Releases/3.5.6/RC1

Installation

 * General for this release candidate: parallel installation
 * LibreOffice release candidate builds always replace an old LibreOffice installation - unless:
 * With this release candidate, you have to use the 'parallel installation' to install it alongside the stable LibreOffice, and not replace it. Please see here.


 * Linux deb and rpm:
 * please, read detailed instructions for different distributions
 * the Linux packages can be installed in parallel to LibreOffice 3.4, 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.
 * Starting with 3.5.3, LibreOffice windows installers are signed by The Document Foundation.

Help files

 * The Windows multi-language installer as well as the langpacks do only contain localized UI. By default, LibreOffice uses online help - if you need help files on your disk, please install the helppack for your language. If there is no helppack for your language (because help has not been translated to your language), then you can install and use the English helppack or check the online help in any available language.

Encryption
In LibreOffice 3.5 a different encryption is introduced. LibreOffice 3.4.5 enables you to open those files. See the release notes page.

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 3.5.5

core

 * 1)  rtftok: don't ignore character properties of text fields [Miklos Vajna]
 * 2)  Bad transitions if "use hardware acceleration" is enabled [David Tardon]
 * 3)  Partial PDFEXPORT of particular Master Documents breaks hyperlinks [Ivan Timofeev]
 * 4)  Solver localized/translated label strings are truncated [Andras Timar]
 * 5)  embedded hsqldb; in view, computed row without alias makes whole file unusable [Lionel Elie Mamane]
 * 6)  importing docx loses table in header/footer [Miklos Vajna]
 * 7)  Page background could not be set in form wizard [Lionel Elie Mamane]
 * 8)  ODF import: Page Borders handling broken [Michael Stahl]
 * 9)  Painting of collapsing table borders broken in Writer [Michael Stahl]
 * 10)  TABLE borders do not terminate where they should with merged cells [Michael Stahl]
 * 11)  VIEWING: Incomplete font substitution when FontConfig matches italic font [Caolán McNamara]
 * 12)  FORMATTING: Documents opened in LibreOffice Writer incorrectly appear as right justified [Muhammad Haggag]
 * 13)  EDITING report design: lengths & positions shown rounded -> hides information, leads to seemingly unexplainable behaviour [Lionel Elie Mamane]
 * 14)  VIEWING: legacy report designer wizard improperly formats dates [Lionel Elie Mamane]
 * 15)  EDITING: Connectors cannot be selected [David Tardon]
 * 16)  FILESAVE, FORMATTING, Text field data loss [Miklos Vajna]
 * 17)  Cell background and border color formatting information of empty cells lost in particular document after FILESAVE as xls and xlsx [Petr Mladek]
 * 18)  RTF reader overrides margins when \header is present [Miklos Vajna]
 * 19)  UI: Undocked toolbars do not show all icons in special ratio [Ivan Timofeev]
 * 20)  Many crashes when accessibility enabled on macOS [Michael Meeks]
 * 21)  Extremely slow display with font fallback [Caolán McNamara]
 * 22)  UI: Calc Data Form button width doesn't accommodate German text or German text too long. [Andras Timar]
 * 23)  FILEOPEN : Import RTF file but pictures are not well positioned on table/cells [Miklos Vajna]
 * 24)  FILESAVE: RTF export [Miklos Vajna]
 * 25)  FILEOPEN: Open Visio's file with bitmap's blocks [Julien Nabet, Fridrich Štrba]
 * 26)  FILEOPEN: The Greek codepage instead the Russian codepage (*.vsd by MS_Visio-2000) [Fridrich Štrba]
 * 27)  CRASH when FILEOPEN particular RTF [Julien Nabet]
 * 28)  Hyphenation problem with Graphite 2 [Martin Hosken]
 * 29)  FILESAVE: Long delays saving in XP .XLS format [Petr Mladek]
 * 30)  rtf header, tables, pagenumber are wrong [Miklos Vajna]
 * 31)  CRASH while opening RTF document [David Tardon]
 * 32)  FILEOPEN properties Title, Subject, Comments (File>Properties ..> Description) no longer imported in rtf document [Miklos Vajna]
 * 33)  Unable to update LibreOffice without resetting user profile [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 34)  \chpgn ignores formatting [Miklos Vajna]
 * 35)  On macOS 10.7, 'import uno' crashes in the LibreOffice-provided Python [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 36)  EDITING: queries do not filter when created with the query wizard [Lionel Elie Mamane]
 * 37)  Wrong cross-reference text when Caption order is Numbering first [Uray M. János]
 * 38)  RTF: FILESAVE empty lines get different font size after reopening document [Miklos Vajna]
 * 39)  SIGSEGV: ODBC to PostgreSQL, renaming column in SELECT list [Lionel Elie Mamane]
 * 40)  3.6.0b1: Segfault when accessing the LO About dialog with librsvg ≈ 2.16 [Caolán McNamara]
 * 41)  Draw crashes on loading MS Logical Design Diagram example viso file. [Julien Nabet]
 * 42)  MS Visio file displays as blanc page in Draw [Fridrich Štrba]
 * 43)  Error parsing help strings with "|" chars [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 44)  Trying to edit a report from new (but awful) Report Builder hangs libreoffice [Lionel Elie Mamane]
 * 45)  Crash while saving a document with track-changes enabled [Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer]
 * 46)  On UNINSTALLING, LibreOffice leaves dirt behind [Andras Timar]
 * 47)  MinGW: Help-About Version info should be in accordance to new naming scheme [Petr Mladek]
 * 48)  Cannot open xlsx file [Eike Rathke]
 * 49)  [CRASH] legacy reports: asks for parameters, then for empty parameters list then CRASH [Lionel Elie Mamane]
 * 50)  FILEOPEN particular .xls from PlanMaker with CHART will CRASH [Markus Mohrhard]
 * 51)  EDITING: Bug in NumberRange field in Writer [Cédric Bosdonnat]
 * 52)  FILEOPEN: RTF file opens with black boxes and wrong spacing [Miklos Vajna]
 * 53)  Pasting crashing Spreadsheet [Markus Mohrhard]
 * 54)  Unicode tooltips corrupt [Andras Timar]
 * 55)  Undo broken in several contexts (Basic Editor, Math Editor, Calc Input Line, MultiLine controls, etc) [Ivan Timofeev]
 * 56)  Table has no top border when over 2+ pages [Michael Stahl]
 * 57)  opening urls fails with error 403 on picky servers [Fridrich Štrba, Stephan Bergmann]
 * 58)  [abrt][reproducible] libreoffice-core-3.5.2.1-6.fc17: v killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV) [David Tardon]
 * 59)  libreoffice calc standard filter doesn't show criteria after file re-open [Eike Rathke]
 * 60)  [abrt] oox::drawingml::applyStyleList [David Tardon]