Author: x1sc0

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 25.2.6 was announced on September 8
2. Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the help for Select Function in Calc’s formula bar, expanded help for the selection of chart data sources, added AutoFilter and Pivot Table/Chart to the help page on sheet protection, added information about summary above/below to the help of Calc’s SUBTOTAL() function, documented sensitivity in the help page for Solver and added the description meta element to the Help page templates
3. Gábor Kelemen (Collabora) improved the script for finding unneeded includes in the code and did many code cleanups
4. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) implemented a sheet view functionality in Calc allowing to manipulate AutoFilters in one view without affecting other views
5. Pranam Lashkari, Maya Stephens, Gökay Şatır, Rashesh Padia and Mohit Marathe (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. Maya also fixed an issue with Ctrl+clicking hyperlinked objects
6. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) expanded Writer Markdown export support, worked on change tracking of formatting, continued improving the handling of tracked changes that depend on each other and fixed bullet list style going missing with PPTX export
7. Xisco Faulí (TDF) implemented right-to-left text direction and bidirectional text support in SVG import, added venv to the internal Python, fixed crashes, added several new automated tests, upgraded many dependencies and did many code cleanups and optimisations
8. Michael Stahl (Collabora) improved the DOCX compatibility of floating tables, helped Miklós with interdependent change tracking in Writer and fixed an issue with document compression
9. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed Help for BASIC’s Str function, adapted Writer’s change tracking to DOCX’s inability to track the deletion of comments, made date handling code more robust, improved the Visual Studio IDE integration, made the handling of double variables in BASIC more robust, replaced dtoa library with fast_float for faster string-to-float parsing and fixed an RTF import issue with some paragraphs appearing outside of their frames. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations
10. Caolán McNamara (Collabora) fixed many issues found by static analysers and did code cleanups and optimisations
11. Stephan Bergmann (Collabora) worked on the WASM build. He also adapted the code to compiler changes and did code cleanups
12. Noel Grandin (Collabora) fixed an (unreleased) issue with image fills disappearing at lower zoom levels, improved the performance of spreadsheets with thousands of shapes, improved the performance of 3D charts, fixed a performance issue with importing SVGs with small scaling, improved the performance of Calc’s Remove Duplicates, implemented Skia native rendering of bitmap tiling to improve the performance of filled polygons and fixed an issue with Insert Special Character dialog not being available with mergedlibs builds (Windows releases). He also did many code cleanups and optimisations, especially in the area of transparency handling
13. Justin Luth (Collabora) fixed an issue with the alignment setting in Page Number Wizard, fixed localised accelerator shortcut conflicts, fixed many issues with page styles, page breaks and spell checking, improved the Bullets and Numbering dialog by showing the currently applied style as selected, improved the layout of the Tabbed UI and made the “restart numbering” option in lists deactivate upon joining of lists. He also fixed some crashes
14. Michael Weghorn (TDF) continued cleaning up and reorganising accessibility-related code, improved the input method support of Qt-based UIs and improved the accessibility of Calc cell editing and the Check for Updates dialog. He also worked on using native widgets in Qt UIs
15. Balázs Varga (Collabora) continued polishing PPTX placeholder text handling and fixed Calc comment text or entire comment elements sometimes getting removed when saving
16. Patrick Luby fixed a macOS build issue, made it so LibreOffice no longer intercepts shortcuts using both Command and Option on macOS, fixed tab item drawing issues on macOS Tahoe and fixed a macOS crash
17. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) improved the winget-based Windows build setup
18. Jonathan Clark (TDF) made handling of rich text pastes into Edit Engine input boxes (Calc, Impress) more robust
19. Andreas Heinisch enabled pasting unformatted text in Impress’s outline view, made Calc’s random number fill UI more robust and fixed a Calc crash
20. Julien Nabet fixed DXF files with comments no longer being recognised as drawings and fixed (unreleased) crashes
21. Bayram Çiçek (Collabora) continued polishing support for xmlMaps in XLSX files and improved MSO compatibility with line numbering in footnotes
22. Heiko Tietze (TDF) continued working on vertical tabs in dialogs, fixed repetitive presets for bullets, improved the visual style of the AutoFilter button and improved the contrast between active and inactive tabs in Tabbed UI
23. Regina Henschel continued working on Natural Sort in Calc data ranges
24. Jim Raykowski made it so page ranges are shown for heading tooltips in the Navigator, fixed a text selection issue in the Quick Find Sidebar deck and fixed some crashes



