Year: 2023

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.5.5 was released on July 20
2. Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued adding Tabbed UI examples into help instructions, added an example on how to get user data from registry with BASIC, added help pages for document themes and Calc drawing styles and fixed a JavaScript issue related to displaying different embedded help content depending on the operating system
3. Stanislav Horáček improved the help for Sort command in Writer
4. Juan C. Sanz added a new help section for direct connections to PostgreSQL databases
5. Nay Catina Dia-Schneebeli added a help page for the new Style Spotlight feature
6. Stéphane Guillou (TDF) improved help pages for hyphenation, Outline Folding and labels
7. Rafael Lima fixed issues with F1 help shortcut not working in some contexts and fixed incorrect menu positions with KDE Frameworks 5 UI. He also updated help for ScriptForge, improved help on setting PYTHONPATH and did a lot of fixes in help bookmarks that connect something in the UI to a relevant help target
8. Seth Chaiklin added help for the new “Place backup in same folder as document” option and added a tip of the day entry about Search Commands
9. Laurent Balland added optional detection of numbers in scientific notation to HTML paste
10. Alain Romedenne updated help for ScriptForge
11. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer and added initial help for it
12. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
13. Szymon Kłos, Áron Budea, Marco Cecchetti and Pranam Lashkari (Collabora) worked on LOKit and/or jsdialog used by Collabora Online. Szymon also made it so when inserting internal links in Impress the dialog will not mix master slides with regular ones and Áron fixed a Skia gradient transparency regression
14. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made it so ROW() and COLUMN() in array mode return a scalar value instead of a single element matrix and added code to deal with bad XLSX files generated by QuickBooks
15. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued polishing support for document themes
16. Julien Nabet made many code cleanups and simplifications
17. Andreas Heinisch made it so hiding a slide in Impress can be undone, made indexes of tables support Ctrl-clicking items for navigation and made it so inserting a hyperlink pre-fills the URL field, if the clipboard contains a URL. He also improved the help for CDbl and Csng BASIC functions
18. László Németh improved Writer change tracking related to tables
19. Xisco Faulí (TDF) did many SVG handling and rendering improvements, fixed many crashes and made some changes and additions to automated tests
20. Michael Stahl (allotropia) made lots of improvements to the Universal Accessibility PDF export support, added support for decorative flags for objects, fixed an issue with frame styles not exporting properly in some cases and made it so setting comments to be in margin doesn’t cause link annotations to be lost in PDF export
21. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made it so paragraph autostyle is used to mimic Word’s table style in DOCX files, fixed the Writer scrollbar tooltip feature which had broken in multiple ways, prevented unwanted tabs from appearing sometimes in table of contents upon DOCX export, implemented “Legal” numbering style that forces all levels to use Arabic numerals to improve interoperability with Word, untangled configuration nodes related to AutoRecovery, made it so AutoRecovery interval is applied separately per document, fixed handling of WM_UNICHAR message on Windows and fixed handling of PDF page scaling factor after large pages. He also fixed many regressions and did many code cleanups and optimisations
22. Caolán McNamara (Collabora) fixed an issue that caused Ctrl+Left to not always jump to the correct cell. He also fixed crashes and issues found by code analysers
23. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) did many code, test and build-related cleanups, one focus area being preparation for more efficient handling of strings allowed by a newer build baseline
24. Noel Grandin (Collabora) changed LibreOffice’s internal formats and data structures to work directly with alpha instead of transparency in images and graphics, so the code is in line with the representation found in image formats and APIs everywhere. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations
25. Justin Luth (Collabora) brought back and fixed functionality to automatically save documents, which was disabled years ago due to an improper implementation. Alongside this rework, he made quality of life improvements to saving of AutoRecovery information as well. He also improved the NotebookBar UIs
26. Heiko Tietze (TDF) made it so automatic text colour in Calc uses a better threshold for what is considered a dark background colour, made use of ScrollLock key for navigation configurable in Calc, made Writer’s Word Count dialog display the number of comments and made corrections to what is included in the display of Formatting Aids
27. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed several issues involving conditional formatting and merged cells
28. Paris Oplopoios worked on the GSoC project for implementing APNG (Animated PNG) support. He also fixed an issue that caused inline page breaks to not be imported correctly from DOC files
