Software Update: LibreOffice 4.4.4

As the development of LibreOffice version 5.0 nears its end point, the fourth update for the 4.4 series has been released. 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. Detailed information about the changes in version 4.4.0 can be found on this page are being found. About 75 more bugs have been fixed since version 4.4.3:

Bugs fixed in version 4.4.4 RC 1

• bnc#203704 RTF export: fix unexpected table row break [Miklos Vajna]
• coverity#1296209 logically dead code (gold) [Caolán McNamara]
• rhbz#1198848 sw: delete *all* table redlines to fix DOCX import crash
• rhbz#1205072 [abrt] libreoffice-core: SwListImpl::~SwListImpl(): soffice.bin killed by SIGSEGV
• rhbz#1213173 [abrt] libreoffice-core: com::sun::star::uno::WeakReferenceHelper::clear(): soffice.bin killed by SIGSEGV
• rhbz#1215060 pass std::exceptions through
• rhbz#1215443 [abrt] libreoffice-core: operator== >(): soffice.bin killed by SIGSEGV
• tdf#55502 shell BASIC function with empty third param hangs
• tdf#62536 RTF export: ignore hyperlinks without an URL
• tdf#65498 don’t confuse logically r/o doc with physically r/o
• tdf#66232 cannot open files by COM2
• tdf#66999 odf2xhtml: there is no attribute ‘name’
• tdf#71034 [OS X] Ugly (too heavy) fake bold [Khaled Hosny]
• tdf#71278 fix cursor hiding in presentation mode
• tdf#72007 on switching decks keep our left indent, don’t assume 0
• tdf#73211 gtk checkboxes need erase afer toggling
• tdf#75019 bookmarks in exporting to mediawiki
• tdf#75256 improve sifr – autopilot and conditionalformatdialog
• tdf#75360 line breaks in exporting to mediawiki
• tdf#76825 styles drop down menu is too narrow
• tdf#78834 enable localized system dialogs on OS X
• tdf#79975 toggle checked background back on
• tdf#80075 correct Writer formula bar screenshot
• tdf#80708 RTF export: fix unexpected table row break
• tdf#82968 python3: fix stdio detection on WNT harder
• tdf#82998 assume VALUE_CHANGED makes sense only for windows
• tdf#83366 copy and Paste crashes Calc when original doc closed
• tdf#84435 mod operator does not deal with decimals as described in help
• tdf#85424 sw: fix ~SwIndexReg assert in SwXText::insertControlCharacter()
• tdf#85432 don’t assume Country to be always present, follow-up
• tdf#85769 fix duplicate attribute export to docx…
• tdf#86182 RTF import: fix handling or \rtlpar
• tdf#86329 interactive crop preview shouldn’t scale proportionally
• tdf#86624 it works if we first set the size and then the position,
• tdf#87509 fix default sdr attribute is special object.
• tdf#87545 don’t confuse logically r/o doc with physically r/o
• tdf#87735 updated Danish dictionary
• tdf#88056 implement ODF import/export or page title field
• tdf#89152 add missing .ui localizations to install script
• tdf#89182 draw Note mark before text for correct ZOrder
• tdf#89231 if no font has 0x202F fallback to a normal space
• tdf#89510 enable “Check uppercase words” by default
• tdf#89750 svx:fix ExternalToolEdit on Windows
• tdf#89794 sw: implement SwXFlatParagraph::getPropertySetInfo()
• tdf#89957 prevent crash, not really fixed
• tdf#90110 basic: fix Randomize statement
• tdf#90141 layout crash with table in footnote
• tdf#90155 don’t hide+show window before initial show completes
• tdf#90264 missing translation in button UI for pt_BR
• tdf#90421 RTF export: ignore hyperlinks without an URL
• tdf#90474 line breaks in exporting to mediawiki
• tdf#90604 vcl: reduce MapMode precision further to 32 bits…
• tdf#90614 oups… I was too eager in replacing getAny() with makeAny()
• tdf#90723 LibreLogo: missing oldlcap initialization
• tdf#90757 ensure start row / end row order makes sense
• tdf#90808 sw: fix detection of duplicate CrossRefBookmarks
• tdf#90809 i18npool: fix crash in Thai break iterator
• tdf#90816 sw: fix bookmark loss in SwUndoDelete
• tdf#90846 ‘Optimal View’ mislabelled in English (GB)
• tdf#90905 fix for url encoding in internal urls
• tdf#90911 fix wrong parameter size on getsockname
• tdf#90929 fix Thai translation of ‘Tabloid’ page format
• tdf#90946 sw: ODF import: ignore invalid gradient-name if style SOLID
• tdf#90969 basic: add horrible hack to avoid crash due to …
• tdf#90999 import spreadsheetML cells with inline formatting tags
• tdf#91009 correct thousands separator character for locale es_CR
• tdf#91057 transliterateChar2Char throws MultipleCharsOutputException
• tdf#91078 check also DBData modified, not only named expressions
• tdf#91140 ODF import: try to ignore invalid draw:fill=”solid”
• tdf#91195 vcl: reduce MapMode precision further to 32 bits…
• tdf#91261 DOCX import: snapGrid property of paragraphs are ignored

Bugs fixed in version 4.4.4 RC 2

• tdf#90694 check bounds in RPN tokens, related and others
• tdf#91228 fix Writer crash