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The Document Foundation has released the fourth 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 addition, more than a hundred problems have been fixed in this update.

Bugs fixed in 4.2.4 RC 1:

• bnc#821208 DOC import: fix unwanted char background in numbering char style
• bnc#821567 import PPTX background images with table-name.
• bnc#828390 bullet sizes set wrong.
• bnc#865381 DOCX import: table cell btLr text direction fixes
• coverity#1130423 crash with “New style from selection” with List
• coverity#705966 dereference before null check
• coverity#705969 dereference before null check
• coverity#707971 uninitialized scalar field
• coverity#708388 uninitialized scalar field
• coverity#736084 missing break in switch
• collabora#1000025 import casemaps from pptx.
• collabora#1000044 DOC import: fProtEnabled means document is not totally read-only
• fdo#38411 handle .doc cropping also inside groups
• fdo#38414 workaround for rounding errors when handling merged cells
• fdo#47355 partially revert c5a8a2c3cbcee0175127a0662e3d820ea4deea22
• fdo#50672 escape underscores in menus for unity
• fdo#58307 export sheet tab colors to xlsx.
• fdo#60722 RTF import: 3 drawing object fixes:
• fdo#62155 don’t crash if we can’t create an instance of a calc addin.
• fdo#63228 printers list does not increase height with Print Dialog
• fdo#63786 fix PDF export or cropped SVG
• fdo#67011 KDE4: prevent blocking in Display::Yield
• fdo#69157 apply object-in front selection on mouseUp
• fdo#69289 RTF import: handle cells with zero width
• fdo#70666 fix Graphite ligature replacement at line breaks
• fdo#71491 adjust reference during undo or drag-n-drop of cell range.
• fdo#71729 fill the range edit boxes after the table is fully initialized.
• fdo#71961 write (no)wrap of text only for custom shapes to .pptx
• fdo#73466 SwTxtSizeInfo / SwTxtInputFldPortion: invalid string access
• fdo#73544 related: update catalan linguistic components
• fdo#73588 fix default alignment in RTL mode.
• fdo#73627 explicitly export font properties.
• fdo#73936 make FormFieldDropDowns a real fieldportion
• fdo#74087 inspect if a misspelled word is at cursor position…
• fdo#74302 adapt to OUString changes and set length exactly.
• fdo#74322 handle moving of named ranges correctly.
• fdo#74823 RTF import: work around wrong table column width on invalid input
• fdo#74875 asterisk at the beginning of Paragraph without “Nowiki”
• fdo#74979 remove OOo1.0 file formats from Save As.
• fdo#74981 cutting nothing should do nothing, should fix field dupes
• fdo#75260 apply the same fix from writer table to character bordering.
• fdo#75307 discard invalid user data
• fdo#75308 asterisk at the beginning of Paragraph without “Nowiki”
• fdo#75328 do DiscoveryService socket setup off the main thread.
• fdo#75376 configure: disable LTO by default for MSVC too
• fdo#75622 avoid repeated table layout
• fdo#75728 on change of User Field via UNO API…
• fdo#75741 re-implementation CompileNameFormula for formula groups.
• fdo#75772 correct name of Outline Numbering dialog
• fdo#75898 SwFEShell::InsertRow: fix this in case bSelectAll == true
• fdo#75955 use SHA1 from openssl/nss instead of rtl_digest_sha1
• fdo#75970 let’s do it in a straightforward fashion.
• fdo#75977 clear sheet deleted flags for affected references when undoing.
• fdo#76078 LO Crashes while saving the docx file containing only opening brace
• fdo#76195 set the border type to NONE to ensure it won’t be drawn.
• fdo#76222 oox: add support for MSO 2007 SP2 encrypted documents
• fdo#76235 assure correct line break for multi-lined Input Fields
• fdo#76294 properly internal string literals in formula on xls import.