29. Baole Fang worked on the GSoC project for selecting tests to run on Gerrit patches based on machine learning. He also raised the limit of collected entries for Word Completion in Writer
30. Dipam Turkar worked on the GSoC project for converting Writer’s Java UNO API tests to C++
31. Ahmed Gamal Eltokhy worked on the GSoC project for improving PGP/GPG encryption support
32. Bayram Çiçek worked on the GSoC project for adding a search field into Options
33. Michael Weghorn (TDF) got a flying start as TDF’s new accessibility-focused developer, among other things fixing accessibility of Expert Configuration dialog and making it so the operating system setting to reduce or disable animations is obeyed with Windows, gtk3 and KDE Frameworks following Patrick Luby’s initial implementation on macOS
34. Balázs Varga (allotropia) worked on the accessibility Sidebar panel, made it so disabled when they have no enabled submenus and fixed an issue causing Basic dialog contents to be invisible in preview mode with scrollbars enabled
35. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) fixed an issue causing Writer comments in margin to not be exported to PDF when there was no comment on the first page
36. Czeber László Ádám (NISZ) fixed Calc comments getting duplicated after row deletion and undo, removed a Print Preview limitation with bordered rows in Calc and made handling of whitespace in XLSX-imported formulas more robust
37. Khaled Hosny (TDF) dropped PostScript printing support on Linux, fixed handling of automatic colour in case of overlines in PDF export, made DPI handling more robust in PDF export, fixed issues with thin spaces in Mongolian text, fixed rendering of RTL text in Impress letter-by-letter animations, made handling of superscript/subscript more robust in the context of mixed Western and CTL scripts, fixed a HarfBuzz issue involving graphite tables and glyph advances in fonts, improved the subpixel positioning of font glyphs, made it possible to insert the cursor in the middle of ligatures when editing text, made casemapping (UPPERCASE/lowercase etc.) more robust by using ICU more often, aligned special character names with Unicode names and fixed setting watermark font for CJK/CTL text. He also did many code cleanups
38. Patrick Luby (NeoOffice) made LibreOffice respect macOS’s “Reduce animation” system setting to help users with visual hypersensitivity, added “Encrypt with GPG key” checkbox into macOS native save dialog, fixed rendering of semi-transparent SVG images in ODP files when using Skia for graphics rendering and fixed installation of language packs failing on macOS with Spotlight off
39. Jaume Pujantell (Collabora) made selecting merged cells with keyboard shortcuts in Calc more robust
40. Maxim Monastirsky fixed an issue causing incorrect rendering of transparent background colours in Impress/Draw in some cases and fixed setting font color from the toolbar dropdown in Report Builder
41. Jim Raykowski improved Navigator’s drag and drop hyperlink creation functionality
42. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) worked on raising the Linux build baseline to AlmaLinux 8
43. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) added a UI test for Calc truncated formula display
44. Ashod Nakashian (Collabora) made it so the option for setting a password is disabled when saving plain text documents
45. Arnaud Versini did many code cleanups
46. Vladislav Tarakanov improved the rounding behaviour of scientific numbers in Calc
47. Satya Kompella (OpenText) fixed an issue causing wanted paragraph spacing in the headers in DOC files
48. Luigi Iucci (Collabora) made it so applying a style also applies its list level
49. Taichi Haradaguchi updated many dependencies
50. Colomban Wendling (Hypra) introduced AT-SPI2 tests for the GTK3 accessibility layer
51. Regina Henschel fixed an issue with setting theme colours to text in shapes
52. David Gilbert did many code cleanups
53. Pierre Vacher added generic support for embedded databases of unknown type into the database wizard
54. Sakura286 improved the riscv64 UNO bridge, fixing a test failure
55. Wu Jiahuan improved the loongarch64 UNO bridge, fixing a test failure
56. René Engelhard (Debian) made it so SSE is not used in Skia on 32-bit Linux distributions to allow building for them
57. Matt K made it so pasting a table in Writer no longer inherits list formatting, disallowed non-numberic values in Navigator’s Go To control, made Calc’s Autosum a split button and made Fontwork dialog’s SameLetterHeights button more robust
58. Svante Schubert fixed an issue with incorrect background colours in XHTML export
59. Rico Tzschichholz (Ubuntu) made some code and build related cleanups
60. Björn Michaelsen refactored Writer code a bit
61. Gülşah Köse (Collabora) made it impossible to accidentally open multiple Theme Color Edit dialogs
62. Sarper Akdemir (allotropia) fixed tooltip displaying over two monitors on Windows, tweaked the hit area for selecting textboxes in Impress and added a new expert configuration option DragThresholdPixels for Impress and Draw to define the number of pixels the cursor can move before dragging (with a higher default value than before), which will help avoid accidental dragging of text boxes
63. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) improved the importing of IF field from RTF and DOCX files
64. Kohei Yoshida made the reference resolver available for orcus
65. Rizal Muttaqin added icons for Page Number Wizard and synchronised the icons used for Insert Shape menu and Sidebar Shape deck

