Year: 2025

General Activities

1. Olivier Hallot (TDF) fixed displaying help for a particular module from the command line, updated help after changes to object boundaries options, improved help on BASIC format codes and added type information to BASIC help pages, added help about multithreading in Calc, added help on saving only active sheet in Calc, explained case sensitivity in the help for Calc’s Validity and improved help for CSV import
2. Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) worked on the script for finding unneeded includes and did many code cleanups
3. Alain Romedenne fixed some Python code examples in Help
4. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) added support for embedded fonts in PowerPoint files, made graphics handling code more efficient and continued reworking slideshow rendering code
5. Gökay Şatır, Marco Cecchetti, Pranam Lashkari, Parth Raiyani, Ashod Nakashian, Gülşah Köse, Szymon Kłos and Jaume Pujantell (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. Jaume also added support for annotationRef elements in DOCX export to preserve the order of comments.
6. Karthik Godha added all 3 Spotlight commands (Paragraph Style, Character Style, Direct Formatting) to Style Inspector, made it possible to rename objects from the Writer Navigator and fixed extended help tooltips being too wide in the Navigator



7. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) continued polishing per-user change tracking in Writer, improved compatibility with DOCX’s character properties defined for “paragraph markers”, improved the handling of tracked changes that depend on each other and added support for reinstating changes
8. Xisco Faulí (TDF) fixed exporting Writer table formulas with a sum of a range to DOCX, added a bunch of new automated tests, upgraded many dependencies, fixed crashes and did some code cleanups
9. Michael Stahl (allotropia) made the line height for paragraphs that are empty due to hidden text compatible with MS Word and made replying to Writer comments and recovering broken ZIP files more robust
10. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) did many code cleanups and optimisations
11. Caolán McNamara (Collabora) fixed crashes and many issues found by static analysers and did code cleanups and optimisations
12. Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) worked on the WASM build. He also adapted the code to compiler changes and did code cleanups
13. Noel Grandin (Collabora) made handling large charts in Calc much faster when loading, toggling edit mode and switching sheets, improved the loading speed of large RTL Writer documents, improved the speed of calculating optimal row heights in Calc and improved the speed of image processing with Skia. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations
14. Justin Luth (Collabora) made it so table cell margins get exported to PPTX, improved the DOCX compatibility of padding and border spacing in table cells and paragraph margins, improved object positioning in DOCX import and made it so preview thumnails are displayed for DOTX templates
15. Michael Weghorn (TDF) continued cleaning up and reorganising accessibility-related code and fixed a crash in Qt-based UIs when inserting videos into Impress. He also worked on using native widgets in Qt UIs
16. Balázs Varga (allotropia) polished the implementation of Calc’s XLOOKUP() function, fixed an OOXML export issue with chart colours and added an expert configuration option to remove “Total editing time” separately from all private information during save
17. Patrick Luby allowed macOS to add menu items into LibreOffice Window menu, making it possible to use macOS’s window positioning and arrangement commands, added a CPU architecture prioritisation list for macOS language pack installations and fixed Apple Silicon version being incorrectly reported as iOS in macOS’s System Report



18. Oliver Specht (CIB) fixed not being able to switch off the page number of page breaks in paragraph dialog and fixed an RTF import issue related to character style properties
19. László Németh added new options to adjust hyphenation like DTP software in accordance with typographic requirements (end zones), added custom word spacing to control the shrinking and expansion of space width and added min/max word spacing to avoid of rivers of white space and too much hyphenation
20. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) added Meson support to the build system due to HarfBuzz migrating to it and fixed MSI installer generation on native windows/aarch64
21. Jonathan Clark (TDF) fixed incorrect line breaking in mixed CJK+Latin text, generated genko yoshi grid layout issues in DOCX files and excessive overlap in justified Arabic script in text boxes



