More than 70 improvements

• dereference null return value
• BASIC runtime error. ‘380’ Incorrect property value
• (EMF-WMF) [META] EMF/WMF (Enhanced/Windows Metafile) bugs and enhancements
• Comments with track changes deleted and crossed in Writer are wrongfully seen in MSO Word as if not deleted
• Database wizard opens when press cmd+A inside the extension manager window
• Navigator’s tooltip shows URI-encoded URL (with %%%) instead cyrillic path to file
• Dialog title bar contains URL-encoded character from filename
• UI Enabling hidden Writer header/footer works unreliably
• Format Basic function converts string to number irrespective of format string
• Toolbar button for enclosing text in () brackets
• LibreOffice Draw 7.6 draw lines thinner than 7.4
• Clear direct formatting PLUS Clear character level formatting
• [LOCALHELP] Help page for Application Themes
• “Number of lines” control missing in chart type dialog for “Columns and Lines”
• Applying Chi Squared random number with 0 nu Value asserts in random.h
• Left/Right alignment with ‘Mirror on even pages’ option in Page Number Wizard results with opposite positon
• Interdependent change tracking improvements
• Crash if I set the Slide Transition Modify Transition Variant to Top to Bottom
• Changing the paragraph style on a list entry removes the list
• ODT filter: format redline char properties are lost
• Typing error in help for function COUPPCD()
• Line break typos in Chinese due to Chinese quotation marks
• LibreOffice changes the default folder to “saves as” and “export to pdf” many times for a same opened document, if it’s saved during use
• CairoSDPR breaks SVG text layout
• Calc: Inserting hyperlink from API fails, when not using cursor
• External data links confirmation dialog shows URI encoded URL with %20
• Drag-and-drop a PDF file on a spreadsheet fails with “General input/output error”
• CRASH: deleting columns and undoing
• RTF import: Hyperlink pointing to a system path with backslashes imports with double backslashes
• Incorrect labels of X-Axis while creating charts in Calc and Impress in 25.8. Resets to correct labels after reopening saved file.
• DOCX: Header and footer is missing after opening the file and also converting to the PDF
• Writer mail merge letter adds 2 days to the dates of the calc-spreadsheet datasource
• Bug in Calc when text cells are vertically oriented and “shrink to fit” is selected
• FILEOPEN: DXF files with comments lines are no longer recognized as drawings and are therefore not opened by Draw but by Writer as text files
• When a previously saved .odg file is opened in LibreOffice Draw, any line is selected, then under “properties” the line “thickness” is selected, the previously saved line thickness automatically changes to 0.5.
• EDITING - Box resizing becomes erratic
• ODF: invalid attribute for character change tracking in ODF strict
• Data to Text: insert as text adds 2 days to date columns
• Data to Text: insert as field adds 2 days to date columns
• Data to Text: insert as table adds 2 days to date columns
• Page break with page style with page number in table properties is wrong
• CRASH: pasting to Master Hangout
• SVG text elements get displaced after importing
• SVG: support RTL text direction
• A double variable cannot be assigned the specified minimum value
• First letter of Writer numbered list items lost when pasting to Impress text box
• AutoCorrect: After Removal of Replacement Entry the Replacement Itself is still Performed.
• Cell comments disappear when form control copied on the sheet (steps: comment 10)
• The cell range cannot be selected using the validity and no longer be able to close Calc
• Direction buttons placed one on top of the other in NB Tabbed UI
• CALC. Changing cell number format error with special characters
• Crash when editing paragraph after toggling outline folding
• do not use FillColor==COL_TRANSPARENT on OutputDevice if that OutputDevice does not support alpha
• Document Colors do not appear anymore in the color selection (concerns Editing)
• Calc cell comments are deleted on Save
• crash collapse a heading
• In Writer, Change Case command (SHFT+F3) cannot provide Sentence Case if we select a bullet/numbered list
• Warning about “alien formats” has lost the ability to easily avoid seeing it again
• Setting character spacing does not disable ligatures in Draw and Impress
• LibreOffice Calc hijacks command-option-space on Mac
• crash: use sidebar manage changes to reject all when UNDO is involved
• Basic code gives no result when accessing toolbar buttons - Regression
• SUMPRODUCT() refuses to work under unclear conditions. Shows unexpected #VALUE! error.
• The ScriptForge ImportCSVFile method creates an error when the second but last value contains a comma in a CSV file.
• Edit under filter and then reset the filter, Calc crashed
• Function Str("") of empty string get “0”
• Date literal has type “Double” in Basic
• Draw Crashes on new document when pressing CTRL+pgUp/pgDown
• Incorrect Autocorrection replacement table Swiss German (de-CH): ss vs ß
• LibreOffice writer 25.8.1 crashes when trying to insert a frame for a table

We want to thank all contributors for this release: