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bibisect-linux-64-6.4 is available with KDE5 support!

The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce the bisect repository from libreoffice-6-3-branch-point to latest master is available for cloning from Gerrit. As a novelty, this repository adds support for KDE5 environment.

What is a bisect repository ?

it’s a git repository populated with hundreds of builds of LibreOffice. Added to the repository in chronological order, each build represents each commit in the LibreOffice core repository, allowing the QA Team to easily identify at which point a regression was introduced. Watch Effective Bisection and Bibisection (Matthew Francis’s talk at LibOCon 2015 on YouTube) for both an introduction, and practical details.…

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LibreOffice 6.3 on Linux, a statement

Following the availability of LibreOffice 6.3 Beta, there have been speculations about 32-bit compatibility based on a the missing 32-bit binaries for Linux.

We have prepared a short and a long statement to clarify the situation.

TL;DR

1. The Document Foundation is ending the provision of 32-bit binaries, and NOT 32-bit compatibility as a whole.

2. Distro vendors or anyone running a more current 32-bit Linux system can still create 32-bit versions of LibreOffice, as developers have not in any way removed 32-bit compatibility from the source code. Additionally, we are not removing any 32-bit builds that were previously created.

3. Most Linux users are sourcing LibreOffice from their distro repositories, which are usually compiled against the distro’s version of the various external libraries. We do not anticipate distros dropping 32-bit LibreOffice packages.

4. TDF does not anticipate the same decision happening for LibreOffice 32-bit binaries for Windows any time soon.

LONG

1. During the last two years, the number of downloads of the 32-bit Linux distribution-neutral binaries provided by The Document Foundation have decreased to a very low number. Today, the time needed to compile, test, maintain and distribute those binaries is not worth the effort, based on current download numbers. So, TDF is ending the provision of 32-bit binaries, and NOT 32-bit compatibility as a whole.

2. Today, 32-bit packages are very much the domain of specific Linux distros rather than a general user need. So, we are leaving them to distros, who will upstream fixes. Indeed, distro vendors or anyone running a more current 32-bit Linux system can still create 32-bit versions of LibreOffice, as developers have not in any way removed 32-bit compatibility from the source code. Additionally, TDF is not removing any 32-bit binaries that were previously created.

3. Most Linux users are sourcing LibreOffice from their distro repositories, which are usually compiled against the distro’s version of the various external libraries. LibreOffice by itself ships a number of external components to avoid dependencies, while distros link against the versions of those components which are part of the distro anyway. TDF does not anticipate distros dropping 32-bit LibreOffice packages.

4. The Document Foundation does not anticipate the same decision happening for Windows 32-bit binaries any time soon. Of course, if downloads of Windows 32-bit binaries from TDF mirror servers drop to the same very low number as Linux 32-bit packages, TDF will reconsider the situation.…

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QA Report: May 2019

General Activities

  1. LibreOffice 6.1.6.3 was released on May, 7
  2. LibreOffice 6.2.4.2 was released on May, 22
  3. Jan-Marek Glogowski keeps fixing and improving QT5 bugs
  4. Luboš Luňák and Dennis Francis (Collabora) fixed the multi_type_vector regressions affecting performance in Calc
  5. Gülşah Köse (Collabora) added new customize and position merged dialog
  6. Grzegorz Araminowicz (Collabora) continues his SmartArt interoperability work
  7. Tamás Zolnai (Collabora) has fixed some PPTX import/export problems
  8. Noel Grandin (Collabora) did a great job on improving the import/export performance of Writer and Calc files
  9. Andreas Keinz continues improving the Notebookbar
  10. László Németh (NISZ Team) has fixed some DOCX import and track changes interoperability problems
  11. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) wrote a nice blogpost about compiling times in LibreOffice
  12. Rizal Muttaqin added Karasa Jaga SVG icons and made some updating for Elementary icon theme
  13. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) has fixed some flickering UI bugs on Windows
  14. Heiko Tietze added a new ‘What’s New?’ infobar pointing to the release notes when a new version is started for the first time
  15. Muhammet Kara (Collabora) added all the information regarding the new feature ‘Redaction’ to the release notes
  16. Muhammet Kara (Collabora) killed Mozilla Personas support
  17. Michael Stahl (CIB) fixed all the regressions introduced by bug 114306
  18. Michael Weghorn (City of Munich) and Katarina Behrens (CIB) keeps fixing bugs affecting KDE5, backporting them to LibreOffice 6.2 branch
  19. Tor Lillqvist and Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) keep working on LibreOffice support for iOS
  20. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) made it possible to build LibreOffice with xcode 10 on macOS
  21. Dennis Francis (Collabora) added a new checkbox in Data ▸ Statistics ▸ Moving Average dialog that allows trimming of the input range to the actual data content before computing moving-average
  22. Balazs Varga (NISZ team) keeps fixing XLSX chart issues
  23. Regina Henschel fixed many problems with handle-movements of OOXML preset shapes used by PowerPoint or SoftMaker
  24. Xisco Fauli automated some actions in Bugzilla to improve the triage process
  25. 6 students has been accepted for the Google Summer of Code Program
    • Shubham Goyal – Generating QR Code in LibreOffice
    • Gagandeep Singh – Implement Chart Styles
    • Ahmed Elshreif – Improve the UI testing DSL and the log files for UI actions
    • Sumit Chauhan – Improvement to Notebookbar
    • Rasmus Jonsson – LibreOffice Appliances
    • Kaishu Sahu – LibreOffice for Android(Online)
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Reported Bugs

547 bugs, 54 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 300 people.

