Releases/6.2.4/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 6.2.3 (rc2):


 * 1)  Slide show needs idle callback [Miklos Vajna]
 * 2)  null deref [Caolán McNamara]
 * 3)  null deref [Caolán McNamara]
 * 4)  LibreOffice does not prompt for printer authentication [Caolán McNamara]
 * 5)  [abrt] libreoffice-core: operator&(SfxChildVisibility, o3tl::typed_flags::Wrap): soffice.bin killed by SIGSEGV [Caolán McNamara]
 * 6)  Crash in LibreOffice writer when I type a data in the YYYY-MM-DD format [Caolán McNamara]
 * 7)  Prepare for upcoming libebook soname version bump [Milan Crha]
 * 8)  There is no authentication function when printing using CUPS on the network with LibreOffice Dialogs [Caolán McNamara]
 * 9)  PIVOTTABLE: Black color on fields of Pivot Table Layout window (Mac OS X only) [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 10)  Improve installation process for non en-US locales [Eike Rathke]
 * 11)  gbuild: Move packages to autoinstallation in scp2 [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 12)  Trees missing arrows if OpenGL is enabled [Miklos Vajna]
 * 13)  Rotated text does not work with on Windows (old layout: Graphite only, new layout:all fonts) [Miklos Vajna]
 * 14)  RENDERING: Poorman's bold not bold on Japanese font on macOS (see comment #13) [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 15)  Font scaling does not work on Windows with the new layout engine [Miklos Vajna]
 * 16)  Horizontal text scaling doesn't work correctly when OpenGL is enabled on Windows [Miklos Vajna]
 * 17)  PPTX import: shape fill is not set to slide default background color [Miklos Vajna]
 * 18)  OPENGL: Format Cells/Borders/Line Styles - not drawn [Miklos Vajna]
 * 19)  Autocorrect while typing not replacing anymore (manually added to Replace-With) i'll, i've, i'm [László Németh]
 * 20)  Crash after accepting all changes from compared documents [Michael Stahl]
 * 21)  Animations set to start 'With previous'/'After previous' don't work when OpenGL is enabled [Miklos Vajna]
 * 22)  Italic set fonts are clipped on right edge in presentation mode with OpenGL rendering (HA or CPU rendering not affected) [Miklos Vajna]
 * 23)  ODT: footnote separator line does not show [David Vogt]
 * 24)  FILESAVE Crashes when saving remotely when service host is empty [Julien Nabet]
 * 25)  Context Menu doesn't open in full screen mode in Writer with OpenGL rendering [Miklos Vajna]
 * 26)  EDITOR DOCX Cannot use the highlight 'bucket' function with docx file [Tamás Zolnai]
 * 27)  Image object cumulative placement error affecting Print Preview and PDF export in .ods with irregular row height [Miklos Vajna]
 * 28)  HiDPI images in LibreOffice Writer are blurry with GTK3 backend [Caolán McNamara]
 * 29)  Fix Hungarian collation [László Németh]
 * 30)  Base table icons in Main window Tables list are displaying the Calc Template icon [andreas kainz]
 * 31)  Tabs' content in calc get deleted by accident (GTK3) [Katarina Behrens]
 * 32)  MacOS: Low resolution image when pasting screenshot from Preview to Writer [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 33)  Default directory for my documents is not xdg-user-dir DOCUMENTS [Takeshi Abe]
 * 34)  Tooltips on macOS don't match platform styling [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 35)  No update to refs to sum cell after undoing change in sum range [Dennis Francis]
 * 36)  Pie chart segment rendered as rectangle when anti-aliasing is off with gtk3 [Katarina Behrens]
 * 37)  Crashes on UNDO [Caolán McNamara]
 * 38)  Comment not displayed on hovering with gtk3 and kde5 [Katarina Behrens]
 * 39)  KDE5: Can't move down field to see text with breaks in LO Calc [Katarina Behrens]
 * 40)  FileDateTime("\\nonexistent\smb\path") returns bogus result rather than throwing error [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 41)  OOoSpotlightImporter causes mdworker to crash repeatedly. [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 42)  Installer DMG window on macOS has a misplaced "bin" folder icon [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 43)  Wrong Naming of Drawing Objects [Caolán McNamara]
 * 44)  Classification: Signing: paragraph signing doesn't change to invalid when the paragraph is splitted with Enter [Caolán McNamara]
 * 45)  Artifacts from comment popup with OpenGL enabled [Miklos Vajna]
 * 46)  FILEOPEN DOCX Crash with too long Template tag in app.xml [Caolán McNamara]
 * 47)  FILEOPEN ODT Slower compared to the past [Noel Grandin]
 * 48)  FILEOPEN DOCX Paragraph style changes (regression) [László Németh]
 * 49)  VCL=qt5 filesaver doesn't add extension with checkbox checked [Michael Weghorn]
 * 50)  EDITING Not all special characters appear in the AutoFilter window ( Hungarian ) [László Németh]
 * 51)  selection from Firefox themes (own theme) no longer works ( Firefox changed the API & removed the footer images) [Muhammet Kara]
 * 52)  DATA LOSS: Writer AutoFormat "Delete spaces and tabs at end and start of line" dropping characters from text with built-in paragraph styles [Michael Stahl]
