QA/Dev Report: February 2021

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.1 Community was released on February 3
2. Steve Fanning made corrections to the Help content for Calc functions
3. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
4. Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library
5. Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated the Help for Calc’s View menu and made many smaller fixes and reorganisations in Help
6. Seth Chaiklin made 27 changes and additions to Help, with topics including menus, styles and AutoCorrect. He also made many improvements to tooltips and labels in LibreOffice
7. Srijita Mallick and Akshit Shan created their first unit test and their first accessibility improvements
8. George Bateman added a “Keep asking during this session” checkbox to Calc’s paste import options dialog
9. Andrzej Hunt (Google) improved the fuzzing setup
10. Dipanshu Garg made it so information about Calc’s Jumbo sheet status appears in the About dialog
11. Deb Barkley-Yeung added a unit test for BColorModifier
12. Andreas Kainz improved the Notebookbar and Sidebar UIs
13. Justin Luth (Collabora/SIL) fixed character highlight issues related to numbering, fixed a Writer crash related to superscript, a superscript applying issue with DOCX export and a bulleted list copying problem with imported DOC files
14. David Tardon (Red Hat) made it possible to dump intermediate XML structure of Lotus Word Pro imports into file
15. Quan Nguyen made it so adding a word in the Spelling dialog immediately applies autocorrection and added rendering support for hiding Chart titles
16. Andreas Heinisch fixed a problem with sort options not being saved in Calc documents
17. Shubham Jain wrote new tests for BASIC literals
18. Anshu Khare added a “No List” list style to make unstyling interaction more clear
19. Balázs Varga (NISZ) improved the XLSX import and export of autofilters
20. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed sorting of autofiltered Calc rows, added an option to only select visible Calc cells for copying and fixed clearing of Calc row and column selection when extending selection over filtered rows
21. Tibor Nagy and Attila Szűcs (NISZ) fixed incorrect multiple conditional formatting rules in the same cell range with XLSX import, fixed hidden Calc columns being printed, fixed DOCX page margins imported as border padding and fixed a missing page break with DOCX export
22. Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed a password protection regression in Windows 7
23. Tamás Zolnai (Collabora) fixed broken master slide list after switching view mode
24. András Timár (Collabora) fixed OOXML chart label import, matching system locale like MSO
25. Gülşah Köse (Collabora) fixed a PPTX import image cropping issue
26. Andrew Udvare made a couple of improvements to the macOS build process
27. Jan-Marek Glogowski (allotropia) fixed incorrect scaling of input method cursor with Qt backend
28. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) improved idle priority task handling, improved the performance of rendering transformed bitmaps and improved document load times by using zlib’s crc32() function
29. Michael Weghorn improved the Qt Creator integration
30. Maxim Monastirsky fixed missing DisplayName property for Writer table styles
31. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) improved Visual Studio Code integration
32. Julien Nabet added backepsilon symbol to Math elements panel and fixed a Calc hyperlink insertion crash
33. Szymon Kłos (Collabora) made it so scrolling a treelist does not leave artifacts on the screen and improved the Style preview widget
34. Attila Bakos (NISZ) fixed shape and anchor going out of synch in an exported DOCX file and fixed losing Contour shape wrap in DOCX export
35. Björn Michaelsen continued internal improvements to Writer
36. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) improved the handling of font scaling in metafile images
37. Regina Henschel fixed shape handling in RTL Calc sheets, fixed bringing Fontwork objects to front and fixed incorrect anchor type of rotated shapes in imported XLSX files
38. Michael Stahl (allotropia) fixed copying and deleting tables in sections via the API, fixed hyperlinks in user-defined indexes pointing to certain types of targets and made VML shapes in exported DOCX files compatible with MS Word
39. Ouyang Leyan made it so no data loss occurs when copying a chart in Calc with errors in formulas and fixed copying of numbers in Calc chart categories into Writer
40. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made the CELL() Calc function implementation conform to the ODF 1.2 spec
41. Dante Doménech made many internal improvements to Math
42. Rizal Muttaqin made updates to all icon themes regarding find & replace and formatting
43. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) fixed a crash with UNO bootstrapping related to absolute paths and made many code cleanups as well as build and test fixes
44. Noel Grandin (Collabora) fixed importing of pathological SVG images and made many code cleanups, crash fixes and optimisations
45. Jim Raykowski made it possible to right-click the style previews in Notebookbar Tabbed and made a couple of improvements to the Outline view functionality
46. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) added support for series name in Chart data series labels, implemented chart:regression-moving-type and improved the layout of Chart trendline and data label dialogs
47. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made sweeping improvements to unit conversion code, made it so the locale is set when language is defined by command line invocation, improved tests and made code cleanups.
48. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) worked on the new UNO object inspector and made internal improvements to graphics handling code
49. László Németh (NISZ) bumped libnumbertext to version 1.0.7, improved the Track Changes toolbar auto-appear behaviour, fixed an XLSX import issue with dashed line styles, greatly improved the performance of importing DOCX footnotes and endnotes and fixed losing comment position in tracked deletions
50. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) made it so tabs can show tooltips, Ctrl+A works to select all in Impress comments, continued on the last stretch of the massive UI backend work and made many cleanups and crash fixes
51. Gábor Kelemen (NISZ) added new shortcuts for Impress pointer as pen functionality
52. Heiko Tietze (TDF) added templates from the competition and removed some older templates, improved the print dialog and made some improvements to the Start Center
53. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) continued improving the handling of inserted PDFs and improved Writer’s support for gutter margins
54. Xisco Faulí (TDF) made the missing unit tests script use Bugzilla API and made over 70 improvements and additions to unit and UI tests
55. Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) made LibreOffice Vanilla (Mac) version work with embedded Firebird databases and made Calc row height adjustment behaviour less annoying

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

659 bugs, 75 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 399 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Telesto ( 80 )
2. sdc.blanco ( 19 )
3. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 19 )
4. Regina Henschel ( 19 )
5. Xisco Faulí ( 10 )
6. Petr Valach ( 8 )
7. Aron Budea ( 7 )
8. Ulrich Windl ( 7 )
9. Dieter ( 6 )
10. Eyal Rozenberg ( 6 )

Triaged Bugs

599 bugs have been triaged by 101 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 131 )
2. Heiko Tietze ( 47 )
3. Buovjaga ( 44 )
4. Dieter ( 41 )
5. Timur ( 33 )
6. Aron Budea ( 20 )
7. BogdanB ( 17 )
8. Regina Henschel ( 17 )
9. Julien Nabet ( 17 )
10. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 16 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

522 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

153 bugs have been fixed by 37 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 11 )
2. Seth Chaiklin ( 8 )
3. László Németh ( 6 )
4. Heiko Tietze ( 6 )
5. Regina Henschel ( 5 )
6. Miklos Vajna ( 5 )
7. Noel Grandin ( 5 )
8. Luboš Luňák ( 4 )
9. Julien Nabet ( 4 )
10. Tünde Tóth ( 3 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#134607 LO7RC1 – LANGPACK macOS – many versions fail to recognize LibreOffice 7.0 / 7.1 installation as valid on Catalina and Big Sur ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
2. tdf#138068 When there are a lot of pictures, typing the text is very slow (macOS/GTK3/GDI) ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
3. tdf#140280 Crash in: KERNELBASE.dll when double click a slide content box and file is opened read-only ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
4. tdf#140308 Crash import old OpenOffice template (stw, stc, sti, std) ( steps in comment 12 ) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#139511 Impress: Shrinking table by dragging bottom border up or top down not working anymore ( Thanks to Gülşah Köse )
2. tdf#140437 FILEOPEN: Writer document “Read Error. Format error discovered in the file in sub-document content.xml at 2,1311816(row,col).” ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
3. tdf#140444 EDITING: Creating a view from a query crashes whole LO ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
4. tdf#140528 Crash in: swlo.dll In “Save As” dialog in “Tools -Chapter Numbering”, when switching from Numbering to Position tab ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
5. tdf#140572 FILESAVE DOCX Crash when saving a file with superscript formatting ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
6. tdf#36466 Add option to Select Visible Cells Only (to be copied from or copied to) ( Thanks to Tünde Tóth )
7. tdf#76260 FILEOPEN: slow loading and dump of .docx with lots of footnotes (see Comment 27 and Comment 43) ( Thanks to László Németh )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#137406 Crash when clicking “Apply to Master” in Slide Master mode on Bullets and Numbering dialog ( Thanks to Gokce Kuler )
2. tdf#139039 PDF export: Error message if filepath is URL coded / crash when saving as DOCX ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
3. tdf#140014 Calc crashes when using COUNTIF, SUMIF, etc. on columns “far away” without data ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
4. tdf#140225 Crash in: libmergedlo.so g_lo_action_group_change_state FILEOPEN ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#140280 Crash in: KERNELBASE.dll when double click a slide content box and file is opened read-only ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
6. tdf#140308 Crash import old OpenOffice template (stw, stc, sti, std) ( steps in comment 12 ) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
7. tdf#140414 Crash pressing Ctrl-K in input line in Calc ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
8. tdf#140444 EDITING: Creating a view from a query crashes whole LO ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
9. tdf#140528 Crash in: swlo.dll In “Save As” dialog in “Tools -Chapter Numbering”, when switching from Numbering to Position tab ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
10. tdf#140572 FILESAVE DOCX Crash when saving a file with superscript formatting ( Thanks to Justin Luth )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#120351 Writer hangs for over 20 minutes loading a 3MB, 450-page DOCX Edit with thousands of endnotes ( Thanks to László Németh )
2. tdf#138068 When there are a lot of pictures, typing the text is very slow (macOS/GTK3/GDI) ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
3. tdf#139820 Hang: Undoing paste of block with empty cells ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
4. tdf#76260 FILEOPEN: slow loading and dump of .docx with lots of footnotes (see Comment 27 and Comment 43) ( Thanks to László Németh )

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

1. tdf#105301 sort options not remembered thoroughly in saved document ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
2. tdf#36466 Add option to Select Visible Cells Only (to be copied from or copied to) ( Thanks to Tünde Tóth )
3. tdf#57667 Immediately apply AutoCorrection when added per Spelling and Grammar dialog ( Thanks to Quan Nguyen )
4. tdf#60237 : Bug in API call StoreAsURL (or in the OO Basic API description) ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
5. tdf#66409 failure to correctly implement CELL ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
6. tdf#76260 FILEOPEN: slow loading and dump of .docx with lots of footnotes (see Comment 27 and Comment 43) ( Thanks to László Németh )
7. tdf#91920 No support for gutter margins ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
8. tdf#92622 WRITER: context menu “Unstyle selected text” from list style to “no-list” style ( Thanks to Anshu )
9. tdf#92768 support hiding title objects ( Thanks to Quan Nguyen )
10. tdf#94235 Ability to add series name to data series label ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )

WORKSFORME bugs

110 bugs have been retested by 33 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 37 )
2. Buovjaga ( 13 )
3. Telesto ( 6 )
4. Dieter ( 6 )
5. Aron Budea ( 5 )
6. Timur ( 4 )
7. BogdanB ( 4 )
8. Roman Kuznetsov ( 3 )
9. Julien Nabet ( 3 )
10. Regina Henschel ( 2 )

DUPLICATED bugs

115 bugs have been duplicated by 36 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 16 )
2. Timur ( 15 )
3. Buovjaga ( 7 )
4. Aron Budea ( 6 )
5. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 6 )
6. Heiko Tietze ( 6 )
7. Alex Thurgood ( 5 )
8. V Stuart Foote ( 5 )
9. László Németh ( 3 )
10. Gabor Kelemen ( 3 )

Verified bug fixes

69 bugs have been verified by 11 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 23 )
2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 17 )
3. Dieter ( 15 )
4. Roman Kuznetsov ( 4 )
5. Buovjaga ( 3 )
6. Aron Budea ( 2 )
7. Timur ( 1 )
8. V Stuart Foote ( 1 )
9. Ming Hua ( 1 )
10. BogdanB ( 1 )

Categorized Bugs

240 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 31 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

1. Dieter ( 43 )
2. Aron Budea ( 38 )
3. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 24 )
4. sdc.blanco ( 24 )
5. Buovjaga ( 19 )
6. Roman Kuznetsov ( 18 )
7. Rizal Muttaqin ( 12 )
8. Heiko Tietze ( 8 )
9. Eyal Rozenberg ( 6 )
10. V Stuart Foote ( 6 )

Regression Bugs

88 bugs have been set as regressions by 18 people.

Top 10

1. Telesto ( 23 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 18 )
3. Timur ( 10 )
4. Aron Budea ( 6 )
5. Buovjaga ( 5 )
6. Roman Kuznetsov ( 4 )
7. BogdanB ( 3 )
8. raal ( 3 )
9. m.a.riosv ( 3 )
10. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 2 )

Bisected Bugs

63 bugs have been bisected by 11 people.

Top 10 Bisecters

1. Xisco Faulí ( 23 )
2. raal ( 8 )
3. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 6 )
4. Aron Budea ( 5 )
5. Roman Kuznetsov ( 5 )
6. Timur ( 5 )
7. Telesto ( 4 )
8. Gabor Kelemen ( 3 )
9. Buovjaga ( 2 )
10. Stefan_Lange_KA@T-Online.de ( 1 )

Evolution of Unconfirmed Bugs

Check the current list of unconfirmed bugs here

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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