LibreOffice QA Blog

General Activities

1. The first Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.4 took place on October, 21
2. The last release of the 6.2 family ( LibreOffice 6.2.8 ) was released on October, 17
3. LibreOffice 6.3.3 was released on October, 31
4. Jan-Marek Glogowski (CIB ) fixed a slide tearing issue that affected many users
5. Andreas Kainz reworked the layout of many dialogs. E.g. Autocorrect Dialog
6. The GTK UI backend now uses native dialogs thanks to the tireless work of Caolán McNamara (Red Hat)
7. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) finished implementing continuous endnotes compatibility setting in Writer layout, allowing rendering endnotes in a way which is closer to what Word users expect
8. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) added support for allow-overlap shape property
9. Muhammet Kara (Collabora) implemented full-sheet previews for Calc and harmonised UI references to “pages” and “slides” in Draw and Impress
10. Tamás Zolnai (Collabora) added a table section to the Writer’s sidebar
11. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) and Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) are working on a replacement of cairo with skia
12. Gülşah Köse (Collabora) added support for text camera z rotation while pptx import
13. Noel Grandin (Collabora), Aron Budea (Collabora) and Eike Rathke (Ret Hat) are adapting the code base to allow Calc to have more than 1024 columns
14. On MM:SS or [MM]:SS or MM:SS.00 or [MM]:SS.00 pre-formatted cells a two digit groups input like 12:34 is now accepted as minutes:seconds value instead of the usual hours:minutes:00 value. Eike Rathke (Red Hat)
15. Fix missing change tracking layout of numbers and bullets of lists. tdf#42748 (László Németh, NISZ)
16. Xisco Fauli fixed some PPTX import/export bugs
17. Balazs Varga (NISZ) keeps improving OOXML Charts interoperability
18. Improved scalability of formula-groups computation on CPUs with large number of cores by potentially threading multiple independent formula-groups together. Dennis Francis (Collabora)
19. Michael Stahl (CIB) did a bunch of improvements related to Fieldmarks in Writer
20. Jan-Marek Glogowski (CIB) improved how DOCX footnotes are imported
21. Michael Weghorn fixed some issued related to the Mail merge

Reported Bugs

622 bugs, 99 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 371 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Nicolas Christener ( 39 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 34 )
3. Mike Kaganski ( 16 )
4. John ( 15 )
5. Roman Kuznetsov ( 13 )
6. Regina Henschel ( 13 )
7. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 11 )
8. andreas_k ( 10 )
9. Cor Nouws ( 9 )
10. Gerry Garvey ( 8 )

Triaged Bugs

664 bugs have been triaged by 70 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 225 )
2. Dieter Praas ( 70 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 50 )
4. V Stuart Foote ( 39 )
5. Oliver Brinzing ( 39 )
6. Julien Nabet ( 37 )
7. Timur ( 27 )
8. Alex Thurgood ( 17 )
9. raal ( 17 )
10. Roman Kuznetsov ( 16 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

618 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

218 bugs have been fixed by 38 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 25 )
2. Eike Rathke ( 12 )
3. Miklos Vajna ( 9 )
4. Mike Kaganski ( 9 )
5. Jim Raykowski ( 8 )
6. László Németh ( 7 )
7. Xisco Fauli ( 7 )
8. Tor Lillqvist ( 7 )
9. Balazs Varga ( 7 )
10. Muhammet Kara ( 5 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#127306 CRASH: Closing LibreOffice after deleting a chart ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
2. tdf#128013 Crash when linking an odp file ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#115967 Distorted formulas on printing to PDF or exporting to PDF for RTL text ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
2. tdf#120209 crash while changing language of formula to english ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
3. tdf#125585 Filesave: OLE objects corruption and missing (per Comment 12) – repair damaged documents with fixed LO per Comment 25 ( Thanks to Regina Henschel )
4. tdf#127450 Impress crashes by changing the symbol of a bulleted list (GTK crash with 3.18, no crash 3.22) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#127896 “Exchange database” leads to crash (non-gtk3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
6. tdf#127913 CRASH: applying popart filter to an image ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
7. tdf#127958 Crash in: mergedlo.dll (adding 2 or more ODT files into Writer master document) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
8. tdf#128037 GTK3: insert caption crash ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
9. tdf#128232 Crash when trying to delete unused User Field ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
10. tdf#128313 LibreOffice Calc Editing Find&replace results in Failure to respond – Program hangs ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
11. tdf#128418 print preview with writer crash LO ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
12. tdf#40534 slide tearing or not shown in LARGE screens (high resolution) with hardware acceleration enabled (a buffer issue per comment 58) ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#120209 crash while changing language of formula to english ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
2. tdf#123733 Crash when loading the same file twice but first load was not “complete” ( Thanks to Tor Lillqvist )
3. tdf#126974 iPad OS 13: closing (killing) the app results in a crash ( Thanks to Tor Lillqvist )
4. tdf#127306 CRASH: Closing LibreOffice after deleting a chart ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
5. tdf#127450 Impress crashes by changing the symbol of a bulleted list (GTK crash with 3.18, no crash 3.22) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
6. tdf#127711 A runtime-switch for the MiniCrashDump ( Thanks to Juergen Funk )
7. tdf#127766 Saving PPT leads to crash on iOS ( Thanks to Tor Lillqvist )
8. tdf#127882 Libreoffice 6.3.2 crashes on document properties (gtk3 3.18) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
9. tdf#127896 “Exchange database” leads to crash (non-gtk3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
10. tdf#127913 CRASH: applying popart filter to an image ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
11. tdf#127941 iOS: crash in impress when opening spellcheck dialog ( Thanks to Jan Holesovsky )
12. tdf#127946 CRASH closing LibreOffice with the tip of the day dialog open (reintroduced) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
13. tdf#127953 CRASH: Closing Edit Style dialog ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
14. tdf#127958 Crash in: mergedlo.dll (adding 2 or more ODT files into Writer master document) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
15. tdf#128013 Crash when linking an odp file ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
16. tdf#128037 GTK3: insert caption crash ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
17. tdf#128139 CRASH: typing text while macro recording is active ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
18. tdf#128177 Inserting “Bibliography Entry…” leads to crash on iOS ( Thanks to Tor Lillqvist )
19. tdf#128209 CRASH: Opening file with rotated text ( Thanks to Gülşah Köse )
20. tdf#128232 Crash when trying to delete unused User Field ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
21. tdf#128241 Crash when opening print dialog (gtk3 only) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
22. tdf#128393 gtk3: insert -> fields -> more fields crashes ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
23. tdf#128418 print preview with writer crash LO ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#126021 Calc – the time required to save some files (in xls or xlsx format) is up to 20x longer in 6.2.4 versus 6.1.6 ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

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

1. tdf#40534 slide tearing or not shown in LARGE screens (high resolution) with hardware acceleration enabled (a buffer issue per comment 58) ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
2. tdf#42748 EDITING: Numbering in numbered list doesn’t show when affected by tracked changes ( Thanks to László Németh )
3. tdf#52316 UI: Page count in Status bar does not respect setting “Print automatically inserted blank pages”; Incorrect value for page count field (see comment #16) ( Thanks to László Németh )
4. tdf#62955 UI When opening a Macro (Alt-F11) allow searching a module/ function name with typing the first letter ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
5. tdf#76441 FORMATTING: MM:SS time input if formatted as such ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
6. tdf#79007 FILEOPEN PPTX Shapes with washout mode are not displayed ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
7. tdf#81100 FILEOPEN: tblHeader property of the table is not being imported correctly ( Thanks to László Németh )
8. tdf#84257 Menus, dialogs and sidebar having the word ‘page’ rather than ‘slide’ ( Thanks to Muhammet Kara )
9. tdf#86188 FILESAVE Comments to footnotes corrupt layout when converted to DOCX or DOC ( Thanks to Kelemen Gábor )
10. tdf#92845 changing value in Tools-Options-LibreOffice Writer-Comparison is not persistent after restart ( Thanks to Gabor Kelemen )
11. tdf#94117 Windows 64-bit and executable name of 64-bit build of ghostscript — gswin64c.exe ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )

WORKSFORME bugs

80 bugs have been retested by 41 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Buovjaga ( 16 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 9 )
3. Julien Nabet ( 7 )
4. Timur ( 6 )
5. Roman Kuznetsov ( 4 )
6. Dieter Praas ( 4 )
7. Telesto ( 2 )
8. raal ( 2 )
9. Heiko Tietze ( 2 )
10. Dennis Roczek ( 1 )

DUPLICATED bugs

131 bugs have been duplicated by 31 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 33 )
2. V Stuart Foote ( 22 )
3. Timur ( 10 )
4. Oliver Brinzing ( 7 )
5. Alex Thurgood ( 6 )
6. m.a.riosv ( 5 )
7. Buovjaga ( 4 )
8. Mike Kaganski ( 4 )
9. Roman Kuznetsov ( 4 )
10. Eike Rathke ( 3 )

Verified bug fixes

90 bugs have been verified by 13 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 60 )
2. Dieter Praas ( 8 )
3. Buovjaga ( 7 )
4. Timur ( 5 )
5. Patrick Jaap ( 2 )
6. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 1 )
7. kabilo ( 1 )
8. Harald Koester ( 1 )
9. Ming Hua ( 1 )
10. Roman Kuznetsov ( 1 )

Categorized Bugs

307 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 33 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

1. Dieter Praas ( 71 )
2. Roman Kuznetsov ( 39 )
3. oesterblog-admin ( 26 )
4. Xisco Faulí ( 23 )
5. V Stuart Foote ( 22 )
6. Thomas Lendo ( 18 )
7. Aron Budea ( 15 )
8. Buovjaga ( 10 )
9. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 10 )
10. Eyal Rozenberg ( 9 )

Regression Bugs

103 bugs have been set as regressions by 24 people.

