Releases/7.2.1/RC1

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. On the other hand, the list of annoying bugs fixed 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 7.2.0 RC4


 * 1)  [abrt] libreoffice-core: (anonymous namespace)::signalHandlerFunction: soffice.bin killed by SIGABRT [Caolán McNamara]
 * 2)  PRINTING: Problem with page break when autofilter is on [Attila Szűcs]
 * 3)  Correcting a misspelled word with a comment in the middle erases the comment (see comment 38) [Justin Luth]
 * 4)  Fails to import CSV file created with CsvHelper [Eike Rathke]
 * 5)  Anchor "to Character": Anchor changes position to the document when zoom-in or out [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 6)  CSV import: very long loop in preview's field detection [Eike Rathke]
 * 7)  Define Database Range shouldn't close after having a false name [Tünde Tóth]
 * 8)  EDITING Calc: After hiding a column, column breaks and row breaks are inserted [Eike Rathke]
 * 9)  Extra filter icon appears on deleting sheet columns [Tünde Tóth]
 * 10)  Cannot link to macOS address book - crashes and restarts [Noel Grandin]
 * 11)  Navigator's tooltip shows URI-encoded URL (with %%%) instead cyrillic path to file [Andreas Heinisch]
 * 12)  Area Style/Filling dropdown from Image toolbar doesn't work [Katarina Behrens]
 * 13)  Chapter Numbering of Heading 1 changes after setting Return, if Next Style is set to Heading 2 [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 14)  TABLE STYLE: Table looses its style setting after cutting/copying and pasting [Balazs Santha]
 * 15)  FILEOPEN PPTX: some rectangular shapes are missing (SmartArt) [Miklos Vajna]
 * 16)  HTML Document: Table borders disappear, because multiple style attributes are written within a single tag [Caolán McNamara]
 * 17)  FILEOPEN DOCX Paragraph after nested table gets unexpected spacing [Justin Luth]
 * 18)  FILEOPEN DOCX: Heading get bullets (because num with no symbol doesn't block default style's number everything?) [Justin Luth]
 * 19)  Clone Button does not exist in LO Draw's Tabbed Interface [Rafael Lima]
 * 20)  Object area for auto-layouts deselected after switching to Animation Sidebar deck [Caolán McNamara]
 * 21)  REPLACE not working if there is a footnote or endnote anchor at end of paragraph [Justin Luth, Xisco Fauli]
 * 22)  Google Docs exports only (ambiguous) "en" language tag text attribute [Eike Rathke]
 * 23)  UI: The file could not be loaded! dialog appears when pressing enter in sidebar/navigatgor with a shape selected [Jim Raykowski]
 * 24)  Regression: Selection of elements is very slow [Caolán McNamara]
 * 25)  Sidebar Draw Properties deck -> Page -> Background 'Gradient' control needs additional height, the Insert Image dialog button is being clipped [Caolán McNamara]
 * 26)  LibreOffice doesn't close when opened through API on Sybase PowerBuilder [Michael Warner]
 * 27)  FILEOPEN Tracked changes in .doc file footnotes shift to the right [Caolán McNamara]
 * 28)  charts lost by calc export to xlsx [Mike Kaganski]
 * 29)  FILEOPEN XLSX “Cross other axis” value not imported [Balazs Varga]
 * 30)  Slow drawing of semi-transparent large color object [Caolán McNamara]
 * 31)  Linked background image is not read [Miklos Vajna]
 * 32)  FILESAVE PPTX Creating hyperlink to a slide with shortened name results in invalid file [Tibor Nagy]
 * 33)  UI jumps back to Misc effects after going to Entrance effect and selecting an effect [Katarina Behrens]
 * 34)  Caret misplaced after Paste+Undo [Miklos Vajna]
 * 35)  FILEOPEN PPTX Slideshow setting “Manual forwarding” not imported [Tibor Nagy]
 * 36)  Forms: Event "When losing focus" in tablecontrol appears when receiving focus [Caolán McNamara]
 * 37)  FILESAVE PPTX Start from setting is not saved [Tibor Nagy]
 * 38)  FILESAVE PPTX Custom slideshow to use setting is not exported [Tibor Nagy]
 * 39)  xlsx export: link to sheet not valid [Tünde Tóth]
 * 40)  Redo of adding table rows breaks table style after cut/paste action [Balazs Santha]
 * 41)  DateAcceptancePattern is wrong in Korean. [DaeHyun Sung]
 * 42)  FILEOPEN DOCX Drag and drop change tracked move of table in Word imported incorrectly [László Németh]
 * 43)  [GTK3] Tip of the Day dialogue is focused but does not respond to clicks until Template dialogue is closed [Caolán McNamara]
 * 44)  FORMCONTROL: Min value, max value and default value dont allow direct input - nearly unusable [Caolán McNamara]
 * 45)  Slow response in document with many headings [Caolán McNamara]
 * 46)  Memory leak when clearing contents [Mike Kaganski]
 * 47)  Crash in Calc NLP Solver when saving a document in Write. [Noel Grandin]
 * 48)  Area Style/Filling from Image toolbar doesn't match with sidebar info for Area [Katarina Behrens]
 * 49)  Crash on image delete with "Show outline-folding buttons" [Jim Raykowski]
 * 50)  kf5: Combobox only shows entries after second click [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 51)  The return value of Basic function is not initialized when called by the invoke method [Andreas Heinisch]
 * 52)  FILEOPEN DOCX Ending empty paragraphs gone from footnotes [László Németh]
 * 53)  Unnumbered Heading1 is numbered [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 54)  EDITING Validation circles move left/up on deleting a column/row [Regina Henschel]
 * 55)  FILESAVE PPTX Slideshow setting “Manual forwarding” is not saved [Tibor Nagy]
 * 56)  Image size set to 0,04 cm after disabling relative image width [Heiko Tietze]
 * 57)  sdf date time recognition fails for march ("Mär") in German [Eike Rathke]
 * 58)  UI TOC – Assign Styles dialog contents does not resize with the dialog [Caolán McNamara]
 * 59)  Inaccurate results when searching for empty cells with regex ^$ [Eike Rathke]
 * 60)  Calc crashes if a background for a sketch is selected [Caolán McNamara]
 * 61)  incorrect detection whether document changed [Caolán McNamara]
 * 62)  EDITING Opening & closing a drawing shapes Position and Size dialog sets modified status [Caolán McNamara]
 * 63)  UI problem in Draw Sidebar's Page properties pane [Caolán McNamara]
 * 64)  Err:502 in cells referencing named expressions after save-and-reload [Eike Rathke]
 * 65)  Crash in: weld::CustomWidgetController::SetPointer(PointerStyle) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 66)  Outline numbering not showing any number, only the prefix/suffix [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 67)  FILESAVE DOCX non-primitive custom shape without handle is exported as rect [Regina Henschel]
 * 68)  Mysql MEDIUMINT data type but interpreted correctly by Base table definition [Julien Nabet]
 * 69)  FILESAVE XLSX 1001+ rows are lost after saving new file [Xisco Fauli]
 * 70)  FILESAVE ODS Two column shape setting not saved [Mike Kaganski]
 * 71)  Crash when switching transitions (kf5) [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 72)  PDF import do not take embedded fonts [Kevin Suo]
 * 73)  FORMATTING: Date format is mangled when file is closed and reopened [Eike Rathke]
 * 74)  Multilevel outline numbers not showing [Vasily Melenchuk]
 * 75)  Calc crashed in Copy & Paste Special [Mike Kaganski]
 * 76)  Find and Replace works incorrectly with regex "^." and selection only [Xisco Fauli]

Translations
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