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14 Jun 2024

LibreOffice 24.8 Beta1 is available for testing

By x1sc0 On 14 June 2024 In releases

LibreOffice 24.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2024 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 24.8 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 24.8 started at the beginning of December, 2023. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 24.8 Alpha1, 672 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 191 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR WINDOWS 7 USERS
Internal python version has been upgraded to python 3.9 which no longer supports Windows 7. It’s very important to us to know whether LibreOffice 24.8 still works on Windows 7 or not, as well as its python functionalities. Please, do test this version and give us feedback.

LibreOffice 24.8 Beta1 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it can be installed alongside the standard version.

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

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

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

Happy testing!!

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6 Jun 2024

QA/Dev Report: May 2024

By x1sc0 On 6 June 2024 In reports

General Activities

LibreOffice 24.2.3 was released on May 2
LibreOffice 7.6.7 was released on May 10
Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for SEQUENCE and UNIQUE Calc functions and finalised help for RANDARRAY, XLOOKUP, XMATCH, FILTER, RANDARRAY, SORT and SORTBY functions. He also improved the help for Calc’s Advanced Filter, added extended tips to Sparklines dialog and improved the descriptions seen in the UI for Calc’s RANDARRAY and UNIQUE functions
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos improved the readability and grammar of Help pages
Stéphane Guillou (TDF) added help content for the new ability to start a presentation from the command line at an arbitrary slide number
Alain Romedenne added unit tests for officehelper.py
Dione Maddern added help content for new bar-of-pie and pie-of-pie chart types, updated help for File Properties, Slide Show Settings, Calc View Options, Summary and Expand Slides, Edit Points Bar, Calc change tracking, Shapes menu, Bullets and Numbering Image tab alongside various fixes and cleanups
Stanislav Horacek did corrections to Calc help content
Bogdan Buzea improved help about object positioning in Writer
Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) did code cleanups in the area of measurement units and snap lines, code simplification and includes
Laurent Balland did cleanups in Impress templates and added handling of xlink:type attributes for embedded charts, so they don’t produce a warning in the console
Miklós Vajna (Collabora) created a better implementation of continuous endnotes for Microsoft Word compatibility, implemented support for DOCX/DOC mirrored object positioning and adapted DOCX paragraph handling for files created with Word 2013 or newer, so the top margin of paragraphs on other pages than the first are collapsed
Áron Budea (Collabora) made it faster to open PPTX files with custom shapes
Gökay Şatır, Pranam Lashkari, Szymon Kłos, Méven Car, Hubert Figuière, Jaume Pujantell, Henry Castro and Michael Meeks (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online
Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) refactored the code for Impress annotations and cleaned up the accessibility checker code
Julien Nabet continued polishing gssapi authentication support for the MariaDB/MySQL connector and fixed a crash when exporting spreadsheet as PDF with “whole sheet export” option
Xisco Faulí (TDF) added support for SVG 2 attribute values context-stroke and context-fill, optimised the code for getting selected points and objects, added a couple of unit tests, upgraded many dependencies and started applying the newly-added SAL_RET_MAYBENULL for enforcing null checking
Michael Stahl (allotropia) implemented support for recognising localized paragraph style names in DOCX files, fixed the visibility of shapes in header/footer in DOCX files and fixed an issue with AutoText insertion or pasting overriding Writer paragraph style indentation
Mike Kaganski (Collabora) continued polishing HTML map export for text hyperlinks in frames, made LibreOffice’s own OLE objects obey AddReplacementImages setting, made it so the newly-added Windows version detection also handles architectures other than x86_64 and fixed a Writer undo issue affecting list levels
Caolán McNamara (Collabora) introduced SAL_RET_MAYBENULL which for debug builds and MSVC uses _Ret_maybenull_ and -analyze to enforce null checking. He also fixed many issues found by static analysers and fuzzers
Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) worked on WASM build, creating a UNO bridge for it, worked on MAR autoupdater and did many code cleanups and adapted the code to compiler changes
Noel Grandin (Collabora) optimised the speed of Calc column height calculation and getting the text script type and made loading large XLS files faster. He also did many code cleanups mainly in the area of strings
Justin Luth (Collabora) added a button to Notebookbar UIs to toggle dark mode, fixed an issue with comment replies in DOCX appearing in the wrong order, made it possible to start presentations at a specific slide using command line parameters, fixed percents misbehaving when used as list level prefixes/suffixes in Writer, made image fills work in imported DOCX files, fixed an issue with paragraphs in textboxes losing their left and right paragraph indents in imported DOC files and made it so separators for lists with None numbering level are not exported to DOCX
Michael Weghorn (TDF) worked on the accessibility features of Windows, GTK3 and Qt UIs in areas such as comboboxes, made it so the Number of copies field in the Print dialog only responds to mousewheel when the mouse is over it, fixed a Qt6 freeze, made Qt6 support video playback in Impress presentations on Wayland and did cleanups in the Android code
Balázs Varga (allotropia) added Excel2021 array functions RANDARRAY and UNIQUE to Calc, polished the XLOOKUP and XMATCH implementations, made it possible to format characters in text boxes and shapes inside charts, added an option to make data validity case-sensitive in Calc and made the Open Remote button in the Start Center respect disabling via a config file
Patrick Luby did many macOS stability improvements
Jim Raykowski made Navigator Headings display flat when alphabetically sorted and improved context menus related to Navigator
Sarper Akdemir (allotropia) continued polishing the new pane display of Presenter Notes in Impress
Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) made it so dialog tabs that would have spanned multiple horizontal lines are displayed vertically and made bullets used in the current document be displayed in the bullets dropdown
Armin Le Grand (allotropia) continued the rework of handling attributes and properties
Oliver Specht (CIB) made case cycling more robust, continued improving the dialog for managing user fields, fixed an issue with calculation in Writer tables with merged cells, improved OOXML compatibility with wrapped through shapes and images and made it so Data Validation in the context menu is disabled in protected Calc sheets
Arnaud Versini did some code cleanups
Heiko Tietze (TDF) improved some dialogs, made the focus rectangle more prominent for toolbar widgets, made Calc comment authorship optional, increased the mouse hit area for Calc column/row resizing actions and made the visibility of formatting marks more intuitive
Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) expanded the use of Windows attention-grabbing FlashWindow API to dialogs opening, documents loading and LibreOffice starting
László Németh continued polishing new hyphenation options, fixed ordinal indicators for Portuguese and Catalan when using AutoCorrect and made resizing images work in fixed-height Writer table cells in all cases
Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) synchronised the Developer Guide hosted in TDF wiki with ODK examples and updated the PyUNO code for setting Python home directory to use PyConfig with newer Python versions
Christian Lohmaier (TDF) made the makefiles easier to read by getting rid of overly complicated leftover conventions from a time when there was a need to deal with split repositories and two different build systems. He also worked on build support under Windows Subsystem for Linux
Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) helped Samuel with the vertical dialog tabs work and fixed build issues
Eike Rathke (Red Hat) fixed a rounding issue when saving to XLSX, fixed an issue with array separators changing when using the fill handle, made Excel intersect operator (space) be correctly detected in XLSX import and made Japanese calendar format import from XLSX more robust
Jonathan Clark (TDF) finalised making BreakIterator (for breaking words or lines) use ICU, made Writer text layout across formatting changes more robust, avoiding incorrect kerning, fixed Writer text shaping across formatting changes and improved CJK fallback font rendering performance
Jakub Kościelak made 64-bit Windows be correctly detected and made the MSI installer code more conformant
Regina Henschel fixed an issue with object positioning after row sort in Calc AutoFilter and made text fit to contour in rotated polygons or bézier curves
Shail Gautum made both Calc’s rolumn/row highlighting and edit mode highlighting more robust and fixed a build issue
Pierre Vacher made zoned time type handling correct in Base table design and made it possible to manage relationships outside the default catalog/schema in Base
Tibor Nagy (allotropia) made it possible to change default bullet symbols via the UI and made Writer hyperlink names show as tooltips
Bayram Çiçek (Collabora) improved the speed of opening Tools – Options by deferring the indexing of dialog strings for the search feature and made it so AutoFill in Calc can now be called via .uno commands without needing to use the mouse
Kurt Nordback continued polishing the of-pie chart type
Rafał Dobrakowski made zoom in/out smoother in Calc preview
Adam Seskunas made it so Writer tables get copied as a matrix to plain text editors
Venetia Furtado added support for measuring the start up time between each splash screen update
Rafael Lima reworked the new cell outline to work nice with different zoom levels and made it so AutoFill handle updates the cursor right after merging cells
Leonard Sasse did cleanups in Python code
Rizal Muttaqin added new icons for of-pie chart types

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

438 bugs, 55 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 272 people.

Top 10 Reporters

Eyal Rozenberg ( 19 )
Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 18 )
Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 15 )
Mike Kaganski ( 11 )
johnks ( 9 )
Mihai Vasiliu ( 9 )
Regina Henschel ( 8 )
Heiko Tietze ( 7 )
Hossein ( 7 )
Xisco Faulí ( 7 )

Triaged Bugs

484 bugs have been triaged by 62 people.

Top 10 Triagers

Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 177 )
Heiko Tietze ( 52 )
m_a_riosv ( 47 )
Dieter ( 21 )
Buovjaga ( 17 )
V Stuart Foote ( 17 )
Julien Nabet ( 16 )
Mike Kaganski ( 16 )
ady ( 12 )
Robert Großkopf ( 11 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

472 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

178 bugs have been fixed by 39 people.

Top 10 Fixers

Mike Kaganski ( 15 )
Dione Maddern ( 11 )
Heiko Tietze ( 9 )
Justin Luth ( 8 )
Caolán McNamara ( 8 )
Balazs Varga ( 6 )
Miklos Vajna ( 6 )
Jonathan Clark ( 4 )
Patrick Luby ( 4 )
Michael Stahl ( 4 )

List of critical bugs fixed

List of high severity bugs fixed

tdf#126573 Add array functions in Calc: FILTER, SORT, SORTBY, UNIQUE, SEQUENCE, RANDARRAY ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
tdf#144576 Copy a table from Writer to plain text editor or as unformatted text pastes a list instead of matrix (like Calc does) ( Thanks to Adam Seskunas )
tdf#159027 Writer table formulas calculated incorrectly in merged cells when table splits over pages ( Thanks to Oliver Specht )
tdf#160937 Document Properties pages in all modules do not fit screen and cannot be resized (gtk3/gtk4) ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )
tdf#161020 Vertical Tab dialogs–initial size of the style dialog is too small ( Thanks to Thorsten Behrens )
tdf#161047 Vertical Tab dialogs–Page style dialog is too small and not resizeable ( Thanks to Thorsten Behrens )
tdf#161049 Vertical Tab dialogs–Format Cells dialog in recent 24.8 alpha is too small ( Thanks to Thorsten Behrens )
tdf#161190 LibreOffice Calc crashes if you export a spreadsheet as PDF with “whole sheet export” option enabled. ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
tdf#61444 Text layout broken across formatting changes (color, underline, etc.) ( Thanks to Jonathan Clark )

List of crashes fixed

tdf#160855 LibreOffice crashes when Calc cells are selected/copied ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
tdf#160898 Crash selecting all (Ctrl+A) in a temporarily visible paragraph under a table inside a table ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
tdf#160906 Crash when changing formatting (e.g. font) inside Text Box Form Control ( Thanks to Armin Le Grand (allotropia) )
tdf#161083 CRASH: closing the document ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
tdf#161190 LibreOffice Calc crashes if you export a spreadsheet as PDF with “whole sheet export” option enabled. ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

List of performance issues fixed

tdf#148616 FILEOPEN PPTX A certain POTX template is slow to open ( Thanks to Aron Budea )
tdf#160056 calc threaded calculation performance issue ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
tdf#160897 FILEOPEN: layout loop, freeze in master document linked to subdocument ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
tdf#81272 Libreoffice Is Very Slow Rendering Chinese Characters (because of font fallback?) ( Thanks to

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21 May 2024

LibreOffice 24.8 Alpha1 is available for testing

By x1sc0 On 21 May 2024 In releases

LibreOffice 24.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2024 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 24.8 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 24.8 started at the beginning of December, 2023. Since then, 4448 commits have been submitted to the code repository and more than 667 bugs were set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.

LibreOffice 24.8 Alpha1 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it can be installed alongside the standard version.

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

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

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

Happy testing!!

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9 May 2024

QA/Dev Report: April 2024

By x1sc0 On 9 May 2024 In reports

General Activities

Olivier Hallot (TDF) added Help content for user interface selection dialog, Calc row recalculation at load time, automatic labeled ranges in Calc and font embedding. He also updated menu item paths in Help
Rafael Lima added support for hidden named expressions in Calc, added Reload command to Notebookbar UIs and made named ranges created by the Solver in Calc hidden by default
Stéphane Guillou (TDF) updated Help content for Navigator’s Navigate By
Alain Romedenne continued improving the officehelper Python script for connecting to LibreOffice processes
Dione Maddern improved Help content for inserting objects from the Gallery and did cleanups in Help
Colton Garrett improved Help content for OpenCL and added a Help page for digital signing of paragraphs
Laurent Balland did style cleanups in Impress templates
Miklós Vajna (Collabora) fixed an issue with shape positioning in DOCX import and did many code cleanups
Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed an issue with unwanted spacing in printed text
Marco Cecchetti, Gökay Şatır, Pranam Lashkari, Szymon Kłos and Michael Meeks (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online
Attila Szűcs (Collabora) continued improving the performance of handling transparent animated GIFs
Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) improved the text scaling in Impress text boxes, implemented support for custom cell format of pivot table output found in OOXML and did many code cleanups and restructurings
Julien Nabet added gssapi authentication support for the MariaDB/MySQL connector, fixed UI issues in Writer’s Paragraph dialog related to the “Allow to split paragraph” option, fixed crashes and did code cleanups
Xisco Faulí (TDF) continued the implementation of SVG filters
Michael Stahl (allotropia) changed the handling of paragraph and text attributes in empty lines at the end of paragraphs to match the behaviour seen in Microsoft Word
Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed issues with rotated text being partially cut off, made it possible to create DDE links to files with special characters in their names on Windows, made the Basic LIKE operator more robust, fixed an issue preventing Windows users with special characters in their names from importing PDF files into Draw, made the position shifting behaviour more robust for objects anchored As Character in Writer, fixed an issue with chapter titles in headers/footers getting mixed up due to headings in endnote content, fixed handling of em and ex units in the properties of imported SVG files, improved the stability of text part positioning in SVG files, fixed handling of whitespace in SVG text, fixed a Draw issue causing font colour to not be retained in certain situations and restored HTML map export for text hyperlinks in frames. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations
Caolán McNamara (Collabora) continued improving performance of threaded calculation in Calc. He also fixed crashes and many issues found by static analysers and fuzzers
Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) worked on WASM build, added a new Expert Configuration setting to not offer Safe Mode in the UI, fixed the msvc_win32_arm64 UNO bridge and worked on Windows Subsystem for Linux support. He also did many code cleanups and adapted the code to compiler changes
Noel Grandin (Collabora) did a big restructuring allowing optimisations to writerfilter which is responsible for RTF and OOXML file support, continued improving the speed of print preview with large merged rows in spreadsheets, improved the speed of loading conditional formatting rules in XLS files and changed to a faster algorithm for generating selection overlays. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations
Justin Luth (Collabora) fixed an issue with paragraph style overrides in imported DOCX files, fixed an issue with protected cell ranges not exporting to XLSX correctly, made parsing of cell addresses in XLSX import more robust, fixed a UI glitch in Groupedbar Compact related to pivot tables and made the z-index of VML GroupShapes import correctly from DOCX files
Michael Weghorn (TDF) worked on the accessibility features of Windows, GTK3 and GTK4 UIs in areas such as toolbar button toggles and Navigator, made IME cursor position reporting more reliable and fixed an issue with form control help texts showing up where they shouldn’t with kf5 UI
Balázs Varga (allotropia) made it possible to do character formatting in chart text elements and included OOXML support for the formatting, continued polishing XLOOKUP and SORT function implementations and added Excel2021 array function SEQUENCE to Calc
Patrick Luby fixed a macOS hang caused by JDBC driver extension, fixed PDF export of presentations containing PDF images, fixed an issue with cursor leftovers being displayed when using Skia/Metal UI rendering on macOS and made SVG icon rendering respect Retina resolution on macOS
Jim Raykowski made fixes and optimisations to Navigator in Impress/Draw context, including fixing an update glitch after saving and reloading and made it possible to delete footnotes and endnotes using the Navigator in Writer
Sarper Akdemir (allotropia) reworked Presenter Notes in Impress, so they are now available as a collapsible pane under the slide in Normal view and made it so mouse scrolling fully visible slides/pages in Impress/Draw switches between the previous/next one
Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) worked on Impress Presenter Notes pane together with Sarper, made it so text formatting toolbar gets enabled when focusing into a text box and ensured text is properly aligned when tabstop is outside of textbox
Armin Le Grand (allotropia) continued polishing support for editing Impress slides during presentation and continued the rework of handling attributes and properties
Oliver Specht (CIB) improved the dialog for managing user fields, made it so Cycle Case will be applied to the sentence if the cursor is at the sentence end and implemented support for DOCVARIABLE fields in imported DOC files
Arnaud Versini did cleanups in locale handling code
Heiko Tietze (TDF) did improvements to several dialogs and made it so the cell focus rectangle in Calc appears outside the active cell
Taichi Haradaguchi updated Help content after UI changes, updated external library versions and did many UI string fixes and cleanups
Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed a crash in Writer Navigator
Vivek Javiya (Collabora) extended the easy conditional formatting dialog in Calc
László Németh added DOCX import support for hyphenate-keep, added a Hyphenation Across option into Paragraph dialog’s Text Flow tab in Writer, made it possible to resize table rows even if cursor is outside the table in Writer and made Writer table cell selection and resizing more robust when dealing with images in cells
Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) removed obsolete reserved shortcuts and improved documentation for the related code
Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) fixed some dialog settings not being remembered across sessions and did code cleanups in the area of code simplification and includes
Ritobroto Mukherjee added sinusoidal and coil-like shapes and ported Java TerminationTest ODK example to C++
Christian Lohmaier (TDF) worked on build support under Windows Subsystem for Linux
Moritz Duge (allotropia) optimised the loading of GPG key data
AntonyDas Nadar (Collabora) enabled accessibility for comboboxes in Sidebar
Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) made editing Impress slides during presentation non-experimental
Khushi Gautam implemented the Sidebar Quick Find deck in Writer as part of an Outreachy project
Gabriel Masei (1&1) improved CSV field separator detection when several separators are selected on import
Mohit Marathe added UI to set document properties TabsRelativeToIndent and TabOverMargin
Sujatro Bhadra replaced AutoFormat button with table style listbox in Writer’s Convert Text to Table dialog
Eike Rathke (Red Hat) added [Multiple] and [Undetermined] to language list
Leonid Ryzhov made LanguageTool use correct default URL when username/API key are set
Jonathan Clark (TDF) worked on making BreakIterator (for breaking words or lines) use ICU
Juan C. Sanz made it possible to connect to MS Access .mdb files by using Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 provider
Kira Tubo added several automated tests for Writer
Zeph Chai ported ChartInDraw and ChartInWriter ODK examples to Python
Sahil Gautam extended Insert Cells Dialog to allow adding a set of rows/columns and made the cell background change when entering edit mode in Calc
Ahmed Hamed improved the conditional formatting dialog by replacing the static “>=” with a dropdown of different operators
Luv Sharma made the handling of “#” characters more robust in Basic
Jakub Kościelak did fixes to the Windows installer and improved the presentation of the Windows version string in Help – About dialog (based on earlier work by Joel Dowdy and Achintya Sharma)
Alex Henrie added missing file types to Linux desktop files
Todor Balabanov improved the accuracy of the comparison code in NLP Solver

