Releases/7.3.0/Beta1

General for this Beta: parallel installation

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

Windows

 * LibreOffice 7.3 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.

Bugs fixed compared to 7.3.0 Alpha1

 * 1)  silence Uncaught exception [Caolán McNamara]
 * 2)  uncaught exception [Caolán McNamara]
 * 3)  wrapper object use after free [Caolán McNamara]
 * 4)  arguments in wrong order [Caolán McNamara]
 * 5)  logically dead code [Caolán McNamara]
 * 6)  dereference null return value [Caolán McNamara]
 * 7)  add a comment referencing [Caolán McNamara]
 * 8)  try smaller documents to avoid timeouts [Caolán McNamara]
 * 9)  integer-overflow [Caolán McNamara]
 * 10)  remove Objects from m_xResizeDrawObjects if deleted during parse [Caolán McNamara]
 * 11)  avoid Integer-overflow [Caolán McNamara]
 * 12)  svtools, sw: HTMLParser: really stop inserting control chars [Michael Stahl]
 * 13)  divide by zero [Caolán McNamara]
 * 14)  use more SwUnoCursors [Caolán McNamara]
 * 15)  use FrameDeleteWatch to update if SwFlyFrameFormat is deleted [Caolán McNamara]
 * 16)  add testcase [Eike Rathke, Caolán McNamara]
 * 17)  negative-size-param [Caolán McNamara]
 * 18)  opening urls fails with error 403 on picky servers [Michael Stahl]
 * 19)  Line thickness specification - too many choices, nonintuitive [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
 * 20)  writer_pdf_Export Font GDI handle leaks [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 21)  The spelling and grammar checker wavy line is too faint, esp. in hi-res screens [Heiko Tietze]
 * 22)  Wrong display with text format applied to numeric cells [Xisco Fauli]
 * 23)  DISPLAY: Hashmarks instead of number with * repeat format code if the same number/format was displayed left of it in a wider column [Xisco Fauli]
 * 24)  FILESAVE: DOCX - w:sdtContent not exported correctly resulting in missing line breaks [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 25)  PERF - Lots of PROPFIND requests when using cursor navigation on WebDAV file access [Giuseppe Castagno]
 * 26)  WebDAV LOCK is released when document is saved [Michael Stahl, Giuseppe Castagno]
 * 27)  Opening URL fails if it's WebDav and write access is restricted [Giuseppe Castagno]
 * 28)  FORMATTING: Partially missing text in shrink-to-fit cells [Xisco Fauli]
 * 29)  PDF: Export to PDF with footnotes in tables crash [Xisco Fauli]
 * 30)  FILEOPEN: Hang/freeze opening specific .doc with external links [Giuseppe Castagno]
 * 31)  LO impress crashes when opening pptx with comments [Xisco Fauli]
 * 32)  wrong defaults for format/orientation in printsettingsdialogs of printerdrivers [Tor Lillqvist]
 * 33)  Apply style in a selected table cell leaks to another table cell (when selecting "backwards") [Xisco Fauli]
 * 34)  Persian text not imported with "Link to External Data..." in Calc [Giuseppe Castagno]
 * 35)  Lock missing when saving a file (save as) on some webdav server [Giuseppe Castagno]
 * 36)  WEBDAV: old version opened after simultaneous open (read only) [Giuseppe Castagno]
 * 37)  ensure build system variables start with gb_ unless there are very, very good reasons not to [Sabyasachi Bhoi]
 * 38)  add xml dump methods for calc pool items [Felipe Lema]
 * 39)  FILEOPEN: ODS: Calc file with linked images take a long time to load [Giuseppe Castagno]
 * 40)  Add OPTIONS method to the WebDAV ucp provider [Giuseppe Castagno, Michael Stahl]
 * 41)  WebDAV ucp provider: Add management of unofficial HTTP response status codes [Michael Stahl, Giuseppe Castagno]
 * 42)  FILESAVE DOCX: Malformed table with nested sub table when reopened in LO (better in MSO) [Xisco Fauli]
 * 43)  SharePoint lists fail to open using WebDAV [Mike Kaganski]
 * 44)  Lower-case ß is capitalized as SS instead of ẞ [Eike Rathke]
 * 45)  PPTX: Hatch fill background color is not exported to PPTX [Xisco Fauli]
 * 46)  FILESAVE: RTF: columns/section lost after RT [Xisco Fauli]
 * 47)  Convert use of sal_uLong to better integer types [Natalia Gavrilova, Henrik Palomäki]
