Releases/4.2.0/RC1

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 OpenOffice.org, please report this as a bug.
 * LibreOffice windows installers are signed by The Document Foundation.
 * macOS:
 * LibreOffice 4.2.0 RC1 is available as a 64bit version for macOS 10.8 or later

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.

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 4.2.0 Beta2:


 * 1)  out-of-Bounds read/write [Julien Nabet]
 * 2)  out-of-Bounds read/write [Julien Nabet]
 * 3)  out-of-Bounds read/write [Julien Nabet]
 * 4)  DOCX/RTF import: avoid fake tab char in footnotes [Miklos Vajna]
 * 5)  assign top cell to the formula group if it's still NULL. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 6)  add support for image transformation in SVG Import [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
 * 7)  force intercept only for linear/poly trendlines [Laurent Balland-Poirier]
 * 8)  improve text for moving average trendline [Laurent Balland-Poirier]
 * 9)  remove SpinButton in UI for extrapolate trendline [Laurent Balland-Poirier]
 * 10)  .dic and .aff name must be the same [Andras Timar]
 * 11)  don't discard valid printing options. [Andrzej Hunt]
 * 12)  revert "Always disable anti-aliasing for drawing cell borders." [Noel Power]
 * 13)  SmParser::NextToken: don't crash on ending dot [Miklos Vajna]
 * 14)  checkout failed due to bad import of properties in libcmis [Cédric Bosdonnat]
 * 15)  handle invalid xml files in orcus, [Markus Mohrhard]
 * 16)  fixed the update to working copy and back after (cancel) checkout: [Cédric Bosdonnat]
 * 17)  calculate formula cell once if AutoCalc disabled [Eike Rathke]
 * 18)  reset group dimension data from all referencing pivot objects. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 19)  define an assignment operator to prevent double deletion. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 20)  run Display::Yield through KDEXLib::Yield. [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 21)  CRITBINOM "greater than or equal" [Eike Rathke]
 * 22)  add back check for missing libgetuid.so. [Matúš Kukan]
 * 23)  get rid of $(share_subdir_name) again [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 24)  sw: fix crash on Insert->File with Hybrid PDF [Michael Stahl]
 * 25)  check for state_.top.locked [Andras Timar]
 * 26)  offapi: tweak multi-paragraph parameter comment [Michael Stahl]
 * 27)  correctly handle the old constraint syntax. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 28)  and follow-up fix [Eike Rathke]
 * 29)  handle duplicate field names correctly. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 30)  don't reset Document's modified flag when inserting new table. [Andrzej J.R. Hunt]
 * 31)  sw: don't truncate Time values on 32bit platforms [Michael Stahl]
 * 32)  editeng: fix Time fields in Impress [Michael Stahl]
 * 33)  change wording from "Output Range" to "Results to". [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 34)  options->appearence isn't all the same color [Caolán McNamara]
 * 35)  and follow-up fix [Eike Rathke]
 * 36)  sw: fix small capitals rendering [Michael Stahl]
 * 37)  fix also for hicontrast and sifr themes [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 38)  sw: un-break index updates [Michael Stahl]
 * 39)  sw: fix crash when pasting table in footnote [Michael Stahl]
 * 40)  internal links busted [Caolán McNamara]
 * 41)  fix comparison of indexOf values after string conversion. [Matúš Kukan]
 * 42)  expert config dialog takes too much time to come up [Noel Grandin, Jan Holesovsky]
 * 43)  allocate enough points in MovingAverageRegression calc. [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 44)  GraphicObject: Added missing delete of stream [Ulrich Kitzinger]
 * 45)  revert "convert_add from "at" or "atm" to "Pa" gives same answer" [Eike Rathke]
 * 46)  re-orient dialog vertically [Caolán McNamara]
 * 47)  boolean_test is subsumed by general case "foo IS [NOT] bar" [Lionel Elie Mamane]
 * 48)  and follow-up fix [Eike Rathke]
 * 49)  wrong title for Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) dialog [Julien Nabet]
 * 50)  made case insensitive matrix string query work again [Eike Rathke]
 * 51)  fix equalsAscii conversion. Noticed in [Noel Grandin, Lionel Elie Mamane]
 * 52)  get rid of $(share_subdir_name) again [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 53)  add m4v to allowed movie exts [David Tardon]
 * 54)  fix O(n^2) in inserting SearchResults' items. [Matúš Kukan]
 * 55)  correct UTF8 handling for FILTERXML, [Markus Mohrhard]
 * 56)  installer: Make filelists work again. [Matúš Kukan]
 * 57)  broken text when showing visible space [Khaled Hosny]
 * 58)  update German dictionary to 2013.12.06 [Andras Timar]
 * 59)  write  [Eike Rathke]
 * 60)  be able to read the correct 'sort-ascending' value, [Eike Rathke]
 * 61)  revert "DOCX: better solution for exchange alignment for RTL" [Faisal M. Al-Otaibi]
 * 62)  register Java Access Bridge component [Michael Stahl]
 * 63)  get thumbnails only from the local documents. [Jan Holesovsky]
 * 64)  accept future  [Eike Rathke]
 * 65)  fix Hungarian grammar checking (don't freeze Python) [László Németh]
 * 66)  Allow for in-place editing of input field (turn off pop-up) [Oliver-Rainer Wittmann]
 * 67)  [abrt][a11y] libreoffice-core-3.6.3.2-8.fc18: SwAccessibleFrame::IsOpaque killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV) [Caolán McNamara]