Releases/4.2.5/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:
 * If you notice undesirable interactions between LibreOffice and other ODF supporting software, please report this as a bug.
 * 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 4.2.5 RC1:
 * 1)  2nd part of import font color from color fragment for SmartArts [Zolnai Tamás]
 * 2)  wrong text position in grouped list [Zolnai Tamás]
 * 3)  fix look for translated frame styles [Elie Roux]
 * 4)  paste preference is image, then html, then text. [Andrzej Hunt]
 * 5)  fix hyphenation (remove fix, except hard hyphen part) [László Németh]
 * 6)  editeng: fix RTF color table export [Michael Stahl]
 * 7)  B1:SOMENAME is not a valid singleton reference [Eike Rathke]
 * 8)  don't add the changes toolbar to the forms window, [Markus Mohrhard]
 * 9)  cannot start show at selected slide [Zolnai Tamás]
 * 10)  sw: ww8 import: add heuristic to ignore mangled crop values [Michael Stahl]
 * 11)  sw: fix separators in SwDDEFieldType::PutValue [Michael Stahl]
 * 12)  sw: fix setting tab stops via ruler [Michael Stahl]
 * 13)  paste preference is image, then html, then text. [Andrzej Hunt]
 * 14)  use different XML attribute names for asian and complex fonts. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 15)  correct way to determine the end position for matrix check. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 16)  fix hyphenation (remove fix, except hard hyphen part) [László Németh]
 * 17)  don't access after last row, when last row is max last row [Caolán McNamara]
 * 18)  recognize ##-MMM-## as date even if ambiguous [Eike Rathke]
 * 19)  crash/hang on format-page on html document [Caolán McNamara]
 * 20)  [abrt] libreoffice-core: ScTable::GetName(rtl::OUString&) const: soffice.bin killed by SIGSEGV [Eike Rathke]

Thanks to all who took part in handling the issues
Thanks to all who took part in handling the issues involved for the 4.2.5 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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