Year: 2021

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.1.3 was released on May 6
2. LibreOffice 7.0.6 was released on May 13
3. The PowerPoint compatibility team reported on its recent work
4. Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library. Rafael Lima also documented the WeekDay Basic function and improved the help for Calc’s CONVERT function
5. Kevin Suo improved the Python script for generating the file filter table for Help. Kevin also fixed a font family problem in the Help CSS related to Simplified Chinese display on Linux
6. Steve Fanning made several improvements to Calc function Help pages.
7. Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved Help on Calc functions, databases and Calc’s autofilter
8. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made Calc accept 123.45 fractional input on weird formats like 0″.” or 0″.”0, expanded NatNum12 modifier support for all day and month names and made it so Calc’s ROUND() function does not limit decimal digits
9. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
10. Caolán McNamara not only continued with GTK3 backend polishing, but took on a new large-scale project: a GTK4 backend! See here and here. He also made many cleanups and crash fixes
11. Noel Grandin (Collabora) started fixing memory leaks like an angry plumber. He also speeded up saving large ODS files, made a big refactoring as part of a longer-term goal of doing UI widget rendering only inside a top-level render- context and made many code cleanups and optimisations
12. Linus Heckemann made it so the code for opening links is more portable considering different *nix systems
13. Szabolcs Tóth (NISZ) fixed a case, where Calc autofilter item list would be lost after saving and reloading the spreadsheet
14. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed a DOCX import problem with list item indentation
15. Joshua Williams swapped comparison operators for static strings, so Basic macro code behaves logically
16. Muhammet Kara (Collabora) made it so experimental commands are hidden, when experimental mode is not active. He also fixed a crash in Additions when fetching bad JSON data
17. Thorsten Wagner polished the macOS window scaling implementation for Retina displays
18. Aritz Erkiaga fixed a problem with Stock Charts corrupting upon saving
19. Oleg Shchelykalnov added an option to respect hidden paragraphs, when exporting to plain text
20. Vert D fixed a problem with deleting categories in the Template Manager
21. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed some Calc autofilter problems
22. Edward Lynch fixed Impress Grow/Shrink animation scaling
23. Bubli fixed hatch and bitmap lists being hidden in the Sidebar
24. Justin Luth (Collabora/SIL) fixed some DOCX/DOC numbered list problems and improved the character formatting dialog presentation of subscripts and superscripts
25. Georgy Litvinov fixed losing sections at the end of text inserted with the “Insert text from file” functionality in Writer
26. Sarabjot Singh added a thick cursor into Calc in the style of MS Excel and Gnumeric. The cursor is used when hovering over cells.
27. Baltasar changed the behaviour of adding commands to menus, so instead of an altert reporting of a duplicate command, the Add button becomes disabled
28. Matt K made it so multiple Tip-of-the-Day tips can be opened and the user can interact with the application without closing the tips. He also added new UI options when opening a locked or non-writeable document to allow the user to be notified when such a document becomes editable
29. Rizal Muttaqin made updates to Sukapura, elementary and Colibre icon themes
30. Maxim Monastirsky made it so Calc sets the font size for the default cell style when saving ODS files
31. Dennis Francis (Collabora) made many improvements to Calc’s autocompletion feature. The logic for presenting suggestions is now more user-friendly.
32. Regina Henschel fixed wrong scaling of shape groups and incorrect rotation of VML shapes in imported DOCX files
33. Arnaud versini made some code cleanups
34. Tibor Nagy and Attila Szűcs (NISZ) fixed unhiding grid lines in imported XLSX files and fixed lost column break in shapes in imported DOCX files with support from Justin Luth