 * 53)  UI: Hex color input box for changing column chart node color doesn't work [Caolán McNamara]
 * 54)  Undoing ToC insertion in middle of word causes assertion failure [Michael Stahl]
 * 55)  FILESAVE XLSX Calc creates corrupted pivot table [Dennis Francis]
 * 56)  Unable to create file on gvfs mounted volume [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 57)  Paragraph Option: Orphan Control or Widow control should be tri-state [Caolán McNamara]
 * 58)  FILEOPEN PPTX: Slide background fill imported with wrong color [Miklos Vajna]
 * 59)  KDE5/ Plasma: LO Filedialog isn't showing removable devices [Michael Weghorn]
 * 60)  Libre Office ver 6.2 (x64 Setup hang up while trying to install [Mike Kaganski]
 * 61)  export to xhtml from writer no longer preserves footnotes as hyperlinks [Michael Stahl]
 * 62)  Move slides in LO Impress -> slides disappear and finally it leads to crash [Katarina Behrens]
 * 63)  KDE: Can't resize any toolbar [Katarina Behrens]
 * 64)  MacOSX: Macro-Dialog: Background-Color on TextBoxes don't show [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 65)  soffice won't launch because of missing symbol cairo_surface_get_device_scale [Caolán McNamara]
 * 66)  Untranslated strings for Table of Contents, Index, Bibliography, etc. [Julien Nabet]
 * 67)  Window too large to get to okay on 1600x900 display [conditional formating, cell style] [Caolán McNamara]
 * 68)  KDE5: Fractional scaling makes most UI and rendered text look bad [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 69)  Undo after drag&drop changes the original formula [Dennis Francis]
 * 70)  Calc. Wrong render of legend's font in Chart (OpenGL enabled) [Miklos Vajna]
 * 71)  Published attribute of shapes in sheets regarding the now 3 anchoring types is missing [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
 * 72)  toolkit: UnknownPropertyException on setModel call [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 73)  Don't show all symbols [Caolán McNamara]
 * 74)  Impress: dragging image from file browser to slide replaces [Caolán McNamara]
 * 75)  table of figures and index of tables not clickable in pdf [Michael Stahl]
 * 76)  LibreOffice doesn't detect JVM because of unexpected java.vendor property value [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 77)  Basic Macro hang up when using (operation system) filepicker/folderpicker [Mike Kaganski]
 * 78)  Crash if switch from user outline numbering to chapter numbering with same paragraph style [Michael Stahl]
 * 79)  gtk3_kde5: Opening file dialog makes LO hang if KIO libraries are not installed [Michael Weghorn]
 * 80)  Empty Variant leads to the following operator being ignored [Eike Rathke]
 * 81)  FORMATTING: Page Style for First page number shows up a "1.05" (gen) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 82)  gtk3_kde5: Hang/crash when using folderpicker from Java extension [Michael Weghorn]
 * 83)  Lost of space symbols in DOCX document [Mike Kaganski]
 * 84)  FILESAVE: xlsx document with pivot table exported by Calc results in recovery dialog when opened in Excel [Dennis Francis]
 * 85)  CRASH: closing authentication dialog after LibreOffice [Caolán McNamara]
 * 86)  No values of variables shown by mouseover in BASIC [Caolán McNamara]
 * 87)  CRASH: after pasting, if deleting more text than fits on a page [Michael Stahl]
 * 88)  The LibreOffice Help Webpage- Can't search for anything after typing what I wanted to look for & pressing "Enter" [Ilmari Lauhakangas]
 * 89)  Writer Crashes when Creating New Style [Caolán McNamara]
 * 90)  Media objects do not trigger effects. [Miklos Vajna]
 * 91)  LO installer is missing UI language codes [Mike Kaganski]
 * 92)  Installation fails on Windows Server 2008 R2 [Mike Kaganski]
 * 93)  FORMATTING Image properties Borders not properly handled (automatically reset to default) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 94)  FILEOPEN XLS Crash with large spreadsheet [Caolán McNamara, Luboš Luňák]
 * 95)  Increasing text size in table only affects the first cell [Caolán McNamara]
 * 96)  UI: GTK3: in dialog Customize, the list Shortcut Keys doesn't get the focus with TAB, no other option to enter any widget [Caolán McNamara]
 * 97)  CRASH - 3D Slide Transitions in Impress [Caolán McNamara]
 * 98)  Assert when saving versions [Caolán McNamara]
 * 99)  Crash when defining a range [Caolán McNamara]
 * 100)  Organize basic macro: newly added module doesn't show up [Caolán McNamara]
 * 101)  kde5: unfinished DnD of a sheet erases all contents of the sheet [Katarina Behrens]
 * 102)  [Styles] Tab stop settings get mixed up during editting them [Caolán McNamara]
 * 103)  Can't duplicate an object [Caolán McNamara]
 * 104)  Regression from bug 123259 when anchoring a graphic as character [Michael Stahl]
 * 105)  LibreOffice crashes when adding icons to Gallery [Caolán McNamara]
 * 106)  propagate getGFileInfo failure less aggressively [Stephan Bergmann]

Translations
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