Releases/5.4.0/Beta1

General for this Beta: parallel installation

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

Windows

 * LibreOffice 5.4 will be made available as 64bit version in addition to the 32bit version. Installing the 64bit version requires Windows Vista or newer, the 32bit Version runs on Windows XP or newer.
 * Note: LibreOffice 5.4 will be the last codeline to support Windows XP or Vista - later versions 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.

List of fixed bugs
Bugs fixed compared to the 5.4.0 Alpha1:


 * 1)  revert "Division or modulo by float zero" [Caolán McNamara]
 * 2)  uninitialized pointer field [Caolán McNamara]
 * 3)  unrecoverable parse warning [Caolán McNamara]
 * 4)  try harder to make Coverity Scan happy [Stephan Bergmann]
 * 5)  try to silence 'Mixing enum types' [Caolán McNamara]
 * 6)  try to silence 'Mixing enum types' [Caolán McNamara]
 * 7)  unrecoverable parse warning [Caolán McNamara]
 * 8)  explicit null dereferenced [Caolán McNamara]
 * 9)  (golden) Logically dead code [Caolán McNamara]
 * 10)  unchecked dynamic_cast [Caolán McNamara]
 * 11)  explicit null dereferenced [Caolán McNamara]
 * 12)  resource leak [Caolán McNamara]
 * 13)  unchecked dynamic_cast [Caolán McNamara]
 * 14)  ..1405898: MISSING_COMMA [Julien Nabet]
 * 15)  dereference null return value [Caolán McNamara]
 * 16)  dereference null return value [Caolán McNamara]
 * 17)  dereference null return value [Caolán McNamara]
 * 18)  dereference null return value [Caolán McNamara]
 * 19)  dereference null return value [Caolán McNamara]
 * 20)  mixing enum types [Caolán McNamara]
 * 21)  (part2) document hidden BASIC func/const [Olivier Hallot]
 * 22)  Split svx module [Noel Grandin]
 * 23)  avoid oom [Caolán McNamara]
 * 24)  direct leak [Caolán McNamara]
 * 25)  use shorter, more easily remembered URL for templates site [Adolfo Jayme Barrientos]
 * 26)  rcp -PO option is not working [Caolán McNamara]
 * 27)  Scrolling is way too fast in writer [Caolán McNamara]
 * 28)  Segmentation fault when presentation is opened two times in a row [Caolán McNamara]
 * 29)  Export as PDF button also exports hidden sheets [Caolán McNamara]
 * 30)  EMF regression: failure of displaying ChemDraw objects [Bartosz Kosiorek]
 * 31)  translate German comments, removing redundant ones [Jens Carl, Thomas Beck]
 * 32)  FILEOPEN particular .xls with wrong FORMATTING, row height too small [Jens Carl]
 * 33)  translate German comments and terms in sw [Jens Carl]
 * 34)  Clean up OSL_ASSERT, DBG_ASSERT, etc. [Fakabbir Amin, Chris Sherlock]
 * 35)  EDITING: Can't delete unprotected rows in protected document [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 36)  Adapt UNO services to new-style [Noel Grandin]
 * 37)  SVG: Add support for more slide transitions to svg documents exported by Impress [Rohan Kumar]
 * 38)  Reset Button in Options Dialogues does not Work with all Options [melikeyurtoglu]
 * 39)  FILEOPEN:docx with multi-page floating table (workaround from MS Office: Table Properties - set Text Wrapping to None) [Miklos Vajna]
 * 40)  Convert manual refcounting / copy-on-write implementations to cow_wrapper [Caolán McNamara]
 * 41)  OLE object cannot be inserted as an executable Icon [Caolán McNamara]
 * 42)  FILESAVE: DOCX export: Footnote separator line problem [Miklos Vajna]
 * 43)  Repeat Action command results in LibreOffice crash ( steps in comment 8 ) [Michael Stahl]
 * 44)  Convert inappropriate use of sal_uIntPtr to better integer types [Jochen Nitschke]
 * 45)  Draw - Duplicate Function - Does not take fractional angles [Laurent Balland-Poirier]
 * 46)  Inconsistent wording in Asian Layout Kerning options. [Adolfo Jayme Barrientos, Takeshi Abe]
 * 47)  (Writer-Toolbars) [META] Enhancing Writer's standard and formatting toolbars [Yousuf Philips]
 * 48)  FILESAVE: osl::Thread::create failed when saving 32-bit Calc file with conditional formatting open for at while [frederic vroman]
 * 49)  Add missing BASIC function and constant documentation [Olivier Hallot]
 * 50)  Calc: FORMATTING Cannot turn spell check off by selecting Language [None] [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 51)  CONTEXT MENU: Renaming 'Rotate Image' to 'Rotate & Flip' and add rotate and flip functions [Yousuf Philips]
 * 52)  Keyboard shortcuts in Impress [Yousuf Philips]
 * 53)  Adapt uses of css::uno::Sequence to use initializer_list ctor [Dilek Uzulmez]
 * 54)  FORMATTING: When undo and redo, custom styles and formatting lost, or full crash. [Michael Stahl]
 * 55)  UI with PDF Export, the dialog PDF Options, tab General, should mention "Selection/Selected sheet(s)" [Cor Nouws]
 * 56)  (Calc-Menus) [META] Reorganization of the menu bar for Calc [Yousuf Philips]
 * 57)  Documentation doesn't explain why opening a ODS file asks to update external links even if in the options is marked as 'always update' - hint in comment #33 [Olivier Hallot]
