General Activities
- LibreOffice 6.2 RC2 was announced on January 11
- A two days hackfest with 25 participants was held in Brussels right before FOSDEM 2019
- Justin Luth (Collabora) fixed some old DrawingLayer FillStyles regressions
- Amharic script now works with Fontwork. tdf#66054
- Performance of opening documents with embedded fonts was greatly improved by Mike Kaganski (Collabora).tdf#69060
- CIB and NISZ teams announced they use Miloš Šrámek’s interoperability tools
- Some paper format bugs were found to be fixed by the 2018 GSoC print dialog revamp work
- Jens Carl made over 60 commits related to the Java tests to C++ conversion effort
- Mark Robbinson created SVG icons for Math Help pages
- Bartosz Kosiorek improved EMF+ support with several commits
- Caolán McNamara fixed about 70 UI issues
- Noel Grandin made several dialogs asynchronous
- Jim Raykowski kept adding the new style background tab page to dialogs that were missing it. The work is nearly done after a ton of effort! tdf#105225
- Around 20 improvements to the KDE5 and Qt5 backends were made by Bubli (CIB), Aleksei Nikiforov (BaseALT), Jan-Marek Glogowski (Landeshauptstadt München) and Michael Weghorn
- Brian Fraser added support for drag’n’drop of multiple effects in animation pane
- Miklos Vajna (Collabora) continues working on smartArts improvements
- Help pages in Python Macro programming (Alain Romedenne, Olivier Hallot)
- The Online Help Editor (Olivier Hallot, Mike Saunders)
- Roman Kuznetsov wrote a new guide about Conditional Formatting
- Xisco Fauli was interviewed about LibreOffice 6.2 from the QA perspective
- LibreOffice works on Chromebooks
- Gülşah Köse (Collabora) wrote a nice post on how to build LibreOffice Viewer on Linux
- Zdeněk Crhonek added more than 10 UItests
- Balazs Varga continues fixing OOXML Chart bugs
- Muhammet Kara (Collabora) added a redaction toolbar
Reported Bugs
688 bugs have been reported by 351 people.
Top 10 Reporters
- Telesto ( 42 )
- NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 41 )
- Xisco Faulí ( 26 )
- Nicolas Christener ( 20 )
- ricky.tigg ( 19 )
- Cor Nouws ( 15 )
- Regina Henschel ( 11 )
- Aron Budea ( 11 )
- Gabor Kelemen ( 9 )
- Roman Kuznetsov ( 9 )
Triaged Bugs
709 bugs have been triaged by 71 people.
Top 10 Triagers
- Xisco Faulí ( 213 )
- durgapriyanka.arun ( 59 )
- Dieter Praas ( 51 )
- Buovjaga ( 42 )
- raal ( 41 )
- Oliver Brinzing ( 25 )
- Timur ( 24 )
- Heiko Tietze ( 22 )
- Alex Thurgood ( 21 )
- Aron Budea ( 19 )
Fixed Bugs
235 bugs have been fixed by 55 people.
Top 10 Fixers
- Caolán McNamara ( 58 )
- Justin Luth ( 14 )
- László Németh ( 9 )
- andreas kainz ( 9 )
- Xisco Fauli ( 8 )
- Julien Nabet ( 6 )
- Eike Rathke ( 6 )
- Mike Kaganski ( 5 )
- Bartosz Kosiorek ( 5 )
- Zdeněk Crhonek ( 4 )
List of critical bugs fixed
- tdf#122449 Crash in: mergedlo.dll when closing “Edit Index Entry” dialog (gen/gtk) ( Thanks to Zdeněk Crhonek )
- tdf#122722 Hiding characters will crash. Crash in: SwAttrIter::CtorInitAttrIter(SwTextNode &,SwScriptInfo &,SwTextFrame const *) ( Thanks to Zdeněk Crhonek )
- tdf#122997 Canceling Paragraph dialog causes crash (GTK3) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
- tdf#119126 Crash in: SwFrame::PrepareMake(OutputDevice *) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
- tdf#122509 EDITING Calc crashes when manipulating Negative numbers in red on Currency ( not gtk3 ) ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
- tdf#122383 Crash in: SvxConfigPage::InsertEntry(SvxConfigEntry *,SvTreeListEntry *,bool) ( Thanks to Muhammet Kara )
List of crashes fixed
- tdf#122912 Another CRASH: “Apply”->”Restart Now” if UI Langauge is changed in Tools->Options ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
- tdf#122273 CRASH while closing LibreOffice with the help not-installed dialog open ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
- tdf#123019 CRASH: GTK3: Closing a modified Form several times ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
- tdf#122308 Crash: closing LibreOffice while warning about signatures is open (gtk3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
- tdf#123077 gtk3_kde5, kde5: Crash when minimizing file save dialog ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
- tdf#122598 Crash when stop macro recording ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
- tdf#122977 CRASH: “Tools”->”Options” “LibreOfficeDev”->”Charts”->”Default Colors” ( Thanks to Zdeněk Crhonek )
