Releases/6.3.0/Beta1

General for this Beta: parallel installation

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

Windows

 * LibreOffice 6.3 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 6.3.0 Alpha1

 * 1)  resolves; build failure [Caolán McNamara]
 * 2)  configuration unavailable during fuzzing [Caolán McNamara]
 * 3)  [abrt] libreoffice-core: (anonymous namespace)::signalHandlerFunction: soffice.bin killed by SIGABRT [Caolán McNamara]
 * 4)  accelerating compile times by removing unnecessary header #include [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 5)  Clean up OSL_ASSERT, DBG_ASSERT, etc. [Shubham Goyal, Jens Carl]
 * 6)  Wrong encoding in comments for file edited by Mac OS MS Word [Julien Nabet]
 * 7)  Elements pane: Items not reachable without mouse [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 8)  FILESAVE: saving sheet with some queries in it takes forever (~5 minutes) [Noel Grandin]
 * 9)  Add a "Release Notes/What's New" window to be shown upon first run [heiko tietze]
 * 10)  FILEOPEN: XLS/XLSX - Hyperlink document path not imported correctly for numeric content cells [Tünde Tóth]
 * 11)  Calc freezes while filtering large data [Luboš Luňák]
 * 12)  Untitled document from template is closed when opening additional existing document [Katarina Behrens]
 * 13)  Make 'Search Results' dialog optional from Find & Replace dialog [heiko tietze]
 * 14)  FORMATTING feature request: error bars style => error box [Winfried Donkers]
 * 15)  LibreOffice Math dark theme > dark text and background [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 16)  FILEOPEN FILESAVE: Character style for bullets added every time docx document is saved [László Németh]
 * 17)  Beanshell Editor: Shift-Tab doesn't work [Andreas Heinisch]
 * 18)  Calc uses 100% CPU and leaks memory when calculating moving average of full column [Dennis Francis]
 * 19)  VIEWING: charts not displayed in .xlsx reports generated from ibm cognos (case-sensitive path for the .rels relationship files instead of case-insensitive) [Balazs Varga]
 * 20)  Wrong width/placement of Calc multiline scrollbar [Thorsten Wagner]
 * 21)  Templates window: line break not working in tooltip [Caolán McNamara]
 * 22)  textbox background fill lost when round-tripping in .doc [Justin Luth]
 * 23)  Highlight more than 64 cells in Calc formula [Shubham Goyal]
 * 24)  EDITING: Applying bold formatting to a large dataset is slower as it has been before [Luboš Luňák]
 * 25)  Searching a large dataset is slower as it has been before [Luboš Luňák]
 * 26)  UI: Menu bar items should be highlighted on mouse over (default Windows behavior) [Miklos Vajna]
 * 27)  slower loading of a huge AutoCorrect replacement table [Caolán McNamara]
 * 28)  Slow pasting of a big block of cells with even rows blank [Luboš Luňák]
 * 29)  Options for Number recognition in Writer tables deserve better default: turned on (only functioning when 'Number Recognition' is on!) [Cor Nouws]
 * 30)  Flicker when hovering over main menu with default rendering [Miklos Vajna]
 * 31)  LibreOffice will hang when moving or copying a few columns using drag and drop [Dennis Francis]
 * 32)  External forms for a database doesn't save data - closing form with dataloss ( see comment 30 ) [Xisco Fauli]
 * 33)  FILEOPEN DOCX Charts in footnotes multiply with every open and save [László Németh]
 * 34)  Position shifted while moving the handle of OOXML Callout shape [Regina Henschel]
 * 35)  Make the string "LibreOffice (Safe Mode)" translatable [Takeshi Abe]
 * 36)  FILEOPEN XLSX Chart width gets compressed [Tamás Zolnai]
 * 37)  FILEOPEN DOCX Accepting tracked changes has different result in LO Writer and MS Word in document with numbered paragraphs [László Németh]
 * 38)  Whitespace is not Hidden in Cases with Page and Column Breaks [Miklos Vajna]
 * 39)  Embedded table position off after switching from webview to normal view & back [Michael Stahl]
 * 40)  EDITING: copied and pasted cells containing formulas are not recalcuated (2) [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 41)  Incorrect keyboard navigation when insert table toolbar button is dropped down and right or down arrow key is pressed [Jim Raykowski]
 * 42)  FILEOPEN DOCX Raised text created with Word becomes normal when the document is opened in Writer [Jozsef Szakacs, László Németh]
 * 43)  LibreOffice Base -> can't insert special character in a form [Caolán McNamara]
 * 44)  Crash cuilo!makeAutoCorrEdit when open character dialog with large amount of text selected [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 45)  KDE5: LO Calc slow at 'Select all' [Luboš Luňák]