 * 58)  Subtotal function with function indexes 101-111 don't update when rows are hidden (hard recalculation is needed) [Arul Michael]
 * 59)  Calc does not save your own created autoformat presets [Julien Nabet]
 * 60)  Tab stops incorrectly indented by 5cm when it's 0cm in MS Word [Miklos Vajna]
 * 61)  CALC: Add new toolbar and toggle icons for Cell Protection [Gulsah Kose]
 * 62)  Rename “Display Mode” to “Display View” [Yousuf Philips]
 * 63)  Cleanup: Replace imageproducer with CommandInfoProvider [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 64)  [1] space as intersection in Excel A1 (or R1C1) formula syntax gives Err:509 or Err:508 [Eike Rathke]
 * 65)  Style shortcuts disappear in menu bar [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 66)  Lack of UI to change the text background color of a style [Katarina Behrens]
 * 67)  Artifacts for italic text in GL rendering mode [Noel Grandin]
 * 68)  Pasting text from Java app not working correctly (GTK3) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 69)  tolower / toupper - dangerous to Turks ... [dilekuzulmez]
 * 70)  Frames with the same name are removed [Tamás Zolnai]
 * 71)  FILEOPEN DOCX Horizontal lines misplaced [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 72)  Help: WEEKDAY function new parameters [Olivier Hallot]
 * 73)  Support Office URI Schemes (as in MSOffice) [Mike Kaganski]
 * 74)  Crash when disabling and reenabling screen reader [Julien Nabet]
 * 75)  Can't disable entries in ResourceMenuController via XDispatchProviderInterception [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 76)  Pressing ctrl+shift switches direction on key down [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 77)  HELP Bessel functions need examples [Olivier Hallot]
 * 78)  LOCALHELP UNICODE and UNICHAR should mention each other [Olivier Hallot]
 * 79)  Context menu tab of Customize dialog should show context menu labels [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 80)  Severe lag on drawing canvas in "Draw" [Aron Budea]
 * 81)  Extension Manager Help button leads to an empty helpwiki page [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 82)  EDITING: LO crashes when pasting a lot of RTF [Michael Stahl]
 * 83)  Crash after deleting all text from a particular document, and then undoing it [Xisco Fauli]
 * 84)  check shell scripts with shellcheck [Yeliz Taneroğlu]
 * 85)  UX: Clicking the font color button should apply the select font color instead of a color pour bucket [Yousuf Philips]
 * 86)  Reading color palette is slow [Aron Budea]
 * 87)  vcl harfbuzz / common sal layout: unexpected no wrap of text [Justin Luth]
 * 88)  SAXParseException error on particular document [Mike Kaganski]
 * 89)  Custom motion path effect missing [Katarina Behrens]
 * 90)  recalculate does not always work (simple sum operation) [Arul Michael]
 * 91)  EDITING Can't set pattern as page background (sidebar only) [Katarina Behrens]
 * 92)  UI: Wrong wording/entry "Table properties..." in table context menu [Fakabbir Amin]
 * 93)  Scrolling font list with previews enabled makes LO crash ( steps in comment 36 ) [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 94)  Support for Web Query (.iqy) files [Mike Kaganski]
 * 95)  Implement context menu edit commands: cut, copy, paste for the Formula command input panel [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 96)  FILEOPEN xlsx: black square where image should be [Thomas Beck]
 * 97)  Implement ADO rowset XML import filter [Mike Kaganski]
 * 98)  Ability to add style toolbar buttons from the Customize dialog [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 99)  function CHITEST and CHISQ.TEST - empty cells [Winfried Donkers]
 * 100)  FILEOPEN: RTF: First line indent is ignored [Miklos Vajna]
 * 101)  Add feedback behaviour to style applying UNO commands, so that style is marked in menu and toolbar, when in use in text with focus [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 102)  After import of docx the length of Footnote Separator Line is 0% [Miklos Vajna]
 * 103)  CHARTS: Sub category display only shows 2 subcats instead of 3 [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 104)  pivot chart - copy chart to another file [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 105)  Pivot charts: CRASH when dragging and dropping the chart upon a button [Julien Nabet]
 * 106)  Pivot charts: legends disappear after dragging and dropping them a few times [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 107)  Arrow is missed when opening a word document in LibreOffice, the there is transparent text box on top of arrow [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 108)  FILEOPEN crash on opening svg-result of slide export [Takeshi Abe]
 * 109)  PIVOT CHARTS: missing information about applied filters [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 110)  EDITING: error deleting relationship in embedded Firebird [Julien Nabet]