25. Ujjawal Kumar worked on the Markdown import GSoC project
26. Pierre Vacher made it so new tables in Base are saved under unique names and made row insertion in Base more robust
27. Kohei Yoshida (Collabora) made the data format detection with orcus library more robust
28. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library and Access2Base
29. Adam Seskunas worked on the C++ Report Builder GSoC project
30. Chris Sherlock did code cleanups and refactoring in VCL toolkit
31. László Németh implemented features for minimum letter spacing and glyph scaling in paragraph justification
32. René Engelhard (Debian) did some build fixes
33. Amin Irgaliev added connector support for Writer
34. Neil Roberts removed unexpected and confusing shortcut key behaviour on macOS, fixed inability to toggle focus modes with F2 in Calc, made it so movement accelerators are the expected ones on macOS, fixed issues with removing assigned shortcut keys and added a unit test for accelerator configurations
35. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) made it so Enclose with characters in Writer is no longer active by default and worked on vertical tabs in dialogs
36. Thorsten Behrens (Collabora) fixed a build issue after Boost upgrade
37. Kurt Nordback (Collabora) implemented support for OOXML chart styles
38. Jaap Aarts fixed building on FreeBSD
39. Andras Timar (Collabora) made it so EXIF Orientation tag is always respected when importing a JPEG image
40. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) made it so .NET SDK examples and tests are no longer bound to a specific version
41. Mohamed Ali worked on the Rust UNO bindings GSoC project
42. Ashod Nakashian (Collabora) made loading empty documents more robust
43. Aung Khant added saving window size and position data for each document
44. Henry Castro (Collabora) fixed using custom text shapes in the Notes view of Impress/Draw and fixed a Writer view update issue with database records
45. Laurent Balland fixed a French Autotext issue and restored a gradient gone missing in Impress’s Candy template
46. Dan Williams did cleanups and fixes in macOS address book code
47. Daniel Richard G. improved apparmor profiles
48. Khaled Hosny (Alif Type) made it so ligatures get disabled in Impress/Draw with character spacing
49. Wendi Gan fixed selection and resizing issues with captioned images in Writer
50. Devansh Varshney worked on the BASIC IDE auto-completion GSoC project
51. Juraj Šarinay fixed memory leaks in digital signing code
52. Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed unwanted shifting in certain DOCX tables

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

403 bugs, 44 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 270 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Eyal Rozenberg ( 22 )
2. Mike Kaganski ( 10 )
3. SATYA SRINIVAS K ( 9 )
4. Telesto ( 7 )
5. Aron Budea ( 6 )
6. Heiko Tietze ( 6 )
7. nobu ( 6 )
8. Regina Henschel ( 6 )
9. Dragan ( 5 )
10. Miklos Vajna ( 5 )

Triaged Bugs

330 bugs have been triaged by 64 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. m_a_riosv ( 53 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 29 )
3. raal ( 28 )
4. Heiko Tietze ( 21 )
5. BogdanB ( 18 )
6. V Stuart Foote ( 12 )
7. Mike Kaganski ( 12 )
8. Miklos Vajna ( 10 )
9. nobu ( 9 )
10. Buovjaga ( 8 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

