Core

• Enable selections within table cells that span a whole page or more (Martin Sevior)
• Make sure g_thread_init is called before any other glib function, and remove a redundant gtk_init call (Marc Maurer)

GUI
Cross-platform

• Bug 9329:  AbiWord uses the old auto save interval instead of the new one (sum1)
• Bug 11822:  Auto save no longer works (sum1)
• Bug 11972:  Table of Contents numbering style is not properly reset (Hubert Figuiere)
• Fix a memory leak in the Save As dialog (Hubert Figuiere)

GTK+

• Bug 11764:  Prevent an assert when using SCIM (sum1)
• Bug 11959:  AbiWord crashes when opening the Select Revisions dialog (sum1)
• Bug 11974:  Use a C++ callback to prevent uninitialized value errors in the Save As dialog (Dominic Lachowicz)
• Bug 11974:  Prevent invalid reads in the renderer by working around a bug in Pango (Hubert Figuiere)
• Bug 11975:  File names are escaped when changing export type in the Save As dialog (sum1)
• Add the ability to render pages as images in the AbiWidget (Martin Sevior)
• Fix some memory leaks in the Pango renderer (Hubert Figuiere)
• Fix some memory leaks in the toolbar code (Hubert Figuiere)
• Update the Python bindings and examples to support the new render_page_to_image method (Tomeu Vizoso)

Import/Export
Office OpenXML

• Bug 11987:  OpenXML exporter saves invalid XML characters (sum1)

OpenDocument

• Bug 11358:  Default table cell properties are not exported (Marc Maurer)
• Bug 11863:  Table formatting is lost during export (Marc Maurer)
• Bug 11938:  Text box formatting is lost during import (sum1)
• Bug 11939:  Framed images inside of text boxes are not imported (sum1)
• Bug 11941:  Table cell border colors are not properly exported (Marc Maurer)

RTF

• Bug 9643:  Memory leak when importing lists (Hubert Figuiere)

XHTML

• Bug 11971:  Import inline style information from <pre> elements (sum1)
• Bug 11971:  Import line-height values from XHTML files (sum1)

Plug-ins
Charts

• Don't unref used scalar data (Jean Brefort)

Development

• Add a comment regarding table thicknesses (Marc Maurer)
• Fix a debug message to prevent uninitialized value errors in valgrind (sum1)
• Maintain and release 2.6.8 (Marc Maurer)
• Relicense ut_go_file.h and ut_go_file.c under the GPLv2+ (Marc Maurer)