Year: 2024

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 24.2.6 was released on September 5
2. LibreOffice 24.8.1 was released on September 12
3. LibreOffice 24.8.2 was released on September 27
4. Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued with a massive Help bookmark cleanup effort, updated help for BASIC Now() function, improved the help for regular expressions by including a description of \w and \W patterns and extended the Document Type Definition of Help XML
5. Pierre F. improved readability and maintainability of the Document Type Definition of Help XML and updated help for Navigator in Calc after the addition of comment deletion functionality
6. Dione Maddern added help pages for Properties Sidebar decks, updated help for Styles Sidebar deck and added a help page for database table references
7. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos improved UI strings in Calc and updated Help pages accordingly
8. Bogdan Buzea improved UI strings and updated Help pages accordingly
9. Laurent Balland did many updates and cleanups to Impress templates, for example replacing images with vector graphics for better quality
10. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) implemented per-paragraph semi-transparent shape text in Impress and added digital signing support to LOKit
11. Michael Meeks, Tomaž Vajngerl, Bayram Çiçek, Rashesh Padia, Gülşah Köse and Marco Cecchetti (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online
12. Jaume Pujantell (Collabora) added a command to promote a Writer reply comment to a new main one and fixed an issue with comment threads breaking when exporting ODT files as DOCX
13. Julien Nabet fixed database queries being saved corrupted, fixed incorrectly included values with BETWEEN and NOT BETWEEN statements in dBASE file connections, fixed an issue preventing the use of Report Builder Wizard and added the new Histogram chart type to Sidebar’s Chart deck
14. Xisco Faulí (TDF) added the schema for ODF 1.4 while doing several fixes and adaptations related to it, converted many Java tests to CppUnit tests, fixed an issue with Position and Size dialog showing dimensions in incorrect measurement units, upgraded many dependencies and fixed some crashes
15. Michael Stahl (allotropia) fixed issues with hiding of FlyFrames in hidden sections, made zip file handling more robust, made the display of hidden text with a non-hidden paragraph marker in Microsoft document formats match that of MS Word and fixed an issue related to widow paragraphs in sections
16. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made BASIC’s CStr() and Format() functions produce localized output for currency values, fixed a DOCX table layout issue, fixed an issue with undo history being populated simply by opening a certain Impress presentation, implemented a fallback for inline formulas in imported PPTX files, implemented handling of Exit Property for Property Set in BASIC, improved the performance of Writer table row height calculation while also making it correct and fixed an issue resulting in broken OLE objects when re-exporting some PPTX files. He also fixed many crashes and did code cleanups
17. Caolán McNamara (Collabora) improved the layout of Start Center and made Impress/Draw Navigator focus handling more robust. He also fixed many issues found by static analysers and fuzzers, this time tackling a particularly massive batch of Coverity findings, including lots of Java issues
18. Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) worked on WASM build. He also adapted the code to compiler changes
19. Noel Grandin (Collabora) made it faster to import PDFs with lots of pages and optimised Writer code after the big item handling rework. He also did many code cleanups and fixed many issues found by static analysers
20. Justin Luth (Collabora) fixed an issue with localised footnote style, implemented support for ToCs with no page numbers in DOCX import, continued improving the handling of OOXML layoutInCell property, adapted the DOCX shape handling code to strange new inconsistencies from Microsoft and fixed crashes
21. Michael Weghorn (TDF) worked on the accessibility features of Windows, GTK4 and Qt UIs in areas such as switching sheets in Calc, selecting elements in Writer tables and toolbar positions. He also worked on using native widgets in Qt UIs
22. Balázs Varga (allotropia) continued polishing support for uniform Glow effect for text in shapes, fixed missing table borders in PPTX files and worked on the accessibility checker
23. Patrick Luby improved the look of the active cell indicator in Calc on macOS, adapted the code to changes in restorable state handling in macOS Sonoma and made colorspace handling more robust on macOS
24. Jim Raykowski made the Quick Find Sidebar deck inherit the search string from the Quick Find toolbar, fixed an issue with importing macro libraries as read-only, fixed an undo issue affecting style manipulation via the Sidebar, got rid of annoying page jumping behaviour when switching between page view modes in Writer, enriched the Quick Find Sidebar deck by adding match numbers and made comment tracking in Writer Navigator work also when focusing into comment boxes