 * 48)  Repair function does not work after opening PPTX file [Xisco Fauli]
 * 49)  CRASH/Assertion when undoing columns [Xisco Fauli]
 * 50)  "Edit document properties before saving" option leaves just-saved document modified; changes are not saved [Caolán McNamara, Xisco Fauli]
 * 51)  FILEOPEN Text set to no fill in PPTX is black in Impress [Justin Luth]
 * 52)  Freeze after command format->text->Capitalize Every Word [Xisco Fauli]
 * 53)  Format > Text > Cycle Case on attached example file hangs Calc reproducibly [Xisco Fauli]
 * 54)  Freeze if Option “Edit document properties before saving” is Enabled [Caolán McNamara, Xisco Fauli]
 * 55)  Export to PDF opens PDF before the properties have been edited and the PDF is created [Caolán McNamara]
 * 56)  FILESAVE: Using "Excel A1" formula syntax in LibO Calc options results in charts losing their link to source data if the worksheet is saved in .xlsx format [Xisco Fauli]
 * 57)  CRASH undoing table paste [Michael Stahl, Xisco Fauli]
 * 58)  Find and replace dialog - Replace all doesn't work in specific situation [Xisco Fauli]
 * 59)  Formatting issue in PPTX exported presentation [Tibor Nagy]
 * 60)  'Reference' to headings does not have strike-through when modified with 'track changes' shown [László Németh]
 * 61)  Sidebar: Setting textbox directionality with Hebrew text crashes Impress [Xisco Fauli]
 * 62)  Drag-copy of formulas referencing labels gives wrong result in rows (copying vertically); works in columns (copying horizontally) [Xisco Fauli, Eike Rathke]
 * 63)  grouping a shape with an added textbox detaches the textbox from the shape [Attila Bakos (NISZ)]
 * 64)  Wrong Page Direction in Print UI [Justin Luth]
 * 65)  There is no Split item in combined shape's context menu in Draw [Justin Luth]
 * 66)  Insert > Table of Contents and Index > Bibliography Entry > Edit dialog is too tall/high, OK/Cancel button not visible [Heiko Tietze]
 * 67)  EDITING: Some align options are disabled in textboxes [Justin Luth]
 * 68)  UI: Tab of visible sheet looks the same as other selected tabs [Justin Luth]
 * 69)  Remove any remnants from ODBC < 3.0 + add missing functions + remove deprecated functions with ODBC > 3.0 [Julien Nabet]
 * 70)  [LOCALHELP] Translate section id to English mnemonics [Johnny_M]
 * 71)  Autofilter is very slow when deselecting one item and click OK if the column headers are not defined [Luboš Luňák]
 * 72)  Calc autofilter freeze after deselecting an item (in a column containing many unique string values) and pressing OK [Luboš Luňák, Noel Grandin]
 * 73)  Open file slightly slower & ctrl+a causes CPU to peak (autofilter related?) [Luboš Luňák]
 * 74)  Chapter numbering not updated when heading added in between (until heading applied again or reload ) [Bjoern Michaelsen]
 * 75)  Undo/redo not supported for animations [Xisco Fauli, Katarina Behrens]
 * 76)  [ko] Extend Autocorrect list for Korean language [DaeHyun Sung]
 * 77)  FILESAVE: DOCX with SmartArt roundtripped in Writer fails to open in Word [Justin Luth]
 * 78)  Scaling problem on chart driven by a macro. [Andras Timar]
 * 79)  Same content on left/right pages/ Same content on first page checked on file open DOCX [Justin Luth]
 * 80)  FILEOPEN DOTX Template rendered with only one element, missing text and shapes [Xisco Fauli]
 * 81)  AutoFilter Improvement: Use "Not Equal" (i.e., <>) when we selected all but one item [Luboš Luňák]
 * 82)  Custom Slide Show drag-and-drop not reordering slides as desired [Caolán McNamara]
 * 83)  LibreOffice Impress doesn't display text when it's text transparency is 100% in MS Office. [Justin Luth]
 * 84)  Object area for auto-layouts deselected after switching to Animation Sidebar deck [Xisco Fauli]
 * 85)  [KF5] UI not scaled correctly on HIDPI Wayland/KDE screens [Michael Weghorn]
 * 86)  FILEOPEN PPTX: text shown black on black (instead of black on white) [Justin Luth]
 * 87)  Asian and Complex font-size / font weight / font posture in Calc default styles are not the same as Western fonts [Kevin Suo]
 * 88)  Assertion when switching back to format tab in Field format during Table edition [Caolán McNamara]
 * 89)  Writer: Comments on text ranges are with offset when in Linux printed in margin [Caolán McNamara]
 * 90)  Some dropdowns in the PDF export dialog should be aligned better (kf5) [Ilmari Lauhakangas, Michael Weghorn]
 * 91)  Translated Calc styles lose hirearchical structure [Kevin Suo]
 * 92)  FILESAVE DOCX No second page after section containing footnote [Attila Szűcs]
 * 93)  VLOOKUP function very slow on Large Tables in Calc [Luboš Luňák]
 * 94)  Custom Sort popup in Autofilter popup can't be dismissed by scrolling away (GTK3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 95)  Option "Search criteria = and <> must apply to whole cells" doesn't affect to calculation as must. [Xisco Fauli, Luboš Luňák]
 * 96)  Drop redundant asserts after MacrosTest::loadFromDesktop [Henrik Palomäki]
 * 97)  Tools > Autocorrect > Apply with "Capitalize first letter in every sentence" [M] does not work on first sentence of a document following an initial empty paragraph [Justin Luth, Xisco Fauli]
 * 98)  LO will many times the master password for open or save action an a remote server (webdav) [Michael Stahl]
 * 99)  [LOCALHELP] Update Calc View menu, synch with UI. [Olivier Hallot]
 * 100)  Effects: Glow Radius and Soft Edge Radius should be independent of one another (rather than linked) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 101)  Fontwork: Change in surface has no effect [Regina Henschel]
 * 102)  "Font effects" screenshot has to be updated so that it does not show "blinking" control [Olivier Hallot]
 * 103)  Add help page for Text (encoded) filter options [Olivier Hallot]
 * 104)  Documentation specifies incorrect parameter names for Basic functions [Alain Romedenne]
 * 105)  Opening Chinese PDF files generated by XeLaTeX loses Chinese characters [Michael Warner]
 * 106)  Rephrase "Insert Reference To" items [Ming Hua]
 * 107)  CppUnittests: replace usage of sal_Int32 with colors [Rishav Chattopadhya, Henrik Palomäki]
 * 108)  VIEWING: Embedded newline does not display correctly when set via SetDataArray [Xisco Fauli, Andreas Heinisch]
 * 109)  Filter By Color: Hangs after apply a color filter and then deselect the filter [Caolán McNamara]
 * 110)  Shift+Ctrl+S (Special Characters) not working in Find & Replace in Linux (GTK3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 111)  AUTO CORRECT: Undo adds exception of two initial capitals to exception list [Caolán McNamara]
 * 112)  HTML import: base64 PNG image is stretched on import (height is scaled to 200% and aspect ratio not kept) [Andreas Heinisch]
 * 113)  In "Data - Statistics - Sampling" options, not possible to use a sampling size greater than 100 [Xisco Fauli, Justin Luth]
 * 114)  Show font names used first [Regina Henschel]
 * 115)  Searching for German sharp s / eszett (ß,ẞ) provides wrong results [Eike Rathke, Xisco Fauli]
 * 116)  Use pragma once instead of include guards (Episode 2: Endgame) [Harjot]
 * 117)  "Greek Upper Letter" numbering style should be named "Greek Upper Numeral" [Jeff Huang]
 * 118)  FILESAVE: PPTX: Time field disappears in MSO after RT [Sarper Akdemir, Xisco Fauli]
 * 119)  Size of a comment box increasing after cut/paste action [Caolán McNamara]
 * 120)  Basic IDE Dark Mode: Row numbers are black with dark background [Heiko Tietze]
 * 121)  Writer: Comment oversized and text missing when printed in margin in Linux [Caolán McNamara]
 * 122)  3 dots missing after Select Macro string and Select Module [Jeff Huang]
 * 123)  The size of comment box isn't restored at undo (so plenty of space, but showing scrollbar) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 124)  Skia: Curve rendering broken with fat stroke [Luboš Luňák]
 * 125)  Create separate help pages for each function in the "Text Functions" page [Rafael Lima]
 * 126)  LibreOffice 7.2 introduced addition popup for read only file that shouldn't be showing [Matt K]
 * 127)  Calc: shrink to fit makes font size unnecessary small compared to cell width [Xisco Fauli]
