LibreOffice QA Blog

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 24.8.0 was released on August 22
2. Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued with improvements to Calc function help pages, added help pages for Sidebar settings and graphics export via command line, improved help pages for Writer Status Bar, Calc’s Similarity Search and database ranges, updated menu item paths in Help, did lots of Help cleanups, added some extended tooltips, improved the dialog for easy conditional formatting in Calc and removed a misleading Restore Default button from Sidebar Settings
3. Alain Romedenne improved help for BASIC’s If statement and added unit tests for IF THEN statements in BASIC and VBA
4. Pierre F. made two dozen improvements to help, in areas such as Calc functions, word count, change tracking, BASIC, regular expressions, AutoRecovery and backup, and freezing of rows and columns in Calc
5. Dione Maddern added a help page for Quick Find Sidebar deck, updated the help for Writing Aids, reworked help pages for Navigator and Navigation toolbar and updated the instructions for enabling remote control in Impress Remote user guide
6. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos updated help pages about digital signatures after UI changes
7. Laurent Balland did cleanups in Resume Writer template and Beehive, Blue Curve, DNA, Blueprint Plans, Focus, Inspiration, Light, DNA, Midnightblue, Piano, Portfolio, and Progress Impress templates
8. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) made it faster to open DOCX files with many shapes and sections, and headers/footers activated, fixed a layout loop in a certain DOCX file with a complex full-page group shape, fixed losing paragraph styles with many numberings in DOCX export and made Writer layouting smarter, improving performance in LOKit
9. Sven Göthel, Skyler Grey, Hubert Figuière, Andras Timar, Michael Meeks and Áron Budea (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. Michael also optimised loading times by reducing the frequency of progress bar updates
10. Jaume Pujantell (Collabora) implemented handling of firstHeaderRow attibute in XLSX pivot tables and fixed a crash seen when editing text in shapes in Collabora Online



11. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) worked on the new histogram chart type
12. Julien Nabet fixed an issue preventing deletion of MySQL/MariaDB tables with spaces in their names and did some code cleanups
13. Xisco Faulí (TDF) fixed a PDF export crash, improved the contrast accessibility check and did many dependency updates
14. Michael Stahl (allotropia) improved some automated tests, fixed issues with hidden sections, made HTML pasting more robust when dealing with placeholder fields in Writer, fixed a wrapping issue with long index entries, simplified the code for JPEG quality levels in PDF export and made UA PDFs compatible with Adobe Acrobat Pro’s accessibility checker
15. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) worked around a bug in MS Access ODBC 64-bit driver preventing database table editing, fixed an issue in Insert Special Character dialog related to changing the font selection and made it possible to filter characters in the dialog by Unicode value, fixed an issue with Calc’s EXACT function when working in array context, improved stability by preventing the closing of a document while it is being layouted in the background, made anti-aliasing code more robust on Windows in the context of bitmap export, made the BASIC With statement implementation behave correctly, fixed an issue with BASIC for loop evaluation in VBA support mode, made it possible to deselect all tables in Base by clicking outside of the table list, fixed an issue with some Writer tables showing as collapsed, fixed some issues in the Unicode notation toggle command (Alt+X) and fixed a pasting issue related to document themes. He also fixed many crashes and did code cleanups
16. Caolán McNamara (Collabora) fixed an issue with not being able to rotate the page when printing labels on Linux, fixed embedded formulas not being shown completely when in edit mode and fixed an issue blocking chart data range editing. He also fixed many issues found by static analysers and fuzzers
17. Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) worked on WASM build, enabling WebDAV use
18. Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved loading time for DOCX files with lots of headers and footers and optimised the handling of Writer bookmarks
19. Justin Luth (Collabora) did many improvements to the handling of OOXML layoutInCell property controlling VML shape behaviour in tables, fixed an issue with inherited styles not updating after font size change in Writer, fixed incorrect object anchoring in DOC export and fixed a crash related to undoing header activation
20. Michael Weghorn (TDF) fixed detecting the default printer on Linux, worked on handling accessible object attributes, fixed an issue with font attributes in form control properties, fixed license text getting selected when installing an extension with certain Linux UIs, implemented support for reading whole documents from top to bottom in NVDA screen reader, made dark mode detection more robust in Qt/KDE UIs and worked on using native widgets in Qt UIs
21. Balázs Varga (allotropia) fixed an auto-fitted shape size issue in PPTX import and implemented support for uniform Glow effect for text in shapes



22. Patrick Luby improved the look of the active cell indicator in Calc on macOS, made the Tabbed UI centered on macOS and fixed a couple of crashes
23. Jim Raykowski fixed a visual glitch in the Animation Sidebar deck of Impress, made it possible to jump to a heading by pressing Enter in a read-only Table of Contents in Writer, made word count information of headings outline content show in Navigator tooltips, made it possible to delete all content of a content type via the Navigator (except headings), made the initially selected tracked change in Manage Changes dialog be the current or next one in the document, fixed a mouse wheel focus issue in the Sidebar and made it so the source paths of linked libraries are shown in Macro Organizer
24. Sarper Akdemir (allotropia) continued improving the UX of the encryption dialog
25. Armin Le Grand (allotropia/Collabora) worked on a renovation of graphics rendering with Cairo library
26. Oliver Specht (CIB) fixed an issue with tables having rows with “At least” height setting in imported Microsoft formats
27. Heiko Tietze (TDF) made comment background colours customisable in Writer, Impress and Draw, made it possible to toggle the display mode of the most recent documents list between current module and all modules, made it possible to customise the colours of non-printable characters and improved the luminance calculation for automatic colour setting alongside dark mode colour improvements
28. László Németh made it possible to adjust hyphenation settings via the Sidebar
29. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) did some Python code cleanups, improved a build error message, unified API docs a bit and did some help page cleanups
30. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) worked on Windows Subsystem for Linux build improvements
31. Pranam Lashkari (Collabora) made it quicker to add new conditional formatting rules via the Manage dialog, implemented loading of comment author names from XLSX files and improved dark mode handling for text box content



32. Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) switched the MAR-based auto-updater to be on by default
33. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made the Calc function search in the Sidebar more robust and made custom Add-In function names imported from OOXML be handled properly
34. Jonathan Clark (TDF) made numbering formats with repeated characters more accurate, fixed several issues related to diacritics and kashida characters, fixed incorrect output after editing Ruby base text, worked on reducing visible jittering when laying out right-aligned text and fixed an issue with RTL as-character anchored textbox positioning
35. Regina Henschel fixed a display scaling issue affecting crop markers on Windows
36. Tibor Nagy (allotropia) fixed a “Stack empty” error in tagged PDF export
37. Adam Seskunas worked on the GSoC project to port Java tests to C++
38. Ritobroto Mukherjee worked on the GSoC project to implement cross platform .NET bindings for UNO API
39. Devansh Varshney worked on the GSoC project for adding histogram charts
40. Ahmed Hamed worked on the GSoC project for improving the Functions Sidebar deck in Calc
41. Sahil Gautam worked on the GSoC project to implement themes
42. Rafael Lima made tooltips wrap properly in Qt-based UIs, fixed a layout issue when resizing the Comments Sidebar deck and improved the look of the active cell indicator in Calc
43. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) worked on Windows Subsystem for Linux build improvements
44. Kira Tubo improved the grouping of styles in the Sidebar
45. Moritz Duge (allotropia) continued improving the UI of certificate handling and digital signing
46. Bayram Çiçek (Collabora) continued working on Excel Power Query round trip support
47. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
48. Vladislav Tarakanov finalised the support of audio files in PPT/X files
49. Kurt Nordback improved the alignment of pie-of-pie and bar-of-pie chart data labels and took the first steps in adding support for invertIfNegative in bar and bubble charts
50. Gülşah Köse (Collabora) added a command to invert document background colour to be used in Collabora Online
51. David Gilbert made it so PDF import makes use of clip paths
52. René Engelhard (Debian) fixed a build issue affecting armhf platform
53. Andreas Heinisch made it so Calc’s Manage names dialog checks, if a formula is a valid print range
54. Per99 made it so the user can choose which animation settings to use via accessibility options (related to hypersensitivity)

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

436 bugs, 53 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 258 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Eyal Rozenberg ( 26 )
2. Mike Kaganski ( 19 )
3. Regina Henschel ( 12 )
4. Buovjaga ( 10 )
5. Justin L ( 8 )
6. Heiko Tietze ( 7 )
7. fpy ( 7 )
8. Jeff Fortin Tam ( 7 )
9. peter josvai ( 5 )
10. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 5 )

Triaged Bugs

424 bugs have been triaged by 67 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Buovjaga ( 92 )
2. m_a_riosv ( 38 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 34 )
4. Mike Kaganski ( 23 )
5. raal ( 21 )
6. V Stuart Foote ( 19 )
7. ady ( 18 )
8. Dieter ( 17 )
9. Julien Nabet ( 13 )
10. Michael Weghorn ( 11 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

475 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

Check the following sections for more information about bugs resolved as FIXED, WORKSFORME and DUPLICATE.

Fixed Bugs

213 bugs have been fixed by 45 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Mike Kaganski ( 21 )
2. Pierre F ( 16 )
3. Justin Luth ( 15 )
4. Caolán McNamara ( 13 )
5. Michael Weghorn ( 11 )
6. Heiko Tietze ( 10 )
7. Jonathan Clark ( 9 )
8. Olivier Hallot ( 6 )
9. Jim Raykowski ( 6 )
10. Miklos Vajna ( 6 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#162589 LibreOffice doesn’t start on Windows (erorr messages about nss3.dll and nspr4.dll) ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#148367 EDITING MS Access through 64-bit ODBC doesn’t work and returns an Invalid Bookmark error ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
2. tdf#157851 FILEOPEN XLSX “Author” information about notes is not read ( Thanks to Pranam Lashkari )
3. tdf#161139 FILEOPEN DOCX SaxException when opening specific file ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
4. tdf#161705 LO crashes with undo/redo of page numbering wizard’s created bookmarks ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
5. tdf#161725 Add option to toggle module-specific file types in Recent Documents (MRU) menu ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )
6. tdf#161741 LO crashes with undo/redo of new header + some other change ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
7. tdf#162065 can’t clone “format” of a shape anymore ( Thanks to Oliver Specht )
8. tdf#162586 Crash after exporting an odt document to pdf ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
9. tdf#61242 Customise comments background color in Writer ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )
10. tdf#68274 provide better update mechanism — Mozilla ARchive (mar) based incrementals on all supported platforms ( Thanks to Thorsten Behrens )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#140061 Crash swlo!sw::WriterMultiListener::StartListening ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
2. tdf#155459 Point to the relevant section of Privacy Policy from the Options->LibreOffice->General help, “Send crash reports to The Document Foundation” section ( Thanks to Ilmari Lauhakangas )
3. tdf#161705 LO crashes with undo/redo of page numbering wizard’s created bookmarks ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
4. tdf#161741 LO crashes with undo/redo of new header + some other change ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
5. tdf#162004 [CRASH] Enabling the Notes Pane and closing the document will crash LibreOffice (

LibreOffice 24.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2024 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 24.8 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) the forth and last pre-release since the development of version 24.8 started at the beginning of December, 2023. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 24.8 RC1, 138 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 87 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.