25. Armin Le Grand (allotropia/Collabora) worked on a renovation of graphics rendering on Linux with Cairo library
26. Oliver Specht (CIB) added the ability to define default zoom values in global options, fixed an RTF issue with incorrect frame positioning and made it so character formatting and styles are cleared, if a paragraph or a character style is applied by holding down Ctrl while double-clicking in the Sidebar
27. Heiko Tietze (TDF) improved the user experience of the direct SQL dialog, added an option to disable the warning that only the active sheet will be saved when exporting to CSV (based on work by Martin van Zijl), improved the layout of document properties dialog, made it so double-clicking on document information fields in Writer opens the Properties dialog when relevant, made text in Calc cells with line breaks respect application colour setting, differentiated the context menu labels per the various index types and changed certain default bullet characters
28. László Németh improved the support for smart justify in DOCX files and added support for style separators in DOCX files
29. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) updated Help after UI changes and did many fixes and optimisations to icon themes
30. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) did build-related cleanups
31. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) continued polishing the handling of custom Add-In function names
32. Jonathan Clark (TDF) further improved large paragraph layout performance, especially affecting languages such as Tibetan, fixed several issues related to kashida characters, fixed an issue with incorrect textbox positions when anchored As character inside RTL text, added base text group and mono features to Asian Phonetic Guide, implemented missing support for RTL text in EMF graphics, implemented Syriac justification and fixed issues with text grid spacing in DOC import
33. Regina Henschel implemented support for exporting the database range property TotalsRow to ODF
34. Tibor Nagy (allotropia) fixed issues with exporting comments as PDF annotations and made it so a linked presentation opens in slideshow or editing mode depending on what the mode is in the source presentation
35. Adam Seskunas worked on the GSoC project to port Java tests to C++
36. Ritobroto Mukherjee worked on the GSoC project to implement cross platform .NET bindings for UNO API
37. Ahmed Hamed worked on the GSoC project for improving the Functions Sidebar deck in Calc



38. Sahil Gautam worked on the GSoC project to implement themes and added a “Handle Duplicate Records” command to Calc while creating a Help page for it
39. Mohit Marathe worked on the GSoC project for adding a Comments Sidebar deck
40. Rafael Lima made it so Solver Options dialog accepts parameters of TypeClass BYTE and SHORT, made it possible to set solver settings at the sheet level via the UNO API and improved the stability of the solver and fixed issues with resizing the Comments Sidebar deck
41. Kira Tubo removed redundant Open and Save buttons from Notebookbar and updated Help accordingly, moved “Protect” section to “Position and Size” tab in Properties dialogs of document elements while updating the layout of the dialogs, defined some default Comment style attributes and made Hanging Indent command create a hanging indent when used on a paragraph without one
42. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
43. Andreas Heinisch added a check for missing parameters to BASIC
44. Arnaud Versini did some code cleanups
45. Bartosz Kosiorek added support for MS Visio Template format with .vstx extension
46. Sohrab Kazak added a checkbox to toggle the title in a ToC/Index
47. Chris Sherlock did code cleanups in VCL
48. Eloi Montañés fixed an issue with unverifiable timestamps in signatures when using the NSS backend
49. Rico Tzschichholz (Ubuntu) made some build fixes
50. DaeHyun Sung improved the Korean UI font priority
51. Henry Castro (Collabora) fixed an issue with currency format previews in Calc

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

479 bugs, 69 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 297 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Mike Kaganski ( 15 )
2. Eyal Rozenberg ( 15 )
3. yoylasfpgas ( 13 )
4. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 10 )
5. peter josvai ( 10 )
6. Buovjaga ( 9 )
7. nobu ( 8 )
8. Hossein ( 8 )
9. Rafael Lima ( 8 )
10. Regina Henschel ( 7 )

Triaged Bugs

464 bugs have been triaged by 66 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Buovjaga ( 115 )
2. m_a_riosv ( 65 )
3. Xisco Faulí ( 41 )
4. V Stuart Foote ( 35 )
5. Heiko Tietze ( 24 )
6. Mike Kaganski ( 22 )
7. Julien Nabet ( 21 )
8. Dieter ( 14 )
9. raal ( 11 )
10. ady ( 11 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

446 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

161 bugs have been fixed by 36 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Mike Kaganski ( 14 )
2. Heiko Tietze ( 13 )
3. Jonathan Clark ( 10 )
4. Xisco Fauli ( 9 )
5. Caolán McNamara ( 7 )
6. Julien Nabet ( 7 )
7. Justin Luth ( 6 )
8. Rafael Lima ( 6 )
9. Patrick Luby ( 6 )
10. László Németh ( 5 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#162911 Inserting multiple Hyperlinks and undoing an insertion (Ctrl-Z) crashes Writer ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#160937 Document Properties pages in all modules do not fit screen and cannot be resized (gtk3/gtk4) ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )
2. tdf#161724 FILEOPEN PPTX: image completely disappears, other quite off (zoomed in?) ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
3. tdf#162507 Page layout reflow after pressing delete causes hang (involving tables) ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
4. tdf#162728 Crash on saving in Math Formula editor ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
5. tdf#162746 Cannot open DOCX file from 24.8 ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
6. tdf#162829 CRASH: Editing Formula Bar with two views ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#158323 CRASH when switch back from HTML View to Normal View after edit in HTML source code ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
2. tdf#160945 LibreOffice crashes in vtableCall at startup (Windows ARM) ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
3. tdf#161256 Libreoffice crashes using gtk4 VCL on kde plasma wayland ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
4. tdf#162405 Multiple password dialogs + crash in file save dialog with configured OpenPGP key signing key ( Thanks to Sarper Akdemir )
5. tdf#162728 Crash on saving in Math Formula editor ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
6. tdf#162760 Calc solver crashes on large spreadsheet but runs in LO 7.6.7 ( Thanks to Rafael Lima )
7. tdf#162764 CRASH: closing LibreOffice while TextControlParagraphPropertiesDialog/TextControlCharacterPropertiesDialog are open (gen) ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
8. tdf#162772 Crash in “Target in Document” in Hyperlink dialog, if path is not suitable ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
9. tdf#162782 FILESAVE SVG: semi-transparent shape text in a bullet list crashes ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
10. tdf#162829 CRASH: Editing Formula Bar with two views ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
11. tdf#162887 CRASH: xpdfimport crash on textual tiling pattern ( Thanks to Dr. David Alan Gilbert )
12. tdf#162911 Inserting multiple Hyperlinks and undoing an insertion (Ctrl-Z) crashes Writer ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
13. tdf#162987 Executing .uno:DataFilterAutoFilter on a hidden spreadsheet crashes ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
14. tdf#163091 crash the file with macro ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#152298 FILEOPEN DOCX Copying and pasting between table cells is slow (steps in comment 7) ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
2. tdf#161562 Sluggish scrolling after saving and

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General Activities

1. LibreOffice 24.8.0 was released on August 22
2. Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued with improvements to Calc function help pages, added help pages for Sidebar settings and graphics export via command line, improved help pages for Writer Status Bar, Calc’s Similarity Search and database ranges, updated menu item paths in Help, did lots of Help cleanups, added some extended tooltips, improved the dialog for easy conditional formatting in Calc and removed a misleading Restore Default button from Sidebar Settings
3. Alain Romedenne improved help for BASIC’s If statement and added unit tests for IF THEN statements in BASIC and VBA
4. Pierre F. made two dozen improvements to help, in areas such as Calc functions, word count, change tracking, BASIC, regular expressions, AutoRecovery and backup, and freezing of rows and columns in Calc
5. Dione Maddern added a help page for Quick Find Sidebar deck, updated the help for Writing Aids, reworked help pages for Navigator and Navigation toolbar and updated the instructions for enabling remote control in Impress Remote user guide
6. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos updated help pages about digital signatures after UI changes
7. Laurent Balland did cleanups in Resume Writer template and Beehive, Blue Curve, DNA, Blueprint Plans, Focus, Inspiration, Light, DNA, Midnightblue, Piano, Portfolio, and Progress Impress templates
8. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) made it faster to open DOCX files with many shapes and sections, and headers/footers activated, fixed a layout loop in a certain DOCX file with a complex full-page group shape, fixed losing paragraph styles with many numberings in DOCX export and made Writer layouting smarter, improving performance in LOKit
9. Sven Göthel, Skyler Grey, Hubert Figuière, Andras Timar, Michael Meeks and Áron Budea (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. Michael also optimised loading times by reducing the frequency of progress bar updates
10. Jaume Pujantell (Collabora) implemented handling of firstHeaderRow attibute in XLSX pivot tables and fixed a crash seen when editing text in shapes in Collabora Online



11. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) worked on the new histogram chart type
12. Julien Nabet fixed an issue preventing deletion of MySQL/MariaDB tables with spaces in their names and did some code cleanups
13. Xisco Faulí (TDF) fixed a PDF export crash, improved the contrast accessibility check and did many dependency updates
14. Michael Stahl (allotropia) improved some automated tests, fixed issues with hidden sections, made HTML pasting more robust when dealing with placeholder fields in Writer, fixed a wrapping issue with long index entries, simplified the code for JPEG quality levels in PDF export and made UA PDFs compatible with Adobe Acrobat Pro’s accessibility checker
15. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) worked around a bug in MS Access ODBC 64-bit driver preventing database table editing, fixed an issue in Insert Special Character dialog related to changing the font selection and made it possible to filter characters in the dialog by Unicode value, fixed an issue with Calc’s EXACT function when working in array context, improved stability by preventing the closing of a document while it is being layouted in the background, made anti-aliasing code more robust on Windows in the context of bitmap export, made the BASIC With statement implementation behave correctly, fixed an issue with BASIC for loop evaluation in VBA support mode, made it possible to deselect all tables in Base by clicking outside of the table list, fixed an issue with some Writer tables showing as collapsed, fixed some issues in the Unicode notation toggle command (Alt+X) and fixed a pasting issue related to document themes. He also fixed many crashes and did code cleanups
16. Caolán McNamara (Collabora) fixed an issue with not being able to rotate the page when printing labels on Linux, fixed embedded formulas not being shown completely when in edit mode and fixed an issue blocking chart data range editing. He also fixed many issues found by static analysers and fuzzers
17. Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) worked on WASM build, enabling WebDAV use
18. Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved loading time for DOCX files with lots of headers and footers and optimised the handling of Writer bookmarks
19. Justin Luth (Collabora) did many improvements to the handling of OOXML layoutInCell property controlling VML shape behaviour in tables, fixed an issue with inherited styles not updating after font size change in Writer, fixed incorrect object anchoring in DOC export and fixed a crash related to undoing header activation
20. Michael Weghorn (TDF) fixed detecting the default printer on Linux, worked on handling accessible object attributes, fixed an issue with font attributes in form control properties, fixed license text getting selected when installing an extension with certain Linux UIs, implemented support for reading whole documents from top to bottom in NVDA screen reader, made dark mode detection more robust in Qt/KDE UIs and worked on using native widgets in Qt UIs
21. Balázs Varga (allotropia) fixed an auto-fitted shape size issue in PPTX import and implemented support for uniform Glow effect for text in shapes



22. Patrick Luby improved the look of the active cell indicator in Calc on macOS, made the Tabbed UI centered on macOS and fixed a couple of crashes
23. Jim Raykowski fixed a visual glitch in the Animation Sidebar deck of Impress, made it possible to jump to a heading by pressing Enter in a read-only Table of Contents in Writer, made word count information of headings outline content show in Navigator tooltips, made it possible to delete all content of a content type via the Navigator (except headings), made the initially selected tracked change in Manage Changes dialog be the current or next one in the document, fixed a mouse wheel focus issue in the Sidebar and made it so the source paths of linked libraries are shown in Macro Organizer
24. Sarper Akdemir (allotropia) continued improving the UX of the encryption dialog
25. Armin Le Grand (allotropia/Collabora) worked on a renovation of graphics rendering with Cairo library
26. Oliver Specht (CIB) fixed an issue with tables having rows with “At least” height setting in imported Microsoft formats
27. Heiko Tietze (TDF) made comment background colours customisable in Writer, Impress and Draw, made it possible to toggle the display mode of the most recent documents list between current module and all modules, made it possible to customise the colours of non-printable characters and improved the luminance calculation for automatic colour setting alongside dark mode colour improvements
28. László Németh made it possible to adjust hyphenation settings via the Sidebar
29. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) did some Python code cleanups, improved a build error message, unified API docs a bit and did some help page cleanups
30. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) worked on Windows Subsystem for Linux build improvements
31. Pranam Lashkari (Collabora) made it quicker to add new conditional formatting rules via the Manage dialog, implemented loading of comment author names from XLSX files and improved dark mode handling for text box content



32. Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) switched the MAR-based auto-updater to be on by default
33. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made the Calc function search in the Sidebar more robust and made custom Add-In function names imported from OOXML be handled properly
34. Jonathan Clark (TDF) made numbering formats with repeated characters more accurate, fixed several issues related to diacritics and kashida characters, fixed incorrect output after editing Ruby base text, worked on reducing visible jittering when laying out right-aligned text and fixed an issue with RTL as-character anchored textbox positioning
35. Regina Henschel fixed a display scaling issue affecting crop markers on Windows
36. Tibor Nagy (allotropia) fixed a “Stack empty” error in tagged PDF export
37. Adam Seskunas worked on the GSoC project to port Java tests to C++
38. Ritobroto Mukherjee worked on the GSoC project to implement cross platform .NET bindings for UNO API
39. Devansh Varshney worked on the GSoC project for adding histogram charts
40. Ahmed Hamed worked on the GSoC project for improving the Functions Sidebar deck in Calc
41. Sahil Gautam worked on the GSoC project to implement themes
42. Rafael Lima made tooltips wrap properly in Qt-based UIs, fixed a layout issue when resizing the Comments Sidebar deck and improved the look of the active cell indicator in Calc
43. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) worked on Windows Subsystem for Linux build improvements
44. Kira Tubo improved the grouping of styles in the Sidebar
45. Moritz Duge (allotropia) continued improving the UI of certificate handling and digital signing
46. Bayram Çiçek (Collabora) continued working on Excel Power Query round trip support
47. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
48. Vladislav Tarakanov finalised the support of audio files in PPT/X files
49. Kurt Nordback improved the alignment of pie-of-pie and bar-of-pie chart data labels and took the first steps in adding support for invertIfNegative in bar and bubble charts
50. Gülşah Köse (Collabora) added a command to invert document background colour to be used in Collabora Online
51. David Gilbert made it so PDF import makes use of clip paths
52. René Engelhard (Debian) fixed a build issue affecting armhf platform
53. Andreas Heinisch made it so Calc’s Manage names dialog checks, if a formula is a valid print range
54. Per99 made it so the user can choose which animation settings to use via accessibility options (related to hypersensitivity)

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

436 bugs, 53 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 258 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Eyal Rozenberg ( 26 )
2. Mike Kaganski ( 19 )
3. Regina Henschel ( 12 )
4. Buovjaga ( 10 )
5. Justin L ( 8 )
6. Heiko Tietze ( 7 )
7. fpy ( 7 )
8. Jeff Fortin Tam ( 7 )
9. peter josvai ( 5 )
10. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 5 )

Triaged Bugs

424 bugs have been triaged by 67 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Buovjaga ( 92 )
2. m_a_riosv ( 38 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 34 )
4. Mike Kaganski ( 23 )
5. raal ( 21 )
6. V Stuart Foote ( 19 )
7. ady ( 18 )
8. Dieter ( 17 )
9. Julien Nabet ( 13 )
10. Michael Weghorn ( 11 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

475 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

213 bugs have been fixed by 45 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Mike Kaganski ( 21 )
2. Pierre F ( 16 )
3. Justin Luth ( 15 )
4. Caolán McNamara ( 13 )
5. Michael Weghorn ( 11 )
6. Heiko Tietze ( 10 )
7. Jonathan Clark ( 9 )
8. Olivier Hallot ( 6 )
9. Jim Raykowski ( 6 )
10. Miklos Vajna ( 6 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#162589 LibreOffice doesn’t start on Windows (erorr messages about nss3.dll and nspr4.dll) ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#148367 EDITING MS Access through 64-bit ODBC doesn’t work and returns an Invalid Bookmark error ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
2. tdf#157851 FILEOPEN XLSX “Author” information about notes is not read ( Thanks to Pranam Lashkari )
3. tdf#161139 FILEOPEN DOCX SaxException when opening specific file ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
4. tdf#161705 LO crashes with undo/redo of page numbering wizard’s created bookmarks ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
5. tdf#161725 Add option to toggle module-specific file types in Recent Documents (MRU) menu ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )
6. tdf#161741 LO crashes with undo/redo of new header + some other change ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
7. tdf#162065 can’t clone “format” of a shape anymore ( Thanks to Oliver Specht )
8. tdf#162586 Crash after exporting an odt document to pdf ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
9. tdf#61242 Customise comments background color in Writer ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )
10. tdf#68274 provide better update mechanism — Mozilla ARchive (mar) based incrementals on all supported platforms ( Thanks to Thorsten Behrens )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#140061 Crash swlo!sw::WriterMultiListener::StartListening ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
2. tdf#155459 Point to the relevant section of Privacy Policy from the Options->LibreOffice->General help, “Send crash reports to The Document Foundation” section ( Thanks to Ilmari Lauhakangas )
3. tdf#161705 LO crashes with undo/redo of page numbering wizard’s created bookmarks ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
4. tdf#161741 LO crashes with undo/redo of new header + some other change ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
5. tdf#162004 [CRASH] Enabling the Notes Pane and closing the document will crash LibreOffice (

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General Activities

1. LibreOffice 24.2.5 was released on July, 25
2. Olivier Hallot (TDF) did many improvements to Calc function help pages and added documentation for wildcards in the Find & Replace help content
3. Alain Romedenne added a help page for supported MS Office VBA object features and improved the help for IF Basic statement
4. Pierre F. did many improvements to Calc function help pages and clarified the help text on crash reporter
5. Dione Maddern reworked the help pages concerning Styles Sidebar deck and added a help page for Page Sidebar deck
6. Stanislav Horáček updated help for Calc’s XMATCH function
7. Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) did code cleanups in the area of warnings
8. Laurent Balland did cleanups in Yellow Idea, Candy, Freshes and Growing Liberty Impress templates
9. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) continued polishing support for content controls, improved the performance of working with documents having an unusually large number of bulleted lists, disabled export of form fields as PDF forms by default to match user expectations better and improved font fallback in DOCX import
10. Szymon Kłos, Jaume Pujantell, Attila Szűcs, Michael Meeks, Pranam Lashkari, Marco Cecchetti, Áron Budea and Henry Castro (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online
11. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued refactoring and improving the code for Impress annotations
12. Julien Nabet fixed crashes and did code cleanups especially in Python code
13. Xisco Faulí (TDF) fixed an issue with deleting empty columns in Calc removing formatting from adjacent column, fixed a table copying crash, did simplifications in automated tests, added a dozen new tests, converted some tests from Java to Cppunit and upgraded Python to 3.10 alongside other dependency updates
14. Michael Stahl (allotropia) made document repairing code more robust and made it possible to remove autoformatting from a Writer table while adding a configuration option to disable automatic updates of autoformatting when editing a table
15. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed rendering issues with GDI and EMF metafiles, made clipboard handling more robust on Windows, made UI tests more stable on Windows, fixed many issues related to database functionality, also making the Firebird integration better, made HTML/ReqIF export more robust and improved the performance of Calc autoformatting when applying to whole rows. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations
16. Caolán McNamara (Collabora) fixed incorrect font emphasis in Expert Configuration dialog, fixed an issue with a certain type of imported PDF appearing as blank after exporting, improved font fallback automated tests and fixed crashes. He also fixed many issues found by static analysers and fuzzers
17. Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) worked on WASM build, finishing the UNO bridge for it and enabling Start Center
18. Noel Grandin (Collabora) greatly improved the export time of complex XLS/X spreadsheets to ODS, made UI tests more stable by making them use a generic clipboard rather than the system one, improved the performance of rendering animated GIFs in Impress and improved the saving time of ODS files with lots of comments
19. Justin Luth (Collabora) implemented an option to the page number wizard that inserts headers/footers while fitting them into existing margins, fixed a style inheritance refresh issue after changing font sizes, implemented RTF export of different first header, fixed an issue causing headers/footers to be emptied after pasting RTF content into Writer, fixed an issue with images overlapping when separated by line breaks in DOCX files, fixed a content control regression causing extra characters to appear and fixed a visual glitch in content control dropdowns
20. Michael Weghorn (TDF) made vertical tab dialogs beautiful, implemented accessibility support for the spelling dialog, worked on the Android version and worked on using native widgets in Qt UIs



21. Balázs Varga (allotropia) worked on the accessibility checker
22. Patrick Luby fixed an issue with contour wrap clipping semi-transparent pixels, fixed several crashes and hangs, fixed content not being visible in exported WEBP images, made tabbed dialogs accessible on macOS, implemented support for accessing toolbar dropdowns via VoiceOver macOS accessibility software, made it so Command-w shortcut on macOS closes the currently active window and fixed an issue preventing pasting into the search field in Calc, when using a non-Western keyboard
23. Jim Raykowski added a feature for deleting all content of a certain type via the Navigator and made it so the actions applicable to a selected item show up as buttons in the top part of the Navigator. He also enhanced the Manage Changes dialog by fixing a focus issue, making the changes appear in the order they appear in the document and made it so clicking on a change in the document highlights the related change in the Manage dialog



24. Sarper Akdemir (allotropia) made the new Impress Notes pane searchable, improved the UX of the encryption dialog by making it modal and added an option to the Save dialog for easy digital signing with default certificate
25. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) expanded the coverage of ignored author data when exporting DOC files in privacy mode, made comment author initials handling more robust with PPT/X files, made it so changes in Bullets and Numbering dialog are not saved, if the user cancels, changed the bulleted list toolbar dropdown to display the customised bullet symbol and improved the UX of signing documents with password protected GPG keys
26. Armin Le Grand (allotropia/Collabora) worked on a renovation of graphics rendering with Cairo library and continued the rework of handling attributes and properties
27. Oliver Specht (CIB) implemented support for number formats in Writer tables when cloning formatting, fixed an issue with table cell widths in RTF import, fixed an issue with character properties not being applied to bullet symbols in RTF import, made it so paragraphs with empty mail merge fields are not hidden in Microsoft format imports, made the user field display in Edit Fields dialog harmonious, made VML shape visibility property be respected in DOCX import, made the handling of bullets in conditional paragraphs more robust in RTF import and corrected the calculation of paragraph heights in RTF/DOCX import with regards to tab stops and spaces
28. Heiko Tietze (TDF) added a donate button to Start Center and made shipped palette names translatable
29. László Németh added some Writer automated tests
30. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) did many Python code cleanups
31. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) fixed several build issues
32. Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) improved the newly-added Impress Notes pane search
33. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) optimised the use of date & time calculations in the code, fixed an issue with database range keywords not being detected when using English function names in Calc and fixed function wizard breaking formula references to database ranges
34. Jonathan Clark (TDF) fixed an issue causing Writer textbox direction to change depending on zoom, made line breaking more robust in bidirectional text, fixed inconsistencies in proportional line spacing in Writer, improved the layout performance of Tibetan text in Writer, fixed a Hebrew spell-checking issue related to quotes, made Korean word counting work properly, fixed overlapping CJK characters in PDF export and fixed incorrect baseline adjustment for vertical bidirectional text
35. Regina Henschel continued working on angle unit import support and corrected the importing of Excel keywords like [#Data] and [#Totals] together with Eike Rathke
36. Tibor Nagy (allotropia) made connector adjustments work in PPTX import, fixed an accessibility issue with Figure tag placement attribute when exporting to PDF and added support for Windows touch gestures for panning and zooming
37. Adam Seskunas worked on the GSoC project to port Java tests to C++
38. Ritobroto Mukherjee worked on the GSoC project to implement cross platform .NET bindings for UNO API
39. Devansh Varshney worked on the GSoC project for adding histogram charts
40. Ahmed Hamed worked on the GSoC project for improving the Functions Sidebar deck in Calc
41. Rafael Lima fixed the rendering of Calc’s AutoFill overlay with certain zoom levels or after scrolling, made the new Calc active cell rectangle symmetric at any zoom level, made Calc’s column/row highlighting repaint when changing window size, gave better contrast for AutoFill handle, improved the look of vertical tabs in dialogs and fixed an issue with the newly-added translatability of palette names
42. Leonard Sasse did Python code cleanups
43. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) did Calc code cleanups, made it so LibreOfficeKit headers and library files are now shipped with the SDK packages and added an ODK example for converting a file to PDF using LibreOfficeKit library
44. Kira Tubo added a couple of Writer cppunit tests
45. Stéphane Guillou (TDF) fixed infobar text colours not being adapted to background colour
46. Moritz Duge (allotropia) added a Python example to ODK for key and mouse handlers and listeners and did several improvements to the UI of certificate handling and digital signing
47. Peter Hagen optimised macOS clipboard handling code
48. Bayram Çiçek (Collabora) worked on Excel Power Query round trip support
49. Taichi Haradaguchi upgraded some dependencies
50. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
51. Jürgen Funk (CIB) fixed an issue with an unwanted empty page appearing in DOCX and RTF files with mirrored margins and made the placeholder text of fields reset to their defaults, if their content is deleted
52. Vladislav Tarakanov improved the support of audio files in PPT/X files
53. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) continued working on the use of Windows attention-grabbing FlashWindow API
54. Kurt Nordback continued polishing the pie-of-pie and bar-of-pie chart implementations