35. Heiko Tietze (TDF) added a dark colour set in order to provide a dark theme leveraging the Application Colours feature
36. Jan-Marek Glogowski and Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) worked on the WASM build, now merged into master
37. Michael Weghorn made many improvements to the Android version with topics including stability, document view and inserting images
38. Mark Hung improved the rendering of vertical text
39. László Németh (NISZ) made many improvements to change tracking and made line style dropdowns display all of the styles in imported DOCX files
40. Bartosz Kosiorek made a whopping 16 improvements to EMF and WMF graphics support, inching closer to perfect support. Valek Filippov helped with the file analysis and testing.
41. Jim Raykowski made it so drawing objects selected in the document are highlighted in Navigator’s content navigation view. He also added shortcut keys for each Sidebar deck and improved the outline folding feature
42. Attila Bakos (NISZ) fixed z-ordering and positioning of shapes in imported DOCX files
43. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed PPTX import/export problems related to slide names, internal hyperlinks and custom slide shows
44. Daniel Arato (NISZ) fixed DOCX exporting of hidden headers and DOCX importing of text wrapping in headers
45. Balázs Varga (NISZ) fixed several Calc autofilter issues
46. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) improved the handling of 0-byte files, made Calc CSV import properly handle the case of no string delimiter, improved the look of the new thick Calc cursor on Windows and made many code cleanups
47. Xisco Faulí (TDF) made over 50 improvements and additions to unit and UI tests
48. Chris Sherlock did some housecleaning in VCL
49. Dante Doménech finished the work on using Kahan summation algorithm in Calc in order to reduce the numerical error in the total of floating-point calculations. He also the Math formula input box zoomable
50. Roland Kurmann made many improvements to Calc transposed and special pasting
51. Andreas Heinisch made Basic respect case-insensitivity in find & replace, fixed a problem with sheet references not updating in charts when copying multiple sheets in Calc, fixed an issue with item selection properties not being updated in a Base form after selecting all, fixed 3D look listbox in Chart wizard not showing selected text, made macro import/export use UTF-8 with BOM and made it so externally linked tables in Calc get named based on their HTML caption element
52. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many code cleanups and continued improving compatibility with C++20
53. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) fixed handling of list labels and a bunch of other things in Writer XHTML export, fixed a problem with OLE object display areas, fixed a couple of crashes and made many code cleanups and optimisations
54. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) implemented the very popular request for filtering by colours in Calc
55. Gábor Kelemen (NISZ) made some improvements to dialogs, toolbars and Hungarian shortcuts
56. Gülşah Köse (Collabora) improved the new UNO object inspector, removed the warning of missing data sources upon load as the Mail Merge dialog also warns about it and fixed a PPTX export highlighting colour issue
57. Mert Tumer (Collabora) improved the table cell selection logic in Impress & Draw
58. Julien Nabet made many code cleanups and optimisations
59. Michael Stahl (allotropia) fixed some Writer layout crashes and infinite loops
60. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) fixed a build issue with recent Cygwin versions, improved the VS Code workspace template and started cleaning up the installer codebase
61. Tushar Kumar Rai made the StrConv VBA Function handle its third argument (LCID) and fixed related QA tests. He also fixed a Data Provider crash
62. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) added a hecking awesome Heads-up Display type of search and made internal improvements to graphics handling code
63. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) made optimisations related to graphics rendering and bitmap loading and improved the Skia integration. He also made it possible to write canvas unit tests and added a bunch of tests