LibreOffice 24.8 RC2 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it will replace the standard installation.

In case you find any problem in this pre-release, please report it in Bugzilla ( You just need a legit email account in order to create a new account ).

For help, you can contact the QA Team directly in the QA IRC channel or via Matrix.

LibreOffice is a volunteer-driven community project, so please help us to test – we appreciate it!

Happy testing!!

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR WINDOWS 7 USERS
Internal python version has been upgraded to python 3.9 which no longer supports Windows 7. Be aware some LibreOffice functionalities written in Python may not work, like the wizards in File – Wizards. Please, do test this version and give us feedback.

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General Activities

1. LibreOffice 24.2.4.2 was announced on June 6
2. Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for LET Calc function, improved the help for other new Calc functions, made it so help pages show a link to LibreOffice guide books, updated help pages for Save and Calc View options and updated help pages after UI string changes
3. Alain Romedenne updated some Basic and Python help pages
4. Pierre F. updated the help for regular expressions, pointing to ICU Regular Expressions documentation
5. Dione Maddern updated help for Bullets and Numbering Image tab, Clone Formatting and Insert Table command in Impress
6. Bogdan Buzea did code cleanups in the area of includes and UI files
7. Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) fixed an issue with hiding drawing shapes from printing
8. Laurent Balland did cleanups in Impress Yellow Idea template, replaced built-in binary template for HTML files with an OTH file generated from XML sources and fixed a special Calc number formatting case involving misplaced minus signs



9. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) continued polishing the implementation of continuous endnotes for Microsoft Word compatibility, added a helper script to diff reference rendering vs. LibreOffice rendering via PDF, fixed a DOCX import glitch involving paragraph borders getting mixed up with table cell borders, fixed lost numbering in paragraph style with DOCX import, fixed a shape text padding issue with DOCX import, made it so pasting rich text from other LibreOffice applications into Writer no longer brings in lots of unnecessary styles, fixed some issues when exporting content controls to PDF forms and fixed handling of line object transformations with DOCX import
10. Szymon Kłos, Jaume Pujantell, Darshan Upadhyay and Henry Castro (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online
11. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued refactoring and improving the code for Impress annotations, for example expanding the support for types and properties when exporting annotations to PDF and also when importing PDF files
12. Julien Nabet fixed some crashes and debug assertions
13. Xisco Faulí (TDF) fixed an issue with paragraph classifications getting deleted after Print Preview or when opening file, made SVG fill handling more robust, upgraded many dependencies and fonts, continued applying SAL_RET_MAYBENULL for enforcing null checking and added over a dozen automated tests
14. Michael Stahl (allotropia) continued polishing recognition of localised paragraph style names in DOCX files, fixed DOCX file opening crashes, changed Writer tab handling to take some very strange behaviour of Microsoft Word into account and made many improvements to libcmis library (for Content Management Interoperability Services standard)
15. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) improved loading of broken documents, fixed an issue with Writer text wrapping in very wide pages, made spell check red lining more robust, fixed a Writer layout loop involving tables within tables, improved interoperability of styles with DOCX export, fixed a goal seek macro crash and some other goal seek issues and made it so QuickStarter setting is remembered after upgrade on Windows
16. Caolán McNamara (Collabora) polished the small caps support in Impress and optimised the code for displaying extended tooltips. He also fixed many issues found by static analysers and fuzzers
17. Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) worked on WASM build and made form controls safer when dealing with remote linked images
18. Noel Grandin (Collabora) made documents with lots of tracked changes open faster, continued optimising Calc performance when getting the text script type, continued speeding up the loading of large XLS files, made complex DOCX files with lots of footers or headers open faster, greatly improved the rendering performance of certain types of filled polygons imported from PDF files and improved the performance of EditEngine text. He also did many code cleanups
19. Justin Luth (Collabora) expanded text wrapping support for shapes in DOCX files, fixed a z-order issue related to VML shapes in DOCX files and made it so small caps are not applied to numbering in Microsoft Office formats
20. Michael Weghorn (TDF) made qt6 UI backend handle audio-only media objects, fixed OpenGL Impress transitions with Qt-based UI backends and worked on the accessibility features of Windows, GTK4 and Qt UIs in areas such as menu bar focusing, Calc cells and Sidebar buttons
21. Balázs Varga (allotropia) continued tweaking the XMATCH and XLOOKUP Calc function implementations, added a new LET function to Calc which assigns names to calculation results, improved the display of direct formatting warnings in the accessibility Sidebar deck and added accessibility checks for missing hyperlink names and directly formatted top and bottom margins in paragraphs
22. Patrick Luby fixed several macOS memory leaks and crashes, fixed a macOS performance issue related to documents with embedded fonts, fixed an issue with colour picker showing the wrong colours when using Skia raster rendering on macOS and fixed an issue with contour text wrapping against images with transparency
23. Jim Raykowski made many improvements to the newly-added Quick Find Sidebar deck and fixed an issue with Format setting in Find and Replace dialog affecting Quick Find
24. Sarper Akdemir (allotropia) removed the ability to trust unvalidated macro signatures in high security mode, made Additions dialog show connection errors, improved LanguageTool connection error reporting and continued polishing the new pane display of Presenter Notes in Impress



25. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) continued working on vertical tabs for certain dialogs and bulleted/numbered list improvements and made it so author/date data is not exported to documents when in privacy mode
26. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) worked on advanced diagram support and continued the rework of handling attributes and properties
27. Oliver Specht (CIB) made it so simple HTML is preferred over RTF when pasting into Draw, fixed an issue with wrong inner margin in mirrored page in DOCX/RTF import and added a warning and a progress indicator to AutoFormat in case of applying to large selections
28. Heiko Tietze (TDF) made it so Select All in Calc selects only the closest range of cells filled with data, added a command to cut a Calc cell without removing its formatting and made Calc column headers stand out
29. László Németh fixed several issues related to images and objects in Writer tables, fixed resizing the rows and columns of Writer tables inside frames, continued polishing the No Break hyphenation feature, fixed spellchecking issues related to apostrophes, improved DOCX interoperability regarding hyphenation, made it so ASCII double quote matches typographic quote when searching, fixed a recent regression causing narrow no-break spaces to mess with spellchecking and fixed several AutoCorrect issues



30. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) fixed moving focus to document from Calc Functions Sidebar deck with Esc and made SVG images behave better in Help
31. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) worked on Windows autoupdater and made large-scale simplifications to makefiles
32. Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) worked on WASM build
33. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made it so certain range functions such as SUMIF and SUBTOTAL now accept inline arrays as arguments
34. Jonathan Clark (TDF) fixed an issue causing incorrect glyphs to be displayed in RTL font fallback, fixes issues causing Writer to clip paragraphs at the ascent of the top line and descent of the last line, fixed overlapping RTL and LTR text when used together along with footnotes and fixed an issue causing Writer to corrupt layout for vertical text following a frame overflowing to the next page
35. Regina Henschel made the handling of rotation angles conform to ODF spec
36. Printf Debugging made it so there is feedback in the UI when resizing a frame or graphical objects would not be accepted
37. Tibor Nagy (allotropia) fixed an issue with broken hyperlinks with ScreenTip set in imported DOCX files, made it so Name attributes of hyperlinks are exported to PDF as tooltips and fixed PPTX issues in the areas of colourmapping in master slides, placeholders, glue points and transparency
38. Adam Seskunas worked on the GSoC project to port Java tests to C++
39. Rafael Lima fixed an issue with Goal Seek macro corrupting the data in Calc cells, made Goal Seek settings be remember during a session and improved the visibility of outline in the selection overlay in Calc
40. Leonard Sasse did cleanups in Python code
41. Ritobroto Mukherjee ported some Java SDK examples to Python and worked on the GSoC project to implement cross platform .NET bindings for UNO API
42. Attila Szűcs (Collabora) fixed images in PPTX files appearing horizontally compressed and fixed chart issues related to leader lines and pie chart label positions
43. Andreas Heinisch made it so a jump statement is not executed in BASIC, if the expression is out of range, made case changing commands be correctly added by the macro recorder and aligned the implementation of the NOW function in BASIC with the one in Calc to include nanoseconds
44. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) made it so LibreOfficeKit headers are shipped in packages, allowing to create C++ applications that can access LibreOffice functionality without building LibreOffice, only by installing SDK and build tools
45. Sujatro Bhadra replaced Show All and Hide All in the Comments category context menu of Writer Navigator with togglable commands Show Comments and Show Resolved Comments
46. Kira Tubo added a unit test
47. Theppitak Karoonboonyanan added a Thai thesaurus and Thai AutoCorrect Support

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

432 bugs, 43 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 275 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Eyal Rozenberg ( 16 )
2. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 14 )
3. Mike Kaganski ( 13 )
4. Rafael Lima ( 11 )
5. nobu ( 8 )
6. Telesto ( 8 )
7. Miklos Vajna ( 7 )
8. Óvári ( 7 )
9. Regina Henschel ( 7 )
10. Olivier Hallot ( 6 )

Triaged Bugs

421 bugs have been triaged by 52 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 107 )
2. m_a_riosv ( 36 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 27 )
4. ady ( 24 )
5. Buovjaga ( 23 )
6. Julien Nabet ( 22 )
7. Mike Kaganski ( 18 )
8. V Stuart Foote ( 18 )
9. Xisco Faulí ( 14 )
10. Dieter ( 11 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

436 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

Check the following sections for more information about bugs resolved as FIXED, WORKSFORME and DUPLICATE.

Fixed Bugs

177 bugs have been fixed by 36 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. László Németh ( 19 )
2. Mike Kaganski ( 13 )
3. Michael Stahl ( 10 )
4. Patrick Luby ( 8 )
5. Miklos Vajna ( 8 )
6. Tibor Nagy ( 7 )
7. Balazs Varga ( 6 )
8. Michael Weghorn ( 6 )
9. Xisco Fauli ( 6 )
10. Caolán McNamara ( 6 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#161461 Crash on second copy after pasting using Enter in Calc on macOS ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#141773 Autocorrection for all languages doesn’t work anymore ( Thanks to László Németh )
2. tdf#160877 Paragraph classification deleted after Print Preview or when opening file ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
3. tdf#161030 Vertical Tab dialogs–width available for Tab name is too narrow with jumping view of Tab names ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
4. tdf#161198 Negative / inverted highlight when hovering Navigator elements (or Draw tabs) no longer shown ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
5. tdf#161498 autocontour function is broken (does not take into account PNG transparency) ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
6. tdf#161511 [CRASH] Macro using seekGoal crashes on a brand new document ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
7. tdf#161653 The numbering toolbar dropdown no longer can select from the 8-block of options ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#160769 LibreOffice 24.2 Document recovery (from timed autoSave) doesn’t restore all open files after crash ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
2. tdf#160801 Writer crash when use clear formatting after insert page break (macOS only) ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
3. tdf#161217 FILEOPEN DOCX Crash when opening specific file ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
4. tdf#161346 CRASH: exporting to PDF ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
5. tdf#161461 Crash on second copy after pasting using Enter in Calc on macOS ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
6. tdf#161511 [CRASH] Macro using seekGoal crashes on a brand new document ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
7. tdf#161786 Manually entering “oper” in the formula editor will cause a crash ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#155212 Writer is very slow when

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 24.2.3 was released on May 2
2. LibreOffice 7.6.7 was released on May 10
3. Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for SEQUENCE and UNIQUE Calc functions and finalised help for RANDARRAY, XLOOKUP, XMATCH, FILTER, RANDARRAY, SORT and SORTBY functions. He also improved the help for Calc’s Advanced Filter, added extended tips to Sparklines dialog and improved the descriptions seen in the UI for Calc’s RANDARRAY and UNIQUE functions
4. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos improved the readability and grammar of Help pages
5. Stéphane Guillou (TDF) added help content for the new ability to start a presentation from the command line at an arbitrary slide number
6. Alain Romedenne added unit tests for officehelper.py
7. Dione Maddern added help content for new bar-of-pie and pie-of-pie chart types, updated help for File Properties, Slide Show Settings, Calc View Options, Summary and Expand Slides, Edit Points Bar, Calc change tracking, Shapes menu, Bullets and Numbering Image tab alongside various fixes and cleanups
8. Stanislav Horacek did corrections to Calc help content
9. Bogdan Buzea improved help about object positioning in Writer
10. Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) did code cleanups in the area of measurement units and snap lines, code simplification and includes
11. Laurent Balland did cleanups in Impress templates and added handling of xlink:type attributes for embedded charts, so they don’t produce a warning in the console
12. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) created a better implementation of continuous endnotes for Microsoft Word compatibility, implemented support for DOCX/DOC mirrored object positioning and adapted DOCX paragraph handling for files created with Word 2013 or newer, so the top margin of paragraphs on other pages than the first are collapsed
13. Áron Budea (Collabora) made it faster to open PPTX files with custom shapes
14. Gökay Şatır, Pranam Lashkari, Szymon Kłos, Méven Car, Hubert Figuière, Jaume Pujantell, Henry Castro and Michael Meeks (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online
15. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) refactored the code for Impress annotations and cleaned up the accessibility checker code
16. Julien Nabet continued polishing gssapi authentication support for the MariaDB/MySQL connector and fixed a crash when exporting spreadsheet as PDF with “whole sheet export” option
17. Xisco Faulí (TDF) added support for SVG 2 attribute values context-stroke and context-fill, optimised the code for getting selected points and objects, added a couple of unit tests, upgraded many dependencies and started applying the newly-added SAL_RET_MAYBENULL for enforcing null checking
18. Michael Stahl (allotropia) implemented support for recognising localized paragraph style names in DOCX files, fixed the visibility of shapes in header/footer in DOCX files and fixed an issue with AutoText insertion or pasting overriding Writer paragraph style indentation
19. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) continued polishing HTML map export for text hyperlinks in frames, made LibreOffice’s own OLE objects obey AddReplacementImages setting, made it so the newly-added Windows version detection also handles architectures other than x86_64 and fixed a Writer undo issue affecting list levels
20. Caolán McNamara (Collabora) introduced SAL_RET_MAYBENULL which for debug builds and MSVC uses _Ret_maybenull_ and -analyze to enforce null checking. He also fixed many issues found by static analysers and fuzzers
21. Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) worked on WASM build, creating a UNO bridge for it, worked on MAR autoupdater and did many code cleanups and adapted the code to compiler changes
22. Noel Grandin (Collabora) optimised the speed of Calc column height calculation and getting the text script type and made loading large XLS files faster. He also did many code cleanups mainly in the area of strings
23. Justin Luth (Collabora) added a button to Notebookbar UIs to toggle dark mode, fixed an issue with comment replies in DOCX appearing in the wrong order, made it possible to start presentations at a specific slide using command line parameters, fixed percents misbehaving when used as list level prefixes/suffixes in Writer, made image fills work in imported DOCX files, fixed an issue with paragraphs in textboxes losing their left and right paragraph indents in imported DOC files and made it so separators for lists with None numbering level are not exported to DOCX
24. Michael Weghorn (TDF) worked on the accessibility features of Windows, GTK3 and Qt UIs in areas such as comboboxes, made it so the Number of copies field in the Print dialog only responds to mousewheel when the mouse is over it, fixed a Qt6 freeze, made Qt6 support video playback in Impress presentations on Wayland and did cleanups in the Android code
25. Balázs Varga (allotropia) added Excel2021 array functions RANDARRAY and UNIQUE to Calc, polished the XLOOKUP and XMATCH implementations, made it possible to format characters in text boxes and shapes inside charts, added an option to make data validity case-sensitive in Calc and made the Open Remote button in the Start Center respect disabling via a config file
26. Patrick Luby did many macOS stability improvements
27. Jim Raykowski made Navigator Headings display flat when alphabetically sorted and improved context menus related to Navigator
28. Sarper Akdemir (allotropia) continued polishing the new pane display of Presenter Notes in Impress
29. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) made it so dialog tabs that would have spanned multiple horizontal lines are displayed vertically and made bullets used in the current document be displayed in the bullets dropdown
30. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) continued the rework of handling attributes and properties
31. Oliver Specht (CIB) made case cycling more robust, continued improving the dialog for managing user fields, fixed an issue with calculation in Writer tables with merged cells, improved OOXML compatibility with wrapped through shapes and images and made it so Data Validation in the context menu is disabled in protected Calc sheets
32. Arnaud Versini did some code cleanups
33. Heiko Tietze (TDF) improved some dialogs, made the focus rectangle more prominent for toolbar widgets, made Calc comment authorship optional, increased the mouse hit area for Calc column/row resizing actions and made the visibility of formatting marks more intuitive
34. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) expanded the use of Windows attention-grabbing FlashWindow API to dialogs opening, documents loading and LibreOffice starting
35. László Németh continued polishing new hyphenation options, fixed ordinal indicators for Portuguese and Catalan when using AutoCorrect and made resizing images work in fixed-height Writer table cells in all cases
36. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) synchronised the Developer Guide hosted in TDF wiki with ODK examples and updated the PyUNO code for setting Python home directory to use PyConfig with newer Python versions
37. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) made the makefiles easier to read by getting rid of overly complicated leftover conventions from a time when there was a need to deal with split repositories and two different build systems. He also worked on build support under Windows Subsystem for Linux
38. Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) helped Samuel with the vertical dialog tabs work and fixed build issues
39. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) fixed a rounding issue when saving to XLSX, fixed an issue with array separators changing when using the fill handle, made Excel intersect operator (space) be correctly detected in XLSX import and made Japanese calendar format import from XLSX more robust
40. Jonathan Clark (TDF) finalised making BreakIterator (for breaking words or lines) use ICU, made Writer text layout across formatting changes more robust, avoiding incorrect kerning, fixed Writer text shaping across formatting changes and improved CJK fallback font rendering performance
41. Jakub Kościelak made 64-bit Windows be correctly detected and made the MSI installer code more conformant
42. Regina Henschel fixed an issue with object positioning after row sort in Calc AutoFilter and made text fit to contour in rotated polygons or bézier curves
43. Shail Gautum made both Calc’s rolumn/row highlighting and edit mode highlighting more robust and fixed a build issue
44. Pierre Vacher made zoned time type handling correct in Base table design and made it possible to manage relationships outside the default catalog/schema in Base
45. Tibor Nagy (allotropia) made it possible to change default bullet symbols via the UI and made Writer hyperlink names show as tooltips
46. Bayram Çiçek (Collabora) improved the speed of opening Tools – Options by deferring the indexing of dialog strings for the search feature and made it so AutoFill in Calc can now be called via .uno commands without needing to use the mouse
47. Kurt Nordback continued polishing the of-pie chart type
48. Rafał Dobrakowski made zoom in/out smoother in Calc preview
49. Adam Seskunas made it so Writer tables get copied as a matrix to plain text editors
50. Venetia Furtado added support for measuring the start up time between each splash screen update
51. Rafael Lima reworked the new cell outline to work nice with different zoom levels and made it so AutoFill handle updates the cursor right after merging cells
52. Leonard Sasse did cleanups in Python code
53. Rizal Muttaqin added new icons for of-pie chart types

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

438 bugs, 55 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 272 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Eyal Rozenberg ( 19 )
2. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 18 )
3. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 15 )
4. Mike Kaganski ( 11 )
5. johnks ( 9 )
6. Mihai Vasiliu ( 9 )
7. Regina Henschel ( 8 )
8. Heiko Tietze ( 7 )
9. Hossein ( 7 )
10. Xisco Faulí ( 7 )

Triaged Bugs

484 bugs have been triaged by 62 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 177 )
2. Heiko Tietze ( 52 )
3. m_a_riosv ( 47 )
4. Dieter ( 21 )
5. Buovjaga ( 17 )
6. V Stuart Foote ( 17 )
7. Julien Nabet ( 16 )
8. Mike Kaganski ( 16 )
9. ady ( 12 )
10. Robert Großkopf ( 11 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

472 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

Check the following sections for more information about bugs resolved as FIXED, WORKSFORME and DUPLICATE.

Fixed Bugs

178 bugs have been fixed by 39 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Mike Kaganski ( 15 )
2. Dione Maddern ( 11 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 9 )
4. Justin Luth ( 8 )
5. Caolán McNamara ( 8 )
6. Balazs Varga ( 6 )
7. Miklos Vajna ( 6 )
8. Jonathan Clark ( 4 )
9. Patrick Luby ( 4 )
10. Michael Stahl ( 4 )

List of critical bugs fixed

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#126573 Add array functions in Calc: FILTER, SORT, SORTBY, UNIQUE, SEQUENCE, RANDARRAY ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
2. tdf#144576 Copy a table from Writer to plain text editor or as unformatted text pastes a list instead of matrix (like Calc does) ( Thanks to Adam Seskunas )
3. tdf#159027 Writer table formulas calculated incorrectly in merged cells when table splits over pages ( Thanks to Oliver Specht )
4. tdf#160937 Document Properties pages in all modules do not fit screen and cannot be resized (gtk3/gtk4) ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )
5. tdf#161020 Vertical Tab dialogs–initial size of the style dialog is too small ( Thanks to Thorsten Behrens )
6. tdf#161047 Vertical Tab dialogs–Page style dialog is too small and not resizeable ( Thanks to Thorsten Behrens )
7. tdf#161049 Vertical Tab dialogs–Format Cells dialog in recent 24.8 alpha is too small ( Thanks to Thorsten Behrens )
8. tdf#161190 LibreOffice Calc crashes if you export a spreadsheet as PDF with “whole sheet export” option enabled. ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
9. tdf#61444 Text layout broken across formatting changes (color, underline, etc.) ( Thanks to Jonathan Clark )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#160855 LibreOffice crashes when Calc cells are selected/copied ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
2. tdf#160898 Crash selecting all (Ctrl+A) in a temporarily visible paragraph under a table inside a table ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
3. tdf#160906 Crash when changing formatting (e.g. font) inside Text Box Form Control ( Thanks to Armin Le Grand (allotropia) )
4. tdf#161083 CRASH: closing the document ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
5. tdf#161190 LibreOffice Calc crashes if you export a spreadsheet as PDF with “whole sheet export” option enabled. ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#148616 FILEOPEN PPTX A certain POTX template is slow to open ( Thanks to Aron Budea )
2. tdf#160056 calc threaded calculation performance issue ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
3. tdf#160897 FILEOPEN: layout loop, freeze in master document linked to subdocument ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
4. tdf#81272 Libreoffice Is Very Slow Rendering Chinese Characters (because of font fallback?) ( Thanks to

