Releases/5.4.2/RC1

General for this Release Candidate: parallel installation

 * This build is in release configuration
 * the Linux and Mac packages can be installed in parallel to LibreOffice 5.3, 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 5.4 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
 * Note: LibreOffice 5.4 will be the last codeline to support Windows XP or Vista - later versions 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.

List of fixed bugs
Bugs fixed compared to 5.4.1 final (rc2)):


 * 1)  RTF import: fix HTML automatic spacing in styles [Miklos Vajna]
 * 2)  FILEOPEN: very slow on opening this slide with table [Tamás Zolnai]
 * 3)  Refactor row and column attribute storage in preparation for row limit increase [Noel Grandin]
 * 4)  Re-saving an ods document with auto-style ending at row 65536 causes hang [Noel Grandin]
 * 5)  Speed up ods document import post row limit increase [Noel Grandin]
 * 6)  Wrong type casting that would cause problem post row limit increase. [Noel Grandin]
 * 7)  Speed up pagenation performance [Noel Grandin]
 * 8)  direct-leak [Caolán McNamara]
 * 9)  GeneratePLCF only generated word6 sized missing entries [Caolán McNamara]
 * 10)  check bounds better [Caolán McNamara]
 * 11)  check bounds of special sprm [Caolán McNamara]
 * 12)  wrong starting offset for JOHAB 0x6D block [Caolán McNamara]
 * 13)  SYLK import: check ;X;Y;C;R col/row validity early [Eike Rathke]
 * 14)  Resizing properties window hides properties values [Caolán McNamara]
 * 15)  Unable to fill objects different from rectangles with bitmap patterns in the LO writer [Caolán McNamara]
 * 16)  Calc removes trailing semicolon in custom format, breaking Excel compatibility [Eike Rathke]
 * 17)  Data labels overlap in pie chart for small pies when "best fit" placement option is set. [Dennis Francis]
 * 18)  EDITING: Native tables visualization not refreshed after changes to borders [Tamás Zolnai]
 * 19)  Poor performance opening spreadsheet with a particular chart [Dennis Francis]
 * 20)  FILEOPEN: Drawing lines not imported from RTF [Miklos Vajna]
 * 21)  dash delimited dates entered are not correctly interpreted as Y-M-D in specific cases [Eike Rathke]
 * 22)  Subtotal function with function indexes 101-111 don't update when rows are hidden (hard recalculation is needed) [Eike Rathke]
 * 23)  FILEOPEN: content of header of page style not visible on loading .doc file [Luke Deller]
 * 24)  Export as PDF: Dialog-Box in Calc is too big with German UI [Adolfo Jayme Barrientos]
 * 25)  Character styles applied through the Styles menu does not function in some locales [Yousuf Philips]
 * 26)  UI - Displaced field value widget in User-Defined Document Properties [Caolán McNamara]
 * 27)  Exceptions com.sun.star.lang.NotInitializedException when opening odb file [Julien Nabet]
 * 28)  EDITING: When selecting cells for a formula, Ctrl is incorrectly behaving like Shift [Dennis Francis]
 * 29)  Function Wizard showing Breeze icons when in Sifr theme [Cassandra Freund]
 * 30)  FILESAVE: toggled "keep with next paragraph"  incorrectly set when saving as DOCX [Justin Luth]
 * 31)  SVG export adds extra arrow heads [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 32)  Support Java9 [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 33)  Template manager slow to load template previews [Julien Nabet]
 * 34)  EDITING: MIN/MAX do not propagate error from matrix in array formula [Eike Rathke]
 * 35)  FILEOPEN: PPT: .gif transparent background is imported as white (gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 36)  FILEOPEN DOCX: File appears to be empty [Justin Luth]
 * 37)  FILESAVE: RTF: Table's content is hidden behind a white frame after RT [Miklos Vajna]
 * 38)  FILEOPEN: RTF: table's columns are narrower than they should be [Miklos Vajna]
 * 39)  Create Table toolbar tool creates wrong number of columns in rtl environment [rtl, gtk3, regression] [Caolán McNamara]
 * 40)  Rendering of system font vertically cramped or cropped in dialog labels and controls in 5.3+ [Caolán McNamara]
 * 41)  FILEOPEN: RTF Auto spacing is 0.18 instead of 0.49 [Miklos Vajna]
 * 42)  CRASH when opening simple document containing shapes with OpenGL enabled [Caolán McNamara]
 * 43)  There's no download link to the SDK [Michael Stahl]
 * 44)  EDITING: Undo of formula changes doesn't show affected cells [Dennis Francis]
 * 45)  Autofilter can freeze LibreOffice [Eike Rathke]
 * 46)  CALC keeps running on exit after COPYing 3+ whole rows to clipboard with OPENGL enabled [Dennis Francis]
 * 47)  libreoffice from 5-4 branch shows a broken helpimg icon theme in options. [Andreas Brandner]
 * 48)  MAILMERGE: Assertion failed when editing address block (debug build) [Michael Stahl]
 * 49)  FILEOPEN: DOCX - Footnote paragraph and character styles opens incorrectly when styles not defined [Justin Luth]