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

439 bugs, 65 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 254 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Regina Henschel ( 16 )
2. Eyal Rozenberg ( 13 )
3. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 12 )
4. Mike Kaganski ( 12 )
5. Rafael Lima ( 12 )
6. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 12 )
7. Telesto ( 10 )
8. ksso ( 10 )
9. Xisco Faulí ( 9 )
10. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) ( 7 )

Triaged Bugs

461 bugs have been triaged by 73 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 126 )
2. m.a.riosv ( 37 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 28 )
4. Buovjaga ( 25 )
5. Dieter ( 20 )
6. Michael Weghorn ( 13 )
7. ⁨خالد حسني⁩ ( 13 )
8. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 12 )
9. raal ( 11 )
10. Roman Kuznetsov ( 10 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

551 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

208 bugs have been fixed by 43 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Khaled Hosny ( 19 )
2. Michael Stahl ( 18 )
3. Balazs Varga ( 14 )
4. Mike Kaganski ( 12 )
5. Rafael Lima ( 10 )
6. Justin Luth ( 10 )
7. Xisco Fauli ( 10 )
8. László Németh ( 6 )
9. Heiko Tietze ( 5 )
10. Andreas Heinisch ( 5 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#156286 Crash on right-click delete of selected cells in Calc ( Thanks to László Németh )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#125504 Notebookbar Tabbed / Compact Tabbed UI ParaStyle-controls/FontName-controls stop applying after a print preview ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
2. tdf#144053 Installation of Language Pack fails on macOS with Spotlight off ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
3. tdf#154035 It is not possible to set tabs in Writer by clicking on the top ruler ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
4. tdf#155125 “Encrypt with GPG key” option missing when using System File Dialog on macOS ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
5. tdf#156165 Writer resets previous paragraph’s style to body text if AutoCorrect is on ( Thanks to Baole Fang )
6. tdf#52577 Right-hand part of vowel signs disappear when reordering

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General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.5.4 was released on June 8
2. Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued adding Tabbed UI examples into help instructions, corrected help pages to match UI changes and refactored PostgreSQL connection setup dialog
3. Seth Chaiklin made some UI label improvements and updated help after UI changes for Body Text style, AutoCorrect and Navigator heading manipulation
4. Laurent Balland fixed issues with rendering of moving average trend lines in charts, added support for embedded text in scientific number format and fixed an erroneous warning in CSV import dialog
5. Alain Romedenne updated help for ScriptForge
6. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer, improved the handling of vertically raised or lowered text in DOCX files and expanded the developer functionality for dumping Writer document layout data
7. Szymon Kłos (Collabora) optimised Style Preview performance and did some code cleanups
8. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) improved date & time (duration) handling in Calc
9. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued polishing support for document themes
10. Julien Nabet improved native number format handling, fixed issues found by code analysers and did many code cleanups
11. Andreas Heinisch made the Format Cell dialog in Calc remember its window state and implemented functionality for pinning favourite documents in Start Center
12. László Németh made many improvements to the change tracking of Writer tables
13. Xisco Faulí (TDF) added support for many SVG filters and fixed many SVG CSS issues. He also made many additions and changes in automated tests
14. Michael Stahl (allotropia) fixed many regressions and crashes
15. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made service names displayed in Language Settings match the UI language instead of the locale and implemented sorting for the language list in the Edit Modules dialog reached from Writing Aids options. He also fixed issues in XML Requirements Interchange Format export, made handling of Writer lists more robust, fixed issues causing unwanted paragraph margins in DOCX import, right-aligned numbers not being exported to PDF from DOCX files and direct formatting not read for empty last paragraphs in DOCX import
16. Caolán McNamara (Collabora) made several performance optimisations in UI code, fixed exporting the default Impress master slide to SVG and fixed deleting recent items in Special Character dialog. He also fixed crashes and issues found by code analysers
17. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made WebDAV URL handling more robust and did many code and build-related cleanups
18. Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved performance in Calc when loading various types of spreadsheets, when calculating cell borders and on macOS when using Keyboard Viewer, scrolling through large DOCX documents with lots of comments and Calc spreadsheets with lots of patterns and improved the startup time of LibreOffice in general. He also did many code cleanups
19. Justin Luth (Collabora) made subscript/superscript handling in text objects more intuitive, made it so saving a password protected read-only document under a new name offers the same password protection option by default, improved exporting content controls to PDF, fixed DOCX import issues related to strikethrough handling, numbering styles and overlap setting of images, fixed DOC import issues related to wrapping and anchoring, fixed many Notebookbar paper cuts, fixed Calc cell selection when using a split window and fixed an issue with paragraph spacing involving sections
20. Heiko Tietze (TDF) fixed an issue with unwanted scaling of overlay icons in Start Center, added some example multi-colour gradients and made it so the input field for number of copies is no longer hidden by default in the print dialog
21. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) worked on multi-color gradient support
22. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed resizing of cropped images to original size and fixed an issue with colour scale conditional formats in XLSX files
23. Paris Oplopoios worked on the GSoC project for implementing APNG (Animated PNG) support – now even blending modes work. He also did code cleanups
24. Baole Fang worked on the GSoC project for selecting tests to run on Gerrit patches based on machine learning. He also made it so Calc cells formatted as text don’t check for formula correctness, fixed an issue with unwanted style change caused by AutoCorrect, implemented alphabetical sorting of categories in Customize Keyboard dialog and made word boundary detection in AutoCorrect more robust
25. Dipam Turkar worked on the GSoC project for converting Writer’s Java UNO API tests to C++
26. Ahmed Gamal Eltokhy worked on the GSoC project for improving PGP/GPG encryption support
27. Bayram Çiçek worked on the GSoC project for adding a search field into Options
28. Michael Weghorn worked on the KDE Frameworks UI, adding a new kf6 UI plugin
29. Balázs Varga (allotropia) worked on the accessibility Sidebar panel, improved the XLSX compatibility of the CELL() function and implemented showing author and date in Calc comments
30. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) worked on the accessibility Sidebar panel, made Calc’s colour filtering work with cells with no content and made it so bootstrap variables in Java user classpath settings are allowed
31. Czeber László Ádám (NISZ) fixed an issue with Calc input line not updating after applying Repeat for text editing and fixed a Calc number formatting issue related to no-break spaces and filling available space
32. Khaled Hosny (TDF) fixed ccache cache size detection (for building LibreOffice from source), fixed issues with font fallback for surrogate pairs in RTL text, losing paragraph line spacing in DOCX files with certain fonts, CJK Emphasis marks not showing in slideshow, rendering of old Hangul in vertical layout, positioning of emphasis marks in PDF export of vertical text and alignment of Tangut and Khitan script in vertical layout. He also made it so there is no need to duplicate hunspell dictionaries for every Arabic locale and made fullwidth CJK punctuation respect the option for compression
33. Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) dropped some unused items from officecfg registry
34. Patrick Luby (NeoOffice) improved the performance of Calc UI when using Keyboard Viewer on macOS and fixed a macOS crash related to multiple monitors and changing formatting for a large number of cells. He also fixed hanging when selecting a column or row in Calc on macOS
35. Jaume Pujantell (Collabora) improved the support for annotations, when importing PDFs as images
36. Maxim Monastirsky implemented styles for Writer comments
37. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed a Chart Sidebar issue, which could cause an OOXML write error
38. Jim Raykowski made the detecting of unique names when renaming objects in Impress & Draw more robust
39. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) made some build fixes
40. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) fixed an issue causing Writer’s direct cursor to leave a trail to the screen
41. Dennis Francis (Collabora) improved the performance of Calc sheets with lots of repetitive row styles
42. Bartosz Kosiorek implemented EmfPlusDrawCurve with cardinal spline for EMF+ graphics
43. Ashod Nakashian, Henry Castro, Marco Cecchetti and Pranam Lashkari (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. Henry Castro also fixed many issues in Calc conditional formatting and made handling of multiline text in XLSX files more robust
44. Arnaud Versini did some code cleanups
45. Vladislav Tarakanov fixed an issue causing small Calc window size after deleting the registrymodifications.xcu configuration file
46. Satya Kompella (OpenText) fixed missing page numbers in the footer of a certain DOCX file
47. Luigi Iucci (Collabora) fixed issues with some fonts not getting embedded in ODT files, pasting images from Firefox to Calc and header columns disappearing when filtering pivot tables
48. Taichi Haradaguchi updated many dependencies
49. Rashesh Padia (Collabora) added support for multi image TIFF files
50. Michael Meeks (Collabora) fixed a crash in graphics handling code
51. Bogdan Buzea fixed line count in file properties resetting to zero after going past 65535 lines
52. Colomban Wendling (Hypra) improved gtk3 accessibility and fixed a crash related to accessibility handling
53. Franklin Weng fixed XHTML export applying unwanted zero margins and minimum widths
54. Regina Henschel continued the work on supporting multi-color gradients in ODF files and fixed issues related to gradients
55. David Gilbert did code cleanups

