Releases/6.2.1/RC1

Windows

 * LibreOffice 6.2 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 6.2.0 (rc3):


 * 1)  oox smartart: backport fixes related to org chart [Miklos Vajna]
 * 2)  crash when running extension [Noel Grandin]
 * 3)  Picture background crash [Noel Grandin]
 * 4)  remove flys before removing trailing paras [Caolán McNamara]
 * 5)  UI: The Navigation Toolbox (top left of Navigator dialog) in Writer can incorrectly launch multiple instances [Caolán McNamara]
 * 6)  FILESAVE: DOCX export of empty header\footer exports wrong distance from top\bottom (seen only in MSWord) [Justin Luth]
 * 7)  [firebird db integration] big-endian LibreOffice unable to open little-endian embedded firebird db (found 2944.512, support 11.2) [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 8)  Unable to add track change comment when cursor is at the end of the tracked change [László Németh]
 * 9)  linked textboxes/frames don't work in .docx format [Caolán McNamara]
 * 10)  tabpages not displayed in Java/Python/basic dialog [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 11)  Crash when deleting rows on multiple sheets [Eike Rathke]
 * 12)  Low precision in PDF export of SVG images leads to visible artifacts at high zoom levels [Michael Stahl]
 * 13)  RTL: Paragraph dialog justified combobox doesnt list 'right' [Caolán McNamara]
 * 14)  RTL: 'Text Direction' drop down menu doesnt update preview in alignment tab of paragraph dialog [Caolán McNamara]
 * 15)  DOCX import/export: with embedded XLSX loaded but incorrectly scaled when edit [László Németh]
 * 16)  When printing multiple duplex copies of a document with odd pages, the first page is printed on the back of the last page of the first copy [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 17)  Data Records Not Saved to External Firebird Database File [Lionel Elie Mamane]
 * 18)  Printing multiple copies results in multiple print jobs [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 19)  Text previews in Paragraph dialog not showing correctly for RTL [Caolán McNamara]
 * 20)  Text break is not supported for column chart X axis if text is rotated [Balazs Varga]
 * 21)  LO exits abruptly when logging off in Windows while LO is running [Mike Kaganski]
 * 22)  Width of page number field in Navigator to large [Caolán McNamara]
 * 23)  Icon of updates button on right end of menu bar is not visible [Caolán McNamara]
 * 24)  Last line drop down and expand single word check box should only be show active for Justified [Caolán McNamara]
 * 25)  FILESAVE: Saving a file as .docx format adds spurious extra page breaks [Justin Luth]
 * 26)  FILEOPEN: DOCX: Image in table is misplaced [Patrick Jaap]
 * 27)  base Record locater at the bottom of the displayed records is super small almost unreadable or useable [Caolán McNamara]
 * 28)  Hidden column causing right border to disappear [Ilhan Yesil]
 * 29)  FILESAVE: .doc style is lost after saving file as .odt [Justin Luth]
 * 30)  General Input Output error opening an rtf file [Julien Nabet]
 * 31)  Autofilter settings being reset in some cases [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 32)  UnoControlDialog is displayed in the wrong size (GTK3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 33)  Snake Algorithm unable to display accurate layout. [Miklos Vajna]
 * 34)  Accessible text-attributes-changed signals should only be emitted when the text attributes have changed [a11y] second attempt [Noel Grandin]
 * 35)  [GTK3] Form dropdown lists are partially displayed [Caolán McNamara]
 * 36)  Format duplication in Hungarian Locale Settings [Eike Rathke]
 * 37)  Flat ODF document embed linked image [Xisco Fauli, Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 38)  Firebird: Migration: Incorrect calculation of the length of the table name (Russian) [Tamas Bunth]
 * 39)  LibreOffice Writer later versions, 6.1, 6.0, 5.4.7.2 do not handle editing of styles of an imported rtf file. Version 5.4.3.2 allowed me to modify the styles correctly. [Miklos Vajna]
