Releases/6.2.5/RC1

Windows

 * LibreOffice 6.2 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 6.2.4 (rc2):


 * 1)  libreoffice dies if I try to modify the backgound pattern of some paragraph [Caolán McNamara]
 * 2)  [abrt] libreoffice-core: (anonymous namespace)::signalHandlerFunction: soffice.bin killed by SIGABRT [Caolán McNamara]
 * 3)  crash in Draw after starting a drag [Caolán McNamara]
 * 4)  Place captions above tables by default [Caolán McNamara]
 * 5)  EDITING: Drag and Drop Slides impossible with KDE [Katarina Behrens]
 * 6)  Videos playback misplaced in Presenter Console display [Mark Hung]
 * 7)  EDITING: Drag-and-drop slide always moves slide to first position, leading to data corruption and sometimes CRASH [Katarina Behrens]
 * 8)  EDITING: with "track changes" the paragraph following a deleted paragraph changes its style [László Németh]
 * 9)  Wrong encoding in comments for file edited by Mac OS MS Word [Julien Nabet]
 * 10)  Calc freezes while filtering large data [Luboš Luňák]
 * 11)  Basic Dialog image background not set [Miklos Vajna]
 * 12)  Rendering artifacts on pressing Page Down multiple times on multi-page document [Miklos Vajna]
 * 13)  Hide whitespace mode: whitespace is hidden even on the last page [Miklos Vajna]
 * 14)  [PATCH] Proposed update for "Starting the LibreOffice Software With Parameters" help page [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 15)  Rotated text does not work with on Windows (old layout: Graphite only, new layout:all fonts) [Miklos Vajna]
 * 16)  [EDITING] Function wizard crashes LibO when evaluating addin that implement XVolatileResult [Eike Rathke]
 * 17)  Horizontal text scaling doesn't work correctly when OpenGL is enabled on Windows [Miklos Vajna]
 * 18)  right/bottom borders of export shape to png (etc) missing [Xisco Fauli]
 * 19)  Unicode ExtB+ chars do not use fallback font correctly in Writer [Mark Hung]
 * 20)  Form option buttons not reachable with tab key [Justin Luth]
 * 21)  SdrUndoMoveObj::Undo Crash When multi windows [Miklos Vajna]
 * 22)  Options for Number recognition in Writer tables deserve better default: turned on (only functioning when 'Number Recognition' is on!) [Cor Nouws]
 * 23)  EDITING - Link to external documents is not created correctly - incorrect URL formation when path contains upper case, spaces and '!', '#' or '$' characters [Eike Rathke]
 * 24)  Flicker when hovering over main menu with default rendering [Miklos Vajna]
 * 25)  Problems with rendering vertical text in charts - no anti-aliasing when OpenGL is enabled [Miklos Vajna]
 * 26)  External forms for a database doesn't save data - closing form with dataloss ( see comment 30 ) [Xisco Fauli]
 * 27)  AutoCaption preference in options dialog should show Above as default position of table captions [Caolán McNamara]
 * 28)  All labels disappear in Base Form if a selected field is not within visual display area [Miklos Vajna]
 * 29)  FILEOPEN XLSX Chart width gets compressed [Tamás Zolnai]
 * 30)  Whitespace is not Hidden in Cases with Page and Column Breaks [Miklos Vajna]
 * 31)  Embedded table position off after switching from webview to normal view & back [Michael Stahl]
 * 32)  kde5: Java extension "WollMux" not working properly [Michael Stahl]
 * 33)  FILEOPEN DOCX The paragraph formatting changes are not undone / freeze LO [Henry Castro]
 * 34)  Export to PDF opens PDF before the properties have been edited and the PDF is created [Caolán McNamara]
 * 35)  LibreOffice Base -> can't insert special character in a form [Caolán McNamara]
 * 36)  kde5: Rearranging Impress slides via drag'n'drop not always working as expected [Katarina Behrens]
 * 37)  KDE5: LO Calc slow at 'Select all' [Luboš Luňák]
 * 38)  MacOS: table borders aren't black but grayish ( zoom level < 150% ) [Xisco Fauli]
 * 39)  kde5: Impress crashes when at presentation end when Orca is enabled [Katarina Behrens]
 * 40)  The data source connected by "exchange database" is disconnected after the file is closed. [Szymon Kłos]
 * 41)  kde5: Crash when navigating tree in accerciser (Accessibility Explorer) [Michael Weghorn]
 * 42)  EDITING Table - Index Design: Index isn't sortable any more [Julien Nabet]
 * 43)  LibO 6.2.x KDE5 VCL regression: lines not appearing in presentation [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 44)  Legend interferes with pie chart after pptx import [Tamás Zolnai]
 * 45)  Writer html image widths messed up when in percentages when opening file [Miklos Vajna]
 * 46)  KDE5: on wayland the gnome UI is selected [Michael Weghorn]
 * 47)  FILESAVE PPTX Shape changes its color back to default [Miklos Vajna]
 * 48)  EDITING DOCX Paragraph move with track changes leaves empty paragraph [László Németh]
 * 49)  the "close document" button is missing to return to welcome start window [Michael Weghorn, Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 50)  kde5: Writer crashes when text selected on close (Wayland only) [Michael Weghorn]
 * 51)  KDE5/ Plasma: LO Filedialog isn't showing removable devices [Michael Weghorn]
 * 52)  Can't step with keyboard to/between favorite special characters on group button [Jim Raykowski]
 * 53)  KDE5: a text caret does not move inside a preedit area [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 54)  KDE5: Selected text in preedit area is not shown [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 55)  LO Impress: Unnecessary grey rectangle on the screen while demonstration (slide with video) [Mark Hung, Katarina Behrens]