22. Andreas Heinisch fixed unwanted scrolling in Writer when deleting all comments by an author
23. Chris Sherlock did code cleanups and refactoring in VCL toolkit
24. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
25. Áron Budea (Collabora) expanded Calc’s support of quote characters in formulas for improved compatibility with MS Excel
26. Mohamed Ali made master slides/pages copyable in Impress/Draw
27. Jim Raykowski improved the layout of Hyphenation Sidebar deck, made switching to styles & formatting Spotlight independent of the Sidebar being visible, reworked page and object renaming in the Draw Navigator after Karthik’s work, made Esc key behaviour logical when focused into the Navigator in Draw and fixed opening a context menu unexpectedly ending the editing of bookmark text in the Bookmark dialog
28. Julien Nabet added support for importing documents encrypted with AES_192_CBC/AES_192_EBC and fixed some crashes
29. Bayram Çiçek (Collabora) improved MSO compatibility of document protection
30. Shardul Singh polished the code for his Text Import improvement done in March
31. David Gilbert implemented support for importing encrypted hybrid PDFs
32. Heiko Tietze (TDF) made it so the Edit button for fields is only shown in dialogs when it makes sense and started working on a first-run wizard
33. Juraj Šarinay fixed issues with timestamps in digital signatures
34. David Hashe added automated tests for image icons and accelerators and Calc’s currency formats
35. Sarper Akdemir (allotropia) made Notes pane in Impress/Draw support Ctrl+PgUp/Dn for navigation, made it possible to apply Paste Special in Notes pane’s context and allowed list formatting when in Notes pane
36. Michael Meeks (Collabora) optimised graphics handling
37. Kurt Nordback (Collabora) started working on support for chart types introduced in MSO 2016 or later, that use the chartex schema
38. Andras Timar (Collabora) fixed internal Python build for the ppc64le platform
39. Muhammad Arsalan Khan added support for altChunk elements referencing HTML in DOCX files
40. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) added Gronings language support and fixed Azerbaijani Manat ₼ (AZN) currency symbol not being displayed in Calc
41. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) improved directory pre-selection when using the Export dialog
42. Pierre Vacher did code cleanups in uno-skeletonmaker
43. Regina Henschel did cleanups in radial gradient code
44. Attila Szűcs (Collabora) did some improvements to chart code
45. Tibor Nagy (allotropia) fixed displaying sparklines in merged cells
46. Emmanuel Dreyfus (NetBSD) fixed a UNO failure seen with some filesystems
47. Akshay Dubey worked on supporting zstd decompression
48. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) made code comments easier to read and understand
49. Mateusz Wlazłowski fixed an issue with Calc date functions

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

406 bugs, 61 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 286 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Eyal Rozenberg ( 17 )
2. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 14 )
3. nobu ( 10 )
4. Justin L ( 9 )
5. Aron Budea ( 7 )
6. Timur ( 6 )
7. Uralion ( 5 )
8. Xisco Faulí ( 4 )
9. golemus ( 4 )
10. Cameron ( 4 )

Triaged Bugs

344 bugs have been triaged by 74 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. m_a_riosv ( 61 )
2. V Stuart Foote ( 29 )
3. Olivier Hallot ( 26 )
4. Buovjaga ( 22 )
5. meagan.eggert ( 18 )
6. raal ( 17 )
7. Mateusz Wlazłowski ( 17 )
8. Mike Kaganski ( 16 )
9. Xisco Faulí ( 15 )
10. Aron Budea ( 9 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

269 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

107 bugs have been fixed by 31 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Justin Luth ( 6 )
2. Noel Grandin ( 5 )
3. Balazs Varga ( 5 )
4. Aron Budea ( 5 )
5. Jonathan Clark ( 4 )
6. Patrick Luby ( 4 )
7. Sarper Akdemir ( 4 )
8. Miklos Vajna ( 4 )
9. László Németh ( 3 )
10. Olivier Hallot ( 3 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#166107 CRASH: Opening print dialog after print preview ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#45617 Make Impress Master Slides copyable ( Thanks to Mohamed Ali )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#166055 Crash when inserting .mp4 videos in Impress (kf6) ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
2. tdf#166107 CRASH: Opening print dialog after print preview ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
3. tdf#166365 Crash in file picker, directory property ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#147874 HANG: switching to another sheet ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#151876 Slow Chart Render open, cpu spike, and view if data point is more than 1000 data point in Calc ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
3. tdf#165595 Calc becomes VERY slow scrolling/editing if the default image brightness being adjusted ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
4. tdf#166258 Scrolling/Swipping through a document with Skia Metal on is choppy/slow; smooth with Skia Raster ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )

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

1. tdf#101625 Conditionally hide the Edit button in edit fields dialog ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )
2. tdf#126154 Make space between words configurable to increase readability (minimum, desired and maximum word spacing) ( Thanks to László Németh )
3. tdf#130592 Incorrect line breaking for CJK text in UI with certain VCL backends ( Thanks to Jonathan Clark )
4. tdf#132784 Help files do not yet describe Calc’s multi-threading facility ( Thanks to Olivier Hallot )
5. tdf#136540 Unwanted scroll when deleting all comments by an author ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
6. tdf#139418 The layout is broken when opening a vertical writing manuscript paper(Genko yoshi) docx file ( Thanks to Jonathan Clark )
7. tdf#139633 Direct editing of tree nodes in the Navigator to rename objects ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
8. tdf#45617 Make Impress Master Slides copyable ( Thanks to Mohamed Ali )
9. tdf#55425 PDF import: support encryption algorithm value 4 (AES) ( Thanks to Dr. David Alan Gilbert )

WORKSFORME bugs

45 bugs have been retested by 25 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Buovjaga ( 5 )
2. Andreas Heinisch ( 4 )
3. Olivier Hallot ( 4 )
4. Jonathan Clark ( 4 )
5. raal ( 3 )
6. xordevoreaux ( 2 )
7. Robert Großkopf ( 2 )
8. m_a_riosv ( 2 )
9. Pierre Fortin ( 2 )
10. Julien Nabet ( 2 )

DUPLICATED bugs

77 bugs have been duplicated by 21 people.

Top 10 testers

1. V Stuart Foote ( 17 )
2. m_a_riosv ( 13 )
3. nobu ( 7 )
4. Mateusz Wlazłowski ( 5 )
5. Xisco Faulí ( 4 )
6. Mike Kaganski ( 4 )
7. Timur ( 3 )
8. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 3 )
9. Buovjaga ( 3 )
10. Regina Henschel ( 3 )

Verified bug fixes

16 bugs have been verified by 10 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

1. BogdanB ( 4 )
2. Gerald Pfeifer ( 3 )
3. Buovjaga ( 2 )
4. Ulrich Windl ( 1 )
5. Heiko Tietze ( 1 )
6. m_a_riosv ( 1 )
7. Hossein ( 1 )
8. Patrick (volunteer) ( 1 )
9. Eyal Rozenberg ( 1 )
10. Timur ( 1 )

Categorized Bugs

211 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 25 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

1. Aron Budea ( 36 )
2. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 34 )
3. Eyal Rozenberg ( 33 )
4. V Stuart Foote ( 29 )
5. BogdanB ( 14 )
6. Jonathan Clark ( 13 )
7. Olivier Hallot ( 10 )
8. Heiko Tietze ( 8 )
9. raal ( 6 )
10. Jeff Fortin Tam ( 5 )

Regression Bugs

28 bugs have been set as regressions by 15 people.

Top 10

1. Xisco Faulí ( 6 )
2. Buovjaga ( 4 )
3. Mateusz Wlazłowski ( 3 )
4. Saburo ( 2 )
5. Telesto ( 2 )
6. m_a_riosv ( 2 )
7. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 1 )
8. mikhail.machine ( 1 )
9. Timur ( 1 )
10. Jonathan Clark ( 1 )

Bisected Bugs

33 bugs have been bisected by 14 people.

Top 10 Bisecters

1. Xisco Faulí ( 6 )
2. Saburo ( 5 )
3. Mateusz Wlazłowski ( 4 )
4. Timur ( 3 )
5. Juan Q. ( 3 )
6. Jessica ( 2 )
7. Buovjaga ( 2 )
8. raal ( 2 )

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General Activities

1. LibreOffice 25.2.2 and LibreOffice 24.8.6 were announced on March 27
2. Stanislav Horáček updated and improved UI and help texts
3. Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) documented a new field that displays the page count for a range until the next numbering reset
4. Alain Romedenne expanded help for ScriptForge and other scripting topics
5. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) reworked slideshow rendering code for robustness and simplicity
6. Gökay Şatır, Marco Cecchetti and Szymon Kłos (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online
7. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) implemented per-user change tracking in Writer and fixed unexpected list level change on inserting a new bullet in Writer
8. Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the UI and help pages for Calc’s Data Provider and improved help for Calc’s Duplicates command



