Year: 2024

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 24.8.3 was announced on November 14
2. Olivier Hallot (TDF) did big updates to screenshots in Help, added a help page for login/password dialog and improved help pages on Skia, Writer Navigator and Edit – External links in Draw and Impress. He also added extended tips for Style dialog and Skia options
3. Pierre F. continued reorganising help pages for Calc functions
4. Dione Maddern added help pages for Number Format and Design Sidebar decks
5. Alain Romedenne improved help for BASIC’s Mid method and updated help for ScriptForge’s Exception.PythonShell() method
6. Bogdan Buzea fixed over 50 issues pointed out by PVS-Studio static analyser, did other code cleanups and worked on harmonising the use of date formats in Help to ISO 8601
7. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) started working on PDF 2.0 and PDF/A-4 support
8. Jaume Pujantell (Collabora) fixed an issue with fill content of graphic objects being lost upon PPTX export
9. Bayram Çiçek, Szymon Kłos, Skyler Grey, Vivek Javiya, Marco Cecchetti, Pranam Lashkari, Hubert Figuière and Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. Vivek also added a command to remove content control formatting
10. Julien Nabet did some internal improvements to database code and fixed several issues pointed out by static analysers
11. Xisco Faulí (TDF) fixed 80 issues pointed out by PVS-Studio static analyser, upgraded many dependencies, added a script to check the latest version of external libraries, expanded ODF 1.4 support with help from Regina and did many restructurings in automated tests as well as code cleanups
12. Michael Stahl (allotropia) made document compression handling more robust, fixed an issue in the WMF export code causing incomplete redactions and did many improvements to hiding elements in Writer
13. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed a hang related to Windows clipboard, made copying of rich text take font encoding into account, fixed an issue with setting page backgrounds via Java API, made footnote/endnote navigation more robust, made it so nested footnotes in ODF files are ignored instead of causing a read error (support has to be added to ODF spec), made hyphenation code more robust, fixed an issue with certain documents opening as modified and fixed an issue with incorrect OLE object scaling during loading
14. Caolán McNamara (Collabora) fixed an issue with tabs getting skipped when cycling with Ctrl+PgDn/PgUp in Calc’s Format Cells dialog, fixed crashes and fixed many issues found by static analysers and fuzzers and did code cleanups
15. Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) worked on WASM build. He also adapted the code to compiler changes and did code cleanups
16. Noel Grandin (Collabora) fixed an issue with Calc’s background colour conditional formatting sometimes missing newly added entries, made it faster to open XLSX files with lots of conditional formatting and made inspection of BASIC macros in the macro editor safer by detecting and skipping the display of very large UNO property values. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations
17. Justin Luth (Collabora) fixed an issue with forms not being editable immediately after opening, fixed Sidebar display of background fill not being updated after changing page style in Writer, fixed right-clicking not activating rename or delete for the targeted background image in the Area tab of dialogs, fixed an issue with not being able to add or delete gradients and bitmaps for background fills, made Calc’s row height optimisation faster, fixed an Excel compatibility issue related to row heights and fixed None area colour in a page style not being retained upon DOC export
18. Michael Weghorn (TDF) made the blinking indication animation of selected text objects respect operating system animation settings (to avoid causing trouble for hypersensitive users), fixed an issue causing unnecessary accessibility notifications related to Quick Find bar, worked with Cambalache developer to polish this UI editing app that aims to be a replacement for Glade and fixed a crash related to Orca screenreader. He also worked on using native widgets in Qt UIs