 * 40)  FORMATTING Incorrect number and date format for South Africa (en_ZA) [Eike Rathke]
 * 41)  Embed linked image via menu "links to external files"->"Break link" doesn't work [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 42)  FILEOPEN Multiple sections with different margins change 2-column layout to 4 in DOC [Justin Luth]
 * 43)  FILEOPEN DOCX Page break with page format change (from portrait to landscape orientation) not interpreted in a document containing a text frame and a table [Justin Luth]
 * 44)  kde5: Copy and paste of Calc cell not working [Katarina Behrens]
 * 45)  Text cursor disappears if row in Writer table right-click deleted [Caolán McNamara]
 * 46)  kde5: Drag'n'drop of image from file manager doesn't work [Katarina Behrens]
 * 47)  KDE5: LO Calc slow at 'Select all' [Aleksei Nikiforov]
 * 48)  KDE5: There is no Checkbox for some options in View (LO Calc) [Katarina Behrens]
 * 49)  Sub-optimal Colibre icon for "Add fields" in Base reports [andreas kainz]
 * 50)  Cells not recalculated after moving data within ranges pointed to by a shared formula group. [Eike Rathke]
 * 51)  Firebird: Migration: "unsuccessful metadata update" create FK statement fails when it involves a column name with special characters [Tamas Bunth]
 * 52)  FILESAVE: DOC/RTF: Paragraph fill becomes blue after roundtrip [Justin Luth]
 * 53)  KDE5: Missing features in open file dialog [Katarina Behrens]
 * 54)  Performance regression enabling automatic update of external links [Dennis Francis]
 * 55)  Writer: DOCX export from ODT: wrong tabs stops in TOC [Serge Krot]
 * 56)  FIREBIRD: Migration for table names with special characters fails [Tamas Bunth]
 * 57)  Writer: DOCX export from ODT: TOC title is not recognized by MS Word [Serge Krot]
 * 58)  FILESAVE DOCX Only one Manual Column Break remains after export [Justin Luth]
 * 59)  Clear the List of Recent documents -> 'this operation is not supported by operating system' ( not reproducible from the start center ) [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 60)  FILESAVE DOCX Zoom as Page Width not saved [Miklos Vajna]
 * 61)  Problem with new function SECOND [Winfried Donkers]
 * 62)  kde5: Impress crashes when at presentation end when Orca is enabled [Katarina Behrens]
 * 63)  FILEOPEN XLSX, Long X axis labels isn’t automatically break [Balazs Varga]
 * 64)  SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=qt5: Fonts, tooltips, toolbar icons way too large [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 65)  FILEOPEN DOCX The formula field is incorrect in the table, when we change the number format [László Németh]
 * 66)  Backspace does not work in KDE [Aleksei Nikiforov]
 * 67)  Primary selection does not work under KDE [Aleksei Nikiforov]
 * 68)  Theme does not affect menu bar in GTK3 [Caolán McNamara, Julien Nabet]
 * 69)  Crash in: std::unique_ptr >::~unique_ptr > [Noel Grandin]
 * 70)  KDE5: Crash closing full screen mode [Aleksei Nikiforov]
 * 71)  EDITING Autofilters not properly cleared [Serge Krot]
 * 72)  FREQUENCY: force array mode on arguments and immediate caller [Eike Rathke]
 * 73)  Crash: closing LibreOffice while warning about signatures is open (gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 74)  Font features set in dialog are not applied nor font is changed [Caolán McNamara]
 * 75)  UI: dialogue Image properties: width/height ratio lost if immediately after changing either width or height, that is confirmed (thus dialog closed) with Enter (gen/gtk2) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 76)  Named-Range manager causes GLib-GObject-WARNING ... signal name 'selection_changed' is invalid for instance ... of type 'OOoAtkObjCompTxt' [Caolán McNamara]
 * 77)  Double-click on format in Format Cells:Number format closes dialog without doing anything [Caolán McNamara]
 * 78)  Lines created in Draw are not visible when printed (Windows-only) [Armin Le Grand]
 * 79)  With multi line/row tabs, not all tabs can be activated with arrow or Ctrl+PgUp/Dwn [Caolán McNamara]
 * 80)  UI: Cannot specify min/max in axis scale or axis position. Limited between 0 and 100 [Caolán McNamara]
 * 81)  Extension manager stops responding after declining license during extension installation (gen/gtk2) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 82)  Comments of Tracked Changes are not Displayed at once [László Németh]
 * 83)  FILEOPEN: RTF: Incorrect font size [Miklos Vajna]
 * 84)  LibreOffice hangs when in Calc copying formula while in edit mode  then leaving field with escape [Mike Kaganski]
 * 85)  MySQL native connector: Creating foreign key creates a relationship to the foreign key itself [Tamas Bunth]
 * 86)  Crash in: mergedlo.dll when closing "Edit Index Entry" dialog (gen/gtk) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 87)  FILESAVE: ODT: Show Track Changes is enabled after RT [Michael Stahl]
 * 88)  Impress UI: Drag'n'drop reorder animations leaves incorrect animation selected (Windows only) [Brian Fraser]
 * 89)  FILESAVE: RTF: Font size changes after RT [Miklos Vajna]
 * 90)  FILESAVE: RTF: new sections added after RT [Justin Luth]
 * 91)  Heading 1 style font (and others) fail to update when font family of parent Heading is changed [Caolán McNamara]
 * 92)  FILESAVE: DOC: Header/Footer are lost saving section to .doc format [Justin Luth]
 * 93)  UI: dialog Standard Filter from Data Sources: the drop down list Field Name is too narrow (gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 94)  UI: dialog Paragraph (Style) height is too large; it runs out of the screen( with asian and complex text layouts disabled ) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 95)  UI: dialog Paragraph/Character, tab Font, box Family: search does not trigger autocomplete for font name [Caolán McNamara]
 * 96)  EDITING Calc crashes when manipulating Negative numbers in red on Currency ( not gtk3 ) [Eike Rathke]
 * 97)  Mysql/MariaDB - native connector timestamp values displayed as floating numbers in Table data entry mode [Julien Nabet]
 * 98)  Dot symbols in Calc Charts other than the squares are not available [Caolán McNamara]
 * 99)  FILEOPEN DOCX Embededd OLE object (XLSX spreadsheet) becomes small in Writer after a roundtrip between LO Writer and MS Word [László Németh]
 * 100)  FILESAVE: RTF: section at document start creates extra, empty section [Justin Luth]
 * 101)  CRASH: all chart dialogs crash if LibreOffice is closed while they are open (gen/gtk2) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 102)  Crash when stop macro recording [Caolán McNamara]
 * 103)  Crash in: SvTreeList::Select(SvListView *,SvTreeListEntry *,bool) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 104)  [GTK3] Extra tab with a down arrow in options that can't be clicked on. [Caolán McNamara]
 * 105)  FILESAVE: File size of Flat XML is much larger than for normal format when using linked images [Xisco Fauli]
 * 106)  'URL Recognition' in Options tab of AutoCorrect Options dialog is broken (gen/gtk2) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 107)  UI: Items are skipped when moving through the Fontwork Gallery with arrow keys [Caolán McNamara]
 * 108)  Menubar in opened forms is greyed out with VCL: gtk3 [Caolán McNamara]
 * 109)  Cannot copy text from/to Libreoffice to/from other application in KDE [Aleksei Nikiforov]
 * 110)  Impress: tooltip doesn't stay when hovering over Content Type selector [Caolán McNamara]
 * 111)  Writer - Can't change shadow color on tab Borders in dialogue Character style [Caolán McNamara]
 * 112)  Cannot disable OpenGL enabled in a previous version using gtk3 [Caolán McNamara]
 * 113)  CRASH: exporting a signed PDF [Caolán McNamara]
 * 114)  Hiding characters will crash. Crash in: SwAttrIter::CtorInitAttrIter(SwTextNode &,SwScriptInfo &,SwTextFrame const *) [Michael Stahl]
 * 115)  Changing units in paragraph style dialog's Font tab sets value to 0 [Caolán McNamara]
