Description: I've been a user of Libre Office for years, mostly for the word processor; I'm nowhere near technical enough to make release contributions, though. Updating has always been a simple, stress free event - until the latest issue. I was running 7.6.4, so I did the normal download, then set to install. I have never known an event like it. Normally, I get a dialog box or two telling me it's uninstalling the previous version, then installing the new. This time it went crazy. I lost track of the things it tried to do, including showing several dialogs that intimated that it was delving deep into the Operating System, not least of which was to remap the keyboard! I now have a UK keyboard with an apostrophe key producing US-style apostrophes (straight, not a 'raised comma' which we Brits use), and quotation marks which are again US-style straight marks, not 'raised commas'. I tried to reinstall, which seemed more like 'normal', but I still have the remapped keyboard! I'm tempted to save everything and reload the system from scratch from scratch, but... Hardware is a hp laptop 15s Core-i3-fq2xxx, 6 months old, running Windows 11, fully up to date. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install from downloaded file. 2.Uninstall after frightening installation 3.Reinstall; normal installation dialogs Actual Results: Reinstalled from downloaded package; keyboard remapped apostrophe and quote marks (speech marks) keys to US pattern Expected Results: Normal installation of UK version Reproducible: Didn't try User Profile Reset: Yes Additional Info: Should have installed normal UK Version. Reluctant to reset or reinstall until bugs(s) if any have been detected and corrected. Update: Followed instruction to reset User Profile. On a small (couple of sentences) test doc, all seems resolved. I'm leaving the bug report in place in case others experience similar problems. *I* cannot be sure that it's not an issue with the installer.... I leave that to those more skilled than me to determine.
Can't confirm, no issues with LibreOffice build installer packaging provided by TDF. "... so I did the normal download, then set to install..." Where did you download the update from? The LibreOffice project page with TDF builds [1], MS Store with TDF builds, a package installer (e.g. Chocolatey, Ninite, scoop)? [1] https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/
I cannot confirm this issue. I am using the US version so it is unknown if this particular issue would cause a US style keymapping to become remapped to another regional standard. Version: 24.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 6a064b1967e06e40be40817deff99d00c1a8554f CPU threads: 24; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 22631; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded
NEEDINFO remains for @buckjumper Also please note, installation on Windows of the nightly builds of master (e.g. against 24.8) do not include the WRITERREGISTRY=1 flag in the MSI packaging that a release build includes. And even if manually set from command line and modifying the MS Windows "registry", the nightly builds against master would show LibreOfficeDev keys rather than LibreOffice. And issue of OP would be more likely (if at all) on a major release upgrade, i.e. from 7.6 to 24.2 where existing LibreOffice user profile and actual changes to os/DE configuration by the installer packaging may have to happen.