Software Update: LibreOffice 4.3.2

The Document Foundation has released the second update to version 4.3 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 making scientific notations. While 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 4.3.1 more than 80 problems have been solved.

Bugs fixed in 4.3.2 RC1:

• bnc#480256 OOXML import: Respect table background properties a bit more
• bnc#519228 fix reading even/odd page breaks from .docx
• bnc#529470 I can’t remove a path in AutoText dialog
• bnc#648251 avoid opening embedded OLE object as “text”
• bnc#708518 sd: check that master page matches when setting parent style
• bnc#719994 we need the proper alpha mask
• bnc#751077 copy first-header-footer test from ww8 to ooxml
• bnc#770711 make changing table text color in impress always work
• bnc#780843 copy first-header-footer test from ww8 to ooxml
• bnc#787942 fix reading a .doc that has frame anchored to the end of page
• bnc#821916 better algorithm to find placeholder shape.
• bnc#822170 let’s not even try to export invalid chart objects.
• bnc#822347 if number type is not set, skip numbering
• bnc#862510 PPTX import: Properly show data labels in percent format.
• bnc#865381 DOCX import: handle table cell property
• bnc#880448 improved handling of placeholder shapes
• bnc#885548 set the date time mode to non-fixed after the import is done.
• bnc#887227 do not set TextAutoGrowHeight for vertical text.
• coverity#1209547 fix build, Unchecked dynamic_cast
• fdo#36313 CLI: Encoding issue when Converting documents: esp. UTF-8 in headless mode
• fdo#38414 FILEOPEN FORMATTING complex table layout in DOCX
• fdo#39477 Mac Keyboard shortcut “Option” key doesn’t show properly in the Customize dialog.
• fdo#44081 EDITING – A form set to open in read-only mode can never be switched back
• fdo#45286 FILESAVE as .xlsx destroys link to linked contents
• fdo#46635 FILESAVE Endless loop during autorecovery if format not writable
• fdo#46678 deadlock between SolarMutex and CPython global lock
• fdo#48110 FORMATTING: Get rid of the confusing and wrong “Automatically” currency format.
• fdo#63905 FORMATTING: Page format in draw is not sent to the printer
• fdo#67615 Fields in table-control of a form show ‘0’ instead of text, when GUI-language isn’t English
• fdo#69162 CRASH – Cmd-arrow and Opt-arrow in query designer GUI crashes LibreOffice
• fdo#71625 Endless autosave loop if the document is not linked to a file
• fdo#77516 Crash when setting sub-grid to 0
• fdo#78906 FILEOPEN: LO crashes while opening the file
• fdo#79227 Truncated text “Table” and “Term” tools
• fdo#79276 add acor-fr-XX.dat to all FR variants (CA-BE-CH…) to get the Autocorrect table populated for these locales
• fdo#79441 Internal references to other sheets not sorted (procedure comment 31)
• fdo#79599 FILEOPEN FILESAVE RTF: Libreoffice produces incompatible rtf-code for text-highlighting (uses \chcbpatN instead of \highlightN)
• fdo#79917 ‘Save a Copy’ not available in other modules
• fdo#80058 Completion of function with a dot in the name, inserts wrong name: part before the dot appears twice
• fdo#80474 Mac OS X toolbar background isn’t drawn correctly
• fdo#80534 UI Dialog Table properties: Checkbox to repeat table header has no effect due to bad default value (0) for the number of rows
• fdo#80755 StartCenter displays thumbnails or password-protected files
• fdo#80874 EDITING: calc crashes on sort
• fdo#81010 Calc crashes when sorting using autofilter sort
• fdo#81044 Importing XLS with HTML content puts an UTF-8 BOM in cell A1
• fdo#81046 crash
• fdo#81084 Sort causes crashes
• fdo#81102 FILEOPEN: DOC “different odd & even pages” header/footer setting lost if even page header/footer are blank
• fdo#81425 glTF: limitation of walk-through mode
• fdo#81552 CRASH: draw or impress fail to start if avahi service publishing disabled
• fdo#81696 CRASH while sorting cells with conditional formatting
• fdo#81933 EDITING: “Slide” panel will switch to slide one when right clicking to insert a new slide.
• fdo#82038 Other: Send as –email error
• fdo#82067 FILEOPEN: RTF images not in correct position
• fdo#82106 FILEOPEN: RTF tab stop spacing not retained
• fdo#82128 FILESAVE: “Select Protected/Unprotected Cells” status is lost
• fdo#82151 VIEWING: subform link to master fields never updated (subforms always displays data of *first* master row)
• fdo#82183 DDE() related segfault (reproducible)
• fdo#82241 Other: Wrong function with underscore or point variant when choose with enter
• fdo#82259 Font dropdown language hint is nonsense for some fonts
• fdo#82278 Writer: Edit-> Object -> Save Copy menu non-functional
• fdo#82355 Cannot open and closed and crashed unexpectedly.
• fdo#82418 FILEOPEN: CSV (Text) Import defaults to UTF-16 resulting in garbled text and can freeze LibreOffice
• fdo#82484 Writer crash / segmentation fault when opening odt-file
• fdo#82503 FORMATTING: Conditional formatting not copied
• fdo#82747 FILEOPEN: Crash on opening wikipedia ODT Book
• fdo#82757 Commit of unchanged date field corrupts the field
• fdo#82904 OO,o-generated Word 95 file has mangled textencoding on load in LO
• fdo#82985 Make a generic autocorrect for German/Spanish/Italian languages
• fdo#83062 Cannot open ODG file created on 3.xx
• fdo#83067 Sort broken when using functions NOW, TODAY, INFO and RAND
• fdo#83068 FORMATTING: Percentage font size problems (in Writer styles) – Czech GUI
• fdo#83137 xpdfimport.exe crashes
• fdo#83251 Master Document: Dialog disappears immediately when click on “Insert” icon
• fdo#83312 FILEOPEN: MS OpenXML strict charts color lost
• fdo#83481 EDITING: Incorrect syntax for external references with Excel A1 or R1C1 formula syntax
• fdo#83501 Text too long on dialog box linking tables in a query – covering buttons at bottom.
• i#123048 infinite recursion
• icu#11054 crashes in bracketAddOpening
• icu#11100 resolveImplicitLevels woes
• rhbz#1079672 Insert image dialog inserts wrong image when double-clicking
• rhbz#1125588 port LibreOffice to ppc64le

Bugs fixed in 4.3.1 RC2:

• fdo#80650 lower case greek alphabet missing in localized Math symbol table