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

410 bugs, 67 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 260 people.

Top 10 Reporters

Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 16 )
Telesto ( 14 )
Mike Kaganski ( 12 )
Heiko Tietze ( 10 )
Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 10 )
Eyal Rozenberg ( 9 )
Xisco Faulí ( 8 )
Tyler ( 7 )
peter josvai ( 7 )
Cor Nouws ( 5 )

Triaged Bugs

398 bugs have been triaged by 66 people.

Top 10 Triagers

Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 61 )
m_a_riosv ( 48 )
Heiko Tietze ( 47 )
Buovjaga ( 27 )
Dieter ( 21 )
V Stuart Foote ( 21 )
Mike Kaganski ( 20 )
raal ( 14 )
Xisco Faulí ( 14 )
ady ( 12 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

430 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

149 bugs have been fixed by 37 people.

Top 10 Fixers

Mike Kaganski ( 19 )
Michael Stahl ( 7 )
Noel Grandin ( 7 )
Heiko Tietze ( 6 )
Patrick Luby ( 6 )
Jim Raykowski ( 5 )
Xisco Fauli ( 5 )
Balazs Varga ( 5 )
László Németh ( 4 )
Michael Weghorn ( 4 )

List of high severity bugs fixed

tdf#154581 Paragraph language and character formatting (bold, italic) lost when pasting HTML ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
tdf#160016 Inserted GIF flipped vertically; previews in Gallery and Fontwork dialog flipped or mangled ( Thanks to Tomaž Vajngerl )
tdf#160444 Crash on closing the 3D-Effects Window ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
tdf#160632 TABLE: Crash when using column width dialog ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
tdf#160698 Crash after opening Print dialog ( Thanks to Tibor Nagy )
tdf#58434 Show formatting marks when displaying non-printing characters +F10, rather than field shading +F8 (for formatting marks as in comment 18) ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )

List of crashes fixed

tdf#159379 Writer crashes when multiple images are drag-and-dropped “As Character” (steps in comment 8) ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
tdf#159683 Crash on closing LibreOffice with certain content on the clipboard ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
tdf#159719 SfxItemPool::IsInRange crash: save and reload in Impress or Draw ( Thanks to Armin Le Grand (allotropia) )
tdf#160444 Crash on closing the 3D-Effects Window ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
tdf#160590 Impress crashes with skia Metal enabled, skia raster software rendering works (MacOS Monterey (12.7.4) w/Intel HD Graphics 6000) ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
tdf#160632 TABLE: Crash when using column width dialog ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
tdf#160698 Crash after opening Print dialog ( Thanks to Tibor Nagy )
tdf#160765 EDITING: Insert comment – Copy – Paste Comments – Undo – Show comment -> LO crash ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
tdf#160768 Changing value in a text box control with a link cell set up, Crash ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
tdf#160827 Crash on opening certain .docx files ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

List of performance issues fixed

tdf#160399 Print Preview freezes with whole row merged in large spreadsheet ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
tdf#160706 speed up loading conditional formatting rule in XLS ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

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

tdf#107081 LOCALHELP: Index: backgrounds;inserting form Gallery ( Thanks to Dione Maddern )
tdf#108057 Primary key should default to AutoValue=Yes when type is integer ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
tdf#132253 CHARACTER DIALOG: Drop hyperlink from character attributes ( Thanks to Olivier Hallot )
tdf#132599 Option to stop words hyphenating across pages