381 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

184 bugs have been fixed by 34 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Justin Luth ( 24 )
2. Mike Kaganski ( 14 )
3. Noel Grandin ( 14 )
4. Heiko Tietze ( 12 )
5. Miklos Vajna ( 9 )
6. László Németh ( 5 )
7. Xisco Fauli ( 5 )
8. Balazs Varga ( 4 )
9. Olivier Hallot ( 4 )
10. Jim Raykowski ( 4 )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#167042 Calc cell comments are deleted on Save ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
2. tdf#167897 LibreOffice changes the default folder to “saves as” and “export to pdf” many times for a same opened document, if it’s saved during use ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
3. tdf#168306 When a previously saved .odg file is opened in LibreOffice Draw, any line is selected, then under “properties” the line “thickness” is selected, the previously saved line thickness automatically changes to 0.5. ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
4. tdf#168344 When i use the highlighter tool, the rest of the line after the highlighted content goes all white. ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
5. tdf#168377 crash: use sidebar manage changes to reject all when UNDO is involved ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
6. tdf#168497 [26.2] Crash LibreOffice Calc when opening the Data Provider ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
7. tdf#168548 CRASH: launching hyperlink dialog with horizontal tabs (gen) ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )
8. tdf#41777 Window size reopening a document not like size when saved ( Thanks to Aung )
9. tdf#62032 Cannot specify a Paragraph Style to use a numbering level (over 1) for a chosen Numbering (List) style (See comment 35) ( Thanks to Justin Luth )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#166713 Crash when editing paragraph after toggling outline folding ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
2. tdf#168159 CRASH: deleting columns and undoing ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
3. tdf#168363 CRASH: pasting to Master Hangout ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
4. tdf#168377 crash: use sidebar manage changes to reject all when UNDO is involved ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
5. tdf#168478 Edit under filter and then reset the filter, Calc crashed ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
6. tdf#168497 [26.2] Crash LibreOffice Calc when opening the Data Provider ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
7. tdf#168548 CRASH: launching hyperlink dialog with horizontal tabs (gen) ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )
8. tdf#168572 Export to markdown: crash when Writer document contains a formula object ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
9. tdf#168599 Draw Crashes on new document when pressing CTRL+pgUp/pgDown ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
10. tdf#168609 LibreOffice writer 25.8.1 crashes when trying to insert a frame for a table ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#132494 Trying to save SVG image from presentation/drawing causes LibO to use 100% cpu and lock up ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#149592 Importing SVG with too small scaling causes bad performance ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
3. tdf#154913 Poor performance for ODS with frozen rows and columns ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

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

1. tdf#100287 [UI] Header and Footer controls (same content; left/right, first/other) don’t update and are not independent ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
2. tdf#104833 Scroll panes in Check for Updates dialog do not expose names to assistive technologies ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
3. tdf#108791 Comments with track changes deleted and crossed in Writer are wrongfully seen in MSO Word as if not deleted ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
4. tdf#111927 PPTX: Placeholder title text becomes small after clicking in&out ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
5. tdf#113213 When “Continue previous numbering” is applied, it should also toggle off “restart numbering” for any item(s) that were selected for “Continue previous numbering” ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
6. tdf#114343 Adding a new Title Page via Format > Title Page is impossible with a ToC at the beginning of a document ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
7. tdf#116975 Laggy behavior when clicking between table cells in impress ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
8. tdf#121253 Database wizard opens when press cmd+A inside the extension manager window ( Thanks to Neil Roberts )
9. tdf#126530