- tdf#122250 Crash in: std::unique_ptr<long [0],std::default_delete >::~unique_ptr<long [0],std::default_delete >() ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
- tdf#112215 LibreOffice crashes due to PPD file using CUPS ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
- tdf#123050 Crash in: `salhelper::Thread::run’::`1′::catch$1, installing theme ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
- tdf#122253 KDE5: Crash closing full screen mode ( Thanks to Aleksei Nikiforov )
- tdf#122990 Crash after trying to switch to Notebookbar (GTK3) ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
- tdf#122931 CRASH: GTK3: Closing Bullet and Numbering Dialog after showing the graphics gallery ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
- tdf#122597 CRASH: all chart dialogs crash if LibreOffice is closed while they are open (gen/gtk2) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
- tdf#122711 CRASH: exporting a signed PDF ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
- tdf#122808 CRASH while closing LibreOffice with Search for formatting dialog open ( gen/gtk ) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
- tdf#122611 Crash in: SvTreeList::Select(SvListView *,SvTreeListEntry *,bool) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
- tdf#122410 Crash in anonymous namespace’::RetrieveTypeFromResourceURL ( Thanks to Muhammet Kara )
- tdf#122846 CRASH: Clicking “Restart Now” after “Use OpenGL for all rendering”->”Apply” in Options Dialog ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
- tdf#122885 Crash when converting tdf#122811 file to Firebird ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
List of old bugs ( more than 4 years old ) fixed
- tdf#35152 fontwork cursor problem: there already is cursor, but we need click additionaly ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
- tdf#43220 UI: The Navigation Toolbox (top left of Navigator dialog) in Writer can incorrectly launch multiple instances ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
- tdf#52391 EDITING: “Record/track changes”: Rejected changes in character attributes are accepted instead of rejected ( Thanks to László Németh )
- tdf#38328 Find & replace dialogue doesn’t open through Ctrl+H (former Ctrl+Alt+F) if cursor is in Find bar ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
- tdf#69060 FILEOPEN: Documents with embedded fonts take too long to open ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
- tdf#72187 FILESAVE: edit filter settings checkbox disabled for a CSV file in the KDE “Save As dialog” ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
- tdf#79197 Unable to add track change comment when cursor is at the end of the tracked change ( Thanks to László Németh )
Verified bug fixes
138 bugs have been verified by 15 people.
Top 10 Verifiers
- Xisco Faulí ( 72 )
- BogdanB ( 37 )
- Vera Blagoveschenskaya ( 11 )
- Buovjaga ( 6 )
- Mike Kaganski ( 2 )
- Michael Weghorn ( 2 )
- Andras Timar ( 1 )
- Gabor Kelemen ( 1 )
- baffclan ( 1 )
- Aleksei Nikiforov ( 1 )
Categorized Bugs
918 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 35 people.
Top 10 Categorizers
- Roman Kuznetsov ( 644 )
- Dieter Praas ( 61 )
- Thomas Lendo ( 44 )
- Aron Budea ( 27 )
- Xisco Faulí ( 24 )
- Gabor Kelemen ( 17 )
- Buovjaga ( 16 )
- NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 13 )
- Telesto ( 10 )
- V Stuart Foote ( 9 )
Regression Bugs
160 bugs have been set as regressions by 23 people.
Top 10
- Xisco Faulí ( 54 )
- raal ( 19 )
- Cor Nouws ( 14 )
- Buovjaga ( 12 )
- Telesto ( 11 )
- Roman Kuznetsov ( 10 )
- Timur ( 8 )
- Alex Thurgood ( 6 )
- Dieter Praas ( 4 )
- Robert Großkopf ( 3 )
Bisected Bugs
131 bugs have been bisected by 13 people.
Top 10 Bisecters
- Xisco Faulí ( 67 )
- raal ( 28 )
- Buovjaga ( 11 )
- Aron Budea ( 8 )
- Terrence Enger ( 4 )
- Telesto ( 4 )
- Roman Kuznetsov ( 2 )
- Oliver Brinzing ( 2 )
- Michael Weghorn ( 1 )
- Alex ARNAUD ( 1 )
Evolution of Unconfirmed Bugs
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Evolution of Open Regressions
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Evolution of Open bibisectRequests
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Evolution of Highest Priority Bugs
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Evolution of High Priority Bugs
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