Releases/7.2.0/Beta1

General for this Beta: parallel installation

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

Windows

 * LibreOffice 7.2 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, 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 7.2.0 Alpha1

 * 1)  unchecked return value [Caolán McNamara]
 * 2)  untrusted loop bound [Caolán McNamara]
 * 3)  dereference null return value [Caolán McNamara]
 * 4)  unchecked dynamic_cast [Caolán McNamara]
 * 5)  uninitialized scalar field [Caolán McNamara]
 * 6)  uninitialized pointer field [Caolán McNamara]
 * 7)  dereference after null check [Caolán McNamara]
 * 8)  dereference before null check [Caolán McNamara]
 * 9)  structurally dead code [Caolán McNamara]
 * 10)  uncaught exception [Caolán McNamara]
 * 11)  try moving initialization into member init list [Caolán McNamara]
 * 12)  avoid Missing move assignment operator [Caolán McNamara]
 * 13)  silence Uninitialized scalar variable [Caolán McNamara]
 * 14)  unchecked return value [Caolán McNamara]
 * 15)  introduce osl_setThreadName [Mike Kaganski]
 * 16)  integer-overflow [Caolán McNamara]
 * 17)  teardown crash under oss-fuzz [Caolán McNamara]
 * 18)  missing a component [Caolán McNamara]
 * 19)  missing components [Caolán McNamara]
 * 20)  integer-overflow [Caolán McNamara]
 * 21)  timeout [Caolán McNamara]
 * 22)  missing components [Caolán McNamara]
 * 23)  crash in vcl::bitmap::CreateFromData from wmf load [Caolán McNamara]
 * 24)  crash in Bitmap::Crop from wmf load [Caolán McNamara]
 * 25)  EDIT: unintended date recognition of input Jan1 or 1Jan [Xisco Fauli]
 * 26)  ENDNOTES: when .odt is exported to PDF, links between anchors and endnotes are missing in both directions [Georgy Litvinov]
 * 27)  LO Poppler library extremely slow to open page 4 with shaded fills of attached PDF [Noel Grandin]
 * 28)  Notification about document closure for locked readonly opened document [Matt K]
 * 29)  Impress does not honor loop in PPTX presentation (fileopen done, filesave left) [Tibor Nagy]
 * 30)  Calc removes trailing semicolon in custom format, breaking Excel compatibility [Xisco Fauli]
 * 31)  [WMF] FILEOPEN Black squares is missing after import WMF file created by LTspice [Bartosz Kosiorek]
 * 32)  [EMF] FILEOPEN: Close circle instead of arch (exported by Catia v5) [Bartosz Kosiorek]
 * 33)  (emf-testbed) EMF+ List of EMF import bugs with examples [Bartosz Kosiorek]
 * 34)  Calc: "Insert columns" is not available in the context menu if an autofilter to hide rows is applied [Tünde Tóth]
 * 35)  [EMF/EMF+] FILEOPEN Images in PPT and PPTX are narrower [Bartosz Kosiorek]
 * 36)  EDITING and TABLE: No changes tracked when deleting table rows and tables [László Németh]
 * 37)  FILEOPEN: Problem with ".doc" file conversion: crash / freeze [Xisco Fauli]
 * 38)  Add file name to title bar of Enter Password dialog for autofilling with KeePass [Andreas Heinisch]
 * 39)  [UI] [Autofilter] Selecting "Not empty" unchecks all entries [Balazs Varga]
 * 40)  Formulas change after cut and paste special action with Transpose [scito]
 * 41)  EDITING: Cut and paste special with transposing does not shift formula links [scito]
 * 42)  Filter by colors in Calc [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
 * 43)  FORMATTING: MM:SS time input if formatted as such [Xisco Fauli]
 * 44)  Outline Numbering for DOCX not working when new headings inserted in between (to reproduce, see comment 15/17/19) [Justin Luth]
 * 45)  DOCX: cannot delete table with Tracking changes (before: could be deleted but made a comeback after RT) [László Németh]
 * 46)  Calculations order do not follow cell dependencies [Eike Rathke]
 * 47)  Add new UNO command for PasteLink [scito]
 * 48)  date recognition in DateValue [Xisco Fauli]
 * 49)  Impress 64-bit crash when I open .PPSX or .PPTX with MP3 sound [Julien Nabet]
 * 50)  Fileopen: Docx custom numbering triangle symbol incorrectly displayed as a dot [Justin Luth]
 * 51)  The RSQ function returning values greater than one. [Andreas Heinisch]
 * 52)  Text background/highlighting color doesn't reopen well in LO when exporting as PPTX (OK in MSO) [Gülşah Köse]
 * 53)  FILEOPEN: not open file in format .DOC with images [Xisco Fauli]
 * 54)  FORMATTING: Extra white space at beginning of fraction if no integer part [Xisco Fauli]
 * 55)  Fraction number format: symbol '0' not allowed for digit in fraction [Xisco Fauli]
 * 56)  Fraction number format: String " " and other not recognized as blank delimiter [Xisco Fauli]
 * 57)  UNO: Transpose Paste [scito]
 * 58)  Change the mouse cursor icon when hovering the spreadsheet [Sarabjot Singh]
 * 59)  FILEOPEN DOCX image in header overlaps header text [Daniel Arato (NISZ)]
 * 60)  Cropping flipped images occurs at the wrong side [Bayram Çiçek]
 * 61)  Android: add ability to insert pictures [Michael Weghorn]
 * 62)  Black area when closing bottom toolbar after a change [Michael Weghorn]
 * 63)  Shrinking of grow/shrink custom animation effect does not work [Edward Lynch]
 * 64)  FILEOPEN: DOCX file numbered list restarted from 1 following section break assumes previous numbered list sequence after 1 [Justin Luth]
 * 65)  xdg-open path is hardcoded [Linus Heckemann]
 * 66)  UI: No mouseover effect for the different palettes in the Area tab [Bayram Çiçek]
 * 67)  Improve the workflow of adding items to menus [baltasarq]
 * 68)  HELP: Document Advanced TSCP Classification dialog [Olivier Hallot]
 * 69)  Font size in conditional style not saved with round trip xlsx [Gizem Ozgun]
 * 70)  Pasting multi-line text from external source behaves strangely [Miklos Vajna]
 * 71)  Ctrl+`(Grave / QUOTELEFT) shortcut doesnt appear in Customization dialog [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 72)  Calc: Using Paste Special > Options > Link, but the target cell doesn't change when source is updated [scito]
 * 73)  Identify commands of experimental features in the customization dialog [Muhammet Kara]
 * 74)  [WMF] FILEOPEN SELECTPALETTE is not implemented (7-color palette WMF opens black instead in color) [Bartosz Kosiorek]
 * 75)  The implementation of the ooo.vba.excel.XWindow.Caption property getter obviously does not work as intended [Andreas Heinisch]
 * 76)  FILEOPEN PPTX Columns don’t appear in the text box in Impress [Mike Kaganski]
 * 77)  EXPORT: XHTML: text missing after formula [Xisco Fauli]
 * 78)  Copying shapes between Draw/Writer not working (LibO 6.2) [Xisco Fauli]
 * 79)  TXT file encoding is lost when saving [tobias]
 * 80)  The background color is active when inserting a header using Insert Header/Footer - Header default style. [Radhey Parekh]
 * 81)  FORMATTING: Regression from 6.1 to 6.2 in displaying times formatted as Time 876613:37:46 [Xisco Fauli]
 * 82)  Time format may display uncorrected if value includes date [Xisco Fauli]
 * : Basic: missing Help for functions Replace and StrConv [Olivier Hallot, Alain Romedenne]
 * 1)  listbox in Charts Dialog Calc does not show selected text [Andreas Heinisch]
 * 2)  Custom slide show breaks after exporting to pptx [Tibor Nagy]
 * 3)  Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx [Xisco Fauli]
 * 4)  [Calc] Date acceptance pattern error [Xisco Fauli]
 * 5)  Pivot Table: rename "Page Fields" to "Filter" or "Page Fields To Filter" or… [Stanislav Horacek]
 * 6)  Help for feature "Consolidate Text", which is command .uno:TextCombine [Olivier Hallot]
 * 7)  EDITING The document remains in not modified state after we switch the View Grid Lines [Attila Szűcs]
 * 8)  FILEOPEN XLSX Grid lines do not appear after changing View Grid Lines if the document was saved with hidden grid lines [Attila Szűcs]
 * 9)  The input fields for separators ("Function", "Array column", "Array row") allow to choose improper characters. [Eike Rathke]
 * 10)  Add DRAW templates to LibreOffice [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 11)  [WMF] FILEOPEN File is rendered with thin stroke on rounded rectangles, but should be thick. [Bartosz Kosiorek]
 * 12)  use HTML caption tag to name externally linked tables from URL [Andreas Heinisch]
