LibreOffice 24.8.3

More than 80 improvements

• After pressing [Backspace] or [Delete], the document formatting gets incorrect
• update technical dictionary
• Convert - Metafile - Save Image… No function. Must use Alt+R
• CHARACTER DIALOG: Drop hyperlink from character attributes
• Copy/paste of a doc results in deviating number of pages of the original (in single page view)
• Enable extensions at Manage Templates and Options > Icon Theme/Dictionaries running from start center
• Frame disconnect after dragging down (comment 4)
• Exporting Image or Drawing to PNG is missing metadata, doesn’t match target resolution
• Win11 dark theme support–Active selections have light blue background which makes white icons and text almost invisible
• FILEOPEN PPTX: Round corners of rectangle shape render as square corners
• FILESAVE XLSX Line breaks in cells disappear

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  • CRASH when switch back from HTML View to Normal View after edit in HTML source code
  • Moving a grouped object to a different layer makes it disappear
  • Manual line break forces automatic Wrap Text - comment 17
  • Moving through cells with overflowing content changes the cells’ height and wrapping
  • Grammar context menu is not displayed if no suggestions exist
  • EDITING keyboard selection in Basic editor: selection extended one position too far (e.g. Ctrl+Right selects two strings in stead of one)
  • rtf no’open
  • Wrap text not exported to XLS/XLSX
  • Presentation is not displayed in fullscreen mode when using GTK3 as VCLPLUGIN and the screen is fractional scaled
  • Installing the same extension twice makes LibreOffice freeze (kf5/kf6)
  • UI Assign macro to shape crashes CALC
  • SVG Text in Logo has some letters out of proportion
  • RTF: combination of hidden text and character attributes fails
  • FILESAVE: PPT: placeholders not displayed after roundtrip
  • Changed format for date-field and time-field in tablecontrol of a form won’t be saved
  • Allow paste into Find/Replace box with Dvorak/QWERTY keyboard?
  • Reworked localized Impress templates look ugly in RU
  • German UI and styles: footnote number position should be superscript
  • Automatic Update stanza of the Tools -> Options -> Online Update panel does not fully show in UI
  • Wrong UTF-8 encoded Chinese characters (Skia)
  • RTF import: Frame y position wrong
  • Calc 24.8.1 crashes if Copy Paste Paste special are executed (steps in comment 6)
  • Some split cells may not paint their content on following pages
  • Regression: LibreOffice Calc 24.8 broke Page settings
  • Unexpected word breaks at the ends of lines
  • crash the file with macro
  • Soffice executable raises “Secure coding is automatically enabled for restorable state” warning when running in headless mode on MacOS Sonoma
  • With Skia, lines of transparent-area shapes disappear during animation
  • smart justified text does not wrap correctly around frame - extends into the picture area
  • Oversaturated colors on wide-gamut iMac P1 display due to lack of color management
  • FILEOPEN DOCX Writer eats bookmark of the first legacy field
  • Add support for MS Visio template format vstx
  • [pyuno] SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence ‘\P’
  • Dragging headings in Writer navigator crashes LO Writer
  • LO Writer not showing svg properly
  • ScriptForge library crash
  • A non-breaking table cell taller than page does not break across pages
  • Correttore ortografico italiano non funziona
  • Typing “-(!1)” into a spreadsheet cell and then clicking no in the dialog about formula error crashes libreoffice
  • FORMATTING: Diagonal/criss-cross borders for tables do not work in Draw/Impress
  • A non-breaking table cell taller than two pages does not break at the end of the second page
  • AdditionsDialog does not work while in start center
  • LibreOffice crashes when processing XML files containing the string “pwi”.
  • Zip64 ODS sheet not opening
  • Loading “14:30” time value from ODS produces a different result compared to DATE, DATEVALUE, or direct input
  • AutoCorrect Options; when the word “บรเพ็ชร” is entered, it becomes “บรเพชร”
  • TSA URLs are duplicated if a certificate is chosen twice in the Export as PDF dialog.
  • Icons in in-document custom toolbars created since 6.4 aren’t shown in previous versions
  • Problem with opening ODS file generated by third party software.
  • Calc crash when type-in a range in Formula Wizard
  • XBitmap.getMaskDIB() is inverted
  • slideshow: outline text effect never renders highlight color
  • Display Snap Guides not working
  • Insert Hyperlink when added to context menu displays Character dialog not Hyperlink dialog
  • Bugs found by PVS-Studio static analyzer (report in comment 35)
  • LibreOffice Draw fails to store or restore Layer data Title and Description
  • File crash in LibreOffice Writer when selecting and copying content
  • Error when reading an OOXML / Excel A1 notation 3D sheet range starting with a single-quoted sheet name, or badly writing a 3D sheet range containing a single-quoted sheet name.
  • sw smart justify: crash/assert during odt conversion of an Arabic DOCX document
  • Help in LibreOffice
  • Jumping text in Impress outline edit
  • Scrolling with a laptop touchpad in Libreoffice way too fast
  • Frames are displayed around images even though Object boundaries is unchecked, as Text boundaries control it
  • UI: Styles panel - Scrolling to bottom and/or top of style list is hard with multiple table cells selected: list always jumps back to active style
  • Bugs found by PVS-Studio static analyzer (report in comment 35)
  • Frame boundary visibility is now controlled by View > Formatting Marks
  • Scrolling after middle mouse click while editing in Writer accelerates out of control
  • LO crashes when double-clicking an image in the navigator.
  • Smart justify: wrong justification of hyphen, which doesn’t appear in exported PDF
  • Hang after copy text
  • XMATCH produce wrong results

We want to thank all contributors for this release: