Releases/7.1.7/RC1

Windows

 * LibreOffice 7.1 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 7.1.6 RC2


 * 1)  month has to be in range [1-12] [Caolán McNamara]
 * 2)  short timestamp record [Caolán McNamara]
 * 3)  EDITING: Overwriting selected text doesn't always maintain formatting [Justin Luth]
 * 4)  cell background colour ignored on all but the top grids of a vertically merged cell. [Justin Luth]
 * 5)  Emoji toolbar button (bug 100100 emoji.json implementation) not functional on Windows [Julien Nabet]
 * 6)  Firebird: Link is formed to an external file with file:///C: (three slash) [Mike Kaganski]
 * 7)  Date acceptance pattern can interfere with entering decimal numbers [Eike Rathke]
 * 8)  EDITING: LIST function in query creates additional characters in Windows10 [Mike Kaganski]
 * 9)  Changing Paragraph format, editing Text and changing back leaves edited text's format unchanged [Justin Luth]
 * 10)  Graphing, axes limits for small numbers (GTK3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 11)  Selection sticks and doesn't disappear [Justin Luth]
 * 12)  Paragraph panel alignment buttons should not be toggle buttons [Caolán McNamara]
 * 13)  EDITING Crash when deleting rows that are referenced by a chart [Luboš Luňák]
 * 14)  Base crashes as soon as I start an 'Abfrage' (Windows) [Julien Nabet]
 * 15)  Direct input through copy and paste to table is lost [Caolán McNamara]
 * 16)  Using mouse click in a base to launch a macro from a cell in a table control does not work [Caolán McNamara]
 * 17)  Toolbars-Mail Merge->Exclude recipient is every times grey and without function [Caolán McNamara]
 * 18)  Screen sometimes doesn't repaint (vcl:qt backend) [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 19)  FILEOPEN PPTX: shadow effect for tables partly incorrect [Miklos Vajna]
 * 20)  LO crashes when trying to print a form [Caolán McNamara]
 * 21)  "Email merged document" dialog has overlapping elements [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 22)  Crash when triggering twice "Protected cells can not be modified" (reproducible) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 23)  Date Acceptance Pattern input field garbled [Eike Rathke]
 * 24)  CRASH When reloading mail merge documents [Caolán McNamara]
 * 25)  Crash in: SkRect::round [Luboš Luňák]

Translations
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