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11 Apr 2024

QA/Dev Report: March 2024

By x1sc0 On 11 April 2024 In reports

General Activities

LibreOffice 7.6.6 and LibreOffice 24.2.2 were released on March 28
Olivier Hallot (TDF) renamed Fontwork to Text along Path in the UI while updating Help, added Help content for ExportAsFixedFormat VBA method and new Calc functions FILTER, SORT and SORTBY and did several cleanups and fixes in Help
Rafael Lima made several improvements to Calc’s Solver dialog, improved the visual consistency of the Tabbed UI and added a warning about the need to reload file after changing macro security level
Stéphane Guillou (TDF) updated Help content after UI changes and improved the Help page for macro security
Alain Romedenne made many improvements to the officehelper Python script for connecting to LibreOffice processes
Dione Maddern rewrote the Help page for Calc’s SUMIF function, updated Help for Writer’s View options and did cleanups in Help
Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) did many cleanups in the area of includes while improving the script for finding unneeded includes. He also made some Help fixes
Pierre F. made many improvements and fixes to Help pages, for example in the areas of regular expressions and Basic
Andras Timar (Collabora) made Help build more robust on Windows and made some cleanups in Help regarding translatable strings
Laurent Balland updated Grey Elegant Impress template
Miklós Vajna (Collabora) improved copying and pasting between Google Sheets and Calc and did many code cleanups and improvements to automated tests
Áron Budea, Marco Cecchetti, Gökay Şatır, Pranam Lashkari, Jaume Pujantell and Michael Meeks (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online
Gülşah Köse (Collabora) made it so pressing Enter in an empty list item ends the list in Impress
Attila Szűcs (Collabora) improved the performance of handling transparent animated GIFs and made it so image placeholders imported from PPTX files do not display text
Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) did many code cleanups in graphics code
Julien Nabet fixed incorrect display of custom page numbers in Sidebar, fixed an issue with duplicating a sheet in Calc causing unwanted axis label to appear in charts and fixed some crashes
Andreas Heinisch fixed an issue with saving print ranges to XLS files
Xisco Faulí (TDF) made a dozen additions and changes to automated tests and added a script to replace missing fonts in test documents. He also improved SVG support by implementing overflow:visible, switch element and the filters feMerge, feMergeNode, feBlend and feComposite.
Michael Stahl (allotropia) made the Curl-based WebDAV content provider more robust
Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed issues with copying and pasting charts in Calc, fixed an issue causing incorrect closing tags in Writer HTML export, fixed an issue affecting conditional formatting in overlapping cell ranges, made canceling out of Insert Chart dialog more robust in case of multiple views, fixed an issue with picking a connection type in Database Wizard, fixed an issue in the UNO API implementation for text ranges, harmonised the rounding in Calc’s number formatter and ROUND function and made it so index field names can be single characters which is good news for Japanese users
Caolán McNamara (Collabora) improved the performance of threaded calculation in Calc, fixed an issue with Calc’s currency selection dropdown in GTK UIs, improved dark mode support and made “Always autocorrect to” more robust. He also fixed crashes and many issues found by static analysers and fuzzers
Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) worked on WASM build. He also did many code cleanups and adapted the code to compiler changes
Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved loading time for PPTX files with lots of unused master slides, improved loading time for DOCX files with lots of headers and footers, optimised the handling of columns in Calc, improved the speed of print preview with large merged rows in spreadsheets. He also did many code cleanups
Justin Luth (Collabora) made the new global config option RecalcOptimalRowHeightMode also work for XLSX files, fixed a crash when trying to overwrite file in read-only directory when its lock file exists, fixed an issue with z-ordering of objects in DOCX files, fixed image placement issues in DOC/DOCX files, made searching backwards for end of paragraph regex work in Writer, fixed an issue causing unwanted toggling of Ordered List button and made it so frame text boundary line in Writer is only shown if display of formatting marks is active
Michael Weghorn (TDF) fixed HiDPI scaling with KF6/Qt6 UIs under Wayland and worked on the accessibility features of GTK4 UI
Balázs Varga (allotropia) added Excel2021 array functions FILTER, SORT and SORTBY to Calc, fixed issues with chart rendering in XLSX files, improved the performance of Calc’s SUMPRODUCT function and fixed an issue with objects not shown in slideshow in a PPTX file if they have fillstyle or linestyle
Patrick Luby (NeoOffice) fixed issues related to the transparency-to-alpha rework, fixed a Skia issue related to a changed default, fixed horizontal swiping and scrolling when using an RTL UI, made it possible to encrypt files with using public GPG keys with unknown Ownertrust on macOS and fixed macOS crashes
Jim Raykowski fixed an issue preventing use of keyboard shortcuts when focused into a tab bar element in the Sidebar, fixed an issue with text selection over pages for multi column tables with repeated headings, improved the name display of custom shapes in the Navigator in Impress/Draw and added a UNO API command to set layer of objects in Draw
Sarper Akdemir (allotropia) made it so a reload is not required for embedded objects to be disabled
Regina Henschel worked on extruded/3D shape support in PPTX files
Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) improved the accessibility checker
Armin Le Grand (allotropia) continued polishing support for editing Impress slides during presentation and continued the rework of handling attributes and properties
Oliver Specht (CIB) made it possible to insert an empty paragraph before an index that is the first element in a Writer document, made Clone Formatting more robust in Impress, added a search field to Gallery and made Cycle Case also work at the end of words
Arnaud Versini did some code cleanups and optimisations
Heiko Tietze (TDF) made Infobar close buttons easier to hit, made Bullets and Numbering dialog cleaner, improved dark mode support and added a “What’s new?” dialog to be shown on first run of a major version
Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) worked on Developers Guide examples and fixed updating hyperlinks in Draw
Tibor Nagy (allotropia) fixed an issue with disappearing text in merged Calc cells and fixed a placeholder box being too tall in PPTX files
Kurt Nordback finished adding a chart type for “pie-with-remainder-as-another-pie” and fixed an issue where stacked column charts did not show connection lines
Taichi Haradaguchi did some cleanups in dialog definition files
Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) improved the code for WinAPI FlashWindow() function that alerts the user about an event in an application
Hubert Figuière (Collabora) worked on jsdialog used by Collabora Online
David Gilbert did code cleanups in PDF import code
Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
Leonard Sasse did many cleanups in Python files
Fridrich Štrba fixed building with Java 8 and autoconf 2.72
Vivek Javiya made heading colours dynamic in Calc, allowing for automatic adjustment
László Németh fixed hyphenation at stem boundary by adding a new hyphenation option “Compound characters at line end” and implemented hyphenate-keep paragraph property to keep both parts of a hyphenated word within a single page
Adlair Cerecedo-Mendez added LibreOffice minor version and CPU architecture to PDF metadata
Skyler Grey (Collabora) improved animating of bullets in presentations exported as SVG
René Engelhard (Debian) did build fixes
Sahil Gautam made hyperlinks accessible via keyboard

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

468 bugs, 82 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 297 people.

Top 10 Reporters

peter josvai ( 20 )
Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 17 )
Rafael Lima ( 12 )
Telesto ( 11 )
Jeff Fortin Tam ( 10 )
Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 9 )
prrvchr ( 8 )
Michael Otto ( 7 )
Kevin Suo ( 6 )
Mike Kaganski ( 6 )

Triaged Bugs

469 bugs have been triaged by 73 people.

Top 10 Triagers

Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 149 )
V Stuart Foote ( 29 )
m_a_riosv ( 28 )
Heiko Tietze ( 22 )
Buovjaga ( 20 )
Julien Nabet ( 15 )
Mike Kaganski ( 15 )
Rafael Lima ( 15 )
dunguyen ( 14 )
ady ( 14 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

429 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

143 bugs have been fixed by 35 people.

Top 10 Fixers

Mike Kaganski ( 12 )
Caolán McNamara ( 12 )
Julien Nabet ( 8 )
Justin Luth ( 7 )
Pierre F ( 6 )
Xisco Fauli ( 6 )
Patrick Luby ( 6 )
Rafael Lima ( 6 )
Balazs Varga ( 5 )
Noel Grandin ( 5 )

List of critical bugs fixed

tdf#160036 Selection invisible in a11y High Contrast modes with SKIA/Raster, Skia/Vulkan unaffected ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
tdf#160095 CRASH: using ALT+RETURN twice ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

List of high severity bugs fixed

tdf#142133 Hyperlinks cannot be clicked / interacted with in PDF export of RTF or DOCX files (comment 9) ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
tdf#152524 macOS: LibreOffice crashes (gpgme / gpgmeio) on macOS 13 Ventura ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
tdf#154863 Crash when moving images around in a multipage table ( Thanks to Matt K )
tdf#157258 “Always autocorrect to” deletes the word instead of replacing (affects extensions like Grammalecte, LanguageTool, Antidote) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
tdf#159094 FILESAVE PDF Tagged PDF export of media file fails to create PDF ( Thanks to Tibor Nagy )
tdf#159373 Crash in: ScTable::HasAttrib(short,long,short,long,HasAttrFlags) ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
tdf#159931 Exported pptx cannot be opened in PowerPoint because a referenced part does not exist ( Thanks to Sarper Akdemir )
tdf#160149 CRASH: undoing conditional format ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
tdf#160184 allow to “Encrypt with GPG key” on save using public keys with unknown Ownertrust ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
tdf#160365 Writer: unable to turn off “text boundaries” for frames / tables ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
tdf#83720 PIVOTTABLE: Wrong date format in column field ( Thanks to Tomaž Vajngerl )
tdf#93352 UI. RTL: Horizontal scrolling for right-to-left Sheet moves in opposite direction (macOS and Linux) ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )

List of crashes fixed

tdf#152524 macOS: LibreOffice crashes (gpgme / gpgmeio) on macOS 13 Ventura ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
tdf#154072 crash / no effect when clicking some dropdown buttons when toolbar overflows ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
tdf#154863 Crash when moving images around in a multipage table ( Thanks to Matt K )
tdf#158344 FILEOPEN DOCX Crash on opening file ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
tdf#158945 Calc: crash when entering text in a cell ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
tdf#159373 Crash in: ScTable::HasAttrib(short,long,short,long,HasAttrFlags) ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
tdf#159879 Crash when closing “3D View” dialog ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
tdf#159933 crash when applying Solarize filter to raster image ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
tdf#160095 CRASH: using ALT+RETURN twice ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
tdf#160149 CRASH: undoing conditional format ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
tdf#160192 CRASH when trying to overwrite file in read-only directory when its lock file exists ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
tdf#160222 LibreOffice 7.6.5 – SF_Session RunApplication crash for unknown reason ( Thanks to Jean-Pierre Ledure )
tdf#160368 Crash on save after deleting sheet ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of performance issues fixed

tdf#159687 Cutting rows from specific file with whole column references in formula is slow ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )

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

tdf#103068 New Database Wizard gets confused between ODBC and JDBC connection if you backup twice to step 1. ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
tdf#116156 Python // officehelper.py misbehaves since 5.3.7 ( Thanks to Alain Romedenne )
tdf#126464 Remove “Numbering on/off” UNO command

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11 Mar 2024

QA/Dev Report: February 2024

By x1sc0 On 11 March 2024 In reports

General Activities

LibreOffice 7.6.5 was released on February 22
LibreOffice 24.2.1 was released on February 29
Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help content for Calc’s XLOOKUP and XMATCH functions, Navigate By in Find toolbar, Draw’s Shrink text on overflow and did many fixed and cleanups in Help
Rafael Lima made it so selected text in the BASIC editor is automatically inserted into the search bar, added a command for toggling code block commenting in BASIC IDE and fixed an issue where Duplicate Sheet command might create the sheet in the wrong file, if having two open files with the same name
Stanislav Horacek updated command paths in Help
Stéphane Guillou (TDF) updated command paths in Help
Alain Romedenne updated ScriptForge Help pages, updated Python shell script Help for macOS and improved Python example in SDK
Dione Maddern did many fixes and updates to Help pages, mostly fixing links
Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) made some cleanups in Help and in UI and UNO bridges code
Laurent Balland fixed an issue with skip empty cells option not working for the last column in Calc Text Import dialog, made it so custom number formats using the ? character replace trailing zeroes with figure spaces which have a width approximating a digit and removed unneeded thumbnail.png images from Wizard templates
Miklós Vajna (Collabora) added legal numbering support for DOC and RTF files, made Calc HTML import support data-sheets attributes, made Calc’s cell editing accept pasted HTML fragments, made DOCX content control handling more robust and continued polishing floating table support
Szymon Kłos, Gülşah Köse, Marco Cecchetti, Gökay Şatır, Pranam Lashkari, Michael Meeks and Méven Car (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online
Attila Szűcs (Collabora) fixed PPTX issues with multiline field wrapping and stacked text
Henry Castro (Collabora) tweaked Calc’s background colour filter to not extend transparent colours to empty cells and fixed an issue with Sidebar not displaying the full localised currency string for cell properties
Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) made it so the currencies used in a spreadsheet are put at the top of the currency pop-up list, made pivot table data cache handling smarter and improved the handling of XLS documents with unknown DRM encryption (mainly due to some Excel addons)
Julien Nabet fixed an issue where Data validation without error check allowed entering incorrect data, fixed LOWER not being supported in Base’s Query-GUI if condition was LIKE and fixed an issue with Calc Macro setting SearchWildcard to False changing SearchRegularExpression value. He also fixed some crashes
Andreas Heinisch made Calc’s Autofilter sorting and removing duplicates more robust and made it so a single click is enough to access options through Calc’s status bar
Xisco Faulí (TDF) made over a dozen additions and changes to automated tests, improved dark mode support of Writer comment UI, fixed an issue with Autofilter empty option, made SVG text baseline handling more intuitive, added support for in and result SVG filter attributes and fixed a crash
Michael Stahl (allotropia) added support for cropped images in RTF import, fixed an issue with unwanted formatting in DOCX numbered lists, fixed page style for even/odd section breaks in RTF/DOCX import and fixed a memory leak related to copying Writer content
Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made many improvements to repairing broken documents, implemented auto-accelerator feature on Windows, fixed an issue with PDF compliance, fixed an issue with vertical alignment of math formulas, fixed an issue preventing Select All in Writer from working when section at the start of document body was hidden, made the handling of temporary directories more robust, fixed an issue with unwanted wrapping in Calc and fixed crashes. He also restored a Boost library patch related to Windows locales, which was found to work around a Windows bug causing a hang after opening file dialogs
Caolán McNamara (Collabora) improved dark mode support for charts and optimised Calc’s performance. He also fixed crashes and many issues found by static analysers and fuzzers
Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) worked on WASM build. He also did many code cleanups and adapted the code to compiler changes
Noel Grandin (Collabora) dramatically improved the memory use when exporting a PDF with lots of small graphics and expanded mergedlibs build support. He also did many code cleanups
Justin Luth (Collabora) made many improvements to VML and DML graphics support and gradient support in Microsoft document formats, fixed an issue with unwanted optimal row height in XLSX import and made it so applied date/time language is detected in Impress’s insert header/footer dialog
Michael Weghorn (TDF) worked on bringing native Qt widgets to Qt/KDE UI, fixed clipboard issues affecting Qt-based UIs under Wayland on Linux, added support for module-specific window icons on Wayland and fixed accessibility issues in areas such as the Navigator and Calc’s rows and columns
Balázs Varga (allotropia) made the recently-added Calc XLOOKUP function implementation more robust, added Excel2021 function XMATCH to Calc and added a global config setting RecalcOptimalRowHeightMode for optimal row height recalculation when loading spreadsheets
Patrick Luby (NeoOffice) made many improvements to certificate management on macOS, worked around a nasty bug in Apple’s toolchain hampering debugging, fixed a performance issue related to font handling on macOS and fixed many macOS crashes
Jim Raykowski made Draw less jumpy when deleting pages, made “New style from selection” work in Impress and Draw, revamped Writer Navigator’s go to page spin control, made keyboard shortcuts work when focus is in toolbar in all UIs and improved the layout of the top toolbox of the Navigator
Sarper Akdemir (allotropia) added a panel that shows presenter notes in editing view in Impress
Regina Henschel fixed an issue with snap guides disappearing in Impress and Draw and took the first step in implementing 3D element support for PPTX import
Sahil Gautam added a selection locking feature to Calc’s Autofilter
Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) tweaked highlighting in Navigator, so headings get highlighted instead of bookmarks residing in them, added an option to not write temporary file next to local file to provide a better experience with Samba network shares and made it possible to modify default bullet selection in Writer
Armin Le Grand (allotropia) implemented support for editing Impress slides during presentation and continued the rework of handling attributes and properties
Oliver Specht (CIB) fixed an issue where the paragraph end Pilcrow character changed to a different one, if a symbol font was used, fixed importing checkboxes from RTF files, fixed selection in Writer tables with split/merged cells, made special character dialog respect the recently used font, added Writer table sidebar controls to change table alignment and left/right spacing, made it possible to use Cycle Case when cursor is at the beginning or end of a word and not only inside it, improved compatibility with RTF tables, added support for paper tray settings in RTF and DOCX files, made it so Clone Formatting in Impress only applies paragraph attributes from and to fully selected paragraphs and made it so dash replacement autocorrection also works between sentences
Matt K fixed a couple of Writer crashes
Arnaud Versini did some code cleanups
Jaume Pujantell (Collabora) fixed an issue causing text in shapes to be lost when exporting Impress presentations to SVG and implemented reading simple solid fills from the fill styles list in a Visio file theme
Heiko Tietze (TDF) improved the look of Writer comments, made the Keep Ratio setting more intuitive in the Position and Size dialog and made infobar appearances uncluttered
Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) made the build configure error out, if a buggy Windows SDK version is found
Omkar Acharekar worked on bringing native Qt widgets to Qt/KDE UI as part of an Outreachy project
Tibor Nagy (allotropia) fixed an issue where the layout of content to be printed from Calc was not refreshed when changing the orientation
Kurt Nordback worked on adding a chart type for “pie-with-remainder-as-another-pie”
Taichi Haradaguchi updated some dependencies and fixed a link in Help
Juan C. Sanz made it so Firebird embedded databases get their data saved automatically regardless of whether or not the save button is pressed
Ashod Nakashian (Collabora) fixed corner-case issues with DOCX content controls and change tracking
Yiğit Akçay added a feature for enclosing selected text in parentheses/brackets or quotation marks in Writer
Vladislav Tarakanov fixed an issue with slideshow navigation bar, where double-clicking would advance three slides
Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed an issue with field styles in RTF import
Áron Budea (Collabora) did some code cleanups
Hubert Figuière and Vivek Javiya (Collabora) worked on jsdialog used in Collabora Online
Akshay Warrier added a goto page/slide dialog for Impress and Draw
Kevin Ottens fixed backup copy creation for files on mounted Samba shares
David Gilbert fixed a PDF import performance issue involving tiling pattern fills
Po-Yen Huang fixed an issue with Calc’s ROUND function producing inconsistent results in some cases (co-authored with Franklin Weng and Firefly
Kohei Yoshida optimised Calc’s performance
Zeph Chai translated an ODK example from Java to Python

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

477 bugs, 55 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 313 people.

