Releases/6.4.0/Beta1

General for this Beta: parallel installation

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

Windows

 * LibreOffice 6.4 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 6.4.0 Alpha1

 * 1)  silence Untrusted loop bound [Caolán McNamara]
 * 2)  call GetSbData just once [Caolán McNamara]
 * 3)  untrusted value as argument [Caolán McNamara]
 * 4)  untrusted value as argument [Caolán McNamara]
 * 5)  silence Wrapper object use after free [Caolán McNamara]
 * 6)  wrapper object use after free [Caolán McNamara]
 * 7)  wrapper object use after free [Caolán McNamara]
 * 8)  silence Out-of-bounds access [Caolán McNamara]
 * 9)  resource leak on an exceptional path [Caolán McNamara]
 * 10)  silence Explicit null dereferenced [Caolán McNamara]
 * 11)  wrapper object use after free [Caolán McNamara]
 * 12)  dereference after null check [Caolán McNamara]
 * 13)  silence Uncaught exception [Caolán McNamara]
 * 14)  introduce an explicit constructor... [Dennis Francis]
 * 15)  logically dead code [Caolán McNamara]
 * 16)  uninitialized member [Caolán McNamara]
 * 17)  sw: Memory - illegal accesses  (WRAPPER_ESCAPE) [Michael Stahl]
 * 18)  explicit null dereferenced [Caolán McNamara]
 * 19)  uninitialized pointer field [Caolán McNamara]
 * 20)  wrapper object use after free [Caolán McNamara]
 * 21)  dereference before null check [Caolán McNamara]
 * 22)  dereference after null check [Caolán McNamara]
 * 23)  uncaught exception [Caolán McNamara]
 * 24)  sc: rowcol: check pDoc for MaxCol or MAXCOL [Caolán McNamara, Eike Rathke]
 * 25)  uninitialized scalar variable [Caolán McNamara]
 * 26)  improper use of negative value [Caolán McNamara]
 * 27)  dereference before null check [Caolán McNamara]
 * 28)  dereference after null check [Caolán McNamara]
 * 29)  MoveSticky always has a non-nullptr pDoc [Caolán McNamara]
 * 30)  dereference null return value [Caolán McNamara]
 * 31)  initialize variables to 0.0 in LinearGradientInfo [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 32)  timeout [Caolán McNamara]
 * 33)  remove LinkedFile support [Caolán McNamara]
 * 34)  timeout in xlsfuzzer [Caolán McNamara]
 * 35)  drop apo anchor if it will be deleted [Caolán McNamara]
 * 36)  bad-cast to SwDrawContact from SwFlyDrawContact [Caolán McNamara]
 * 37)  check against end of buffer [Caolán McNamara]
 * 38)  null deref [Caolán McNamara]
 * 39)  timeout [Caolán McNamara]
 * 40)  ensure we are inside valid range [Caolán McNamara]
 * 41)  slow and uninteresting [Caolán McNamara]
 * 42)  don't parse past end [Caolán McNamara]
 * 43)  NotifyFreeObj override is not helpful [Caolán McNamara]
 * 44)  [abrt] libreoffice-core: (anonymous namespace)::signalHandlerFunction: soffice.bin killed by SIGABRT [Caolán McNamara]
 * 45)  Writer EDITING: Why when I press tab in read-only mode, then the document scrolls to top? [Jim Raykowski]
 * 46)  PRINTING: clicking radio button "Pages" should select pane contents for page selection [Michael Weghorn]
 * 47)  EDITING: Numbering in numbered list doesn't show when affected by tracked changes [László Németh]
 * 48)  accelerating compile times by removing unnecessary header #include - See Comment 57 [Gabor Kelemen, Tomoyuki Kubota]
 * 49)  move java based api tests to c++ [Jens Carl]
 * 50)  Enhanced autofilter popup window (Data > Filter > Auto Filter) should be resizeable (too narrow) (width too small) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 51)  Allow more than 1024 columns in calc [Eike Rathke, Aron Budea, Michael Meeks, Noel Grandin]
 * 52)  Hyperlinks between documents not works if link contains anchor at the end [Tünde Tóth]
 * 53)  FORMATTING: MM:SS time input if formatted as such [Eike Rathke]
 * 54)  Incorrect syntax does compile, MID without end bracket [Mike Kaganski]
 * 55)  Menus, dialogs and sidebar having the word 'page' rather than 'slide' [Muhammet Kara]
 * 56)  FILESAVE Comments to footnotes corrupt layout when converted to DOCX or DOC [Kelemen Gábor]
 * 57)  Style formatting overrides direct formatting when using conditional formatting [Eike Rathke]
 * 58)  FILEOPEN DOCX Margin import error. LibreOffice imports with -1cm margin that should be 0cm [László Németh]
 * 59)  FILEOPEN DOCX Image aligned to page instead of table [Xisco Fauli]
 * 60)  Make unittests more pythonic [Mayank Suman]
 * 61)  FILESAVE: subscript in character style not converted into docx [Justin Luth]
 * 62)  FILESAVE: DOC: New rows are displayed on table after RT [Miklos Vajna]
 * 63)  FILEOPEN PPTX Arial (Corps) changed to Wingdings [Mark Hung]
 * 64)  [FILESAVE DOCX] Gradient property of the data series not preserved when saved as DOCX [Balazs Varga]
 * 65)  Text in 'Insert Slides/Objects' dialog should say pages and not slides [Muhammet Kara]
 * 66)  DOCX files must use C-fonts on IMPORT by default [Justin Luth]
 * 67)  SIDEBAR: Keyboard shortcuts don't work when a sidebar element is active [Jim Raykowski]
 * 68)  Mailmerge: cannot use CSV with space in the file name as Address List with MM Wizard [Michael Weghorn]
 * 69)  FILESAVE: XML element for table cell background no fill unnecessarily written in DOCX [Szabolcs Toth]
 * 70)  Pages named as 'Slide X' rather than 'Page X' [Muhammet Kara]
 * 71)  UI Busy indicator persists after Find all returns no key found [Muhammet Kara]
 * 72)  Draw uses the label 'Slide' in various places when it should be 'Page' [Muhammet Kara]
 * 73)  Improve CJK and CTL fonts setting in default Impress templates [Laurent BP]
 * 74)  Distorted formulas on printing to PDF or exporting to PDF for RTL text [Xisco Fauli]
 * 75)  FILESAVE: .doc style is lost after saving file as .odt [Justin Luth]
 * 76)  equations appear twice in pptx import [Miklos Vajna]
 * 77)  Settings from Conditional formatting should overwrite direct formatting (only number formatting remained in Comment 4) [Eike Rathke]
 * 78)  Caption order, caption positions for Lithuanian language [Julien Nabet]
 * 79)  CRASH: Notebookbar crashes in read mode [Jim Raykowski]
 * 80)  Reference field to text field in DOCX becomes broken after save [Michael Stahl]
 * 81)  FILEOPEN DOCX: Incorrect merged cells in writer table [Bakos Attila]
 * 82)  FILEOPEN DOCX Raised text created with Word becomes normal when the document is opened in Writer [Justin Luth]
 * 83)  Right click context menu contains "Remove Hyperlink" without a hyperlink present [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
 * 84)  Change name (description) of 4th argument to VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP to "Sorted range lookup" in help and in function wizard (see comment 7, comment 9) [Mike Kaganski]
 * 85)  LO Calc -> Format -> Text -> there is no checkbox for option Double Underline [Caolán McNamara]
 * 86)  FILEOPEN DOCX, Footnote symbol created with Word gets another symbol before it in Writer [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 87)  FILEOPEN DOCX Automatic Hyphenate created with Word disappears [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
 * 88)  FILESAVE DOCX Hyphenation zone created with Word resets default value [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
 * 89)  PPT (1,2 MB) with Equation 3.0 objects is slow to load (was better with OO and previous LO) [Noel Grandin]
 * 90)  button flashing - mouse wheel zooming breaks [Armin Le Grand]
 * 91)  UI: Pressing Enter in a protected sheet doesn't jump to next row in every case [Eike Rathke]
 * 92)  Improve the cursor/pointer images [Rizal Muttaqin]
 * 93)  android- cannot open files with writer (Android 9) [Christian Lohmaier]
 * 94)  Crash on start with KDE integration installed [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 95)  User interface toolbar: shortcut key not rendered for Save as button enabled in toolbar [Caolán McNamara]
