Releases/6.1.0/Beta2

General for this Beta: parallel installation

 * This Beta release will install in parallel to your existing LibreOffice installation.

Windows

 * LibreOffice 6.1 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, 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 6.1.0 Beta1


 * 1)  uninitialized scalar field [Caolán McNamara]
 * 2)  uninitialized scalar field [Caolán McNamara]
 * 3)  uninitialized scalar field [Caolán McNamara]
 * 4)  unintended sign extension [Caolán McNamara]
 * 5)  silence Dereference null return value [Caolán McNamara]
 * 6)  DEADCODE [Michael Stahl]
 * 7)  dereference after null check [Caolán McNamara]
 * 8)  Calc charts in .xls cause Excel to crash [Luboš Luňák]
 * 9)  protect one-time creation in ScGlobal::Get(Case)Collator by a mutex [Luboš Luňák]
 * 10)  blacklist ocDBSum for calc's threading [Luboš Luňák]
 * 11)  blacklist ocExternal for calc's threaded calculations [Luboš Luňák]
 * 12)  Impress not showing text background in presentation mode [Caolán McNamara]
 * 13)  Date format problem using the Dutch (NL) localization [Eike Rathke]
 * 14)  Unable to change name of a custom style [Mike Kaganski]
 * 15)  VIEWING: Scrolling performance slow in files with lots of chart objects [Caolán McNamara]
 * 16)  Reset Button in Options Dialogues does not Work with all Options [Olivier Hallot]
 * 17)  Opening document by double-click waits a long time [Tor Lillqvist]
 * 18)  [a11y] merging cells crashes writer [Caolán McNamara]
 * 19)  text background color not displayed in slide show [Caolán McNamara]
 * 20)  WIKIHELP: Code role paragraphs appear with the same background color as tables [Adolfo Jayme Barrientos]
 * 21)  Rounding display error for 15 digits integers [Eike Rathke]
 * 22)  NAVIGATOR: Unable to drag header in 'Content View', if first was tried to drag a header with all Categories visible. [Jim Raykowski]
 * 23)  FileOpen: Opening documents via LibreOffice (from other applications) [Noel Grandin]
 * 24)  VIEWING: Text boundaries broken when text is entered (GTK2) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 25)  F11 shortcut should put focus to control sidebar content panel of Styles and Formatting deck (or back in document on closing the panel) [Jim Raykowski]
 * 26)  Blue selection indicator for characters and words does not show when text is rotated 90° [Noel Grandin]
 * 27)  JPEG image (CMYK?) damaged in the exported PDF [Miklos Vajna]
 * 28)  FILESAVE: PDF: Only first page's background is exported [Miklos Vajna]
 * 29)  Crash when working with form [Eike Rathke]
 * 30)  Auto Optimal View gives jarring experience [Justin Luth]
 * 31)  Edit form, use 'replace with' to change the type of control - nothing happens [Julien Nabet]
 * 32)  README and Download page System requirements are wrong for OSX - states 10.8 supported, but requires minimum 10.9 [Xisco Fauli]
 * 33)  Pivot table: popupbuttons are placed on wrong cells imported from XLS [Caolán McNamara]
 * 34)  FILESAVE PDF: wrong position of a JPEG image on exported notes page [Miklos Vajna]
 * 35)  Importing HTML creates questionable named ranges [Justin Luth]
 * 36)  EDITING: CRASH (Reason=EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION_READ) when paste special contents from particular source.ods as GDI metafile [Dennis Francis]
 * 37)  Add a number formatting option (for using in Format BASIC function, and in Calc number format) to spell number, like in NUMBERTEXT extension [László Németh, Eike Rathke, Mike Kaganski]
 * 38)  Shortcut and behaviour of fullscreen mode on Mac [Tor Lillqvist]
 * 39)  [Writer UI] Set page variable dialog (Insert-Fileds) is sorted alphabetically [Caolán McNamara]
 * 40)  Wrong font metrics with Font "DIN Light" [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
 * 41)  Pivot table shortcuts for moving the current field into the "Row" area [Caolán McNamara]
 * 42)  [HELP] Incorrect description of the COUNTIFS function [Olivier Hallot]