 * 128)  New icon needed for the UNO Object Inspector [Rizal Muttaqin]
 * 129)  enabling skia on macOS results in 75% of window painted in red on macOS [Luboš Luňák]
 * 130)  Row height in Calc was 0,45 cm now it's 0,4516. Set rowheight to 10 it will be 9,9995 cm (since 7.2) [Xisco Fauli, Heiko Tietze]
 * 131)  Deleting 10.000 rows column in a spreadsheet: 15 sec with 4.1| 10 sec up to 300+ sec with 6.2| 130 sec with 7.3 [Luboš Luňák]
 * 132)  DOCX Customized numbering format lost on save and re-open [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 133)  UI: comment box oversized on file open until click in document (triggering a resize) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 134)  Oracle Java JDK 17 recognition confusion on macOS [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 135)  UI Warning about unavailable hyperlink targets needs to UTF-encode the target file name [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 136)  EDITING: LO Base Absence of scrollbar in the SQL query modification window [Caolán McNamara]
 * 137)  FILESAVE PPTX Interactions placed on shapes are not exported [Tibor Nagy]
 * 138)  FILEOPEN PPTX Interaction placed on shape is not imported [Tibor Nagy]
 * 139)  Font matching issues [Chris Sherlock]
 * 140)  Exported PDF of master document with hidden sections in chapters loses pagination [Michael Stahl]
 * 141)  libreoffice crashes with kf5-wayland when LanguageTool extension is in use [Michael Weghorn]
 * 142)  hyperlink don't work anymore in version Calc 7.2.1.2 (x64) [Tünde Tóth]
 * 143)  FILEOPEN DOCX Table change tracking insert blank row DOCX export wrong [László Németh]
 * 144)  FILESAVE DOCX Table change tracking deleted row DOCX export wrong (visible only e.g. in Word or Google Docs) [László Németh]
 * 145)  Setting the "PerformFileCheckExt" setting via the Windows Registry does not work correctly: Final is not applied [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 146)  character format dialog doesn't show the current character size any more [Xisco Fauli, Mike Kaganski]
 * 147)  Errormessage when I try to open a certain database table via LibreOffice 7.2 Database - no mysql connector native driver support for BIT datatype [Julien Nabet]
 * 148)  One click and three presses of TABs crashes Writer [Jim Raykowski, Xisco Fauli]
 * 149)  Comments cut-off in writer [Caolán McNamara]
 * 150)  EDITING Hovering over an empty list item will turn the empty list item into an insertion [László Németh]
 * 151)  FILESAVE DOC/X: Header/Footer text lost from follow style when first style has titlePage [Justin Luth]
 * 152)  [BASE] [REPORTBUILDER] [REGRESSION] [7.2.x] Moving a field to a different section corrupts the field [Noel Grandin]
 * 153)  Break link doesn't work with DDE links [Xisco Fauli, Bjoern Michaelsen]
 * 154)  Wrong slide to page layout in Print dialog preview [Tor Lillqvist]
 * 155)  Cannot convert to XHTML document containing list with line break [Noel Grandin, Xisco Fauli]
 * 156)  KDE Plasma: Enters loop when editing bullet style [Jan-Marek Glogowski, Caolán McNamara]
 * 157)  Global Array of defined user type : values lost [Andreas Heinisch]
 * 158)  Crash in: SvxScriptErrorDialog::ShowDialog(SvxScriptErrorDialog *,void *) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 159)  bogus lang-tag in status bar language selector [Eike Rathke]
 * 160)  Segfault importing Basic macros [Caolán McNamara]
 * 161)  Content overview in LO Help is wrong [Rafael Lima]
 * 162)  Crash when opening Digital signatures dialog from infobar (GTK3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 163)  LO crashes with finalized ooSetupLastVersion [homeboy445]
 * 164)  Text is not wrapping in dialogs [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 165)  kf5: Assert hit when starting Impress presentation after e4abf879f4a24258bcc560eb58ca78b147768d46 [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 166)  FILESAVE to PPTX as read-only with additional password protection for editing not working [Tünde Tóth]
