Software Update: LibreOffice 4.4.5

As the development of LibreOffice version 5.0 nears its end point, the fifth update for the 4.4 series has been released. 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. Detailed information about the changes in version 4.4.0 can be found on this page are being found. Eighty more bugs have been fixed since version 4.4.4:

Bugs fixed in version 4.4.5 RC 1

• bnc#783638 DOCX import: inline picture should have no spacing
• deb#788713 fix (fatal) perl deprecation in lo-xlate-lang
• tdf#31577 Calc “INDIRECT” range intermittently fails
• tdf#34548 EDITING: CRASH in action after Undo
• tdf#34724 EDIT: unintended date recognition of input Jan1 or 1Jan
• tdf#36406 EDITING – Saveas Hangs in Calc after an edit or on time interval set to save a copy.
• tdf#44419 Allow entire column or entire row ranges in formulae, eg A:A or 1:1
• tdf#46440 SIGSEGV in Application::IsInMain()
• tdf#55430 EDITING: Single mouse click selection of element completely drawn in front of selected filled area impossible
• tdf#61492 EDITING:Bullet and text overlap in edit view when text font size is increased by using (ctrl +]) shortcut.
• tdf#63685 FILEOPEN: docx import regression: graphic is not displayed
• tdf#65788 problems with .svg exported from Calc charts
• tdf#67712 form controls and draw objects anchored to cell but changes position after reopening
• tdf#68797 FILEOPEN lost position of lines anchored to cell
• tdf#70318 EDITING: Paragraph break is inserted unintentionally with Paste special > Text with formatting (rtf)
• tdf#74880 [Memory leak] LibreOffice crashing when importing data from 8+ ods files, but doesn’t crash on same xls files
• tdf#78854 EDITING: Undoing layout change causes it to crash
• tdf#79780 Icons not accessible after opening properties dialog in template manager
• tdf#81806 EDITING: Document corruption and crash when editing tables
• tdf#82553 FILEOPEN: Wrong import of DOCX with table (Summary in Comment 3)
• tdf#83365 Other: Access across spreadsheet returns Err:504
• tdf#84483 PRINTING: Print dialogue called from print preview causes writer to crash
• tdf#86017 Crash when pasting spreadsheet columns in DDE mode on writer
• tdf#86305 EDITING: Entering data into a cell changes array formula that references that cell
• tdf#86814 FORMATTING: sometimes no bold style in RTF file
• tdf#87245 Crash when opening Page dialog, after sorting with a macro
• tdf#87348 linked textboxes/frames don’t work in .docx format
• tdf#87460 Losing endnotes in table cell when reading docx in Writer
• tdf#87574 Outline numbering “None” is not retained when save as docx
• tdf#87820 Images not displayed properly in Calc
• tdf#88290 Numbering toolbar icon not working for certain locales
• tdf#88465 FILEOPEN PDF Import: incorrect image transformations
• tdf#88697 FILESAVE: export to word 2003 .doc format formats bibliography entries not appropriately
• tdf#88843 SIDEBAR: Can set over 100% transparency on frames using sidebar
• tdf#88911 EDITING: Crash when dragging text from document to navigator pane
• tdf#89643 report builder: function wizard segfaults as soon as a function is inserted
• tdf#89698 DOCX: Images anchored with ‘as character’ should have no spacing
• tdf#89731 Crash opening docx file
• tdf#90001 EDITING: Delete firsts or lasts sheets used in 3D formulas generates a #REF error
• tdf#90260 EDITING: Copying and pasting from rtf file to odt file adds a paragraph
• tdf#90315 FILEOPEN: RTF import incorrectly sets table columns positions
• tdf#90435 [CRASH] Nice to reproduce crash with Print Preview > Esc > Format Page
• tdf#90565 UI Dialog “Number format” (Writer tables) has focus on Help button, rather than on list Category
• tdf#90717 Calc crashes when deleting row number 11
• tdf#90804 Style preview doesn’t show correctly in the Font tab
• tdf#90960 EDITING: soffice(Calc) crashes when entering CR at end of comment that was just copy/paste’d
• tdf#90996 EDITING: comment is erased when dragging formula vertically
• tdf#91001 Cannot increase font size
• tdf#91074 FILEOPEN:RTF FILE OPEN ERROR
• tdf#91095 crash exporting the given docx to docbook
• tdf#91214 Calc: Crash on exit (steps in Comment 9)
• tdf#91228 Writer crash Insert Image, Anchor as character, Go after image, press enter
• tdf#91403 Crash in Insert – Fields – More Fields…
• tdf#91411 Problems with the cells recalculation – F9 also does not work (hard recalc needed)
• tdf#91416 EDITING: Crash on changing value in simple spreadsheet
• tdf#91420 date recognition in DateValue
• tdf#91425 CRASH – Calc Insert Columns Left
• tdf#91602 WRITER: Crash on paste with Zoom – Page width
• tdf#91613 Writer: cannot open sections with double click in the status bar anymore
• tdf#91637 EDITING: Crash inserting cross-reference category and number if text in caption has been deleted
• tdf#91641 using kmfl in calc transposes characters when editing existing text
• tdf#91675 Updated Catalan bundled dictionaries (spellchker, hyphenation, thesaurus)
• tdf#91697 String in English in macro security dialog
• tdf#91726 AutoFormat: Crash when using an existing name for a new preset
• tdf#91878 UI: no way to set a frame for a vertical orientation.
• tdf#91917 Clicking in the text or using Enter key does not move the cursor anymore
• tdf#92061 When opening an RTF file with bracketed \sub or \super in a footnote, the text body is parsed wrongly, and terminates prematurely
• tdf#92275 impress grinds to a total halt as images constantly swapped in
• tdf#92281 FILEOPEN: Only western font is set for symbols in DOC files
• tdf#92386 Writer crashes in print preview if the document is in two windows
• tdf#92425 UI: Page view Sifr icons in status bar do not change
• tdf#92431 Thumbnail not saved/reused when user does not save changes in MS format files
• tdf#92438 regression in LibreLogo icon order
• tdf#92467 Calc crashes in find and replace dialog when arrow down is used

Bugs fixed in version 4.4.5 RC 2

• coverity#1266485 untrusted value as argument
• tdf#47832 FILESAVE: Pictures on buttons, created in forms, gone after reopening form
• tdf#84762 F9 cell update fails in sheet with combination of randomnumber() with reference to other cells
• tdf#88056 [FILE OPEN/SAVE] fieldInsert ? field ? Page Title not saved / reloaded
• tdf#91453 Use configuration of text to number conversion also in arithmetic matrix operations (was: SUMPRODUCT() doesn’t work well with 4.4.3)
• tdf#92468 Range reference not justified in order when copied&pasted