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General Activities

1. LibreOffice 25.8.0 and LibreOffice 25.8.1 were announced on August 20 and August 29 respectively
2. Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated help for the option to load printer settings with document, sorting blocks of cells in Calc, hyphenation, statistical functions, number of lines in charts, exponentiation operator in Calc, remote files, Edit menu in Calc, object rotation, Math options and MATCH function in Calc
3. Celia Palacios added help for the new Intersect() method in ScriptForge
4. Gábor Kelemen (Collabora) did many code cleanups
5. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) did many code cleanups and added OOXML test documents for text fitting / scaling
6. Pranam Lashkari and Marco Cecchetti (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. Marco also made it so hovering with the mouse over Chart data range colour palette entries in the Sidebar shows a live preview in the active chart
7. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) added list and inline code block support for Markdown export and continued improving the handling of tracked changes that depend on each other
8. Xisco Faulí (TDF) fixed crashes, added over a dozen new automated tests, upgraded many dependencies and did many code cleanups and optimisations
9. Michael Stahl (Collabora) made it so pasted anchored objects are no longer selected by default while adding an expert configuration option for the behaviour, added overline support to XHTML export and worked around a dbus bug affecting the build process on some Linux systems
10. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed an issue with embedded fonts getting dropped from opened files in certain scenarios on Windows, made it so the user can choose to either discard license-restricted embedded fonts in an opened document or switch to read-only mode, improved PPTX compatibility with trailing empty lines in automatically shrinking text boxes, fixed long links getting truncated when exporting to XLSX, fixed issues with inserting hyperlinks in Calc via the API, made Calc text insertion API methods more robust, fixed inserting PDFs into spreadsheets, fixed a string handling issue in Basic’s Format function, fixed a VBA macro issue with dates and fixed processing of escaped backslashes in RTF files. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations
11. Caolán McNamara (Collabora) fixed many issues found by static analysers and did code cleanups and optimisations
12. Stephan Bergmann (Collabora) worked on the WASM build. He also adapted the code to compiler changes and did code cleanups
13. Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved the scrolling speed in Writer documents with lots of comments. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations, especially in the area of transparency handling
14. Justin Luth (Collabora) improved DOCX compatibility with margins of aligned floating objects, fixed right/left only page breaks going missing with DOC/DOCX export, fixed a DOCX indentation issue, fixed column breaks going missing in certain DOCX files, fixed an issue with numbered lists created by AutoCorrect, made it so justified text with section breaks in saved DOC files no longer triggers an MS Word bug and fixed numbering or bullets getting lost when applying a paragraph style
15. Michael Weghorn (TDF) continued cleaning up and reorganising accessibility-related code, improved the accessibility of Spelling dialog, fixed an (unreleased) issue with Borders tab in formatting dialogs, improved the handling of programmatic accessibility selections and made the GTK4 Sidebar more robust. He also worked on using native widgets in Qt UIs
16. Balázs Varga (Collabora) continued polishing support for Microsoft Media Foundation APIs on Windows, fixed an issue with the display of customised placeholder text set in the master slides of PPTX documents, fixed an issue with PPTX placeholder text becoming small after focusing into and out of it, fixed unwanted copying of elements when inserting rows before pivot table in row 1 in Calc and made it so empty Calc cells are never rotated
17. Patrick Luby fixed not being able to access or create an ODB file based on the macOS system addressbook and made the addressbook handling code more robust. He also adjusted UI widget code after changes in macOS Tahoe
18. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) fixed the MSI installer for Windows Arm64 and improved the winget-based Windows build setup
19. Jonathan Clark (TDF) improved the performance of certain poorly structured DOC files, added handling of vertical text in DOCX files adhering to OOXML strict format and improved Microsoft Word compatibility regarding the laying out of text using CJK fonts
20. Andreas Heinisch fixed some issues with tooltips and the display of URLs
21. Julien Nabet did some code cleanups
22. Bayram Çiçek (Collabora) implemented support for xmlMaps in XLSX files
23. Heiko Tietze (TDF) applied vertical tabs to many dialogs and fixed an issue with column headers overlapping in Calc when the columns are very narrow



24. Sahil Gautam (Collabora) added a UNO command to select a comment in the Navigator and did some code cleanups
25. Armin Le Grand (Collabora) worked on EditEngine rendering revamp and other rendering-related reworks
26. Arnaud Versini did some code cleanups
27. Regina Henschel fixed unwanted duplication of “mouse as pen” objects in slideshows and implemented API support for Natural Sort in Calc data ranges
28. David Gilbert implemented support for importing PDFs with transparency groups
29. Ujjawal Kumar worked on the Markdown import GSoC project
30. Pierre Vacher fixed an issue with creating tables in Base using the wizard, made the Base ResultSet code more robust and fixed a Base issue with redisplaying the authentication dialog after a failed connection
31. Kohei Yoshida (Collabora) implemented automatic mapping of generic JSON and XML documents to Calc using the orcus library
32. Markus Mohrhard fixed column labels not updating after inserting rows below title in Calc, fixed cell comments not getting exported to FODS in some cases, fixed range names getting dropped in XLSB export, fixed incorrect sizing of charts in XLS import and fixed a crash during colorscale calculation
33. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
34. Adam Seskunas worked on the C++ Report Builder GSoC project
35. Chris Sherlock did code cleanups and refactoring in VCL toolkit
36. Rico Tzschichholz (Ubuntu) fixed a test failure on armhf platform
37. László Németh added DTP feature maximum letter spacing to Writer
38. René Engelhard (Debian) improved the build system options
39. Bartosz Kosiorek improved EMF graphics support



40. Darshan Upadhyay added UNO commands for setting page orientation and size and sheet margins in Calc
41. Amin Irgaliev added connector support for Calc
42. Neil Roberts made it so comments are not scrolled into view after a keypress that does not do anything

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

459 bugs, 48 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 295 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Mike Kaganski ( 14 )
2. Regina Henschel ( 14 )
3. Eyal Rozenberg ( 13 )
4. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 12 )
5. prrvchr ( 12 )
6. Telesto ( 9 )
7. nobu ( 8 )
8. Heiko Tietze ( 8 )
9. Xisco Faulí ( 8 )
10. Gerald Pfeifer ( 7 )