 * 167)  Use range based for loops [Harjot, Henrik Palomäki]
 * 168)  Convert string literals defined as const char[] in header files to constexpr OUStringLiteral [Jeff Huang]
 * 169)  Crash when click "File > Open" if previously a Draw document is opened via Writer and closed [Caolán McNamara]
 * 170)  Query → Edit in SQL-View treats file as changed when no changes have occurred [Caolán McNamara]
 * 171)  Writer crashes on exporting as PDF with its Range in PDF Options set to 'Selection' [Julien Nabet, Xisco Fauli]
 * 172)  The numbering of numbered list doesn't show when changing bulleted for numbered list [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 173)  CRASH: Inserting page breaks and undoing [Attila Szűcs]
 * 174)  Documentation for CINT%: inappropriate, incomplete and misleading [Mike Kaganski]
 * 175)  Crash swlo!IDocumentMarkAccess::IsLegalPaMForCrossRefHeadingBookmark+0x2681 at overwriting certain area [Michael Stahl]
 * 176)  CALC Update references when sorting on an autofiltered range of cells evaluates incorrectly [Eike Rathke, Xisco Fauli]
 * 177)  calc: pivot table popdown don't dismiss when menu item selected [Caolán McNamara]
 * 178)  Add animation button only has the "Add" label [Caolán McNamara]
 * 179)  Not possible to turn light off in '3D View' dialog of a 3D chart [Caolán McNamara]
 * 180)  1.15 Line Spacing Icon in Format Menu is Missing [Rizal Muttaqin]
 * 181)  "Export Preview PDF" Need Icons [Rizal Muttaqin]
 * 182)  UI: Image deck is below 'effect' and shadow in draw [Heiko Tietze]
 * 183)  Fontwork doesn't show 'soft edge' and glow effects side panel [Szymon Kłos]
 * 184)  Error 1324: The Folder Path Contains an Invalid Character (Adobe Japan1/H) [Mike Kaganski]
 * 185)  in Base, the mediumblob MySQL fields are shown as Text[VARCHAR] - no mysql connector native driver support for MEDIUMBLOB datatype. [Julien Nabet]
 * 186)  DOCX import: support MoveTo/MoveFrom completely [László Németh]
 * 187)  ODT import/Changes In Margin mode: recognize text moving [László Németh]
 * 188)  sign tracked text moving not only with green text color + double strikethrough/underline, but in tooltips and Track Changes dialog box [László Németh]
 * 189)  Under Option VBAsupport 1 the RGB wrongly interchanges the values for Red and Blue. [Julien Nabet]
 * 190)  CRASH: Closing document [Julien Nabet, Xisco Fauli]
 * 191)  Text boxes have black background with Skia on macOS [Luboš Luňák]
 * 192)  "File already exists" warning when trying to save new file to WebDAV share [Michael Stahl]
 * 193)  Crash in: libgobject-2.0.so.0 Gtk-CRITICAL when attempting to change color palette (UI, Sidebar) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 194)  Different heights of sidebar content panel title elements [Heiko Tietze]
 * 195)  Wrong numbering style shown for predefined Heading styles [Caolán McNamara]
 * 196)  Layout divergence between GTK3 and Windows (gen) in Paragraph dialog / Outline & List tab [Heiko Tietze]
 * 197)  Cell line width applied by uno:SetBorderStyle should be the same as in "Format Cells" menu [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
 * 198)  Typo in Portable Network Graphics string [Andrea Gelmini]
 * 199)  Remove ITEMVALMEASURETEXTTYPES part in SdrMeasureTextHPosItem [Julien Nabet]
 * 200)  UI Secure connection box reset incorrectly when opening&closing Edit Services dialog [Caolán McNamara]
 * 201)  UI Canceling Delete from WebDAV server makes files disappear from Remote files dialog [Caolán McNamara]
 * 202)  Printing with printer preselected no longer works (BASIC macro) [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
 * 203)  Crash when click on autofilter dropdown, cancel and then click on the dropdown again [Caolán McNamara]
 * 204)  Submenus in Autofilter Dropdown requires double-click to expand, while in previous versions only single-click is needed [Caolán McNamara]
 * 205)  FILESAVE: PDF: gradient switch colors [Julien Nabet]

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