Software Update: LibreOffice 4.2.2

The Document Foundation has released the second update to version 4.2 of LibreOffice. This open source office package originated as a fork of OpenOffice and comes with the word processor Writer, spreadsheet program Calc, presentation program Impress, drawing program Draw, database program Base and Formula, an application for creating scientific notations. An overview of the changes and improvements in version 4.2 is on this page to find. In this update, about thirty problems have also been fixed.

Bugs fixed against 4.2.1 final (RC1):

• fdo#41524 CUPS printing: use “collate” option when PDF is available
• fdo#64957 prevent the accumulation of rounding errors
• fdo#68927 sw: fix painting of SVG page background
• fdo#69925 wiki Publisher Extension is not working
• fdo#72041 internal strings in the external ref cache with the host document.
• fdo#72233 too long style names over-stretch dialog
• fdo#72348 re-implement BinarySearch() to disregard empty cell blocks.
• fdo#72390 let’s not skip auto styles from unmodified sheets.
• fdo#72491 always set input as text when that’s requested.
• fdo#72691 allow overwriting of string value with numeric one.
• fdo#72967 draw position size tab – min size is 0 not 1 (mm)
• fdo#73565 populate date members in a locale-safe way.
• fdo#73773 check if the *document* is closing, not the *app*.
• fdo#73800 fix incorrect separator in function description in Calc
• fdo#74284 use AccessibleRole::PANEL for VclBoxes under windows
• fdo#74345 some shared formulas cannot be exported as shared formulas.
• fdo#74512 fix the ODS export as well.
• fdo#74558 re-implement BinarySearch() to disregard empty cell blocks.
• fdo#74584 these tags should be lowercase for correct clipboard handling.
• fdo#74683 java.lang.System.mapLibraryName dylib vs. jnilib confusion
• fdo#74857 update the incrementer when skipping over hidden regions.
• fdo#75032 handle note copying correctly.
• fdo#75118 sw: do not paint zero-width lines
• fdo#75130 export cell borders to xls and xlsx correctly.
• fdo#75206 use ‘ne’ for string comparison
• fdo#75228 we still need to get the value only to pop value from the stack.
• fdo#75526 sdk: install URE library symlinks / import libs again
• i#124233 Different text rendering (word/character width) depending on zoom factor
• rhbz#1065629 RTF import probable regression with non-english BigMachines exports