 * 116)  Wrong language ([None]) in Spelling dialog if no errors found, and switching languages doesn't work [Szymon Kłos]
 * 117)  gtk3_kde5/kde5: save file dialog doesn't add file extension and misses custom controls when using LXQt [Michael Weghorn]
 * 118)  Format Numbers dialog produces wrong format codes when un-/checking Red or Thousands; only gtk3 [Caolán McNamara, Eike Rathke]
 * 119)  VIEWING The automatically break separates the words of the X axis labels [Balazs Varga]
 * 120)  CRASH while closing LibreOffice with Search for formatting dialog open ( gen/gtk ) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 121)  kde5: Cannot open menu using Alt + shortcut [Aleksei Nikiforov]
 * 122)  CRASH: Clicking "Restart Now" after "Use OpenGL for all rendering"->"Apply" in Options Dialog [Xisco Fauli]
 * 123)  OPTIONS DIALOG: AutoCaption options not saved [Caolán McNamara]
 * 124)  Wrong wrap with shape in footer [Patrick Jaap]
 * 125)  GTK3: Auto Caption dialog doesn't show the list of elements [Caolán McNamara]
 * 126)  Crash when converting tdf#122811 file to Firebird [Julien Nabet]
 * 127)  Mail config dialog is empty [Caolán McNamara]
 * 128)  Another CRASH: "Apply"->"Restart Now" if UI Langauge is changed in Tools->Options [Xisco Fauli]
 * 129)  Opening a Style dialog's Borders tab adds Shadow properties to the property set in the style (again) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 130)  Writer hangs if I insert a graphic from the gallery as a list bullet [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 131)  Cannot set paper tray in page style [Caolán McNamara]
 * 132)  CRASH: GTK3: Closing Bullet and Numbering Dialog after showing the graphics gallery [Caolán McNamara]
 * 133)  GTK3: Option dialog no longer has textboxes [Caolán McNamara]
 * 134)  An empty square is inserted as graphic in bullet and numbering dialog [Xisco Fauli]
 * 135)  FILEOPEN DOCX, Arrows go missing when opened in LO (shapes) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 136)  CRASH: "Tools"->"Options" "LibreOfficeDev"->"Charts"->"Default Colors" [Caolán McNamara]
 * 137)  Crash after trying to switch to Notebookbar (GTK3) [Julien Nabet]
 * 138)  FORMATTING: Regression from 6.1 to 6.2 in displaying times formatted as Time 876613:37:46 [Eike Rathke]
 * 139)  Multiple fonts not displayed in Font box REGRESSION [Caolán McNamara]
 * 140)  KDE5: on wayland the gnome UI is selected [Michael Weghorn]
 * 141)  Can not change Trendline name in charts [Xisco Fauli]
 * 142)  Quote menu item has no function in Notebookbar Groupedbar [andreas kainz]
 * 143)  CRASH: GTK3: Closing a modified Form several times [Caolán McNamara]
 * 144)  GTK3: Some dropdown lists are too narrow [Caolán McNamara]
 * 145)  Assert in customize menu add [Julien Nabet]
 * 146)  Crash in: `salhelper::Thread::run'::`1'::catch$1, installing theme [Xisco Fauli]
 * 147)  Shift+Tab jumping back/up to unprotected cells not working [Eike Rathke]
 * 148)  gtk3_kde5, kde5: Crash when minimizing file save dialog [Michael Weghorn]
 * 149)  TDF 64-bit linux builds require GTK3 with Wayland backend [Caolán McNamara]
 * 150)  menulist not expanded horizontally in dialog ( gen ) [Xisco Fauli]
 * 151)  Invoking the number format dialog the format code field is blank for a user-defined date+time format. [Eike Rathke]
 * 152)  UI: dialog Table properties in Impress too high (gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 153)  CRASH when FILEOPEN of DOCX from scan and Nuance PDF Converter that also can't be open with MSO [Caolán McNamara]
 * 154)  Slow typing in document with pictures (gtk3 under X) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 155)  Chart set trendline format regression type Power twice [Caolán McNamara]
 * 156)  GTK3 Chart - crash when change symbol [Caolán McNamara]
 * 157)  Writer crash if Paragraph edited after delete of custom Character Style used in Drop Caps [Caolán McNamara]

Translations
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