LibreOffice QA Blog

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 6.3.4 was released on December, 12
2. LibreOffice 6.4.0 RC1 was released on December 23 and a Bug Hunting Session took place the same day
3. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) published a blogpost wrapping all the improvements achieved by the PPTX Team in the last months
4. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made find & replace regular expressions work with look-behind and look-ahead assertions, fixed the display of multi-line formulas, fixed the importing of DOCX files with Tables of Contents and other indices
5. Jim Raykowski completed the integration of the new colour palette and removed the old background tab page code, fixed a very popular annoyance concerning duplicated labels in Customize dialog (with additional contributions from Caolán McNamara of Red Hat) and fixed many accessibility issues
6. Jan Holešovský (Collabora) fixed many under-the-hood issues with the Android application
7. Dennis Francis (Collabora) fixed a frame-anchoring issue, which made elements fly into all the wrong places in Writer
8. Andreas Kainz improved the Notebookbar UIs
9. László Németh (NISZ) fixed several issues with DOCX tables and pasting to Writer tables. He also implemented several AutoCorrect fixes and enhancements
10. Chris Sherlock made many under-the-hood improvements to the EMF+ handling code and implemented support for more EMF+ features
11. Justin Luth (Collabora/SIL) fixed a DOCX import footnote issue and completed a multifaceted fix for a DOCX issue involving subscripts in character styles
12. Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB) added an infobar notification for cases of missing hyphenation information and improved the infobar behaviour in general
13. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) improved the behaviour of measurement units in the UI input fields, fixed issues in Calc cell style settings dialog and made many improvements to the UI code, including getting native GTK widgets working in the Sidebar
14. Regina Henschel fixed unwanted rotation and position changes of a shape anchored to a Calc cell
15. Noel Grandin (Collabora) fixed a performance issue when copying a large bulleted list, improved the speed of exporting a large document to PDF, improved the loading time of an XLSX file with lots of comments and made many cleanups under the hood
16. Balázs Varga (NISZ) fixed number formatting in DOCX chart data labels
17. Bakos Attila (NISZ) fixed shape anchoring in DOCX tables
18. Michael Stahl (CIB) fixed an issue with DOCX continuous sections
19. Muhammet Kara (Collabora) guided students in Ankara, Turkey to complete many C++ easy hacks
20. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) added functionality to check Writer documents for accessibility problems to make the document conform to PDF/UA requirements
21. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) added support for semi-transparent text
22. Kohei Yoshida published some Benchmark results on mdds multi_type_vector

Reported Bugs

580 bugs, 83 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 320 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Xisco Faulí ( 36 )
2. Nicolas Christener ( 29 )
3. sdc.blanco ( 20 )
4. Mike Kaganski ( 16 )
5. Roman Kuznetsov ( 14 )
6. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 13 )
7. DM ( 9 )
8. R. Green ( 9 )
9. Markus Elfring ( 9 )
10. Rizal Muttaqin ( 8 )

Triaged Bugs

595 bugs have been triaged by 81 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 150 )
2. Dieter Praas ( 58 )
3. Timur ( 56 )
4. Heiko Tietze ( 34 )
5. V Stuart Foote ( 31 )
6. Julien Nabet ( 30 )
7. Oliver Brinzing ( 20 )
8. Roman Kuznetsov ( 17 )
9. Olivier Hallot ( 16 )
10. Mike Kaganski ( 15 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

