ReleaseNotes/5.4

Source: wiki.documentfoundation.org --- Wednesday, October 04, 2017
‎ Windows: MS vcredist external dependency ← Older revision Revision as of 2017-10-04T11:30:08 Line 297: Line 297:   * Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP2 are both deprecated. The 5.4 release will be the last with any support of these OS.   * Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP2 are both deprecated. The 5.4 release will be the last with any support of these OS.   * Uwinapi is discontinued.   * Uwinapi is discontinued.   + * Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable is required for this release, and is not installed by LibreOffice installer (except for Windows XP). The redistributable is an OS component, that comes preinstalled with Windows 10, and with a Windows Update for Windows Vista through 8.1. If it is absent on user's system, it must be installed separately from [http://ift.tt/1XHKZzDWindows/desktop/aa367787 Microsoft website]. Installed redistributable's bitness (32- or 64-bit) must match LibreOffice's bitness (not OS bitness). Otherwise installation will succeed, but an error will be shown on program start: "The program cannot start because api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer. Try to reinstalling the program to fix this problem".   + ** LibreOffice bitness is shown in (for 32-bit, simply "Version: 5.4.2.2" is shown; for 64-bit, "Version: 5.4.2.2 (x64)"). It is OK to install both 32- and 64-bit redistributable on single 64-bit OS in case of doubt.       == API ...

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