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More than 60 improvements

  • null-dereference READ
  • null-dereference READ
  • right-click on right half of last character in selection loses the selection (Writer)
  • Export of drawing to jpg or png has initial zero width/height if it is 3D
  • Libreoffice Writer is not reading user page sizes from docx file
  • Function COUNTIFS empty cells are counted up to the nearest filled one, EDITING
  • Spellchecker fails to recognize words ending in period (typically abbreviation)
  • XLS with command button roundtripped as XLSX not opening in Excel
  • PPTX: Default to using Impress ‘Office Open XML Presentation’ filter (PowerPoint 2010+) (comment 48)
  • FILESAVE DOCX: save date field zero’d out (in MS Word) after round-trip
  • Bullet style does not change anymore with list indentation level
  • FILESAVE DOCX Word fails to open roundtripped document (bg2 theme color turns into light2)
  • No icons show in the UI AARM64 Win64 builds with skia lib rendering (neither raster nor Vulkan), GDI+ works but slow (comment 22 for workaround)
  • Mouse cursor insertion is offset to left of cursor when right-clicking
  • Comment resolution menu does not refresh after state change
  • In Dark Mode, when leaving chart back to Calc, label font becomes black
  • Calc hangs when very low number is formatted as a fraction
  • When extracting .svg files from .odg files, only the first page is extracted.
  • EDITING: Sheet > External Links, file with no Ranges, then with Ranges: greyed out
  • FILEOPEN DOCX Overlapping redlines: multiple Accept All / Reject All needed
  • FILEOPEN DOCX Overlapping redlines: character formatting on deleted text can not be rejected
  • FILESAVE PPTX File fails to open in PP again, difference between UI and convert-to (forum-mso-de-38427.ppt)
  • FILEOPEN PPTX Memory leak and forced close when switching to notes view
  • LibreOffice don’t start at all. A message appears on my screen telling: soffice.exe - program error
  • Page size is written to DOCX outside of range allowed by Word / [MS-OI29500]
  • Decouple bullet library items from default levels
  • FILEOPEN PPTX Text placeholder objects background becomes None instead of solid white
  • FILESAVE: PPT->PPTX Draw OLE object Data loss
  • FILEOPEN DOCX: images stretched or squeezed
  • FILEOPEN PPTX: OLE animations are not imported
  • FILESAVE: PPT -> PPTX invalid values in a:off element
  • Left hand pane of main base window does not update system theme dynamically
  • FILEOPEN: PPTX legacy VML files are not imported
  • When selecting multiple text runs and adding ruby, extra characters are added
  • Applying the original page line-spacing option does not work
  • Data provider inserts into wrong sheet
  • FILESAVE PPTX Certain layouts are exported invalid
  • Fileopen DOCX: Set of real numbers R not read properly as symbol
  • Writer freezes when opening a file
  • FILESAVE: ODP -> PPTX exporting animations without a target
  • Glyph positions are incorrect with DFKai-SB in vertical writing
  • FILESAVE: ODP -> PPTX exporting animations of shapes which are not in the current slide
  • FILESAVE: ODP -> PPTX internal links to shapes
  • FILESAVE: ODP -> PPTX missing p:pic element
  • FILESAVE: ODP -> PPTX Improper Export of StockChart
  • footnotes are getting below spacing from the continuous section break
  • paragraph before table is getting below spacing from the continuous section break
  • infinite loop/crash when saving ODS with a SCA_CELL_RESIZE form control that moved
  • Crash when undoing shape drag with Alt pressed
  • FILESAVE: PPTX -> PPTX internal names are exported in custom shape geometry
  • FILESAVE PowerPoint’s Title and Content layout doesn’t survive PPTX->ODP->PPTX conversion correctly
  • DOCX LAYOUT: top margin after continuous-section break should be “reduced” by the sectPr’s bottom margin
  • spell checking: missing support of words with non-ASCII apostrophe
  • Fileopen DOCX: Formula with brackets shows inverted question marks
  • FILESAVE PPTX Presentations with physics animations become invalid when saved to PPTX
  • table/content without cell margin shifted left of the page margin
  • LibreOffice crashed when opening a .ppt file
  • XLOOKUP horizontal search for empty cell does not work
  • Dashed lines export to SVG as solid
  • Text color in chart (auto color) becomes invisible in exported PDF when using dark theme UI
  • FORMATTING: List of forbidden characters incorrectly applied in LibreOffice Writer
  • Background color of Start Center is white in light theme

We want to thank all contributors for this release:

Aron Budea

Jonathan Clark

Xisco Fauli

Karthik Godha

Noel Grandin

Regina Henschel

Jeff Huang

Mike Kaganski

Gülşah Köse

Pranam Lashkari

Ilmari Lauhakangas

Christian Lohmaier

Justin Luth

Caolán McNamara

László Németh

Miklos Vajna

Balazs Varga

Michael Weghorn

Dan Williams

Saburo Yoshida

Tamás Zolnai

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