Year: 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 )

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General Activities

1. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) reimplemented the MediaWiki Bugzilla integration as a widget, so the unmaintained extension could be removed. He also made the Help content regarding keyboard shortcuts more accurate for macOS users
2. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
3. Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library
4. Steve Fanning made corrections to the Help content for Calc functions
5. Stéphane Guillou, Roman Kuznetsov and Stanislav Horacek made a few updates to the Help content to match the current user interface
6. Balaharipreetha Muthu added missing Help pages for the Data Bar section of Calc’s Conditional Formatting. She also added explanations for Find and Replace dialog’s Kashida and Diacritics sensitivity options
7. Seth Chaiklin made 27 changes to Help, with topics including templates, Find and Replace, styles and AutoCorrect
8. Olivier Hallot (TDF) made many smaller fixes and reorganisations in the Help content
9. Maxim Monastirsky fixed Anchor drop down button not working properly in Tabbed UI
10. Jan-Marek Glogowski (allotropia) made internal improvements to the Windows UI code
11. Marco Cecchetti (Collabora) made many improvements to the SVG export of Impress presentations
12. David Alan Gilbert made many code corrections based on Cppcheck reports
13. Michael Weghorn made accessing Calc columns safer after the change to dynamically allocated columns
14. Pranam Lashkari (Collabora) added a UNO command for formula range selection
15. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) improved macOS packaging and automated the closing of issues and pull requests in the GitHub mirror
16. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) made the command uno:RefreshView redo the whole document layout and made it possible to be used in Calc
17. Thorsten Wagner fixed blurry text with Retina displays on macOS 11 and the text colour for selected dialog tabs
18. Michael Meeks (Collabora) improved the performance of Calc’s row height calculation
19. Szabolcs Tóth (NISZ) continued making the positioning of rotated shapes with XLSX export more robust
20. Tibor Nagy and Attila Szűcs (NISZ) fixed losing file names in modified links with XLSX export, a longstanding issue with losing print ranges of the last sheet of Calc documents with external references and data validation circle not disappearing upon value change in Calc
21. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed “Formula is” conditional formatting rule not working upon XLSX import
22. Dennis Francis (Collabora) improved the loading time of Calc documents with many large array formulas
23. Heiko Tietze (TDF) made the image anchor option hidden in Writer Web mode and made some other UI tweaks
24. Regina Henschel fixed Calc grid not showing in right-to-left UI and made rotation of shapes anchored to cells more robust
25. Jim Raykowski continued polishing the Writer Outline feature, added recency navigation to the Navigator, also improving how the Navigation toolbar works (View – Toolbars – Navigation)
26. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed losing arcTo shape upon OOXML export
27. Attila Bakos (NISZ) fixed some Writer textbox issues and fixed a problem with OLE object positions upon DOCX export
28. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) improved Calc text handling performance
29. Diwanshu Mittal added a scrollbar to the OpenType features window
30. Andreas Kainz improved the layout of line connector shapes offered by the gallery
31. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) corrected the limits for DEC2HEX Calc function
32. Michael Stahl (allotropia) made a big PostgreSQL update to version 13.1
33. Justin Luth (Collabora) fixed a column width problem upon DOCX export, made the behaviour of Ctrl+Delete consistent, made the option for loading user-specific settings with the document more intuitive when deactivated, made the Format – Title Page wizard actually work when adding pages, fixed an unwanted reset of column width when editing a Writer page style and fixed many regressions
34. László Németh (NISZ) made some improvements to change tracking and fixed a problem with paragraph margins upon DOCX import
35. Shubham Jain made the file type show in the image properties dialog
36. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) worked on a new UNO object inspector and made internal improvements to graphics and PDF handling code
37. Xisco Faulí (TDF) made nearly 60 improvements and additions to unit and UI tests
38. Xisco Faulí (TDF) improved the script used to find missing unittests
39. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) continued improving the handling of inserted PDFs, fixed saving the resolved state of single-point comments in Writer, improved the performance of manipulating bullets & numbering, improved support for the shadow of PPTX table shapes and fixed many regressions
40. Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved the performance of Calc’s VLOOKUP function and made many code cleanups and optimisations
41. Prince Singh Tomar made Calc’s number format preview use the document background colour
42. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many code cleanups as well as build fixes
43. Mark Hung fixed hanging punctuation in Impress and made the CSV import dialog take character width into account
44. Szymon Kłos (Collabora) added Calc functions to Notebookbar interfaces and made Pivot table database and external source dialogs and the Fontword gallery dialog asynchronous
45. Gábor Kelemen (NISZ) fixed incorrect default paper size being shown in the Print dialog and added some keyboard shortcuts and accelerator definitions
46. Dante Doménech continued working on MathML improvements
47. Chris Sherlock continued refactoring VCL code
48. Anshu Khare unified protect/unprotect cases for spreadsheet protection
49. Rizal Muttaqin made updates to all icon themes
50. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) improved Unicode path support on Windows, made it so 0-byte ODF files can be opened as expected, improved threading code and made code cleanups
51. Tamás Zolnai (Collabora) made it so a Writer selection containing a table is not lost upon window switching and made Sidebar remember its Chart deck state upon window switching
52. Julien Nabet added support for Raspberry Pi 4 builds and made some crash fixes and code cleanups
53. Björn Michaelsen continued internal improvements to Writer
54. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued on the last stretch of the massive UI backend work, dropped many uses of deprecated GTK methods and made many cleanups and crash fixes

