More than 80 improvements

• Don’t remove all menus when no windows are open - keep Tools and Help
• [RFE] Add a “remove duplicate records” command
• update technical dictionary
• Print preview picks the color from the document background option (should be wysiwyg even in dark mode)
• Loss of functions in XLSX pivot table’s context menu until refreshed (see comment 18)
• Incorrect line breaking for CJK text in UI with certain VCL backends
• Ctrl+Shift+U unicode insertion keyboard shortcut requires keeping Ctrl and Shift pressed when inputting code, if focused in a comment (gtk3)
• Preview or changing font on sheet causes ‘adapt row height’ messages and cursor movement delay lags (editing,ui,formatting)
• LibreOffice 24.2.x can’t import python binary
• FILEOPEN DOCX Through wrapped image looks cropped
• macOS: Calc: Split Screen Issue: If a split screen is initialized from another application, window dimensions are incorrectly offset in the y-axis
• Ship Python package manager (PIP) with LibreOffice internal Python
• Font Features dialog should not show OpenType features if the font has “morx” table
• When entering a new list item in Impress 24.8 the bullets do not obey paragraph spacing
• FILESAVE DOCX compat15: document round-tripped as compat12 instead of compat15
• FILEOPEN DOCX partially-offscreen shape: wrong part now visible - and logo no longer visible
• FILEOPEN RTF Paragraph border line not rendered below empty paragraph in table
• FILEOPEN DOCX: wrong part of half-offscreen-textbox’s contents visible/printed
• LAYOUT: top margin after changing page style should be “reduced” by the “shared” amount below the previous paragraph
• Saved DOCX does not open in MSO
• LAYOUT: contour-wrapped image no longer painted
• Some type of charts with data series on the rows are impossible to edit correctly when pasted out of calc with the data table function
• FILESAVE ODT Formcheckbox is saved without attributes
• Missing call-out shapes
• FILEOPEN PPT: non-autofit text is being reduced in size
• Start Center: hover state doesn’t work consistently with SAL_RTL_ENABLED=1 and gtk3
• PPTX hyperlinks to other slides do not work
• Y-error bars not appearing (Linux and macOS)
• FILESAVE XLSX Chart is removed when roundtripped XLSX is opened in Excel
• Bibliography (by Document Content) can no longer be added due to type combo box being empty
• Master slide panel doesn’t resized correctly (GEN)
• Master slide panel is broken with Show Large Preview (GEN)
• FILESAVE PPTX: extra table border lines shown
• FILESAVE DOCX: word/glossary missing endnotes.xml and footnotes.xml (MS Word error on open)
• FILESAVE XLSX Excel fails to open exported file with incomplete drawing coming from VML
• FILESAVE PPTX PowerPoint cannot open file after round-tripped by LO
• Handle Duplicates: when the dialog opens, all checkboxes should not be marked
• Unexpected change of paragraph list level on node split
• Editing Forms: Dropdown in Listboxes is positioned nearly left of the listbox
• Locking down proxy server settings does not work
• FILEOPEN RTF page break after table missing
• Quickstarter checkbox visible even if the feature is not installed
• UI: ONLY in L.O. CALC!: In a cell, to SELECT a character mouse cursor must hover AFTER THE CHARACTER (instead of, as is normal, preceding a character) … Safe Mode does not fix … “Clear Direct Formatting” IN a cell sporadically fixes …
• Libreoffice Base hangs when two connections to a server via internal drive edit the same table
• Installing custom default template via extension stopped working
• Crash when opening PPTX file containing video link to Youtube (qt6 on Linux)
• F&R dialog shows match count modulo 64K
• FILEOPEN RTF Paragraph “auto” spacing before property is no longer overridden with DF
• MySQL/MariaDB direct Connection: Impossible to save VARCHAR with more than 255 Characters
• FILESAVE docx saved by Writer is marked as corrupted by MSWord
• FILEOPEN DOCX Certain document opens with error
• yet another zip with spurious data descriptor on directory but recovery fails
• Memory leak when inserting .mp4 videos in Impress (kf6)
• i18n: add locale data for Gronings language [gos] (gos_NL.xml)
• LibreOffice langpack installations cannot run on Apple Silicon, requires Rosetta
• Toolbar buttons remain greyed out after pasting an image and quickly clicking out of it
• Hyphenation Sidebar deck only looks good in gtk3 UI
• XLOOKUP does not work correctly if the search array and result array are each entered as an array with curly brackets.
• File picker doesn’t show correct (last used) directory
• Calc becomes VERY slow scrolling/editing if the default image brightness being adjusted
• FILEOPEN XLSX Formula containing curvy quotation marks altered on import
• PDF exports to most recent directory, not to current directory
• CRASH: Opening print dialog after print preview
• Formula becomes 0 in MSO after roundtrip
• Regression: Asian Layout: Chinese characters crowd together in paragraph due to character spacing compression
• Calc: Azerbaijani Manat ₼ (AZN) currency symbol is missing
• Chinese characters crowd together in cell due to character spacing compression
• Up arrow key fails to move cursor to previous line after soft line break
• LibreOffice langpack installations cannot run on Apple Silicon, requires Rosetta
• Toolbar buttons remain greyed out after pasting an image and quickly clicking out of it
• Hyphenation Sidebar deck only looks good in gtk3 UI
• XLOOKUP does not work correctly if the search array and result array are each entered as an array with curly brackets.
• File picker doesn’t show correct (last used) directory
• Calc becomes VERY slow scrolling/editing if the default image brightness being adjusted
• FILEOPEN XLSX Formula containing curvy quotation marks altered on import
• PDF exports to most recent directory, not to current directory
• CRASH: Opening print dialog after print preview
• Formula becomes 0 in MSO after roundtrip
• Regression: Asian Layout: Chinese characters crowd together in paragraph due to character spacing compression
• Calc: Azerbaijani Manat ₼ (AZN) currency symbol is missing
• Chinese characters crowd together in cell due to character spacing compression
• Up arrow key fails to move cursor to previous line after soft line break

We want to thank all contributors for this release: