Releases/5.3.7/RC1

General for this RC: release configuration

 * the Linux and Mac packages can be installed in parallel to LibreOffice 5.2, 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 5.3 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.

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 5.3.6 final (rc1):


 * 1)  unknown Read [Caolán McNamara]
 * 2)  GeneratePLCF only generated word6 sized missing entries [Caolán McNamara]
 * 3)  check bounds better [Caolán McNamara]
 * 4)  check bounds of special sprm [Caolán McNamara]
 * 5)  wrong starting offset for JOHAB 0x6D block [Caolán McNamara]
 * 6)  sw: DeleteAndJoin found yet another way to delete new redline [Michael Stahl]
 * 7)  SYLK import: check ;X;Y;C;R col/row validity early [Eike Rathke]
 * 8)  SYLK import: check ;X;Y;C;R col/row validity early [Caolán McNamara]
 * 9)  unknown Read [Caolán McNamara]
 * 10)  invalid read of size 8 [Caolán McNamara]
 * 11)  invalid read of size 8 [Caolán McNamara]
 * 12)  Data labels overlap in pie chart for small pies when "best fit" placement option is set. [Dennis Francis]
 * 13)  TOOLBAR: 'Column' and 'Row' group buttons [Yousuf Philips]
 * 14)  Support Java9 [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 15)  FILEOPEN: xlsx file: imported DateTime cells are empty with certain non-en_US locales (Excel 2010 compatible) [Eike Rathke]
 * 16)  EDITING: MIN/MAX do not propagate error from matrix in array formula [Eike Rathke]
 * 17)  typing after hitting 'Insert' key crashes LO with assertion failed (dbg build) [Pranav Kant]
 * 18)  Create Table toolbar tool creates wrong number of columns in rtl environment [rtl, gtk3, regression] [Caolán McNamara]
 * 19)  Rendering of system font vertically cramped or cropped in dialog labels and controls in 5.3+ [Caolán McNamara]
 * 20)  python: Win32: urllib on https URLs fails due to loading wrong OpenSSL libraries [Michael Stahl]
 * 21)  Crash in: rtl_uString_acquire when adding a video to a slide with zero undo steps [Tamás Zolnai]
 * 22)  FILEOPEN Calc crashes when opening XLSX with chart. [Marco Cecchetti]
 * 23)  FORMATTING (Styles): The vertical frame alignment setting is not preserved when the document is opened [Justin Luth]
 * 24)  FILEOPEN: crash sigsegv when opening file with invalid style:map [Michael Stahl]
 * 25)  LO crash on loading this document [Dennis Francis]
 * 26)  ODF: wrong place for draw:notify-on-update-of-ranges, is in loext:p, should be in draw:object [Michael Stahl]
 * 27)  FILEOPEN: Crash with Application Error when opening file with nested draw elements [Caolán McNamara]
 * 28)  FILEOPEN: Hang on file with negative table:number-columns-repeated [Caolán McNamara]
 * 29)  FILEOPEN: Crash with Application Error when opening file with particular office:event-listeners [Caolán McNamara]
 * 30)  FILEOPEN: Crash with Application Error when opening particular file with text:alphabetical-index-mark [Michael Stahl]
 * 31)  FILEOPEN: Crash with Application Error when opening particular file with style:data-style-name [Caolán McNamara]
 * 32)  FILEOPEN: Crash with Application Error when opening file with particular table and pagelayout [Michael Stahl]
 * 33)  FILEOPEN: Crash with Application Error when opening particular file with table and mismatched xml tag [Michael Stahl]
 * 34)  Crash in: MSWordExportBase::GetItem(unsigned short) [Tamás Zolnai]
 * 35)  Writer crashes reading RawFontData from corupt TTF fonts [Caolán McNamara]
 * 36)  There is a heap overflow in libwpd. This vulnerability can be triggered in libreoffice. [Caolán McNamara]
 * 37)  Crash when opening docx converted from pdf (Linux/MAC) [Michael Stahl]
 * 38)  (Regressions-from-more-DWrite) [META] Bugs caused/worsened by more use of DirectWrite [Xisco Fauli]
 * 39)  Calc function names in the Polish language version. [Eike Rathke]
 * 40)  Shape's gray background is lost after saving to PPTX [Tamás Zolnai]
 * 41)  Image style editing crashes LO [Michael Stahl]
 * 42)  Fixed line spacing is saved incorrectly to PPTX [Tamás Zolnai]
 * 43)  Copied FORMTEXT field in DOC is corrupted when file is saved and reopened [Michael Stahl]
 * 44)  Incompatibility in 5.3.1.2 for spreadsheet created with 5.1 (wrong data type) [Eike Rathke]

Translations
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