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

666 bugs, 83 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 370 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Telesto ( 110 )
2. sdc.blanco ( 22 )
3. Xisco Faulí ( 11 )
4. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 10 )
5. Regina Henschel ( 8 )
6. Rizal Muttaqin ( 7 )
7. Colin ( 7 )
8. Olivier Hallot ( 7 )
9. mwtjunkmail ( 7 )
10. Quintao ( 7 )

Triaged Bugs

523 bugs have been triaged by 97 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Heiko Tietze ( 69 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 38 )
3. V Stuart Foote ( 37 )
4. m.a.riosv ( 37 )
5. Dieter ( 31 )
6. Buovjaga ( 26 )
7. Roman Kuznetsov ( 26 )
8. Telesto ( 25 )
9. Julien Nabet ( 21 )
10. Timur ( 12 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

603 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

194 bugs have been fixed by 47 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 32 )
2. Seth Chaiklin ( 13 )
3. Rizal Muttaqin ( 11 )
4. Justin Luth ( 9 )
5. Miklos Vajna ( 6 )
6. László Németh ( 5 )
7. Attila Szűcs ( 5 )
8. Mark Hung ( 4 )
9. Tibor Nagy ( 4 )
10. Gabor Kelemen ( 4 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#139074 CRASH on Paste from clipboard into dialog or other floating window, paste to document canvas is fine; Windows only? ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#119610 Insert > Cross-reference: All registered databases are opened ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
2. tdf#128353 Impress: Animated video GIF, WMV, AVI do not play anymore in GDI with some video cards- OK with Shift+F5 on slide (OK in OpenGL or Skia) ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
3. tdf#135014 FILESAVE DOCX: Crash after opening and making and edit and save ( steps en comment 18 ) ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
4. tdf#135550 List Box not triggering any event macros ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#136704 Writer crash with AutoCorrect Apply Styles on typing when pressing Enter ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
6. tdf#138314 Blank tab names in dialog frames, macOS 11.0.1 Big Sur ( Thanks to Thorsten Wagner )
7. tdf#138675 Crash in LO Base in MS Windows when creating auto-number using a variety of number types ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
8. tdf#139126 faulty expressions cells show incorrect value ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
9. tdf#139299 EDITING: Closing of query from design view leads to crash ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#134101 BigPtrArray::Index2Block undo crash ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
2. tdf#135014 FILESAVE DOCX: Crash after opening and making and edit and save ( steps en comment 18 ) ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
3. tdf#136704 Writer crash with AutoCorrect Apply Styles on typing when pressing Enter ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
4. tdf#138675 Crash in LO Base in MS Windows when creating auto-number using a variety of number types ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#139074 CRASH on Paste from clipboard into dialog or other floating window, paste to document canvas is fine; Windows only? ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
6. tdf#139299 EDITING: Closing of query from design view leads to crash ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
7. tdf#139493 Crash Right clicking in table in Impress with Navigator tab activated ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
8. tdf#139580 Writer crash when saving certain documents as .docx or .doc ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
9. tdf#139782 Calc crashes opening file containing “MATCH” formula referencing not yet allocated column ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
10. tdf#139996 CRASH: using CTRL + SHIFT + Up in the slidesorter when no slide is selected ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )

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

1. tdf#104927 Text Import – fixed width mode not adjusting csvtablebox for multi-byte fonts ( Thanks to Mark Hung )
2. tdf#38604 Add a keyboard shortcut for small caps ( Thanks to Gabor Kelemen )
3. tdf#39721 Moving a section with the up/down arrows of the “Bullets and Numbering” toolbar resurrects deleted text when “Record Changes” and “Show Changes” are enabled ( Thanks to László Németh )
4. tdf#51022 Print range lost on file save/reopen if the file contains external link ( Thanks to Attila Szűcs )
5. tdf#55457 Highlight button sticks ( Thanks to Seth Chaiklin )
6. tdf#61028 Problems with OOXML custGeom and arcTo command ( Thanks to Tünde Tóth )
7. tdf#68198 All files of the following extensions: EXEs, DLLs, SYS, DRV, OCX, SCR, and CPL should be signed ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
8. tdf#86525 Missing ‘Data Bar’ section in conditional formatting online help ( Thanks to Balaharipreetha Muthu )
9. tdf#92700 UI Customize Dialog: Tab Keyboard: missing tool tip (or .. ) explaining that, with focus in list Shortcut Keys, pressing key-combination jumps to that item ( Thanks to Gabor Kelemen )
10. tdf#96505 Get rid of cargo cult “long” integer literals ( Thanks to many contributors )
11. tdf#96678 Add Hotkeys to Each Font Effect Option ( Thanks to Gabor Kelemen )
12. tdf#96787 AutoCorrect: After Removal of Replacement Entry the Replacement Itself is still Performed. ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

WORKSFORME bugs

54 bugs have been retested by 31 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Buovjaga ( 10 )
2. Dieter ( 7 )
3. Telesto ( 4 )
4. Roman Kuznetsov ( 3 )
5. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 2 )
6. Xisco Faulí ( 2 )
7. Diogo G. Sousa ( 2 )
8. V Stuart Foote ( 2 )
9. BogdanB ( 2 )
10. Heiko Tietze ( 2 )

DUPLICATED bugs

163 bugs have been duplicated by 35 people.

Top 10 testers

1. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 24 )
2. Timur ( 17 )
3. Xisco Faulí ( 17 )
4. V Stuart Foote ( 15 )
5. Telesto ( 13 )
6. Justin L ( 11 )
7. Heiko Tietze ( 10 )
8. m.a.riosv ( 7 )
9. Ming Hua ( 5 )
10. Roman Kuznetsov ( 4 )

Verified bug fixes

90 bugs have been verified by 16 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 35 )
2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 26 )
3. Dieter ( 7 )
4. Regina Henschel ( 4 )
5. BogdanB ( 4 )
6. Buovjaga ( 3 )
7. Julien Nabet ( 3 )
8. Samuel Thibault ( 1 )
9. Jan-Marek Glogowski ( 1 )
10. V Stuart Foote (

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General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.0.4 was released on December, 17
2. Stanislav Horáček updated Help for using custom styles in chapter numbering
3. Ayhan Yalçınsoy, Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) and Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made some cleanups in Help content
4. Triveni Remany added a note on using optimal height with wrapping in XLS files in Help content
5. Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the readability of print selection and PDF accessibility Help content
6. Ming Hua added information to Help about locking and unlocking toolbars
7. Balaharipreetha Muthu added a Help page for Calc image anchoring, a section about data bars in Help for Calc conditional formatting and a note about Calc grouping and change tracking
8. Seth Chaiklin made 26 changes to Help, with topics including menu item updates, date patterns, keyboard navigation with footnotes and endnotes, templates, crash reporting, renaming Calc sheets, Calc data validity criteria and creating styles
9. Noel Grandin (Collabora) made XML parsing faster in various areas, fixed some automated tests and made many code cleanups and optimisations
10. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued on the last stretch of the massive UI backend work, fixed an old issue of extended tooltips not showing in menus, dropped many uses of deprecated GTK methods and made many cleanups and crash fixes
11. Tamás Zolnai (Collabora) fixed a crash triggered by collaborative editing
12. Jochen Nitschke made some code cleanups
13. Kevin Suo improved the Fields dialog layout
14. Vert D polished the template manager list view
15. Laurent Balland-Poirier updated Math examples
16. George Bateman improved the VBA automated tests
17. Chris Sherlock refactored lots of bitmap handling code
18. Lionel Elie Mamane made internal improvements to the PostgreSQL connector
19. Georgy Litvinov made it so TIFF images are imported in full and fixed a problem with lost styles in Writer’s Insert – Text from file feature
20. Tibor Nagy and Attila Szűcs (NISZ) fixed a problem with lost conditional formatting in XLSX import and issues with external links in XLSX export
21. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) improved the presentation of data labels in pie charts
22. Balázs Varga (NISZ) fixed OOXML chart issues with rotated shapes
23. Marco Cecchetti (Collabora) fixed count variable not being substituted in Impress slideshows
24. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) made connecting to OneDrive work again, added a VS Code workspace template and improved cross-compilation to catch problems better
25. Szabolcs Tóth (NISZ) fixed the positioning of rotated shapes with XLSX export
26. Balázs Regényi (NISZ) fixed importing of VML callout shapes in DOCX files
27. Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed a crash when opening Sidebar in chart edit mode in Writer
28. Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB) removed a lag when opening documents over network
29. Jan-Marek Glogowski improved the font replacement table and made internal improvements to clipboard handling
30. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) made internal improvements to graphics and PDF handling code
31. Rene Engelhard removed the Thunderbird address book connector
32. Rizal Muttaqin made updates to Colibre and elementary icon themes
33. Jean-Pierre Ledure improved the ScriptForge Basic library
34. Heiko Tietze (TDF) made Writer’s default type of anchoring optional
35. Attila Bakos (NISZ) fixed some Writer textbox issues
36. Bartosz Kosiorek fixed an issue with shifting EMF image position
37. Szymon Kłos (Collabora) fixed a crash when closing docking window
38. Jim Raykowski made it so Draw objects get a name upon creation and improved Navigator’s handling of shape names. He also made hyperlinks to shapes work in Writer, made the statusbar page number/bookmarks control tooltip show and added an option to treat outline sub-levels as content
39. Björn Michaelsen continued internal improvements to Writer
40. Regina Henschel made it so cell-anchored measure lines in Calc do not lose their orientation, fixed a rotation issue with custom shapes and a distortion issue with cell-anchored shapes
41. Xisco Faulí (TDF) made nearly 30 improvements and additions to unit and UI tests
42. Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) started working on the UNO object inspection tool, made improvements to the macOS build process and made code cleanups
43. Dante Doménech worked on support for MathML custom entities and improved fastparser
44. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) improved decimal rounding in Calc
45. Julien Nabet fixed the image button in Base forms, field copying in tablecontrols of Base forms, dropped some uses of deprecated GTK methods and fixed several regressions
46. Michael Stahl (CIB) improved the mariadb-connector and Writer frame handling
47. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) replaced unowinreg.dll with execution of `reg QUERY` for reading Windows registry, adapted the remaining OUString functions to std::string_view and made many other cleanups as well as build and test fixes
48. Gábor Kelemen (NISZ) made code cleanups
49. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed an issue with numpad decimal key and password dialogs, an issue with keyboard navigation in text with combined characters and made build fixes and code cleanups
50. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) continued polishing the Skia graphics engine integration, made image loading lazy for PPTX files and removed the OpenGL VCL backend code
51. Justin Luth (Collabora) fixed character highlight problems with Microsoft formats, removed Impress-related things from Draw UI, fixed a DOCX export issue producing huge footers, an issue in a DOCX file with pasting a bulleted list inserting a page break, some issues with Writer conditional styles, an issue preventing deletion of certain page breaks and made Writer table column proportionality work as expected
52. László Németh (NISZ) fixed spell checking of words with tracked deletions, prevented the view from jumping to the cursor when activating change tracking, fixed the display of tracked deletions in tables of contents, made it so hidden text is not shown in tables of contents and made crash fixes
53. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) made internal improvements to handling of inserted PDFs and fixed many regressions

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

732 bugs, 85 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 370 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Telesto ( 143 )
2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 26 )
3. sdc.blanco ( 20 )
4. Xisco Faulí ( 17 )
5. Robert Großkopf ( 11 )
6. Ming Hua ( 10 )
7. Rizal Muttaqin ( 10 )
8. LeroyG ( 9 )
9. paulystefan ( 8 )
10. mwtjunkmail ( 8 )

Triaged Bugs

685 bugs have been triaged by 83 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 90 )
2. Heiko Tietze ( 63 )
3. Dieter ( 50 )
4. Justin L ( 44 )
5. V Stuart Foote ( 39 )
6. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 35 )
7. Julien Nabet ( 31 )
8. Roman Kuznetsov ( 30 )
9. Buovjaga ( 28 )
10. Telesto ( 24 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

625 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

166 bugs have been fixed by 38 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 23 )
2. Seth Chaiklin ( 19 )
3. László Németh ( 12 )
4. Justin Luth ( 9 )
5. Julien Nabet ( 6 )
6. Miklos Vajna ( 5 )
7. Luboš Luňák ( 4 )
8. Heiko Tietze ( 4 )
9. Balaharipreetha Muthu ( 3 )
10. Tibor Nagy ( 3 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#138549 CRASH: Undoing comment hovering (steps in comment 11) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#133878 Slow performance in autofilter if the record contains many unique values (10 seconds after 5.4 vs. 2 seconds before) ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
2. tdf#134754 Crash on macOS 10.13 opening local HSQLDB-based odb file in Base on LibreOffice 7 rc1 ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
3. tdf#135202 LO 6.4.6.1 and 7.0.1 fail with error 1045 when accessing MySQL database using native connector ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
4. tdf#138596 Applying Formatting Aids twice crashes the application ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#138600 Vertical aligned text in nested table is hidden ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
6. tdf#138605 CRASH: Undoing paragraph deletion ( track changes ) ( Thanks to László Németh )
7. tdf#138612 LibreOffice not splitting table cells automatically for docx files ( Thanks to László Németh )
8. tdf#138688 Pasting Calc data into Writer table hangs Writer CRASH (steps in comment 4) ( Thanks to László Németh )
9. tdf#138710 Crash when deleting cell rows (multi_type_vector::position#1707: block position not found!) ( steps in comment 7 ) ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
10. tdf#138818 Some imported tif images are being truncated and thereby corrupted ( Thanks to Georgy Litvinov )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#126492 Crash report service is not documented ( Thanks to Seth Chaiklin )
2. tdf#134754 Crash on macOS 10.13 opening local HSQLDB-based odb file in Base on LibreOffice 7 rc1 ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
3. tdf#138417 Crash when customizing sidebar tab bar ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
4. tdf#138549 CRASH: Undoing comment hovering (steps in comment 11) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#138596 Applying Formatting Aids twice crashes the application ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
6. tdf#138605 CRASH: Undoing paragraph deletion ( track changes ) ( Thanks to László Németh )
7. tdf#138688 Pasting Calc data into Writer table hangs Writer CRASH (steps in comment 4) ( Thanks to László Németh )
8. tdf#138710 Crash when deleting cell rows (multi_type_vector::position#1707: block position not found!) ( steps in comment 7 ) ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
9. tdf#138741 FILESAVE XLSX Crash if Spreadsheet contain external reference that is not used in cells ( Thanks to Attila Szűcs )
10. tdf#138762 Crash when opening chart properties after creation ( Thanks to Aron Budea )
11. tdf#138834 Crash in table creation wizard when clicking next ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
12. tdf#138897 CRASH: undoing paste ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
13. tdf#138935 CRASH: Opening animation sidebar pane after inserting a shape ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
14. tdf#138973 Sidebar Gallery deck crashing ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
15. tdf#139063 Crash when add a new sheet to a RTL sheet ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
16. tdf#139127 Crash when deleting page break and undo ( Thanks to László Németh )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#133878 Slow performance in autofilter if the record contains many unique values (10 seconds after 5.4 vs. 2 seconds before) ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )

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

1. tdf#100691 If hidden characters exist in headings, they appear visible in the table of contents ( Thanks to László Németh )
2. tdf#41466 VML Callout shapes are incorrectly imported for 2007 DOCX (OK if resaved in MSO to newer DOCX) ( Thanks to Regényi Balázs )
3. tdf#46579 Form fields ‘Image Button’ do not work in Forms ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
4. tdf#61154 EDITING: Table of Content (ToC) doesn’t cross mark deleted text with Track changes Shown ( Thanks to László Németh )
5. tdf#65991 Help on Endnotes (Inserting and Editing Footnotes or Endnotes – Writer) gives not information on shortcut to move between anchor and footnote/endnote. ( Thanks to Seth Chaiklin )
6. tdf#66043 EDITING: Spellchecking tracked and shown changes – erratic underlining ( Thanks to László Németh )
7. tdf#76644 extended tips missing for menu items ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
8. tdf#82802 conditional style with no conditions is displayed as un-conditional style after reloading document ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
9. tdf#84455 UI: HELP: Missing hint that {Edit ► Changes ► Record} will disable {Data ► Group and Outline ► Group} ( Thanks to Balaharipreetha Muthu )
10. tdf#87973 XLSX:vlookup formula changed in path to external csv file after saved and re-opened ( Thanks to Attila Szűcs )
11. tdf#95147 suggestion: warning that automatic wrapping text in LO Calc needs to be set Optimal in case of some xls import ( Thanks to gar Soul )
12. tdf#99613 optional Paramaters for IF is optional ( Thanks to Seth Chaiklin )
13. tdf#99646 Make default type of anchoring optional ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )

WORKSFORME bugs

95 bugs have been retested by 40 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Buovjaga ( 8 )
2. Telesto ( 7 )
3. Justin L ( 7 )
4. Julien Nabet ( 7 )
5. raal ( 6 )
6. sdc.blanco ( 5 )
7. Dieter ( 5 )
8. Xisco Faulí ( 4 )
9. V Stuart Foote ( 4 )
10. Martin Srdoš ( 3 )

DUPLICATED bugs

154 bugs have been duplicated by 35 people.

Top 10 testers

1. V Stuart Foote ( 22 )
2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 16 )
3. Telesto ( 14 )
4. Justin L ( 13 )
5. Xisco Faulí (

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