Software Update: LibreOffice 5.4.4

The Document Foundation has released version 5.4.4 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.

Version 5.4 includes improvements in Writer and Calc in particular. For example, copying and pasting bulleted text is a lot better, the last settings used when importing CSV files are remembered and formulas can now contain a negative date. Furthermore, pdfium is integrated which provides better quality of images in pdf files and we also see some performance improvements. Version 5.4.3 had two release candidates, in which just over eighty improvements have been made.

Bugs fixed in 5.4.4 rc1:

• orz#2947 check for input stream end
• orz#3745 bad-cast
• orz#3759 check for valid starting dash index
• orz#4066 bad-cast
• orz#4076 bath palette READ
• orz#4123 do not read past end of file
• orz#4335 verify sprmTDefTable length
• orz#4406 limit escher object cell area to calc’s limits
• orz#4414 set new nWwCols after verifying legal size
• orz#4435 bad-cast
• orz#4436 check if seek succeeded
• orz#4481 move Path2DContext body to onEndElement
• orz#4484 don’t set mnRangeOpPosInSymbol on StringOverflow case
• orz#4491 bad-Cast
• rhbz#1505379
• tdf#58186 EDITING: Navigator is not Updated, if a Chapter Move (in the navigator) is Undone in the document (with Undo)
• tdf#60315 RTL: Slide pane context menu opens going left rather than going right
• tdf#82078 FILEOPEN: RTF – Bold text spilling over to non-bold text
• tdf#92190 PRINTs landscape despite configured as portrait (Mac OS)
• tdf#99537 SIDEBAR: Content panel setting not saved between context changes
• tdf#103234 Canceling content of a cell does not restore the previous text representing a value (eg ‘(/21) )
• tdf#103978 FILEOPEN: DOCX: Table is displayed behind the text
• tdf#104079 FILEOPEN: RTF: Spacing is narrower than it should be
• tdf#104228 rtf bath opening
• tdf#107111 FILESAVE: hyperlink text disappears after opening&saving specific DOCX (with some index/TOC before the link)
• tdf#107643 1.15 Line spacing has wrong preview in Paragraph dialog
• tdf#108124 CRASH: bad dynamic_cast! after redo operation
• tdf#108795 Cannot enter colon or semicolon in formula bar (French version)
• tdf#108916 .uno:LanguageStatus shouldn’t appear in the customization dialog
• tdf#109282 CRASH: When editing Visio OLE and leaving the edit mode
• tdf#110431 FILEOPEN: calc listbox entries are lost on open *.ods file
• tdf#111428 Formula cells not recalculated after column was inserted and in a shifted column a formula cell is edited/added when the next column is empty (EDITING)
• tdf#111894 PaletteManager::LoadPalettes() leaks memory
• tdf#111967 Vertical text in table formatted incorrectly
• tdf#112352 FILESAVE DOCX: Document with one column section appears with two columns in LO
• tdf#112435 navigator does not scroll when navigating to inactive document
• tdf#112547 FILEOPEN: Text on OLE object is not read
• tdf#112549 Full screen mode should hide title bar and Gnome Shell top bar
• tdf#112633 FILESAVE PPTX: Presentation has some invalid content after RT
• tdf#112808 CONTEXT MENU: ‘Edit Section’ entry appears on indexes
• tdf#112830 RTL: Toolbar tooltips flicker heavily as mouse thinks its in the opposite location (Gtk2)
• tdf#112943 Color dropdrown lists are displayed for a fraction of second (gtk3) (ambiance, radiance theme)
• tdf#113179 Referenced cells no longer colored
• tdf#113190 [Digital-Signatures][OpenPGP] Revoked and expired keys are listed as available OpenPGP keys
• tdf#113202 FILEOPEN: RTF: Incorrect vertical position of last bullet of the list
• tdf#113214 SIDEBAR: Style combobox in Styles content panel stays at “More Styles…”
• tdf#113230 Crash in: writerfilter::dmapper::DomainMapper_Impl::finishParagraph(std::shared_ptr const &)
• tdf#113263 FILESAVE: PPTX: Group shapes change position after RT
• tdf#113271 FILEOPEN: XLSX: Incorrect font colour
• tdf#113284 Crash opening index dialog
• tdf#113328 EDITING Closing Color replacer crashes the application
• tdf#113336 Crash when FILEOPEN .DOT Template
• tdf#113347 Scrolling with the horizontal/vertical toolbar is sluggish with OpenGL enabled
• tdf#113353 UI: floating toolbars have two headings (VCL: gtk2)
• tdf#113368 File Selection widget in dialog causes crash
• tdf#113378 Table properties: the icons on preset buttons for outlining the table do not correspond to the actions and the popup tooltips
• tdf#113408 FILEOPEN: RTF – Indentation of image not retained
• tdf#113428 Arabic PDF export is messy in old files < 5.3
• tdf#113446 “Edit Style” menu command missing from customize dialog
• tdf#113455 Impossible to clear “Width/Height in pages” after converting “Page style” sheet to Widget UI
• tdf#113550 FILEOPEN: RTF: Incorrect text indent
• tdf#113562 Last Digit is Automatically Deleted when Editing Formula with Comma-separated Values
• tdf#113591 Crash when switching between Calc and other LO window
• tdf#113592 LibreLogo: add fallback localization to fix platform issues
• tdf#113615 Basic command thiscomponent.currentselection(0).name returns wrong name of grouped Draw objects when GTK3 backend is used
• tdf#113647 Crash when clicking 2 times on “New Theme…” in Gallery on detached SideBar ( steps in comment 4 ) ( not gtk3)
• tdf#113657 impress crashes when trying to format – char an empty paragraph
• tdf#113695 Crash when using color picker after parent toolbar is closed
• tdf#113787 CLI versioning: cli_oootypes.config is wrong
• tdf#113790 ‘SAXParseException: Attribute w:cstheme redefined’ error upon certain changes to a DOCX
• tdf#113875 1bpp grey-level PNG images are mis-exported to PDF (as black&white)
• tdf#113889 [FILESAVE]: changes format of date in cell from DD.MM.YY to MM.DD.YY with save file to .XLSX
• tdf#113894 [Regression] Pasting text from Writer in Calc formula field doesn’t strip formatting
• tdf#113918 1bpp non-B&W PNG images are mishandled on Linux in all vcl “backends” (“plugins”)
• tdf#113935 Switching from read-only to edit mode by clicking “Edit Document” isn’t instantaneous anymore
• tdf#114011 DATEADD() LOBasic function displays year incorrectly
• tdf#114025 deadlock from lock dialog: singleton vs. SolarMutex in framework
• tdf#114112 Fields – Variables not listed alphabetically from 4.2

Bugs fixed in 5.4.4rc2:

• orz#4484 another stab at mnRangeOpPosInSymbol
• tdf#79023 ScCompiler slowness…
• tdf#109240 FILESAVE XLSX: Use of Data > AutoFilter provoke auto-creation of multiple defined Name ranges over multiple consecutive save in XLSX format of the same file causing compatibility issue with Excel 2016 (file cannot be opened in Excel 2016)
• tdf#112571 FILESAVE XLSX New named range is created every time an Excel made spreadsheet that contains print ranges is saved as XLSX
• tdf#114406 #NAME? error when using a number with percentage