QA/Dev Report: January 2025

General Activities

  1. Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for new Calc functions TOROW(), TOCOL(), WRAPROWS(), WRAPCOLS(), EXPAND(), TAKE() and DROP(), added dark mode support to the help interface, improved help for PDF/UA, did cleanups in the Xapian-based search in online help, added help for tables styles in Writer and improved help related to printing
  2. Dione Maddern added a help page for Cell Appearance Sidebar deck
  3. Stanislav Horáček did some cleanups in help
  4. Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) added a detailed list of allowed PDF password characters into help and improved the developer tools for finding unneeded includes and UI strings that might need to be translatable
  5. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued working on PDF 2.0 support and document themes and fixed an Excel compatibility issue with empty values of defined names
  6. Miklós Vajna, Andras Timar, Henry Castro, Gökay Şatır, Attila Szűcs, Szymon Kłos and Pranam Lashkari (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online
  7. Xisco Faulí (TDF) implemented new Calc functions, TOCOL, TOROW, WRAPCOLS, WRAPROWS, TAKE, DROP, EXPAND and CHOOSEROWS, added support for setuptools and pip in Python scripting, upgraded many dependencies, added some unit tests and did many code stability improvements
  8. Michael Stahl (allotropia) continued improving the correctness of HTML import regarding formatting and fixed issues with table splitting in Writer’s layout
  9. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed an issue with opening newly-created database forms, fixed Basic isNumeric() function giving incorrect results, fixed an installation issue affecting Active Directory setups on Windows, fixed issues with allowed characters in file name when exporting as PDF, fixed wrong number of results being reported when going over 1000 while executing Find All in Calc, fixed inability to pass a Date object to an UNO API method, fixed an issue with handling of Variant types in Basic, made handling of conditional formatting with colour conditions more robust when moving columns, made intercepting .uno:Open command work again, fixed a crash related to regular expressions in Basic and made SQL queries handle negative values
  10. Caolán McNamara (Collabora) 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) improved the speed of inserting rotated images to Writer. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations
  13. Justin Luth (Collabora) fixed DOCX import issues with frames before tables getting anchored to a table cell instead of an empty paragraph and missing header properties in page styles
  14. Michael Weghorn (TDF) continued cleaning up and reorganising accessibility-related code, did refactoring in Linux printer code and fixed some crashes. He also worked on using native widgets in Qt UIs
  15. Balázs Varga (allotropia) fixed import of cropped vector graphic objects in PPTX files, improved warnings related to allowed characters in the PDF password input dialog, made it possible to show or hide the text in some password dialogs (more to be included), fixed broken cropped SVG files in PPTX import and made it so the size values in Position and Size and Crop tabs in Image Properties dialog are synchronised
  16. Patrick Luby fixed artifacts showing in animated GIFs with Skia UI rendering on macOS, added Quick Look plugins for .od* files on macOS and made it so the Start Center menubar is shown in the default menubar on macOS
  17. Oliver Specht (CIB) made it so the table context menu in Draw/Impress includes hyperlink actions, made scrolling while selecting less hasty, made it so Ctrl+scrollwheel changes the slides per row setting when in View – Slide Sorter in Impress, made the status of numbered and bulleted list toggle state visible in toolbars and menus in Impress/Draw, made it possible to open the Edit Field dialog in read-only Writer documents and fixed losing chart number formatting when copying and pasting the chart
  18. Heiko Tietze (TDF) added a confirmation dialog when deleting all comments in Writer
  19. László Németh fixed loss of images anchored to page in subdocuments of Writer master documents and made bookmark boundary mark labels look cleaner in Writer
  20. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) improved the layout of help and did cleanups in its CSS styles
  21. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) improved the Windows build setup
  22. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) added support for English (Guyana)
  23. Jonathan Clark (TDF) added support for Mongolian while enabling vertical text options for it, made the script type assignment algorithm in the context of mixed Western and Asian text more robust, implemented vertical CJK printing for all fonts on Windows and fixed borders of merged cells in Calc vanishing when changing sheet direction to right-to-left
  24. Sahil Gautam (allotropia) continued polishing the Libreoffice Theme rework
  25. Andreas Heinisch added support for importing inserted text tag “ins” from HTML, made it so the Edit… button in Writer’s Index dialog is disabled, if no concordance file has been selected and added first and secondary keys to the tooltips of index fields
  26. Chris Sherlock did code cleanups in VCL
  27. Laurent Balland did fixes in Lights, Focus, Forestbird, Yellow Idea and Vivid Impress templates
  28. Armin Le Grand (Collabora) did refactoring in item handling
  29. Björn Michaelsen did refactoring in Writer code
  30. David Gilbert added a readme for PDF import code
  31. Tibor Nagy (allotropia) fixed a PDF export accessibility issue and made the Formatting toolbar visible in sections that are marked as editable in read-only documents
  32. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
  33. Ahmed Hamed added a category to store favorite functions in Calc’s Function Wizard and Functions Sidebar deck
  34. Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed unwanted cell formatting reset upon changing language on a selection in Calc
  35. Adam Seskunas ported a Java test to C++
  36. Rafael Lima made solver’s Sensitivity Report prettier and did cleanups in item handling
  37. Jaume Pujantell (Collabora) fixed unneeded duplication of slide master when exporting to PPTX
  38. Skyler Grey (Collabora) made the iOS app use desktop clipboard code

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

418 bugs, 50 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 246 people.

Top 10 Reporters

  1. Justin L ( 20 )
  2. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 18 )
  3. Aertx ( 12 )
  4. Eyal Rozenberg ( 11 )
  5. Telesto ( 10 )
  6. Aron Budea ( 9 )
  7. Michael Otto ( 8 )
  8. Jeff Fortin Tam ( 8 )
  9. Mike Kaganski ( 7 )
  10. Mihai Vasiliu ( 7 )

Triaged Bugs

362 bugs have been triaged by 67 people.

Top 10 Triagers

  1. BogdanB ( 45 )
  2. Buovjaga ( 37 )
  3. raal ( 37 )
  4. Heiko Tietze ( 28 )
  5. m_a_riosv ( 26 )
  6. V Stuart Foote ( 21 )
  7. Mike Kaganski ( 16 )
  8. Aron Budea ( 11 )
  9. Roman Kuznetsov ( 11 )
  10. Xisco Faulí ( 10 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

347 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

157 bugs have been fixed by 29 people.

Top 10 Fixers

  1. Mike Kaganski ( 17 )
  2. Xisco Fauli ( 12 )
  3. Olivier Hallot ( 11 )
  4. Jonathan Clark ( 8 )
  5. Oliver Specht ( 7 )
  6. Patrick Luby ( 7 )
  7. Michael Weghorn ( 7 )
  8. Balazs Varga ( 6 )
  9. Noel Grandin ( 5 )
  10. Michael Stahl ( 5 )

List of critical bugs fixed

  1. tdf#164185 View -> Boundaries is turned off by default making it impossible to move image + caption frame ( Thanks to Ilmari Lauhakangas )

List of high severity bugs fixed

  1. tdf#164127 [Crash] Crash on returning to dialog window after switching to document while editing Basic-IDE dialog controls ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
  2. tdf#164640 List bullets formatting changed ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  3. tdf#164855 Crash while centering table contents ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
  4. tdf#35361 [feature request: macOS] Support Apple Quick Look plugin ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )

List of crashes fixed

  1. tdf#156348 Crash if change in formatting in Writer by converting text to table with field variable ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
  2. tdf#159377 CRASH at undo at after pasting table in footer (swlo!SwFormatFootnote::SetNumStr+0x3e26:) ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
  3. tdf#160770 Crashes on second access of regex matches without VBA support option ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  4. tdf#163335 Linux (qt6): crash whenever selecting text using cursor or keyboard going from right to left ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
  5. tdf#164127 [Crash] Crash on returning to dialog window after switching to document while editing Basic-IDE dialog controls ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
  6. tdf#164130 LibreOffice Calc crashes when doing a lookup in a sheet with a space in its name ( Thanks to Henry Castro )
  7. tdf#164179 Crash when switching the Short Name in Bibliography Entry dialog ( Thanks to Vojtěch Doležal )
  8. tdf#164620 CRASH: selecting all and deleting ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  9. tdf#164621 CRASH: pasting content ( Thanks to Oliver Specht )
  10. tdf#164783 Libreoffice crashes when clicking on grid form column header or in empty space below rows, gtk3+a11y ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
  11. tdf#164855 Crash while centering table contents ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
  12. tdf#164899 [CRASH] LO crashes upon opening file with macro when the Tabbed interface is used ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )

List of performance issues fixed

  1. tdf#137848 Inserted image slow (15 seconds, expected 3) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  2. tdf#164853 unusual copy seen in find_if ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

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

  1. tdf#105083 Impress: The numbered/bulleted list toggle button and menu items aren’t highlighted when a numbered/bullet list is active ( Thanks to Oliver Specht )
  2. tdf#117946 Impress: Slide Sorter: Ctrl+mouse wheel should change slides per row ( Thanks to Oliver Specht )
  3. tdf#121119 Loss of image anchored to page in a writer master document ( Thanks to László Németh )
  4. tdf#130672 base sql query parameter with negative value fails ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  5. tdf#132770 Underline text using INS tag from HTML document do not appear ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
  6. tdf#137848 Inserted image slow (15 seconds, expected 3) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  7. tdf#34837 Merged Cell’s borders vanishes when changing sheet direction to (Right-To-Left) ( Thanks to Jonathan Clark )
  8. tdf#35361 [feature request: macOS] Support Apple Quick Look plugin ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
  9. tdf#37507 Vertical scrolling with mouse cursor is too fast to control ( Thanks to Oliver Specht )
  10. tdf#41775 Don’t remove all menus when no windows are open – keep Tools and Help ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
  11. tdf#50743 FORMATTING: Highlighting scrolls automatically ( Thanks to Oliver Specht )
  12. tdf#66791 FORMATTING: Incorrect application of “Asian text font” for quotation marks when the paragraph contains a mixture of western and asian characters ( Thanks to Jonathan Clark )
  13. tdf#94193 Installer forces AD domain users in Administrators group to run as Administrator, otherwise custom actions are disallowed during execution stage and not completed ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )

WORKSFORME bugs

54 bugs have been retested by 29 people.

Top 10 testers

  1. BogdanB ( 11 )
  2. raal ( 5 )
  3. V Stuart Foote ( 4 )
  4. Andreas Heinisch ( 3 )
  5. Timur ( 3 )
  6. Buovjaga ( 3 )
  7. Regina Henschel ( 2 )
  8. Aron Budea ( 2 )
  9. m_a_riosv ( 2 )
  10. Eduardo ( 1 )

DUPLICATED bugs

66 bugs have been duplicated by 26 people.

Top 10 testers

  1. Buovjaga ( 8 )
  2. Aron Budea ( 7 )
  3. BogdanB ( 6 )
  4. V Stuart Foote ( 6 )
  5. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 5 )
  6. m_a_riosv ( 5 )
  7. Jonathan Clark ( 3 )
  8. Roman Kuznetsov ( 3 )
  9. Timur ( 2 )
  10. Justin L ( 2 )

Verified bug fixes

22 bugs have been verified by 13 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

  1. Buovjaga ( 4 )
  2. Gerald Pfeifer ( 3 )
  3. BogdanB ( 2 )
  4. Aron Budea ( 2 )
  5. Piotr Osada ( 2 )
  6. Xisco Faulí ( 2 )
  7. Michael Weghorn ( 2 )
  8. Timur ( 1 )
  9. Alex Thurgood ( 1 )
  10. Regina Henschel ( 1 )

Categorized Bugs

354 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 28 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

  1. Roman Kuznetsov ( 128 )

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LibreOffice 25.2 RC2 is available for testing

LibreOffice 25.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.2 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) the forth and last pre-release since the development of version 25.2 started in mid Juny, 2024. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 25.2 RC1, 104 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 55 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.

LibreOffice 25.2 RC2 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it will replace the standard installation.

In case you find any problem in this pre-release, please report it in Bugzilla ( You just need a legit email account in order to create a new account ).

For help, you can contact the QA Team directly in the QA IRC channel or via Matrix.

LibreOffice is a volunteer-driven community project, so please help us to test – we appreciate it!

Happy testing!!

Download it now!

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QA/Dev Report: December 2024

General Activities

  1. LibreOffice 24.8.4 was announced on December 19
  2. Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the warning in Help when JavaScript is not active and did many cleanups in help pages
  3. Dione Maddern created a help page for Alignment Sidebar deck
  4. Alain Romedenne improved and updated help for ScriptForge libraries
  5. Bogdan Buzea improved some UI labels, improved help for superordinate object settings and cached spreadsheet formulas and did many code cleanups
  6. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued working on PDF 2.0 and PDF/A-4 support
  7. Miklós Vajna, Rashesh Padia, Attila Szűcs, Bayram Çiçek, Szymon Kłos, Marco Cecchetti, Pranam Lashkari, Hubert Figuière (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online
  8. Xisco Faulí (TDF) worked on crash report analysis tools, upgraded many dependencies and did many code stability improvements
  9. Michael Stahl (allotropia) made style name handling more robust, improved the handling of hidden frames after recent changes and improved the correctness of HTML import regarding formatting
  10. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) added an application-wide Viewer mode where all files are opened in read-only state while all editing tools are disabled, dropped all code specific to Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 while also making use of new possibilities such as handling long Windows paths with wildcards, made the Unix document mailer script future-proof in case the attach parameter is disallowed in mailto URLs, fixed an issue with calculating minimum heights for menus, fixed an issue with the number format being reported incorrectly in Writer tables, fixed an issue with multi-selection in Calc showing an incorrect cell format and preventing change of format, fixed inability to edit doubles in Basic IDE’s Watch window and fixed an issue preventing the use of points for custom image height/width in the PNG export dialog
  11. Caolán McNamara (Collabora) improved dark mode support, fixed crashes and fixed many issues found by static analysers and fuzzers and did code cleanups
  12. Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) fixed an issue with emailing multiline messages on Unix and worked on the MAR updater and WASM build. He also adapted the code to compiler changes and did code cleanups
  13. Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved saving time of XLSX files with lots of conditional formatting, improved the speed of processing styles when opening DOCX files and worked alongside Michael Stahl in making style name handling more robust. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations
  14. Justin Luth (Collabora) fixed a DOCX compatibilityMode import and export issue, fixed an issue with imported area fill images not being saved with their associated documents, fixed a Calc comment copying crash and fixed an issue with tables of contents in DOCX files misbehaving when the printer list has been disabled
  15. Michael Weghorn (TDF) did a big reorganisation in accessibility-related code to make it easier to work with, continued working with Cambalache developer (UI editing app) and did various accessibility fixes. He also worked on using native widgets in Qt UIs
  16. Balázs Varga (allotropia) improved and expanded Writer’s accessibility warnings, fixed saving “Fit height to text” property of drawing objects to PPTX, fixed laying out of text in SmartArt objects found in PPTX files and implemented support for soft edge and glow effects in text frame objects in PPTX files
  17. Patrick Luby made resizing windows on macOS appear smoother, implemented jumping the view to the proportional location in the document when Option-clicking the scrollbar on macOS (instead of just advancing a single screen/page), implemented support for native macOS full screen mode, fixed an issue causing a long delay in opening the Print dialog on macOS when objects with transparency were present and fixed macOS printing issues related to page settings in Calc and brochures
  18. Jim Raykowski did a big rework of macro organiser dialogs, reducing them from five to one
  19. Oliver Specht (CIB) improved support for VML textboxes in DOCX files and fixed an issue with paragraph spacing of bullets in Impress
  20. Heiko Tietze (TDF) added visual feedback into the status bar for when AutoCalculate is active in Calc
  21. László Németh continued polishing support for inline headings in Writer documents
  22. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) did code cleanups after the decision to remove support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 from version 25.8
  23. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) improved the Windows build setup
  24. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) improved date input detection in Calc and helped finish ODF 1.4 support for EASTERSUNDAY function
  25. Jonathan Clark (TDF) improved the detection of Asian scripts in text runs adjacent to weak punctuation characters or explicit direction marks
  26. Sahil Gautam (allotropia) continued polishing the Libreoffice Theme GSoC project
  27. Andreas Heinisch implemented support for pasting HTML strikethrough formatting, made it so the choice of “Link” when inserting an image is remembered during a session and fixed an issue with dashed lines sometimes becoming solid in imported graphics
  28. Chris Sherlock did code cleanups in VCL
  29. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed an issue with unwanted background fill in placeholders in PPTX files
  30. Laurent Balland replaced a binary DocBook template with an ODF one
  31. Xuan Chen fixed shading issues in custom shapes in PPT files
  32. Armin Le Grand (Collabora) worked on a renovation of graphics rendering on Linux with Cairo library
  33. Björn Michaelsen did refactoring in Writer code
  34. Ariel Darshan implemented support for autorepeating slides in windowed mode in Impress
  35. Samuel Adesola made it possible to access Writer’s view layout options via the View menu
  36. Marc Mondesir fixed touchpad scrolling for Slides and Pages panes in Impress and Draw
  37. Andrei Alin fixed a ReadLine API function not always stripping line-ending characters
  38. André Herbst fixed an issue with canceling a cell dragging operation leaving behind a visual glitch
  39. David Gilbert implemented support for clipping stroke paths in imported PDFs
  40. Tibor Nagy (allotropia) fixed an issue with overflowing text in Impress presenter notes getting cut off from printing, fixed presenter notes not being relayouted when changing paper size in the print dialog and similarly for changing orientation for handouts
  41. Mohit Marathe continued polishing the new Comments Sidebar deck
  42. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

