Releases/7.2.5/RC1

Windows

 * LibreOffice 7.2 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. On the other hand, the list of annoying bugs fixed 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 7.2.3 RC2


 * 1)  rewind also on last resort #REF! IsReference [Eike Rathke]
 * 2)  negative-size-param [Caolán McNamara]
 * 3)  make sure BackgroundColoredObjects doesn't contain dead objects [Caolán McNamara]
 * 4)  FILESAVE: DOCX - w:sdtContent not exported correctly resulting in missing line breaks [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 5)  Setting the column width and height should not round the values causing compounding errors [Heiko Tietze]
 * 6)  Lower-case ß is capitalized as SS instead of ẞ [Eike Rathke]
 * 7)  MSO line chart color is off [Miklos Vajna]
 * 8)  Auto playing slideshow will stop after a 10-20min only in 32bit Linux [Urja Rannikko]
 * 9)  Hidden Columns but keep reappearing! Unlike Rows which will stay hidden (steps: comment 19) [Justin Luth]
 * 10)  Drag-copy of formulas referencing labels gives wrong result in rows (copying vertically); works in columns (copying horizontally) [Eike Rathke]
 * 11)  Wrong Page Direction in Print UI [Justin Luth]
 * 12)  There is no Split item in combined shape's context menu in Draw [Justin Luth]
 * 13)  EDITING: Some align options are disabled in textboxes [Justin Luth]
 * 14)  UI: Tab of visible sheet looks the same as other selected tabs [Justin Luth]
 * 15)  Chapter numbering not updated when heading added in between (until heading applied again or reload ) [Bjoern Michaelsen]
 * 16)  Undo/redo not supported for animations [Katarina Behrens]
 * 17)  FILESAVE: DOCX with SmartArt roundtripped in Writer fails to open in Word [Justin Luth]
 * 18)  Scaling problem on chart driven by a macro. [Andras Timar]
 * 19)  Crash swlo!SwTextFrame::HasFootnote+0xc0d: at undo [Michael Stahl]
 * 20)  FILEOPEN: images appear blurred in edit mode (but not presentation mode) (7.0 regression) [Luboš Luňák]
 * 21)  FILEOPEN PPTX: text shown black on black (instead of black on white) [Justin Luth]
 * 22)  Gallery: "Detailed View" icons display is cluttered (GTK3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 23)  Translated Calc styles lose hirearchical structure [Kevin Suo]
 * 24)  Option "Search criteria = and <> must apply to whole cells" doesn't affect to calculation as must. [Luboš Luňák]
 * 25)  Tools > Autocorrect > Apply with "Capitalize first letter in every sentence" [M] does not work on first sentence of a document following an initial empty paragraph [Justin Luth]
 * 26)  LO will many times the master password for open or save action an a remote server (webdav) [Michael Stahl]
 * 27)  Effects: Glow Radius and Soft Edge Radius should be independent of one another (rather than linked) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 28)  "Font effects" screenshot has to be updated so that it does not show "blinking" control [Olivier Hallot]
 * 29)  FILEOPEN PPTX: extra image and text label "insert image" appears (even in presentation mode) [gulsahkose]
 * 30)  Opening Chinese PDF files generated by XeLaTeX loses Chinese characters [Michael Warner]
 * 31)  VIEWING: Embedded newline does not display correctly when set via SetDataArray [Andreas Heinisch]
 * 32)  AUTO CORRECT: Undo adds exception of two initial capitals to exception list [Caolán McNamara]
 * 33)  Standard filters involving "greater than" or "smaller than" (>, <, >=, <=) fail and hide everything [Justin Luth]
 * 34)  Searching for German sharp s / eszett (ß,ẞ) provides wrong results [Eike Rathke]
 * 35)  "Missing hyphenation data" is displayed in info bar in Japanese documents [Jun Nogata]
 * 36)  Writer: Comment oversized and text missing when printed in margin in Linux [Caolán McNamara]
 * 37)  The size of comment box isn't restored at undo (so plenty of space, but showing scrollbar) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 38)  LibreOffice 7.2 introduced addition popup for read only file that shouldn't be showing [Matt K]
 * 39)  Editing: page breaks is not visible without gridlines [Dennis Francis]
 * 40)  Crash when FILESAVE a calc file after delete some columns [Julien Nabet]
 * 41)  Unlike VBA, the 'Key' string parameter of the 'Add' method of the 'Collection' object, although case insensitive, is only for ANSII characters. [Andreas Heinisch]
 * 42)  Row height in Calc was 0,45 cm now it's 0,4516. Set rowheight to 10 it will be 9,9995 cm (since 7.2) [Heiko Tietze]
 * 43)  Calc: Characters rotated when printed in Asian layout mode of vertical writing [Mark Hung]
 * 44)  UI Autofilter dropdown does not indicate that color filtering options are submenus [Caolán McNamara]
 * 45)  DOCX Customized numbering format lost on save and re-open [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 46)  Oracle Java JDK 17 recognition confusion on macOS [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 47)  Calc disables header/footer or loses footer content when saves a spreadsheet ( part 2 ) [Attila Bakos (NISZ)]
 * 48)  Crash when inserting hidden field over input field [Michael Stahl]
 * 49)  Setting the "PerformFileCheckExt" setting via the Windows Registry does not work correctly: Final is not applied [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 50)  FILESAVE PPTX: extra bullet added to text [Attila Bakos (NISZ)]
 * 51)  One click and three presses of TABs crashes Writer [Jim Raykowski]
 * 52)  The logic of Cross Reference representing Paragraph Numbering is different between MSOffice and LibreOffice [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 53)  Comments cut-off in writer [Caolán McNamara]
 * 54)  Writer: All characters rotate when printing a vertical writing page [Mark Hung]
 * 55)  bogus lang-tag in status bar language selector [Eike Rathke]
 * 56)  Crash when click "File > Open" if previously a Draw document is opened via Writer and closed [Caolán McNamara]
 * 57)  Query → Edit in SQL-View treats file as changed when no changes have occurred [Caolán McNamara]
 * 58)  Dragging & dropping outline in navigator is off by one [Caolán McNamara]
 * 59)  The numbering of numbered list doesn't show when changing bulleted for numbered list [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 60)  Crash swlo!IDocumentMarkAccess::IsLegalPaMForCrossRefHeadingBookmark+0x2681 at overwriting certain area [Michael Stahl]
 * 61)  CALC Update references when sorting on an autofiltered range of cells evaluates incorrectly [Eike Rathke]
 * 62)  Not possible to turn light off in '3D View' dialog of a 3D chart [Caolán McNamara]
 * 63)  Error 1324: The Folder Path Contains an Invalid Character (Adobe Japan1/H) [Mike Kaganski]
 * 64)  Crash in: libgobject-2.0.so.0 Gtk-CRITICAL when attempting to change color palette (UI, Sidebar) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 65)  Different heights of sidebar content panel title elements [Heiko Tietze]
 * 66)  STYLES: Fill format mode broken in Windows [Caolán McNamara]
 * 67)  at insert a rotated image, yes and no are reversed [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 68)  UI Secure connection box reset incorrectly when opening&closing Edit Services dialog [Caolán McNamara]
 * 69)  UI Canceling Delete from WebDAV server makes files disappear from Remote files dialog [Caolán McNamara]
 * 70)  Printing with printer preselected no longer works (BASIC macro) [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
 * 71)  Crash mergedlo!SdrUndoObj::ImpShowPageOfThisObject+33 (SwpHints::Check(bool) ndhints.cxx:359) [Michael Stahl]
 * 72)  Context menu in Math text window doesn't stay if not enough space below cursor [Caolán McNamara]
 * 73)  Scrollbar in Comment box appearing over text while typing [Caolán McNamara]
 * 74)  BASE: Base Table Control subform blank field when focus [Caolán McNamara]
 * 75)  Calc is slow to change cell focus in a document with a big background image [Noel Grandin]
 * 76)  Delete empty comment crash - Crash in: `anonymous namespace'::collectUIInformation [Caolán McNamara]
 * 77)  Developer Tools crashes LO when inspecting object in special file [Julien Nabet]

Translations
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