Releases/6.1.4/RC1

Windows

 * LibreOffice 6.1 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 6.1.3 (rc2):


 * 1)  DOCX import: fix loss of free-form text in date control [Miklos Vajna]
 * 2)  corrected Snake Algorithm [ekuiitr]
 * 3)  revert "infinite loop" [Caolán McNamara]
 * 4)  stay inside sSecStr bounds [Caolán McNamara]
 * 5)  move the reset of trailing fly paras to before redline processing [Caolán McNamara]
 * 6)  pass param len around [Caolán McNamara]
 * 7)  Libreoffice Calc crashing with certain ods spreadsheet files [Luboš Luňák]
 * 8)  Remove uno calls from xlsx import [Eike Rathke]
 * 9)  EMF+ List of EMF import bugs with examples [Bartosz Kosiorek]
 * 10)  FILEOPEN: Optimum row height should be recalculated with "style:use-optimal-row-height='true'" [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 11)  [firebird db integration] big-endian LibreOffice unable to open little-endian embedded firebird db (found 2944.512, support 11.2) [Rene Engelhard]
 * 12)  MS PowerPoint with Chart shows hidden data labels when opened in Impress [Markus Mohrhard]
 * 13)  FILEOPEN DOCX: Inconsistent pie chart color [Markus Mohrhard]
 * 14)  DOCX import: shape has incorrect position when it's intentionally outside the page rectangle [Miklos Vajna]
 * 15)  Extra blank lines inserted at end of Comments in DOCX on save when text added in document before comment (steps in Comment 8) [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 16)  EMF+ images from OOXML document are not rendered correctly LibreOffice [Bartosz Kosiorek]
 * 17)  EDITING Insert > Date | Time inserts some content into protected cells [Xisco Fauli]
 * 18)  FILEOPEN: XLSX - Chart sheet tab color not imported [Markus Mohrhard]
 * 19)  FILESAVE DOCX: One column chart is exported instead of two [Markus Mohrhard]
 * 20)  FILEOPEN XLSX: The column descriptions of a column chart disappear [Markus Mohrhard]
 * 21)  [FILEOPEN DOCX] Chart data series with custom fill are displayed incorrectly in DOCX files created with MS Word 2013 [Balazs Varga]
 * 22)  Crashed in Calc Macro (Basic) [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 23)  FILESAVE: RTF: Shapes inside another shape disappear after RT [Miklos Vajna]
 * 24)  Sidebar: Changing page orientation of user-defined size let disappear the page [Ilhan Yesil]
 * 25)  Cross-Document reference in array formula using FIND/ISERROR does not work [Eike Rathke]
 * 26)  EMF+ rendering problems [Bartosz Kosiorek]
 * 27)  FILEOPEN: Chart height is different than before [Markus Mohrhard]
 * 28)  (ODT --> DOCX) Non-breaking spaces vanish while in centered paragraphs [Mike Kaganski]
 * 29)  FILEOPEN: Paragraph borders are non-continuous on paragraphs with paragraph spacing [Armin Le Grand]
 * 30)  EDITING: Unable to paste URL when editing a cell [Paul Trojahn]
 * 31)  Objects Anchored "To Cell, Resize with Cell", Move and Scale when Cell's Position is Changed [Armin Le Grand]
 * 32)  FILEOPEN: DOCX: Text does not wrap around floating table in footer (disable conversion of tables in footers to floating) [Mike Kaganski]
 * 33)  'Master View' button is displayed after re-displaying the sidebar [Xisco Fauli]
 * 34)  Snake Algorithm unable to display accurate layout. [ekuiitr, Miklos Vajna]
 * 35)  "Bullets and Numbering" menu does not show any dialog [Caolán McNamara]
 * 36)  FILEOPEN: FORMATTING occasionally wrong row height [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 37)  FILESAVE: DOCX Export loses header/footer [Serge Krot]
 * 38)  Process Soffice.bin does not stop at x64 Windows shutdown/logoff when Quickstarter is used from LO 6.0 [Mike Kaganski]
 * 39)  Table paste from specific .ods to Writer adds two empty rows above so table looks emtpy [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 40)  FILEOPEN ODT: Table background doesn't fill the entire table [Caolán McNamara]
 * 41)  Icons are corrupted on Windows when scaling UI 150% and higher, with some OpenGL dependency [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 42)  Formatting: Last bullet of the bullet list is disappearing after removing a item from the bulleted list using backspace [Mark Hung]
 * 43)  pocheck utility needs an update [Andras Timar]
 * 44)  UI: Interactive gradient tool is broken [Michael Stahl]
 * 45)  Nodes don't expand on double click in the Customize dialog [Muhammet Kara]
 * 46)  [BASE] Copy/Paste problem with hidden column in Table [Lionel Elie Mamane]
 * 47)  FILEOPEN PPTX Text box setting "Resize shape to fit text" not imported correctly [Balazs Varga]
 * 48)  Deleting shared formula group top cell does not re-establish listeners for the remaining (group) formula cell(s) (steps in comment 5) [Eike Rathke]
 * 49)  Crash if I click on Fontwork Shape: Arch Left, Arch Right (Pour or Curve). [Michael Meeks]
 * 50)  Links to external HTML files updated wrong [Eike Rathke]
 * 51)  When printing to PDF, existing file with different file name in the target folder gets overwritten (GTK3-only) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 52)  DOCX: Horizontal spacing of font "Open Sans" differs from Word [Mike Kaganski]
 * 53)  Impress/Draw hangs/crashes when exiting while editing formula [Xisco Faulí]
 * 54)  UI FILEOPEN Slide toolbars not visible when opening a slideshow saved in slide sorter view [Caolán McNamara]
 * 55)  Missing arrow from Gallery [andreas kainz]
 * 56)  Crash in: SfxItemSet::GetItemState [Bjoern Michaelsen]
 * 57)  Impossible to paste special in Writer from Calc in Libreoffice 6.1.x in some UI languages - the dialogue caption says "unknown source" [Julien Nabet, Stephan Bergmann]
