Releases/6.1.0/Beta1

General for this Beta: parallel installation

 * This Beta release will install in parallel to your existing LibreOffice installation.

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, the full list of reported bugs is here.

Collaborators
The full list of people who have collaborated in this release is here.

Bugs fixed compared to 6.1.0 Alpha1

 * 1)  dereference after null check [Caolán McNamara]
 * 2)  resource leak [Caolán McNamara]
 * 3)  uninitialized scalar field [Caolán McNamara]
 * 4)  silence Uncaught exception [Caolán McNamara]
 * 5)  silence Uncaught exception [Caolán McNamara]
 * 6)  rework warning code to use nonwarning pattern [Caolán McNamara]
 * 7)  division by zero [Caolán McNamara]
 * 8)  division by zero [Caolán McNamara]
 * 9)  uninitialized pointer field [Caolán McNamara]
 * 10)  resource leak in object [Caolán McNamara]
 * 11)  fix 4 separate new bugs in BitmapMosaicFilter [Caolán McNamara]
 * 12)  uninitialized scalar field [Caolán McNamara]
 * 13)  fix 4 separate new bugs in BitmapMosaicFilter [Caolán McNamara]
 * 14)  fix 4 separate new bugs in BitmapMosaicFilter [Caolán McNamara]
 * 15)  unused field [Caolán McNamara]
 * 16)  UrF: Unread field [Caolán McNamara]
 * 17)  arguments in wrong order [Caolán McNamara]
 * 18)  arguments in wrong order [Caolán McNamara]
 * 19)  UrF: Unread field [Caolán McNamara]
 * 20)  silence Unchecked return value [Caolán McNamara]
 * 21)  arguments in wrong order [Caolán McNamara]
 * 22)  rework to avoid Dereference after null check warning [Caolán McNamara]
 * 23)  silence Unchecked return value [Caolán McNamara]
 * 24)  resource leak [Caolán McNamara]
 * 25)  uninitialized scalar field [Caolán McNamara]
 * 26)  silence Unchecked return value [Caolán McNamara]
 * 27)  unchecked return value [Caolán McNamara]
 * 28)  unchecked return value [Caolán McNamara]
 * 29)  deliberate 'Constant' variable guards dead code [Caolán McNamara]
 * 30)  unchecked return value [Caolán McNamara]
 * 31)  silence Copy-paste error [Caolán McNamara]
 * 32)  silence Unchecked return value [Caolán McNamara]
 * 33)  silence Uncaught exception [Caolán McNamara]
 * 34)  apparmor: fix gpg encryption hang trying to lock random_seed [Rene Engelhard]
 * 35)  extend mutex protection to the whole of ScEditUtil::GetString [Luboš Luňák]
 * 36)  set limits for useful fuzzing [Caolán McNamara]
 * 37)  direct-leak [Caolán McNamara]
 * 38)  lcl_MarkEqualByStart sort logic differs from that of operator== [Caolán McNamara]
 * 39)  leak of SdrObject owned by SvxShape [Caolán McNamara]
 * 40)  undefined-shift [Caolán McNamara]
 * 41)  infinite loop [Caolán McNamara]
 * 42)  oom due to too many little allocations in short period of time [Caolán McNamara]
 * 43)  fuzzer ooms [Caolán McNamara]
 * 44)  defer subdocument redlining to end of parse like main document [Caolán McNamara]
 * 45)  avoid recurse to death [Caolán McNamara]
 * 46)  avoid recurse to death [Caolán McNamara]
 * 47)  undefined-shift [Caolán McNamara]
 * 48)  fix rework as OUStringBuffer [Caolán McNamara]
 * 49)  + valgrind: uninitialized value [Caolán McNamara]
 * 50)  fallout from rework as OUStringBuffer [Caolán McNamara]
 * 51)  check multiply [Caolán McNamara]
 * 52)  abrt [Caolán McNamara]
 * 53)  abrt, fallout from rework to use buffer [Caolán McNamara]
 * 54)  abrt [Caolán McNamara]
 * 55)  integer-overflow [Caolán McNamara]
 * 56)  null-dereference READ [Caolán McNamara]
 * 57)  stack exhaustion [Caolán McNamara]
 * 58)  update credits [Christian Lohmaier]
 * 59)  [fix available] RTF import probable regression with non-english BigMachines exports [Miklos Vajna]
 * 60)  message box fonts corrupted in libreoffice [Caolán McNamara]
 * 61)  The RTF export is incorrect. [Miklos Vajna]
 * 62)  Print range is missing when sheet is copied [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 63)  Suppress of Blank Lines in Label and Envelope printing from Database MAILMERGE [Mike Kaganski]
 * 64)  Auto Filter disables incremental autofill function [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 65)  accelerating compile times by removing unnecessary header #include [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 66)  Calc Frozen after "undo" "Filling Series Number in a Column" [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 67)  problems printing from WinXP to Win98 [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 68)  FILEOPEN DOC/DOCX: automatic numbering in numbered lists different from Word numbering [Justin Luth]