 * 13)  Have the tip of the day window available while following the tip. [Matt K]
 * 14)  UI Descriptive statistics do not use column names [Andreas Heinisch]
 * 15)  Obscure and unmanageable long month name capitalization rules in date formats (ru-RU) [Eike Rathke]
 * 16)  Basic documentation - Files & Directories outdated content [Rafael Lima]
 * 17)  FILESAVE, FILEOPEN: Style text directions revert to RTL on save and re-open [Xisco Fauli]
 * 18)  Formatting large numbers using certain format strings results in wrong "###" output [Xisco Fauli]
 * 19)  Help button in Bullet and Numbering dialog in Draw and Impress goes to generic help page - plus no help page for this dialog [Olivier Hallot]
 * 20)  Try to not use SfxItemState::UNKNOWN in preparation of refactoring of ItemSet/ItemPool [Armin Le Grand (Allotropia)]
 * 21)  Allow defining font size for Math formula input box -- 'smeditwindowzoom' expert config stanza [dante]
 * 22)  PPTX: custom slide show is not imported [Tibor Nagy]
 * 23)  Introduce an option to globally switch toolbar locking on/off [Heiko Tietze]
 * 24)  TEMPLATE MANAGER: Errors when deleting a category in templates [Vert D]
 * 25)  [LOCALHELP] Translate section id to English mnemonics [Johnny_M]
 * 26)  Custom properties: Adding new custom property doesn't focus Name field anymore [Andreas Heinisch]
 * 27)  Help files do not yet describe new option on Calc's PDF Options dialog - "Whole Sheet Export" [Adolfo Jayme Barrientos, Olivier Hallot]
 * 28)  DOCX import: invalid paragraph indentation [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 29)  Help file should be updated to reflect 6.3 changes to Calc's Data > Statistics > Sampling dialog [Olivier Hallot]
 * 30)  [SLIDESHOW] Miscalculation of size of a shape/object in Animation : Emphasis - Grow and Shrink [Edward Lynch]
 * 31)  [EDITING] Whole column cannot be pasted to a column range over 23 selected by shift-click [Eike Rathke, Xisco Fauli]
 * 32)  Crash: Scroll sidebar on Data Provider, which was opened by TAB UI [tushar]
 * 33)  When Skia is enabled in vertical writing, changing the font scale changes the font size [Luboš Luňák]
 * 34)  Additions: Bad JSON crashes LibreOffice [Muhammet Kara]
 * 35)  UI: Zoom slider in toolbar of Calc's print preview has white background [Noel Grandin]
 * 36)  calc: ui: round: calc 'round' is erroneously limited to 20 decimal digits, [Eike Rathke, Xisco Fauli]
 * 37)  Calc shows 6E-05 instead of 0.00006 [Eike Rathke, Xisco Fauli]
 * 38)  FILESAVE: DOCX to ODT Static text in numbered list is lost [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 39)  FILEOPEN DOCX VML shapes with arbitrary rotation imported incorrectly [Regina Henschel]
 * 40)  Writer : Months and days are lowercase with French locale [Eike Rathke]
 * 41)  Text filter should have an option to hide hidden paragraphs [Oleg Shchelykalnov]
 * 42)  Implement a Kahan summation algorithm to reduce the numerical error in the total [dante]
 * 43)  Fields objects should be navigable in Navigator and the Find bar [Jim Raykowski]
 * 44)  FILEOPEN DOCX Textframes don’t inherit their shapes z-order [Attila Bakos (NISZ)]
 * 45)  Restart of numbering is not saved when saving to DOC [Justin Luth]
 * 46)  CALC AutoFilter Top 10 malfunctions when another column is already filtered [Balazs Varga]
 * 47)  Stock Chart easily corrupts data on saving - 'Insert Series' creates series with incorrect number of components [Aritz Erkiaga]
 * 48)  Copy/pasting image in frame ends up with blank square after paste (resolved with save file reload) [Miklos Vajna]
 * 49)  Visual artifacts in gradient while scrolling up and down [Luboš Luňák]
 * 50)  Export macros saves the macros in ANSI format, so special characters replaced with '?' [Andreas Heinisch]
 * 51)  Crash when dragging a query or table from "Data Sources Explorer" window to a calc sheet. [Caolán McNamara]
 * 52)  FILEOPEN: some (multi component) chart labels are incomplete [Tünde Tóth]
 * 53)  Drop redundant asserts after MacrosTest::loadFromDesktop [sarynasser]
