Download LibreOffice 7.6.2

The Document Foundation has released versions 7.5.7 and 7.6.2 of LibreOffice, which, among other things, fixes a security vulnerability in libwebp. This open source office package was created as a spin-off from 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. In version 7.6, style themes have been added in Writer, there is a new wizard for page numbering and you can sort by color in Calc. More information is in the release notes to find. Version 7.6.2 is also a bug fix release and only had one release candidate, in which a total of 54 improvements were made:

Changes in version 7.6.2 RC1:

• tdf#55160 Fileopen: docx layout not imported correctly – support for nested floating tables
• tdf#117118 Firebird: Saving of data should be done automatically
• tdf#125543 unmaximizing the window reduces to minimal width and height, making window barely visible (Linux-only, steps in comment 35)
• tdf#147704 FILEOPEN PPTX: image appears vertically compressed (by a factor of two)
• tdf#149195 Edit Database Link: Impossible to change link of a database with there own registered name.
• tdf#149545 SVG “Read Error” message after saving and reopening ODT file
• tdf#150557 FILEOPEN PPTX: table shadows missing cell colors (or rather colors are extremely faint)
• tdf#150610 FILEOPEN PPTX: text shows very light instead of dark green (low contrast)
• tdf#150815 Sparklines do not recalculate immediately with changed data
• tdf#152070 Import failure: The background parameters do not set up the same way as in Powerpoint
• tdf#153034 Three wrong Greek characters in WordPerfect 5 import
• tdf#154270 Colors reset to defaults with Single Toolbar UI
• tdf#154875 “Use slide background” area fill keeps coming back in sidebar, transparency slider gone
• tdf#155177 Writer: Widow/orphan behavior not reliably predictable
• tdf#155495 Editing centered or right-aligned cell contents incorrectly
• tdf#156116 when renamed, object name does not update in accessibility check sidebar
• tdf#156126 Crash when using gpl color palette in debug build
• tdf#156318 LibreOffice hangs when floating table tries to break
• tdf#156569 SVG: incorrect text position when vector contains %
• tdf#156591 A11Y sidebar: not fixable warning about “Style has no language set.”
• tdf#156649 FILEOPEN PPTX: images shows too dark/strong (transparency?)
• tdf#156654 A11Y sidebar: not fixable warning about “Document default language is not set.”
• tdf#156683 Crash in: comphelper::AccessibleEventNotifier::revokeClientNotifyDisposing(unsigned int, com::sun::star::uno::Reference const&)
• tdf#156723 [GRAMMAR CHECKER] False positives in pleonasms checkers for pt-BR
• tdf#156829 FILEOPEN PPTX: (connector) line shows at an odd angle
• tdf#156835 FILEOPEN XLSX Password protected file with SHA-384 encryption does not open
• tdf#156842 Export to PDF that includes PDF images are incorrect in size (macOS)
• tdf#156914 LibreOffice 7.6.0.3 fails to build with –without-java
• tdf#156958 Crash in: (anonymous namespace)::TabBarEdit::LinkStubImplEndEditHdl(void*, void*) when renaming layer
• tdf#156959 Base: Icons on the left hand side show pin item
• tdf#156975 loext:theme element is missing although theme colors are used
• tdf#157011 DOCX table for inserted or deleted columns TC shown problem.
• tdf#157018 Color theme is not read on import
• tdf#157034 FILESAVE loext:theme-type is off by one
• tdf#157085 CRASH: fixing accessibility check of deleted image
• tdf#157088 qt6: Crash on exit after using font color toolbox item with Orca running
• tdf#157096 CRASH: removing everything in document
• tdf#157101 New “Use background” option makes Area dialog too wide in Impress
• tdf#157112 FILESAVE PDF Document containing emoji results in invalid PDF
• tdf#157113 SVG: no space between tspan elements with different baseline shift
• tdf#157129 EDITING: cursor is at the beginning after pasting
• tdf#157136 Some Word's plain text content controls import with wrong properties
• tdf#157138 Can't switch from Use Background to None area fill in the Area dialog
• tdf#157148 Sentence box in spelling dialog has no scrollbars
• tdf#157173 Enlarged Fontwork shape replaces used font
• tdf#157174 LibreOffice crashes when clicking “Print Preview”
• tdf#157187 DOCX export: lost tracked column deletion or insertion interoperability
• tdf#157192 PIVOTTABLE: 'Sort by' drop-down list grayed out by default on the (advanced) Data Field options dailog
• tdf#157223 Table of Figures category reset from Illustration to Figure when edited
• tdf#157231 webp 0-day CVE-2023-4863 affects LO
• tdf#157254 libreoffice portable doesn't open with a long folder path
• tdf#157277 CRASH Writer crashing when hiding Sidebar and using Navigator to go to bookmark
• tdf#157304 Macro: Retrieving selected text in FocusIn event for column crashes LO
• tdf#157312 Current cell highlight doesn't update with skia hardware rendering on macOS