Triaged Bugs

376 bugs have been triaged by 63 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. m_a_riosv ( 59 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 39 )
3. BogdanB ( 31 )
4. Mike Kaganski ( 27 )
5. Heiko Tietze ( 22 )
6. raal ( 17 )
7. Olivier Hallot ( 15 )
8. Saburo ( 13 )
9. nobu ( 12 )
10. V Stuart Foote ( 11 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

302 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

122 bugs have been fixed by 28 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Mike Kaganski ( 15 )
2. Noel Grandin ( 12 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 8 )
4. Justin Luth ( 7 )
5. Olivier Hallot ( 6 )
6. Michael Weghorn ( 5 )
7. Markus Mohrhard ( 4 )
8. Caolán McNamara ( 4 )
9. Miklos Vajna ( 4 )
10. Xisco Fauli ( 4 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#167859 Creating or editing secondary x-axis in a chart crashes program. ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
2. tdf#167875 Writer crashes if you right click in latest table in the big document ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
3. tdf#167956 CRASH: opening a second document with tabbed notebookbar ( WORKAROUND: Change UI to Standard Toolbar from View – User Interface) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
4. tdf#167988 Deleting an existing “Mean value line” or a “Trend line” in a chart crashes program. ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
5. tdf#168017 CRASH: importing certain documents ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#167812 Dark mode: font dropdown shows white rectangles (GTK3) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#167893 Presentation mode adds “random” visual artefacts to box shapes/groups ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#167859 Creating or editing secondary x-axis in a chart crashes program. ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
2. tdf#167875 Writer crashes if you right click in latest table in the big document ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
3. tdf#167901 In 2nd sheet, copy (and close), Crash ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
4. tdf#167936 LibreOffice crash (segmentation fault) when opening document from UNO pipe ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
5. tdf#167956 CRASH: opening a second document with tabbed notebookbar ( WORKAROUND: Change UI to Standard Toolbar from View – User Interface) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
6. tdf#167988 Deleting an existing “Mean value line” or a “Trend line” in a chart crashes program. ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
7. tdf#168017 CRASH: importing certain documents ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
8. tdf#168139 LibreOffice crash asserts with Skia/Vulkan on X11 (gen) VCL backend ( Thanks to Hossein )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#156297 In Calc, scrolling becomes very slow when hiding (many) columns ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

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

1. tdf#104827 FILESAVE DOC: Justified Text with Section Breaks Incorrectly Exported ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
2. tdf#108244 Cell Comments lost if not displayed before Saving in FODS Format (steps in comment 22) ( Thanks to Markus Mohrhard )
3. tdf#111634 Multiple memory leaks in libmacabdrv1 ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
4. tdf#129808 FILEOPEN DOC/X: Line spacing narrower than Word due to special handling of font code page range bits ( Thanks to Jonathan Clark )
5. tdf#140027 EDITING inserting rows before pivot table in row 1 copies format and images from headings ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
6. tdf#141033 Usability : Base Form Control Property dialog window width is too narrow by default ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
7. tdf#143182 Format Basic function converts string to number irrespective of format string ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
8. tdf#44729 PDF import from Inkscape PDF export with opacity shows black background for each opaque object ( Thanks to Dr. David Alan Gilbert )
9. tdf#67797 FORMATTING: Creating Manual Numbered List Fails, parses C. as Roman numeral “C” (Comment 11) ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
10. tdf#81003 BASIC runtime error. ‘380’ Incorrect property value ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
11. tdf#84949 Placing mouse Cursor over Left tab, Center tab, Right tab, Decimal tab icon doesn’t show a tooltip ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
12. tdf#87058 column label functions do not update after inserting rows below title – needs save and reload including a hard recalc ( Thanks to Markus Mohrhard )
13. tdf#94259 FILEOPEN XLS Charts are vertically squashed ( Thanks to Markus Mohrhard )
14. tdf#94627 FILEOPEN: CALC do not recognise cell names on .xlsb files ( Thanks to Markus Mohrhard )

WORKSFORME bugs

42 bugs have been retested by 22 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Buovjaga ( 8 )
2. BogdanB ( 7 )
3. Michael ( 4 )
4. m_a_riosv ( 4 )
5. Dieter ( 2 )
6. xordevoreaux ( 2 )
7. Heiko Tietze ( 2 )
8. V Stuart Foote ( 2 )
9. Mauro Calzavara ( 1 )
10. Regina Henschel ( 1 )

