More than 80 improvements

• right-click on right half of last character in selection loses the selection (Writer)
• RTF import does not repeat header / repeat heading / repeat as header row for table
• UI: Options dialog window is too small in width and height, cuts off fields but is not scrollable
• FILEOPEN DOCX Shapes overlap vertical margin in CompatibilityMode15
• FILEOPEN: docx: get extra mini space between Chinese character when open docx file
• Logo in Start Center initially shows correctly but then only shows some pixels after returning from a LibreOffice application
• Label number format lost when copy/pasting graph
• Query-GUI: LOWER isn’t supported in Query-GUI if condition is LIKE …
• Editing a conditional format from the Manage dialog changes the range / creates a new one
• PDF exported from Writer show a hyperlink’s text also as it’s tool tip in Acrobat Reader
• Editing conditional formatting from one sheet make them appear on another sheet
• Hyphenation Sidebar deck only looks good in gtk3 UI
• UI: Options - Charts - Default Colors: Chart Colors and Color Table do not represent actual value
• Inconsistent dictionary name when using ‘_’ in the name (gtk3)
• Sort function breaks and shows err504 with a single row as a result
• DOCX Shape is misplaced upon reload when added to document with an image anchored as character
• Justified Arabic / Persian text goes out of margin by typing some text
• FILEOPEN: DOCX: Multiline Docvariable field broken
• XmlFilterBase::importFragment - XML parser failed in fragment, “invalid sheet index used
• FILEOPEN RTF Automatic padding in table is 0.19 cm instead of 0
• Selection will not be shown by highlight if it is after page 490
• control properties in left sidebar not visible
• Smart justify in ToC: squashed too many spaces in order to fit on one line - should be two lines. [Forbid space shrinking in lines with tabulators]
• Context menu not showing spelling suggestions consistently
• CharBackColor returns different value compared to previous releases
• Copying specific chart changes automatic X axis labels to date format
• Copy-pasting chart with percentage formatted data label changes number format
• Chart Y axis labels change from percentage format on paste to Writer
• Navigator ‘Navigate by’ modes not changing correctly
• FILESAVE: ODP with connectors fails to open in PP when saved to PPTX
• Hyphenation cannot be turned off from the sidebar once enabled.
• Grid wrongly takes priority over “Exact” or “atLeast 0” spacing
• extra para in header before table
• FILEOPEN DOCX: inline formula no longer centred
• FILEOPEN: reference in named expression in xlsx format not recognized
• FILEOPEN DOCX inline frame: frame is improperly positioned and causes all content to shift down
• LAYOUT: ToC tabstops not properly lining up the contents/page numbers (particular document - see comment 5)
• FILEOPEN DOCX: wrong number of rows per page
• Renaming list styles is not correctly processed
• FILEOPEN PPTX: extra table border lines shown
• Crash on Clone Formatting when selecting more than one table cell
• Incorrect bookmarks list in Bookmark dialog after Name column sort followed by delete
• Optimize Persian (Farsi) AutoCorrect List
• IFERROR(LET(…)…) gives error for non-error LET result
• LAYOUT: Images no longer visible - selection handles appear on page-before-anchor-text
• UI Draw/Impress switch off Rotation mode after execution options dialog
• Libreoffice 24.8.1.2 writer file OTT, error password.
• FILEOPEN DOCX: empty line always added above table in header
• FILESAVE XLSX: corrupt warning from Excel 2019 when topLeftCell is in frozen zone
• FILEOPEN DOCX: vertical line now imported as a horizontal line
• Scriptforge asks to activate Java (JRE) even if you don’t need it
• New Appearance “color scheme” looses the distinction between active and not active part of ruler
• FILESAVE PPTX Certain presentations with embedded media fail to open with PowerPoint after saving to PPTX via command line
• Can not open file
• File picker doesn’t show correct (last used) directory
• default Automatic Appearance theme Light and dark mode Radio Button set opposite to System sets unusable colors of background and typeface (comment 5)
• Settings on macOS (Apple Silicon, ARM) freeze the app
• FILEOPEN DOCX Overlapping tracked formatting+deletion displayed incorrectly
• FILEOPEN DOCX Tracked change lost if the paragraph has a frame anchored to it
• RTF Import SYMBOL fields expand previous attributes
• Crash when undoing adding new row in table
• When I select the preferences pane it now only on occasion will open to preferences (I use dark mode on my mac). Usually it just opens to a blank window.
• Rules resolution on save break format conditioning on load
• Shell(Empty) crashes
• Opening PDF files fails with poppler 25.02.0
• Calc input field text selection glitches with RTL + kf5/kf6 UI
• dark mode: grid and font color wrong, black on black
• FILEOPEN RTF style inherits attributes from parent wrongly
• CRASH in SfxTabDialogController::ResetHdl(weld::Button &)
• FILESAVE XLSX Chart is removed when roundtripped XLSX is opened in Excel
• Crash when changing master slide AND with extra folder templates
• Writer kashida position array corrupted during editing
• uno-skeletonmaker should be able to create Java services in passive registration mode
• Format painter does not work if there is no selection
• Zoom settings are not memorized beyond exiting LO Writer
• Don’t remove all menus when no windows are open - keep Tools and Help
• Unintended zoom in or out on command key press if Calc is still scrolling.
• macOS: Applying to light/dark from LibreOffice -> Preferences > View doesn’t properly refresh the UI until restart
• Font color of the menu bar stays black when changing win10/11 from light to dark mode
• Automatic font color does not change to white on dark backgrounds in printed or directly exported to PDF documents.
• default Automatic Appearance theme Light and dark mode Radio Button set opposite to System sets unusable colors of background and typeface (comment 5)
• FILEOPEN PPTX: paragraph alignment should be overridden by shape anchorCtr=“1” with spAutoFit
• COUNTA on a true »empty range« returns 1

We want to thank all contributors for this release: