Releases/4.2.6/RC2

Installation

 * Linux deb and rpm:
 * please, read detailed instructions for different distributions
 * the Linux packages can be installed in parallel to LibreOffice 4.1, but not run simultaneously - documents will be opened in the version you've started first.
 * Windows:
 * LibreOffice Windows installers are signed by The Document Foundation.

New Features
An in-progress list of features for this version is available here.

Symbol Server for debugging on Windows
Starting with LibreOffice 4.2.0 RC1, debugging symbols (pdb files) for Windows builds will be available from our symbol server at http://dev-downloads.libreoffice.org/symstore/symbols (note: this is not a webbrowsable resource, it is meant to be used by debugging tools like WinDbg. See our documentation on How to get a backtrace with WinDbg for details on how to set it up. And starting with 4.2.0 RC2, the debugging symbols are also source indexed.

Reported Bugs
A list of annoying bugs still contained in this version is available from Bugzilla, the full list of reported bugs is here.

List of fixed bugs
Bugs fixed against 4.2.6 RC1:
 * 1)  RTF import: missing null pointer check [Miklos Vajna]
 * 2)  vcl: Revert "Scale the pictures before calling ... [Michael Stahl]
 * 3)  keep external references intact during sort [Eike Rathke]
 * 4)  wrong rendering of bottom and right character border [Zolnai Tamás]
 * 5)  use SvXMLExport::GetRelativeReference, [Eike Rathke]
 * 6)  keep external references intact during sort [Eike Rathke]
 * 7)  act on implicitly propagated error, if any [Eike Rathke]
 * 8)  msfilter: fix infinite loop during export [Markus Mohrhard]
 * 9)  .doc has large black rectangles between paragraphs [Zolnai Tamás]
 * 10)  backport of the fix for Cyrillic spell. dictionary path [László Németh]
 * 11)  don't always increment the start row position. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 12)  vcl: Revert "Scale the pictures before calling ... [Michael Stahl]
 * 13)  RTF import: missing null pointer check [Miklos Vajna]
 * 14)  tolerate exceptions thrown inside XFastParser callbacks. [Michael Meeks]
 * 15)  sw: HTML import: fix inverted test in CSS import [Michael Stahl]
 * 16)  store correct sheet number during range names update [Eike Rathke]
 * 17)  bison priority increase with bigger number [Lionel Elie Mamane]
 * 18)  don't try to access known-bad DDE servers [Herbert Dürr]

Thanks to all who took part in handling the issues
Thanks to all who took part in handling the issues involved for the 4.2.6 release: QA-team, bugreporters, developers. Not covered in this stats of course are the many community members in other areas like l10n/translation and marketing, user support that also deserve a big thank you.

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