 * 69)  Text to columns puts result into first line if whole column is selected [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 70)  UI: Option 'Range contains column headings' ignored [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 71)  CONFIGURATION: 'Export URLs relative to file system' should be default for PDF-Export [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 72)  UI: No context menu available in Input Line (formula bar) [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 73)  RTL: target value [Dennis Francis]
 * 74)  EDITING: 'Autofill - Date - Months' wrong if day of month exceeds max. days of month [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 75)  Boolean TRUE and FALSE value cells not treated correctly in AutoFill [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 76)  "Edit - Changes - Protect Records" can't be activated [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 77)  Problems with copying and extracting text from generated PDF [Khaled Hosny]
 * 78)  Calc - Text to Columns does not split cell correctly if first character is a comma [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 79)  URL corrupted when right click in the formula bar [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 80)  EDITING: Results filled in wrong cells after Text to Columns [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 81)  DOC import filter mismatch of shape size [Justin Luth]
 * 82)  macOS: There is a black bar on top when entering native full-screen mode [Tor Lillqvist]
 * 83)  Outline Numbering for DOCX not working when new headings inserted in between (to reproduce, see comment 15/17/19) [Justin Luth]
 * 84)  Opening document by double-click waits a long time [Tor Lillqvist]
 * 85)  FILESAVE: DOCX: wrong position for rotated pictures [Victor Mireyev]
 * 86)  Calc sort lists aren't case sensitive [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 87)  EDITING: "Text to Columns" not applied to selected cells after change 'Format Cells' [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 88)  Digital signature: Support visual identification / signature lines [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
 * 89)  Disable all Drawing toolbar buttons in read-only mode [Caolán McNamara]
 * 90)  no broadcast after text to columns to convert text to numbers [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 91)  Crash: data text to columns [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 92)  UI: Scientific format: unable to modify number of decimal places through Sidebar or Format > Cells [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 93)  Symbol font emulation broke with OOo2.4 [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 94)  Calc row paste doesn't keep row height [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 95)  Text to columns only affects first line when width is auto set [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 96)  Names are not sorted in Manage Names [Luboš Luňák]
 * 97)  Sort button does not sort first cell if it has text format [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 98)  EDITING Text to columns... does not respect currently selected cells [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 99)  Add PageNumber Header option ... [Gulsah Kose]
 * 100)  Undo after Control-D Fill doesn't broadcast deleted (undo-inserted) cells for calculation [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 101)  SORTING Natural sorting not working with non-letter,non-number content [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 102)  Reduce number of typedefs used for trivial container types [Arkadiy Illarionov, Abhyudaya Sharma]
 * 103)  Ctrl+left/right shift doesn't change text direction [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 104)  Check marks on menus (Windows 7 Aero theme, OpenGL enabled) miss their borders [Miklos Vajna]
 * 105)  QueryValue not working as expected [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 106)  Find & Replace dialog should remember the 'other options' state [manujvashist]
 * 107)  Spreadsheet sort hangs [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 108)  Printing Handouts Ignores Selected Order [Daniel]
 * 109)  Accelerator underlines dont show when pressing Alt (Sidebar, Dialogs, Start Center) [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 110)  Calc freezes when applying natural sorting on text columns [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 111)  EDITING: calc freezes if sorting in natural mode [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 112)  after insert note, focus cannot return to the input bar [Caolán McNamara]