DUPLICATED bugs

98 bugs have been duplicated by 29 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 18 )
2. BogdanB ( 11 )
3. nobu ( 10 )
4. Mike Kaganski ( 8 )
5. Buovjaga ( 6 )
6. m_a_riosv ( 6 )
7. Alex Thurgood ( 5 )
8. Saburo ( 5 )
9. Jonathan Clark ( 3 )
10. Heiko Tietze ( 2 )

Verified bug fixes

13 bugs have been verified by 8 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

1. BogdanB ( 3 )
2. Gerald Pfeifer ( 3

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General Activities

1. LibreOffice 25.2.5 was announced on July 17
2. Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated help for CSV import, explained Property Mapping in help for Charts and improved help for Calc’s FILTERXML function and AutoFilter
3. Gábor Kelemen (Collabora) did many code cleanups
4. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) made internal hyperlinks in a table of contents accessible when exported to PDF/UA
5. Pranam Lashkari, Szymon Kłos and Hubert Figuière (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online
6. Parth Raiyani (Collabora) did reorganisations in some dialogs





7. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) polished the support for floating tables in Writer, fixed some crashes and continued improving the handling of tracked changes that depend on each other
8. Xisco Faulí (TDF) added Albanian and Moldovan locale, fixed short weekdays in Romanian locale, improved the translation checker script, added some new automated tests, upgraded many dependencies and did many code cleanups and optimisations
9. Michael Stahl (Collabora) fixed an issue with expansion of list level numbering formats with repeated levels and fixed a column width issue in RTF tables
10. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) implemented Markdown export, fixed not being able to apply colour to Chart walls via Sidebar, fixed an issue with paragraph numbering in RTF files, helped Miklós with floating table polishing, fixed an issue with date conversion in Base, made URL handling more robust in Extension updating code, fixed and issue with spacing in lists in RTF files, fixed RTF export issues causing loss of bullet fonts and “No character border” explicit formatting and fixed some crashes. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations
11. Caolán McNamara (Collabora) fixed many issues found by static analysers and did code cleanups and optimisations
12. Stephan Bergmann (Collabora) worked on the WASM build. He also adapted the code to compiler changes and did code cleanups
13. Noel Grandin (Collabora) made Skia rendering backend mandatory on Windows and greatly improved the import time of CSV data with trailing newline characters. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations, especially in the area of transparency handling
14. Justin Luth (Collabora) made it so failed command line operations return exit status 1, allowing for automated bisecting of command line issues among other things, fixed an issue with spellchecking and the option “Check uppercase words” and fixed a style continuity issue with page breaks in DOCX files
15. Michael Weghorn (TDF) continued cleaning up and reorganising accessibility-related code, made the orientation radio buttons in Envelope dialog accessible, fixed an issue with unwanted focus accessibility events being fired in Borders tab page of Writer’s Paragraph dialog, made the border preset selection be clearly indicated when focused, implemented support for native colour pickers in GTK and Qt UIs and did cleanups and reorganisations in Android, vcl and report design code. He also worked on using native widgets in Qt UIs
16. Balázs Varga (Collabora) implemented support for Microsoft Media Foundation APIs on Windows for playback of common codecs, fixed Calc’s MATCH function returning an incorrect result with inline arrays and fixed an issue with missing graphic bullets upon copying & pasting
17. Patrick Luby reduced memory consumption related to font handling on macOS, fixed an issue preventing moving animated GIFs with arrow keys on macOS and fixed unwanted slowdown of GIF animation
18. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) did some build fixes
19. Jonathan Clark (TDF) improved font rendering on Windows, reorganised icon themes to support “right-to-left, top-to-bottom” writing direction variant, greatly improved the opening time of certain long RTL DOC files and added support for DOC/DOCX script type hinting
20. Andreas Heinisch made it so expanded text is included in the tooltip of index fields
21. Julien Nabet did some code cleanups and fixed issues found by static analysers
22. Bayram Çiçek (Collabora) made field shadings adjust according to line spacing in order to prevent letters from being cut off
23. Heiko Tietze (TDF) improved dark mode support and added an option for using horizontal tabs instead of vertical ones
24. Kurt Nordback (Collabora) implemented exporting of chart style index to OOXML documents and continued working on support for recent MSO chart types
25. Sahil Gautam (Collabora) continued polishing the Libreoffice Theme rework
26. Armin Le Grand (Collabora) worked on EditEngine rendering revamp
27. Arnaud Versini did some code cleanups and optimisations
28. Khaled Hosny (Alif Type) optimised the performance of calculating text bounds
29. Regina Henschel fixed an issue with Calc’s LOOKUP function when using an inline array as result vector
30. David Gilbert fixed PDF import issues with stroke opacity and clipping and opacity during axial fills
31. Ujjawal Kumar worked on the Markdown import GSoC project
32. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) added an “unpublished” decoration to the SDK documentation to help API users avoid methods marked as such and improved the placement of other decorations
33. Gülşah Köse (Collabora) fixed styles going missing in change-tracked DOCX files
34. Marc Mondesir did improvements in PDF export automated tests
35. Pierre Vacher improved the robustness of Base and its table creation wizard
36. Kohei Yoshida (Collabora) added an alternative CSV filter based on Orcus library
37. Manish Mahapatra fixed indentation of headings when pasted as unformatted text
38. Markus Mohrhard fixed issues with charts, Calc’s AutoFilter and made handling of OOXML files with invalid cell references more robust
39. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) fix the display of JDK version number and path in RTL UI
40. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
41. Bojidar Marinov unified the options for switching to form design mode
42. Floris Bos added an option to disable external links in PDF export
43. Samuel Mehrbrodt (Collabora) made it so Insert Hyperlink is shown in context menu when text is selected
44. Buo-ren Lin (OSSII) fixed source fontwork object not being removed after being cut
45. Adam Seskunas worked on the C++ Report Builder GSoC project
46. Áron Budea (Collabora) made it possible to hide tracked changes in PDF export from the command line
47. Chris Sherlock did code cleanups and refactoring in VCL toolkit

