EMF+] StringFormat LineAlign is not supported [Bartosz Kosiorek]
 * 83)  [EMF+] stringAlignmentHorizontalOffset is incorrect for StringFormat StringAlign set to 'center' or 'far' [Bartosz Kosiorek]
 * 84)  Text to Columns converts type date with AM/PM time wrongly [Eike Rathke]
 * 85)  FILESAVE DOCX Export of "bracePair" produces invalid file, that Word cannot read [Attila Bakos (NISZ)]
 * 86)  Error in the tooltip in Toolbar if a hotkey is assigned [Mike Kaganski]
 * 87)  Assert crash when saving a specific file [Attila Szűcs]
 * 88)  [EMF+] StringFormat Lead/Trail margins and StringAlign Center [Bartosz Kosiorek]
 * 89)  Basic Replace function crashes LO [Julien Nabet]
 * 90)  Endless loop when opening file with many (change tracked) comments [Caolán McNamara]
 * 91)  Deleting a hyperlink of an image does not remove hyperlink in exported PDF [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 92)  Crash if I try to create columns for more then one part of text [Mike Kaganski]
 * 93)  Crash by click on properties symbol for calc data in writer [Caolán McNamara]
 * 94)  Crash in: vcl::Window::GetParentWithLOKNotifier [Caolán McNamara]
 * 95)  Editing Crash when grouping Text (Fit to Frame) and object [Caolán McNamara]
 * 96)  [EDITING] When I type "5-d" into cell, it is autoconverted into date 2021/07/05 [Eike Rathke]
 * 97)  Writer - Alphabetical Index - Grouped entries abbreviation not localised (in fr_FR) [Julien Nabet]
 * 98)  Dictionaries extension integration button/link does not open dialogue [Heiko Tietze]
 * 99)  fix Tools->AutoCorrect->Apply and Apply and Edit Changes for Old Hungarian [László Németh]
 * 100)  Tabbed interface not working in Impress or Draw [Hossein]

Translations
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