578 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

183 bugs have been fixed by 43 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 22 )
2. Mike Kaganski ( 11 )
3. László Németh ( 10 )
4. Noel Grandin ( 8 )
5. Michael Stahl ( 6 )
6. Jim Raykowski ( 5 )
7. Jan-Marek Glogowski ( 5 )
8. Roman Kuznetsov ( 4 )
9. Miklos Vajna ( 4 )
10. Samuel Mehrbrodt ( 4 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#112989 Time required to export a large document has doubled for Latin (text layout issue) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#129533 Calc crashes on Navigator click or move ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
3. tdf#99711 Sidebar Position and Size displays incorrect width and height when units in mm ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#105225 Color palette cannot be chosen in various places ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
2. tdf#108458 Label changes for Toolbar use degrade function listing in the Customize dialog–have duplicate entries on the list ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
3. tdf#116194 table content from .DOCX shown as text in Writer ( Thanks to László Németh )
4. tdf#127022 menu bar is broken in RTL interface on Windows ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
5. tdf#128077 Always reproducible complete crash/lock of all LibreOffice windows ( steps in comment 10 ) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
6. tdf#128449 Inserting image as background results in blue bg ( Thanks to Aron Budea )
7. tdf#128845 EDITING: cannot modify a bibliography entry after creating it ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
8. tdf#129119 crash in launching Customize dialog from StartCenter Tools -> Customize ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
9. tdf#129127 Crash when sort by column of Excel 97-2003 file with specific data ( Thanks to Dennis Francis )
10. tdf#129165 Impress: right-click menu on slide in Slide Pane is not available anymore ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
11. tdf#129210 CRASH: recovering database file ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
12. tdf#37156 FORMATTING: Paste table result different for paste destination “table cell” or “normal text area” ( Thanks to László Németh )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#127955 Crash when opening Insert Fields in Writer ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
2. tdf#128077 Always reproducible complete crash/lock of all LibreOffice windows ( steps in comment 10 ) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
3. tdf#129056 CRASH: changing line’s colour in chart sidebar ( Thanks to Muhammet Kara )
4. tdf#129076 impress slideshow crashes with skia backend ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
5. tdf#129119 crash in launching Customize dialog from StartCenter Tools -> Customize ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
6. tdf#129127 Crash when sort by column of Excel 97-2003 file with specific data ( Thanks to Dennis Francis )
7. tdf#129136 crash in basic function CurDir ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
8. tdf#129192 Sharing a file will crash the Android app ( Thanks to Jan Holesovsky )
9. tdf#129210 CRASH: recovering database file ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
10. tdf#129346 CRASH: sd::SdUnoSlideView::getCurrentPage() ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
11. tdf#129519 Crash when using two or more documents from the same WebDAV server ( Thanks to Thorsten Behrens )
12. tdf#129533 Calc crashes on Navigator click or move ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#112989 Time required to export a large document has doubled for Latin (text layout issue) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#119227 A five second freeze when copying a large bulleted list ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
3. tdf#129227 Poor performance in a Basic code ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
4. tdf#129228 FILEOPEN XLSX: file won’t open then very slow (2 speedups in this bug) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
5. tdf#129256 ReDim is slow when array custom type is explicitly known ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )

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

1. tdf#34517 UI: Texts in context menu ‘Arrangement for chart lines’ interchanged ( Thanks to Kelemen Gábor )
2. tdf#35570 Moving rows (and columns too) in tables overwrites content ( Thanks to László Németh )
3. tdf#37156 FORMATTING: Paste table result different for paste destination “table cell” or “normal text area” ( Thanks to László Németh )
4. tdf#38394 EDITING: Can’t insert a French opening quote after an apostrophe using AutoCorrection ( Thanks to László Németh )
5. tdf#47583 PRINTING: Behaviour of Writer Print Options are not Transparent ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
6. tdf#54409 AutoCorrect not correcting word next to smart/curved quote-mark (single or double) ( Thanks to László Németh )
7. tdf#59327 BASIC: A missing optional argument is treated as a not declared variable. ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
8. tdf#59666 EDITING: Option to disable Greek letters (αβγδελμ..) converting to big letters (ABGDE…) as automatic capitalization of first letters in sentence ( Thanks to László Németh )
9. tdf#64902 Add new menu options to move rows/columns in tables without overwriting the original cells ( Thanks to László Németh )
10. tdf#65038 EDITING: Search&Replace doesn’t replace regular expression with Look assertions (ahead-behind) ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
11. tdf#75806 SearchWords in ReplaceDescriptor ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
12. tdf#83248 PRINTING: “Single-line” text box always printed in black ( Thanks to Arnaud Versini )
13. tdf#87569 FILEOPEN: Incorrect layout of table in DOCX file ( Thanks to Bakos Attila )

WORKSFORME bugs

111 bugs have been retested by 49 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Timur ( 17 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 11 )
3. Michael Weghorn ( 8 )
4. Alex Thurgood ( 6 )
5. Julien Nabet ( 6 )
6. Buovjaga ( 6 )
7. m.a.riosv ( 5 )
8. Telesto ( 3 )
9. Dieter Praas ( 3 )
10. Heiko Tietze ( 3 )

DUPLICATED bugs

150 bugs have been duplicated by 38 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Timur ( 44 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 23 )
3. Michael Weghorn ( 7 )
4. V Stuart Foote ( 6 )
5. Heiko Tietze ( 5 )
6. Dieter Praas ( 5 )
7. m.a.riosv ( 5 )
8. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 4 )
9. Mike Kaganski ( 4 )
10. BogdanB ( 4 )

Verified bug fixes

170 bugs have been verified by 17 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

1. raal ( 78 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 54 )
3. Dieter Praas ( 9 )
4. Thorsten Behrens (CIB) ( 8 )
5. Buovjaga ( 4 )
6. Timur ( 3 )
7. Roman Kuznetsov ( 3 )
8. BogdanB ( 2 )
9. V Stuart Foote ( 1 )
10. Vera Blagoveschenskaya ( 1 )

Categorized Bugs

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

Top 10 Categorizers

1. Roman Kuznetsov ( 69 )
2. Dieter Praas ( 56 )
3. Aron Budea ( 35 )
4. sdc.blanco ( 20 )
5. V Stuart Foote ( 14 )
6. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 14 )
7. Chris Sherlock ( 14 )
8. oesterblog-admin ( 11 )
9. Timur ( 9 )
10. Oliver Brinzing ( 8 )

Regression Bugs

106 bugs have been set as regressions by 23 people.

Top 10

1. Xisco Faulí ( 51 )
2. Timur ( 17 )
3. raal ( 5 )
4. Roman Kuznetsov ( 5 )
5. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 4 )
6. Oliver Brinzing ( 4 )
7. Mike Kaganski ( 2 )
8. Dieter Praas ( 2 )
9. Justin L ( 2 )
10. Boaz Dodin ( 1 )

Bisected Bugs

84 bugs have been bisected by 12 people.

Top 10 Bisecters

1. Xisco Faulí ( 59 )
2. raal ( 10 )
3. Oliver Brinzing ( 4 )
4. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 2 )
5. Justin L ( 2 )
6. Telesto ( 1 )
7. Kevin Suo ( 1 )
8. Terrence Enger ( 1 )
9. Mike Kaganski ( 1 )
10. Thomas Bertels ( 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 6.4 Beta1 was announced on November 18
2. A new version of LibreOffice Impress Remote for Android was announced
3. The new LibreOffice Macro Team posted a progress report
4. Julien Nabet improved the code quality based on cppcheck results
5. Coverity’s defect density is back to 0
6. Andreas Kainz continued improving dialog layout and the UI with nearly sixty commits
7. Caolán McNamara made the customize dialog open quickly again
8. Luboš Luňák and Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) introduced the Skia graphics engine into the codebase. It supports rendering the UI using GPU with Vulkan.
9. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed a long standing problem in basic’s syntax checker. He also added support for Windows Default apps settings
10. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) started the work on replacing boost::optional with std::optional
11. Justin Luth (Collabora) removed a bunch of obsolete hacks and fixed several issues related to styles and tables in Writer
12. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made it possible to use long passwords in OOXML documents
13. Tamás Bunth (Collabora) added support for importing and exporting custom label text in DOCX documents
14. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) improved the interoperability of math objects from PPTX
15. Noel Grandin (Collabora) continued working on more than 1024 columns support for Calc, solved an acessibility-related performance issue with complex tables, made ODS documents with lots of countif functions load faster and changed various XML-handling code to use FasterParser
16. Jan-Marek Glogowski (CIB), Michael Weghorn (LHM), Katarina Behrens (CIB) keep reducing the Kf5/Qt5 funtionality gap compared to other VCL backends
17. Gülşah Köse and Tamas Bunth (Collabora) improved how PPTX rotated objects and text are imported and exported
18. Balazs Varga (NISZ) fixed the position and size of custom chart legends and digits of percentages of data points when saving OOXML charts
19. Jim Raykowski made it so list styles can be deleted in Custom Styles view
20. Bartosz Kosiorek and Chris Sherlock added support for EMF+ custom line cap
21. Michael Weghorn fixed loading printer settings with the document
22. László Németh (NISZ) fixed the table line spacing in a certain DOCX document
23. Szabolcs Toth (NISZ) fixed the displaying of table borders in a certain DOCX document
24. Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB) added API support for the infobar

Reported Bugs

585 bugs, 67 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 365 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 28 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 23 )
3. Mike Kaganski ( 12 )
4. Roman Kuznetsov ( 9 )
5. andreas_k ( 8 )
6. Nicolas Christener ( 7 )
7. ricky.tigg ( 7 )
8. sdc.blanco ( 6 )
9. Pablo ( 6 )
10. Nukool Chompuparn ( 6 )

