Software Update: LibreOffice 3.3.1 RC 1

Just under three weeks after the release of the final release of version 3.3 of the open source office suite LibreOffice, The Document Foundation has released the first release candidate of its successor. LibreOffice and The Document Foundation came about after a large number of developers left Oracle dissatisfied with how Oracle ran OpenOffice.org. LibreOffice comes with a word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet program (Calc), a presentation program (Impress), a drawing program (Draw), a database program (Base), and a scientific notation program (Formula). Compared to version 3.3 we find own icons for the various file formats, updated translations and a whole host of bug fixes.

Detailed change log:

• translation updates
• Removed old/unmaintained icon themes
• fix for don’t
  use a reference or the default formula string will be changed
• Install bash completion for oo* wrappers when enabled
  (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665402)
• Build fix: get the stlport compat workaround working for gcc 4.6.0
• Build fix: no ddraw.h or ddraw.lib in the June 2010 DirectX SDK,
  removed usage
• Windows installer: padded nologobanner.bmp, new size is 102×58
• removed gd – Gaelic, ky – Kirghiz, pap – Papiamento, ti – Tigrinya,
  ms – Malay, ps – Pashto, ur – Urdu. UI localization does not exist
  in these languages. So it makes no sense to ship packages.
• Build fix: pass thru PYTHON, found by configure. Will be used by
  filter/source/config/fragments/makefile.mk.
• Upgraded libwpd (WordPerfect filter) to 0.9.1
• Fixed BrOffice Windows start menu branding
• Removed language code ‘kid’. kid is not Koshin, but key id pseudo
  language which is good for debugging UI but should no be included
  in the product
• Added ca_XV and ast language/local name and description
• Fixed incorrect page number in page preview mode
  (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33155). when the
  window is large enough to show several ‘Page X’ strings,
  the page number was not properly incremented.
• Fixed incorrect import of cell attributes from Excel
  document. When a cell with non-default formatting attribute starts
  with non-first row in a column, the filter would incorrectly apply
  the same format to all the cells above it if they didn’t have any
  format.
• Ubuntu: fix for lp#696527 – enable human icon theme in LibreOffice
• fix for crash on
  changing position of drawing object in header.
• Changed OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice in nsplugin
• Added Occitan dictionary
• Added Ukrainian dictionary
• Fix window focus for langpack installation on Mac –
  
• Added/modified NLPsolver translations from Pootle
• fix for
• Fix for RTF export crasher
  (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656503)
• Use LibreOffice as product name for EPS Creator header
• Parse svg ‘color’ property (fixes
  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33551)
• Use double instead of float in writerfilter import
• Build fix: use PYTHON as passed through by set_soenv.in.
• fix for remove
  debug line
• fix for – fixes
  ole object import for writer (docx)
• fix for –
  rename OOo -> LibO on Getting Support Page
• Fix ooxml import: handle css::table::BorderLine in addition to
  css::table::BorderLine2 That means that table cell properties are
  correctly set on import again.
• fix for –
  wikihelp: Improve the check for existence of the localized help.
• fix for – fixes
  several crashes around config UNO API
• fix for
• fix for –
  Implementation names weren’t matching with xcu.
• Fix: don’t pushback and process a corrupt extension
• Fix: wikihelp – do not check for existence of the localized
  Help. In case we do not have the help installed, it is up to the
  online service to decide the fallback in case a language version is
  not available.
• Fix README: change su urpmi to sudo urpmi for Mandriva section
• Fix README formatting –
  – using CRLF
  instead of LF on WIN platform
• Fix README: word wrap at column 75 for better readability
• Build fix: KDE3 library search order
  (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32797). Use LINK FLAGS
  instead of STDLIBS.
• Start using technical.dic instead of oracle.dic
  (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31798)
• Build fix: add explicit QRegion* for clipRegion to fix compile of
  kde backend
• Cleanup: removed obsolete m_bSingleAltPress
• Remove the menu when Left Alt Key was pressed for GTK
• fix for use
  year of era in long format for zh_TW by default
• Fix wrong collation for Catalan language
• fix for wrong
  line break with “(”
• fix for – crash
  when iterating over the database types.
• Default currency for Estonia should be Euro – fixes
  
• Avoid a pointless GetHelpText() call in the toolbox. Fixes
  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33315. GetHelpText()
  can be quite heavy, see
  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33088.
• Paint toolbar handle positioned properly
  (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32558)
• Build fix: move cxxabi.h after stl headers to workaround gcc 4.6.0
  and stlport
• fix for –
  manipulate also the C runtime’s environment
• Fix for CTL/Other Default Font #i25247#, #i25561#, #i48064#,
  #i92341#
• RTF export crasher
  (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656503)
• Fixed an infinite loop in RTF exporter
• UI: translations need more space on word count dialog, made space
  for it.
• fix for improve
  formfield checkbox binary export (and import)