 * 46)  File saving at least 5 times slower [Noel Grandin]
 * 47)  Revamp the Bullets and Numbering dialog [Gülşah Köse]
 * 48)  MacOS: table borders aren't black but grayish ( zoom level < 150% ) [Xisco Fauli]
 * 49)  FILEOPEN DOCX Footnote and endnote changes are not opened as change in change control [László Németh]
 * 50)  kde5: Tooltips for toolbar icons not properly shown on Wayland [Michael Weghorn]
 * 51)  EDITING Table - Index Design: Index isn't sortable any more [Julien Nabet]
 * 52)  Legend interferes with pie chart after pptx import [Tamás Zolnai]
 * 53)  UI: XMouseListener is not called for top most window [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
 * 54)  EDITING Calc: Anchored objects are not effected by delete row/cell [Ilhan Yesil]
 * 55)  Can't step with keyboard to/between favorite special characters on group button [Jim Raykowski]
 * 56)  DOCX Text in protected form created in Writer is editable in Word [Justin Luth]
 * 57)  LO Impress: Unnecessary grey rectangle on the screen while demonstration (slide with video) [Katarina Behrens]
 * 58)  Arabic version libreoffice - icon numeric list on tools box look not good [Rizal Muttaqin]
 * 59)  Provide releases built with XCode 10 [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 60)  Multi-selection lost after promote/demote chapter/level in Navigator [Jim Raykowski]
 * 61)  Inserting a diagram leads to an error [Tor Lillqvist]
 * 62)  cannot disable wrap text [Caolán McNamara]
 * 63)  Impress crashes on slide show using "All displays" [Katarina Behrens]
 * 64)  tabs in calc (for sheets) and draw (for layer) style [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 65)  Crash if switch from user outline numbering to chapter numbering with same paragraph style [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 66)  CRASH: after moving the content down and undoing [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 67)  Video passing slide boundaries causes weird zoom in or shift (gtk2/gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 68)  Copy/paste popup not working [Tor Lillqvist]
 * 69)  FILEOPEN DOCX Hyperlink in text box does not get blue color [Serge Krot]
 * 70)  Sync UI between LibO and LOOL [andreas kainz]
 * 71)  CRASH: cutting and undoing a sheet with external links [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 72)  Multiple selected chapter promote/demote produce incorrect results [Jim Raykowski]
 * 73)  Help->About LibreOffice dialog does not specify whether 32 or 64 bit is installed [Takeshi Abe]
 * 74)  crash when trying to open a .doc file [Mark Hung]
 * 75)  'Open' button on Database Wizard dialog is enabled when it should be disabled [Xisco Fauli, Noel Grandin]
 * 76)  Bundled templates are not ODF valid: mimetype must not be compressed [Laurent BP]
 * 77)  EDITING: CRASH when start SpellCheck [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 78)  Font changed when typing into cell, in edit mode, with redline [Armin Le Grand]
 * 79)  EDITING Writer: Input fields are not exported when odt is saved as docx [Ilhan Yesil]
 * 80)  Changing page numbering to "1st, 2nd, 3rd,..." causes crashes when trying to change Page settings later ( see comment 26 ) [Zdeněk Crhonek, Caolán McNamara]
 * 81)  Calc swaps day and month of edited dates if the format's DMY order does not match the locale's MDY order and date acceptance patterns match both. [Eike Rathke]
 * 82)  Option's AutoCaption preference should show Above as default position of table captions (again) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 83)  CRASH closing LibreOffice with the tip of the day dialog open ( gen/gtk) [Xisco Fauli]
 * 84)  No drag n drop copy possible (kde5 vclplug) [Katarina Behrens]
 * 85)  XMouseListener: No mouse events when clicking into document content [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
 * 86)  The shapes 'star24' and 'star32' imported from OOXML behave wrong when using the adjustment handle [Regina Henschel]
 * 87)  extend "css:awt:XPrinterServer" with method getDefaultPrinterName [brinzing]
 * 88)  Property "PickListEntry" should be added to css.document.MediaDescriptor Service Reference [brinzing]
 * 89)  CRASH when trying to modify a frame style in a ODT document [Caolán McNamara]
 * 90)  Loading a large autocorrect replacement table causes freezing in 6.2.x [Caolán McNamara]
 * 91)  Performance: A spreadsheet opens too slow on 64 bit OS and causes crash on 32 bit OS [Noel Grandin]
 * 92)  Applying autocorrect to text with URLs causes Writer to hang [Zdeněk Crhonek, Michael Stahl]
 * 93)  Hang when selecting Read Online Help (GTK2) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 94)  KDE5: Base 'Database Wizard' open existing database_file fails [Katarina Behrens]
 * 95)  Inserting this .mp4 file in impress leads to a CRASH [Caolán McNamara]
 * 96)  Custom properties with "_x005F_" keep growing escapements when roundtripping as OOXML formats [Eike Rathke]
 * 97)  Fileopen: EMF images in prix-immobilier-friggit.doc shrunk so not correct width [Miklos Vajna]
 * 98)  NB sd modules wrong usage of ObjectForwardOne, ObjectBackOne [andreas kainz]
 * 99)  List Format wrongly applied to text pasted [Noel Grandin]
 * 100)  FILESAVE DOCX Bookmark names and field references shortened in case they are 40 characters long and contain non ASCII characters [Adam Kovacs]
 * 101)  Autofit text function is not visible any more in mouse right click menu [andreas kainz]
 * 102)  DOCX Change tracking: deleting paragraph end mark inserts a page break [László Németh]
 * 103)  FILEOPEN DOCX Numbered paragraph loses numbering after deleted paragraph in hide changes view [László Németh]
 * 104)  Crash when changing assignments between Table indexes and Free indexes for DBase [Julien Nabet]
 * 105)  Tabbed Interface Add Photo Album in Insert Tab [rizmut, andreas kainz]
 * 106)  Text break is not supported for Bar chart vertical X axis [Balazs Varga]
 * 107)  Bar chart legend items order depends on the legends alignment [Balazs Varga]
 * 108)  Table is deleted after acceding the table [Noel Grandin]
 * 109)  PPTX export: Shape has wrong fill color comming from theme [Tamás Zolnai]
 * 110)  autocorrect replacement table default width is increased by long autocorrect entries and you can't resize it [Caolán McNamara]
 * 111)  Infobar's height is not recalculated after resized main window [Xisco Fauli]
 * 112)  PPTX: Shape fill transparency is not exported if the original shape fill is defined with a theme [Tamás Zolnai]
 * 113)  Add Karasa Jaga SVG Icons [Rizal Muttaqin]
 * 114)  Line break in tooltip doesn't work in Templates dialog (non-gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 115)  crash: on open basic editor to edit macros [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
 * 116)  FILEOPEN: LibreOffice freeze opening document [Noel Grandin]
 * 117)  Can't select fontworks [Caolán McNamara]
 * 118)  Customization dialog opens with the wrong tab (gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 119)  Fit to text checkboxes always disabled (gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 120)  LibreOffice hangs expanding the filter dropdown list (gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 121)  CRASH: if Select Address List dialog has more than 1 element (gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 122)  CRASH: closing mail merge dialog [Caolán McNamara]
 * 123)  iOS App: Template URL - Crash when Opening From Template [Tor Lillqvist]
 * 124)  Menu is black (gen) [Miklos Vajna]
 * 125)  Flicker when hovering over submenus with default rendering [Miklos Vajna]
 * 126)  CRASH: Renaming template [Mike Kaganski]
 * 127)  Dialog box disabled to choose between Firebird or hsqldb embedded when creating DB [Xisco Fauli]
 * 128)  OOXML shapes 'gear6' and 'gear9' react badly on dragging adjustment handle [Regina Henschel]
 * 129)  Tooltip displayed by Redo button changes from 'Redo' to 'Re~do' when the button is sensitive in Draw, Calc and Impress [Caolán McNamara]
 * 130)  Math does not respect system theme [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 131)  Crash vcllo!OutputDevice::RemoveTransparenciesFromMetaFile+0xa68: [Julien Nabet]
 * 132)  Crash after saving and/or closing document [Michael Stahl]
 * 133)  GTK3: close Customize dialog with X button [Caolán McNamara]
 * 134)  refactoring of autocorrect replacement handling breaks its search ability [Caolán McNamara]
 * 135)  It needs multiple backspace to remove one Japanese IVS character. [Mark Hung]
 * 136)  Helplines and snap guides no longer visible on macOS (antialising) [Xisco Fauli]
 * 137)  Mail merge: Hidden text frames are not completely removed [Serge Krot]
 * 138)  Pressing F5 after selecting a transition on sidebar doesn't start slideshow [Jim Raykowski]
 * 139)  When using kde5 vcl, tab first inserts a tab, and then the document loses focus [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 140)  The color of the menu changes when opening a change tracked DOCX document saved by MS Word (OpenGL) [Miklos Vajna]
 * 141)  Safari sandboxing on macOS 10.14 blocks opening help [Christian Lohmaier]

Translations
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