Triaged Bugs

652 bugs have been triaged by 76 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 194 )
2. Heiko Tietze ( 58 )
3. Dieter Praas ( 50 )
4. Timur ( 35 )
5. Julien Nabet ( 30 )
6. Oliver Brinzing ( 29 )
7. Alex Thurgood ( 29 )
8. V Stuart Foote ( 25 )
9. Roman Kuznetsov ( 23 )
10. raal ( 15 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

610 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

236 bugs have been fixed by 43 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 32 )
2. Balazs Varga ( 12 )
3. Mike Kaganski ( 11 )
4. László Németh ( 9 )
5. Samuel Mehrbrodt ( 9 )
6. Miklos Vajna ( 8 )
7. Justin Luth ( 7 )
8. Jan-Marek Glogowski ( 7 )
9. andreas kainz ( 6 )
10. Olivier Hallot ( 6 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#118526 CRASH: Notebookbar crashes in read mode ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
2. tdf#121963 button flashing – mouse wheel zooming breaks ( Thanks to Armin Le Grand )
3. tdf#128659 Cannot add AutoCorrect entries once the user/autocorr/acor_xx-XX.dat file is created ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#118639 Editing password-protected non-ODF files creates multiple empty files in backup directory ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
2. tdf#124270 Editing: Err:522 on copying of rows with “Calc: threaded” enabled ( steps in comment 6 ) ( Thanks to Dennis Francis )
3. tdf#124708 CRASH: Selecting all and deleting ( Thanks to Muhammet Kara )
4. tdf#127921 Presenter View of Impress 6.3.x doesn’t remember slide after Slides and Close, as it used to, but returns to 1 during presentation ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
5. tdf#128538 Restart in safe mode: Open containig folder doesn’t work and Show user profile gets a error message ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
6. tdf#128562 Pressing F5 (Navigation) in Calc crashes document, corrupts user profile, and makes Calc impossible to use ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
7. tdf#128862 CRASH: Unable to open tables in HSQLDB odb-files with apostrophe ” ‘ ” character in table name ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
8. tdf#44462 Provide a proper ‘File Association Manager’ for the windows version of Libreoffice ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
9. tdf#47490 CONFIGURATION: “Show overwrite warning when pasting data” setting is not honored when “Enter” is used to paste ( Thanks to Aditya )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#118526 CRASH: Notebookbar crashes in read mode ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
2. tdf#123851 Crash on start with KDE integration installed ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
3. tdf#124708 CRASH: Selecting all and deleting ( Thanks to Muhammet Kara )
4. tdf#128335 CRASH: cutting textboxes ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
5. tdf#128375 CRASH: Closing LibreOffice after cutting content from document ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
6. tdf#128441 Crash in: mergedlo.dll (nvidia with device 0x2182 + Win10) ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
7. tdf#128562 Pressing F5 (Navigation) in Calc crashes document, corrupts user profile, and makes Calc impossible to use ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
8. tdf#128599 Crash when typing in the Authentication Required dialog ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
9. tdf#128603 CRASH: Cutting a textbox in a reopened document ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
10. tdf#128667 Crash when pasting text with line wrap ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
11. tdf#128736 CRASH: Moving content to 2 page and undoing ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
12. tdf#128737 CRASH: Importing a specific file ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
13. tdf#128739 CRASH: working with fields ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
14. tdf#128746 Opening table properties window causes crash in development build ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
15. tdf#128753 CRASH: Closing LibreOffice after cutting content from document ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
16. tdf#128767 CRASH: Clicking on Export Directly to PDF (gen) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
17. tdf#128788 Crash when trying to put autovalue on a field of a table ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
18. tdf#128802 customize toolbar with drag and drop causes crash ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
19. tdf#128862 CRASH: Unable to open tables in HSQLDB odb-files with apostrophe ” ‘ ” character in table name ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
20. tdf#129025 CRASH: Closing LibreOffice while Options dialog is open ( gen ) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#108642 FILEOPEN: document with a complex table structure takes double the time to open when the sidebar is enabled (gtk3) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#126043 Tools -> Customize has a nagging delay of 3 seconds on each opening ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
3. tdf#128812 LibreOffice – calc – specific xlsx document (almost) any operation (FILEOPEN, FORMATTING) takes about 1 min ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