 * 113)  function CONVERT_ADD - some unit conversions not supported [Luboš Luňák]
 * 114)  [HELP] Missing description of formula groups at Statistics tab page [Olivier Hallot]
 * 115)  FILESAVE: DOCX truncated upon roundtrip [Mark Hung]
 * 116)  New Icon Ideas [andreas kainz]
 * 117)  Ignore OpenGL Blacklist checked while use OpenGL for all rendering unchecked, enables OpenGL [Miklos Vajna]
 * 118)  Assert from OpenGL code when activating chart object [Miklos Vajna]
 * 119)  Auto Fill: The Next Value for "001-001-001" is "001-001-002" Rather than "001-001000" [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 120)  Calculating character widths is broken for ligatures in 5.3 [Khaled Hosny, Caolán McNamara]
 * 121)  When exporting to pdf and choosing "JPEG compression", "reduce image resolution" isn't taken into account. [Miklos Vajna]
 * 122)  FILESAVE: RT: Tab-space inserted between footnote text and number - usually only seen in Word [Justin Luth]
 * 123)  Table borders go over footer and page boundary [Mark Hung]
 * 124)  [LOCALHELP] Write help page for PIVOT CHARTS [Olivier Hallot]
 * 125)  FILESAVE: PDF: Only first page's background is exported [Miklos Vajna]
 * 126)  Remove @author annotations from source code [Abhyudaya Sharma, Gabor Kelemen]
 * 127)  Update Office version in file format confirmation dialog to not refer to Office 2013 [Adolfo Jayme Barrientos]
 * 128)  image exported to pdf is not being cropped correctly [Miklos Vajna]
 * 129)  Crash when trying to digitally sign an ODT using aHungarian eID card [Miklos Vajna]
 * 130)  UI: Font shrinks when pasting text [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 131)  Context menu: Rename "Fields" to "Edit Field" [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 132)  macOS: The language drop-down list in the character dialog contains a lot of entries in brackets (for example {en-BR}) [Tor Lillqvist]
 * 133)  Option "Create single print jobs for collated output" does the opposite of what it says [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 134)  Basic Library Organizer is broken and closing dialogs crashes [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 135)  Editing tables in Impress lags terribly [Noel Grandin]
 * 136)  Cannot set data series filling to pattern [Katarina Behrens]
 * 137)  UTF-16 surrogate pairs are mishandled when text is set to Thai [Khaled Hosny]
 * 138)  The option to print text in black, secretly also affects PDF export [Daniel]
 * 139)  [Regression] Pasting text from Writer in Calc formula field doesn't strip formatting [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 140)  New default set of gradient presets [heiko tietze]
 * 141)  Proxy settings disregarded for reporting crashes [Aron Budea]
 * 142)  Crash when loading an ods file when threading is enabled [Dennis Francis]
 * 143)  The Special character didn't show in upper right window on Special Characters UI [himajin100000]
 * 144)  Add a number formatting option (for using in Format BASIC function, and in Calc number format) to spell number, like in NUMBERTEXT extension [Eike Rathke, Mike Kaganski]
 * 145)  Shortcut and behaviour of fullscreen mode on Mac [Tor Lillqvist]
 * 146)  FORMATTING - Format -> Columns... dialog missing [Cor Nouws]
 * 147)  Show Mail Merge toolbar when opening document with embedded datasource [Mike Kaganski]
 * 148)  LOCALHELP Document the Signature Line dialog [Olivier Hallot]
 * 149)  Missing Messages at the Use of “Navigate by” Function when Document Beginning or End is Reached [Jim Raykowski]
 * 150)  [NEWHELP] Add new Help UI strings to Pootle [Olivier Hallot]
 * 151)  [NEWHELP] Create distribution package to the new help [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 152)  FILESAVE: Bullet images lost after RT [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 153)  Crash in: BitmapReadAccess::SetPixelForN24BitTcRgb(unsigned char *,long,BitmapColor const &,ColorMask const &) if OpenGL is enabled [Miklos Vajna]
 * 154)  Autocorrect greek character σ (sigma) to ς (final sigma) when at the end of a word (τελικό σίγμα) [László Németh]
 * 155)  The "Export only note pages" in the PDF export options dialog is enabled even with Export note pages disabled (see: comment 2) [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 156)  Calc crashes when opening Function Wizard through Cmd-F2 shortcut [Tor Lillqvist]