 * 50)  Cannot enter colon or semicolon in formula bar (French version) [Eike Rathke]
 * 51)  Notes placeholder text boxes not shown in PPTs [Tamás Zolnai]
 * 52)  FILEOPEN: RTF: left margin on first paragraph's line is ignored [Miklos Vajna]
 * 53)  Original bounding box of rotated text shows as white overlay in the pdf file after exporting from Impress [Miklos Vajna]
 * 54)  Crash in: mergedlo.dll (see comment 3) [Tamás Zolnai]
 * 55)  ENCODEURL function does not correctly encode newlines [Julien Nabet]
 * 56)  Tibetan long U not correctly rendered [Stephan Bergmann, Khaled Hosny]
 * 57)  FILEOPEN: DOCX - Table cells imported with white background when it should be no fill [Szymon Kłos]
 * 58)  python: Win32: urllib on https URLs fails due to loading wrong OpenSSL libraries [Michael Stahl]
 * 59)  Crash in: rtl_uString_acquire when adding a video to a slide with zero undo steps [Tamás Zolnai]
 * 60)  Crash in: XPropertyList::Count [Tamás Zolnai]
 * 61)  Font name preview in dialog appears as black bar [Caolán McNamara]
 * 62)  Writer compatibility settings no longer persist [Vitaliy Anderson]
 * 63)  Alt+key shortcut assigned to a command that is used as a menu mnemonic opens the menu [Caolán McNamara]
 * 64)  No animations on gtk3 with two screens connected [Caolán McNamara]
 * 65)  Fullscreen: incorrect gif's background (gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 66)  FILEOPEN: Ole object not displayed (gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 67)  XHTML export does not honor numbering levels [Julien Nabet, Samuel Mehrbrodt]
 * 68)  PPTX: ActiveX checkbox control appear as picture [Tamás Zolnai]
 * 69)  Multiple memory leaks in libmacabdrv1 [Julien Nabet]
 * 70)  Crash when closing the save dialog after the main window (gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 71)  "For the current document only" checkbox is aligned to the right [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 72)  assertion in SvxSearchItem::GetRegExp const, srchitem.hxx:244 [Julien Nabet]
 * 73)  Icons rendered to infobar are mishandled on high resolution (3200x1800) [heiko tietze]
 * 74)  Progress bar not displayed when it's called from a macro (gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 75)  FORMATTING (Styles): The vertical frame alignment setting is not preserved when the document is opened [Justin Luth]
 * 76)  PaletteManager::LoadPalettes leaks memory [Julien Nabet]
 * 77)  soffice --help crashes / fails assertion / silently fails [Mike Kaganski]
 * 78)  fileopen .xpm fails [Caolán McNamara]
 * 79)  FILEOPEN: crash sigsegv when opening file with invalid style:map [Michael Stahl]
 * 80)  Toggling off Autofilter with VBA macro does not restore filtered rows [Dennis Francis]
 * 81)  LO crash on loading this document [Dennis Francis]
 * 82)  Axis labels missing on deep axis in 3D column chart [Xisco Fauli]
 * 83)  FILEOPEN: Crash with Application Error when opening file with nested draw elements [Caolán McNamara]
 * 84)  FILEOPEN: Hang on file with negative table:number-columns-repeated [Caolán McNamara]
 * 85)  SfxCommonTemplateDialog_Impl::FillTreeBox leaks memory [Julien Nabet]
 * 86)  Dialog Basic Macro Organizer→Export→Export as Extension → file selection dialog blocked [Caolán McNamara]
 * 87)  FILEOPEN: Crash with Application Error when opening file with particular office:event-listeners [Caolán McNamara]
 * 88)  FILEOPEN: Crash with Application Error when opening particular file with text:alphabetical-index-mark [Michael Stahl]
 * 89)  FILEOPEN: Crash with Application Error when opening particular file with style:data-style-name [Caolán McNamara]
 * 90)  export of editengine color highlight to pdf sometimes results in invisible text [Caolán McNamara]
 * 91)  FILEOPEN: Crash with Application Error when opening file with particular table and pagelayout [Michael Stahl]
 * 92)  FILEOPEN: Crash with Application Error when opening particular file with table and mismatched xml tag [Michael Stahl]
 * 93)  Crash in: MSWordExportBase::GetItem(unsigned short) [Tamás Zolnai]
 * 94)  NPER function not working as anticipated following example in excel (which works in google sheets) [Winfried Donkers]
 * 95)  Writer crashes reading RawFontData from corupt TTF fonts [Caolán McNamara]
 * 96)  FILEOPEN: RTF: Incorrect indent [Justin Luth]
 * 97)  CuiAboutConfigTabPage::InsertEntry leaks memory [Julien Nabet]
 * 98)  UI Autofilter on date cells: Filter result doesn't correspond to user input, user input is modified automatically [Eike Rathke]
 * 99)  There is a heap overflow in libwpd. This vulnerability can be triggered in libreoffice. [Caolán McNamara]
 * 100)  Crash when opening docx converted from pdf (Linux/MAC) [Michael Stahl]
 * 101)  Help button in presenter console makes LO crash [Caolán McNamara]

Translations
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