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

1. tdf#38199 Writer EDITING: Why when I press tab in read-only mode, then the document scrolls to top? ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
2. tdf#41205 PRINTING: clicking radio button “Pages” should select pane contents for page selection ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
3. tdf#42112 EMF+ Fileopen: Embedded grouped diagram from particular DOC still doesn’t preview arrows correctly (diagram opens fine if extracted from MSO) ( Thanks to Bartosz Kosiorek )
4. tdf#43021 Macros: FilePicker method setDisplayDirectory shows wrong folder with native dialog Win 7 (64-bit) ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
5. tdf#44462 Provide a proper ‘File Association Manager’ for the windows version of Libreoffice ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
6. tdf#47490 CONFIGURATION: “Show overwrite warning when pasting data” setting is not honored when “Enter” is used to paste ( Thanks to Aditya )
7. tdf#54204 Hyperlinks between documents not works if link contains anchor at the end ( Thanks to Tünde Tóth )
8. tdf#76586 FILEOPEN 2007 DOCX Column width of table within table not imported properly (OK if resaved in MSO) ( Thanks to László Németh )
9. tdf#84183 [Infobar] Wrong appearance of clicked close button ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
10. tdf#84929 EDITING: Clicking in the footer area brings focus/view to last cursor position on page ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
11. tdf#88922 Resizing a chart legend makes the chart’s body rezise on top of it ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
12. tdf#94288 Entering chart mode doesnt show chart sidebar ( Thanks to Muhammet Kara )
13. tdf#95374 FILEOPEN DOCX Margin import error. LibreOffice imports with -1cm margin that should be 0cm ( Thanks to László Németh )

WORKSFORME bugs

106 bugs have been retested by 40 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 15 )
2. Timur ( 11 )
3. Buovjaga ( 9 )
4. Julien Nabet ( 8 )
5. eisa01 ( 7 )
6. Robert Großkopf ( 5 )
7. Heiko Tietze ( 5 )
8. Roman Kuznetsov ( 4 )
9. Dieter Praas ( 4 )
10. Aron Budea ( 3 )

DUPLICATED bugs

131 bugs have been duplicated by 29 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 29 )
2. Timur ( 15 )
3. V Stuart Foote ( 11 )
4. Alex Thurgood ( 8 )
5. Oliver Brinzing ( 8 )
6. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 7 )
7. Roman Kuznetsov ( 5 )
8. libreoffice.bak ( 4 )
9. Heiko Tietze ( 4 )
10. Dieter Praas ( 4 )

Verified bug fixes

104 bugs have been verified by 20 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 75 )
2. Timur ( 6 )
3. Dieter Praas ( 4 )
4. Buovjaga ( 2 )
5. BogdanB ( 2 )
6. Michael Weghorn ( 2 )
7. roland ( 2 )
8. raal ( 1 )
9. Patrick Jaap ( 1 )
10. Eike Rathke ( 1 )

Categorized Bugs

241 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 32 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

1. Dieter Praas ( 51 )
2. Roman Kuznetsov ( 32 )
3. LibreOfficiant ( 29 )
4. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 27 )
5. V Stuart Foote ( 19 )
6. sdc.blanco ( 11 )
7. Rizal Muttaqin ( 9 )
8. Xisco Faulí ( 7 )
9. Aron Budea ( 7 )
10. Luke ( 5 )

Regression Bugs

114 bugs have been set as regressions by 24 people.

Top 10

1. Xisco Faulí ( 52 )
2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 10 )
3. Alex Thurgood ( 8 )
4. Timur ( 6 )
5. Roman Kuznetsov ( 5 )
6. Oliver Brinzing ( 5 )
7. eisa01 ( 3 )
8. Jan-Marek Glogowski ( 2 )
9. Dieter Praas ( 2 )
10. Julien Nabet ( 2 )

Bisected Bugs

99 bugs have been bisected by 13 people.

Top 10 Bisecters

1. Xisco Faulí ( 66 )
2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 9 )
3. Aron Budea ( 6 )
4. raal ( 6 )
5. Oliver Brinzing ( 3 )
6. Roman Kuznetsov ( 2 )
7. writepaperforme2 ( 1 )
8. Gabor Kelemen ( 1 )
9. Buovjaga ( 1 )
10. Michael Weghorn ( 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. 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

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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

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Evolution of Open bibisectRequests

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Evolution of Highest Priority Bugs

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Evolution of High Priority Bugs

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