9. Xisco Faulí (TDF) added a bunch of new automated tests, upgraded many dependencies and did some code cleanups
10. Michael Stahl (allotropia) improved the Accessibility Checker, improved MS Word compatibility with hiding empty paragraphs before tables in certain scenarios and fixed an issue with installing custom default templates via extensions
11. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) greatly improved the performance of font preview in Calc, fixed Calc’s COUNTA() function returning 1 for empty ranges, fixed integer overflow in Writer’s Find & Replace match count, improved the loading speed of Writer documents with lots of bookmarks and tables and made the code for Underline Trailing Spaces compatibility option more robust
12. Caolán McNamara (Collabora) improved spellchecking performance in multi-language spreadsheets, fixed many issues found by static analysers and did code cleanups and optimisations
13. Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) worked on the WASM build. He also adapted the code to compiler changes and did code cleanups
14. Noel Grandin (Collabora) made canvas rendering in Draw more robust, updated Skia through several versions, fixed slow switching of sheets in Calc when lots of drawing objects or lots of formatted cells are involved, improved spellchecking speed in Writer, made it faster to load complex XLSX spreadsheets, made it faster to delete very large tables in Writer, made it faster to load Writer documents with change tracked moves and improved the loading time of certain DOC files. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations
15. Justin Luth (Collabora) fixed a line spacing issue in table cell content in PPTX files and fixed endnotes and footnotes data becoming lost when roundtripping glossary relations to DOCX
16. Michael Weghorn (TDF) continued cleaning up and reorganising accessibility-related code, made Quick Find more accessible and made gtk4 file dialog show all the extra controls. He also worked on using native widgets in Qt UIs
17. Balázs Varga (allotropia) worked on the WASM build, fixed unwanted table border lines in PPTX export, added an accessibility check for links and references in header/footer, fixed Quickstarter being visible in options even if the feature is not installed and made it so the Online Update page is not visible, if the feature was not selected to be installed
18. Patrick Luby made the macOS Start Center displaying logic more robust, finalised native macOS full screen mode support, made macOS dark/light mode changes apply even without restart (for the most part) and added an expert option to allow macOS trackpad and Magic Mouse users to restore the legacy zoom via Command+swipe gesture
19. Oliver Specht (CIB) fixed a style inheritance issue in RTF files, added a new field that displays the page count for a range until the next numbering reset, made switching to object rotation mode happen with a single click in Writer and Calc as it already did in Impress and Draw, fixed an issue with losing character attributes in form field elements, added a feature to convert fields into plain text, added handling of page breaks and continuous section breaks before tables in RTF files, made it so page breaks after tables are not ignored in RTF files, fixed formulas in Writer tables not updating when cells change from value to text and improved scrolling behaviour when selecting
20. László Németh finalised the implementation of HyphenationKeepLine feature
21. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) fixed arm64 build issues with Skia and pdfium libraries and did build-related cleanups
22. Jonathan Clark (TDF) fixed kashida positions becoming corrupted during editing in Writer, added support for right-to-left icon variants, implemented DOC/DOCX import support for indentation based on ch units, fixed layout logic for bidirectional text shown in the UI and added a DOC/DOCX compatibility option for space width adjustment in CJK documents
23. Sahil Gautam (allotropia) added a readme file for the implementation details of themes
24. Andreas Heinisch made it so the first page is always used as thumbnail in the recent documents view for Draw and Impress documents, made Calc always use the visible sheet for the thumbnail when saving, fixed rendering of fill colours in Calc tables pasted as OLE objects into Impress, made positioning of pasted objects in Draw more robust and synchronised the visual indicator of “From rows” when the property is remembered across CSV imports
25. Chris Sherlock did code cleanups and refactoring in VCL toolkit
26. Armin Le Grand (Collabora & allotropia) continued polishing item handling and Cairo Linux rendering reworks
27. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
28. Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed charts getting saved incorrectly to XLSX and made it so incomplete VML drawings will not be saved to XLSX to avoid creating invalid files
29. Adam Seskunas added a UI test for Warning InfoBar
30. Rafael Lima fixed an issue with Data Provider preview updates, made the “All” checkbox in Handle Duplicates dialog work as in AutoFilter and fixed a crash when importing CSV data into Data Provider
31. Jaume Pujantell (Collabora) fixed DOCX compatibility issues with change tracking and made it so the text cursor in Calc no longer jumps after a failed search
32. Mohamed Ali did refactoring in preparation for making Impress Master Slides copyable
33. Kohei Yoshida added support for importing Autofilters from MS Excel XML files
34. Jim Raykowski made Writer Navigator display a tooltip for Heading entries with the outline word and character count that includes all sub-outline words and characters, fixed gtk3 issues with previews not displayed in Chart Colors options and the spotlight view not displaying coloured and numbered boxes beside the names of the styles
35. Julien Nabet increased the maximum size of a VARCHAR database field from 255 to 16383
36. Bayram Çiçek (Collabora) continued polishing pivot table XLSX export
37. Banobe Pascal (Collabora) improved the layout of the Styles Sidebar deck
38. Bingwu Zhang fixed Skia build issues on LoongArch64 CPU architecture
39. Shardul Singh fixed images getting squished when resetting cropping, added an option to skip filter settings dialog while adding an “Always Show on Import” checkbox to Calc’s Text Import settings dialog and removed import dialog for normal paste actions in Calc
40. Ujjawal Kumar added a command to insert a paragraph break before a table and added a “Clear AutoFilter” option to the context menu of Calc cells
41. David Gilbert implemented support for importing PDFs encrypted with algorithm value 4 (AES)
42. Heiko Tietze (TDF) made it possible to delete glue points via context menu, added commands to protect image size and position (so they can be activated elsewhere than just the Position and Size dialog) and made it so Print Preview always uses a white background
43. Taichi Haradaguchi updated ICU library to version 77.1
44. Karthik Godha added a toggle to show the password in password input dialogs



45. Pierre Vacher made it possible for uno-skeletonmaker to create Java services in passive registration mode and added support for Java instrumentation
46. Jan Rheinländer fixed UI glitches seen in the Insert Bookmark dialog in certain UI variants
47. zllangty fixed PDF import of paths with non-zero fill rules
48. Muhammad Danish made WinGet config files consistent with new recommendations (related to the build system and development)
49. Moritz Duge (allotropia) worked on the WASM build
50. Deepanshu Sharma did refactoring in XLSX import code
51. Juraj Šarinay improved adbe.pkcs7.sha1 PDF signature verification
52. David Hashe added an automated test for saving a toolbar to a document
53. Ahmed Hamed made it possible to customise conditional formatting operators in icon sets
54. Johann Lorber (Linagora) added a Match Diacritics option to the Quick Find bar
55. Amin Irgaliev made scrolling pages using a mouse in the print dialog preview more intuitive
56. Devashish Gupta did refactoring in XLSX import code
57. Devansh Varshney refactored Windows error helper code
58. Sarper Akdemir (allotropia) worked on making the Freehand Tool more flexible

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

467 bugs, 63 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 313 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 20 )
2. Eyal Rozenberg ( 11 )
3. Aron Budea ( 9 )
4. Liz Lee ( 9 )
5. Olivier Hallot ( 7 )
6. Rafael Lima ( 7 )
7. Mike Kaganski ( 6 )
8. Robert Großkopf ( 6 )
9. Justin L ( 5 )
10. Jeff Fortin Tam ( 5 )

Triaged Bugs

488 bugs have been triaged by 72 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 99 )
2. m_a_riosv ( 67 )
3. Buovjaga ( 56 )
4. V Stuart Foote ( 33 )
5. raal ( 33 )
6. Heiko Tietze ( 21 )
7. Mike Kaganski ( 14 )
8. jquintanaalvarado ( 10 )
9. Olivier Hallot ( 10 )
10. Julien Nabet ( 9 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

359 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

151 bugs have been fixed by 37 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Oliver Specht ( 15 )
2. Noel Grandin ( 8 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 6 )
4. Michael Stahl ( 6 )
5. Balazs Varga ( 6 )
6. Patrick Luby ( 5 )
7. Caolán McNamara ( 5 )
8. Jonathan Clark ( 5 )
9. Mike Kaganski ( 4 )
10. Karthik ( 4 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#165487 CRASH in SfxTabDialogController::ResetHdl(weld::Button &) ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#101142 Print preview picks the color from the document background option (should be wysiwyg even in dark mode) ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )
2. tdf#156855 macOS: Applying to light/dark from LibreOffice -> Preferences > View doesn’t properly refresh the UI until restart ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#165351 Crash when undoing adding new row in table ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
2. tdf#165487 CRASH in SfxTabDialogController::ResetHdl(weld::Button &) ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
3. tdf#165815 Base – crashes on saving edited table ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
4. tdf#165870 Crash when opening PPTX file containing video link to Youtube (qt6 on Linux) ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#130326 XLSX: Long time for file opens and using 100% of one core of CPU after opening ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#131595 Very slow switching between sheets in the attached xlsx document ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
3. tdf#136238 Deleting a very very large cross page table (26 pages) very very slow ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
4. tdf#141415 DOC: FILEOPEN: Very slow document opening (2-5min instead of 20sec) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
5. tdf#150623 Switching between filled and empty sheets slow (sc::RowHeightContext) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
6. tdf#162343 Slow .svg file opening ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
7. tdf#165277 Settings on macOS (Apple Silicon, ARM) freeze the app ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )

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

1. tdf#101142 Print preview picks the color from the document background option (should be wysiwyg even in dark mode) ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )
2. tdf#123225 Loss of functions in XLSX pivot table’s context menu until refreshed (see comment 18) ( Thanks to Bayram Çiçek )
3. tdf#124673 why toggle function DrawText, HyperlinkDialog and Horizontal Line ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )
4. tdf#128186 Create Native macOS Full Screen Mode ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
5. tdf#130326 XLSX: Long time for file opens and using 100% of one core of CPU after opening ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
6. tdf#131595 Very slow switching between sheets in the attached xlsx document ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
7. tdf#133352 Undo not working properly, blocking formatting of table cell ( Thanks to Oliver Specht )
8. tdf#134791 UI: Options dialog window is

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General Activities

1. LibreOffice 25.2.0 was announced on Feb 6. Three weeks later, LibreOffice 25.2.1 was announced on Feb, 27
2. LibreOffice 24.8.5 was announced on Feb 20
3. Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the descriptions of new Calc functions shown in the UI, added a Help button to the Data Provider dialog, added help pages for new Calc functions CHOOSECOLS(), CHOOSEROWS(), VSTACK() and HSTACK(), added a help page for Calc’s Data Provider and improved help for Paste Special as well as labels and business cards
4. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued working on PDF 2.0 support and refactored graphics and animation handling code in VCL toolkit
5. Miklós Vajna, Rashesh Padia, Darshan Upadhyay, Gökay Şatır, Attila Szűcs, Szymon Kłos (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. Szymon also improved the user experience of the Currency dropdown by removing the need to click an OK button



6. Andras Timar (Collabora) fixed an issue with importing WEEKNUM() functions from XLSX files, made Excel style cell reference syntax be respected in non-English UIs and made it so in read-only documents one can’t invoke the Search and Replace dialog, reset cell attributes or fill down cells
7. Xisco Faulí (TDF) implemented new Calc functions CHOOSECOLS(), VSTACK() and HSTACK(), made UNIQUE() case-insensitive like its counterpart in Excel, added a couple of dozen automated tests, upgraded many dependencies and fixed a crash
8. Michael Stahl (allotropia) fixed rendering of overlapping tracked formatting and deletions in imported DOCX files, fixed losing tracked changes when paragraph has a frame anchored to it, fixed truncation of tables in sections split across pages and improved compatibility with MS Word in the case of hidden text
9. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed an issue with the Alt+X Unicode conversion command when following a combining character, fixed Calc’s INFO() function giving unexpected results with some arguments, made BASIC’s Shell() function more robust and implemented a compatibility option for MS Word’s “Underline Trailing Spaces”. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations
10. Caolán McNamara (Collabora) fixed sheet identifiers going out of sync sometimes with XLSX export, fixed crashes, fixed many issues found by static analysers and did code cleanups and optimisations
11. Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) worked on the WASM build. He also adapted the code to compiler changes and did code cleanups
12. Noel Grandin (Collabora) made it faster to load and display XLS and XLSX files with lots of conditional formatting. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations, especially in the area of graphics handling
13. Justin Luth (Collabora) fixed an Excel compatibility issue with frozen cell zones, fixed unwanted empty paragraphs appearing in headings in DOCX files, fixed tabstops missing from paragraph styles in DOC import and made DOCX metadata compatible with MS Word (Word deviates from the OOXML specification in this area)
14. Michael Weghorn (TDF) continued cleaning up and reorganising accessibility-related code, made Sidebar, Quick Find and editable comboboxes more accessible, fixed a visual glitch when resizing the window in certain cases affecting Qt-based UIs, fixed an issue with pasting non-latin text from Firefox or Thunderbird affecting Qt-based UIs and fixed crashes and build issues on Android. He also worked on using native widgets in Qt UIs
15. Balázs Varga (allotropia) optimised the speed of Calc’s SubTotal functions, fixed a data loss issue affecting text box controls and fixed locking down of “Use hardware acceleration” options not always working
16. Patrick Luby enabled native full screen mode on macOS, helped Sahil in polishing the UI theming rework and fixed macOS and iOS build issues
17. Oliver Specht (CIB) implemented support for read protection in RTF files, fixed multi-line Docvariable fields being broken in imported DOCX files, made it so border distance in styles gets applied to tables in imported RTF files, fixed renaming list styles causing disconnection from the paragraph style, implemented support for repeated table headers in RTF import, fixed character properties getting wrongly extended in RTF import and fixed unwanted clearing of object state after visiting Impress/Draw options