Top 10 Reporters

Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 23 )
Mike Kaganski ( 11 )
lvm ( 11 )
Telesto ( 10 )
Rafael Lima ( 9 )
Xisco Faulí ( 9 )
Regina Henschel ( 8 )
Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 7 )
Adalbert Hanßen ( 7 )
Olivier Hallot ( 7 )

Triaged Bugs

458 bugs have been triaged by 79 people.

Top 10 Triagers

Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 86 )
Buovjaga ( 45 )
Heiko Tietze ( 29 )
Julien Nabet ( 29 )
V Stuart Foote ( 22 )
Mike Kaganski ( 21 )
ady ( 21 )
m_a_riosv ( 21 )
Xisco Faulí ( 21 )
Dieter ( 16 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

419 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

147 bugs have been fixed by 40 people.

Top 10 Fixers

Mike Kaganski ( 15 )
Xisco Fauli ( 9 )
Michael Stahl ( 8 )
Miklos Vajna ( 8 )
Oliver Specht ( 7 )
Noel Grandin ( 6 )
Olivier Hallot ( 6 )
Justin Luth ( 5 )
Patrick Luby ( 5 )
Heiko Tietze ( 5 )

List of critical bugs fixed

tdf#157135 LibreOffice 7.6 stalls/crashes under Windows 11 with Norwegian (Bokmål) locale when opening file dialog ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
tdf#159707 CRASH: Changing to edit mode ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

List of high severity bugs fixed

tdf#126638 macOS: Can’t paste, copy, cut or ⌘A (select all) using keyboard shortcuts in Save-As field (workaround: comment 38) ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
tdf#127293 Add XLOOKUP function in Calc ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
tdf#149499 CRASH: inserting page break and undoing ( Thanks to Matt K )
tdf#156352 macOS: Save as > Encrypt with GPG key results in hang / crash ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
tdf#159302 Formula OLE in a line of text or its full height frame is now misaligned vertically, due to change of sm map units ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
tdf#159519 LibreOffice 24.2.0.3 (Windows 7) ODF files saved with passwords can be opened without any password ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
tdf#159529 Excessive memory consumption in v24.2 ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
tdf#159581 FILEOPEN XLSX 24.2: optimal row height from previous sheet may be applied to all future sheets ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
tdf#159743 German UI: Many not plausible Keyboard Shortcut Changes ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
tdf#54169 LibO doesn’t obey Windows OS setting “only show the accelerator underline when the Alt key is being pressed” ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
tdf#55004 backup copy fails when using share / samba (if nobrl cifs mount option not used) ( Thanks to Kevin Ottens )

List of crashes fixed

tdf#147731 Crash in SwFrameFormat::~SwFrameFormat() ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
tdf#149499 CRASH: inserting page break and undoing ( Thanks to Matt K )
tdf#155710 Calc crashes

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13 Feb 2024

QA/Dev Report: January 2024

By x1sc0 On 13 February 2024 In reports

General Activities

LibreOffice 24.2 was released on January, 31
Olivier Hallot (TDF) fixed a duplicate Covariance command in Notebookbar UIs, updated menu item paths in Help pages and updated Help pages for conversion filters and style Spotlight
Rafael Lima added a Color Scheme switcher to Basic IDE, added a “Delete Comment” command to the Navigator context menu, fixed drawing comment triangles in Calc at all zoom levels, made it so the visibility of UI components in the Basic IDE is remembered, made Basic IDE highlight the line where the cursor is positioned, made it possible to open the “Go to Line” dialog from the statusbar in Basic IDE, fixed Calc AutoFilter arrow color in dark mode, made it so line numbering and breakpoint in Basic IDE are on the left even in right-to-left UI and fixed a crash in Dialog Editor. He also improved the ScriptForge Help pages
Stanislav Horacek updated menu paths in Help alongside other cleanups and fixes
Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) removed unnecessary images from SVG icon themes, saving nearly 5 MB of space. He also changed the Help CSS to account for a quirk in Safari
Stéphane Guillou (TDF) continued linking Sidebar decks to Help
Alain Romedenne updated ScriptForge Help pages
Dione Maddern did many fixes and updates to Draw dialog Help pages
Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) added accessible descriptions to new Dublin Core metadata boxes, updated Help after removal of FTP protocol support and did code cleanups in the area of code simplification and includes
Laurent Balland did cleanups in the metadata of Impress templates
Miklós Vajna (Collabora) fixed the layout handling of empty paragraphs formatted as superscript in Writer, added support for HTML paste to Writer shape text or Calc cell text edit and continued polishing support for multi-page floating tables in Writer
Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
Gabriel Masei (1&1), Paris Oplopoios, Szymon Kłos, Méven Car, Andras Timar, Attila Szűcs and Áron Budea (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. Andras also fixed some FreeBSD build issues while Attila fixed hyperlink colouring in certain PPTX files and a textbox vertical alignment inversion issue when saving PPTX files
Henry Castro (Collabora) made the status bar in Calc work as expected with language selection
Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made it so the maximum number of hours that can be entered into a Calc cell with time formatting is now a 32-bit integer instead of 65535
Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued refactoring the EditEngine text editing code
Julien Nabet fixed an issue preventing some position parameters to go beyond 17 mm in Writer, fixed an issue that made ReportBuilder wizards show two different data sources, fixed several crashes and did code cleanups
Andreas Heinisch made it so font, highlight and background colour in toolbar buttons is remembered between sessions, fixed canceling Text Import in Calc locking the document and made it so question mark can be used in autotext shortcuts
László Németh continued polishing support for smart justify found in DOCX files and implemented ODF attribute fo:hyphenate to exclude a portion of text from hyphenation
Xisco Faulí (TDF) fixed a regression with multiline text exported to PDF as one line, added support for viewBox in symbol elements in SVG import and made nearly 20 additions and improvements to automated tests
Michael Stahl (allotropia) continued polishing revamped ODF encryption, fixed a regression preventing editing of index entries in Writer, worked on WASM build, fixed a Writer issue causing objects to disappear after undo followed by Enter due to invisible anchor selection and fixed slowness if Style Inspector visible during PDF export
Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made font substitution more robust, implemented support for inserting Unicode decimal codes via Alt+NumPad on Windows, fixed storing URLs in DOCX files, fixed a Writer formatting error in paragraphs with justified text, fixed PPTX import of graphic placeholder with a custom prompt, made it so Delete and Backspace move the cursor correctly in change tracking mode, fixed floating content controls importing from DOCX as separate paragraphs, improved the debugging experience in Visual Studio, fixed autotext / word completion tooltips not showing up, fixed an issue with saving word completion options, improved the IDE integration build code, got rid of unwanted space between footnote number and following text, when paragraph has hanging indent in imported DOCX files, fixed passing Integer-sized Long argument via script.invoke in BASIC, fixed unwanted interleaving of bookmark starts and ends and fixed updating path to library when it is renamed using Basic Macro Organizer. He also fixed crashes and did code cleanups
Caolán McNamara (Collabora) fixed an issue causing Similarities dialog to not appear in Base, made optimal column width in Calc more robust, fixed an issue with checkboxes under GTK3 not being disabled when settings are locked down from config, fixed an issue with Hyperlink dialog width growing too large with long text in clipboard, improved Calc performance by reducing window content invalidations and enabled Small Caps toolbar button in Impress. He also fixed crashes and many issues found by static analysers and fuzzers
Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) worked on the online update feature and WASM build and fixed an issue preventing certificate manager use. He also did many code cleanups and adapted the code to compiler changes
Noel Grandin (Collabora) optimised opening files on Unixes, fixed an issue causing Paste as RTF to lose character color and paragraph alignment from styles, improved scrolling performance in Calc and made cryptographic signing more robust. He also did many code cleanups
Justin Luth (Collabora) fixed a problem with tracked changes showing in Start Center thumbnail, fixed various cases of context menu not appearing in Writer when right-clicking the last half character, fixed an object z-order issue in DOCX files, fixed loss of number formatting in charts in DOCX import, fixed DOCX export issues causing unwanted overlapping of objects, fixed unwanted offset added to shapes in headers in DOCX import and fixed issues with pie chart import in OOXML files
Michael Weghorn (TDF) worked on bringing native Qt widgets to Qt/KDE UI and fixed accessibility issues in areas such as shortcuts. He also did many updates and cleanups to the LibreOffice Android Viewer code
Balázs Varga (allotropia) fixed an issue with copying master slide style in PPTX documents, made it so the user is taken straight to the Security Options and Warnings dialog after clicking the relevant button in an infobar notification and made accessibility warnings about simulated numbering smarter
Patrick Luby (NeoOffice) fixed many macOS crashes and a hang on iOS during export
Jim Raykowski made Spotlight more elegant by only showing it for styles that are used in the document, fixed a hyperlink editing crash while having Navigator open and made it possible to insert cross references from Navigator by dragging and dropping
Sarper Akdemir (allotropia) continued working on the feature for disabling active content, fixed an issue with background image shifting down in presentation mode in PPTX files and made it so Dublin Core meta data attribute dc:date is added to exported PDF files
Christian Lohmaier (TDF) fixed packaging of Noto fonts on macOS, fixed an issue with Windows build signing, added Armenian language pack and fixed Windows aarch64 cross-build
Regina Henschel fixed an issue with line break missing from RTF clipboard data after copying shape text
Sahil Gautam added a UI label for page preview zoom slider and made Calc cell cursor more accessible for colour blind users
Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) made the removal of meta data more extensive when the option to remove it when saving is active, implemented resizing of Writer comment section, made it so only documents from the current module are shown by default in Recent Documents and fixed an issue with an empty chart title getting unwanted text in imported PPTX files
Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) fixed build issues related to certain libraries, fixed an xpdfimport crash with missing fonts, made MAR-based LibreOffice updater non-experimental and wholesome ODF package encryption the default
Armin Le Grand (allotropia) continued the rework of handling attributes and properties
Oliver Specht (CIB) made it so that upon entering a legacy text fieldmark in Writer, placeholder text gets pre-selected, made sure paper tray settings are respected when importing RTF and DOCX files and made clone formatting switch off lists
Matt K fixed an issue with conditional formatting getting lost when moving Calc sheets around and fixed many crashes
Adam Seskunas added an automated test for moving focus to inserted image in Writer
Arnaud Versini did some code cleanups
Darshan Upadhyay, Jaume Pujantell and Vivek Javiya (Collabora) worked on jsdialog used by Collabora Online. Jaume also made font embedding in DOCX files more robust
Heiko Tietze (TDF) made Template Manager cleaner by hiding useless buttons, made the options in Image compression dialog behave more logically and improved the look of Calc comment indicator
Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) added a minimal Python extension as an example, fixed a JUnit test not running and decreased the maximum number of columns in Calc’s data entry form to prevent performance issues
Skyler Grey (Collabora) added a Calc option to keep edit mode on Enter/Tab, particularly useful for devices with an onscreen keyboard
Gökay Şatır (Collabora) fixed Ignore All not working with LanguageTool spellchecking errors
Omkar Acharekar worked on bringing native Qt widgets to Qt/KDE UI as part of an Outreachy project
Tibor Nagy (allotropia) made Calc support creation of accessible PDFs, fixed many other accessible PDF issues and fixed an issue with table styles in PPTX import
Kurt Nordback fixed an issue with combo chart render order
Marco Cecchetti (Collabora) fixed Calc view invalidation issues
Dennis Francis (Collabora) improved the performance of conditional formatting in Calc
Matthew Kogan fixed an issue with an unwanted space appearing at start of line when field wraps
Kevin Suo made it so Empty and Error entries are shown as non-selected and inactive when hidden by autofilter
Eli Schwartz (Arch Linux) improved the portability of shell scripts
Bayram Çiçek (Collabora) made inactive Calc sheets movable and copyable
Xuan Chen fixed a Java UNO bridge test failure on riscv64 CPU architecture
Winfried Donkers added Excel2021 function XLOOKUP to Calc