 * 96)  Editing: Err:522 on copying of rows with "Calc: threaded" enabled ( steps in comment 6 ) [Dennis Francis]
 * 97)  CRASH: Selecting all and deleting [Muhammet Kara]
 * 98)  Impress reliably crashes on THIS PowerPoint document in Linux [Caolán McNamara]
 * 99)  FILEOPEN DOCX: Wrong horizontal spacing [Miklos Vajna]
 * 100)  FILEOPEN DOCX: "text:variable-set" field has trailing quotation marks in "office:string-value" [brinzing]
 * 101)  specific DOCX: additional entries from MERGEFIELD not visible in Word are shown in LO Writer [Miklos Vajna]
 * 102)  If the presentation contains the same file names, the impress jumps between the slides [Jim Raykowski]
 * 103)  Frames around dialog widgets [Caolán McNamara]
 * 104)  ODS file with tracking changes enabled is takes 3 times longer to open (compared to without) [Noel Grandin]
 * 105)  FILESAVE DOCX Page break before TOC disappears [Justin Luth]
 * 106)  Calc - the time required to save some files (in xls or xlsx format) is up to 20x longer in 6.2.4 versus 6.1.6 [Noel Grandin]
 * 107)  Impress Page Setup dialog with a resolution of 1366 x 768 requires a lot of scrolling [Gülşah Köse]
 * 108)  PPTX: FILEOPEN: what's shown as a past year in MSO is shown as today's date in LO [Tamas Bunth]
 * 109)  CRASH: undoing redlinehide deletion [Zdeněk Crhonek]
 * 110)  Autofill doesn't overwrite data in continuously filled cells [Eike Rathke]
 * 111)  Date formatting issue when viewing Calc created .xlsx spreadsheet on iPad/iPhone [Eike Rathke]
 * 112)  Percent Stacked image in Chart Wizard is wrong for most Icon styles [rizmut]
 * 113)  Headings in Navigator Flicker [Jim Raykowski]
 * 114)  Sidebar: color selection too small for finger usage [Marco Cecchetti]
 * 115)  Broken mouse status in Impress status bar [Noel Grandin]
 * 116)  FILEOPEN: ODT: z-order of shapes is interpreted wrongly [Miklos Vajna]
 * 117)  Missing icon for the AutoRedactDoc uno command [Rizal Muttaqin]
 * 118)  menu About > Show License crashes [Christian Lohmaier]
 * 119)  FILEOPEN DOCX: Hyperlink color and underlining gets lost when saving to DOCX [Tünde Tóth]
 * 120)  "Tools - Macros - Run macro.." help rendering with F1 is inconsistent [Olivier Hallot]
 * 121)  LibreOffice Crashes or Freezes, if an Update of an Extension is Available [Caolán McNamara]
 * 122)  Add GlobalScope & BasicLibraries UNO object help pages [Olivier Hallot]
 * 123)  EDITING extend enhanced table selection with cut/insert mode: cut selected table rows and columns completely in Writer tables and insert them before the actual row or colum [László Németh]
 * 124)  HIG AutoCorrect Dialog update [andreas kainz]
 * 125)  Hyperlink dropped after restart [Caolán McNamara]
 * 126)  HIG Columns in Writer dialog Page Style update [andreas kainz]
 * 127)  FILEOPEN XLSX The custom position of vertical chart axis title changes [Balazs Varga]
 * 128)  Certificate path dialog doesn't show all profiles and selects wrong one [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 129)  Presenter View of Impress 6.3.x doesn't remember slide after Slides and Close, as it used to, but returns to 1 during presentation [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
 * 130)  FILESAVE DOCX Custom visited hyperlink style resets to default. [Tünde Tóth]
 * 131)  Make Writer Character Dialog HIG conform [andreas kainz]
 * 132)  Make Cell Format dialog HIG conform [andreas kainz]
 * 133)  Auto-correction append/prepend NNBS (U+202F) to « » for correct typography of French language double quotation use [Eike Rathke]
 * 134)  [Icon theme] Change Navigator's Update icon in Master document mode (Writer) [rizmut, Rizal Muttaqin]
 * 135)  [Sifr theme] Create good icons for Set reminder, Header, Footer and Headings level show icons in Navigator [Rizal Muttaqin]