General Activities

1. Olivier Hallot (TDF) added Help content for user interface selection dialog, Calc row recalculation at load time, automatic labeled ranges in Calc and font embedding. He also updated menu item paths in Help
2. Rafael Lima added support for hidden named expressions in Calc, added Reload command to Notebookbar UIs and made named ranges created by the Solver in Calc hidden by default
3. Stéphane Guillou (TDF) updated Help content for Navigator’s Navigate By
4. Alain Romedenne continued improving the officehelper Python script for connecting to LibreOffice processes
5. Dione Maddern improved Help content for inserting objects from the Gallery and did cleanups in Help
6. Colton Garrett improved Help content for OpenCL and added a Help page for digital signing of paragraphs
7. Laurent Balland did style cleanups in Impress templates
8. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) fixed an issue with shape positioning in DOCX import and did many code cleanups
9. Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed an issue with unwanted spacing in printed text
10. Marco Cecchetti, Gökay Şatır, Pranam Lashkari, Szymon Kłos and Michael Meeks (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online
11. Attila Szűcs (Collabora) continued improving the performance of handling transparent animated GIFs
12. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) improved the text scaling in Impress text boxes, implemented support for custom cell format of pivot table output found in OOXML and did many code cleanups and restructurings
13. Julien Nabet added gssapi authentication support for the MariaDB/MySQL connector, fixed UI issues in Writer’s Paragraph dialog related to the “Allow to split paragraph” option, fixed crashes and did code cleanups
14. Xisco Faulí (TDF) continued the implementation of SVG filters
15. Michael Stahl (allotropia) changed the handling of paragraph and text attributes in empty lines at the end of paragraphs to match the behaviour seen in Microsoft Word
16. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed issues with rotated text being partially cut off, made it possible to create DDE links to files with special characters in their names on Windows, made the Basic LIKE operator more robust, fixed an issue preventing Windows users with special characters in their names from importing PDF files into Draw, made the position shifting behaviour more robust for objects anchored As Character in Writer, fixed an issue with chapter titles in headers/footers getting mixed up due to headings in endnote content, fixed handling of em and ex units in the properties of imported SVG files, improved the stability of text part positioning in SVG files, fixed handling of whitespace in SVG text, fixed a Draw issue causing font colour to not be retained in certain situations and restored HTML map export for text hyperlinks in frames. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations
17. Caolán McNamara (Collabora) continued improving performance of threaded calculation in Calc. He also fixed crashes and many issues found by static analysers and fuzzers
18. Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) worked on WASM build, added a new Expert Configuration setting to not offer Safe Mode in the UI, fixed the msvc_win32_arm64 UNO bridge and worked on Windows Subsystem for Linux support. He also did many code cleanups and adapted the code to compiler changes
19. Noel Grandin (Collabora) did a big restructuring allowing optimisations to writerfilter which is responsible for RTF and OOXML file support, continued improving the speed of print preview with large merged rows in spreadsheets, improved the speed of loading conditional formatting rules in XLS files and changed to a faster algorithm for generating selection overlays. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations
20. Justin Luth (Collabora) fixed an issue with paragraph style overrides in imported DOCX files, fixed an issue with protected cell ranges not exporting to XLSX correctly, made parsing of cell addresses in XLSX import more robust, fixed a UI glitch in Groupedbar Compact related to pivot tables and made the z-index of VML GroupShapes import correctly from DOCX files
21. Michael Weghorn (TDF) worked on the accessibility features of Windows, GTK3 and GTK4 UIs in areas such as toolbar button toggles and Navigator, made IME cursor position reporting more reliable and fixed an issue with form control help texts showing up where they shouldn’t with kf5 UI
22. Balázs Varga (allotropia) made it possible to do character formatting in chart text elements and included OOXML support for the formatting, continued polishing XLOOKUP and SORT function implementations and added Excel2021 array function SEQUENCE to Calc
23. Patrick Luby fixed a macOS hang caused by JDBC driver extension, fixed PDF export of presentations containing PDF images, fixed an issue with cursor leftovers being displayed when using Skia/Metal UI rendering on macOS and made SVG icon rendering respect Retina resolution on macOS
24. Jim Raykowski made fixes and optimisations to Navigator in Impress/Draw context, including fixing an update glitch after saving and reloading and made it possible to delete footnotes and endnotes using the Navigator in Writer
25. Sarper Akdemir (allotropia) reworked Presenter Notes in Impress, so they are now available as a collapsible pane under the slide in Normal view and made it so mouse scrolling fully visible slides/pages in Impress/Draw switches between the previous/next one
26. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) worked on Impress Presenter Notes pane together with Sarper, made it so text formatting toolbar gets enabled when focusing into a text box and ensured text is properly aligned when tabstop is outside of textbox
27. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) continued polishing support for editing Impress slides during presentation and continued the rework of handling attributes and properties
28. Oliver Specht (CIB) improved the dialog for managing user fields, made it so Cycle Case will be applied to the sentence if the cursor is at the sentence end and implemented support for DOCVARIABLE fields in imported DOC files
29. Arnaud Versini did cleanups in locale handling code
30. Heiko Tietze (TDF) did improvements to several dialogs and made it so the cell focus rectangle in Calc appears outside the active cell
31. Taichi Haradaguchi updated Help content after UI changes, updated external library versions and did many UI string fixes and cleanups
32. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed a crash in Writer Navigator
33. Vivek Javiya (Collabora) extended the easy conditional formatting dialog in Calc
34. László Németh added DOCX import support for hyphenate-keep, added a Hyphenation Across option into Paragraph dialog’s Text Flow tab in Writer, made it possible to resize table rows even if cursor is outside the table in Writer and made Writer table cell selection and resizing more robust when dealing with images in cells
35. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) removed obsolete reserved shortcuts and improved documentation for the related code
36. Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) fixed some dialog settings not being remembered across sessions and did code cleanups in the area of code simplification and includes
37. Ritobroto Mukherjee added sinusoidal and coil-like shapes and ported Java TerminationTest ODK example to C++
38. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) worked on build support under Windows Subsystem for Linux
39. Moritz Duge (allotropia) optimised the loading of GPG key data
40. AntonyDas Nadar (Collabora) enabled accessibility for comboboxes in Sidebar
41. Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) made editing Impress slides during presentation non-experimental
42. Khushi Gautam implemented the Sidebar Quick Find deck in Writer as part of an Outreachy project
43. Gabriel Masei (1&1) improved CSV field separator detection when several separators are selected on import
44. Mohit Marathe added UI to set document properties TabsRelativeToIndent and TabOverMargin
45. Sujatro Bhadra replaced AutoFormat button with table style listbox in Writer’s Convert Text to Table dialog
46. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) added [Multiple] and [Undetermined] to language list
47. Leonid Ryzhov made LanguageTool use correct default URL when username/API key are set
48. Jonathan Clark (TDF) worked on making BreakIterator (for breaking words or lines) use ICU
49. Juan C. Sanz made it possible to connect to MS Access .mdb files by using Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 provider
50. Kira Tubo added several automated tests for Writer
51. Zeph Chai ported ChartInDraw and ChartInWriter ODK examples to Python
52. Sahil Gautam extended Insert Cells Dialog to allow adding a set of rows/columns and made the cell background change when entering edit mode in Calc
53. Ahmed Hamed improved the conditional formatting dialog by replacing the static “>=” with a dropdown of different operators
54. Luv Sharma made the handling of “#” characters more robust in Basic
55. Jakub Kościelak did fixes to the Windows installer and improved the presentation of the Windows version string in Help – About dialog (based on earlier work by Joel Dowdy and Achintya Sharma)
56. Alex Henrie added missing file types to Linux desktop files
57. Todor Balabanov improved the accuracy of the comparison code in NLP Solver

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

410 bugs, 67 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 260 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 16 )
2. Telesto ( 14 )
3. Mike Kaganski ( 12 )
4. Heiko Tietze ( 10 )
5. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 10 )
6. Eyal Rozenberg ( 9 )
7. Xisco Faulí ( 8 )
8. Tyler ( 7 )
9. peter josvai ( 7 )
10. Cor Nouws ( 5 )

Triaged Bugs

398 bugs have been triaged by 66 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 61 )
2. m_a_riosv ( 48 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 47 )
4. Buovjaga ( 27 )
5. Dieter ( 21 )
6. V Stuart Foote ( 21 )
7. Mike Kaganski ( 20 )
8. raal ( 14 )
9. Xisco Faulí ( 14 )
10. ady ( 12 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

430 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

Check the following sections for more information about bugs resolved as FIXED, WORKSFORME and DUPLICATE.

Fixed Bugs

149 bugs have been fixed by 37 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Mike Kaganski ( 19 )
2. Michael Stahl ( 7 )
3. Noel Grandin ( 7 )
4. Heiko Tietze ( 6 )
5. Patrick Luby ( 6 )
6. Jim Raykowski ( 5 )
7. Xisco Fauli ( 5 )
8. Balazs Varga ( 5 )
9. László Németh ( 4 )
10. Michael Weghorn ( 4 )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#154581 Paragraph language and character formatting (bold, italic) lost when pasting HTML ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
2. tdf#160016 Inserted GIF flipped vertically; previews in Gallery and Fontwork dialog flipped or mangled ( Thanks to Tomaž Vajngerl )
3. tdf#160444 Crash on closing the 3D-Effects Window ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
4. tdf#160632 TABLE: Crash when using column width dialog ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
5. tdf#160698 Crash after opening Print dialog ( Thanks to Tibor Nagy )
6. tdf#58434 Show formatting marks when displaying non-printing characters +F10, rather than field shading +F8 (for formatting marks as in comment 18) ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#159379 Writer crashes when multiple images are drag-and-dropped “As Character” (steps in comment 8) ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
2. tdf#159683 Crash on closing LibreOffice with certain content on the clipboard ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
3. tdf#159719 SfxItemPool::IsInRange crash: save and reload in Impress or Draw ( Thanks to Armin Le Grand (allotropia) )
4. tdf#160444 Crash on closing the 3D-Effects Window ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
5. tdf#160590 Impress crashes with skia Metal enabled, skia raster software rendering works (MacOS Monterey (12.7.4) w/Intel HD Graphics 6000) ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
6. tdf#160632 TABLE: Crash when using column width dialog ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
7. tdf#160698 Crash after opening Print dialog ( Thanks to Tibor Nagy )
8. tdf#160765 EDITING: Insert comment – Copy – Paste Comments – Undo – Show comment -> LO crash ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
9. tdf#160768 Changing value in a text box control with a link cell set up, Crash ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
10. tdf#160827 Crash on opening certain .docx files ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#160399 Print Preview freezes with whole row merged in large spreadsheet ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#160706 speed up loading conditional formatting rule in XLS ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

List of old bugs ( more than 4 years old ) fixed

1. tdf#107081 LOCALHELP: Index: backgrounds;inserting form Gallery ( Thanks to Dione Maddern )
2. tdf#108057 Primary key should default to AutoValue=Yes when type is integer ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
3. tdf#132253 CHARACTER DIALOG: Drop hyperlink from character attributes ( Thanks to Olivier Hallot )
4. tdf#132599 Option to stop words hyphenating across pages