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

515 bugs, 76 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 297 people.

Top 10 Reporters

Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 40 )
Xisco Faulí ( 19 )
Telesto ( 16 )
Mike Kaganski ( 12 )
Tracey ( 10 )
Rafael Lima ( 10 )
Robert Großkopf ( 9 )
Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 9 )
Regina Henschel ( 8 )
Justin L ( 8 )

Triaged Bugs

523 bugs have been triaged by 67 people.

Top 10 Triagers

Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 109 )
Buovjaga ( 80 )
m_a_riosv ( 56 )
Heiko Tietze ( 41 )
Xisco Faulí ( 29 )
Mike Kaganski ( 23 )
Julien Nabet ( 17 )
Rafael Lima ( 14 )
Telesto ( 13 )
V Stuart Foote ( 12 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

456 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

181 bugs have been fixed by 39 people.

Top 10 Fixers

Mike Kaganski ( 21 )
Rafael Lima ( 13 )
Caolán McNamara ( 9 )
Justin Luth ( 8 )
Michael Stahl ( 8 )
László Németh ( 6 )
Tibor Nagy ( 6 )
Heiko Tietze ( 6 )
Samuel Mehrbrodt ( 5 )
Matt K ( 5 )

List of high severity bugs fixed

tdf#155917 Writer crashes when inserting ODT file containing PDF into table in another ODT doc ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
tdf#158965 Find Record: Similarities dialog won’t appear ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
tdf#159243 Armenian characters displaying incorrectly (as boxes) on macOS (fonts not packaged properly) ( Thanks to Christian Lohmaier )
tdf#159386 Selecting all in a certain table causes assert in SfxPoolItem::SetWhich with a debug build ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
tdf#73678 FORMATTING: Conditional Formatting lost when Click-drag Sheet2 tab to position 1 or adding, then

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16 Jan 2024

LibreOffice 24.2 RC2 is available for testing

By x1sc0 On 16 January 2024 In releases

LibreOffice 24.2 – with a new year.month versioning scheme – will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2024 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 24.2 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) the forth pre-release since the development of version 24.2 started in mid June, 2023. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 24.2 RC1, 113 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 61 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.

LibreOffice 24.2 RC2 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it will replace the standard installation.

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

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

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

Happy testing!!