19. Balázs Varga (allotropia) made Calc’s lookup functions more robust, added a “Summary below data” option for Calc’s Subtotals, added an option to sheet protection to keep Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts working and made the accessibility error reporting more finegrained and categorised better
20. Patrick Luby made macOS dictation work smoothly, fixed an issue with Calc cells getting cleared when switching windows with certain types of keyboards on macOS, made it so modifier keys are ignored for trackpad swipe events on macOS to prevent unwanted actions and improved the overall smoothness of macOS UI
21. Jim Raykowski made macro assignment smoother by pre-selecting the desired macro in the Customize dialog when arriving from the macro organiser dialog, made it possible to change footnotes to endnotes and vice versa via context menu entries in the Writer Navigator, improved the page change control in Writer Navigator, fixed unwanted opening of Sidebar in Math with Alt+2/3/4 shortcuts and added an expert option DisableLayerHighlighting for more finegrained control over when object highlighting is done while the mouse is hovered over the layer bar
22. Oliver Specht (CIB) improved the correctness of cell padding import from RTF files, fixed SVG clipboard format support, made it so formatting is preserved when copying and pasting hyperlinks from Writer to Impress, made it so manually added bullets or numbering are reverted, if a paragraph style is applied, fixed an issue with incorrect spacing attributes in table cells in imported RTF files and enabled additonal functions in editable sections while in read-only mode
23. Heiko Tietze (TDF) made view options for element boundaries more intuitive, improved the layout of File Properties dialog, made it possible to save user-defined Math formulas and added a command to center objects to slide/page in Impress/Draw
24. László Németh worked on support for inline headings in Writer documents and fixed an issue with incorrect ordering of Table of Contents in PDF files when headings reside in text frames
25. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) fixed an issue with misleading tooltips for internal links in shapes, fixed a background colour issue in Math’s edit area and updated help for Status Bar and Image Compression dialog
26. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) improved the Windows build setup
27. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) added language and locale support for French (Republic of Guinea)
28. Jonathan Clark (TDF) implemented support for font-relative units in indentation and margins, made it so exported SVGs have a direction attribute, so RTL text works as expected and took care of loose ends in the break iterator rework
29. Sahil Gautam continued merging patches from the Libreoffice Theme GSoC project and continued polishing the Duplicate Records feature in Calc, including its Help
30. Rafael Lima made it so the new Quick Find Sidebar deck is aware of dark mode
31. Andreas Heinisch made Hyperlink dialog smarter in how it automatically grabs links from the clipboard, made it so navigating with arrow keys in Calc no longer disables highlighting of referenced cells and fixed a crash when editing Table of Contents with preview activated
32. Bartosz Kosiorek implemented support for the units centimeter, percentage, hectare and are in libvisio
33. Chris Sherlock did code cleanups in VCL
34. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) added a minimal vcl weld example application and fixed issues in Notebookbar definition files
35. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) made it so any task progress in LO status bar is also represented as progress in Windows taskbar
36. Andras Timar (Collabora) made the XML in exported DOCX files satisfy the expectations of some third party applications
37. Pierre Vacher made it so UNO API’s SortableGridDataModel service can be notified of changes
38. Laurent Balland fixed bundled templates not being valid ODF due to compressed mimetype file (this issue was not in any release)
39. Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed some issues reported by PVS-Studio static analyser
40. Gülşah Köse (Collabora) fixed incorrectly detected hidden AutoFilter buttons in XLSX files and fixed XLSX import of AutoFilter ascending sort conditions
41. Kurt Nordback fixed an issue with disappearing elements in Bubble charts and expanded the features of bar/pie of pie chart types
42. Regina Henschel worked on better ODF 1.4 conformance
43. Xuan Chen improved the build options benefiting CPU architectures such as riscv64
44. Melvin George added a unit test for exporting footnotes to PDF
45. Barry-Thomas-Paul: Moss improved the code for handling Python extensions

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

399 bugs, 65 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 264 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Eyal Rozenberg ( 28 )
2. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 18 )
3. Mike Kaganski ( 11 )
4. nobu ( 11 )
5. Regina Henschel ( 8 )
6. Dragan Marinović ( 6 )
7. Gerald Pfeifer ( 5 )
8. peter josvai ( 5 )
9. László Németh ( 4 )
10. Xisco Faulí ( 4 )

Triaged Bugs

416 bugs have been triaged by 72 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Buovjaga ( 90 )
2. m_a_riosv ( 37 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 36 )
4. Mike Kaganski ( 20 )
5. raal ( 20 )
6. V Stuart Foote ( 17 )
7. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 12 )
8. Nicole A. ( 10 )
9. Julien Nabet ( 10 )
10. Michael Weghorn ( 9 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

380 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

118 bugs have been fixed by 30 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Mike Kaganski ( 12 )
2. Justin Luth ( 9 )
3. Noel Grandin ( 5 )
4. Heiko Tietze ( 5 )
5. Balazs Varga ( 5 )
6. Jonathan Clark ( 5 )
7. László Németh ( 5 )
8. Andreas Heinisch ( 4 )
9. Michael Weghorn ( 4 )
10. Caolán McNamara ( 4 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#163325 Crashes on Editing TOC when Preview is on ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#162992 FILESAVE : Cell filtering (list) not saved in XLSX format ( Thanks to Gülşah Köse )
2. tdf#163667 Saving a particular spreadsheet takes a very long time ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
3. tdf#163842 XLS, XLSX Certain roundtripped spreadsheets not opening in Excel due to regression ( Thanks to Gülşah Köse )
4. tdf#85976 [RFE] Add a “remove duplicate records” command ( Thanks to Sahil Gautam )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#155449 Launching Orca after Writer sometimes crashes Writer (stack trace provided) gtk3 a11y atkwrapper.cxx ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
2. tdf#163325 Crashes on Editing TOC when Preview is on ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )

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

1. tdf#103916 UI An added / modified gradient (dialog Page Background) is not available in other documents ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
2. tdf#108189 inspection of object hangs LO – memory leak ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
3. tdf#122716 IMPORT Writer can lose encoding for some multibyte symbols when copy-paste from XLSX/Calc ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
4. tdf#124741 Empty row height changes when exported to XLSX (width fixed) ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
5. tdf#126857 One/some logic possibilities missing from context menu for alignment of images ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )
6. tdf#131862 ODF: Remove deprecated attribute table:cell-range-address from element ( Thanks to Regina Henschel )
7. tdf#136003 PROTECT SHEET: Can’t delete rows, despite of allow to deletes ( Thanks to Sahil Gautam )
8. tdf#36709 For first line indent using Ch (Characters) as unit, the indent value should change when font-size changes ( Thanks to Jonathan Clark )
9. tdf#81913 Navigating with arrow keys disables cell highlighting (in text and in spreadsheet) ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
10. tdf#85976 [RFE] Add a “remove duplicate records” command ( Thanks to Sahil Gautam )
11. tdf#86731 Spellcheck does not flag missing dictionary ( Thanks to Szymon Kłos )
12. tdf#89352 Allow user to change all Footnotes to Endnotes, and vice-versa ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
13. tdf#91315 Parentheses inverted in mixed RTL and LTR text in SVG export ( Thanks to Jonathan Clark )
14. tdf#94147 Some Selected Objects Flash/Blink ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
15. tdf#95239 Wrong ToC in Navigator and PDF when using frames ( Thanks to László Németh )
16. tdf#95852 Can’t edit forms immediately after opening. WORKAROUND: Navigate to next page by clicking on left page list OR right-click ( Thanks to Justin Luth )