 * 157)  Date format setting not recognised [Eike Rathke, Stephan Bergmann]
 * 158)  [NEWHELP] extract from help files to Pootle and back [Olivier Hallot]
 * 159)  Fileopen DOCX: text in table is in the first column only [Miklos Vajna]
 * 160)  Text with Asian Phonetic Guide(Ruby) filtered out in EPUB format [Mark Hung]
 * 161)  Crash when showing Comment [Armin Le Grand]
 * 162)  Fly-in animation doesn't play after roundtripping from LO through PP (PPT format) [Aron Budea]
 * 163)  Problem opening excelfile in latest release - due to overflow [Eike Rathke]
 * 164)  CRASH: LibreOffice crashes being closed with content in the clipboard [Armin Le Grand]
 * 165)  (AW080-Regressions) [META] Regression introduced by Aw080 [Armin Le Grand]
 * 166)  FIREBIRD: Migration: No migration possible with data in tables and declared realtionship [Tamas Bunth]
 * 167)  FIREBIRD : Migration : Abort with std:bad alloc error when attempting to open form in migrated hsqldb [Tamas Bunth]
 * 168)  FIREBIRD : Migration : error on importing tables or queries with names longer than 30 characters [Tamas Bunth]
 * 169)  Crash inserting Fontwork [Armin Le Grand]
 * 170)  Undo/redo is skipping the comment [Caolán McNamara]
 * 171)  Elementary not appearing on gtk2 and gtk3 backends [heiko tietze]
 * 172)  Text formatting .uno:Subscript, .uno:Superscript work from menu and Sidebar deck, but not completed with assigned keyboard shortcut [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 173)  Selecting a form in navigator does not scroll to the page [Jim Raykowski]
 * 174)  Print Preview crashes on signed document [Katarina Behrens]
 * 175)  Cumulative hypergeometric probability calculation error when discrete probabilities have k>n in C(n,k) [Winfried Donkers]
 * 176)  Double-click does not expand/collaps the options in the navigator [Jim Raykowski]
 * 177)  Migration to Firebird fails for a simple table [Tamas Bunth]
 * 178)  Crash in: ScGridWindow::ClickExtern [Eike Rathke]
 * 179)  Libre office Swriter crashes when opening Microsot word doc in 97-2003 doc format [Justin Luth]
 * 180)  FILESAVE: DOCX: file cannot be opened in MSO / numbering lost in LO [Justin Luth]
 * 181)  Crop Outline does not match Crop Area [Armin Le Grand]
 * 182)  add localized ordinal and cardinal number name and ordinal indicator numbering styles [László Németh, Eike Rathke]
 * 183)  GTK3: selected thumbnailview is completely black in high contrast [Caolán McNamara]
 * 184)  Sidebar: Shapes deck should fill the whole sidebar [heiko tietze]
 * 185)  Wrong table formatting when redoing the adding of table rows [Jim Raykowski]
 * 186)  Error when passing arguments to a python function [Laurent Godard]
 * 187)  crash when moving (move up /move down) an item in a list (gtk/gtk3) [Noel Grandin]
 * 188)  MailMerge: Not recognising outgoing SMTP Server password when supplied by macro [Alex McMurchy1917]
 * 189)  LO 6.1 Writer will left a tmp file when ODT include formula. [Miklos Vajna]
 * 190)  EDITING: crash in SfxItemSet::GetItemState(unsigned short, bool, SfxPoolItem const**) when pasting comment of closed document [Henry Castro]
 * 191)  Help: wrong key shortcut (still F4) for datasource display [Olivier Hallot]
 * 192)  FILEOPEN ODT Idents with tabs not working as intended during line breaks [Miklos Vajna]
 * 193)  RTF import: lost page breaks inside nested groups [Miklos Vajna]
 * 194)  External link images are shifted to the right when updated [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 195)  FILEOPEN: RTF: parser dont draw tables correctly [Mike Kaganski]
 * 196)  WRITER: Can't create group box using the wizard [Armin Le Grand]
 * 197)  Can't select a copied shape (form object) from navigator [Jim Raykowski]
 * 198)  Firebird: Migration: crash: migrating a table with numeric column type and data crashes libo [Tamas Bunth]
 * 199)  Firebird: Migration: For an hsqldb column with type Time and data generates an error during import of the data [Julien Nabet]
 * 200)  Firebird: Migration: table migration fails with VARCHAR_IGNORECASE column type before data import. [Tamas Bunth]
 * 201)  Base hangs with memory allocation error when trying to open a table with a column type of REAL and data. [Tamas Bunth]
 * 202)  Firebird: Migration: table fails to migrate with column type of FLOAT [Tamas Bunth]