Top 10

1. Xisco Faulí ( 39 )
2. Timur ( 9 )
3. Oliver Brinzing ( 9 )
4. Cor Nouws ( 6 )
5. Alex Thurgood ( 6 )
6. raal ( 5 )
7. Roman Kuznetsov ( 5 )
8. Dieter Praas ( 4 )
9. Telesto ( 3 )
10. Michael Weghorn ( 2 )

Bisected Bugs

71 bugs have been bisected by 13 people.

Top 10 Bisecters

1. Xisco Faulí ( 42 )
2. Oliver Brinzing ( 7 )
3. Timur ( 5 )
4. raal ( 5 )
5. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 2 )
6. Justin L ( 2 )
7. Michael Weghorn ( 2 )
8. Aron Budea ( 1 )
9. V Stuart Foote ( 1 )
10. Telesto ( 1 )

Evolution of Unconfirmed Bugs

Check the current list of unconfirmed bugs here

Evolution of Open Regressions

Check the current list of open regressions here

Evolution of Open bibisectRequests

Check the current list of open bibisectrequests here

Evolution of Highest Priority Bugs

Check the current list of highest priority bugs here

Evolution of High Priority Bugs

Check the current list of high priority bugs here

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General Activities

1. LibreOffice 6.3.1 and LibreOffice 6.2.7 were released on September 5
2. LibreOffice 6.3.2 was released on September 26
3. The PPT/PPTX Team was created and announced publicly.
4. The Macro Team was created and announced publicly.
5. Roman Kuznetsov changed fonts in Help installer to Segoe UI 9 pt
6. Many problems with bullets and numbering in DOCX files were fixed: tdf#64222 (Michael Stahl, Samuel Mehrbrodt CIB) tdf#95848 (Michael Stahl) Timur was able to close many reports as duplicates of the fixed bugs
7. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) did a massive amount of UI work under the hood, for example renovating the wizard dialogs
8. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) removed the gtk+2 backend from master
9. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) solved a cluster of issues related to textbox alignment and spacing in DOCX files https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124600
10. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed a bunch of OOXML hyperlink issues
11. László Németh (NISZ) improved the workflow of manipulating tables in Writer tdf#84806 and tdf#118311
12. Balazs Varga (NISZ) keeps improving OOXML Charts interoperability
13. Xisco Fauli fixed some SVG issues
14. Björn Michaelsen keeps fighting against the SwClient monster. Check his last update

Reported Bugs

627 bugs, 87 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 394 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 33 )
2. andreas_k ( 16 )
3. nd101 ( 14 )
4. Regina Henschel ( 12 )
5. Mike Kaganski ( 12 )
6. Nicolas Christener ( 11 )
7. Thomas Lendo ( 9 )
8. Eyal Rozenberg ( 9 )
9. pedro.silva ( 8 )
10. Roman Kuznetsov ( 8 )

Triaged Bugs

608 bugs have been triaged by 82 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 152 )
2. Dieter Praas ( 66 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 45 )
4. V Stuart Foote ( 41 )
5. Julien Nabet ( 36 )
6. Oliver Brinzing ( 30 )
7. Timur ( 26 )
8. m.a.riosv ( 21 )
9. Roman Kuznetsov ( 21 )
10. Alex Thurgood ( 13 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

551 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

166 bugs have been fixed by 43 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 22 )
2. Julien Nabet ( 9 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 9 )
4. László Németh ( 8 )
5. Tünde Tóth ( 8 )
6. Xisco Fauli ( 6 )
7. Michael Weghorn ( 5 )
8. Tamás Zolnai ( 5 )
9. Miklos Vajna ( 4 )
10. Michael Stahl ( 4 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#127695 CRASH: Inserting textbox in a particular document ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#127258 Impress Crash after Presentation Finished ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
2. tdf#127272 odt document + UI “registers” etc.: Writer crashes when UI will be set to “registers” etc. resp. after this when odt file should be opened ( Thanks to Sumit Chauhan )
3. tdf#127461 data provider crashes LibreOffice when clicking “Apply Changes” ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
4. tdf#127546 Calc Crashes if I click in to the Range-select fied of the ‘Define Label Range’ dialog (gen) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#127646 GTK3 crash when create new macro ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
6. tdf#127652 After deleting some text the LibreOffice Writer crash ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
7. tdf#127673 Crash when double tap’ing a table copyed from calc to writer in iOS ( Thanks to Jan Holesovsky )
8. tdf#127682 New Print dialog: Crash selecting (*) Even/Odd Pages with a 1 page document ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
9. tdf#127683 Crash when restart LO after having changing language ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
10. tdf#127695 CRASH: Inserting textbox in a particular document ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
11. tdf#127748 crash on modify a frame style, which has previously got writing-mode bt-lr ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
12. tdf#127859 pressing edit button in footer or header make LO crash ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
13. tdf#127863 Crash when trying to edit macro assigned part for a button ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#127786 LibreOffice hangs for a few seconds clicking on the title/subtitle textboxes (ca-ES-valencia) ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )

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

1. tdf#42990 EDITING Spreadsheet: Different handling of Text Cells in Calculations with SUM or addition of multiple cells ( Thanks to Olivier Hallot )
2. tdf#45789 automatic row height in reports ( Thanks to Ilhan Yesil )
3. tdf#50846 Macros: Wrong type of function GetLastUsedRow (standard library Tools, module Misc) ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
4. tdf#55436 Need another numbering scheme: *, †, ‡, §, etc. (mainly for footnotes) ( Thanks to Tim Bartlett )
5. tdf#62326 Instruction Cint fails when converting Hex strings of a negative value to a 16-bit integer value. ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
6. tdf#64222 FORMATTING: A DOCX-file in Writer shows different size of list elements (numbering) ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
7. tdf#81436 Add Formula Numbering autotext to all l10n ( Thanks to Laurent BP )
8. tdf#84806 Apply actions to full table without the need to select paragraph before/after (to prevent e.g. an empty table is left) ( Thanks to László Németh )
9. tdf#94765 FILEOPEN: SVG: URL fails is the reference is not in the mapper (gradients/patterns) ( see comment 17 ) ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )

WORKSFORME bugs

99 bugs have been retested by 30 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 23 )
2. Timur ( 14 )
3. Buovjaga ( 13 )
4. Julien Nabet ( 8 )
5. Roman Kuznetsov ( 4 )
6. Dieter Praas ( 4 )
7. Aron Budea ( 3 )
8. Heiko Tietze ( 3 )
9. raal ( 3 )
10. Thomas Lendo ( 2 )

DUPLICATED bugs

136 bugs have been duplicated by 27 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 41 )
2. V Stuart Foote ( 18 )
3. Timur ( 11 )
4. Gabor Kelemen ( 8 )
5. Heiko Tietze ( 7 )
6. Oliver Brinzing ( 7 )
7. Julien Nabet ( 6 )
8. Justin L ( 4 )
9. m.a.riosv ( 4 )
10. Dieter Praas ( 4 )

Verified bug fixes

110 bugs have been verified by 12 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

1. Dieter Praas ( 47 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 42 )
3. Timur ( 6 )
4. Julien Nabet ( 6 )
5. Alex Thurgood ( 2 )
6. Harald Koester ( 1 )
7. Michael Weghorn ( 1 )
8. Patrick Jaap ( 1 )
9. Markus ( 1 )
10. Roman Kuznetsov ( 1 )

Categorized Bugs

399 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 36 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

1. Dieter Praas ( 59 )
2. Thomas Lendo ( 48 )
3. oesterblog-admin ( 44 )
4. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 38 )
5. LibreOfficiant ( 37 )
6. Roman Kuznetsov ( 32 )
7. himajin100000 ( 26 )
8. V Stuart Foote ( 18 )
9. Buovjaga ( 17 )
10. Rizal Muttaqin ( 14 )

Regression Bugs

97 bugs have been set as regressions by 22 people.

Top 10

1. Xisco Faulí ( 31 )
2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 18 )
3. Timur ( 9 )
4. Alex Thurgood ( 4 )
5. m.a.riosv ( 4 )
6. raal ( 3 )
7. V Stuart Foote ( 3 )
8. Oliver Brinzing ( 3 )
9. MM ( 3 )
10. Julien Nabet ( 3 )

Bisected Bugs

81 bugs have been bisected by 10 people.

