Software Update: LibreOffice 4.3.1

The Document Foundation has released the first update to version 4.3 of LibreOffice. This open source office package originated as an offshoot 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 making scientific notations. Although this is a stable release, as always with a major release for production environments, the Document Foundation recommends sticking with the previous 4.2 branch for a while. Detailed information about the changes in version 4.3 can be found on this page are found, since 4.3.0 a further 130 problems have been solved.

Bugs fixed in 4.3.1 RC1:

• abi#2720 RTF import: handle non-graphic object after a graphic one
• bnc#467459 fix edit eng text search with expanded fields.
• bnc#812796 correctly handle static value array for OOXML charts.
• bnc#862510 PPTX import: bullets have color as following text by default.
• bnc#862514 handle corner case in slide sorter correctly.
• bnc#865381 DOCX import: handle w:jc=center inside w:textDirection=btLr
• bnc#875383 ww8import create a pagedesc if continuous section changes margins
• bnc#881024 handle 0 font height just like outdev & drawinglayer
• bnc#881025 mark axis a percent axis only when all data series are percent.
• bnc#882383 do not ignore themeOverride for charts in .pptx
• bnc#883684 better fix for this.
• bnc#884615 VML import: import OLE objects in header with background wrapping
• bnc#885548 adjust xlsx export of revisions to get it to work in excel.
• bnc#885825 support borders around data labels.
• bnc#886540 let’s not push the available area down when no titles are there.
• bnc#887225 OOXML import: Correctly apply table style for lastRow.
• bnc#887230 always use theme color for hyperlinks in Impress
• coverity#1222239 untrusted value as argument
• coverity#1222240 untrusted value as argument
• fdo#79526 button should be print, not print preview
• fdo#45418 xslt: Make sure we’re reading from the beginning
• fdo#48065 SVG: correctly clamp fill-opacity
• fdo#51534 rulers should have app-background by default (apparently).
• fdo#52076 remove empty library instead of writing it out empty
• fdo#52226 related: ensure graphics are swapped in on DrawingML::WriteImage
• fdo#54361 chart background in XLSX is transparent instead of white
• fdo#63756 icu: un-break installation of Java extensions on Windows (rel.
• fdo#67642 remove redundant ‘Preferences’ label to save some space
• fdo#69282 sw: fix updating of page styles via SwDocShell::_LoadStyles()
• fdo#72277 use NSS CACERT in cmis ucp with internal curl
• fdo#73241 RTF import: ignore page break in tables
• fdo#73806 reduce the size-request of the expert config dialog
• fdo#74124 vcl: Revert “Scale the pictures before calling …
• fdo#74295 win32 fpicker: correctly set the default file name
• fdo#74743 reworked some of the style hierarchy stuff
• fdo#75380 let’s not always set the line style to NONE here.
• fdo#76803 writerfilter: fix image wrap polygon import again
• fdo#77996 writerfilter: RTF import: re-work destination text buffering
• fdo#78502 (related: writerfilter: RTF import: fix invalid string copy
• fdo#78554 SVG: Text from SVG no longer displayed in LibreOffice
• fdo#78904 LO hangs while saving the document.
• fdo#78939 [DOCX] Hang while opening due to incorrect modification of Style
• fdo#79221 wrong rendering of bottom and right character border
• fdo#79273 Data Statistics crashes with any entry
• fdo#79276 add fallback system for autocorrection of French variants
• fdo#79278 Not too dark, not too bright background color
• fdo#79305 use SvXMLExport::GetRelativeReference(),
• fdo#79319 (related: writerfilter: RTF import: don’t lose shapes in header
• fdo#79391 LO hangs while saving the document.
• fdo#79578 properly update formulas upon change in db collection.
• fdo#79673 revert “quartz: draw ‘bullet’ for ‘space’ directly in one pass”
• fdo#79968 & Fix for embedded powerpoint & excel sheet in docx.
• fdo#79969 & Fix for embedded powerpoint & excel sheet in docx.
• fdo#80363 add _wfullpath to expand “..” in dictionary paths
• fdo#80410 sw: DOCX export: support DOCX embedded objects