 * 54)  FILEOPEN DOCX Two text boxes on two pages open on a single page [Miklos Vajna]
 * 55)  Provide option to turn off sidebar's minimum width [Heiko Tietze]
 * 56)  Fileopen DOCX: Text Orientation of X-Axis 0 instead of 45 degrees [Tünde Tóth]
 * 57)  AutoFilter dropdown doesn't show (empty) on top of the list with values [Tünde Tóth]
 * 58)  FILEOPEN XLSX Autofiltered time values do not appear in autofilter [Balazs Varga]
 * 59)  Documentation specifies incorrect parameter names for Basic functions [Alain Romedenne]
 * 60)  Add Clear Standard Filter to Autofilter widget [Tünde Tóth]
 * 61)  FILEOPEN XLSX Text in shape rotated to 270 degrees appears horizontal [Szabolcs Toth]
 * 62)  UNO Object Inspector: Methods and Properties columns don't sort (gen) [Gülşah Köse]
 * 63)  EDITING: Multi range selection pasted transposed as links is not transposed [scito]
 * 64)  Crash in: cppu::OInterfaceContainerHelper::disposeAndClear(com::sun::star::lang::EventObject const &) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 65)  Option "Gutter on right side of page" does not work [Miklos Vajna]
 * 66)  UI: Create Paste As Link icons [Rizal Muttaqin]
 * 67)  Improve Help information for Calc's CONVERT funtion [Rafael Lima]
 * 68)  FILEOPEN DOCX: Outline numbering on Heading X styles not imported well. [Justin Luth]
 * 69)  EDITING Addition of image to Writer document is not change tracked [László Németh]
 * 70)  New "Files > Properties > General > Location" link feature doesn't work on Windows [Heiko Tietze]
 * 71)  macOS: Calc UI: Display anomalies when resizing columns [Thorsten Wagner]
 * 72)  EDITING: Cut paste transposed with formula reference within range leads to #REF [scito]
 * 73)  EDITING Deletion of image by different users should be marked with different colors [László Németh]
 * 74)  Application crashes when EDITING line end styles (arrows) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 75)  "Insert text from file" removes imported section if section lower border is at the end of imported ODT. [Georgy Litvinov, Xisco Fauli]
 * 76)  Table lines in Writer 7.1.3: Change borders for selected cells will change borders in all table [Caolán McNamara]
 * 77)  Invalid text comparison result in Basic [Joshua Williams]
 * 78)  Cell formatting code #,##0"." receives input field 123.45 as 12345 [Xisco Fauli]
 * 79)  EDITING: Cut paste transposed: formula references from wrong cells adjusted [scito]
 * 80)  FILEOPEN XLSX Autofilter does not check values ending with zeroes [Balazs Varga]
 * 81)  FILEOPEN XLSX Excel default time formats don’t match in Calc with Hungarian locale [Eike Rathke]
 * 82)  Lose of autofilter items list when save and reread a Calc document [Szabolcs Toth]
 * 83)  Forename in User Data get imported with a trailing space to the document's properties [Noel Grandin]
 * 84)  HUD shouldn't be case sensitive for RU GUI [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 85)  UI Calc Print Preview toolbars navigation button order unintuitive [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 86)  Impress shortcuts Increase/Decrease size don’t work on Windows + Hungarian keyboard [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 87)  UI: Cross-reference field names in navigator have a rather impossible naming to work with [Jim Raykowski]
 * 88)  Regression with EMF sample from 55007 [Bartosz Kosiorek]
 * 89)  [EMF] Arc with bottom corner above the top one [Bartosz Kosiorek]
 * 90)  UNO Object Inspector: Left panel breaks after expanding the tree (gen) [Gülşah Köse]
 * 91)  MAILMERGE: Starting "Insert → Field → More Fields" second time leads to hang of LO. [Caolán McNamara]
 * 92)  GTK3/KF5 Text attributes > Text Animation > Delay; plus minus button [Caolán McNamara]
 * 93)  FORMATTING: Handling of non-default-size subscript in automatic mode [Justin Luth]
 * 94)  Error read rtf created Gnostice eDocEngine V5.0.0.548 [Miklos Vajna]
