Year: 2024

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 24.2 was released on January, 31
2. Olivier Hallot (TDF) fixed a duplicate Covariance command in Notebookbar UIs, updated menu item paths in Help pages and updated Help pages for conversion filters and style Spotlight
3. Rafael Lima added a Color Scheme switcher to Basic IDE, added a “Delete Comment” command to the Navigator context menu, fixed drawing comment triangles in Calc at all zoom levels, made it so the visibility of UI components in the Basic IDE is remembered, made Basic IDE highlight the line where the cursor is positioned, made it possible to open the “Go to Line” dialog from the statusbar in Basic IDE, fixed Calc AutoFilter arrow color in dark mode, made it so line numbering and breakpoint in Basic IDE are on the left even in right-to-left UI and fixed a crash in Dialog Editor. He also improved the ScriptForge Help pages
4. Stanislav Horacek updated menu paths in Help alongside other cleanups and fixes
5. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) removed unnecessary images from SVG icon themes, saving nearly 5 MB of space. He also changed the Help CSS to account for a quirk in Safari
6. Stéphane Guillou (TDF) continued linking Sidebar decks to Help
7. Alain Romedenne updated ScriptForge Help pages
8. Dione Maddern did many fixes and updates to Draw dialog Help pages
9. Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) added accessible descriptions to new Dublin Core metadata boxes, updated Help after removal of FTP protocol support and did code cleanups in the area of code simplification and includes
10. Laurent Balland did cleanups in the metadata of Impress templates
11. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) fixed the layout handling of empty paragraphs formatted as superscript in Writer, added support for HTML paste to Writer shape text or Calc cell text edit and continued polishing support for multi-page floating tables in Writer
12. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
13. Gabriel Masei (1&1), Paris Oplopoios, Szymon Kłos, Méven Car, Andras Timar, Attila Szűcs and Áron Budea (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. Andras also fixed some FreeBSD build issues while Attila fixed hyperlink colouring in certain PPTX files and a textbox vertical alignment inversion issue when saving PPTX files
14. Henry Castro (Collabora) made the status bar in Calc work as expected with language selection
15. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made it so the maximum number of hours that can be entered into a Calc cell with time formatting is now a 32-bit integer instead of 65535
16. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued refactoring the EditEngine text editing code
17. Julien Nabet fixed an issue preventing some position parameters to go beyond 17 mm in Writer, fixed an issue that made ReportBuilder wizards show two different data sources, fixed several crashes and did code cleanups
18. Andreas Heinisch made it so font, highlight and background colour in toolbar buttons is remembered between sessions, fixed canceling Text Import in Calc locking the document and made it so question mark can be used in autotext shortcuts
19. László Németh continued polishing support for smart justify found in DOCX files and implemented ODF attribute fo:hyphenate to exclude a portion of text from hyphenation
20. Xisco Faulí (TDF) fixed a regression with multiline text exported to PDF as one line, added support for viewBox in symbol elements in SVG import and made nearly 20 additions and improvements to automated tests
21. Michael Stahl (allotropia) continued polishing revamped ODF encryption, fixed a regression preventing editing of index entries in Writer, worked on WASM build, fixed a Writer issue causing objects to disappear after undo followed by Enter due to invisible anchor selection and fixed slowness if Style Inspector visible during PDF export
22. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made font substitution more robust, implemented support for inserting Unicode decimal codes via Alt+NumPad on Windows, fixed storing URLs in DOCX files, fixed a Writer formatting error in paragraphs with justified text, fixed PPTX import of graphic placeholder with a custom prompt, made it so Delete and Backspace move the cursor correctly in change tracking mode, fixed floating content controls importing from DOCX as separate paragraphs, improved the debugging experience in Visual Studio, fixed autotext / word completion tooltips not showing up, fixed an issue with saving word completion options, improved the IDE integration build code, got rid of unwanted space between footnote number and following text, when paragraph has hanging indent in imported DOCX files, fixed passing Integer-sized Long argument via script.invoke in BASIC, fixed unwanted interleaving of bookmark starts and ends and fixed updating path to library when it is renamed using Basic Macro Organizer. He also fixed crashes and did code cleanups
23. Caolán McNamara (Collabora) fixed an issue causing Similarities dialog to not appear in Base, made optimal column width in Calc more robust, fixed an issue with checkboxes under GTK3 not being disabled when settings are locked down from config, fixed an issue with Hyperlink dialog width growing too large with long text in clipboard, improved Calc performance by reducing window content invalidations and enabled Small Caps toolbar button in Impress. He also fixed crashes and many issues found by static analysers and fuzzers
24. Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) worked on the online update feature and WASM build and fixed an issue preventing certificate manager use. He also did many code cleanups and adapted the code to compiler changes
25. Noel Grandin (Collabora) optimised opening files on Unixes, fixed an issue causing Paste as RTF to lose character color and paragraph alignment from styles, improved scrolling performance in Calc and made cryptographic signing more robust. He also did many code cleanups
26. Justin Luth (Collabora) fixed a problem with tracked changes showing in Start Center thumbnail, fixed various cases of context menu not appearing in Writer when right-clicking the last half character, fixed an object z-order issue in DOCX files, fixed loss of number formatting in charts in DOCX import, fixed DOCX export issues causing unwanted overlapping of objects, fixed unwanted offset added to shapes in headers in DOCX import and fixed issues with pie chart import in OOXML files
27. Michael Weghorn (TDF) worked on bringing native Qt widgets to Qt/KDE UI and fixed accessibility issues in areas such as shortcuts. He also did many updates and cleanups to the LibreOffice Android Viewer code
28. Balázs Varga (allotropia) fixed an issue with copying master slide style in PPTX documents, made it so the user is taken straight to the Security Options and Warnings dialog after clicking the relevant button in an infobar notification and made accessibility warnings about simulated numbering smarter
29. Patrick Luby (NeoOffice) fixed many macOS crashes and a hang on iOS during export
30. Jim Raykowski made Spotlight more elegant by only showing it for styles that are used in the document, fixed a hyperlink editing crash while having Navigator open and made it possible to insert cross references from Navigator by dragging and dropping
31. Sarper Akdemir (allotropia) continued working on the feature for disabling active content, fixed an issue with background image shifting down in presentation mode in PPTX files and made it so Dublin Core meta data attribute dc:date is added to exported PDF files
32. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) fixed packaging of Noto fonts on macOS, fixed an issue with Windows build signing, added Armenian language pack and fixed Windows aarch64 cross-build
33. Regina Henschel fixed an issue with line break missing from RTF clipboard data after copying shape text
34. Sahil Gautam added a UI label for page preview zoom slider and made Calc cell cursor more accessible for colour blind users
35. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) made the removal of meta data more extensive when the option to remove it when saving is active, implemented resizing of Writer comment section, made it so only documents from the current module are shown by default in Recent Documents and fixed an issue with an empty chart title getting unwanted text in imported PPTX files
36. Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) fixed build issues related to certain libraries, fixed an xpdfimport crash with missing fonts, made MAR-based LibreOffice updater non-experimental and wholesome ODF package encryption the default
37. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) continued the rework of handling attributes and properties
38. Oliver Specht (CIB) made it so that upon entering a legacy text fieldmark in Writer, placeholder text gets pre-selected, made sure paper tray settings are respected when importing RTF and DOCX files and made clone formatting switch off lists
39. Matt K fixed an issue with conditional formatting getting lost when moving Calc sheets around and fixed many crashes
40. Adam Seskunas added an automated test for moving focus to inserted image in Writer
41. Arnaud Versini did some code cleanups
42. Darshan Upadhyay, Jaume Pujantell and Vivek Javiya (Collabora) worked on jsdialog used by Collabora Online. Jaume also made font embedding in DOCX files more robust
43. Heiko Tietze (TDF) made Template Manager cleaner by hiding useless buttons, made the options in Image compression dialog behave more logically and improved the look of Calc comment indicator
44. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) added a minimal Python extension as an example, fixed a JUnit test not running and decreased the maximum number of columns in Calc’s data entry form to prevent performance issues
45. Skyler Grey (Collabora) added a Calc option to keep edit mode on Enter/Tab, particularly useful for devices with an onscreen keyboard
46. Gökay Şatır (Collabora) fixed Ignore All not working with LanguageTool spellchecking errors
47. Omkar Acharekar worked on bringing native Qt widgets to Qt/KDE UI as part of an Outreachy project
48. Tibor Nagy (allotropia) made Calc support creation of accessible PDFs, fixed many other accessible PDF issues and fixed an issue with table styles in PPTX import
49. Kurt Nordback fixed an issue with combo chart render order
50. Marco Cecchetti (Collabora) fixed Calc view invalidation issues
51. Dennis Francis (Collabora) improved the performance of conditional formatting in Calc
52. Matthew Kogan fixed an issue with an unwanted space appearing at start of line when field wraps
53. Kevin Suo made it so Empty and Error entries are shown as non-selected and inactive when hidden by autofilter
54. Eli Schwartz (Arch Linux) improved the portability of shell scripts
55. Bayram Çiçek (Collabora) made inactive Calc sheets movable and copyable
56. Xuan Chen fixed a Java UNO bridge test failure on riscv64 CPU architecture
57. Winfried Donkers added Excel2021 function XLOOKUP to Calc

