Releases/6.1.2/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 6.1.1 (rc2):


 * 1)  reused in-use SdStyleSheet removed by undo [Caolán McNamara]
 * 2)  properly handle failure encoding MS file [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 3)  Automatic color does not work for the "notes" view [Caolán McNamara]
 * 4)  Copy Paste from Impress break Writer's Heading Styles (Heading 1, Heading 2, etc) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 5)  Copy paste from impress to writer broken [Caolán McNamara]
 * 6)  Calc/Spreadsheet general format not displaying as Qpro, Excel, Lotus [Eike Rathke]
 * 7)  null deref [Caolán McNamara]
 * 8)  null deref [Caolán McNamara]
 * 9)  check container size [Caolán McNamara]
 * 10)  reset uncommitted fly stuff & pams before applying redlining [Caolán McNamara]
 * 11)  null-dereference [Caolán McNamara]
 * 12)  properly handle failure encoding MS file [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 13)  FILEOPEN: Table in docx is not rendered correctly due "repeat heading" (bad handling of isolated tblHeader row settings) [László Németh]
 * 14)  freeze/crash when creating a diagram from many thousand cells [Noel Grandin]
 * 15)  importing .docx file overwrites all global properties [Caolán McNamara]
 * 16)  Function TYPE returns error, when parameter is a reference to an empty cell [Michael Weghorn]
 * 17)  UI: No Error-Dialog appears, when Input is set to required in a Field of a Form, but not set in the Table [Julien Nabet]
 * 18)  FILEOPEN: DOCX - Incorrect text highlight color in table header [Justin Luth]
 * 19)  FORMATTING: DOCX, Paragraph background color set to 'No Fill' not persisted on save [Justin Luth]
 * 20)  Inconsistent error messages when failing to input required fields [Julien Nabet]
 * 21)  EDITING: Cannot copy&paste URLs [Paul Trojahn]
 * 22)  Long chart title should automatically break [Balazs Varga]
 * 23)  FILESAVE: Textbox's height is reduced after RT [Mike Kaganski]
 * 24)  Listbox doesn't show value (background) if value is just selected (Linux/KDE) [Alex McMurchy1917]
 * 25)  Crash on previewing slide fade transition with Intel graphics card in a VM [Caolán McNamara]
 * 26)  LOCALHELP Document the Watermark dialog [Adolfo Jayme Barrientos]
 * 27)  'Delete comment' not working with mutli-selection [Michael Weghorn]
 * 28)  Proxy settings disregarded for reporting crashes [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 29)  The draw:fontwork-xyz attributes from OOo1.0 are not supported by ODF but still written [Ilhan Yesil]
 * 30)  Preferred font order for Chinese locales [Caolán McNamara]
 * 31)  FILEOPEN DOC(X): background color of a table row disappears [Justin Luth]
 * 32)  Hang when copying a sheet to a new document [Mike Kaganski]
 * 33)  Crash in: SwMailMergeConfigItem::DocumentReloaded [Ilhan Yesil]
 * 34)  "Edit document properties before saving" option leaves just-saved document modified; changes are not saved [Henry Castro]
 * 35)  measure lines (dimension line) have no value [Armin Le Grand]
 * 36)  Crash with RTF paste [Caolán McNamara]
 * 37)  FILESAVE Impress losing slide transition settings on saving [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
 * 38)  eps images systematically get rasterized to bitmap [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
 * 39)  Signature Line: Signing ooxml produces invalid signature [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
 * 40)  FILEOPEN DOCX Extra CR tag in table causes it to appear incorrectly [László Németh]
 * 41)  Crash deleting a table using the floating table toolbar [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 42)  Pop-ups over spellcheck dialog allow interaction w underlying window ( not GTK ) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 43)  Both Male and Female Salutations shown when hide paragraphs of empty fields option selected [Mike Kaganski]
 * 44)  Custom time format changes to default upon load (only those saved from older versions) [Eike Rathke]
 * 45)  Personas not found again (seems root cause is different than tdf#114731) [Muhammet Kara]
 * 46)  Area tab: Pattern editor has incorrect behaviour switching the pattern [Caolán McNamara]
 * 47)  Fly in Words with non-animated background show entire paragraph in addition [Mike Kaganski]
 * 48)  Incorrect Column dialog in Table of Content compared to Section [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 49)  Crash in SfxItemSet::Get(unsigned short,bool) when doing undo/copy/exit [Caolán McNamara]
 * 50)  Automatic font color set only after editing [Caolán McNamara]
 * 51)  Chart created from fully selected sheet only targets header row [Noel Grandin]
 * 52)  LibreOffice on macOS adds file suffix whenever a document is edited (even though it was set to hidden) [Miklos Vajna]
 * 53)  Build from sources with boost 1.68.0 fails, because libcmis 0.5.1 requires boost/uuid/sha1.hpp [rezso]
 * 54)  Page properties dialog is wrong about page margins [Caolán McNamara]
 * 55)  No highlighted text in ListBox when focused [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 56)  Print dialog: "Use only paper size from printer preferences" may be shown with inconsistent values [Michael Weghorn]
 * 57)  regression: SVG text not displayed [Caolán McNamara]
 * 58)  FILESAVE XLSX Resize shape to fit text shape property not preserved [Balazs Varga]
 * 59)  Writer Format > Page menu so wide the options are not legible [Caolán McNamara]
 * 60)  Crash/Freeze when Insert Special Characters drop down control is in drop down and Help dialog is click on (not gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 61)  Writer: Macro: Libre crash after function getPropertyState("TextParagraph") for view cursor [Caolán McNamara]
 * 62)  gtk3_kde5's filepicker may cause UI freeze [Michael Weghorn]
 * 63)  Writer crashed when insert Header and Footer [Juergen Funk]
 * 64)  Crash on redo of rectangle movement and text [Noel Grandin]
 * 65)  LibreOffice crashes when I save multiple times in a row (gtk/gtk3) [Noel Grandin]
 * 66)  Text positioning in shape objects and text boxes does not work anymore both in Impress and Draw [Caolán McNamara]
 * 67)  Sections: text is painted on itself with layout cache [Miklos Vajna]
 * 68)  get_desktop_environment doesn't work correctly if $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP contains a colon-separated list of strings [Xisco Fauli]
 * 69)  Installation glitch for EmojiOneColor-SVGinOT.ttf [Mike Kaganski]
 * 70)  pdf export dialog window inconsistently uses french locale [Caolán McNamara]

Translations
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