18. László Németh improved the inline headings and smart justify features and worked on DOCX support for hyphenate-keep feature
19. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) reduced the size of Karasa Jaga SVG icon theme by simplifying graphics
20. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) improved the Windows build setup
21. Jonathan Clark (TDF) implemented exact and at-least line spacing for CJK text grid in Writer, fixed DOC/DOCX compatibility issues related to CJK grid and fixed a kashida justification issue in Writer
22. Sahil Gautam (allotropia) continued polishing the Libreoffice Theme rework
23. Andreas Heinisch made it possible to use the Delete key to remove bitmaps in the Area tab of various dialogs
24. Chris Sherlock did code cleanups, documentation and refactoring in VCL toolkit
25. Armin Le Grand (Collabora & allotropia) continued polishing item handling and Cairo Linux rendering reworks
26. Björn Michaelsen did refactoring in Writer code
27. Tibor Nagy (allotropia) made it possible to insert AutoText and enable spell checking in sections that are editable in read-only documents and made the PDF export of table caption elements conform to accessibility standards
28. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
29. Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed an issue causing certain presentations with embedded media to fail to open with PowerPoint after saving to PPTX via command line
30. Adam Seskunas converted a database test from Java to C++
31. Rafael Lima did cleanups in item handling
32. Jaume Pujantell (Collabora) fixed unwanted anchoring of a shape to the page when inserted to a DOCX file and made it so the page number is added when saving/loading PDF pages as images
33. Alexandre Sena Coelho fixed ambiguous sorting in SQL Query Wizard by including table names in ORDER BY clause
34. Robin Candau and René Engelhard fixed PDF import breakage due to changes in poppler version 25.02.0
35. Mohamed Ali implemented right-to-left brochure printing in Draw / Impress
36. Manish Bera improved thread handling in WebDav code
37. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) made it so turning off a colour AutoFilter drops the filter settings
38. Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) made mouse-as-pen status changes be reflected in real time into live Impress slideshows and made it so cli and Firebird intl DLLs are code signed
39. Kohei Yoshida upgraded mdds and liborcus libraries
40. Jim Raykowski fixed Writer bookmarks list getting corrupted after sorting and deleting actions, made it so reminder objects will be skipped when copying and pasting text in Writer, fixed inability to deal with font listboxes after increasing font size on the system and made Navigator respect change tracking visibility in the case of deleted headings
41. Gülşah Köse (Collabora) fixed an issue causing XLS files with command buttons roundtripped as XLSX to not open in Excel
42. Julien Nabet synchronised Star Database Connectivity (SDBC) API with JDBC 4.3
43. Bayram Çiçek (Collabora) fixed a pivot table issue when exporting to XLSX
44. Mohit Marathe (allotropia) fixed unwanted table border lines shown in a certain PPTX file
45. Pranam Lashkari (Collabora) fixed OOXML import of formulas containing delimiters
46. Michael Meeks (Collabora) improved thread handling code

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

536 bugs, 69 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 330 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Eyal Rozenberg ( 28 )
2. Justin L ( 26 )
3. Aron Budea ( 19 )
4. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 14 )
5. Jeff Fortin Tam ( 12 )
6. Mike Kaganski ( 8 )
7. Radish ( 8 )
8. wodsfort ( 7 )
9. Telesto ( 6 )
10. Buovjaga ( 6 )

Triaged Bugs

465 bugs have been triaged by 60 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. m_a_riosv ( 76 )
2. Buovjaga ( 70 )
3. V Stuart Foote ( 44 )
4. Xisco Faulí ( 35 )
5. Heiko Tietze ( 27 )
6. raal ( 22 )
7. Mike Kaganski ( 19 )
8. Justin L ( 18 )
9. Aron Budea ( 15 )
10. Regina Henschel ( 12 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