 * 43)  Special Character dialog: on resize with a selection from recent or favorite character list, the fields for Unicode Name, "Hexadecimal: U+" value, and the "Decimal:" value pick up incorrect string from the selection on chart (comment 16) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 44)  Icon themes missing on LibreOffice Vanilla from macOS appstore [heiko tietze, Heiko Tietze]
 * 45)  Table of Illustration doesn't take figures [Nickson Thanda]
 * 46)  Image context menu Save fails to do anything [Marco Cecchetti]
 * 47)  can't sort columns past blank row [Eike Rathke]
 * 48)  UI: Settings in PDF Options not remembered for next export [Matteo Casalin]
 * 49)  Firebird: Migration: LibO hangs with data type Binary[VARBINARY] OR Binary(fix)[BINARY] AND data in hsql column exceeds new column size ( 8000 bytes ) [Julien Nabet]
 * 50)  no images in buttons in Database pane in main database window [Rizal Muttaqin]
 * 51)  FILESAVE: DOC: Incorrect page break added after RT [Miklos Vajna]
 * 52)  FILEOPEN: Hang opening a excel file (Windows and all backend except GTK3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 53)  Crash in: libstdc++.so.6.0.22 on merge cells in writer with TDF .debs on Debian 9 [Caolán McNamara]
 * 54)  Defaulting to Elementary for gtk isnt a good idea [heiko tietze]
 * 55)  Crash after closing Media Player after opening and applying file (kde4 and gen) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 56)  [OLH] Closing installed help with + crashes LO [Caolán McNamara]
 * 57)  error displaying some integer values if number of decimals is forced to more than 15 [Eike Rathke]
 * 58)  Editing: Forms: Replace control menu selection image button places wrong control type on form (combo box) [Julien Nabet]
 * 59)  Crash in: ScInputHandler::EnterHandler(ScEnterMode) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 60)  FILEOPEN Image in header in DOCX is shifted downwards [Miklos Vajna]
 * 61)  Quitting LibreOffice on macOS while About dialog is open causes process to get stuck consuming CPU [Tor Lillqvist]
 * 62)  [GTK3] Crash in welded "Tab color" dialog. [Caolán McNamara]
 * 63)  crash on save user profile [Caolán McNamara]
 * 64)  Fails to cut copy or paste chart elements from the content menu [Caolán McNamara]
 * 65)  LibreOffice hangs if "Select Firefox Theme" dialog is dismissed before theme previews are completely loaded. [Miklos Vajna]
 * 66)  LO61b1: On macOS in Impress slide show does not run full screen [Tor Lillqvist]
 * 67)  Formula truncated falsely if the first/middle argument of the function(with two or more significant args) contains a non-constants parameter within array of constants [Eike Rathke]
 * 68)  Tables in 6.2 Rendered Incorrectly [Mark Hung]
 * 69)  FILEOPEN: LibreOffice Incorrectly Calculating Page Size in .doc [Luke Deller]
 * 70)  Bullet Tooltips Describe Wrong Symbol [Julien Nabet]
 * 71)  [LOCALHELP] Help pages for MAXIFS and MINIFS [Olivier Hallot]
 * 72)  Undo doesn't work with 'resize shape to fit text' [Caolán McNamara]
 * 73)  'Break'ing loaded SVG example creates obstacles in form of missing parts in gradients [Armin Le Grand]
 * 74)  Light Magenta and Dark Magenta don't have Key ID in standard color palette . [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 75)  [GTK3] Editing: Calc cannot select video file [Caolán McNamara]
 * 76)  Crash when cutting an 3d object in Draw [Armin Le Grand]
 * 77)  [GTK3] Preview doesn't get updated when changing the values in Chapter Numbering [Caolán McNamara]
 * 78)  FILEOPEN: Hidden text is displayed at import time [Miklos Vajna]
 * 79)  LibreOffice crashes after clicking "Target in document" button in the Hyperlink dialog [Julien Nabet]
 * 80)  Impress crashes when the New Slide toolbar command is used [Caolán McNamara]
 * 81)  LibreOffice 6.0.4.2 fails to build with GLM 0.9.9.0: GLM_GTX_bit is an experimental extension [Louis Sautier]
 * 82)  Sidebar: mouse wheel should work with the shapes desk [heiko tietze]
 * 83)  Parameter index out of range (1 > number of parameters, which is 0). [Julien Nabet]
 * 84)  MAILMERGE: Conditionally hidden section leads to anchoring to wrong page [Michael Weghorn]
 * 85)  Help page doesn't open from Signature Line dialog [Gabor Kelemen]

Translations
This build contains these translation updates:. See credits for each language.