Download LibreOffice 4.2.1

The Document Foundation has released the first update to version 4.2 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 creating scientific notations. An overview of the changes and improvements in version 4.2 is on this page to find. In this first update, more than a hundred bugs have been fixed.

Bugs fixed in version 4.2.1:

• abi#2128 RTF import: fix memory leak
• coverity#1130443 improper use of negative value
• coverity#1169826 dereference after null check
• coverity#707771 coverity gold, Uninitialized m_refCount
• collabora#1000018 RTF import: fix memory leak
• collabora#100030 use internal API to fill dxf styles during xlsx import.
• fdo#33852 do not remove too much from the path
• fdo#35365 in autodetected a11y HC mode, pull background color from theme
• fdo#35779 set the bg color of the editeng from the text shape
• fdo#36580 fix crash during xls import, related
• fdo#37167 create statement before execute/wasNull/getBoolean
• fdo#38838 # Determining bMail was accidentally inverted
• fdo#44270 vcl: GTK+ file picker: fix non-grouped filter patterns
• fdo#46707 don’t bother with synonyms for text with mixed script types.
• fdo#51180 reset (Multi)Selection on Clear()
• fdo#56511 don’t unduly delay Bridge termination
• fdo#60036 guard against null pointer access on LRU function list,
• fdo#61251 prefer exact matches before case guess matching
• fdo#62082 fix buttons in Custom animation toolbar
• fdo#63553 sw: fix copy/paste or cross references
• fdo#65430 related forgot to ‘unlink’ setOpenTemplateHdl
• fdo#65826 related Set StartCenter’s min width to display one column of docs
• fdo#66011 RTF import: fix memory leak
• fdo#67235 default(Date|Time) is a UNO struct now
• fdo#67238 sw: fix table cell Unprotect
• fdo#68211 fix for “General input/output error” while opening file
• fdo#68876 sw: layout should never care about IsFirstShared()
• fdo#69244 avoid putting these cells in formula tree prematurely.
• fdo#69652 default(Date|Time) is a UNO struct now
• fdo#69873 FixedText (label) is implemented as no value
• fdo#70376 put only document (file) name in window title on OS X
• fdo#70796 fix quoted printable encoding bug in internal Python
• fdo#71511 in autodetected a11y HC mode, pull background color from theme
• fdo#72005 insert the border rectangle to the bottom of the stack.
• fdo#72187 implement KDE4 picker notifications
• fdo#72219 fix for corruption of symbols in docx
• fdo#72338 startcenter: Show busy mouse pointer when starting apps.
• fdo#72420 startcenter: help button point to local/wiki help, help part
• fdo#72470 correctly calculate the first edit cell row position.
• fdo#72521 fix editable combo-boxes behavior under KDE4
• fdo#72733 fix crash on abi2010-1.doc example
• fdo#72774 generate correct group items for the year group.
• fdo#72786 fix for “General input/output error” while opening file
• fdo#72928 fix deadlocks in librdf_Repository
• fdo#72947 startcenter: display more userfriendly file urls in tooltips
• fdo#73103 fix editable combo-boxes behavior under KDE4
• fdo#73263 change the default color for reference border to non-red.
• fdo#73281 strikethrough missing if applied only to a part of the cell text
• fdo#73300 sw: GraphicObjects are never swapped out
• fdo#73363 sd: fix mis-detection of Visio files as PPT
• fdo#73374 trendline: correct R^2 for forced intercept
• fdo#73408 make the software interpreter selection stick in the UI.
• fdo#73464 revert “Disable LTO for now – suspected cause of .”
• fdo#73484 ensure that we import all tab settings from Excel.
• fdo#73487 overhaul cell borders to make them look sane.
• fdo#73605 and set a minimum size to start center
• fdo#73606 avoid excessive and unnecessary heap allocation of array objects.
• fdo#73799 make some items in the filter dialogs translatable.
• fdo#73886 overhaul cell borders to make them look sane.
• fdo#73904 backport Message dialog creation from message strings
• fdo#73970 CMYK labels are switched
• fdo#73986 don’t forget to receive returned object from for_each.
• fdo#74014 broadcast changes during undo and redo after paste.
• fdo#74042 don’t attempt to copy more than a string has to offer
• fdo#74051 support 8430×11700 jpegs
• fdo#74057 wordlist truncated on left
• fdo#74104 backport Message dialog creation from message strings
• fdo#74119 fix unlocalized redline menu
• fdo#74148 sfx2: fix crash when editing template
• fdo#74160 firebird XParameters::setString truncate to 65535 characters
• fdo#74194 revert “Improve Spreadsheet performance…”
• fdo#74209 this search algorithm had another issue. This fixes it.
• fdo#74226 vcl: try to fix sizes in ImplBlendToBitmap(related:
• fdo#74230 related: Area tab page: prevent default gradient/hatch/bitmap
• fdo#74273 let’s not shift the note twice. Once is enough.
• fdo#74291 template manager-store selection before calling dialog
• fdo#74323 the end position is inclusive.
• fdo#74325 ensure that all note objects have an sdr object before exporting.
• fdo#74363 fix auto correct of initial capitals on start of first para
• fdo#74366 # Determining bMail was accidentally inverted
• fdo#74414 no need to incremenet nRow here… It’s just plain wrong.
• fdo#74435 SdrPageView::DrawLayer(): hack to avoid spuriously visible images
• fdo#74453 only adjust tokens for top formula cells of formula group.
• fdo#74474 sw:fix Label wizard document creation (2 in 1)
• fdo#74479 treat empty cells as if they have a value of 0.
• fdo#74489 replace ‘n’ to ‘ ‘ in fields (eg multiline headings)
• fdo#74495 gbuild: AutoInstall: add support for ComponentCondition
• fdo#74506 template manager-store selection before calling dialog
• fdo#74507 ensure that we have non-null pointer to ScColumn.
• fdo#74512 generate escaped sheet names after the grammer is set.
• fdo#74516 avoid excessive building of escaped sheet names.
• fdo#74519 don’t drag around and use an uninitialized variable.
• fdo#74521 only pick cell notes for that sheet, and skip the rest.
• fdo#74535 don’t forget clear the edit engine before re-using it.
• fdo#74553 use the shared formula column position Excel tells you…
• fdo#74556 correctly handle note captions life cycles.
• fdo#74597 related Java on Mac doesn’t use javaldx/library path fiddling
• fdo#74622 re-internal shared strings copied between documents
• fdo#74780 correct export of User Variable Input Fields
• fdo#74820 failed to recognized Heading 6-Export to MediaWiki
• fdo#74824 update mdds to 0.10.2 which fixes one crasher bug.
• i#101863
• i#121136 Improve Spreadsheet performance in some area
• i#124178 New InputFields – Reopened file is corrupted if there is text after the InputField
• i#124179 New InputFields for UserFields don’t update automatically
• i#86296 runner: toolkit.UnoControlContainerModel::com::sun::star::awt::UnoControlContainerModel
• rhbz#1017379 libreoffice impress imports animated motion paths incorrectly from powerpoint
• rhbz#1047871 calc: Conditional formatting dialog has unreachable controls on lower screen resolution