WORKSFORME bugs

44 bugs have been retested by …

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General Activities

1. LibreOffice 24.2.7 was released on October 31
2. Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued with a massive Help bookmark cleanup effort and improved the help for BASIC’s Option Explicit statement
3. Pierre F. reorganised some help pages for Calc functions
4. Bogdan Buzea fixed nearly 70 issues pointed out by PVS-Studio static analyser
5. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) made the Hide Whitespace feature in Writer more robust, fixed an issue with losing the character position of an anchor point when copying content and fixed an issue with frames becoming disconnected from their content after dragging
6. Tomaž Vajngerl, Szymon Kłos, Skyler Grey, Vivek Javiya, Marco Cecchetti, Rashesh Padia, Jaume Pujantell and Henry Castro (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online
7. Julien Nabet synchronised the API code with Java Database Connectivity version 4.3 and fixed several issues pointed out by static analysers
8. Xisco Faulí (TDF) fixed nearly 80 issues pointed out by PVS-Studio static analyser, improved the support for context-fill and context-stroke in SVG files, converted many Java tests to CppUnit tests, added support for “greater than or equal” attribute in conditional formatting, added many automated tests while also simplifying code used across tests, upgraded many dependencies and fixed some crashes
9. Michael Stahl (allotropia) did some fixes in Writer’s automated tests and made the zip package handling more robust
10. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made the breaking of Writer tables across pages more robust, improved the handling of time durations in ODS files, fixed an issue with in-document custom toolbar icons not showing in versions earlier than 6.4, made cycling from first to last tab in Calc configurable as an expert configuration option, improved grammar check popups from Duden and made assigning fixed-length strings in BASIC work. He also fixed crashes and did code cleanups
11. Caolán McNamara (Collabora) made it possible to create rich content comments in Writer via the UNO API, improved the loading time of Impress/Draw documents with lots of master slides/pages, made presentations work on fractionally scaled displays on Linux with gtk3 UI, made it so an infobar will appear in case an opened Impress/Draw document has over a 100 master slides/pages, improved the saving speed of spreadsheets and added handling of div elements into Calc’s HTML cell content support. He also fixed many issues found by static analysers and fuzzers and did code cleanups
12. Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) worked on WASM build. He also adapted the code to compiler changes
13. Noel Grandin (Collabora) did a big Skia upgrade going from release m116 to m130 requiring a lot of patch rework, made it faster to open ODS files with large merged ranges and XLS files with lots of conditional formatting or query formulas, made PPTX chart importing more robust, made saving metafiles as images work, fixed lack of metadata in images or drawings exported as PNG, fixed an issue with opening RTF files with broken images and fixed an Impress/draw comment issue after a still-unreleased code rework. He also did many code cleanups and fixed many issues found by static analysers
14. Justin Luth (Collabora) fixed unwanted content when importing DOCX files with IF fields, fixed an issue with 3D textbox form controls being imported with flat style, fixed presentations getting marked as modified when clicking into and away from an empty placeholder box, made it so keyboard shortcuts can be used for setting the font foreground and background colour based on the colour selection in the toolbar, fixed view options such as formatting characters being lost when exporting an image from Writer, improved handling of Excel’s bugs in text wrapping and improved a developer tool for diffing PDF files
15. Michael Weghorn (TDF) worked around a Windows 11 bug affecting toolbar button backgrounds with dark themes, fixed a freeze when installing the same extension twice with kf5/kf6 UIs, made Microsoft Narrator and Microsoft Accessibility Insights for Windows work out of the box and fixed an issue with duplex printing on Linux with certain Brother printers. He also worked on using native widgets in Qt UIs
16. Balázs Varga (allotropia) implemented support for all the “Resize shape to fit text” behaviours in PPTX files and implemented support for “Summary below data” option for Subtotals dialog in Calc
17. Patrick Luby worked around an issue caused by Apple adding system fonts with a new and undocumented hvgl font table, fixed pasting issues with Dvorak – QWERTY keyboards on macOS, made it so child windows are no longer hidden when dragged to a different screen on macOS and fixed misleading unresponsive mouse moved events in Writer on macOS
18. Jim Raykowski fixed issues with moving headings via the Content Navigation View in Navigator and fixed renaming a document macro library not removing the original library
19. Armin Le Grand (allotropia/Collabora) worked on a renovation of graphics rendering on Linux with Cairo library
20. Oliver Specht (CIB) fixed an issue with images being clipped with wrap contour applied, fixed list attributes not being overwritten by pasting in Writer, fixed cell fills being imported incorrectly from RTF files, made it so clicking into a text field in Writer selects the full field, if it still has the placeholder text and fixed print preview not updating after changing the option to print automatically inserted blank pages
21. Heiko Tietze (TDF) added illustrations for Writer’s break options and decoupled boundary view options from non-printing characters



22. László Németh continued polishing the support for smart justify and style separators in DOCX files
23. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) made Start Center pin icon highlighting work again, fixed Display Snap Guides toggle not working, fixed a regression that caused online Help to not be opened when trying to access Help with the option “Warn if local help is not installed” activated and aliased the obsolete .uno:InsertHyperlinkDlg command to HyperlinkDialog
24. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) improved the WSL Windows build method and took the first steps into streamlining the dependency installation process on Windows using winget and Dev Home
25. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made support for Excel 3D references more robust and added support for Santali, Ol Chiki language
26. Jonathan Clark (TDF) fixed RTL/LTR toolbar buttons not updating after direction change in Writer page style, improved the Microsoft Word compatibility of document grid layout when importing DOC/DOCX files and made kashida justification work with AAT fonts
27. Tibor Nagy (allotropia) made it so the document opening process is hidden when opening a linked presentation
28. Sahil Gautam improved the user experience of the new Duplicate Records dialog



29. Mohit Marathe continued polishing the new Comments Sidebar deck
30. Rafael Lima implemented Sensitivity Report in Calc’s LpSolve solver
31. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
32. Andreas Heinisch fixed an issue with pinned documents in the Start Center causing the scrollbar to disappear sometimes
33. Bartosz Kosiorek did many improvements to libvisio which are now available in version 0.1.8. He also fixed a crash in libcdr and did build and documentation improvements to libetonyek
34. Chris Sherlock did code cleanups in VCL
35. Eloi Montañés fixed duplication of TSA URLs in the Signing tab of the Export as PDF dialog
36. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) fixed Additions Dialog not working in Start Center
37. Đoàn Trần Công Danh implemented support for cross-compiling with KDE 6 and fixed a compatibility issue in the build configure script
38. Marc Mondesir improved scrolling behaviour
39. Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) fixed missing highlight colour for outline text during slideshow
40. Pranam Lashkari (Collabora) improved the new easy Conditional Formatting dialog and the automatic assignment of font colour in Calc per the cell background colour
41. Samuel Adesola added a couple of automated tests and made it possible to set the compatibility option for ignoring tabs and blanks for line calculation via the UI
42. Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) improved the developer tool for finding unneeded includes
43. David Gilbert implemented handling of clipToStrokePath in imported PDFs
44. Xuan Chen improved the compatibility with riscv64 CPUs
45. Vladislav Tarakanov did initial work on supporting tint/shade values for textboxes in DOCX files
46. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed section break between tables not imported in RTF files