400 bugs, 60 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 249 people.

Top 10 Reporters

  1. Eyal Rozenberg ( 13 )
  2. Justin L ( 12 )
  3. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 9 )
  4. Alex Kemp ( 9 )
  5. Roman Kuznetsov ( 8 )
  6. gplhust955 ( 7 )
  7. Robert Großkopf ( 7 )
  8. Anna ( 7 )
  9. Óvári ( 7 )
  10. Mike Kaganski ( 6 )

Triaged Bugs

365 bugs have been triaged by 69 people.

Top 10 Triagers

  1. Buovjaga ( 77 )
  2. BogdanB ( 62 )
  3. m_a_riosv ( 31 )
  4. V Stuart Foote ( 20 )
  5. Mike Kaganski ( 15 )
  6. zcrhonek ( 14 )
  7. Dieter ( 13 )
  8. raal ( 11 )
  9. Heiko Tietze ( 10 )
  10. Michael Weghorn (away) ( 8 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

371 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

138 bugs have been fixed by 31 people.

Top 10 Fixers

  1. Balazs Varga ( 13 )
  2. Mike Kaganski ( 10 )
  3. Bogdan Buzea ( 9 )
  4. Caolán McNamara ( 6 )
  5. Patrick Luby ( 6 )
  6. Michael Weghorn ( 6 )
  7. Jonathan Clark ( 6 )
  8. Andreas Heinisch ( 4 )
  9. Justin Luth ( 4 )
  10. Heiko Tietze ( 3 )

List of high severity bugs fixed

  1. tdf#155211 Regression: dashed lines become solid when breaking imported SVG / exporting to SVG ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
  2. tdf#163033 Crash when attempting to save a COPY of a sheet-with-comments from a now-closed spreadsheet ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
  3. tdf#164093 Crash when clicking on the Sidebar Tab menu button for SB deck selector pop-up menu with AT active on Windows ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
  4. tdf#164417 Autofiltered XLSX with dates cannot be opened in MSO ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )

List of crashes fixed

  1. tdf#163033 Crash when attempting to save a COPY of a sheet-with-comments from a now-closed spreadsheet ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
  2. tdf#163221 Hovering the mouse over a Basic dialog will make it grow or crash (Dialog Editor) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  3. tdf#163948 Crash upon startup after enabling Notes Pane ( Thanks to Sarper Akdemir )
  4. tdf#164075 crashtesting: assert on import of rtf exported from LibreOffice ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
  5. tdf#164093 Crash when clicking on the Sidebar Tab menu button for SB deck selector pop-up menu with AT active on Windows ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
  6. tdf#164098 Typing tatweel character leads to a crash ( Thanks to Jonathan Clark )
  7. tdf#164299 Pasting from Calc to Impress in HTML format crashes LO ( Thanks to Oliver Specht )
  8. tdf#164359 Crash on double-click of level 2 word in Impress ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )

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

  1. tdf#113015 “Online updates” checks the updates of extensions installed too ( Thanks to Bogdan Buzea )
  2. tdf#124954 HELP for recalculating of formulas on opening of a spreadsheet needs updating ( Thanks to Bogdan Buzea )
  3. tdf#127937 Provide feedback of AutoCalculation at the status bar ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )
  4. tdf#128957 UI Can’t set custom image height/width in PNG Options Window in points ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  5. tdf#131332 HELP: replace custom date formats with ISO 8601 to stop promoting ambiguous formats ( Thanks to Bogdan Buzea )
  6. tdf#132111 Initial cell’s number format in Writer table is reported wrong ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  7. tdf#135320 FILEOPEN PPTX: effect similar to soft edges (“inward soft edges”) not shown ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
  8. tdf#135628 SendSimpleMailMessage bodytext with new lines ends up as multiple recipients ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
  9. tdf#138615 Insure Windows wildcards work properly with long paths ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  10. tdf#42989 FORMATTING: Selecting Multiple Cells with Different Formats Show as Same Format and Can’t Be Changed as a Group ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  11. tdf#61358 UI: Remember state of option “Insert image from file -> Linked” ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
  12. tdf#62845 Option for “Document Viewer Mode” (read-only mode by default) required. ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  13. tdf#66791 FORMATTING: Incorrect application of “Asian text font” for quotation marks when the paragraph contains a mixture of western and asian characters ( Thanks to Jonathan Clark )
  14. tdf#79298 FORMATTING: Copy/paste: importing of strikethrough attribute doesn’t work ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
  15. tdf#85428 Imported PDF displays extra-long lines for shaded area ( Thanks to Dr. David Alan Gilbert )
  16. tdf#88226 Excessive text in Presentation Notes is not printed ( Thanks to Tibor Nagy )

WORKSFORME bugs

44 bugs have been retested by 20 people.

Top 10 testers

  1. Buovjaga ( 9 )
  2. BogdanB ( 8 )
  3. V Stuart Foote ( 4 )
  4. m_a_riosv ( 4 )
  5. Robert Großkopf ( 3 )
  6. Telesto ( 2 )
  7. John ( 2 )
  8. Xisco Faulí ( 1 )
  9. Regina Henschel ( 1 )
  10. Alan ( 1 )

DUPLICATED bugs

63 bugs have been duplicated by 20 people.

Top 10 testers

  1. Mike Kaganski ( 11 )
  2. Buovjaga ( 11 )
  3. BogdanB ( 8 )
  4. V Stuart Foote ( 7 )
  5. m_a_riosv ( 7 )
  6. Timur ( 4 )
  7. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 2 )
  8. Eyal Rozenberg ( 2 )
  9. zcrhonek ( 2 )
  10. Roman Kuznetsov ( 1 )

Verified bug fixes

28 bugs have been verified by 14 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

  1. Buovjaga ( 7 )
  2. BogdanB ( 5 )
  3. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 4 )
  4. Lars Jødal ( 2 )
  5. raal ( 1 )
  6. Gerald Pfeifer ( 1 )
  7. Eyal Rozenberg ( 1 )
  8. Mihai Vasiliu ( 1 )
  9. steve ( 1 )
  10. lol ( 1 )

Categorized Bugs

1175 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 27 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

  1. BogdanB ( 1024 )
  2. Roman Kuznetsov ( 36 )
  3. Eyal Rozenberg ( 25 )
  4. V Stuart Foote ( 21 )
  5. Dieter ( 10 )
  6. Buovjaga ( 8 )
  7. Aron Budea ( 7 )
  8. Timur ( 6 )
  9. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 6 )
  10. Telesto ( 5 )

Regression Bugs

58 bugs have been set as regressions by 16

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LibreOffice 25.2 RC1 is available for testing

LibreOffice 25.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.2 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) the third pre-release since the development of version 25.2 started in mid Juny, 2024. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 25.2 Beta1, 175 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 76 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.

LibreOffice 25.2 RC1 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it will replace the standard installation.

In case you find any problem in this pre-release, please report it in Bugzilla ( You just need a legit email account in order to create a new account ).

For help, you can contact the QA Team directly in the QA IRC channel or via Matrix.

LibreOffice is a volunteer-driven community project, so please help us to test – we appreciate it!

Happy testing!!

Download it now!

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