 * 136)  An array formula with SMALL gives blanks, where it used to work as in Excel previously [Eike Rathke]
 * 137)  Correct word in spell check is greyed out in 6.3.2.2. making it difficult to read [Caolán McNamara]
 * 138)  Tip of the day dialog get resized horizontally on every tip (gtk3) [Heiko Tietze, Caolán McNamara]
 * 139)  Customize: chosen category does not filter function list (non-gtk3 vcl plugin) [Muhammet Kara]
 * 140)  'JRE Required' message pops up when assigning BASIC Macro to customized menu. [Mike Kaganski]
 * 141)  UI: Option to open all heading branches at once [Jim Raykowski]
 * 142)  Always reproducible complete crash/lock of all LibreOffice windows - data loss! [Noel Grandin]
 * 143)  UI: Arrow Left / Right do not navigate in Sections list of dialog Tools > Options [Caolán McNamara]
 * 144)  UI: shortcuts missing for sections Options and Source and Destination in dialog Pivot Table Layout [Caolán McNamara]
 * 145)  Presenter console has gone missing recent master [Michael Weghorn]
 * 146)  Same numbering the first page when insert section [Michael Stahl]
 * 147)  configure.ac has a couple issues (patch attached) [Julien Nabet]
 * 148)  FILESAVE XLSX The Custom Position of vertical chart axis title changes [Balazs Varga]
 * 149)  OOoSpotlightImporter.mdimporter causes segfault in mdworker macOS 10.15 Catalina with particular malformed empty ODB file [Tor Lillqvist]
 * 150)  CRASH: Opening file with rotated text [Gülşah Köse]
 * 151)  FunctionAccess.callFunction returns object type where 'Double' result is expected. [Eike Rathke]
 * 152)  Document UNX-specific --record --backtrace --strace --valgrind arguments defined/handled in shell script [Olivier Hallot]
 * 153)  NAVIGATOR: Rename "Text Frame" to "Frame" [Heiko Tietze]
 * 154)  EDITING Protected change tracking setting not respected by Accept/Reject all commands [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 155)  Disabling of password protected change tracking is possible [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 156)  Crash when trying to delete unused User Field [Julien Nabet]
 * 157)  Make Paragraph Dialog HIG conform [andreas kainz]
 * 158)  Crash when opening print dialog (gtk3 only) [Julien Nabet, Caolán McNamara]
 * 159)  EPUB Export dialog’s labels are not consistently aligned [andreas kainz]
 * 160)  Impress bullets dialog update [andreas kainz]
 * 161)  Using trailing "_" with If statement breaks line positioning when debugging [Mike Kaganski]
 * 162)  Navigator heading selection jumps when context menu is open [Jim Raykowski]
 * 163)  MacOS LO language pack installer window can have wrong background image [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 164)  LibreOffice Calc Editing Find&replace results in Failure to respond - Program hangs [Caolán McNamara]
 * 165)  [l10n] Not translatable button label in paragraph style dialog [Caolán McNamara]
 * 166)  CRASH: cutting textboxes [Miklos Vajna]
 * 167)  python3 support for cs_CZ/thesaurus/dictionary-to-thesaurus.py [Mattia Rizzolo]
 * 168)  Assertion failure when inserting column after the last one [Eike Rathke]
 * 169)  Left arrow key in Navigator Headings root content navigation view leave subheading(s) selected [Jim Raykowski]
 * 170)  CRASH: Closing LibreOffice after cutting content from document [Michael Stahl]
 * 171)  gtk3: insert -> fields -> more fields crashes [Caolán McNamara]
 * 172)  FILEOPEN DOCX: Can't select text in table with rotated text [Miklos Vajna]
 * 173)  Inconsistent display and refresh of date formats FORMATTING / UI [Eike Rathke]
 * 174)  Dialog "Conditional formatting for" is too small, shows only title [Caolán McNamara]
 * 175)  Writing mode tb-rl is faulty for rotated custom shapes [Regina Henschel]
 * 176)  print preview with writer crash LO [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
 * 177)  LOCALHELP: Missing section title in the help page for customizing keyboard shortcuts [Olivier Hallot]
 * 178)  FILEOPEN: RTF: Incorrect length of space breaks tables [László Németh]
 * 179)  Synchronize padding in header borders it is not working [Jim Raykowski]
 * 180)  FILEOPEN: OOXML: Incorrect category position [Balazs Varga]
 * 181)  Crash in: mergedlo.dll (nvidia with device 0x2182 + Win10) [Julien Nabet]
 * 182)  XLSX: comment is displayed by default even without the  tag [Justin Luth]
 * 183)  There is no easy way to delete a table in impress on iOS [Tor Lillqvist]
 * 184)  Exported Writer input fields are not imported correctly from docx [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 185)  Not possible to paste a picture from the clipboard on a slide in impress on iOS [Tor Lillqvist]
 * 186)  Active Window drop-down in Navigation View Hogs Screen [Caolán McNamara]
 * 187)  Incorrect online help for accessing QR code [Olivier Hallot]
 * 188)  Document the "numeric first" behaviour of Criteria in COUNTIF and the like (see comment 14 ff.) [Olivier Hallot]
 * 189)  FILESAVE: ODT: Text becomes an hyperlink after RT [Tünde Tóth]
 * 190)  illegal char in a bookmark name [Heiko Tietze]
 * 191)  (Korean Version Only) Two icons have reversed each other. [Julien Nabet]
 * 192)  Pressing F5 (Navigation) in Calc crashes document, corrupts user profile, and makes Calc impossible to use [Noel Grandin]
 * 193)  [LOCALHELP] Adjust help page to Comments new feature of 6.4 [Olivier Hallot]
 * 194)  Writer table cell's background color is always black [Zdeněk Crhonek, Szymon Kłos]
 * 195)  Crash when typing in the Authentication Required dialog [Caolán McNamara]
 * 196)  CRASH: Cutting a textbox in a reopened document [Miklos Vajna]
 * 197)  FILESAVE DOCX Solid transparency of gradient filled chart objects not saved [Balazs Varga]
 * 198)  FILESAVE XLSX Deleted automatic title of chart returns on save [Balazs Varga]
 * 199)  FILESAVE DOCX Chart gradients position is not saved correctly [Balazs Varga]
 * 200)  UI Multiple radio buttons selected in Error Bars dialog (non-gtk3) [Caolán McNamara, Gabor Kelemen]
 * 201)  FILEOPEN: Radar Chart is broken [Balazs Varga]
 * 202)  FILESAVE: PDF: arrows become narrower after exporting [Miklos Vajna]
 * 203)  GTK3: No mouse interaction with security warning dialog in embedded file [Caolán McNamara]
 * 204)  FILESAVE: PPTX: Bar in chart changes position after RT [Balazs Varga]
 * 205)  FILEOPEN: Clustered bar chart is partially displayed [Balazs Varga]
 * 206)  FILESAVE: XLSX: Calc save to xlsx flawed [Eike Rathke]
 * 207)  Undo of attribute changes on transformed custom shapes changes position and size [Regina Henschel]
 * 208)  Crash when pasting text with line wrap [Caolán McNamara]
 * 209)  Missing 32px*32px (Extra Large) Colibre Korean Icon [Rizal Muttaqin]
 * 210)  Request to Localize More Formatting Icons into Korean UI [Rizal Muttaqin]
 * 211)  Steps in Chart Wizard don't work ( gtk3 ) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 212)  Duplex option in print dialog (on Linux) not properly synchronized between both places [Michael Weghorn]
 * 213)  FILEOPEN DOCX The End value of Color Gradient Transparency on Charts decreases. [Balazs Varga]
 * 214)  EDITING Bar chart secondary X axis labels appear on the tickmarks [Balazs Varga]
 * 215)  Opening table properties window causes crash in development build [Caolán McNamara]
 * 216)  CRASH: Closing LibreOffice after cutting content from document [Julien Nabet]
 * 217)  Scrollbar in Extension Manager doesn't appear at first [Caolán McNamara]
 * 218)  CRASH: Clicking on Export Directly to PDF (gen) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 219)  EDITING Ctrl-drag of Writer table moves the table instead of copying [László Németh]

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