LibreOffice 4.2 ReleaseNotes

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LibreOffice 4.2 Changes

About this page

This is an in-progress scratch-pad of notes to build release notes from as and when we release. Please do not list features that are to be shipped already in the 4.1 release! Please do not add wish-list features that you hope will be implemented, but only what actually is implemented already.

What does a good feature look like here:

  • It has a description, and a way for a busy reviewer, to find and play with the feature. Target someone who is extremely busy, and knows little-to-nothing about the product. So if a user interface element is key to the feature, be very explicit about where it is, e. g. Menu ▸ Format ▸ Character ▸ Position [tab] ▸ ‘90 degrees’ paths to the elements you changed. Of course, you know your feature is important, and that everyone should care about the Extensible AutoShapes Properties dialog – but often the guys taking the screenshots and writing the notes do not.
  • It credits the main authors who did the work – just add them in brackets after the feature, where possible.
  • If the feature can be shown off with a sample / test file – particularly for new import-able features, it would be wonderful to have a link to/up-load of a test file that we can use to show that feature off to best effect. That really helps us to make good screenshots to show off the features, and allows reviewers to do their testing.

Thanks in advance for your help filling this out!

Writer

  • RTF import: added initial support for group shapes fdo#66040 (Miklos Vajna)
  • Embedding images into HTML files enables sending merge mails with images in HTML format fdo#63211 (Edmond Ciorba, Andras Timar)
Before
After
  • Character border: format one or more characters with a border. fdo#35155 (Tamás Zolnai)
    Supported file formats: ODT, HTML, DOC, DOCX, RTF
    Setting: Format ▸ Character ▸ Borders (tab)
Borders tab page in Character dialog
Border around one or more characters

Calc

  • Added WEBSERVICE and FILTERXML spreadsheet functions for access to web data. (Markus Mohrhard)
  • Added LEFTB, LENB, MIDB and RIGHTB spreadsheet functions working on DBCS double byte character strings. (Zhang Lu)
  • Right-click context menu on bottom left scrollbar arrows to switch sheets (Caolán McNamara)
Menu Preview

Impress / Draw

  • Visual clue in Slide Sorter when a Slide has a Transition or Animation(s) fdo#65456 (Edmond Ciorba, Andras Timar)
Impress-visual-clues.png
  • Adding icons to slides having custom animation or transition set, in presenter view, makes easier to present the whole content of the slides fdo#65457 (Edmond Ciorba, Andras Timar)
Presenter Preview
Notes View
Slidesorter View

Base

Chart

  • Import charts from xlsx which don't have proper references but have internal data (Muthu Subramanian)

Core

  • Upgrade internal XPDF to Poppler fdo#38878 (Peter Foley, Tor Lillqvist, Fridrich Štrba)

Options / General

Filters

  • Support for the default Microsoft Office 2010 and 2013 Agile decryption mechanism (Tomaž Vajngerl)
  • Improved MathML Export (Frédéric Wang)
  • Always embed 14 standard Postscript fonts in PDF (Khaled Hosny)

GUI

  • GNOME3 Application Menu integration fdo#48835 (Caolán McNamara)
Libreoffice-appmenu.png
  • Multirow tab dialog tab balancing fdo#66435 Now if tabs in a tab dialog need to wrap onto a second line to fit into the space available they will wrap in a more balanced fashion that avoids a single orphan tab. (Stefano Facchini and Caolán McNamara)
Before: Before-balancing.png
After: After-balancing.png
  • Support MATE and XFCE Desktops (native Open/Save dialogs) fdo#46990(Pader Rezso)
  • Add "Find All" to the Find bar fdo#64451 (Andrzej J.R. Hunt)
  • Windows are now grouped together by application in the taskbar on Windows 7 and higher (Jesús Corrius)
Windows-taskbar-group.png
  • Recent documents list support in the taskbar icon on Windows 7 and higher (Jesús Corrius and Fridrich Štrba)
Recent documents taskbar.png
  • More supported document types have been added to the "Open With" menu on Windows (Jesús Corrius)

Formula editor

  • Make use of ZoomSlider in Math fdo#63351 (Thomas Arnhold)
  • Auto Closing of brackets fdo#43090 (Marcos Paulo de Souza)
  • Math: New feature about color selection (Marcos Paulo de Souza)
Mathcolor.png

Localization

  • Added Ngäbere_Panama [gym-PA] to language list fdo#66602 (Eike Rathke)

Performance

Infrastructure

Scripting

Extensions

Feature removal / deprecation

API Changes

UNO API removals

The following UNO interfaces and services were changed:

The following UNO interfaces and services were removed from the API:

Autodoc replaced by doxygen

The SDK no longer contains the autodoc documentation tool core commit 9d93ed7cd1b36830f6d7aedd4e6f15667774de1d.

IDL API documentation can be extracted by doxygen version 1.8.4 or later instead. Download it from http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/download.html

There are some differences in the documentation markup between autodoc and doxygen; the warnings printed by doxygen are helpful in finding comments that need tweaking.

uno-skeletonmaker

The obsolete --java4 command line parameter was removed from the uno-skeletonmaker tool core commit 3cb10e9220da27ca7db2f68007be9e310bdefc4d

Most Annoying Bugs

The following annoying bugs were not fixed in time and will be addressed in the regular bug fix releases:

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