 * 58)  Text appears as white on first launch (hard to see) [heiko tietze]
 * 59)  In Writer document when a text is highlighted and right click+Character is selected the resulting window is too wide and cannot be resized [Caolán McNamara]
 * 60)  Scalable brackets: nodes with fractions and square roots are resized when updated  [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 61)  gtk3_kde5: Crash with file dialog when Java extension "WollMux" is installed [Michael Weghorn]
 * 62)  Special Character dialog doesn't appear in Online [Caolán McNamara]
 * 63)  Crash when closing dialog Position and Size [Caolán McNamara]
 * 64)  Inserting of Page Breaks is Possible if Spreadsheet is in Read-only Mode [Xisco Fauli]
 * 65)  Outline/Chapter Numbering Dialog can only accept one level (GTK3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 66)  Date, Time and Formulas Can be Inserted in Read-only Spreadsheets [Xisco Fauli]
 * 67)  Exporting as epub inserts line that fails most content submission checks [Miklos Vajna]
 * 68)  LibreOffice Calc warning message when opening an XLSX file is misleading [Adolfo Jayme Barrientos]
 * 69)  Re-pagination starts for every save (making saving quite slow) [Miklos Vajna]
 * 70)  percent linespacing <100% bug with fonts with big descent [AlicVB]
 * 71)  DOCX: Wrong position of grouped drawing objects (see comment 7) [Miklos Vajna]
 * 72)  [LOCALHELP] Edit DDE link has no Help page or ID [Caolán McNamara]
 * 73)  Character position arrow hotkey reversed (only 6-1) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 74)  Freezes when I open a ODT document [Mike Kaganski]
 * 75)  FILESAVE Roundtripped XLSM opens with recovery in Excel [Eike Rathke]
 * 76)  Firebird Migration of Existing Database Error on Importing Table Name with space (multiword handling) [Tamas Bunth]
 * 77)  Bugs found by PVS-Studio static analyzer [Mike Kaganski]
 * 78)  Crash in: SbxArray::Count when trying to call a WinAPI function [Mike Kaganski]
 * 79)  Firebird Form-Based Filter search with checkbox values of "1" or "0" fails. [Lionel Elie Mamane]
 * 80)  crash in report editing: insert page number in footer while header is active [Armin Le Grand]
 * 81)  gtk 3.24/Wayland: Toolbar popups not working when a tooltip is visible [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 82)  Crash on Crl+Shift+F10 in F5 floating Navigator page number field [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 83)  UI: "New Snap Object" dialog box needs Help/Ok/Cancel button order changed [Xisco Fauli]
 * 84)  Windows: quickstart --killtray does not work [brinzing]
 * 85)  Cannot set zoom >= 1000% in "Zoom & View Layout" dialog (gen and gtk2) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 86)  Crash in: libc-2.24.so ( only 6.1 ) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 87)  "Presenter Console shortcuts" link is dead in online help [Olivier Hallot]
 * 88)  EDITOR UI Hatch background color not read back from editor [Tamás Zolnai]
 * 89)  UI: Incorrect behaviour in Date and Time dialog [Caolán McNamara]
 * 90)  Compiler plugins won't build with Ubuntu 18.04 [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 91)  InputBox/MsgBox: title/text is truncated [Caolán McNamara]
 * 92)  forms controls are created with "input required" set to yes by default [Lionel Elie Mamane]
 * 93)  CRASH in SdrPage::GetPageNum [Xisco Fauli]
 * 94)  Cannot copy from Writer to the Text Box in Draw [Caolán McNamara]
 * 95)  Date forms are not showing dat [Miklos Vajna]
 * 96)  chart: multiline chart title in presentation not supported [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 97)  Black box blinking inside the scrollbar of the special character dialog (gtk/gen) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 98)  UI: Page border line size is set to 5 pt by default (would expect 0,05 pt) (gen/gtk) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 99)  FILESAVE: Using "Excel A1" formula syntax in LibO Calc options results in charts losing their link to source data if the worksheet is saved in .xlsx format [Eike Rathke]
 * 100)  SIDEBAR: border cell color isn't shown (white box) [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 101)  KDE5: Can't save minimized presentation [Michael Weghorn]
 * 102)  Save on Sharepoint results in always locked file [Mike Kaganski]
 * 103)  4-argument form of Mid BASIC function broken in 6.x (worked in 5.x and OO) [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 104)  “Font” page opens instead of “Statistics” page after staying on it and closing it [Caolán McNamara]
 * 105)  Pressing twice on the "Help" button causes LibreOffice application to crash when the focus is on one of the tabs on Properties window [Caolán McNamara]
 * 106)  UI: File Reload dialog size not right (gen/gtk) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 107)  CRASH: Print Preview fails if cursor inside Floating frame [Xisco Faulí]
 * 108)  Crash when closing a document (being the only active) while being prompted for data source password [Caolán McNamara]
 * 109)  Pressing on the "Reset" button when the writing focus is on the "Value" input field of a property causes LibreOffice to crash on Properties - Custom Properties [Caolán McNamara]
 * 110)  font list box preview certain malformed TTF fonts crash LO -- when receiving ShouldUseWinMetrics handling [Xisco Fauli]
 * 111)  FILEOPEN: EMF+: Wrong displaying of string, drawed with DrawDriverString record [Bartosz Kosiorek]
 * 112)  comments: after editing Position and Size, arrow points to cell A1 [Caolán McNamara]

Translations
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