More than 50 improvements

Our community is constantly improving LibreOffice suite to give our users a more stable, reliable open source office suite. In this release the following list of issues were fixed:

• fods2xlsfuzzer Null-dereference READ
• Spellcheck does not flag missing dictionary
• Parentheses inverted in mixed RTL and LTR text in SVG export
• IMPORT Writer can lose encoding for some multibyte symbols when copy-paste from XLSX/Calc
• No thumbnail preview of document in start center
• Unintended zoom in or out on command key press if Calc is still scrolling.
• “Use level from source chapter” does not work for Graphics, Frames, and OLE Objects in User-defined index
• Santali Locale Data File
• Launching Orca after Writer sometimes crashes Writer (stack trace provided) gtk3 a11y atkwrapper.cxx
• Characters don’t appear when pressing with CMD+Z pressed for couple of seconds and track changes record enabled (macOS-only)
• Current cell highlight doesn’t update with skia hardware rendering on macOS
• Field dialog: user/variable field value field sometimes too small
• LibreOffice doesn’t set printer option “sides” leading to duplex not working on printers relying on this option
• FILEOPEN: Header/Footer not displayed
• TOC in Master document include headings from hidden sections
• RTF: combination of hidden text and character attributes fails
• Setting Additional formats - Date for a user field makes the Name and Value fields disappear in the Fields dialog
• Problem with ctrl-k and Insert/Hyperlink
• Images (BMP?) in Writer document not (all) correct in export to PDF (Windows and macOS)
• opening Zip64 files produced by Apache POI is indicated as corrupted
• FILESAVE : Cell filtering (list) not saved in XLSX format
• Broken accelerators for Width and Height in “Position & Size” dialog (gtk3)
• Bugs found by PVS-Studio static analyzer
• Saving a particular spreadsheet takes a very long time
• BASIC: ‘Dim s As String * n’ doesn’t keep the string length on assignments
• a11y: Orca doesn’t announce role for non-editable comboboxes with gtk3 VCL plugin
• can’t dock a Navigator window to its place on left side of main LO window by d&d
• macOS dictation does not visualize dictated text while speaking in LibreOffice, requires pause for text to be shown
• If “Numbers Tab” is selected when you open “Format Cells”, “Numbers Tab” is not selected by pressing [Ctrl+PageUp]
• Keyboard focus stuck in font-size selector (gtk3-only)
• FILESAVE Save to pptx loses fill on image
• Opening ODG file is reported to be corrupted when created by 3rd party software (minizip-ng)
• Changed number format of a named CellStyle is not applied correctly
• XLS, XLSX Certain roundtripped spreadsheets not opening in Excel due to regression
• Calc clears current cell when switching between app windows with CMD+backtick
• Lost Paragraph Styles when copying Impress Outline into Writer Outline since version 24.8.2.1
• Support for West-African Guinean Money (GNF)
• Slow UI refresh rate on mac when using Skia/Metal
• (May be ODF-spec related) Nested Footnotes: LO reports Read Error but ODFValidator is quite happy
• Hyphenator service: can’t call createPossibleHyphens until I call getLocales
• Hyphenator service: createPossibleHyphens may create extra zero elements in getHyphenationPositions
• If shape does not have control points, the respective fields in Slant & Corner Radius in Position and Size dialog should be disabled (kf5/kf6/gen/Win)
• SortableGridDataModel cannot be notified for changes
• Scrolling with a laptop touchpad in Libreoffice way too fast
• Option-click in a Mac scroll bar does not work properly
• Skia - resizing StartCenter window with mouse leaves black undrawn areas until mouse button released
• Spellchecker fails to recognize words ending in period (typically abbreviation)
• [Basic-IDE] In the Japanese UI, double-clicking on Basic-Code also selects strings beyond the dot
• Crashes on Editing TOC when Preview is on
• Math equations in an Impress file totally disappear when saving it as a PPTX file in 24.8
• Support for West-African Guinean Money (GNF)
• Slow UI refresh rate on mac when using Skia/Metal
• Crash upon startup after enabling Notes Pane
• Mismatching partial date input in date pre-formatted cell may lead to fraction being recognized
• Inconsistent Interpretation of Year-Month-Day like strings in Calc

We want to thank all contributors for this release: