AbiWord v2.6.3 ChangeLog

Core

• Bug 11328:  AbiWord crashes when inserting an equation (Dominic Lachowicz)
• Bug 11553:  Hide formatting marks when printing or print previewing (sum1)
• Optimize string comparison functions (Dominic Lachowicz)
• Prevent a crash that occurred when inserting a text box in a document with columns (sum1)
• Prevent a crash that occurred when visually dragging endnotes and footnotes (sum1)
• Prevent a crash with invalid headers and footers (sum1)
• Prevent a few caret-related crashes (Dominic Lachowicz)
• Prevent a few crashes with invalid footnotes and endnotes (sum1)
• Prevent a text box layout crash (sum1)
• Simplify an internal string function (Dominic Lachowicz)

GUI

Cross-platform

• Bug 11568:  Show collaboration connection status in the UI (Marc Maurer)
• Add status bar messages for the presentation and key bindings plug-ins (sum1)
• Prevent a crash that could occur when closing a window with the word count dialog open (sum1)
• Prevent a few crashes that could occur when quickly using separate menu items in the spelling context menu (sum1)
• Prevent the display of uninitialized strings in the history dialog (sum1)

Windows

• Bug 11130:  Text labels are misaligned in the TCP dialog (sum1)
• Bug 11509:  Crash when using the language dialog in localized environments (Dominic Lachowicz)
• Allow the entry of long address strings in the TCP dialog (sum1)

Import/Export

General

• Bug 11541:  AbiWord crashes when saving to a device with no space left (Dominic Lachowicz)

Applix

• Improve file recognition so AbiWord can import Applix files it exports (sum1)

HTML

• Add a method for exporting stylesheets as strings (Dominic Lachowicz)
• Add a missing return statement in the code that handles title elements (sum1)
• Escape style names in stylesheets (sum1)
• Improve the handling of heading IDs in documents that do not contain a table of contents (Dominic Lachowicz)

Microsoft Word

• Bug 6432:  Background colors are not imported (sum1)
• Bug 11159: Prevent a table-related crash with the attached document (sum1)
• Bug 11219:  Prevent a table-related crash with the attached document (sum1)

Microsoft Write

• Bug 5918:  Assert during import (sum1)

OpenDocument

• Clean up compiler warnings (Hubert Figuiere)
• Fix a crash that occurred when exporting invalid footnotes and endnotes (sum1)
• Fix a crash that occurred when importing files with missing text:level attributes (sum1)
• Improve support for large tables with customized widths (sum1)
• Simplify the code that exports underline and strike formatting (sum1)

OpenOffice.org (sxw)

• Import the no proofing language code (sum1)

RTF

• Fix the export of transparent colors (sum1)
• Handle large list labels (sum1)

StarOffice

• Bug 9632:  Memory leak with invalid documents (Hubert Figuiere)
• Clean up compiler warnings (Hubert Figuiere)

WordPerfect

• Prevent a crash that occurred when a footnote was opened before a section (sum1)
• Prevent a layout hang caused by empty sections (sum1)

Internationalization

• Fix an incorrect language code in the de-CH template (sum1)

Development

• Bug 11483:  AbiWord fails to compile when libxml2 is built without legacy support (Dominic Lachowicz)
• Disable a few verbose debug messages (Marc Maurer)
• Fix a build error in the key bindings plug-in (sum1)
• Fix a comment typo (sum1)
• Fix a large number of compiler warnings (Hubert Figuiere)
• Fix a typo in the AbiCollab regression script (sum1)
• Fix some misspelled function parameters in the AbiWidget code (Marc Maurer)
• Maintain and release 2.6.3 (Marc Maurer)