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

515 bugs, 76 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 297 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 40 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 19 )
3. Telesto ( 16 )
4. Mike Kaganski ( 12 )
5. Tracey ( 10 )
6. Rafael Lima ( 10 )
7. Robert Großkopf ( 9 )
8. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 9 )
9. Regina Henschel ( 8 )
10. Justin L ( 8 )

Triaged Bugs

523 bugs have been triaged by 67 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 109 )
2. Buovjaga ( 80 )
3. m_a_riosv ( 56 )
4. Heiko Tietze ( 41 )
5. Xisco Faulí ( 29 )
6. Mike Kaganski ( 23 )
7. Julien Nabet ( 17 )
8. Rafael Lima ( 14 )
9. Telesto ( 13 )
10. V Stuart Foote ( 12 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

456 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

181 bugs have been fixed by 39 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Mike Kaganski ( 21 )
2. Rafael Lima ( 13 )
3. Caolán McNamara ( 9 )
4. Justin Luth ( 8 )
5. Michael Stahl ( 8 )
6. László Németh ( 6 )
7. Tibor Nagy ( 6 )
8. Heiko Tietze ( 6 )
9. Samuel Mehrbrodt ( 5 )
10. Matt K ( 5 )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#155917 Writer crashes when inserting ODT file containing PDF into table in another ODT doc ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
2. tdf#158965 Find Record: Similarities dialog won’t appear ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
3. tdf#159243 Armenian characters displaying incorrectly (as boxes) on macOS (fonts not packaged properly) ( Thanks to Christian Lohmaier )
4. tdf#159386 Selecting all in a certain table causes assert in SfxPoolItem::SetWhich with a debug build ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#73678 FORMATTING: Conditional Formatting lost when Click-drag Sheet2 tab to position 1 or adding, then

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General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.5.9 and 7.6.4 were announced on December 7
2. Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated menu item paths in Help pages and updated and restructured dozens of help pages
3. Rafael Lima fixed line count width in Writer file properties dialog, added a button leading to Download page in the dialog showing up if trying to access Help without offline files available and made it possible to enter edit mode for comments in Calc via Navigator. He also updated ScriptForge help and added a Help page about installing offline Help
4. Stanislav Horacek did many fixes and cleanups in Help pages
5. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) made it so multi-selection is no longer possible in Start Center as it is not actionable. He also streamlined the navigation layout of Help
6. Stéphane Guillou (TDF) linked Sidebar decks to Help and did other Help updates
7. Alain Romedenne updated ScriptForge help pages
8. Dione Maddern updated Help for Draw’s Consolidate Text functionality
9. Sophia Schröder did many cleanups in Help
10. Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) added support for XF86Forward / XF86Back key events for use in Impress slideshows and did code cleanups in the area of unused config keys and includes
11. Laurent Balland did many fixes in Impress templates, collaborating with Jérôme Bouat
12. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer. He also updated pdfium and did fixes to automated tests
13. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
14. Michael Meeks (Collabora) fixed a deadlock
15. Szymon Kłos, Áron Budea and Gökay Şatır (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online
16. Nick Wingate (Collabora) added an option to define ranges when exporting Calc sheets to PDF
17. Henry Castro (Collabora) made it so an error dialog pops up in Calc, if trying to insert a row after the maximum one
18. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) fixed an issue with unwanted deletion of data ranges in Calc
19. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) streamlined the OOXML import of headers/footers in page styles, made handling of embedded SVGs in FODT files more robust and added support for writing SVG images into OOXML using the MS OOXML extension. He also did lots of refactoring in the EditEngine text editing code
20. Julien Nabet fixed an issue with changing field options in Firebird databases, implemented more user management functionality for MySQL and MariaDB databases, made colour handling more robust in sparklines, fixed an issue with stepped line types in XY scatter charts and fixed StepTime being ignored with AnimatedImages in Basic Dialog (together with bug reporter Jurassic Pork). He also fixed crashes and many issues found by static analysers and did many code cleanups
21. Andreas Heinisch made Mail Merge more robust with regards to database names
22. László Németh continued polishing support for smart justify found in DOCX files and fixed an issue with soft hyphens not being displayed in text boxes and shapes
23. Xisco Faulí (TDF) did many improvements and additions to automated tests and fixed regressions
24. Michael Stahl (allotropia) revamped ODF encryption resulting in much faster saving and loading, better resistance to tampering, better hiding of metadata and higher resistance to brute forcing. He also fixed a Writer crash related to text formatting of group shapes anchored as character
25. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) continued polishing the handling and detection of broken ZIP packages (document containers), improved the load time of DOCX files with hundreds of images, fixed issues with incorrect Math formula font size and Escape key not closing formula editor (not in any released version), fixed undoing the first applied cell formatting in Calc, fixed an issue with unwanted extra empty paragraphs appearing after a table before a section break in DOCX files, made line breaking in Writer behave according to Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm rules, fixed an issue with line breaks in justified right aligned text and fixed an issue with applying Calc cell styles. He also fixed many crashes and did many code cleanups and improvements to automated tests
26. Caolán McNamara (Collabora) optimised Calc’s performance and fixed many issues found by static analysers and fuzzers
27. Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) worked on the online update feature. He also did many code cleanups and adapted the code to compiler changes
28. Noel Grandin (Collabora) continued polishing the renovation of bitmap alpha handling. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations
29. Justin Luth (Collabora) made it so the Select Outline Format split button in the Properties Sidebar deck in Writer now opens Bullets and Numbering dialog and its Outline tab, if you click on the button part, fixed handling of legacy dropdown fields direct bold and char settings in DOCX and RTF files, fixed a page break issues in RTF import, made it so there is no longer a possibility to get into a restart/reinstall loop after installing an extension and fixed an issue with losing selection in Writer after right-clicking the last half character
30. Michael Weghorn (TDF) made it so listboxes don’t take mouse wheel input, if mouse is not positioned over them and fixed accessibility issues in areas such as heading levels and checkable items. He also did many updates and cleanups to the LibreOffice Android Viewer code
31. Balázs Varga (allotropia) fixed an issue causing a huge number of unwanted master slides appearing in PPTX import and continued working on proper indications for locked down items in Options
32. Patrick Luby (NeoOffice) continued improving the scrolling performance on macOS, fixed an issue causing unwanted horizontal scrolling in Calc on macOS, eliminated flickering upon window resizing in macOS with Skia/Metal and fixed clipboard contents causing trouble with clipboard recorders on macOS. He also fixed some macOS crashes
33. Jim Raykowski made comment threads appear grouped in the Navigator, made images with broken links easier to find in the Navigator and implemented a feature to identify the objects in a layer by hovering with the mouse over layer tabs
34. Sarper Akdemir (allotropia) added an option to disable active content such as DDE commands and OLE objects
35. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) fixed a Windows AARCH64 build issue
36. Chris Sherlock refactored text rendering code
37. Regina Henschel implemented curved connector routing method used in OOXML files
38. Sahil Gautam continued polishing the feature for highlighting the current row and column in spreadsheets
39. Irgaliev Amin improved math formula compatibility with Microsoft Office
40. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) did many improvements to the Expert Configuration and macro signature confirmation dialogs and made it so dialog button accelerators work without Alt key on Windows
41. Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) did code and build cleanups, for example improving build reproducibility
42. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) continued with the rework of handling attributes and properties
43. Oliver Specht (CIB) fixed issues with numbering losing its text colour in DOCX import, handling toggled text formatting properties in DOCX files, paragraphs imported without numbering from RTF files, list of Calc comments not updating automatically and checkbox sizes being imported wrong from RTF files
44. Matt K fixed displaying dialogs in Calc’s full screen mode
45. Martin Gube added an automated test
46. Taichi Haradaguchi updated some dependencies
47. René Engelhard did some build fixes
48. David Gilbert did code cleanups
49. Adam Seskunas added an automated test
50. Andras Timar (Collabora) fixed shape colour not being imported in Visio files
51. Ricardo Donino ported a Draw Java SDK example to Python
52. Theppitak Karoonboonyanan added Thai AutoCorrect data
53. Jonathan Clark made it so BASIC CCur function obeys locale setting
54. Li Yang improved menu highlight text colour in high contrast mode on Windows
55. Arnaud Versini did some code cleanups

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

453 bugs, 71 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 283 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 33 )
2. Telesto ( 17 )
3. Jérôme ( 16 )
4. Eyal Rozenberg ( 11 )
5. Rafael Lima ( 11 )
6. Xisco Faulí ( 9 )
7. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 8 )
8. Tracey ( 6 )
9. Regina Henschel ( 6 )
10. William Friedman ( 6 )

Triaged Bugs

412 bugs have been triaged by 64 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 79 )
2. m.a.riosv ( 58 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 27 )
4. Buovjaga ( 26 )
5. Julien Nabet ( 23 )
6. raal ( 21 )
7. Xisco Faulí ( 19 )
8. Dieter ( 18 )
9. ady ( 18 )
10. V Stuart Foote ( 14 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

438 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 32 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Mike Kaganski ( 14 )
2. Balazs Varga ( 11 )
3. Patrick Luby ( 8 )
4. Julien Nabet ( 8 )
5. Laurent Balland ( 8 )
6. Caolán McNamara ( 7 )
7. Justin Luth ( 6 )
8. Noel Grandin ( 6 )
9. Samuel Mehrbrodt ( 6 )
10. Rafael Lima ( 3 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#154339 Plain text copied to clipboard and pasted to CSV is not saved. ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#123396 LO Writer automatically replaces SVGs embedded in FODT files with an embedded low-resolution PNGs and drops the SVGs from the documents ( Thanks to Tomaž Vajngerl )
2. tdf#123864 No feedback for screen reader when radio button for underline attribute changes ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
3. tdf#154044 Undoing the first applied cell formatting only works for column A ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
4. tdf#155266 VIEWING / SCROLLING: very laggy jerky scrolling on macOS Intel Writer: scroll lag ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
5. tdf#157915 Error UNO type of C++ when running a Basic macro with instruction commitChanges for org.openoffice.Office.Commands/Execute/Disabled ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
6. tdf#158223 Charts: Data range will be deleted when deleting following sheet ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
7. tdf#158379 Crash when trying to print specific RTF file (macOS) ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
8. tdf#158551 Crash in: mdds::mtv::soa::multi_type_vector::cbegin() const on Paste Special with Operation ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
9. tdf#33201 UI: Highlight (not select) current row and column in spreadsheet ( Thanks to Sahil )
10. tdf#60558 FILEOPEN DOCX: floating table w/parallel wrap followed by an inline table doesn’t wrap beside in empty space on right ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#140401 LibreOffice crashed due to custom installed fonts ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
2. tdf#156820 Crash when changing color with custom colour picker accessed from overflowing toolbar ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
3. tdf#158379 Crash when trying to print specific RTF file (macOS) ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
4. tdf#158450 Crash when picking custom colour for column separator line ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#158505 Crash exporting Writer file with bibliography to PDF ( Thanks to Vojtěch Doležal )
6. tdf#158551 Crash in: mdds::mtv::soa::multi_type_vector::cbegin() const on Paste Special with Operation ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
7. tdf#158593 Expert dialog crashes when editing locked down “set” configuration ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
8. tdf#158686 FILEOPEN RTF Crash when changing to print preview ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
9. tdf#158703 Crash if I use the space bar several times and then punctuation (French Locale) ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
10. tdf#158720 Crash for attribute string search (“oo”, “uno”, “ooname”) in the Expert Configuration dialog ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
11. tdf#158794 Pasting a DDE link into a footnote / endnote crashes ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
12. tdf#158837 Crash in: int rtl::str::indexOfStr_WithLength(char16_t const*, int, char16_t const*, int) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
13. tdf#158862 LibreOffice crashes when attempting to inspect a UNO object in the Watch Window during debugging after successful initial inspection. ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )

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

1. tdf#111969 right-click on right half of last character in selection loses the selection (Writer) ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
2. tdf#117651 AutoCorrect does not change preexisting text inside /slashes/ to italics, nor change -strikethrough- ( Thanks to Matt K )
3. tdf#123396 LO Writer automatically replaces SVGs embedded in FODT files with an embedded low-resolution PNGs and drops the SVGs from the documents ( Thanks to Tomaž Vajngerl )
4. tdf#123864 No feedback for screen reader when radio button for underline attribute changes ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )

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