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12 Jan 2024

QA/Dev Report: December 2023

By x1sc0 On 12 January 2024 In reports

General Activities

LibreOffice 7.5.9 and 7.6.4 were announced on December 7
Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated menu item paths in Help pages and updated and restructured dozens of help pages
Rafael Lima fixed line count width in Writer file properties dialog, added a button leading to Download page in the dialog showing up if trying to access Help without offline files available and made it possible to enter edit mode for comments in Calc via Navigator. He also updated ScriptForge help and added a Help page about installing offline Help
Stanislav Horacek did many fixes and cleanups in Help pages
Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) made it so multi-selection is no longer possible in Start Center as it is not actionable. He also streamlined the navigation layout of Help
Stéphane Guillou (TDF) linked Sidebar decks to Help and did other Help updates
Alain Romedenne updated ScriptForge help pages
Dione Maddern updated Help for Draw’s Consolidate Text functionality
Sophia Schröder did many cleanups in Help
Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) added support for XF86Forward / XF86Back key events for use in Impress slideshows and did code cleanups in the area of unused config keys and includes
Laurent Balland did many fixes in Impress templates, collaborating with Jérôme Bouat
Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer. He also updated pdfium and did fixes to automated tests
Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
Michael Meeks (Collabora) fixed a deadlock
Szymon Kłos, Áron Budea and Gökay Şatır (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online
Nick Wingate (Collabora) added an option to define ranges when exporting Calc sheets to PDF
Henry Castro (Collabora) made it so an error dialog pops up in Calc, if trying to insert a row after the maximum one
Eike Rathke (Red Hat) fixed an issue with unwanted deletion of data ranges in Calc
Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) streamlined the OOXML import of headers/footers in page styles, made handling of embedded SVGs in FODT files more robust and added support for writing SVG images into OOXML using the MS OOXML extension. He also did lots of refactoring in the EditEngine text editing code
Julien Nabet fixed an issue with changing field options in Firebird databases, implemented more user management functionality for MySQL and MariaDB databases, made colour handling more robust in sparklines, fixed an issue with stepped line types in XY scatter charts and fixed StepTime being ignored with AnimatedImages in Basic Dialog (together with bug reporter Jurassic Pork). He also fixed crashes and many issues found by static analysers and did many code cleanups
Andreas Heinisch made Mail Merge more robust with regards to database names
László Németh continued polishing support for smart justify found in DOCX files and fixed an issue with soft hyphens not being displayed in text boxes and shapes
Xisco Faulí (TDF) did many improvements and additions to automated tests and fixed regressions
Michael Stahl (allotropia) revamped ODF encryption resulting in much faster saving and loading, better resistance to tampering, better hiding of metadata and higher resistance to brute forcing. He also fixed a Writer crash related to text formatting of group shapes anchored as character
Mike Kaganski (Collabora) continued polishing the handling and detection of broken ZIP packages (document containers), improved the load time of DOCX files with hundreds of images, fixed issues with incorrect Math formula font size and Escape key not closing formula editor (not in any released version), fixed undoing the first applied cell formatting in Calc, fixed an issue with unwanted extra empty paragraphs appearing after a table before a section break in DOCX files, made line breaking in Writer behave according to Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm rules, fixed an issue with line breaks in justified right aligned text and fixed an issue with applying Calc cell styles. He also fixed many crashes and did many code cleanups and improvements to automated tests
Caolán McNamara (Collabora) optimised Calc’s performance and fixed many issues found by static analysers and fuzzers
Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) worked on the online update feature. He also did many code cleanups and adapted the code to compiler changes
Noel Grandin (Collabora) continued polishing the renovation of bitmap alpha handling. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations
Justin Luth (Collabora) made it so the Select Outline Format split button in the Properties Sidebar deck in Writer now opens Bullets and Numbering dialog and its Outline tab, if you click on the button part, fixed handling of legacy dropdown fields direct bold and char settings in DOCX and RTF files, fixed a page break issues in RTF import, made it so there is no longer a possibility to get into a restart/reinstall loop after installing an extension and fixed an issue with losing selection in Writer after right-clicking the last half character
Michael Weghorn (TDF) made it so listboxes don’t take mouse wheel input, if mouse is not positioned over them and fixed accessibility issues in areas such as heading levels and checkable items. He also did many updates and cleanups to the LibreOffice Android Viewer code
Balázs Varga (allotropia) fixed an issue causing a huge number of unwanted master slides appearing in PPTX import and continued working on proper indications for locked down items in Options
Patrick Luby (NeoOffice) continued improving the scrolling performance on macOS, fixed an issue causing unwanted horizontal scrolling in Calc on macOS, eliminated flickering upon window resizing in macOS with Skia/Metal and fixed clipboard contents causing trouble with clipboard recorders on macOS. He also fixed some macOS crashes
Jim Raykowski made comment threads appear grouped in the Navigator, made images with broken links easier to find in the Navigator and implemented a feature to identify the objects in a layer by hovering with the mouse over layer tabs
Sarper Akdemir (allotropia) added an option to disable active content such as DDE commands and OLE objects
Christian Lohmaier (TDF) fixed a Windows AARCH64 build issue
Chris Sherlock refactored text rendering code
Regina Henschel implemented curved connector routing method used in OOXML files
Sahil Gautam continued polishing the feature for highlighting the current row and column in spreadsheets
Irgaliev Amin improved math formula compatibility with Microsoft Office
Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) did many improvements to the Expert Configuration and macro signature confirmation dialogs and made it so dialog button accelerators work without Alt key on Windows
Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) did code and build cleanups, for example improving build reproducibility
Armin Le Grand (allotropia) continued with the rework of handling attributes and properties
Oliver Specht (CIB) fixed issues with numbering losing its text colour in DOCX import, handling toggled text formatting properties in DOCX files, paragraphs imported without numbering from RTF files, list of Calc comments not updating automatically and checkbox sizes being imported wrong from RTF files
Matt K fixed displaying dialogs in Calc’s full screen mode
Martin Gube added an automated test
Taichi Haradaguchi updated some dependencies
René Engelhard did some build fixes
David Gilbert did code cleanups
Adam Seskunas added an automated test
Andras Timar (Collabora) fixed shape colour not being imported in Visio files
Ricardo Donino ported a Draw Java SDK example to Python
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan added Thai AutoCorrect data
Jonathan Clark made it so BASIC CCur function obeys locale setting
Li Yang improved menu highlight text colour in high contrast mode on Windows
Arnaud Versini did some code cleanups

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

453 bugs, 71 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 283 people.

Top 10 Reporters

Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 33 )
Telesto ( 17 )
Jérôme ( 16 )
Eyal Rozenberg ( 11 )
Rafael Lima ( 11 )
Xisco Faulí ( 9 )
Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 8 )
Tracey ( 6 )
Regina Henschel ( 6 )
William Friedman ( 6 )

Triaged Bugs

412 bugs have been triaged by 64 people.

Top 10 Triagers

Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 79 )
m.a.riosv ( 58 )
Heiko Tietze ( 27 )
Buovjaga ( 26 )
Julien Nabet ( 23 )
raal ( 21 )
Xisco Faulí ( 19 )
Dieter ( 18 )
ady ( 18 )
V Stuart Foote ( 14 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

438 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

153 bugs have been fixed by 32 people.

Top 10 Fixers

Mike Kaganski ( 14 )
Balazs Varga ( 11 )
Patrick Luby ( 8 )
Julien Nabet ( 8 )
Laurent Balland ( 8 )
Caolán McNamara ( 7 )
Justin Luth ( 6 )
Noel Grandin ( 6 )
Samuel Mehrbrodt ( 6 )
Rafael Lima ( 3 )

List of critical bugs fixed

tdf#154339 Plain text copied to clipboard and pasted to CSV is not saved. ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )

List of high severity bugs fixed

tdf#123396 LO Writer automatically replaces SVGs embedded in FODT files with an embedded low-resolution PNGs and drops the SVGs from the documents ( Thanks to Tomaž Vajngerl )
tdf#123864 No feedback for screen reader when radio button for underline attribute changes ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
tdf#154044 Undoing the first applied cell formatting only works for column A ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
tdf#155266 VIEWING / SCROLLING: very laggy jerky scrolling on macOS Intel Writer: scroll lag ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
tdf#157915 Error UNO type of C++ when running a Basic macro with instruction commitChanges for org.openoffice.Office.Commands/Execute/Disabled ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
tdf#158223 Charts: Data range will be deleted when deleting following sheet ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
tdf#158379 Crash when trying to print specific RTF file (macOS) ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
tdf#158551 Crash in: mdds::mtv::soa::multi_type_vector::cbegin() const on Paste Special with Operation ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
tdf#33201 UI: Highlight (not select) current row and column in spreadsheet ( Thanks to Sahil )
tdf#60558 FILEOPEN DOCX: floating table w/parallel wrap followed by an inline table doesn’t wrap beside in empty space on right ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )

List of crashes fixed

tdf#140401 LibreOffice crashed due to custom installed fonts ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
tdf#156820 Crash when changing color with custom colour picker accessed from overflowing toolbar ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
tdf#158379 Crash when trying to print specific RTF file (macOS) ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
tdf#158450 Crash when picking custom colour for column separator line ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
tdf#158505 Crash exporting Writer file with bibliography to PDF ( Thanks to Vojtěch Doležal )
tdf#158551 Crash in: mdds::mtv::soa::multi_type_vector::cbegin() const on Paste Special with Operation ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
tdf#158593 Expert dialog crashes when editing locked down “set” configuration ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
tdf#158686 FILEOPEN RTF Crash when changing to print preview ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
tdf#158703 Crash if I use the space bar several times and then punctuation (French Locale) ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
tdf#158720 Crash for attribute string search (“oo”, “uno”, “ooname”) in the Expert Configuration dialog ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
tdf#158794 Pasting a DDE link into a footnote / endnote crashes ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
tdf#158837 Crash in: int rtl::str::indexOfStr_WithLength(char16_t const*, int, char16_t const*, int) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
tdf#158862 LibreOffice crashes when attempting to inspect a UNO object in the Watch Window during debugging after successful initial inspection. ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )

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

tdf#111969 right-click on right half of last character in selection loses the selection (Writer) ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
tdf#117651 AutoCorrect does not change preexisting text inside /slashes/ to italics, nor change -strikethrough- ( Thanks to Matt K )
tdf#123396 LO Writer automatically replaces SVGs embedded in FODT files with an embedded low-resolution PNGs and drops the SVGs from the documents ( Thanks to Tomaž Vajngerl )
tdf#123864 No feedback for screen reader when radio button for underline attribute changes ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )

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9 Jan 2024

LibreOffice 24.2 RC1 is available for testing

By x1sc0 On 9 January 2024 In releases

LibreOffice 24.2 – with a new year.month versioning scheme – will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2024 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 24.2 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) the third pre-release since the development of version 24.2 started in mid June, 2023. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 24.2 Beta1, 158 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 59 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.

LibreOffice 24.2 RC1 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it will replace the standard installation.

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

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

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

Happy testing!!

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