Releases/5.0.0/RC1

Note: Beta2 was skipped/not officially released

General for this RC: release configuration

 * the Linux and Mac packages can be installed in parallel to LibreOffice 4.4, but not run simultaneously - documents will be opened in the version you've started first.
 * the Windows package will update a previously installed version of LibreOffice

Windows

 * LibreOffice 5.0 will be made available as 64bit version in addition to the 32bit version. Installing the 64bit version requires Windows Vista or newer, the 32bit Version runs on Windows XP 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.

List of fixed bugs
Bugs fixed compared to the 5.0.0 Beta3:


 * 1)  gtk3 Logically dead code [Caolán McNamara]
 * 2)  gtk3 Unused value [Caolán McNamara]
 * 3)  dereference null return value [Caolán McNamara]
 * 4)  uninitialized scalar field [Caolán McNamara]
 * 5)  fix (fatal) perl deprecation in lo-xlate-lang [Rene Engelhard]
 * 6)  fix inc/dec font for complex selections [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 7)  fix O(n^2) algorithm in opening pathological file [Noel Grandin]
 * 8)  [part 2] support all ODFF1.2 and Excel2013 variations [Winfried Donkers, Eike Rathke]
 * 9)  styles tab addition to the sidebar for writer [Rishabh Kumar]
 * 10)  new icons insertendnote and trackchanges [Cassandra Freund]
 * 11)  crash on certain table paste+undo+page cycles [Caolán McNamara]
 * 12)  properly inherit relative and 3D flags when extending [Eike Rathke]
 * 13)  additional tweaks to standard and drawing toolbars [Yousuf Philips]
 * 14)  calc has more rows than writer tables can support [Caolán McNamara]
 * 15)  clone upper left of matrix result if double token [Eike Rathke]
 * 16)  Swap buttons and align to the right [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 17)  adapt the numbering popup to more than 8 items [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 18)  don't export transparent background colour as white [Katarina Behrens]
 * 19)  sw: make WW8 export of CITATION fields compatible with [Michael Stahl]
 * 20)  crash when dragging unsupported url to navigator pane [Caolán McNamara]
 * 21)  report builder function wizard segfaults [Caolán McNamara]
 * 22)  ambiguous naming of character background [Zolnai Tamás]
 * 23)  also copy external reference status [Mike Kaganski]
 * 24)  correct 3D reference update on sheet deletion, follow-up [Eike Rathke]
 * 25)  avoid duplicated attribute names in RID_ATTR_NAMES [Zolnai Tamás]
 * 26)  no character background (highlight) tab in paragraph styles dialog [Zolnai Tamás]
 * 27)  fix freeze when enabling media toolbar in Impress [Noel Grandin]
 * 28)  add a unit test for this [Michael Stahl]
 * 29)  remove footnote mark from TOC/List of Figures entry [Andras Timar]
 * 30)  remove footnote mark from TOC/List of Figures entry [Andras Timar]
 * 31)  remove footnote mark from cross reference [Andras Timar]
 * 32)  fix inc/dec font for complex selections [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 33)  need to check the format's IsLockModified, not the node's [Michael Stahl]
 * 34)  don't cache incomplete tabs. [Jan Holesovsky]
 * 35)  autotext (etc) not fully drawn [Caolán McNamara]
 * 36)  end listening only on selected sheets [Eike Rathke]
 * 37)  FixedText vertical orientation restored [Andras Timar]
 * 38)  restore functionality of clicking to .uno:Size status bar element [Andras Timar]
 * 39)  don't change selected menu title text color in Aero theme [László Németh]
 * 40)  fix crash during listbox control editing in database form [László Németh]
 * 41)  work around writer spelling issue [Michael Meeks]
 * 42)  fix preview of special characters [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 43)  do not adjust RPN named expressions relative references, follow-up [Eike Rathke]
 * 44)  vertical text entry missing [Caolán McNamara]
 * 45)  invalidate graphics when the gtk window is destroyed [Caolán McNamara]
 * 46)  handle LOK_MOUSEEVENT_MOUSEMOVE in SdXImpressDocument [Miklos Vajna]
 * 47)  fix inc/dec indent buttons in impress [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 48)  mixture of icon sizes [Philippe Jung]
 * 49)  presentation causes Impress crash [Noel Grandin]
 * 50)  fix Slovenian translation [Andras Timar]
 * 51)  save rectangle to DrawingML as a preset shape [Andras Timar]
 * 52)  'Handles' contains array of PropertyValues [Andras Timar]
 * 53)  work around writer spelling issue [Michael Meeks]
 * 54)  crash on mail-merge to printer [Caolán McNamara]
 * 55)  crash on closing color bar after redocking it [Caolán McNamara]