 * 203)  The CUA bindings for clipboard (Copy-Paste) actions do not function in edit shell of Comment objects for Writer [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 204)  Assertion failure when opening file open dialog [David Tardon, osnola, Regina Henschel]
 * 205)  Firebird: Migration: Starting migration on file saved in current session and which generates SQL error during migration crashes LibO [Tamas Bunth]
 * 206)  FIREBIRD: Migration: After first SQL-error nothing else will be imported [Tamas Bunth]
 * 207)  Add Karasa Jaga to LibreOffice core [Rizal Muttaqin]
 * 208)  Color picker for setting background color of master slide is missing from content panel of its Sidebar deck [Xisco Fauli]
 * 209)  Special Character dialog grid not reset completely when changing font selection, metrics for prior character selection retained and grid corrupted [Noel Grandin]
 * 210)  FORMATTING Merge cells dialog radio buttons cannot be unselected [heiko tietze, Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 211)  FILEOPEN: RTF: missing border on table [Miklos Vajna]
 * 212)  UI color palette and Recent Colors in (Table properties) not accessible via key board, dropped TAB focus [Caolán McNamara]
 * 213)  double display slightly offset when editing a cell [Caolán McNamara]
 * 214)  Get and Set GraphicURL using te API no longer working [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 215)  COUNTIF doesn't properly count empty cells for empty ("" or "=") criteria [Winfried Donkers]
 * 216)  Console error message about ShowInlineTooltips [heiko tietze]
 * 217)  Add color drawing styles in Draw [heiko tietze]
 * 218)  EDITING Draw crashes when color dialog's parent is closed and OK is clicked in color dialog (not gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 219)  UI 3D Effects buttons blank [andreas kainz]
 * 220)  Missing page-shadow-mask.png [andreas kainz]
 * 221)  CRASH changing the master slide [Caolán McNamara]
 * 222)  Make new entry to OpenGL blacklist [Julien Nabet]
 * 223)  no images in buttons in Database pane in main database window [andreas kainz]
 * 224)  EDITING: Libo crashes deleting text inside the query designer SQL editor [Noel Grandin]
 * 225)  Inconsistent naming of MSO filters [Adolfo Jayme Barrientos]
 * 226)  No button and title in an information dialog [Caolán McNamara]
 * 227)  FILESAVE: Bullets points are smaller after RT [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 228)  FILEOPEN: DOCX: Before text indent is ignored [Justin Luth]
 * 229)  FILESAVE: RTF: header size changes after RT [Miklos Vajna]
 * 230)  Blue textbox background when pasting sheets from clipboard [Armin Le Grand]
 * 231)  OpenGL font rendering on Windows 10 regression [Khaled Hosny]
 * 232)  Missing Colibre icons at the merge cells dialog [Adolfo Jayme Barrientos, andreas kainz]
 * 233)  LibreOffice 6 Calc Column Width after Insert Columns Left [Noel Grandin]
 * 234)  Crash after cut and paste operation of a chart stick [Noel Grandin]
 * 235)  In gtk3, crash when trying to revert back to Standard Toolbar from any Notebookbar variant [Caolán McNamara]
 * 236)  Draw/Impress table selection doesn't follow/move when moving the table [Daniel]
 * 237)  [NEWHELP] Translations of collateral file pivot.ods for help pages [Olivier Hallot]
 * 238)  Japanese text on the listbox is big in pivot charts [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 239)  DateAdd("m",...) does not truncate date to last valid day of month anymore [Eike Rathke]
 * 240)  GraphicExporter not always export correctly [Miklos Vajna]
 * 241)  i18n: add language (Philippines) [ilo-PH] [Eike Rathke]
 * 242)  Fontwork shape is not saved [Armin Le Grand]
 * 243)  LO61: Introduced notebookbar command has wrong accelerator character [andreas kainz]
 * 244)  i18n: add locale data for Iloko [ilo-PH] [Eike Rathke]
 * 245)  mailmerge is ignoring current printer settings [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 246)  Writer gets confused when hiding multiple sections [Serge Krot]
 * 247)  Firebird: Migration: Libo enters race condition when certain odb files are migrated [Julien Nabet]
 * 248)  Copying multiple rows from one sheet to another causes the first row to be overwritten by the last one [Noel Grandin]
 * 249)  l10n: add Frisian [fy] UI translation to builds [Christian Lohmaier]
 * 250)  [GTK3] Welded drop down options appear in the wrong place. [Caolán McNamara]
 * 251)  Background tab in table properties dialog do not redirect to valid online document [Olivier Hallot]

Translations
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