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

429 bugs, 56 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 287 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Mike Kaganski ( 15 )
2. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 15 )
3. Telesto ( 14 )
4. nobu ( 12 )
5. Eyal Rozenberg ( 12 )
6. Justin L ( 9 )
7. Michael Weghorn ( 7 )
8. Timur ( 7 )
9. wodsfort ( 5 )
10. Pierre Fortin ( 4 )

Triaged Bugs

314 bugs have been triaged by 70 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. m_a_riosv ( 48 )
2. Buovjaga ( 24 )
3. V Stuart Foote ( 24 )
4. Mike Kaganski ( 22 )
5. Heiko Tietze ( 20 )
6. nobu ( 13 )
7. raal ( 13 )
8. Saburo ( 13 )
9. Michael Weghorn ( 10 )
10. Xisco Faulí ( 9 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

268 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

142 bugs have been fixed by 35 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Mike Kaganski ( 18 )
2. Noel Grandin ( 9 )
3. Jonathan Clark ( 8 )
4. Markus Mohrhard ( 7 )
5. Xisco Fauli ( 6 )
6. Balazs Varga ( 5 )
7. Heiko Tietze ( 4 )
8. Olivier Hallot ( 3 )
9. Justin Luth ( 3 )
10. Patrick Luby ( 3 )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#148117 FILESAVE: PPTX: date in chart changes in MSO ( Thanks to Markus Mohrhard )
2. tdf#159529 Excessive memory consumption in v24.2 ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
3. tdf#166813 installation crashing when using georgian text ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
4. tdf#167466 Entering anything into the search box under Tools / Options causes LibreOffice 25.8.0.1 to instantly crash. ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#166813 installation crashing when using georgian text ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
2. tdf#167466 Entering anything into the search box under Tools / Options causes LibreOffice 25.8.0.1 to instantly crash. ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
3. tdf#167599 Crash in Object Inspector when switching from Properties to Services for ContentControls ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
4. tdf#167633 LibreOffice debug build crashed on launch when a Java installation with a non-ASCII path is set during configure(rtl_uString_newFromAscii(rtl_uString**, const char*): Assertion `static_cast(*pCharStr) < 0x80' failed.) ( Thanks to Buo-ren Lin (OSSII) )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#117636 Multi-page block of Chinese glyphs slows down file opening and navigation ( Thanks to Jonathan Clark )
2. tdf#64991 Opening a long RTL DOC file is extremely slow, while ok if resaved as DOCX in MS-Word ( Thanks to Jonathan Clark )