354 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

144 bugs have been fixed by 34 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Oliver Specht ( 13 )
2. Michael Weghorn ( 8 )
3. Olivier Hallot ( 7 )
4. Justin Luth ( 7 )
5. Armin Le Grand (Collabora) ( 6 )
6. Mike Kaganski ( 6 )
7. Balazs Varga ( 5 )
8. Tibor Nagy ( 5 )
9. Xisco Fauli ( 5 )
10. Noel Grandin ( 4 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#164949 Crash on Clone Formatting when selecting more than one table cell ( Thanks to Oliver Specht )
2. tdf#165099 CRASH: selecting an animation after slideshow ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#120397 FILESAVE doesn’t save all the text in text box control ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
2. tdf#153131 Copy causes Calc to Freeze on Windows 11 with Speech Recognition (comment 58) (workaround: comment 73) ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
3. tdf#160252 Editing a conditional format from the Manage dialog changes the range / creates a new one ( Thanks to Armin Le Grand (Collabora) )
4. tdf#165295 REPORTBUILDER – Report builder freezes when creating a report ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#164072 LibreOffice crashes when deleting all comments (debug) ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
2. tdf#164620 CRASH: selecting all and deleting ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
3. tdf#164949 Crash on Clone Formatting when selecting more than one table cell ( Thanks to Oliver Specht )
4. tdf#165099 CRASH: selecting an animation after slideshow ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
5. tdf#165420 Shell(Empty) crashes ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#134864 Calc takes a time for XLSX file opening (so many condition formatting rules in the file) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

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

1. tdf#118465 RTF import does not repeat header / repeat heading / repeat as header row for table ( Thanks to Oliver Specht )
2. tdf#120397 FILESAVE doesn’t save all the text in text box control ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
3. tdf#126824 Most strings in Calc Data Provider shown in English ( Thanks to Olivier Hallot )
4. tdf#128186 Create Native macOS Full Screen Mode ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
5. tdf#133146 Allow [Delete] shortcut to open “Delete Bitmap” dialog in Paragraph Style > Area ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
6. tdf#134864 Calc takes a time for XLSX file opening (so many condition formatting rules in the file) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
7. tdf#90293 Unify drawing object rotation access by single click ( Thanks to Oliver Specht )

WORKSFORME bugs

51 bugs have been retested by 25 people.

Top 10 testers

1. V Stuart Foote ( 10 )
2. Buovjaga ( 6 )
3. m_a_riosv ( 4 )
4. Dieter ( 3 )
5. Regina Henschel ( 3 )
6. BogdanB ( 3 )
7. Aron Budea ( 2 )
8. Olivier Hallot ( 2 )
9. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) ( 2 )
10. Michael Weghorn ( 2 )

DUPLICATED bugs

96 bugs have been duplicated by 26 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Buovjaga ( 17 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 16 )
3. V Stuart Foote ( 14 )
4. m_a_riosv ( 13 )
5. Michael Weghorn ( 6 )
6. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 3 )
7. Saburo ( 3 )
8. Regina Henschel ( 3 )
9. Timur ( 2 )
10. Julien Nabet ( 2 )

Verified bug fixes

22 bugs have been verified by 12 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

1. Buovjaga ( 4 )
2. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 4 )
3. m_a_riosv ( 3 )
4. Xisco Faulí ( 2 )
5. Gerald Pfeifer ( 2 )
6. Telesto ( 1 )
7. BogdanB ( 1 )
8. Julien Nabet ( 1 )
9. Heiko Tietze ( 1 )
10. Ming Hua ( 1 )

Categorized Bugs

270 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 27 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

1. V Stuart Foote ( 52 )
2. Eyal Rozenberg ( 45 )
3. Aron Budea ( 38 )
4. BogdanB ( 27 )
5. Roman Kuznetsov ( 25 )
6. Jeff Fortin Tam ( 23 )
7. Heiko Tietze ( 10 )
8. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 7 )
9. Buovjaga ( 4 )
10. jan d ( 4 )

Regression Bugs

37 bugs have been set as regressions by 10 people.

Top 10

1. m_a_riosv ( 9 )
2. raal ( 8 )
3. Xisco Faulí ( 7 )
4. Buovjaga ( 4 )
5. V Stuart Foote ( 3

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