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

458 bugs, 56 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 285 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Hossein ( 19 )
2. Eyal Rozenberg ( 19 )
3. jindam, vani ( 13 )
4. Mike Kaganski ( 12 )
5. Xisco Faulí ( 12 )
6. Regina Henschel ( 10 )
7. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 8 )
8. William Friedman ( 8 )
9. Robert Großkopf ( 7 )
10. AvidSeeker ( 7 )

Triaged Bugs

387 bugs have been triaged by 61 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 75 )
2. Julien Nabet ( 46 )
3. m.a.riosv ( 32 )
4. Mike Kaganski ( 26 )
5. Heiko Tietze ( 24 )
6. Dieter ( 19 )
7. ⁨خالد حسني⁩ ( 16 )
8. ady ( 13 )
9. Xisco Faulí ( 13 )
10. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 9 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

517 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

193 bugs have been fixed by 40 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Xisco Fauli ( 16 )
2. Justin Luth ( 15 )
3. Khaled Hosny ( 13 )
4. Balazs Varga ( 13 )
5. Mike Kaganski ( 10 )
6. Michael Stahl ( 9 )
7. László Németh ( 7 )
8. Regina Henschel ( 6 )
9. Caolán McNamara ( 5 )
10. Baole Fang ( 5 )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#151946 Opening spreadsheet very slow ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#153517 CALC – wrong time value when using the autofill function and minutes are entered (not for 00 min) ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
3. tdf#155939 LibreOffice-7.5.4.2 Writer hangs when changing language of text ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#122081 Crash in SwFrame::FindFootnoteBossFrame(bool) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
2. tdf#146626 Crash in macOS Calc on font size operation on multi-monitor setup ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
3. tdf#152983 crash in layout with chained text frames anchored in footer ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
4. tdf#155685 CRASH: after undoing deletion with extended select all and table at end ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
5. tdf#155747 Writer crash when you delete/insert a new column and then select to accept the change ( Thanks to László Németh )
6. tdf#155825 Crash MCGR export special file odp -> pptx ( Thanks to Regina Henschel )
7. tdf#155951 crash with XTextRange::getString() ( Thanks to László Németh )
8. tdf#156091 BASIC IDE or Development Tools crash when expanding the + of ‘Background’ of master page ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#150534 Hiding Recently Expanded Columns Results in Significant Performance Loss ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#151946 Opening spreadsheet very slow ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

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

1. tdf#103869 FILEOPEN LibO doesn’t open .docx file with two table separated by a page break correctly ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
2. tdf#107718 Some of old Hangul not rendering faithfully in vertical layout ( Thanks to Khaled Hosny )
3. tdf#114432 Tangut character aligned incorrectly in vertical layout ( Thanks to Khaled Hosny )
4. tdf#115321 Vertical Japanese text lines with emphasis mark above in odt exported to PDF is shown a quarter font height lower than the normal lines, and no emphasis mark is shown ( Thanks to Khaled Hosny )
5. tdf#118087 FILEOPEN SVG with greyscale filter opens with colors ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
6. tdf#122081 Crash in SwFrame::FindFootnoteBossFrame(bool) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
7. tdf#122270 Tabbed Notebook Bar (Impress) View (tab) Normal and Master buttons do not properly update UI when user switches view ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
8. tdf#122676 FORMATTING Currency Negative Values does not Correctly Apply (*) with a Space ( Thanks to Czeber László Ádám )
9. tdf#122970 Direct cursor leaves screen trail with mouse pointer movement and no text ( Thanks to Hossein )
10. tdf#125154 writer calculation using variable within table does not work with formated numbers ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
11. tdf#38742 Pushpins/Favourites in recent menu and start center ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
12. tdf#43671 VIEWING: CJK Emphasis marks not showing in slideshow ( Thanks to Khaled Hosny )
13. tdf#54768 Asking to restore image to original size gets wrong size when the image is clipped ( Thanks to Tibor Nagy )
14. tdf#64830 RTL: LibreOffice requires duplicated hunspell dictionaries for

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