 * 56)  Function wizard structure tab shows inconsistent intermediate results [Katarina Behrens]
 * 57)  Old "Enter pastes clipboard" can still be executed after inserting current date or time. [Eike Rathke]
 * 58)  FILEOPEN DOCX Chart is missing from a document with charts and grouped texboxes [Miklos Vajna]
 * 59)  cannot disable wrap text [Caolán McNamara]
 * 60)  Impress crashes on slide show using "All displays" [Katarina Behrens]
 * 61)  FILESAVE: Pasted row height is reset by after saving and reopen [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 62)  FILEOPEN DOCX Additional top and bottom margin on shape breaks layout [Miklos Vajna]
 * 63)  Video passing slide boundaries causes weird zoom in or shift (gtk2/gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 64)  FILEOPEN DOCX Hyperlink in text box does not get blue color [Serge Krot]
 * 65)  Help->About LibreOffice dialog does not specify whether 32 or 64 bit is installed [Takeshi Abe]
 * 66)  crash when trying to open a .doc file [Mark Hung]
 * 67)  Export as PNG with transparency changes shape of objects radically [Xisco Fauli]
 * 68)  Rounding of durations displayed as wall clock time. [Eike Rathke]
 * 69)  Changing page numbering to "1st, 2nd, 3rd,..." causes crashes when trying to change Page settings later ( see comment 26 ) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 70)  Calc Cell Protection - unable to change protection state of a mixed group of cells [Caolán McNamara]
 * 71)  Calc swaps day and month of edited dates if the format's DMY order does not match the locale's MDY order and date acceptance patterns match both. [Eike Rathke]
 * 72)  Option's AutoCaption preference should show Above as default position of table captions (again) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 73)  Format -> Columns dialog doesn't appear in Online [Caolán McNamara]
 * 74)  CRASH when trying to modify a frame style in a ODT document [Caolán McNamara]
 * 75)  Loading a large autocorrect replacement table causes freezing in 6.2.x [Caolán McNamara]
 * 76)  Hang when selecting Read Online Help (GTK2) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 77)  KDE5: Base 'Database Wizard' open existing database_file fails [Katarina Behrens]
 * 78)  Inserting this .mp4 file in impress leads to a CRASH [Caolán McNamara]
 * 79)  Custom properties with "_x005F_" keep growing escapements when roundtripping as OOXML formats [Eike Rathke]
 * 80)  Fileopen: EMF images in prix-immobilier-friggit.doc shrunk so not correct width [Miklos Vajna]
 * 81)  NB sd modules wrong usage of ObjectForwardOne, ObjectBackOne [andreas kainz]
 * 82)  DOCX Change tracking: deleting paragraph end mark inserts a page break [László Németh]
 * 83)  FILESAVE: DOCX: floating table changes position after RT [Patrick Jaap]
 * 84)  PPTX export: Shape has wrong fill color comming from theme [Tamás Zolnai]
 * 85)  autocorrect replacement table default width is increased by long autocorrect entries and you can't resize it [Caolán McNamara]
 * 86)  PPTX: Shape fill transparency is not exported if the original shape fill is defined with a theme [Tamás Zolnai]
 * 87)  Calculation in table destroys left alignment [Cor Nouws]
 * 88)  Index don't appear in management dialog for odb linked to dBase file (in Windows and in Linux with all renderings except gtk3) [Julien Nabet]
 * 89)  Fit to text checkboxes always disabled (gtk3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 90)  Menu is black (gen) [Miklos Vajna]
 * 91)  Flicker when hovering over submenus with default rendering [Miklos Vajna]
 * 92)  Tooltip displayed by Redo button changes from 'Redo' to 'Re~do' when the button is sensitive in Draw, Calc and Impress [Caolán McNamara]
 * 93)  Helplines and snap guides no longer visible on macOS (antialising) [Xisco Fauli]
 * 94)  When using kde5 vcl, tab first inserts a tab, and then the document loses focus [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 95)  The color of the menu changes when opening a change tracked DOCX document saved by MS Word (OpenGL) [Miklos Vajna]
 * 96)  FILEOPEN: URL fragment leaked from one object to another when importing Powerpoint ppt file [Noel Grandin]
 * 97)  Empty recent characters in special characters dialog for bullet customization. [Tamás Zolnai]
 * 98)  Safari sandboxing on macOS 10.14 blocks opening help [Christian Lohmaier]
 * 99)  FILEOPEN: DOC: performance regression opening a file with EMF images [Miklos Vajna]
 * 100)  radiobutton receives item status changed event after listbox value selection [Justin Luth]
 * 101)  CRASH working with file with lots of hints [Mike Kaganski]
 * 102)  KDE5: Calc sheet tab's context menu has unexpected highlighting [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 103)  crash in layout after paste on particular document [Michael Stahl]
 * 104)  kde5: Impress crashes when closing after using presentation minimizer [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 105)  Assert when opening paragraph dialog (gtk3 only) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 106)  A pivot table cannot be created from a registered data source [Caolán McNamara]
 * 107)  Crash on insertion of video [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 108)  Crash when trying to customize Base Data View toolbar [Muhammet Kara]
 * 109)  UI: in the dlg Insert Hyperlink it is impossible to select the target (Internet/Mail/Document..) by keyboard [Caolán McNamara]
 * 110)  Dates imported incorrectly from dbf file [Eike Rathke]

Translations
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