 * 111)  Replace hard coded relationship URI with method calls in OOXML export [Fakabbir Amin, Eike Rathke]
 * 112)  Writer treats Hungarian Rovas (aka Old Hungarian) text as left-to-right script instead of right-to-left [Miklos Vajna, Khaled Hosny]
 * 113)  [LOCALHELP] Review help pages for Templates [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 114)  VBA autofilter needs support for list of strings arguments [Szymon Kłos]
 * 115)  Merging cells where only one is not empty should be done without confirmation [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 116)  Show/Hide all comments toggle button needed. [Gulsah Kose]
 * 117)  Snap option "When creating or moving objects" is mis-labeled in Draw [Ilmari Lauhakangas]
 * 118)  New Template Manager help content issues [Gabor Kelemen]
 * 119)  Examining a Writer Table object crashes LibreOffice ( steps in comment 6 ) [LeMoyne Castle]
 * 120)  Extra space inserted between Latin and CJK text if squared page mode is off. [Mark Hung]
 * 121)  Appbar/toolbar invisible on lower versions of Android devices [Ximeng Zu]
 * 122)  'New Slide' and 'Delete Slide' both use _e_ for accelerator [Yousuf Philips]
 * 123)  Crash when spell checking text in draw objects [Caolán McNamara]
 * 124)  Impress - crash with two people co-editing one slide [Tamás Zolnai]
 * 125)  Undo cut/delete of image with caption frame does not restore image [Michael Stahl]
 * 126)  CRASH: LO crashes immediately when trying to open an *.odb-file (only with not gtk/gtk3 rendering) [Julien Nabet]
 * 127)  French dictionary update [Olivier R]
 * 128)  YIELDMAT function constraint issue date < settlement date [Winfried Donkers]
 * 129)  CRASH: Libreoffice crashes while inserting the header/footer in a document [Michael Stahl]
 * 130)  Macro Calc Range autoformat("Default") throws IllegalArgumentException [Julien Nabet]
 * 131)  Rename Tools > Outline Numbering to Chapter Numbering [Yousuf Philips]
 * 132)  Opening a Hyperlink from Writer does not make Webbrowser the topmost window. [Thomas Beck]
 * 133)  Crash in: mergedlo.dll [Caolán McNamara]
 * 134)  FILESAVE: Space between bullets changes after saving to RTF [Miklos Vajna]
 * 135)  Cannot drag-resize table borders for tables which have left side shifted, when cursor is outside such tables [Mike Kaganski]
 * 136)  Crash on inserting formula [Julien Nabet]
 * 137)  Provide an advanced configuration option to always try system credentials first for all network resources [Mike Kaganski]
 * 138)  Fatal Error from rt-click on table in Relation Design window [Julien Nabet]
 * 139)  Form wizard doesn't appear [Julien Nabet]
 * 140)  FILESAVE HTML: Comments are added after exporting to HTML [Jan Holesovsky]
 * 141)  Missing accelerator key for Tools > Relationships... with gtk3 [Caolán McNamara]
 * 142)  Export to XHTML incorrectly exports Heading style numbers [Julien Nabet]
 * 143)  CRASH: Crash when closing Calc document [Noel Grandin]
 * 144)  MSO2003XML filter: FILEOPEN: assertion 'len >= 0' at sequence.cxx:664 [Michael Stahl]
 * 145)  bound form control refresh resets to default value when on insert row [Lionel Elie Mamane]
 * 146)  Inpredictable behaviour in a more complex lookup and address processing formula [Eike Rathke]
 * 147)  DOC import: multi-page floating table with page break is not multi-page [Miklos Vajna]
 * 148)  FILEOPEN: Crash: WW8 import: NULL pointer dereference [Caolán McNamara]
 * 149)  After inserting an input field, the cursor is before the field, not after [Bernhard Widl]
 * 150)  EDITING: DOCX: w:kern not exported [Justin Luth]
 * 151)  !!br0ken!! in expert configuration of notebookbar [Julien Nabet]
 * 152)  LibreOffice pdfimport and ipdf filter not picking up Italic or Bold+Italic for Type1 PS fonts [Caolán McNamara]
 * 153)  Impress: User cannot finish Presentation Minimizer [Julien Nabet]
 * 154)  Support non-ascii filenames in orcus gnumeric import [Markus Mohrhard]
 * 155)  Empty sheet inserted at the beginning for any gnumeric file [Markus Mohrhard]
 * 156)  LO 5.4.0.0.alpha1+Master Sidebar: Gallery: 3 folders with  [Caolán McNamara]
 * 157)  CRASH Opening macro tab of properties dialog (images, frames) causes crash [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 158)  Customize window: Styles > Table category in Add Commands empty [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 159)  Customize window: Styles > Cell category in Add Commands empty [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 160)  Customize window: Styles > Table Design Styles category in Add Commands empty [Maxim Monastirsky]
 * 161)  Crash when deleting all area bitmaps [Xisco Fauli]
 * 162)  DOCX import: multi-page floating table with section break is not multi-page [Miklos Vajna]
 * 163)  MAX.SI function doesn't work with negative values [Julien Nabet]