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

567 bugs, 57 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 323 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 38 )
2. Valek Filippov ( 31 )
3. Telesto ( 24 )
4. Regina Henschel ( 14 )
5. Xisco Faulí ( 12 )
6. Thorsten Wagner ( 10 )
7. Mike Kaganski ( 9 )
8. Rafael Lima ( 8 )
9. Nico ( 7 )
10. Heiko Tietze ( 7 )

Triaged Bugs

584 bugs have been triaged by 85 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 70 )
2. Timur ( 61 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 50 )
4. Dieter ( 50 )
5. Roman Kuznetsov ( 36 )
6. V Stuart Foote ( 26 )
7. Julien Nabet ( 25 )
8. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 20 )
9. Harshita Nag ( 20 )
10. Aron Budea ( 17 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

620 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

198 bugs have been fixed by 52 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 16 )
2. Bartosz Kosiorek ( 11 )
3. László Németh ( 9 )
4. Andreas Heinisch ( 7 )
5. Balazs Varga ( 7 )
6. Gülşah Köse ( 7 )
7. Eike Rathke ( 6 )
8. Noel Grandin ( 6 )
9. Tibor Nagy ( 5 )
10. Michael Weghorn ( 5 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#142390 calc 7.2.0.0.a0+ >2021-05-19, no mouse cursor in cell area ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#138302 Restart of numbering is not saved when saving to DOC ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
2. tdf#141571 Base crashed on creation of user function ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
3. tdf#141613 Crash: swlo!SwTableNode::DelFrames+0x27: ( Thanks to Daniel Arato (NISZ) )
4. tdf#141930 libreoffice math does not ask to save changes when closing ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#142040 CSV import broken in master ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
6. tdf#142150 Application crashes when EDITING line end styles (arrows) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
7. tdf#142255 Crash when trying to insert a shape ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
8. tdf#142367 Writer crashes when opening docx (GTK3) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
9. tdf#142370 CRASH: Closing tip of the day ( GTK3 ) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
10. tdf#142547 Crash when adding comment in a table in Writer ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
11. tdf#54037 FILESAVE: Loss of internal hyperlinks in PPT/PPTX ( Thanks to Tibor Nagy )
12. tdf#76258 Filter by colors in Calc ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
13. tdf#91874 A Search by function or keyword over main menu– similar to SpotLight, Tell Me, or Ubuntu’s HUD but native for LO GUI ( Thanks to Tomaž Vajngerl )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#126226 CRASH: Adding comment to Track Change ( Thanks to László Németh )
2. tdf#136292 Additions: Bad JSON crashes LibreOffice ( Thanks to Muhammet Kara )
3. tdf#138855 Draw crashes if I use ALT+TAB to switch between two draw windows while the cursor focus is in a text box ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
4. tdf#139500 Crash mergedlo!EditUndo::GetComment+54 press undo inside table in impress ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
5. tdf#141307 Crash in: SvtBroadcaster::Add (probably a basic macro issue) ( Thanks to Bjoern Michaelsen )
6. tdf#141571 Base crashed on creation of user function ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
7. tdf#141613 Crash: swlo!SwTableNode::DelFrames+0x27: ( Thanks to Daniel Arato (NISZ) )
8. tdf#141973 Calc crashes after F5 pressing when opened some file ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
9. tdf#142150 Application crashes when EDITING line end styles (arrows) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
10. tdf#142255 Crash when trying to insert a shape ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
11. tdf#142364 Crash when closing document after canceling chart wizard (Writer) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
12. tdf#142367 Writer crashes when opening docx (GTK3) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
13. tdf#142370 CRASH: Closing tip of the day ( GTK3 ) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
14. tdf#142467 Inserting series in Stock Chart Data Table crashes Writer (Fedora only?) ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
15. tdf#142479 CRASH: pressing return key after opening arrow styles floating window ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
16. tdf#142547 Crash when adding comment in a table in Writer ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#142080 FILEOPEN: DOCX: Hang after opening the file ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
2. tdf#79049 FILEOPEN: OOXML Workbook file hangs when opening ( Thanks