Top 10 Bisecters

1. Xisco Faulí ( 42 )
2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 17 )
3. raal ( 11 )
4. Michael Weghorn ( 3 )
5. LE GARREC Vincent ( 2 )
6. Aron Budea ( 2 )
7. Terrence Enger ( 1 )
8. Justin L ( 1 )
9. Roman Kuznetsov ( 1 )
10. Buovjaga ( 1 )

Evolution of Unconfirmed Bugs

Check the current list of unconfirmed bugs here

Evolution of Open Regressions

Check the current list of open regressions here

Evolution of Open bibisectRequests

Check the current list of open bibisectrequests here

Evolution of Highest Priority Bugs

Check the current list of highest priority bugs here

Evolution of High Priority Bugs

Check the current list of high priority bugs here

Thank you all for making Libreoffice rock!
Join us and help to keep LibreOffice super reliable!
Check the Get Involved page out now!…

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 6.2.5 was announced on July 4
2. LibreOffice 6.3 RC1, RC2 and RC3 were released throughout the month
3. A Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.3 RC1 was help on July 8
4. The 6 GSOC students passed the second evaluation. Reports with their weekly work are sent to the development mailing list
5. Olivier Hallot has created Redaction and FOURIER function new help pages
6. Ashod Nakashian (Collabora) implemented multiple selections in Slide sorter
7. Tamás Zolnai (Collabora) continues his Interoperable text-based form controls work
8. Arkadiy Illarionov keeps cleanining duplicated code
9. Justin Luth (Collabora) implemented an option to consolidate multiple textObjs in Draw
10. Michael Stahl (CIB) brought peace and harmony to fly at-char selection and fixed several crashes
11. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) added support for comment on images and charts in Writer
12. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) bumped minimum Java version to 8 towards LibreOffice 6.4
13. Grzegorz Araminowicz (Collabora) keeps improving SmartArt support
14. Tamas Bunth (Collabora) and Xisco Fauli fixed some Firebird issues right before the LibreOffice 6.3 final release
15. Caolán McNamara (Ret Hat) keeps welding dialogs in order to give them a native feeling
16. Coverity analyzer is back and many new reported problems are already fixed
17. Balazs Varga (NISZ Team) keeps fixing OOXML Chart issues
18. László Németh (NISZ Team) keeps fixing Tracking Changes interoperability issues
19. Tünde Tóth (NISZ Team) fixed some hyperlink interoperability issues
20. every Hyperlink in LO (Writer,Impress,Draw,Calc) should have now a context menu with 4 hyperlink entries: Open Hyperlink, Edit Hyperlink, Copy Hyperlink Location, Remove Hyperlink – Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB)
21. Artur Neumann added a script to Writer and Calc to ensure dialogs don’t crash when they are opened
22. Jan-Marek Glogowski (CIB) keeps working on qt5

Reported Bugs

470 bugs, 55 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 266 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 24 )
2. Roman Kuznetsov ( 22 )
3. andreas_k ( 16 )
4. Xisco Faulí ( 13 )
5. Robert Großkopf ( 12 )
6. Konstantin Kharlamov ( 12 )
7. Telesto ( 9 )
8. canned ( 8 )
9. Adalbert Hanßen ( 7 )
10. Aron Budea ( 5 )

Triaged Bugs

506 bugs have been triaged by 71 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 120 )
2. Dieter Praas ( 56 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 34 )
4. V Stuart Foote ( 29 )
5. Buovjaga ( 26 )
6. raal ( 22 )
7. Oliver Brinzing ( 22 )
8. Alex Thurgood ( 18 )
9. Aron Budea ( 16 )
10. Jacques Guilleron ( 12 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

400 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 32 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 12 )
2. Samuel Mehrbrodt ( 9 )
3. Jan-Marek Glogowski ( 8 )
4. Heiko Tietze ( 8 )
5. Jim Raykowski ( 7 )
6. László Németh ( 7 )
7. Xisco Fauli ( 7 )
8. Gülşah Köse ( 7 )
9. Gabor Kelemen ( 6 )
10. Miklos Vajna ( 5 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#125693 MacOS: System dialogs are not in english ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
2. tdf#126508 Crash and document recovery on option change of view -> icon style ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
3. tdf#126605 Sidebar: Setting textbox directionality with Hebrew text crashes Impress ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#117185 Crash when closing the document after a specific undo redo operation (Paste) due to inserted fly anchored at end of last paragraph in body ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
2. tdf#117215 CRASH after undoing a paste operation ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
3. tdf#125824 SfxUndoManager::Undo() Crash When multi windows ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
4. tdf#125863 Crash swlo!SwPostItField::GetTime ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
5. tdf#126004 Crash swlo!SwEditShell::ValidateAllParagraphSignatures ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
6. tdf#126180 CRASH: sd::View::SdrEndTextEdit(bool) ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
7. tdf#126197 CRASH: sd::View::SdrEndTextEdit(bool) (part 2) ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
8. tdf#126236 Crash/Hang when starting Tools > Autocorrect > Apply and Edit changes ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
9. tdf#126279 CRASH when resuming work with a WebDAV document when session has timed out ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
10. tdf#126334 Crash in: SvxNumberFormat::GetAbsLSpace() ( Thanks to Gülşah Köse )
11. tdf#126340 Crash when removing entry in bullet list (change tracking involved) ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
12. tdf#126439 CRASH: closing LibreOffice while ‘Choose Item’ dialog is open (gen) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
13. tdf#126508 Crash and document recovery on option change of view -> icon style ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
14. tdf#126597 Don’t crash Outlook 2016 when sending multiple attachments mail via SimpleMail ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
15. tdf#126605 Sidebar: Setting textbox directionality with Hebrew text crashes Impress ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )

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

1. tdf#39742 DRAW, IMPRESS: Menu ‘Tools-Options-DRAW-Print’ settings not respected ( Thanks to Gabor Kelemen )
2. tdf#44786 PRINTING: Draw ignores global print options, forgets print dialog settings ( Thanks to Gabor Kelemen )
3. tdf#50530 UI: Changing font size makes the cursor to disappear ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
4. tdf#70813 Bad alphabet sort of list of macros ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
5. tdf#83618 SIDEBAR: Paragraph dialog and SideBar Paragraph Content Panel — using different source for their Line spacing values ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )

WORKSFORME bugs

82 bugs have been retested by 41 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Heiko Tietze ( 10 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 9 )
3. Oliver Brinzing ( 7 )
4. Buovjaga ( 5 )
5. Dieter Praas ( 5 )
6. Alex Thurgood ( 4 )
7. Roman Kuznetsov ( 3 )
8. Telesto ( 2 )
9. Regina Henschel ( 2 )
10. xraf32 ( 2 )

DUPLICATED bugs

79 bugs have been duplicated by 30 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 16 )
2. V Stuart Foote ( 8 )
3. Aron Budea ( 5 )
4. Oliver Brinzing ( 5 )
5. Heiko Tietze ( 4 )
6. Dieter Praas ( 4 )
7. Buovjaga ( 4 )
8. Gabor Kelemen ( 3 )
9. Harald Koester ( 2 )
10. Michael Stahl (CIB) ( 2 )

Verified bug fixes

63 bugs have been verified by 12 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 30 )
2. Dieter Praas ( 21 )
3. Buovjaga ( 3 )
4. Terrence Enger ( 1 )
5. Timur ( 1 )
6. Aron Budea ( 1 )
7. Roman Kuznetsov ( 1 )
8. Cor Nouws ( 1 )
9. V Stuart Foote ( 1 )
10. Luke ( 1 )

Categorized Bugs

220 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 20 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

1. Roman Kuznetsov ( 56 )
2. Dieter Praas ( 45 )
3. Thomas Lendo ( 28 )
4. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 23 )
5. V Stuart Foote ( 17 )
6. Xisco Faulí ( 9 )
7. Gabor Kelemen ( 7 )
8. Buovjaga ( 7 )
9. Aron Budea ( 5 )
10. Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB) ( 5 )

Regression Bugs

68 bugs have been set as regressions by 20 people.

Top 10

1. Xisco Faulí ( 23 )
2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 6 )
3. Alex Thurgood ( 6 )
4. Buovjaga ( 4 )
5. raal ( 3 )
6. Regina Henschel ( 3 )
7. Roman Kuznetsov ( 3 )
8. Robert Großkopf ( 3 )
9. OfficeUser ( 2 )
10. Julien Nabet ( 2 )

Bisected Bugs

44 bugs have been bisected by 7 people.

Top 10 Bisecters

1. Xisco Faulí ( 27 )
2. Buovjaga ( 4 )
3. Aron Budea ( 4 )
4. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 4 )
5. raal ( 3 )
6. Roman Kuznetsov ( 1 )
7. Oliver Brinzing ( 1 )

Evolution of Unconfirmed Bugs

Check the current list of unconfirmed bugs here

Evolution of Open Regressions

Check the current list of open regressions here

Evolution of Open bibisectRequests

Check the current list of open bibisectrequests here

Evolution of Highest Priority Bugs

Check the current list of highest priority bugs here

Evolution of High Priority Bugs

Check the current list of high priority bugs here

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General Activities

1. LibreOffice 6.3 beta2 was released for testing on June, 25
2. The bibisect repositories from libreoffice-6-3-branch-point to latest master for Windows and Linux are available for cloning
3. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) keeps working on btLr text direction
4. Balazs Varga (NISZ Team) keeps improving Chart interoperability
5. Noel Grandin (Collabora) keeps fixing performance issues. See ‘List of performance issues fixed’ below
6. Arkadiy Illarionov is working on removing duplicated code
7. Regina Henschel is working on converting Fontwork to TextWarp on export
8. Jan-Marek Glogowski keeps improving Qt5 support
9. Grzegorz Araminowicz (Collabora) keeps improving SmartArt support
10. Tünde Tóth (NISZ Team) fixed some hyperlink interoperability problems
11. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) keeps improving support for iOs
12. László Németh (NISZ Team) keeps working on improving tracking changes interoperability
13. Thorsten Behrens (CIB) added support for PDF/A-2 export
14. Roman Kuznetsov updated the fonts in the window installer
15. Jim Raykowski fixed some undo and UI bugs

Reported Bugs

544 bugs, 74 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 282 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Telesto ( 57 )
2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 22 )
3. Xisco Faulí ( 15 )
4. Roman Kuznetsov ( 13 )
5. Markus Elfring ( 11 )
6. Robert Großkopf ( 10 )
7. BottleOnTheGround ( 9 )
8. Regina Henschel ( 7 )
9. sergio.callegari ( 7 )
10. Buovjaga ( 7 )

Triaged Bugs

545 bugs have been triaged by 80 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 139 )
2. Dieter Praas ( 67 )
3. V Stuart Foote ( 34 )
4. raal ( 31 )
5. Julien Nabet ( 19 )
6. Alex Thurgood ( 14 )
7. Timur ( 13 )
8. Heiko Tietze ( 13 )
9. Olivier Hallot ( 12 )
10. Roman Kuznetsov ( 11 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

622 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

206 bugs have been fixed by 40 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 21 )
2. Jan-Marek Glogowski ( 17 )
3. Miklos Vajna ( 11 )
4. Eike Rathke ( 10 )
5. Noel Grandin ( 9 )
6. László Németh ( 7 )
7. Roman Kuznetsov ( 7 )
8. Jim Raykowski ( 6 )
9. rizmut ( 6 )
10. Balazs Varga ( 6 )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#101473 [EDITING] Function wizard crashes LibO when evaluating addin that implement XVolatileResult ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
2. tdf#111522 SdrUndoMoveObj::Undo() Crash When multi windows ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
3. tdf#122200 kde5: Crash when navigating tree in accerciser (Accessibility Explorer) ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
4. tdf#125333 Crash on repeated searches with FindReplaceRememberedSearches=0 ( Thanks to heiko tietze )
5. tdf#125382 Crash when check a “Personal Letter” on Letter Wizard ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
6. tdf#125624 CRASH working with file with lots of hints ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
7. tdf#125660 COMPARE DOCUMENTS: Crash in swlo!SwRedlineData::SetSeqNo ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
8. tdf#125670 Crash in: OutputDevice::InitClipRegion on Slide show ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
9. tdf#125685 crash in layout after paste on particular document ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
10. tdf#125692 kde5: Impress crashes when closing after using presentation minimizer ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
11. tdf#125741 Crash: swlo!SwFrame::PrepareCursor ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
12. tdf#125751 Crash: ntdll!RtlEnterCriticalSection ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
13. tdf#125754 Crash swlo!SwAnchoredDrawObject::IsValidPos ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
14. tdf#125821 Crash on insertion of video ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
15. tdf#125840 Crash when trying to customize Base Data View toolbar ( Thanks to Muhammet Kara )
16. tdf#125866 crash when adding path/file to header in page style dialog ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
17. tdf#125982 Crash when opening Tools > Language > Hangul/Hanja Conversion in Calc ( gtk/gtk3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
18. tdf#125983 CRASH: Updating link to external files ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
19. tdf#126000 Crash deleting template ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
20. tdf#126017 Crash swlo!SwNode::EndOfSectionIndex ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
21. tdf#126020 LO Impress: Change slide vith video leads to crash ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
22. tdf#126054 Crash when you select “File|Create Master Document” and save (Groupedbar Compact) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
23. tdf#126134 CRASH: closing LibreOffice while printing long file (gen) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
24. tdf#126137 CRASH: clicking on table ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#113112 EDITING: Adding a new sheet before a existing large sheet is pretty slow ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#121094 Performance: Opening xlxs with many rows takes several minutes ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
3. tdf#125591 FILEOPEN: DOC: performance regression opening a file with EMF images ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
4. tdf#125661 Copying a large sheet is very slow ( Thanks to Dennis Francis )
5. tdf#125665 Big ODT documents take too long to load or save ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
6. tdf#125691 FILEOPEN: Document hangs at import time ( with OOO_EXIT_POST_STARTUP ) ( Thanks to Dennis Francis )
7. tdf#125706 Fields have noticeable impact on loading/saving performance ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
8. tdf#67538 XTypeDetection::queryTypeByDescriptor poor performance ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