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

1. tdf#117636 Multi-page block of Chinese glyphs slows down file opening and navigation ( Thanks to Jonathan Clark )
2. tdf#118619 WEBSERVICE(URI) / FILTERXML Xpath not well explained ( Thanks to Olivier Hallot )
3. tdf#118666 Headings are indented when pasting as unformatted text ( Thanks to Manish )
4. tdf#118668 FILEOPEN: Librecalc doesn’t show all sheets in XLSX modified with exceljs ( Thanks to Markus Mohrhard )
5. tdf#122336 Probably generated XLSX without DocProps folder opens empty (If resaved in MS Office, opens fine in LO) ( Thanks to Markus Mohrhard )
6. tdf#136753 Use MDL (Moldovan Lei) along with other currencies ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
7. tdf#136754 FILEOPEN: CHART: incorrect background ( Thanks to Markus Mohrhard )
8. tdf#139834 [UI] String breaks translation gender ( Thanks to Olivier Hallot )
9. tdf#143157 Alphabetical index field: on mouse-over include keys in tooltips ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
10. tdf#58511 EDITING: Cut fontwork object does not work ( Thanks to Buo-ren Lin (OSSII) )
11. tdf#62408 MP4 videos aren’t handled in Windows (without additional codecs) ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
12. tdf#64991 Opening a long RTL DOC file is extremely slow, while ok if resaved as DOCX in MS-Word ( Thanks to Jonathan Clark )
13. tdf#70102 RTL: Flipped toolbar button icons dont always look suitable ( Thanks to Jonathan Clark )
14. tdf#80662 RTL: The update number of the java version number in Options dialog is on the wrong side ( Thanks to Hossein )
15. tdf#96151 Please add Albania’s Currency, Locale Setting, and Albanian Language ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )

WORKSFORME bugs

32 bugs have been retested by 21 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Buovjaga ( 5 )
2. Regina Henschel ( 3 )
3. Dieter ( 2 )
4. BogdanB ( 2 )
5. alecrkerr ( 2 )
6. Julien Nabet ( 2 )
7. V Stuart Foote ( 2 )
8. Justin L ( 2 )
9. Wolfgang Jäger ( 1 )
10. xordevoreaux ( 1 )

DUPLICATED bugs

40 bugs have been duplicated by 19 people.

Top 10 testers

1. nobu ( 7 )
2. Buovjaga ( 5 )
3. m_a_riosv ( 4 )
4. V Stuart Foote ( 4 )
5. Mike Kaganski ( 3 )
6. Xisco Faulí ( 3 )
7. Heiko Tietze ( 2 )
8. Robert Großkopf ( 2 )
9. Markus Mohrhard ( 1 )
10. Timur ( 1 )

Verified bug fixes

14 bugs have been verified by 10 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

1. Eyal Rozenberg ( 2 )
2. Telesto ( 2 )
3. m_a_riosv ( 2 )
4. Michael Weghorn ( 2 )
5. BogdanB ( 1 )
6. lol ( 1 )
7. Patrick (volunteer) ( 1 )
8. Hossein ( 1 )
9. Tekstryder ( 1 )
10. 林博仁 Buo-ren Lin ( 1 )

Categorized Bugs

193 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 24 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

1. BogdanB ( 31 )
2. Roman Kuznetsov ( 30 )
3. Eyal Rozenberg ( 21 )
4. V Stuart Foote ( 19 )
5. Michael Weghorn ( 11 )
6. Heiko Tietze ( 11 )
7. Jeff Fortin Tam ( 10 )
8. Telesto ( 10 )
9. Timur ( 7 )
10. Saburo ( 7 )

Regression Bugs

43 bugs have been set as regressions by 18 people.

Top 10

1. Buovjaga ( 6 )
2. nobu ( 6 )
3. Saburo ( 4 )
4. Michael Weghorn ( 4 )
5. raal ( 3 )
6. Xisco Faulí ( 3 )
7. Telesto ( 3 )
8. Robert Großkopf ( 2 )
9. m_a_riosv ( 2 )
10. Timur ( 2 )

Bisected Bugs

52 bugs have been bisected by 10 people.

Top 10 Bisecters

1. Saburo ( 26 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 6 )
3. Michael Weghorn ( 4 )
4. Buovjaga ( 3 )
5. raal ( 3 )
6. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 2 )
7. Telesto ( 2 )
8. Aron Budea ( 2 )
9. jussuom ( 2 )
10. Timur (

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