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

468 bugs, 83 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 301 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Eyal Rozenberg ( 50 )
2. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 24 )
3. Mike Kaganski ( 9 )
4. Jeff Fortin Tam ( 9 )
5. Michael Otto ( 7 )
6. peter josvai ( 7 )
7. Xisco Faulí ( 6 )
8. Hossein ( 4 )
9. Rafael Lima ( 4 )
10. Buovjaga ( 4 )

Triaged Bugs

356 bugs have been triaged by 65 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Buovjaga ( 56 )
2. m_a_riosv ( 44 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 33 )
4. Julien Nabet ( 25 )
5. V Stuart Foote ( 20 )
6. Dieter ( 17 )
7. Mike Kaganski ( 17 )
8. Michael Weghorn ( 12 )
9. Xisco Faulí ( 11 )
10. raal ( 10 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

349 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

126 bugs have been fixed by 32 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Noel Grandin ( 11 )
2. Mike Kaganski ( 10 )
3. Michael Weghorn ( 8 )
4. Justin Luth ( 6 )
5. Heiko Tietze ( 5 )
6. László Németh ( 5 )
7. Xisco Fauli ( 5 )
8. Jim Raykowski ( 4 )
9. Jonathan Clark ( 3 )
10. Miklos Vajna ( 3 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#163019 Calc 24.8.1 crashes if Copy Paste Paste special are executed (steps in comment 6) ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
2. tdf#163543 File crash in LibreOffice Writer when selecting and copying content ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#100894 FILEOPEN FILESAVE IMPORT Conditional formatting: xls file with a lot of Conditional formatting freeze Calc when opening Styles sidebar ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#152534 Win11 dark theme support–Active selections have light blue background which makes white icons and text almost invisible ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
3. tdf#159690 Manual line break forces automatic Wrap Text – comment 17 ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
4. tdf#161919 Two programatically composed UI strings, not suitable for localization – “Delete All” %s and “Delete %s” ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
5. tdf#161986 ODS fileopen got much slower in 7.4 ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
6. tdf#163231 Correttore ortografico italiano non funziona ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
7. tdf#163275 Typing “-(!1)” into a spreadsheet cell and then clicking no in the dialog about formula error crashes libreoffice ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
8. tdf#163375 Calc crash when type-in a range in Formula Wizard ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#161968 UI Assign macro to shape crashes CALC ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#163019 Calc 24.8.1 crashes if Copy Paste Paste special are executed (steps in comment 6) ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
3. tdf#163191 Dragging headings in Writer navigator crashes LO Writer ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
4. tdf#163219 ScriptForge library crash ( Thanks to Jean-Pierre Ledure )
5. tdf#163275 Typing “-(!1)” into a spreadsheet cell and then clicking no in the dialog about formula error crashes libreoffice ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
6. tdf#163295 LibreOffice crashes when processing XML files containing the string “pwi”. ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
7. tdf#163375 Calc crash when type-in a range in Formula Wizard ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
8. tdf#163543 File crash in LibreOffice Writer when selecting and copying content ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
9. tdf#163575 sw smart justify: crash/assert during odt conversion of an Arabic DOCX document ( Thanks to László Németh )
10. tdf#163697 Inserting new lines in Basic IDE causes crash/triggers assert when assistive technology is active on Windows ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
11. tdf#163699 LO crashes when double-clicking an image in the navigator. ( Thanks to László Németh )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#100894 FILEOPEN FILESAVE IMPORT Conditional formatting: xls file with a lot of Conditional formatting freeze Calc when opening Styles sidebar ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#161986 ODS fileopen got much slower in 7.4 ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

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

1. tdf#100894 FILEOPEN FILESAVE IMPORT Conditional

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