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

1. tdf#48041 Impress FILEOPEN: diagram in pptx file looks wrong, vertical axis lines duplicated ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
2. tdf#54819 EDITING: with “track changes” the paragraph following a deleted paragraph changes its style ( Thanks to László Németh )
3. tdf#67538 XTypeDetection::queryTypeByDescriptor poor performance ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
4. tdf#70234 FILESAVE: DOC/DOCX – Track change of fields not saved correctly ( Thanks to László Németh )
5. tdf#75659 FILEOPEN: Imported .docx charts missing legend with default name ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
6. tdf#78657 FILESAVE: When saving a DOCX that has a picture with a hyperlink on it – the hyperlink is lost ( Thanks to Tünde Tóth )
7. tdf#88287 UI: Rename “Lines” toolbar and removing “Arrows” toolbar from View > Toolbars ( Thanks to Roman Kuznetsov )
8. tdf#89709 TOOLTIP: Page number tooltip doesnt appear in document with a single page ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
9. tdf#89884 Icons for bold, italics and underline should not be tied to the English UI keyboard shortcuts ( Thanks to Rizal Muttaqin )
10. tdf#89991 Save ODT as DOCX turns on Show Changes when Record Changes also on ( Thanks to László Németh )
11. tdf#92079 Basic Dialog image background not set ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
12. tdf#92083 Color bar should be included in the View menu ( Thanks to Roman Kuznetsov )
13. tdf#92503 FILEOPEN: CSV – Certain date fields not imported correctly, pattern detected ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )

WORKSFORME bugs

84 bugs have been retested by 38 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 21 )
2. V Stuart Foote ( 6 )
3. Cor Nouws ( 5 )
4. Buovjaga ( 5 )
5. Dieter Praas ( 5 )
6. Telesto ( 4 )
7. Julien Nabet ( 4 )
8. Thomas Lendo ( 3 )
9. Aron Budea ( 2 )
10. Heiko Tietze ( 2 )

DUPLICATED bugs

80 bugs have been duplicated by 33 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 24 )
2. V Stuart Foote ( 6 )
3. Dieter Praas ( 5 )
4. Timur ( 3 )
5. Alex Thurgood ( 3 )
6. Justin L ( 3 )
7. Roman Kuznetsov ( 3 )
8. Jan-Marek Glogowski ( 3 )
9. Oliver Brinzing ( 3 )
10. Thomas Lendo ( 3 )

Verified bug fixes

101 bugs have been verified by 19 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 58 )
2. BogdanB ( 10 )
3. Roman Kuznetsov ( 5 )
4. Buovjaga ( 3 )
5. Julien Nabet ( 3 )
6. Vera Blagoveschenskaya ( 3 )
7. Wolfgang Jäger ( 2 )
8. Cor Nouws ( 2 )
9. Michael Weghorn ( 2 )
10. Dieter Praas ( 2 )

Categorized Bugs

507 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 43 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

1. Thomas Lendo ( 142 )
2. Dieter Praas ( 97 )
3. V Stuart Foote ( 49 )
4. Roman Kuznetsov ( 38 )
5. Xisco Faulí ( 35 )
6. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 16 )
7. Rizal Muttaqin ( 15 )
8. Gabor Kelemen ( 13 )
9. Muhammet Kara ( 12 )
10. Mark Hung ( 8 )

Regression Bugs

108 bugs have been set as regressions by 19 people.

Top 10

1. Xisco Faulí ( 37 )
2. Telesto ( 14 )
3. Roman Kuznetsov ( 10 )
4. raal ( 10 )
5. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 9 )
6. Thomas Lendo ( 5 )
7. Alex Thurgood ( 3 )
8. Jacques Guilleron ( 3 )
9. Cor Nouws ( 3 )
10. Dieter Praas ( 2 )

Bisected Bugs

80 bugs have been bisected by 12 people.

Top 10 Bisecters

1. Xisco Faulí ( 41 )
2. raal ( 9 )
3. Aron Budea ( 8 )
4. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 8 )
5. artur ( 3 )
6. Gabor Kelemen ( 3 )
7. Roman Kuznetsov ( 2 )
8. Justin L ( 2 )
9. Michael Stahl (CIB) ( 1 )
10. Oliver Brinzing ( 1 )

Evolution of Unconfirmed Bugs

Check the current list of unconfirmed bugs here

Evolution of Open Regressions

Check the current list of open regressions here

Evolution of Open bibisectRequests

Check the current list of open bibisectrequests here

Evolution of Highest Priority Bugs

Check the current list of highest priority bugs here

Evolution of High Priority Bugs

Check the current list of high priority bugs here

Thank you all for making Libreoffice rock!
Join us and help to keep LibreOffice super reliable!
Check the Get Involved page out now!…

The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 6.3 Beta2 is ready for testing!

LibreOffice 6.3 will be released as final in mid August, 2019, being LibreOffice 6.3 Beta2 the third pre-release since the development of version 6.3 started in mid November, 2018 ( See the release plan ). Since LibreOffice 6.3 Beta1, 226 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 106 bugs have been set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.

LibreOffice 6.3 Beta2 can be downloaded from here, it’s available for Linux, MacOS and Windows. Besides, and it can be installed along with your actual 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 ) so it can get fixed before LibreOffice 6.3 final is released.

For help, you can contact us directly in our IRC channel.

Happy testing!!

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