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

430 bugs, 64 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 245 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Eyal Rozenberg ( 25 )
2. Mike Kaganski ( 12 )
3. peter josvai ( 12 )
4. Daniele ( 11 )
5. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 10 )
6. Regina Henschel ( 10 )
7. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 10 )
8. Xisco Faulí ( 9 )
9. Faisal ( 7 )
10. Telesto ( 7 )

Triaged Bugs

440 bugs have been triaged by 65 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 95 )
2. m_a_riosv ( 58 )
3. Buovjaga ( 54 )
4. Heiko Tietze ( 29 )
5. Mike Kaganski ( 23 )
6. ady ( 17 )
7. raal ( 16 )
8. V Stuart Foote ( 15 )
9. Xisco Faulí ( 14 )
10. Julien Nabet ( 9 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

403 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

162 bugs have been fixed by 39 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Mike Kaganski ( 13 )
2. Jonathan Clark ( 10 )
3. Patrick Luby ( 10 )
4. Caolán McNamara ( 9 )
5. Justin Luth ( 7 )
6. Heiko Tietze ( 6 )
7. Miklos Vajna ( 6 )
8. Michael Weghorn ( 5 )
9. Balazs Varga ( 5 )
10. Rafael Lima ( 5 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#161865 Base’s Table Design View and Create View not editable anymore (Windows) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#114160 ZWJ shouldn’t be treated as breaking character ( Thanks to Jonathan Clark )
2. tdf#148647 LO pastes previous clipboard content instead of latest copied from other app, depending on apps opened (Windows; see comment 11) ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
3. tdf#152104 Long export to ods from xls / xlsx since 7.4.0beta1 ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
4. tdf#156530 FIREBIRD: Copying a table from one database file to another gives wrong decimal numbers. ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
5. tdf#156689 Deleting empty column(s) removes styling / formatting of adjacent column ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
6. tdf#160139 Header/footer contents removed and cannot be restored after some paste actions (from shape; as RTF; Zotero refresh…) (steps in comment 2) ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
7. tdf#160976 FILESAVE RTF Footer content lost after saving from DOCX to RTF ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
8. tdf#161421 Not all hyphenation separators (hyphens) are displayed in app, but are visible in blue in PDF export / print ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )
9. tdf#161568 VIEWING: Message for “no Search Results” sometimes not visible in Toolbar ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )
10. tdf#161653 The numbering toolbar dropdown no longer can select from the 8-block of options ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
11. tdf#162174 Crash when opening Bullets and Numbering dialog a second time ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
12. tdf#162180 CRASH: copying table from document, or selecting it with 2

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