Top 10 Reporters

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 24 )
  2. Nicolas Christener ( 22 )
  3. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 21 )
  4. Thorsten Wagner ( 19 )
  5. Telesto ( 12 )
  6. Regina Henschel ( 11 )
  7. andreas_k ( 10 )
  8. Roman Kuznetsov ( 9 )
  9. Mike Kaganski ( 7 )
  10. Aron Budea ( 7 )

Triaged Bugs

636 bugs have been triaged by 72 people.

Top 10 Triagers

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 209 )
  2. Dieter Praas ( 57 )
  3. raal ( 38 )
  4. Heiko Tietze ( 31 )
  5. Roman Kuznetsov ( 31 )
  6. V Stuart Foote ( 25 )
  7. Julien Nabet ( 21 )
  8. Usama ( 20 )
  9. Timur ( 19 )
  10. Oliver Brinzing ( 18 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

608 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

227 bugs have been fixed by 44 people.

Top 10 Fixers

  1. Caolán McNamara ( 33 )
  2. Noel Grandin ( 11 )
  3. Miklos Vajna ( 9 )
  4. László Németh ( 9 )
  5. Michael Stahl ( 9 )
  6. Katarina Behrens ( 8 )
  7. Xisco Fauli ( 7 )
  8. Tor Lillqvist ( 7 )
  9. Jan-Marek Glogowski ( 7 )
  10. Eike Rathke ( 7 )

List of critical bugs fixed

  1. tdf#124829 CRASH: cutting and undoing a sheet with external links ( Thanks to Serge Krot )
  2. tdf#125054 Font changed when typing into cell, in edit mode, with redline ( Thanks to Armin Le Grand )
  3. tdf#125080 LibreOffice crashes when adding icons to Gallery ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  4. tdf#125339 Table is deleted after acceding the table ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  5. tdf#125370 crash: on open basic editor to edit macros ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )

List of crashes fixed

  1. tdf#115092 crash report screen keeps popping up ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
  2. tdf#122056 kde5: Impress crashes when at presentation end when Orca is enabled ( Thanks to Katarina Behrens )
  3. tdf#124484 Impress crashes on slide show using “All displays” ( Thanks to Katarina Behrens )
  4. tdf#124675 CRASH: after moving the content down and undoing ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
  5. tdf#124927 Crash when adding more than one object to the animated images dialog ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  6. tdf#124937 crash when trying to open a .doc file ( Thanks to Mark Hung )
  7. tdf#124942 CRASH – 3D Slide Transitions in Impress ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  8. tdf#124962 CRASH: closing a document that previously crash at import time (gtk3/gtk) ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
  9. tdf#125051 EDITING: CRASH when start SpellCheck ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  10. tdf#125104 Changing page numbering to “1st, 2nd, 3rd,…” causes crashes when trying to change Page settings later ( see comment 26 ) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  11. tdf#125131 CRASH closing LibreOffice with the tip of the day dialog open ( gen/gtk) ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
  12. tdf#125132 CRASH: closing Digital Signature dialog ( gen/gtk ) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  13. tdf#125164 CRASH: After editing the index and undoing ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
  14. tdf#125229 CRASH when trying to modify a frame style in a ODT document ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  15. tdf#125271 Inserting this .mp4 file in impress leads to a CRASH ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  16. tdf#125325 Crash when changing assignments between Table indexes and Free indexes for DBase ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
  17. tdf#125392 CRASH: if Select Address List dialog has more than 1 element (gtk3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  18. tdf#125394 CRASH: closing mail merge dialog ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  19. tdf#125397 iOS App: Template URL – Crash when Opening From Template ( Thanks to Tor Lillqvist )
  20. tdf#125424 CRASH: Renaming template ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  21. tdf#125472 Crash vcllo!OutputDevice::RemoveTransparenciesFromMetaFile+0xa68: ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

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

  1. tdf#38889 Make macro editing easier ( Thanks to Jens Carl )
  2. tdf#56738 Wrong encoding in comments for file edited by Mac OS MS Word ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
  3. tdf#63640 FILEOPEN/FILESAVE: particular .odt loads/saves very slow ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  4. tdf#65587 Elements pane: Items not reachable without mouse ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
  5. tdf#66765 FILESAVE: saving sheet with some queries in it takes forever (~5 minutes) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  6. tdf#68339 Other: BASIC Syntax error ( Thanks to Jens Carl )
  7. tdf#69042 Add a “Release Notes/What’s New” window to be shown upon first run ( Thanks to heiko tietze )
  8. tdf#79972 FILEOPEN: XLS/XLSX – Hyperlink document path not imported correctly for numeric content cells ( Thanks to Tünde Tóth )
  9. tdf#80853 Calc freezes while filtering large data ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
  10. tdf#83722 Untitled document from template is closed when opening additional existing document ( Thanks to Katarina Behrens )
  11. tdf#85470 FILESAVE Very long time spent saving XLSX as XLS ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  12. tdf#87965 Make ‘Search Results’ dialog optional from Find & Replace dialog ( Thanks to heiko tietze )
  13. tdf#90297 LibreOffice Math dark theme > dark text and background ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )

WORKSFORME bugs

105 bugs have been retested by 40 people.

Top 10 testers

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 24 )
  2. Buovjaga ( 9 )
  3. Thomas Lendo ( 6 )
  4. Heiko Tietze ( 6 )
  5. Dieter Praas ( 6 )
  6. raal ( 5 )
  7. Timur ( 5 )
  8. Julien Nabet ( 4 )
  9. Telesto ( 3 )
  10. Cor Nouws ( 3 )

DUPLICATED bugs

98 bugs have been duplicated by 25 people.

Top 10 testers

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 19 )
  2. raal ( 9 )
  3. Timur ( 8 )
  4. Gabor Kelemen ( 6 )
  5. Heiko Tietze ( 6 )
  6. Alex Thurgood ( 6 )
  7. V Stuart Foote ( 6 )
  8. Buovjaga ( 5 )
  9. Dieter Praas ( 5 )
  10. Oliver Brinzing ( 5 )

Verified bug fixes

115 bugs have been verified by 21 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 76 )
  2. Vera Blagoveschenskaya ( 7 )
  3. Timur ( 5 )
  4. Aron Budea ( 4 )
  5. BogdanB ( 3 )
  6. Julien Nabet ( 3 )
  7. Buovjaga ( 2 )
  8. Roman Kuznetsov ( 2 )
  9. Cor Nouws ( 2 )
  10. Samuel Thibault ( 1 )

Categorized Bugs

320 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 30 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

  1. Roman Kuznetsov ( 108 )
  2. Dieter Praas ( 54 )
  3. Thomas Lendo ( 25 )
  4. Gabor Kelemen ( 22 )
  5. Aron Budea ( 22 )
  6. Xisco Faulí ( 16 )
  7. V Stuart Foote ( 12 )
  8. Heiko Tietze ( 11 )
  9. DaeHyun Sung ( 7 )
  10. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 7 )

Regression Bugs

105 bugs have been set as regressions by 24 people.

Top 10

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 56 )
  2. raal ( 8 )
  3. Roman Kuznetsov ( 5 )
  4. Aron Budea ( 4 )
  5. Alex Thurgood ( 4 )
  6. Buovjaga ( 3 )
  7. Timur ( 3 )
  8. Gabor Kelemen ( 3 )
  9. Cor Nouws ( 2 )
  10. Oliver Brinzing ( 2 )

Bisected Bugs

80 bugs have been bisected by 13 people.

Top 10 Bisecters

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 49 )
  2. raal ( 10 )
  3. Aron Budea ( 6 )
  4. Kevin Suo ( 3 )
  5. Buovjaga ( 2 )
  6. Gabor Kelemen ( 2 )
  7. Oliver Brinzing ( 2 )
  8. Maxim Monastirsky ( 1 )
  9. Justin L ( 1 )
  10. Michael Stahl (CIB) ( 1 )

Evolution of Unconfirmed Bugs

Check the current list of unconfirmed bugs here

Evolution of Open Regressions

Check the current list of open regressions here

Evolution of Open bibisectRequests

Check the current list of open bibisectrequests here

Evolution of Highest Priority Bugs

Check the current list of highest priority bugs here

Evolution of High Priority Bugs

Check the current list of high priority bugs here

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LibreOffice 6.3 Beta1 ready for testing

The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 6.3 Beta1 is ready for testing!

LibreOffice 6.3 will be released as final in mid August, 2019, being LibreOffice 6.3 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 6.3 started in mid November, 2018 ( See the release plan ). Since LibreOffice 6.3 Alpha1, 683 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 141 bugs have been set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.

LibreOffice 6.3 Beta1 can be downloaded from here, it’s available for Linux, MacOS and Windows. Besides, and it can be installed along with your actual 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 ) so it can get fixed before LibreOffice 6.3 final is released.

For help, you can contact us directly in our IRC channel.

Happy testing!!

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