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General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.1.2 was released on April 1st
2. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) wrote a nice report about the progress done by the Macro Team in the last year
3. Stanislav Horacek updated some menu paths in Help.
4. Seth Chaiklin clarified the meaning of numbered paragraphs in Help.
5. Olivier Hallot (TDF) made 20 changes and additions to Help with topics including menus, Calc cell protection and direct formatting.
6. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
7. Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library. Rafel also made it so word wrapping in shapes is enabled by default in Impress and Draw.
8. Xisco Faulí (TDF) made about 30 improvements and additions to unit and UI tests, fixed some regression bugs and added an automated check for translation domains in .ui files
9. Rizal Muttaqin made updates to all icon themes
10. Jan-Marek Glogowski, Armin Le Grand and Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) worked on the WASM build in a feature branch
11. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed losing internal hyperlinks upon PPTX import
12. Vert D improved renaming behaviour in the Template Manager
13. Tushar Kumar Rai fixed a Data Provider crash
14. Roland Kurmann fixed filtered/transpose paste in Calc while adding many new unit tests for the functionality, fixed copying multiple cells from a Calc column and pasting outside LibreOffice and made it so only the count of non-filtered rows will be shown in Calc’s status bar
15. Dante Doménech added some MathML structures and started making use of the Kahan summation algorithm in Calc in order to reduce the numerical error in the total of floating-point calculations
16. Ilhan Yesil made it so the tooltip of a button created by an extension in the Sidebar is refreshed immediately upon text changes
17. Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed a regression in the Modify DDE Link dialog layout
18. Attila Bakos (NISZ) fixed some Writer textbox crashes and regressions and fixed PPTX exporting of template textbox placeholders
19. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed some issues with Calc filtering
20. Jeff Huang fixed a Writer regression in inserting lines with arrow/circle
21. Mark Hung fixed an undo-redo crash
22. Andreas Kainz improved the Notebookbar command logic and improved the layout of some dialogs
23. Aditya Pratap Singh made the image export dialog behaviour more intuitive
24. Luke Deller fixed an issue with Writer using 100% CPU while idle
25. Pedro Pinto Silva improved the macro selector and about dialog layouts
26. Bubli fixed some Impress animation issues
27. Heiko Tietze (TDF) made it so the location in file properties dialog is a hyperlink and improved the Style Inspector layout
28. Matej Kivader fixed the display of custom button text colour in Basic dialog designer
29. Gábor Kelemen (NISZ) made improvements in menu accelerators, buttons and Impress/Draw general options layout
30. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many code cleanups, replaced apache-commons-logging with java.util.logging.Logger in report builder and elsewhere, fixed unnecessary authentication prompt upon having sftp URIs in recent documents and improved compatibility with C++20
31. Hossein Noorikhah converted all the README files to consistent Markdown format while updating them in many places. He also fixed problems with the HTML generation solution for the READMEs
32. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) made optimisations related to graphics rendering and bitmap loading and improved the Skia integration
33. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) fixed vanishing form controls in edit mode or print preview and fixed a couple of linked OLE object issues
34. László Németh (NISZ) continued adding metadata display capabilities to the Style Inspector, added support for deleted images in change tracking, improved the change tracking UX and fixed a mail merge document counting off by one error
35. Michael Stahl (allotropia) fixed a z-order issue with floating objects, fixed missing images in imported DOCX header/footer, improved the performance of Writer word count and fixed some Writer crashes
36. Bayram Çiçek made it so MIME type icons are displayed in the recent documents menu list
37. Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved the speed of opening XLSX files with thousands of shape objects (with additional contributions by Caolán McNamara), improved the speed of opening XLSX files with massive amounts of row range style attributes and made many code cleanups and optimisations
38. Arnaud versini fixed a regression in breaking links to external images
39. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) added unit tests for Basic dialog XML serialisation (none existed so far)
40. Andreas Heinisch added checks for valid range names and cell references inserted via API, made Calc range name definition errors show in a tooltip, taught UI tests how to check tooltip text, made Calc sorting respect “Include formats” option, made Calc’s IRR function accept an array as argument, limited the calculation of Pearson coefficient in Calc’s RSQ and PEARSON functions and improved the Calc Manage Names dialog
41. Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) added initial support for sccache builds on Windows
42. Regina Henschel fixed DOCX import of group or line with rotation
43. Bartosz Kosiorek implemented PAINTRGN record and complex clipping support for EMF graphics
44. Jan-Marek Glogowski (allotropia) fixed clipboard handling with Wayland + Qt as well as several other Qt/kf5 issues
45. Gülşah Köse (Collabora) fixed a mail merge issue where empty fields were returned
46. Tomoyuki Kubota helped Caolán with the UI backend work with a couple of patches
47. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) made internal improvements to graphics handling code
48. Justin Luth (Collabora/SIL) fixed losing outline levels upon DOC export, fixed z-order issues with background shapes in DOC import, made DOCX export support russianUpper/russianLower numbering, fixed a DOC import layout issue related to MS Word’s excessively liberal design settings, fixed DOC/RTF export of fixed date and time fields, fixed dupliction of comments, fields and footnotes in DOCX export and fixed many DOC/DOCX import/export issues related to numbering
49. Michael Weghorn made many improvements to the Android version with topics including recent file display, file saving and PDF export
50. Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) worked on the iOS version and improved the event tracing API
51. Rounak Modi added his first unit test
52. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) overhauled VBA Range getFormula(R1C1) to make it work properly
53. Szymon Kłos (Collabora) added a Fontwork options panel into the Sidebar and made Impress collaborative editing more robust
54. Julien Nabet fixed regressions in image filters and made code cleanups and crash fixes
55. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) continued improving gutter margins (RTL) and made improvements to the bibliography feature (URL handling, page references). He also fixed issues with OLE object sizing in HTML export
56. Jim Raykowski improved the Outline folding feature, made crash fixes, added the ability to navigate by fields with the Navigate By control and added fields content type to Navigator
57. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) added a mechanism to selectively enable macros for document events
58. Matt K added a check for ODF file format associations on Windows upon startup and changed the Windows file dialog to run on the main thread to avoid crashes
59. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) improved the Calc tab bar look, made it so pasting RTF content does not wipe out document settings, added DOCX export/import of resolved comments as “done” and made code cleanups and optimisations, crash fixes and improvements to unit tests
60. Caolán McNamara fixed an infinite loop in spellchecking dialog layout, fixed an issue with duplicated and misplaced images in exported Archive/A-1b PDFs, made dragging hyperlinks in Writer with GTK3 backend work, continued on the last stretch of the massive UI backend work and made many cleanups and crash fixes

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

577 bugs, 71 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 362 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Xisco Faulí ( 24 )
2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 24 )
3. Telesto ( 24 )
4. Eyal Rozenberg ( 22 )
5. Regina Henschel ( 13 )
6. Olivier Hallot ( 8 )
7. Scito ( 6 )
8. Roman Kuznetsov ( 6 )
9. BDF ( 6 )
10. Rizal Muttaqin ( 6 )

Triaged Bugs

609 bugs have been triaged by 100 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 111 )
2. Heiko Tietze ( 56 )
3. Dieter ( 50 )
4. Buovjaga ( 49 )
5. Timur ( 33 )
6. Julien Nabet ( 22 )
7. Mike Kaganski ( 17 )
8. Roman Kuznetsov ( 16 )
9. raal ( 15 )
10. Olivier Hallot ( 15 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

617 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

207 bugs have been fixed by 47 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 23 )
2. Mike Kaganski ( 10 )
3. Andreas Heinisch ( 9 )
4. Olivier Hallot ( 9 )
5. Justin Luth ( 7 )
6. László Németh ( 7 )
7. scito ( 6 )
8. Miklos Vajna ( 6 )
9. Jan-Marek Glogowski ( 6 )
10. Attila Bakos (NISZ) ( 5 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#106282 Crash in: windows.storage.dll when hitting cancel in file open dialog, when a file search is running ( Thanks to Matt K )
2. tdf#86321 EDITING, FORMATTING: diagram didn’t automatic update when change variable (steps in comment 28) ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#106195 Change docs to explain how to handle and remove direct formatting ( Thanks to Olivier Hallot )
2. tdf#132472 FILEOPEN PPTX Table text imported with white color ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
3. tdf#132901 Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Online update crashes if “online update” feature is not installed ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
4. tdf#138785 Empty frames after deleting an image and (auto-saving the file) (track changes involved) ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
5. tdf#140639 It is not possible to work with an older document from LO 6.4 in new LO 7.0, slow perf ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
6. tdf#141345 new feature gutter-margin in LO7.2 produces unnecessary incompatibility with LO7.1 ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
7. tdf#141504 UI Images look ugly with 1-bit depth with QT5 backend ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
8. tdf#141703 EDITING Tab key no longer moves to next cell in Impress table ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#106282 Crash in: windows.storage.dll when hitting cancel in file open dialog, when a file search is running ( Thanks to Matt K )
2. tdf#131634 Crash in sd::View::SdrEndTextEdit(bool) ( Thanks to Mark Hung )
3. tdf#132901 Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Online update crashes if “online update” feature is not installed ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
4. tdf#135997 SPECIAL CHARACTER DIALOG: Crash in: SvxCharacterMap::updateRecentCharControl() ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
5. tdf#141405 LO crashes when adding control in dialog editor ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
6. tdf#141499 Crash inserting hyperlink (fairly often) and cursor not starting in URL field ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
7. tdf#141511 CRASH: creating new document while navigator is displayed ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
8. tdf#141531 Android Viewer crashes trying to open mail merge file with unavailable data source ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
9. tdf#141537 UNO Object Inspector: Crash while inspecting file ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
10. tdf#141547 CRASH: opening Standard Filter dialog ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
11. tdf#141557 DOCX file crashes when the anchor changed to_paragraph from as_char ( Thanks to Attila Bakos (NISZ) )
12. tdf#141689 Crash with trendline using moving average with 2 points and type central ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
13. tdf#141701 EDITING Crash when closing 3D View dialog of 3D chart ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
14. tdf#141708 CRASH: closing document while navigator is open ( gen ) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
15. tdf#141854 Crash in: mergedlo.dll ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
16. tdf#141887 Crash on closing Writer via window decoration (X) with unmodified document and active IM ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
17. tdf#141924 A specific file crashes with Style Inspector open, after deleting some text ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
18. tdf#141967 Crash when closing Asian Phonetic Guide (gtk3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#140639 It is not possible to work with an older document from LO 6.4 in new LO 7.0, slow perf ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
2. tdf#141416 [FILEOPEN] Excel file very long to open (more than one hour) ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
3. tdf#141556 Ongoing 100% CPU usage after opening document ( Thanks to Luke Deller )
4. tdf#45820 insanely slow wmf import (complex

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General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.0.5 was released on March 12
2. LibreOffice 7.1.1 was released on March 4
3. LibreOffice was accepted as a project for the Googgle Summer of Code 2021 program
4. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) created a new wiki widget to help with navigating the Calc function documentation
5. Steve Fanning made corrections to the Help content for Calc’s database functions
6. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
7. Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library. Rafael also updated Slide menu help for Impress and added an example for using hyperlink to folders in Writer and Calc
8. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos and Johnny_M made smaller fixes and cleanups to Help pages
9. Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the Help for Java, Special characters dialog, font embedding and made cleanups
10. Seth Chaiklin made nearly 50 changes and additions to Help, with topics including list formatting, menus, chapter numbering, page styles and shortcuts. He also made many improvements to tooltips and labels in LibreOffice. Among the people he worked with on perfecting the changes were Mike Kaganski (Collabora) and Dieter Praas.
11. Akshit Kushwaha changed the QR code encoder library to zxing-cpp, which will allow implementing barcode support. René Engelhard and Mike Kaganski helped with code reviews.
12. Panos Korovesis made a Writer code cleanup
13. Jan-Marek Glogowski and Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) worked on the WASM build in a feature branch
14. Fridrich Štrba made many improvements to libcdr (Corel DRAW importer) and release 0.1.7 was added to LibreOffice
15. Lionel Elie Mamane fixed an SQL query crash
16. Vert D fixed refresh showing the wrong category in the Template manager
17. Gábor Kelemen (NISZ) assigned F4 as a shortcut for Image Properties in Writer and fixed importing WordArt effects textDeflate and textInflateTop from PPTX files
18. Balázs Sántha improved the performance of Writer change tracking
19. John fixed an initialisation bug in Basic
20. Michael Stahl (allotropia) made many internal improvements to the handling of digital signatures, fixed a shape z-index issue with ODF export and implemented BackgroundFullSize property for ODF pages
21. Jun Nogata added mixed Gregorian and Japanese gengou date formats
22. Arpit Bandejiya made it so Basic CCur function accepts negative values
23. Tibor Nagy and Attila Szűcs (NISZ) fixed overlapping wrapped rotated Calc cell contents and an extra page break in DOCX table export. Tibor also fixed losing table cell vertical alignment in PPTX export
24. Bartosz Kosiorek fixed EMF issues with line width and region filling
25. Mark Hung fixed a crash when undoing cell merge in Impress
26. Dipanshu Garg added a UNO command for selection cycling (word, sentence, paragraph, all at cursor), so it can be used with a keyboard shortcut (F8). Dipanshu also made paragraph-anchored objects move more logically
27. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) fixed incorrect resizing of OLE objects in Writer
28. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) made several improvements to Calc AutoFilter, including XLSX to compatibility
29. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) improved date format handling in order to support mixed Gregorian and Japanese gengou calendars, made Calc named ranges UI representation clearer and fixed a problem with Calc LOOKUP function
30. Bayram Çiçek made restart prompting more logical when installing an extension
31. Andreas Heinisch fixed an incrementing problem with autofilling dates in Calc, made it so hidden whitespaces in Calc’s AutoFilter dialog are indicated with quotes, fixed detecting end of month when autofilling dates in Calc, added a full HD image resolution option to Impress HTML export and with help from Tomoyuki Kubota, fixed referring to Calc named ranges when using the Excel R1C1 formula syntax
32. Regina Henschel fixed a 3D shape origin problem and saving 3D wordart from PowerPoint back to PPTX
33. László Németh (NISZ) fixed losing comment ranges and bad strikethroughs in tracked deletions, fixed a crash when undoing accept all changes, made deleted comments show antialiased lines, fixed losing DOCX tables in footnotes and endnotes and made Style Inspector support RDF metadata
34. Ayhan Yalçınsoy rearranged the items in UI options
35. Aditya Pratap Singh and Vikram Bais created their first unit tests
36. Arnaud Versini made some code cleanups in Basic and animations
37. Marco Cecchetti improved Impress slides JavaScript export
38. Julien Nabet renamed “No-width No Break” character to “Word Joiner”, fixed an AutoCorrect crash and fixed PDF exported form buttons not working in Adobe Reader
39. Rizal Muttaqin made updates to all icon themes
40. Thorsten Wagner fixed blurry text on macOS 11 with Retina displays, blank tab names in dialog frames on macOS 11 and scrolling artifacts in bitmap images on macOS
41. Michael Weghorn made many improvements to the Android version and improved the accessibility of Calc’s formatting toolbar
42. Gülşah Köse (Collabora) implemented PPTX import support for clipped graphics
43. Szymon Kłos (Collabora) made Calc AutoFilter dropdown button scale according to zoom level, improved Style preview performance and made it so fontwork objects can not be inserted outside the view area
44. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed an annoying Windows clipboard bug with help from jasonkres and Telesto, fixed a Navigator section listing order issue, made the Mail Merge toolbar visible whenever there is a data source, fixed issues with unnecessary password prompts in protected Mail Merge documents and made code cleanups and improvements to unit tests
45. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed a header/footer issue with exported DOCX files
46. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) worked on the new UNO object inspector and made internal improvements to graphics handling code
47. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) fixed language pack installation on macOS
48. Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) worked on the iOS and Android versions, among other things improving pasting support on iOS and enabling thesauruses.
49. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) made it so buttons in documents can be triggered with their mnemonic without first focusing on them
50. Svante Schubert made many improvements to the XSL transformations of HTML export
51. Heiko Tietze (TDF) fixed image blurriness in tips of the day and added scaling value to Draw’s statusbar
52. Xisco Faulí (TDF) made nearly 60 improvements and additions to unit and UI tests
53. Balázs Varga (NISZ) improved the XLSX import of autofilters and improved Mail Merge performance
54. Attila Bakos (NISZ) fixed broken As character anchoring of Writer text boxes and improved DOCX header/footer compatibility
55. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) improved image dragging performance in Writer, made crash fixes and improved font handling performance, PNG handling and Skia integration
56. Daniel Arato (NISZ) made it so headers/footers in a Writer document are not lost when checking a “Same content on…” option, optimised DOCX export regarding header images and, together with Attila Bakos, fixed losing of header/footer undo stack
57. Mert Tumer (Collabora) fixed an Impress slidesorter crash
58. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many code cleanups and test fixes
59. Justin Luth (Collabora/SIL) continued with character highlight fixes, fixed old issues with tabstops, superscript formatting in DOCX import and paragraph backgrounds and spacing in DOCX export
60. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) continued improving gutter margins and made improvements to the bibliography feature
61. Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed an exception crash when opening a DOCX with a certain type of table
62. Dante Doménech made many internal improvements to Math
63. Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved macOS widget look and feel, added a script to install build dependencies on different Linux distributions, helped Tomaž with graphics handling improvements and made many code cleanups, crash fixes and optimisations
64. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) made the Analog Clock sidebar extension demo work again, made a couple of accessibility fixes, fixed a scrolling issue in conditional formatting dialog, continued on the last stretch of the massive UI backend work and made many cleanups and crash fixes
65. Jim Raykowski improved the selection mode control in the statusbar, made it so heading levels are displayed in the selection dialog for “Target in document” hyperlinks, fixed Writer’s “Add selection” functionality, made drawing objects have names upon creation in Writer and Calc, fixed table selection from the Navigator not selecting the whole table in Writer and improved the Outline folding feature

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

654 bugs, 69 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 414 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Telesto ( 34 )
2. Mike Kaganski ( 21 )
3. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 20 )
4. sdc.blanco ( 18 )
5. Xisco Faulí ( 14 )
6. Eyal Rozenberg ( 11 )
7. Jean-François Fortin Tam ( 10 )
8. Regina Henschel ( 8 )
9. Christian Lehmann ( 8 )
10. Matheod ( 7 )

Triaged Bugs

698 bugs have been triaged by 101 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Dieter ( 111 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 88 )
3. Timur ( 64 )
4. Buovjaga ( 57 )
5. Roman Kuznetsov ( 48 )
6. Heiko Tietze ( 31 )
7. Olivier Hallot ( 27 )
8. V Stuart Foote ( 25 )
9. Julien Nabet ( 24 )
10. Mike Kaganski ( 18 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

637 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

224 bugs have been fixed by 51 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 16 )
2. Seth Chaiklin ( 12 )
3. Luboš Luňák ( 9 )
4. Jim Raykowski ( 8 )
5. Mike Kaganski ( 8 )
6. László Németh ( 7 )
7. Justin Luth ( 7 )
8. Michael Weghorn ( 6 )
9. Miklos Vajna ( 6 )
10. Xisco Fauli ( 5 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#116983 Paste is sometimes deactivated in (context) menu even though text is copied to clipboard and CTRL+V functioning (steps: Comment 0 and Comment 13 and Comment 28 and Comment 78) ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
2. tdf#127217 PDF export: LibreOffice 6.3 option buttons in forms not working in Adobe Reader (OK in other readers) ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
3. 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 Christian Lohmaier )
4. tdf#138122 LibreOffice text blurry on Retina displays on macOS 11 ( Thanks to Thorsten Wagner )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#118693 FILEOPEN: Drawing has incorrect size ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
2. tdf#122717 FILEOPEN DOCX: Horizontal line has wrong size/position and vertical line rendered horizontally ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
3. tdf#122894 FILEOPEN DOC: Crash: SwFrame::RemoveFromLayout() ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
4. tdf#136956 CRASH: Undoing merge cell ( Thanks to Mark Hung )
5. tdf#138314 Blank tab names in dialog frames, macOS 11 Big Sur ( Thanks to Thorsten Wagner )
6. tdf#140136 When we click on the FILTERED dropdown + sign it CHECKS and UNCHECKS all along with expanding and contracting ( Thanks to Attila Szűcs )
7. tdf#140606 PDF: EXPORT: Crash in: mergedlo.dll ( Thanks to Tomaž Vajngerl )
8. tdf#140668 CRASH: importing docx file ( Thanks to Daniel Arato (NISZ) )
9. tdf#140863 Error hiding and unhiding sections ( Thanks to Bjoern Michaelsen )
10. tdf#141166 Crash in: mergedlo.dll: Press “Help” button in Hyperlink dialog ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
11. tdf#141171 FILESAVE: PDF: PNG images are exported as black ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
12. tdf#88442 Global of struct type behave as local variables ( Thanks to John )
13. tdf#93441 EDITING: cursor jumps to different horizontal position when moving to a different line with Up / Down ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
14. tdf#99913 Importing autofiltered XLSX and selecting cells copies hidden cells, too ( Thanks to Tünde Tóth )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#122894 FILEOPEN DOC: Crash: SwFrame::RemoveFromLayout() ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
2. tdf#133933 CRASH: Undoing paste of table with images of cats ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
3. tdf#136956 CRASH: Undoing merge cell ( Thanks to Mark Hung )
4. tdf#139350 Crash when create a new odg,ods,odp file ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
5. tdf#140288 Crash with zero-size window when running a macro ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
6. tdf#140539 Crash when I open the help window ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
7. tdf#140590 Crash in: mergedlo.dll: Using Save-As dialog in Tools>Chapter Numbering ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
8. tdf#140606 PDF: EXPORT: Crash in: mergedlo.dll ( Thanks to Tomaž Vajngerl )
9. tdf#140668 CRASH: importing docx file ( Thanks to Daniel Arato (NISZ) )
10. tdf#140700 calc crash at exit in ScSelectionTransferObj::~ScSelectionTransferObj (steps in comment 18) ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
11. tdf#140754 LibreOffice Calc crash when selecting filters (threaded) ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
12. tdf#140757 EDITING Crash when

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