 * 95)  GCC 11: error: invalid 'static_cast' from type 'std::__cxx11::basic_ostringstream ' to type 'std::ostringstream&' {aka 'std::__cxx11::basic_ostringstream &'} [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 96)  configure.ac contains a Bashism that produces an error when /bin/sh is not Bash [Julien Nabet]
 * 97)  'gen' backend Button height doesn't take vertically aligned text into account [Caolán McNamara]
 * 98)  Android Viewer only shows white area for Calc docs instead of rendering doc content [Michael Weghorn]
 * 99)  EDITING Autofilter enables (empty) filtering if filtering for 0 is also enabled in a range containing empty cells [Tünde Tóth]
 * 100)  Crash when closing document after canceling chart wizard (Writer) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 101)  Writer crashes when opening docx (GTK3) [Noel Grandin]
 * 102)  CRASH: Closing tip of the day ( GTK3 ) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 103)  FILESAVE DOCX Roundtrip interdependant tracked changes [László Németh]
 * 104)  Help for AutoFilter [Olivier Hallot]
 * 105)  calc 7.2.0.0.a0+ >2021-05-19, no mouse cursor in cell area [Mike Kaganski]
 * 106)  FILEOPEN CSV: Space trailing values imported as garbage [Mike Kaganski, Xisco Fauli]
 * 107)  FILEOPEN\VIEWING\XLSX Differrent values at standard filter [Balazs Varga]
 * 108)  FILEOPEN DOCX TAB_OVER_MARGIN not needed for compatibiltymode >= 15 [Justin Luth]
 * 109)  Online Help: "File Conversion Filter Names" page should contain an "API Name" column [Kevin Suo]
 * 110)  Add custom color shading to RDF metadata fields [László Németh]
 * 111)  Inserting series in Stock Chart Data Table crashes Writer (Fedora only?) [Stephan Bergmann, Caolán McNamara]
 * 112)  [CRASH] searching on slide notes will crash Impress [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 113)  CRASH: pressing return key after opening arrow styles floating window [Caolán McNamara]
 * 114)  top-right cell of table loses border in XHTML export [Xisco Fauli, Michael Stahl]
 * 115)  [EMF] ETO_OPAQUE and ETO_CLIP support for EmrText object [Bartosz Kosiorek]
 * 116)  Wrong zoom directing within Calc's print preview [Heiko Tietze, Jim Raykowski]
 * 117)  Online Help: improve online help css for Simplified Chinese language in Linux [Kevin Suo]
 * 118)  PPTX export placeholder modifycations are disappears [Attila Bakos (NISZ)]
 * 119)  FILEOPEN LO 7.1.3 breaks formulas in .FODT files [Noel Grandin]
 * 120)  Crash when adding comment in a table in Writer [Noel Grandin]
 * 121)  Assertion failure when closing LO [Caolán McNamara]
 * 122)  [EMF] PolyTextOut support [Bartosz Kosiorek]
 * 123)  [WMF/EMF] RestoreDC should read and use 'SavedDC' value [Bartosz Kosiorek]
 * 124)  Autofilter command does not have shortcut [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 125)  Shortcut for Calc Show Formula command does not work on Windows+Hungarian keyboard [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 126)  [WMF] fail to load file with StretchDIB MR containing PNG or JPEG image [Bartosz Kosiorek]
 * 127)  Importing psd image with transparent background results in "Unknown image format" [Xisco Fauli, Noel Grandin]
 * 128)  Copy+paste a sheet with chart results in incorrect chart's data ranges [Mike Kaganski]
 * 129)  CRASH: leaving embedded object (GTK3) [Noel Grandin]
 * 130)  Writer: Next Change stopped working in 7.2 [Jim Raykowski]
 * 131)  [LOCALHELP] Add glossary term for Half-width and Full-width characters [Ming Hua]
 * 132)  When opening UTF8 or UTF16 files BOM is always detected [tobias]
 * 133)  FILESAVE XLSX Secondary axis not saved in several chart types [Balazs Varga]
 * 134)  impossible set single cell border inside a table [Caolán McNamara]
 * 135)  [WMF] BitBlt is wrong and StretchBlt is not implemented [Bartosz Kosiorek]
 * 136)  Wrong link rectangle calculation while exporing PDF with footnotes when footnote body not on the same page as footnote anchor [Georgy Litvinov]
 * 137)  [EMF] Hang on FillRgn EMR [Bartosz Kosiorek]
 * 138)  Fileopen XLS: Borderline display is incorrect from LO 7.2 Alpha1 (XLSX OK) [Caolán McNamara]

Translations
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