Releases/4.2.0/RC3

Installation

 * Linux deb and rpm:
 * please, read detailed instructions for different distributions
 * the Linux packages can be installed in parallel to LibreOffice 4.1, 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.
 * LibreOffice windows installers are signed by The Document Foundation.
 * macOS:
 * LibreOffice 4.2.0 RC3 is available as a 64bit version for macOS 10.8 or later

New Features
An in-progress list of features for this version is available here.

Symbol Server for debugging on Windows
Starting with LibreOffice 4.2.0 RC1, debugging symbols (pdb files) for Windows builds will be available from our symbol server at http://dev-downloads.libreoffice.org/symstore/symbols (note: this is not a webbrowsable resource, it is meant to be used by debugging tools like WinDbg. See our documentation on How to get a backtrace with WinDbg for details on how to set it up. And starting with 4.2.0 RC2, the debuggin symbols are also source indexed.

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 4.2.0 RC2:
 * 1)  avoid crashing mdworker: Don't use uninitialized variable [Tor Lillqvist]
 * 2)  sw: fix painting of tab fill characters in small caps text [Michael Stahl]
 * 3)  check visible range during scrolling, and re-paint if necessary. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 4)  startcenter: remove thumbnail selection when focus is moved away [Zolnai Tamás]
 * 5)  startcenter: Re-introduce the 'Tools' -> 'Customize...' menu [Zolnai Tamás]
 * 6)  correctly split grouped formulas and regroup [Eike Rathke]
 * 7)  vcl: do not enable A11y in Win32 message handler [Michael Stahl]
 * 8)  startcenter: make all helpid point to startcenter's main help page [Zolnai Tamás]
 * 9)  drawinglayer: fix PDF export of lossless picture [Michael Stahl]
 * 10)  send proper ACTIVE_DESCENDANT_CHANGED events [Jacobo Aragunde Pérez]
 * 11)  sw: fix infinite loop in SwTxtAttr::RstTxtAttr [Michael Stahl]
 * 12)  buffer jump matrix' result matrix blocks [Eike Rathke]
 * 13)  startcenter: display more userfriendly file urls in tooltips [Zolnai Tamás]
 * 14)  sw: fix Index/TOC Assign Styles dialog [Michael Stahl]
 * 15)  fix invalid access in SwFntObj::DrawText [Michael Stahl]
 * 16)  sw: un-break index entries that contain text separators [Michael Stahl]
 * 17)  fix Registered Database single tab dialog [Caolán McNamara]
 * 18)  writer does not show a docx-document with nested table correctly [Zolnai Tamás]
 * 19)  let SdXImpressDocument handle css.drawing.* requests directly [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 20)  do not attempt to resolve an empty locale [Eike Rathke]
 * 21)  compile statistics templates using English grammar [Eike Rathke]
 * 22)  fix bogus mass-conversion equalsAsciiL -> startsWith [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 23)  don't adjust formula tokens on non-top shared formula cells. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 24)  sw: fix Find of words containing soft-hyphen [Michael Stahl]
 * 25)  partially revert 3998d1abb291 [Andras Timar]
 * 26)  non-standard behaviour for Function Mid [Julien Nabet]
 * 27)  do not apply format twice to string [Eike Rathke]
 * 28)  [From Symphony]Cell text direction changed after saved as doc file [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 29)  Add sidebar feature [Stephan Bergmann]

Thanks to all who took part in handling the issues
Thanks to all who took part in handling the issues involved for the 4.2.0 release: QA-team, bugreporters, developers. Not covered in this stats of course are the many community members in other areas like l10n/translation and marketing, user support that also deserve a big thank you.

Below a list of people who interacted in bugzilla with the corresponding bug-count (created using this script)

133 Jorendc 116 Michael Stahl 109 Julien Nabet 107 Caolán McNamara 102 Michael Meeks 78 Eike Rathke 76 Joel Madero 71 Cor Nouws 67 Björn Michaelsen 60 Miklos Vajna 60 Andras Timar 59 tommy27 55 Jean-Baptiste Faure 52 Lionel Elie Mamane 51 Maxim Monastirsky 45 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 43 Markus Mohrhard 40 Urmas 39 mariosv 37 Kohei Yoshida 36 Thomas van der Meulen 35 Foss 34 ign_christian 31 David Tardon 30 Stephan Bergmann 30 James 28 sophie 28 Alex Thurgood 27 Tomaz Vajngerl 26 Qubit 25 Florian Reisinger 24 V Stuart Foote 23 pierre-yves samyn 23 bfoman 23 Petr Mladek 23 László Németh 23 Ivan Timofeev (retired) 22 Thomas Arnhold 22 Noel Power 22 Emir Sarı 22 Adolfo Jayme (fitoschido) 20 Pedro 20 Laurent BP  20 Khaled Hosny 20 Adam CloudOn 19 Winfried Donkers 19 Terrence Enger 18 Stanislav Horacek 18 Jacques Guilleron 17 Thorsten Behrens 17 Samuel M.  17 Arnaud Versini 15 Roman Eisele 15 Regina Henschel 15 Mike Kaganski 15 Lior Kaplan 15 Jan Holesovsky 15 Don&apos;t use this account, use tml@iki.fi  14 Not Assigned 14 Frédéric Wang 13 Gerry 11 Marcos Souza 11 GerardF 10 ape 10 Owen Genat 9 Olivier Hallot 8 manj_k 8 abdulmajeed 8 Stefan Knorr (astron) 8 Rob Snelders 8 Christopher M. 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