Year: 2021

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.2.1 was released on September 16
2. LibreOffice 7.1.6 was released on September 9
3. Allotropia published a couple of blogposts about their recent work on master documents and ODF 1.3 transition
4. Alain Romedenne improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library
5. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos improved the accuracy of some Help texts and made some smaller fixes
6. Rafael Lima created a guide about Calc macros for formatting cell borders, improved the Help pages for Slide master, Calc AutoCorrect and document encryption.
7. Steve Fanning improved the help for EUROCONVERT and CONVERT_OOO Calc functions
8. Olivier Hallot (TDF) added Help pages for Accessibility Check Tool, ProtectFields and ProtectBookmarks, improved the pages for GPG signing and Database Advanced Settings, added examples for using Calc functions in macros and updated many menu item references.
9. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) replaced Help’s index filtering JS library with a more performant one
10. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
11. Ross Johnson improved paragraph keyboard navigation in Writer and fixed a problem with the grouping of Help index filter results
12. Juan C. Sanz implemented connecting to a Firebird server (still missing UI)
13. Natalia Gavrilova made Calc’s focus rectangle use the highlight colour rather than the default font colour
14. Aleksei Nikiforov (basealt) fixed a Linux crash related to SVG icon themes
15. Pierre Marty (Linagora) fixed an Impress autolayout issue
16. Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) worked on the iOS version
17. Daniel Arato (NISZ) fixed issues with footers in XLSX export and custom shapes in DOCX export
18. Jim Raykowski completed the work on Navigator focus tracking for all content types while greatly improving its performance and improved the Outline folding feature
19. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) added support for hyperlinks in images in PPTX import
20. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) added line thickness presets for borders and fixed a couple of DOCX import hyperlink issues
21. Gábor Kelemen (NISZ) fixed a regression in Mail Merge email output ranges
22. Michael Stahl (allotropia) fixed an issue of spelling dialog in Impress messing up text formatting in shapes and made several crash fixes
23. Regina Henschel fixed an issue with line object rotation in XLSX export
24. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) improved the Calc colour filter feature
25. Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed a crash caused by a performance improvement
26. Julien Nabet made emoji toolbar button work on Windows, fixed a regression in Calc’s standard filter with gtk3 UI, improved the behaviour of Base’s Direct SQL dialog and fixed the percentage display in the Check for Updates dialog
27. Jan-Marek Glogowski (allotropia) made internal directory handling and Windows-specific printing related code more robust
28. Rizal Muttaqin updated Sukapura and Colibre icon themes
29. Ilhan Yesil made internal hyperlinks in spreadsheets work in the Android app
30. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued working on the new searching and indexing feature
31. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) fixed a font size problem in WMF graphics and added preliminary support for Visual Studio 2022 for building on Windows
32. László Németh (NISZ) improved the coverage of change tracking, adding paragraph style tracking and making table tracking more complete
33. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many code and build-related cleanups
34. Chris Sherlock continued VCL refactoring work
35. Michael Weghorn made many improvements to Windows and Qt 5 accessibility and added a Qt 6 VCL plugin
36. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) fixed several Calc regressions related to number formats, date patterns, sorting and filtering. He also improved date pattern recognition robustness and made out-of-bounds dates show an #FMT error
37. Justin Luth (SIL) improved the DOC/DOCX support for multi-level list attributes in paragraph styles and made Writer table row height optimisation more robust
38. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) introduced per-process lock directories for Firebird to allow running multiple LibreOffice Base instances with Firebird embedded databases. He also fixed other Firebird issues like crashes, a LIST function issue and path issues. He also made many code cleanups and optimisations
39. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) improved the backtrace functionality (code debugging), improved the performance of Calc’s COUNTIF function and made many code and build-related cleanups
40. Andreas Heinisch added support for case-insensitive operations for non-ASCII characters in the VBA Collection object, made it so missing optional parameters in Basic code are handled properly, improved handling of CSV files in UTF-8 with BOM format, made it possible to set cell font colour from VBA macros and improved VBA error messaging
41. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed handling of password protection in XLSX and DOCX files
42. Xisco Faulí (TDF) made a couple of dozen additions and improvements to automated tests
43. Balázs Varga (NISZ) fixed losing images and shapes in charts upon OOXML export and made it possible to save ranges in a single Mail Merge document
44. Attila Bakos (NISZ) added support for text in grouped shapes
45. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) improved robustness of Sidebar minimum widths, fixed issues with fonts in Base table views, content of Base Tablecontrols being invisible in PDF export, Windows spell checking underlines rendered with a black background and continued implementing the new GTK4 backend. He also made many cleanups and crash fixes
46. Heiko Tietze (TDF) made it so Application colour Field Shading is respected with dark backgrounds, added colour palettes to integrated providing of additions, improved Calc’s Paste Special dialog and made it possible to access Writer table formula editing via context menu
47. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) added support for ODT import and export of multi-level list paragraph style attributes, improved Writer layout XML dump (debugging feature), added support for linked character styles in Writer (including DOCX support), fixed unwanted shadow blurring in imported PPTX files, fixed image frame anchor type changing upon DOCX export and undo not restoring image anchor position
48. Noel Grandin (Collabora) made it faster to load large Writer tables, insert large charts and export PDFs, optimised the parallel loading of spreadsheets and made many code cleanups and smaller optimisations

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

591 bugs, 67 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 331 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 41 )
2. Telesto ( 38 )
3. Mike Kaganski ( 18 )
4. elias estatistics ( 11 )
5. flywire ( 9 )
6. Elmar ( 8 )
7. John ( 8 )
8. medmedin2014 ( 7 )
9. Rafael Lima ( 7 )
10. Luke Kendall ( 6 )

Triaged Bugs

571 bugs have been triaged by 88 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Heiko Tietze ( 52 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 52 )
3. Roman Kuznetsov ( 50 )
4. Dieter ( 43 )
5. Timur ( 42 )
6. Buovjaga ( 39 )
7. m.a.riosv ( 28 )
8. Julien Nabet ( 27 )
9. Mike Kaganski ( 26 )
10. Telesto ( 16 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

589 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

186 bugs have been fixed by 43 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 18 )
2. Eike Rathke ( 8 )
3. Andreas Heinisch ( 8 )
4. Mike Kaganski ( 7 )
5. László Németh ( 7 )
6. Heiko Tietze ( 6 )
7. Balazs Varga ( 6 )
8. Julien Nabet ( 5 )
9. Noel Grandin ( 5 )
10. Miklos Vajna ( 5 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#144132 Crash when insert formula object in Writer ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#144184 Calc disables header/footer or looses footer content when saves a spreadsheet ( Thanks to Daniel Arato (NISZ) )
3. tdf#144740 Criteria query (COUNTIF(), MATCH() et al) for numeric values broken considering number formats ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#143854 FILESAVE: Empty bullet added when saving from PPT to ODP ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
2. tdf#144106 FILEOPEN: LibreOffice crashes on opening CSV file with “Trim spaces” option enabled ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
3. tdf#144155 CALC Row operations over 100 times slower in 7.2 compared to 7.1 ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
4. tdf#144209 Result with “Precision as shown” with custom string+General number format becomes 0 ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
5. tdf#144249 Deleting 10.000 rows column in a spreadsheet: 15 sec with 4.1| 10 sec up to 300+ sec with 6.2| 130 sec with 7.3 ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
6. tdf#144729 Crash when trying to modify a style (gtk3 only) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#117842 Firebird: Enabling connection pooling for firebird:sdbc driver crashes Libo when creating connection to data engine ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
2. tdf#140951 Base crashes as soon as I start an ‘Abfrage’ (Windows) ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
3. tdf#144106 FILEOPEN: LibreOffice crashes on opening CSV file with “Trim spaces” option enabled ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
4. tdf#144132 Crash when insert formula object in Writer ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
5. tdf#144135 Calc causes repeatable fatal crash when I attempted to sort columns ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
6. tdf#144139 LO crashes when trying to print a form ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
7. tdf#144193 CRASH: importing document (gtk3) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
8. tdf#144304 CRASH: Selecting all and cutting in specific document / Inserting section ( Thanks to Aron Budea )
9. tdf#144340 A query against an embedded FB database fails, and then crashed program on close on Windows ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
10. tdf#144376 Crash when triggering twice “Protected cells can not be modified” (reproducible) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
11. tdf#144564 CRASH When reloading mail merge documents ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
12. tdf#144598 Crash in: SkRect::round() ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
13. tdf#144624 LibreOffice with “gen” UI backend crashes on Linux of SVG icon theme is default ( Thanks to Aleksei Nikiforov )
14. tdf#144729 Crash when trying to modify a style (gtk3 only) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#125892 Time to export a certain PDF increased with in 10 fold (previously 30 seconds (6.0) now 5 minutes (6.4) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#143268 Slow response in document with many tables after Table tree is expanded in Navigator ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
3. tdf#144155 CALC Row operations over 100 times slower in 7.2 compared to 7.1 ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
4. tdf#144249 Deleting 10.000 rows column in a spreadsheet: 15 sec with 4.1| 10 sec up to 300+ sec with 6.2| 130 sec with 7.3 ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )

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

1. tdf#100777 Bind Ctrl+Up/Down to uno:GoToStartStartOfPara/EndOfPara (instead of next/prev. paragraph) ( Thanks to Ross Johnson )
2. tdf#105689 Emoji toolbar button (bug 100100 emoji.json implementation) not functional on Windows ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
3. tdf#35129 Form spin button doesn’t expose ROLE_SPIN_BUTTON to AT-SPI ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
4. tdf#39828 Writer table not calculating correctly if Tracked Changes shown ( Thanks to László Németh )
5. tdf#45525 TABLES, Problem on adjust selected Row or Column to equal space ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
6. tdf#50421 UI: “Check for Updates” menu leads to an unusable dialog (shows “%PERCENT%”) ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
7. tdf#73139 PRINTING: Content of Tablecontrols isn’t printed, when the whole Fonts are default (black) text color ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
8. tdf#88163 [WMF] FILEOPEN Wrong size of fonts ( Thanks to Hossein )
9. tdf#89383 Writer: Read-only passwords on OOXML files are not working ( Thanks to Tünde Tóth )
10. tdf#95378 Navigator does not select/highlight names of images, objects, tables etc that get focus, also not with Content View activated ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )

WORKSFORME bugs

69 bugs have been retested by 36 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Roman Kuznetsov ( 10 )
2. Buovjaga ( 9 )
3. Dieter ( 5 )
4. Telesto ( 4 )
5. Julien Nabet ( 4 )
6. Xisco Faulí ( 3 )
7. Heiko Tietze ( 3 )
8. Alex Thurgood ( 2 )
9. Elmar ( 2 )
10. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) ( 2 )

DUPLICATED bugs

154 bugs have been duplicated by 37 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Timur ( 27 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 17 )
3. Buovjaga ( 16 )
4. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 12 )
5. m.a.riosv ( 10 )
6. Heiko Tietze ( 7 )
7. Mike Kaganski ( 7 )
8. Telesto ( 6 )
9. Jan-Marek Glogowski ( 5 )
10. Ming Hua ( 5 )

Verified bug fixes

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General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.2 was released on August 19
2. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) published a series of posts explaining how he fixed an interoperability issue. Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
3. Alain Romedenne improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library
4. Rafael Lima created Help pages for Development Tools, Search Commands, wildcards, removing duplicates in Calc, clarified and improved many pages and updated menu item references. He also added buttons for cloning and clearing direct formatting to Draw’s tabbed interface
5. Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated the intro video for online Help, created a page for Multivariate Regression in Calc and updated many menu item references. He also made several fixes to extended tooltips
6. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
7. Daniel Arato (NISZ) fixed a shape rotation issue with XLSX import
8. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) fixed the handling of linked background images and the rendering of graphic bullets with linked images, improved Writer’s bibliography feature, made it so list levels in paragraph styles are retained in DOCX files and fixed a shape property value entanglement issue
9. Noel Grandin (Collabora) continued converting uses of the homegrown osl::Mutex to std::mutex (locks preventing race conditions in threaded code), fixed issues found by Thread Sanitizer (TSan), improved the loading speed of certain XLS files, DOC files with RTL content, DOCX files with massive tables and RTFs with coloured text. He also made complex Logo commands and SVGs with pattern fills render faster and made many code cleanups and smaller optimisations
10. Attila Bakos (NISZ) fixed an issue with textboxes falling out of shapes in some cases
11. Arnaud Versini made some code cleanups
12. Heiko Tietze (TDF) made some accessibility improvements and made the colour of comments bar customisable
13. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) made the Skia graphics engine integration work on macOS, including Metal acceleration support
14. Muhammet Kara (Collabora) improved the redaction toolbar
15. Kevin Suo fixed an issue with embedded fonts in imported PDFs
16. Michael Warner fixed a problem with LibreOffice not closing when opened through the API
17. Chris Sherlock continued VCL refactoring work
18. Gábor Kelemen (NISZ) fixed table of contents heading style issues with DOCX files and added user-friendly names for UNO commands for opening Sidebar decks
19. Bubli fixed Image toolbar not matching sidebar regarding Area Fill info
20. Szymon Kłos (Collabora) made many improvements and additions to jsdialog used by Online
21. Julien Nabet fixed a problem with MySQL/MariaDB data types, fixed a regression causing data loss upon saving to XLS(X) and improved some UI strings
22. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) improved developer documentation and made some code cleanups
23. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) added support for exporting some slideshow settings in PPTX format and fixed a slide titling issue in imported PPTX files
24. Dennis Francis (Collabora) fixed the display of some newline characters in imported XLSX files
25. László Németh (NISZ) fixed several issues with change tracking
26. Balázs Varga (NISZ) added support for handling named ranges in XLSX files and fixed an axis positioning issue with OOXML chart import
27. Xisco Faulí (TDF) fixed a crash when saving large spreadsheets and added a couple of dozen automated tests
28. Dante Doménech improved MathML support and made Calc summation code take advantage of AVX512 CPU instruction set extension for increased speed
29. Vert D improved the template manager UI
30. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) made outline changes done via Tools -> Chapter Numbering be tracked by undo/redo, fixed a Writer anchor positioning issue when zooming and improved outline numbering
31. DaeHyun Sung improved support for Korean number formats
32. Roman Kuznetsov fixed an issue in the layout of the Windows installer
33. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed losing charts upon XLSX export, saving two-column setting in shapes to ODS and made many code cleanups and optimisations
34. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) improved the support of hyperlinks in textboxes and shapes
35. Andreas Heinisch fixed issues with return values and optional parameters in Basic, improved the sorting of custom document properties, fixed a layout issue with table control dialog elements and corrected the default width of CSV columns with multiline cells
36. Michael Meeks (Collabora) fixed a crash related to UI widgets
37. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) improved Development Tools and Search Commands, continued working on the new searching and indexing feature and made some code cleanups and refactorings
38. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) added support for Klingon and made several improvements to the handling of language tags and date formats, improved the robustness of Calc’s regex search, added an option ‘Evaluate formulas’ to CSV import and paste, added support for sep= separator setting in CSV import, improved the performance of CSV import preview and page break updates in certain cases, added handling of embedded null-characters in CSV import and fixed a name collision issue with named expressions and symbols in XMLSchema-2
39. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) fixed multiple style attributes being written into a single tag in HTML documents, fixed an issue with not being able to close Tip of the Day dialog when Impress Template dialog is also visible, fixed a performance issue with 1000 selected shapes in Draw and continued implementing the new GTK4 backend. He also made many cleanups and crash fixes
40. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed an issue with Calc’s Database Range dialog closing, if invalid name was inputted
41. Regina Henschel fixed an issue with incorrect positioning of grouped shapes in DOCX import, fixed many issues with wrap settings in DOCX import, fixed DOCX export of Bezier curves and fixed an issue with messed up polylines in VML import
42. Justin Luth (SIL) fixed an issue with comment markers affecting spellchecking, fixed an issue with outline level not being inherited from style assigned as Chapter Numbering in DOCX import and fixed issues with unwanted paragraph spacing in DOCX import
43. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many code and build-related cleanups
44. Jan-Marek Glogowski (allotropia) improved the robustness of the kf5 and qt5 UIs
45. Bayram Çiçek finished the GSoC project “100 Paper Cuts”
46. Sary Nasser finished the GSoC project “Integrate .ui dialogs with translation tooling/string search webservice to help translators”
47. Akshit Kushwaha finished the GSoC project “Tests for the VCL graphic backends”
48. Balázs Sántha finished the GSoC project “Implementing table styles DOCX support”
49. Panos Korovesis finished the GSoC project “Make SVM (StarView Metafile) format independent of the VCL Metafile + tests of the format”
50. Anshu Khare finished the GSoC project “Styles Highlighter”
51. Tushar Kumar Rai finished the GSoC project “Implement Interface for external data source import into Calc”

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

544 bugs, 52 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 320 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Telesto ( 35 )
2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 26 )
3. TorrAB ( 11 )
4. Regina Henschel ( 11 )
5. Mike Kaganski ( 10 )
6. Timur ( 10 )
7. sophie ( 10 )
8. Rafael Lima ( 9 )
9. Robert Großkopf ( 8 )
10. Colin ( 7 )

Triaged Bugs

698 bugs have been triaged by 96 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Roman Kuznetsov ( 81 )
2. Heiko Tietze ( 49 )
3. Jean-Baptiste Faure ( 47 )
4. Timur ( 44 )
5. Buovjaga ( 40 )
6. Julien Nabet ( 31 )
7. steve ( 22 )
8. Xisco Faulí ( 22 )
9. Dieter ( 21 )
10. Eleonora Govallo ( 20 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

553 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

182 bugs have been fixed by 39 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 24 )
2. Eike Rathke ( 12 )
3. László Németh ( 7 )
4. Regina Henschel ( 6 )
5. Andreas Heinisch ( 6 )
6. Miklos Vajna ( 6 )
7. Julien Nabet ( 6 )
8. Vasily Melenchuk ( 5 )
9. Mike Kaganski ( 5 )
10. Rafael Lima ( 4 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#143728 Certain presentation crashes Impress after starting slideshow (Win crashes, Linux hangs) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#143896 FILESAVE XLSX 1001+ rows are lost after saving new file ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
3. tdf#143940 FILESAVE: add a new line in a large spreadsheet and save causes crash ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#142003 FILEOPEN Tracked changes in .doc file footnotes shift to the right ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
2. tdf#142264 charts lost by calc export to xlsx ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
3. tdf#143023 Forms: Event “When losing focus” in tablecontrol appears when receiving focus ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
4. tdf#143657 Tools → SQL: Command couldn’t be executed. ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#143858 Outline numbering not showing any number, only the prefix/suffix ( Thanks to Vasily Melenchuk )
6. tdf#143957 Crash when switching transitions (kf5) ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
7. tdf#143990 Multilevel outline numbers not showing ( Thanks to Vasily Melenchuk )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#143572 Crash clicking Shape 2 Text Frame ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
2. tdf#143577 Crash on image delete with “Show outline-folding buttons” ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
3. tdf#143728 Certain presentation crashes Impress after starting slideshow (Win crashes, Linux hangs) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
4. tdf#143769 Calc crashes if a background for a sketch is selected ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#143843 Crash in: weld::CustomWidgetController::SetPointer(PointerStyle) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
6. tdf#143940 FILESAVE: add a new line in a large spreadsheet and save causes crash ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
7. tdf#143957 Crash when switching transitions (kf5) ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
8. tdf#144008 LO crashes when macro tries to start a form document in Base (kf5 only) ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
9. tdf#144022 Calc crashed in Copy & Paste Special ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
10. tdf#144105 LO crashes during mail merge wizard when an address block is modified ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#101083 Insert SVG with too small scaling causes LibreOffice to hang, consuming 100% cpu ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#131546 FILEOPEN DOCX: File takes longer to open in master ( Thanks to Balazs Santha )
3. tdf#139220 Regression: Selection of elements is very slow ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
4. tdf#143499 Slow response in document with many headings ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#143852 FILEOPEN: files with images take longer to open ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )

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

1. tdf#100480 Improve the description of the “Match case” check box in the Find and Replace dialog ( Thanks to Rafael Lima )
2. tdf#101083 Insert SVG with too small scaling causes LibreOffice to hang, consuming 100% cpu ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
3. tdf#102846 CSV import: very long loop in preview’s field detection ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
4. tdf#103612 ToC is never shown in Master Document if it is in ODT in a section with a hide condition ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
5. tdf#112057 Clarify what Cell Edit Mode in Calc means ( Thanks to Rafael Lima )
6. tdf#50447 Text formatting changes (in docx-file) are not shown with track changes (and not recorded by the way) ( Thanks to László Németh )
7. tdf#59820 FILEOPEN: default csv column width is wrong with multiline cells ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
8. tdf#64086 Fileopen: named cell ranges from MSO are not imported in charts (because not supported in LO) ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
9. tdf#64703 PRINTING: Problem with page break when autofilter is on ( Thanks to Attila Szűcs )
10. tdf#66250 Use a Named range as data source for Chart ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
11. tdf#88205 Adapt uses of css::uno::Sequence to use initializer_list ctor ( Thanks to Zeynep Yavuz )
12. tdf#91519 Jump of document canvas view to the top of the comment disrupts editing of long comments ( Thanks to Bayram Çiçek )
13. tdf#96561 Fails to import CSV file created with CsvHelper ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
14. tdf#99932 Anchor “to Character”: Anchor changes position to the document when zoom-in or out ( Thanks to Vasily Melenchuk )

WORKSFORME bugs

96 bugs have been retested by 35 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Buovjaga ( 13 )
2. Roman Kuznetsov ( 12 )
3. Timur ( 6 )
4. Aron Budea ( 6 )
5. Telesto ( 6

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General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.1.5 was released on July, 22
2. The Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 7.2 RC1 took place on July, 19
3. Roman Kuznetsov is teaching a group of russian volunteers called ‘the hamsters QA Team” how to triage bugs in LibreOffice
4. Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library – many Python examples were added. Rafael also improved the Advanced Filter and NUMBERVALUE help pages.
5. Steve Fanning improved some Calc function help pages
6. Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated the help page for Impress object transformations
7. Bai Xiaochun replaced uses of homegrown math functions with standard library ones
8. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed incorrect formatting being applied to Writer text fields while editing them and added delimiting to chapter fields
9. Dante Doménech created a new version of the OpenSymbol font
10. Jeff Huang cleaned out the unused code for collecting usage data
11. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) improved the Sidebar preview of theme colour sets by adding name display, continued working on the new searching and indexing feature and made some code cleanups and refactorings
12. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) took the first step in getting Skia graphics engine integration to work on macOS and fixed an issue with image sizes in exported HTML
13. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) improved the kf5 UI
14. Daniel Arato (NISZ) added a “Same content on first page” option to Calc’s Header/Footer dialog
15. Bubli added support for applying pattern fills from the toolbar and fixed unwanted jumping in Impress when applying animations
16. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) added support for long slide names and presentation timing attribute in PPTX import and “Start from“ setting in PPTX export
17. Szymon Kłos (Collabora) made many improvements and additions to jsdialog used by Online
18. Deb Barkley-Yeung made the font features button show as disabled in the Character formatting dialog, if the font does not have features
19. Arnaud Versini made some improvements to threaded code
20. Rizal Muttaqin added icons for diagonal border line
21. Michael Meeks (Collabora) fixed a couple of UI-related crashes
22. Gábor Kelemen (NISZ) improved the find-unneeded-includes script used for optimising LibreOffice code
23. Justin Luth (SIL) fixed an issue with numbering levels in imported DOC files, adapted the code for unique naming of custom hatches and gradients to Writer code, made a big rework for handling outline numbering in imported DOCX files and fixed a text alignment issue in RTF import
24. Jun Nogata improved Japanese font support and added a PowerPoint-compatible screen size preset for Impress
25. Kevin Suo fixed problems with importing bold and italic font properties from PDF files
26. Hochwasser fixed a crash in Impress remote control
27. Gülşah Köse (Collabora) added support for handling embedded OLE objects in PPTX import
28. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) added support for new Google Drive authentication and also fixed OneDrive authentication
29. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many code and build-related cleanups and fixed an old data corruption issue in UNO C++ bridge
30. Todor Balabanov did some refactoring of the NLP solver code
31. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) improved some C++ SDK examples, ported C++/Java DocumentLoader SDK example to Python, fixed an issue with DOC/DOCX exported lines, fixed a regression causing Tabbed UI not working in Impress and Draw and added extra checks into SmartArt import tests
32. Michael Weghorn made many improvements to the accessibility of the qt5 UI and also fixed a Windows accessibility issue of not announcing spinbox values
33. Björn Michaelsen made some internal improvements to Writer code
34. Gökçe Kuler made it so bullets are not automatically added to empty lines in bulleted lists in Impress – a preview is shown instead
35. Baltasar made it so Basic’s Round function follows half-to-even rounding and wrote a unit test for it
36. Mert Tumer (Collabora) made spellchecking wavy lines cached to improve performance
37. Gizem Özgün fixed truncation of long class names in UNO object inspector
38. Vert D made it so built-in categories in the Template Manager show deleting as disabled
39. Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) made a build fix for iOS
40. Heiko Tietze (TDF) clarified the AutoCorrect option to replace dashes, fixed “Get more dictionaries online“ not opening Extension dialog, made border style selection dropdown adapt to dark theme, made the infobar for “missing hyphenation data“ more user-friendly and made it so indices are not spellchecked
41. DaeHyun Sung fixed Korean line breaking rules, numbering and date acceptance patterns
42. Andrzej Hunt made many internal improvements to Impress Remote
43. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) added DOC import support for fixed date/time fields, fixed DOCX importing of AM/PM time values, fixed unwanted bullet in PPTX WordArt after roundtrip, fixed some crashes and memory leaks and made many code cleanups
44. Xisco Faulí (TDF) improved the Basic macro automated test suite and added many new tests to it. He also added several UI and unit tests for other areas.
45. Michael Stahl (allotropia) fixed a window focus issue affecting Eclipse RCP applications on Windows and made it so unused page background images are removed from imported ODF files
46. Regina Henschel fixed DOCX import of “Outside only“ wrap option, a positioning issue of child elements in group upon DOCX export, an issue with the distance of an image to text in DOCX import and improved DOCX import/export of contour wrap
47. Bartosz Kosiorek made several improvements to EMF+ graphics support
48. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made a big rework to how Base handles date formatting, fixed an issue with Calc date acceptance patterns for Japanese and Chinese locales, fixed an XLSX roundtrip issue with booleans, added handling for Microsoft’s non-standard use of x-none language tag, added functionality to export all Calc sheets to CSV from the command line and made it so whitespace characters including LF and CR are preserved in Calc formula expressions
49. Attila Szűcs and Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed DOCX import of negative page margins, zeroing of huge page sizes in imported DOCX files and fixed printing page breaks after hiding rows
50. Jan-Marek Glogowski (allotropia) improved the qt5 UI
51. László Németh (NISZ) added support for tracking changes in images and tables in imported DOCX files and improved removing personal info of comments and changes in DOCX export
52. Attila Bakos (NISZ) fixed corrupt shape anchoring in text in DOCX export
53. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
54. Sarper Akdemir (Collabora) worked on PPTX header/footer field support
55. Andreas Heinisch made Navigator tooltips show without URL encoding, made it so gallery item list accessed from Bullets and Numbering dialog only shows the filename, improved the implementations of Basic text search functions, made HTML tables in the Link to External Data Source list in order of their appearance and increased the precision of single-precision variables in Basic debugger
56. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) made some file dialogs remember their last directory and added support for hyperlinks on shapes in Writer
57. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed several XLSX autofilter issues and an XLSX export hyperlink issue
58. Noel Grandin (Collabora) made PDF exporting of very large spreadsheets much faster, improved the performance of formatting many comments at once, started converting uses of the homegrown osl::Mutex to std::mutex (locks preventing race conditions in threaded code), made it possible to use Thread Sanitizer (TSan) against the codebase, implemented logging access violations on Windows build boxes in order to get more useful feedback of issues and made many code cleanups and optimisations
59. Caolán McNamara continued implementing the new GTK4 backend, fixed a memory use issue when selecting a shape in the gtk3 UI and improved the user experience of inputting hex colours. He also made many cleanups and crash fixes
60. Julien Nabet updated HarfBuzz to 2.8.2 and fixed several regression and crashes
61. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) made XLSX export support button form controls, fixed handling of named ranges referring to PathMissing sheets in imported XLSX files, improved the bibliography database UI and improved XHTML import of object elements containing images. He also made many code cleanups
62. Bayram Çiçek worked on the GSoC project “100 Paper Cuts”. You can follow his work here
63. Shubham Jain worked on the GSoC project “Write missing unit tests”
64. Sary Nasser worked on the GSoC project “Integrate .ui dialogs with translation tooling/string search webservice to help translators”
65. Akshit Kushwaha worked on the GSoC project “Tests for the VCL graphic backends”, adding support for viewing test results in the UI and storing results in a zip file
66. Balázs Sántha worked on the GSoC project “Implementing table styles DOCX support”, fixing missing styles after copying & pasting, disappearing page breaks and redoing row insertions
67. Panos Korovesis worked on the GSoC project “Make SVM (StarView Metafile) format independent of the VCL Metafile + tests of the format”, creating an SvmWriter class
68. Anshu Khare worked on the GSoC project “Styles Highlighter”, adding a StyleList control
69. Tushar Kumar Rai worked on the GSoC project “Implement Interface for external data source import into Calc”, completing his original project goal and adding a Find and Replace Transformation

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

497 bugs, 65 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 276 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Telesto ( 57 )
2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 25 )
3. Mike Kaganski ( 15 )
4. Regina Henschel ( 13 )
5. sophie ( 10 )
6. R. Green ( 9 )
7. Xisco Faulí ( 9 )
8. Robert Großkopf ( 8 )
9. Rafael Lima ( 7 )
10. stragu ( 6 )

Triaged Bugs

804 bugs have been triaged by 88 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Buovjaga ( 202 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 88 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 39 )
4. Julien Nabet ( 38 )
5. Roman Kuznetsov ( 37 )
6. Timur ( 34 )
7. Dieter ( 29 )
8. V Stuart Foote ( 23 )
9. Telesto ( 22 )
10. BogdanB ( 21 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

571 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

199 bugs have been fixed by 47 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Julien Nabet ( 12 )
2. Andreas Heinisch ( 10 )
3. Caolán McNamara ( 9 )
4. László Németh ( 8 )
5. Heiko Tietze ( 7 )
6. Eike Rathke ( 7 )
7. Tünde Tóth ( 7 )
8. Mike Kaganski ( 6 )
9. Justin Luth ( 6 )
10. Regina Henschel ( 5 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#140506 REGRESSION Setting to repeat heading in writer tables no longer works ( Thanks to Bjoern Michaelsen )
2. tdf#143398 When I click to add a single sheet. It makes automatically two sheets. ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
3. tdf#143400 Query with most functions could not be created in GUI ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#139426 Update of Contents is freezing LibreOffice ( Thanks to Armin Le Grand (Allotropia) )
2. tdf#142235 FILESAVE PPTX Textbox vertical top align becomes middle in PP ( Thanks to Attila Bakos (NISZ) )
3. tdf#142923 Deleting comment in Writer leaves visual artifact behind ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
4. tdf#143291 Selecting the None slide transition has no effect ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#143399 FILEOPEN DOCX Writer 7.2 doesn’t import Word endnotes ( Thanks to László Németh )
6. tdf#143412 CRASH: converting images ( steps in comment 12 ) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
7. tdf#59323 Impress conversion to PPTX doesn’t save (header and footer) fields – with sample or steps in Comment 7 ( Thanks to Sarper Akdemir )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#119312 Remote control of impress; Crash in: sdext::presenter::PresenterSlideShowView::LateInit() ( Thanks to Hochwasser )
2. tdf#143081 Basic Replace() function crashes LO ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
3. tdf#143125 EDITING Crash when closing Custom Slide Shows dialog ( Thanks to Tibor Nagy )
4. tdf#143146 Crash by click on properties symbol for calc data in writer ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#143149 Crash in: vcl::Window::GetParentWithLOKNotifier() ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
6. tdf#143153 Editing Crash when grouping Text (Fit to Frame) and object ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
7. tdf#143320 Crash at paste/undo paste again (swlo!BigPtrArray::Index2Block+0xc8) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
8. tdf#143342 Crash when using “Search Command” feature ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
9. tdf#143355 crash with .uno:FontWork ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
10. tdf#143412 CRASH: converting images ( steps in comment 12 ) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin

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