Releases/4.2.4/RC1

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 other ODF supporting software, please report this as a bug.
 * LibreOffice Windows installers are signed by The Document Foundation.

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 4.2.3 final:
 * 1)  DOC import: fix unwanted char background in numbering char style [Miklos Vajna]
 * 2)  import PPTX background images with table-name. [Muthu Subramanian]
 * 3)  bullet sizes set wrong. [Muthu Subramanian]
 * 4)  DOCX import: table cell btLr text direction fixes [Miklos Vajna]
 * 5)  crash with "New style from selection" with List [Caolán McNamara]
 * 6)  dereference before null check [Caolán McNamara]
 * 7)  dereference before null check [Caolán McNamara]
 * 8)  uninitialized scalar field [Caolán McNamara]
 * 9)  uninitialized scalar field [Caolán McNamara]
 * 10)  missing break in switch [Caolán McNamara]
 * 11)  import casemaps from pptx. [Muthu Subramanian]
 * 12)  DOC import: fProtEnabled means document is not totally read-only [Miklos Vajna]
 * 13)  handle .doc cropping also inside groups [Luboš Luňák]
 * 14)  workaround for rounding errors when handling merged cells [Luboš Luňák]
 * 15)  partially revert c5a8a2c3cbcee0175127a0662e3d820ea4deea22 [Bjoern Michaelsen]
 * 16)  escape underscores in menus for unity [Samuel Mehrbrodt]
 * 17)  export sheet tab colors to xlsx. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 18)  RTF import: 3 drawing-object fixes: [Miklos Vajna]
 * 19)  don't crash if we can't create an instance of a calc addin. [Michael Meeks]
 * 20)  printers list does not increase height with Print Dialog [Caolán McNamara]
 * 21)  fix PDF export of cropped SVG [Michael Stahl]
 * 22)  KDE4: prevent blocking in Display::Yield [Jan-Marek Glogowski]
 * 23)  apply object-in front selection on mouseUp [Lennard Wasserthal]
 * 24)  RTF import: handle cells with zero width [Miklos Vajna]
 * 25)  fix Graphite ligature replacement at line breaks [László Németh]
 * 26)  adjust reference during undo of drag-n-drop of cell range. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 27)  fill the range edit boxes after the table is fully initialized. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 28)  write (no)wrap of text only for custom shapes to .pptx [Luboš Luňák]
 * 29)  SwTxtSizeInfo / SwTxtInputFldPortion: invalid string access [Miklos Vajna]
 * 30)  update catalan linguistic components [Joan Montane, Caolán McNamara]
 * 31)  fix default alignment in RTL mode. [Hannah Lyhne]
 * 32)  explictly export font properties. [Muthu Subramanian]
 * 33)  make FormFieldDropDowns a real fieldportion [Caolán McNamara]
 * 34)  inspect if a mis-spelled word is at cursor position... [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 35)  adapt to OUString changes and set length exactly. [Matúš Kukan]
 * 36)  handle moving of named ranges correctly. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 37)  RTF import: work around wrong table column width on invalid input [Miklos Vajna]
 * 38)  asterisk at the beginning of Paragraph without "Nowiki" [Julien Nabet]
 * 39)  remove OOo1.0 file formats from Save As. [Michael Stahl, Bryan Quigley]
 * 40)  cutting nothing should do nothing, should fix field dupes [Bjoern Michaelsen]
 * 41)  apply the same fix from writer table to character bordering. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 42)  discard invalid user data [Caolán McNamara]
 * 43)  asterisk at the beginning of Paragraph without "Nowiki" [Julien Nabet]
 * 44)  do DiscoveryService socket setup off the main thread. [Andrzej Hunt]
 * 45)  configure: disable LTO by default for MSVC too [Michael Stahl]
 * 46)  avoid repeated table layouting [Luboš Luňák]
 * 47)  on change of User Field via UNO-API... [Oliver-Rainer Wittmann]
 * 48)  re-implement CompileNameFormula for formula groups. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 49)  correct name of Outline Numbering dialog [Laurent Balland-Poirier]
 * 50)  SwFEShell::InsertRow: fix this in case bSelectAll == true [Miklos Vajna]
