Core
Editing/Layout

• Fix paste of rich text from HTML and ODT, where previously some formatting properties were not closed properly. (Martin Sevior)
• Add a number of robustness fixes to the layout engine. (Martin Sevior)
• Fix a table selection bug. (Sander Bogaert)

Import/Export
OpenDocument

• Fix 10330: Ignored top and bottom margins. (Marc Maurer)
• Fix a typo in the bottom margin code import code, resulting in a bug similar to 10330, but then on import. (Marc Maurer)
• Fix 11905: Document with columns not correctly exported. (Marc Maurer)
• Fix 11937: Incorrect page margin defaults. (Marc Maurer)
• Fix 11874: Bullets, border and 'first page' style not rendered right. Adds the Unicode MINUS SIGN to the list of unicode chars that renders as a dashed list. (Marc Maurer)
• Fix 10884: Columns (section?) margins not preserved on opendocument import. (Marc Maurer)
• Fix 11887: Footer text placement / alignment problems. The real problem was that we didn't support different headers/footers on facing pages. (Marc Maurer)
• Fix 11862: Table of Contents not properly exported. (Marc Maurer)
• Fix 11848: table:number-columns-repeated and table:number-rows-repeated not supported. (Marc Maurer, Martin Sevior)

Office OpenXML

• Fix wrong page margins on export, similar to bug 11937. (Marc Maurer)

Plugins
Collaboration

• Fix 12744: Crash when more than 2 people are collaborating and one of the clients disconnects. (Marc Maurer, Sam Rooney)
• Don't include document names that a buddy does not have access to in the list of available shared documents that is sent to him. (Marc Maurer)
• Fix some small memory leaks in the *.abicollab importer. (Marc Maurer)
• Fix 12728: AbiWord should honor SRV DNS records when collaborating over XMPP. (Damien Diederen)

MS Write

• Fixed several bugs, added character conversion support and support for page properties. (Ingo Brueckl)

Internationalization

• Update Galician (gl) translation. (Miguel Bouzada)
• Updated Romanian (ro_RO) translation. (Lucian Constantin)
• Updated Danish (da_DK) translation. (Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér)
• Update German (de-DE) translation. (Volker Ribbert)
• Updated Slovenian (sl-SI) translation. (Martin Srebotnjak)

Development

• Maintain and release 2.8.2 (Marc Maurer)
• Fix 12701: configure --disable-collab-backend-{tcp,service} should not check for asio.hpp. (Thorsten Vollmer)
• Replace '==' tests in configure by '='. (Jean Bréfort)
• Remove all uses of fp_PageSize::MarginXXX, since getting the document margins this way is wrong/broken. (Marc Maurer)
• Remove some useless asserts and add some useful ones. (Martin Sevior)