• fdo#76298 sw: do not start up every OLE object on deletion
• fdo#76402 handle range reference expansion in named ranges.
• fdo#76409 write output cell string to element when saving to ods.
• fdo#76470 avoid joining new formula cells individually.
• fdo#76568 remove BerkeleyDB from license text
• fdo#76777 accept proper number style condition != as not equal operator,
• fdo#76778 fix wildcard support in File Open dialog
• fdo#76802 error msg in Web Page Wizard dialog
• fdo#76905 long delay when changing font size from % to pt
• fdo#76930 explictly list common lang-independant template dir
• fdo#76961 calc link auto-update interval is changed on file save
• fdo#77059 hidpi: Increase the threshold of what DPI we consider hi-dpi.
• fdo#77140 embeddedobj: avoid unneeded conversion in ConvertBufferToFormat()
• fdo#77174 crash with “New style from selection” with List
• fdo#77209 share string pool with clip documents.
• fdo#77229 EMF+ rendering: improve EmfPlusSetClipPath’s CombineModeExclude case
• fdo#77300 don’t recompile formulas when the hybrid formula is not there.
• fdo#77307 compare external formula tokens correctly.
• i#124039 assure correct line break for multi-lined Input Fields
• i#124085 improved support for PNG clipboard format on windows
• i#124453 check if the resulting polygon…
• i#124467 add check for image data offset…
• i#124474 on change of User Field via UNO API…
• i#124516 related: handle bad surrogate pairs gracefully on Windows
• i#124555 restore stream position after Seek to end of stream
• i#84870 partially revert c5a8a2c3cbcee0175127a0662e3d820ea4deea22
• lp#760665 related: intermittent a11y crash in calc
• lp#811057 related: intermittent a11y crash in calc
• rhbz#1057741 [abrt] libreoffice-core: std::__throw_length_error(): soffice.bin killed by SIGABRT
• rhbz#1075124 docx with negative left margin and border on table does not display properly in LibreOffice 4.2.2.1
• rhbz#1076264 [abrt] libreoffice-core: ScAccessibleDocument::GetVisibleArea_Impl() const(): soffice.bin killed by SIGSEGV
• rhbz#1077780 [abrt] libreoffice-core: writerfilter::dmapper::lcl_MoveBorderPropertiesToFrame(): soffice.bin killed by SIGSEGV
• rhbz#1080196 [abrt] libreoffice-core: mdds/multi_type_vector_itr.hpp update_node(): soffice.bin killed by SIGSEGV
• rhbz#1081968 libreoffice produces incorrect PDF export or cropped SVG graphics
• rhbz#577595 [abrt] crash in ScAccessibleDocument::GetVisibleArea_Impl
• rhbz#602273 [abrt] crash in ScAccessibleDocument::GetVisibleArea_Impl
• rhbz#896711 [abrt][a11y] libreoffice-core-3.6.3.2-8.fc18: ScAccessibleDocument::GetVisibleArea_Impl: Process /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
• rhbz#923993 [abrt][a11y] libreoffice-core-3.6.5.2-6.fc18: ScAccessibleDocument::GetVisibleArea_Impl: Process /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)

Bugs fixed in 4.2.4 RC1:

• coverity#1202882 dereference before null check
• fdo#60040 crash after undoing master page application
• fdo#71423 fix crash while editing Impress tables.
• fdo#74654 fix typo: printnone -> printhigh
• fdo#74697 add Bluez 5 support for impress remote.
• fdo#74743 avoid infinite loop when gathering “svg” element styles
• fdo#75525 out by one error
• fdo#76663 let’s not skip the first element of a matrix in PRODUCT.
• fdo#76916 ‘User paths’ is missing in tab MotionMotion Paths tab
• fdo#77027 ODF import: fix wrong version in check for embedded objects
• fdo#77039 fill the match string even if the raw string is empty.
• fdo#77342 sw: fix copy/paste or footnote cross references
• fdo#77603 new wildcard in autocorrection: .* instead of *
• rhbz#1088625 [abrt] libreoffice-core: sdext::presenter::PresenterPaintManager::Invalidate(): soffice.bin killed by SIGSEGV