 * 51)  use SHA1 from openssl/nss instead of rtl_digest_sha1 [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 52)  let's do it in a straightforward fashion. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 53)  clear sheet deleted flags for affected references when undoing. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 54)  LO Crashes while saving the docx file containing only opening brace [Dinesh Patil]
 * 55)  set the border type to NONE to ensure it won't be drawn. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 56)  oox: add support for MSO 2007 SP2 encrypted documents [Tomaž Vajngerl]
 * 57)  assure correct line break for multi-lined Input Fields [Oliver-Rainer Wittmann]
 * 58)  properly intern string literals in formula on xls import. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 59)  sw: do not start up every OLE object on deletion [Michael Stahl]
 * 60)  handle range reference expansion in named ranges. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 61)  write output cell string to  element when saving to ods. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 62)  avoid joining new formula cells individually. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 63)  remove BerkeleyDB from license text [Andras Timar]
 * 64)  accept proper number style condition != as not equal operator, [Eike Rathke]
 * 65)  fix wildcard support in File Open dialog [Andras Timar]
 * 66)  error msg in Web Page Wizard dialog [Julien Nabet]
 * 67)  long delay when changing font size from % to pt [Caolán McNamara]
 * 68)  explictly list common lang-independant template dir [Caolán McNamara]
 * 69)  calc link auto-update interval is changed on file save [Niklas Johansson]
 * 70)  hidpi: Increase the threshold of what DPI we consider hi-dpi. [Jan Holesovsky]
 * 71)  embeddedobj: avoid unneeded conversion in ConvertBufferToFormat [Miklos Vajna]
 * 72)  crash with "New style from selection" with List [Caolán McNamara]
 * 73)  share string pool with clip documents. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 74)  EMF+ rendering: improve EmfPlusSetClipPath's CombineModeExclude case [Miklos Vajna]
 * 75)  don't re-compile formulas when the hybrid formula is not there. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 76)  compare external formula tokens correctly. [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 77)  assure correct line break for multi-lined Input Fields [Oliver-Rainer Wittmann]
 * 78)  improved support for PNG clipboard format on windows [Armin Le Grand]
 * 79)  check if the resulting polygon... [Jürgen Schmidt]
 * 80)  add check for image data offset... [Jürgen Schmidt, Miklos Vajna]
 * 81)  on change of User Field via UNO-API... [Oliver-Rainer Wittmann]
 * 82)  handle bad surrogate pairs gracefully on Windows [Herbert Dürr]
 * 83)  restore stream position after Seek to end of stream [Oliver-Rainer Wittmann]
 * 84)  partially revert c5a8a2c3cbcee0175127a0662e3d820ea4deea22 [Bjoern Michaelsen]
 * 85)  intermittent a11y crash in calc [Caolán McNamara]
 * 86)  intermittent a11y crash in calc [Caolán McNamara]
 * 87)  [abrt] libreoffice-core: std::__throw_length_error: soffice.bin killed by SIGABRT [Eike Rathke]
 * 88)  docx with negative left margin and border on table does not display properly in LibreOffice 4.2.2.1 [Luboš Luňák]
 * 89)  [abrt] libreoffice-core: ScAccessibleDocument::GetVisibleArea_Impl const: soffice.bin killed by SIGSEGV [Caolán McNamara]
 * 90)  [abrt] libreoffice-core: writerfilter::dmapper::lcl_MoveBorderPropertiesToFrame: soffice.bin killed by SIGSEGV [Caolán McNamara]
 * 91)  [abrt] libreoffice-core: mdds/multi_type_vector_itr.hpp update_node: soffice.bin killed by SIGSEGV [Kohei Yoshida]
 * 92)  libreoffice produces incorrect PDF export of cropped SVG graphics [Michael Stahl]
 * 93)  [abrt] crash in ScAccessibleDocument::GetVisibleArea_Impl [Caolán McNamara]
 * 94)  [abrt] crash in ScAccessibleDocument::GetVisibleArea_Impl [Caolán McNamara]
 * 95)  [abrt][a11y] libreoffice-core-3.6.3.2-8.fc18: ScAccessibleDocument::GetVisibleArea_Impl: Process /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV) [Caolán McNamara]
 * 96)  [abrt][a11y] libreoffice-core-3.6.5.2-6.fc18: ScAccessibleDocument::GetVisibleArea_Impl: Process /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV) [Caolán McNamara]