• fdo#80476 start Center sidebar button are too large
• fdo#80486 writerfilter: RTF import: ignore par inside ftnsep
• fdo#80498 vcl: Revert “Scale the pictures before calling …
• fdo#80501 ensure that we notify each listener only once.
• fdo#80522 & Embedded Macro-Enabled objects are not preserved
• fdo#80523 & Embedded Macro-Enabled objects are not preserved
• fdo#80721 use the old way of drawing the pilcrow (but with changed color).
• fdo#80742 RTF filter: import RTF_OUTLINELEVEL
• fdo#80846 get the parameter order right.
• fdo#80898 fix for embedded obj 97-2003 MS Doc File
• fdo#80905 SwXTextFieldMasters::hasByName(): sync with SwXFieldMaster
• fdo#80906 Delete any control on Dialog editing window crashes LO
• fdo#80924 writerfilter: RTF import: fix shapeType PictureFrame import
• fdo#80986 disable highlight DOCX import
• fdo#81033 (related: writer filter: default tab fill character is space
• fdo#81036 escape ~ in .ui and fix a typo (straight apostrophe)
• fdo#81055 crash due to inadequate checks for GL version / capabilities
• fdo#81095 update our copy of Source Sans Pro
• fdo#81113 always run the actual detection
• fdo#81180 upload first official libgltf release: libgltf-0.0.0
• fdo#81182 glTF window size does not match with the scene size after resizing
• fdo#81213 Wrong table clause generated by reportbuilder
• fdo#81214 exceptions thrown inside XFastParser tolerate callbacks.
• fdo#81231 make this macro work again
• fdo#81276 sw: HTML import: fix inverted test in CSS import
• fdo#81294 store correct sheet number during range names update
• fdo#81304 don’t parse file name as part of URL
• fdo#81309 adjust references during sort.
• fdo#81330 when moving to a different sheet, set 3D flag on.
• fdo#81336 bison priority increase with bigger number
• fdo#81384 writerfilter: turn the horrible btLr cell text dir hack
• fdo#81445 display correct label for empty cell.
• fdo#81457 related: skip setting an empty allocation
• fdo#81470 fix a crasher during xlsx export with revisions.
• fdo#81502 sw:fix spurious”[” being painted for field marks
• fdo#81516 vcl: limit number of CFFs read from font
• fdo#81547 prevent crash by reading relevant .ui file
• fdo#81549 Crash pivot table
• fdo#81581 Mediawiki doesn’t recognize underlining
• fdo#81598 enhanced handling of multiple ClipRegions…
• fdo#81617 split formula groups at sort range boundaries.
• fdo#81641 the new style shouldn’t be a conditional style
• fdo#81651 wrong argument type in overriding class
• fdo#81803 the range has to be in the correct order,
• fdo#81835 don’t prefer GDI Metafiles to RTF/HTML — correctly.
• fdo#81867 the dialog hierarchy changed iwith the ui format,
• fdo#81892 writerfilter: RTF import: add support for table row alignment
• fdo#81893 writerfilter: RTF import: qc before page was lost
• fdo#81944 writerfilter: RTF import: don’t drop fonts in stylesheet
• fdo#81993 revert “Update default alignment …
• fdo#82035 fix loader paths
• fdo#82136 fix download of submodule tarballs
• i#119287 corrected default style for draw objects…
• i#119464 revert “Update default alignment …
• i#124856 related: guard against crash
• i#125024 remove code regarding table selection…
• i#125258 reworked some of the style hierarchy stuff
• i#125289 do apply possible changed <GraphicStreamURL>…
• i#125300 enhanced handling of multiple ClipRegions…
• rhbz#1121254 [abrt] libreoffice-core: compareTo(): ​​soffice.bin killed by SIGSEGV

Bugs fixed in 4.3.1 RC2:

• fdo#78845 packaging of fpicker ui files
• fdo#80927 quickstart causing trouble on windows, disable it
• fdo#81787 attrs are already XML-encoded by libodfgen
• fdo#81995 fix Outline numbering tab page
• fdo#82025 use strlen instead of stored length byte
• fdo#82137 don’t include working directory in tarballs
• fdo#82165 ODF import: clear all shapes when removing header content
• fdo#82413 crash in format->column
• fdo#82427 disambiguate “NOT LIKE ‘foo'”
• fdo#82430 configure: MSVC build: avoid using SSE2 instructions
• fdo#82644 write sal_Unicode chars as Unicode
• fdo#82936 do not clear the 3D flag on refupdate
• i#125386 secured user request and changed some bools to bitfield