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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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13 Dec 2023

LibreOffice 24.2 Beta1 is available for testing

By x1sc0 On 13 December 2023 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 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 24.2 started in mid June, 2023. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha1, 425 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 137 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.

LibreOffice 24.2 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 Dec 2023

QA/Dev Report: November 2023

By x1sc0 On 6 December 2023 In reports

General Activities

LibreOffice 7.5.8 was released on November 2
LibreOffice 7.6.3 was released on November 23
Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated menu item paths in Help pages and updated and restructured dozens of help pages
Rafael Lima updated ScriptForge help
Stanislav Horacek updated menu item paths in Help pages alongside other corrections
Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) updated Help pages after UI string changes
Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) did code cleanups in the area of unused config keys and includes
Laurent Balland extended ODF to allow lowercase for exponent characters and blank expontent digits and did many fixes in Impress templates
Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer. He also did code cleanups and build fixes
Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
Szymon Kłos, Michael Meeks and Marco Cecchetti (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online
Henry Castro (Collabora) made Calc’s background colour autofiltering more robust and added an automated test for PPTX master slides
Attila Szűcs (Collabora) improved FontWork text placement
Skyler Grey (Collabora) continued polishing STYLEREF field support for DOCX compatibility
Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made several improvements to date & time functions and calculations in Calc
Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) wrote automated tests in preparation for OOXML header/footer import refactoring
Julien Nabet simplified Hyperlink dialog after FTP support removal, fixed crashes and did many code cleanups
Andreas Heinisch made Hyperlink and Edit Index dialogs remember their changed settings and fixed non-working Reset to Parent button in Paragraph Style dialog
László Németh continued polishing change tracking of case cycling, fixed gtk popup listbox positions in Sidebar under X11, made it so lost linked graphics are shown in Accessibility Checker, fixed lost character background of non-breaking spaces and added support for smart justify found in DOCX files
Xisco Faulí (TDF) did some automated test additions and cleanups
Michael Stahl (allotropia) removed support for FTP, reduced the file size of exported tagged PDFs, made curl use OpenSSL on Linux after a version upgrade removed support for NSS, fixed an issue with disappearing paragraphs before tables in RTF documents, implemented support for \spltpgpar in RTF import (page breaks) and fixed Delete Undo/Redo of bookmark positions
Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made command line arguments accept Windows \\?\ path prefixes, improved the Visual Studio IDE integration, improved the handling of macros in signed documents, fixed Excel’s Range.Find and Range.Replace wildcard recognition, added the ability to detect a broken ZIP package (document container), did some improvements to remote use of LanguageTool and made document repair more robust. He also made some clarifications in Help pages as well as many code cleanups and build fixes
Caolán McNamara (Collabora) optimised the speed of calendar conversions in Calc and made font handling on Linux more robust. He also did code cleanups and optimisations and fixed issues found by code analysers
Stephan Bergmann (allotropia) did many code cleanups, for example in the area of strings and adapted the code to compiler changes
Noel Grandin (Collabora) optimised the speed of spellchecking code and made UI tests easier to debug. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations, for example simplifying the drawing of gradients and creating a Clang plugin that looks for fields on objects that can be local variables
Justin Luth (Collabora) fixed modifying hyperlinks in form controls and made mouse click targeting of hyperlinks in shapes more robust
Heiko Tietze (TDF) made Start Center use system colours and made Quick Find and Find and Replace dialogs use a better icon
Michael Weghorn (TDF) fixed accessibility issues in areas such as button toggling, Spelling dialog and radio buttons. He also did many updates to the LibreOffice Android Viewer, for example making it support Android system theme, resulting in a re-release in Google Play Store
Balázs Varga (allotropia) continued working on proper indications for locked down items in Options
Patrick Luby (NeoOffice) fixed many graphics and UI rendering glitches and improved the scrolling performance on macOS
Jim Raykowski improved Navigator performance, fixed an issue with unwanted direct formatting being applied from Character Properties dialog, fixed an issue with Draw layer visibility settings, made it so sections can be shown as an expandable/collapsible hierarchy in the Writer Navigator and made it possible to protect and hide sections via Navigator
Sarper Akdemir (allotropia) added a password policy and strength meter to Save with Password dialog
Christian Lohmaier (TDF) fixed opening PDF files in the macOS appstore version and improved the MSI packaging code
Chris Sherlock refactored text rendering code
Regina Henschel implemented support for importing Wordprocessing Canvas, wpc:wpc element in DOCX files
Sahil Gautam implemented highlighting the current row and column in spreadsheets
Irgaliev Amin made the buttons in Impress navigation bar scalable
Paris Oplopoios (Collabora) made rendering of conditional formats more robust and made chart background colour match with document colour
Frank Steiner enabled using medium/full font hinting even with subpixel positioning on Linux
Gökay Şatır (Collabora) improved localised keyboard shortcuts
Khushi Gautam modernised the “Flowchart Alternate Process” shape to use circular corner rounding in all sizes
Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) made exported RTF files leaner by dropping unnecessary fallback images for shapes
Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) moved various Impress options to more intuitive places, made it so expert configuration items show descriptions, added proper editing support for numbers in expert config and made lists editable in expert config
Venetia Furtado made it so the Extensions button in Start Center leads to a reasonable URL even from translated interfaces
Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) did code and build cleanups that improve build reproducibility
Armin Le Grand (allotropia) continued with the rework of handling attributes and properties
Oliver Specht (CIB) fixed an issue preventing pasting hyperlinks from PowerPoint to Impress and Draw by adding a new paste option: Simple HTML, implemented handling of paragraph attributes in RTF import and fixed an issue with disappearing footnotes after applying spelling corrections
Matt K fixed an issue with Find and Replace applying the font attributes of the first character in the ‘find’ match to the entire replaced string, added AutoCorrect support for italic and strikethrough, fixed an off-by-one error in AutoCorrect with Track Changes active and made it so empty UNO listeners are not allowed, making macro code stabler
Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) improved and expanded SDK example code and buildability
Gülşah Köse (Collabora) worked on jsdialog used by Collabora Online

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

454 bugs, 63 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 279 people.

Top 10 Reporters

Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 54 )
Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 13 )
Mike Kaganski ( 12 )
Eyal Rozenberg ( 9 )
Jérôme ( 9 )
Kira Tubo ( 8 )
Timur ( 6 )
László Németh ( 5 )
Regina Henschel ( 5 )
David García ( 5 )

Triaged Bugs

482 bugs have been triaged by 71 people.

Top 10 Triagers

Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 131 )
Buovjaga ( 60 )
m.a.riosv ( 39 )
Heiko Tietze ( 32 )
raal ( 22 )
Mike Kaganski ( 18 )
Julien Nabet ( 17 )
Michael Weghorn ( 16 )
Xisco Faulí ( 13 )
Dieter ( 10 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

479 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

168 bugs have been fixed by 32 people.

Top 10 Fixers

Balazs Varga ( 34 )
Noel Grandin ( 9 )
Mike Kaganski ( 8 )
Michael Weghorn ( 7 )
László Németh ( 6 )
Michael Stahl ( 6 )
Laurent Balland ( 5 )
Andreas Heinisch ( 4 )
Patrick Luby ( 4 )
Jim Raykowski ( 4 )

List of high severity bugs fixed

tdf#158341 FILEOPEN DOCX Endless loop on opening file ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )

List of crashes fixed

tdf#127547 Freeze/crash in Microsoft Print to PDF dialog when trying to paste (Ctrl-V) a filename in the ‘Save Print Output As’ dialog ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
tdf#158169 Crash when using multiple Views ( Thanks to Armin Le Grand (allotropia) )
tdf#158171 Crash when double-clicking DeepL translation dialog OK button ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
tdf#158224 EDITING CRASH Cannot convert bitmap to polygons ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
tdf#158345 Opening Hyperlink dialog leads to crash ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
tdf#158459 Crash copying a range with tracked changes to clipboard ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )

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

tdf#104288 FILESAVE RTF: File size increases with factor 5 after re-saving a certain RTF-document ( Thanks to Vasily Melenchuk )
tdf#108318 Copying a hyperlink into a textbox messes up its frame target ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
tdf#112131 Unable to modify hyperlink target in document ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
tdf#112661 NSAccessibility – RecentFiles button missing accessibility action support equivalent to click/tap inputs. ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
tdf#112662 NSAccessibility – Templates button in StartCenter missing accessibility action support equivalent to click/tap inputs. ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
tdf#115871 “Reset to Parent” button in Paragraph Style dialog does not revert to parent values for any of the controls in the Outline & List tab ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
tdf#119908 FILEOPEN: DOCX: Layout differences with justified paragraph. MS 2013 introduced a new “smart justify” that can shrink as well as expand. ( Thanks to László Németh )
tdf#125580 Slightly off value when adding date plus time values ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
tdf#127498 TIMEVALUE() sometimes returns a slightly less or greater than expected value ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
tdf#127547 Freeze/crash in Microsoft Print to PDF dialog when trying to paste (Ctrl-V) a filename in the ‘Save Print Output As’ dialog ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
tdf#96401 FILEOPEN: DOCX – Specific file reported as corrupted (openable in MSO but not in other programs because of unzip error, backslash “\” as filename separator) ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )

WORKSFORME bugs

50 bugs have been retested by 28 people.

Top 10 testers

Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 11 )
Buovjaga ( 6 )
Dieter ( 5 )
Julien Nabet ( 3 )
Timur ( 2 )
BogdanB ( 2 )
Rainer Bielefeld Retired ( 2 )
Steven Casey ( 1 )
ikjt ( 1 )
Heiko Tietze ( 1 )

DUPLICATED bugs

121 bugs have been duplicated by 29 people.

Top 10 testers

Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 55 )
Buovjaga ( 14 )
Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 9 )
m.a.riosv ( 6 )
Mike Kaganski ( 5 )
Timur ( 4 )
V Stuart Foote ( 4 )
raal ( 3 )
Justin L ( 2 )
Xisco Faulí ( 2 )

Verified bug fixes

33 bugs have been verified by 8 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

Dieter ( 11 )
Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 11 )
Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 4 )
BogdanB ( 2 )
Gerald Pfeifer ( 2 )
Buovjaga ( 1 )
Timur ( 1 )
Julien Nabet ( 1 )

Categorized Bugs

341 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 26 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 137 )
BogdanB ( 61 )
Buovjaga ( 21 )
Heiko Tietze ( 20 )
Xisco Faulí ( 16 )
Dieter ( 13 )
Eyal Rozenberg ( 12 )
Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 11 )
Jérôme ( 11 )
László Németh ( 9 )

Regression Bugs

50 bugs have been set as regressions by 16 people.

Top 10

Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 14 )
m.a.riosv ( 7 )
Xisco Faulí ( 5 )
Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 4 )
Buovjaga ( 4 )
raal ( 3 )
Kira Tubo ( 2 )
ady ( 2 )
Sophie Sipasseuth ( 2 )
W Cole ( 1 )

Bisected Bugs

39 bugs have been bisected by 10 people.

Top 10 Bisecters

Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 13 )
Buovjaga ( 6 )
raal ( 6 )
Xisco Faulí ( 5 )
Kira Tubo ( 2 )
BogdanB ( 2 )
Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 2 )
Timur

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30 Nov 2023

LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha1 is available for testing

By x1sc0 On 30 November 2023 In releases

LibreOffice 24.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2024 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 24.2 started in mid June, 2023. Since then, 4271 commits have been submitted to the code repository and more than 787 bugs were set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.

LibreOffice 24.2 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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22 Nov 2023

QA/Dev Report: October 2023

By x1sc0 On 22 November 2023 In reports

General Activities

Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued adding Tabbed UI examples into help instructions and updated and restructured dozens of help pages
Rafael Lima added support for hidden named ranges in Calc, fixed named ranges associated to sheets being lost upon XLSX export and made it so renaming a sheet updates ranges in solver models
Bogdan Buzea made some UI string improvements
Seth Chaiklin updated help after UI label change related to outline levels
Stanislav Horacek improved the help for Firebird wizard
Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) added a method to automated test for dealing with DPI variance, improved Search Commands result presentation, updated help after UI string changes and improved the accessibility of help navigation
Alain Romedenne updated ScriptForge help
Bartosz Kosiorek added handling for invalid records in Windows Metafile graphics
Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) did code cleanups in the area of includes, created a script to find unused config groups/keys and improved some UI strings
Laurent Balland did code cleanups
Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer
Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
Szymon Kłos (Collabora) worked on LOKit and jsdialog used by Collabora Online. He also worked on the simple conditional formatting dialog created by Paris Oplopoios
Henry Castro (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. He also improved the Python UI test system, fixed an issue with unused master slides not being imported from PPTX files and made handling of bidirectional text in Calc cells more robust
Pranam Lashkari (Collabora) worked on LOKit and jsdialog used by Collabora Online
Ashod Nakashian, Marco Cecchetti and Andras Timar (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online
Pedro Silva worked on jsdialog used by Collabora Online
Jaume Pujantell (Collabora) worked on Microsoft Office compatibility improvements in the area of content controls
Attila Szűcs (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. He also improved change tracking in Writer
Skyler Grey (Collabora) worked on jsdialog used by Collabora Online and improved DOCX compatibility by adding full support for STYLEREF fields
Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made date functions in Calc more robust and improved error propagation in Calc formulas
Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) wrote some unit tests for Writer and did code cleanups
Julien Nabet made it possible to use ProjectionMode and ShadeMode for extruded custom shapes via BASIC macros and did code cleanups
Andreas Heinisch made the Slide/Page pane in Impress/Draw have the expected title when in Master view and made it possible to create new master slides in the Slide pane by pressing Enter
László Németh improved change tracking of case cycling and made exported DOCX files compatible with Microsoft Office’s default paragraph justification algorithm
Xisco Faulí (TDF) did a couple of dozen additions and changes to automated tests, fixed a Calc crash and added UNO commands for variable date/time fields
Michael Stahl (allotropia) made many improvements and fixes to the export of accessible PDFs
Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made exported HTML tables cleaner, fixed pasting sometimes losing wrapping information in Writer on Windows, added an option to avoid converting some fields into text during mail merge, added a PreserveSpaces option to HTML/ReqIF export that changes the handling of paragraphs with leading/trailing spaces or multiple sequential spaces, added a ExportFormulasAsPDF option to ReqIF export, fixed “Fit to page” printing option, fixed an issue with formula positions in printing and PDF export and made PDF importing more robust with “trailers”
Caolán McNamara (Collabora) fixed many crashes, did code cleanups and optimisations and fixed issues found by code analysers
Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) started making heavy use of C++20 features in the area of text strings and made several fixes to automated tests
Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved the performance of Calc UI and documents with lots of images and made automated UI tests more robust. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations, for example simplifying error reporting while making it easier for developers to debug problems
Justin Luth (Collabora) made many improvements to Notebookbar UIs
Heiko Tietze (TDF) improved the notification feedback for not found search keys and made the Security tab of the PDF export dialog behave more intuitively
Michael Weghorn (TDF) fixed accessibility issues in areas such as status bar, spelling errors and text attributes. He also bumped Java build baseline from JDK 9 to 17 and did some cleanups and improvements related to Qt/Kf5 UI
Balázs Varga (allotropia) added a UI to control personal information to be removed upon saving documents and a config option for building with or without unnecessary template files and started working on proper indications for locked down items in Options
Patrick Luby (NeoOffice) fixed crashes and many issues related to UI and graphics rendering on macOS
Jim Raykowski improved the accessibility checker, added UNO commands for style spotlight and made many improvements to Navigator
Taichi Haradaguchi made it so bz2 module is included in the Python shipped with LibreOffice, updated several dependencies and did cleanups in makefiles
Sarper Akdemir (allotropia) started working on a password strength meter
Kohei Yoshida upgraded liborcus and added support for conditional loading of Apache Parquet files into Calc
Christian Lohmaier (TDF) did build-related improvements and fixes
Chris Sherlock refactored text and graphics rendering code
Regina Henschel improved Microsoft Office compatibility regarding shape objects and made it so Connector dialog allows negative values for Line Skew
Sahil Gautam added an automated test and did code cleanups
Li Yang added an automated test
Mihai Vasiliu fixed an issue causing Master Slides sidebar to open with zero width
Omkar Acharekar added several automated tests
Martin Gube made it so comments in Writer are kept when spell correction replaces a word
Matthew Kogan made comparison of changed paragraph numbering optional
Irgaliev Amin made it so the option to show slide pane in Impress is retained across sessions
Mert Tumer (Collabora) made an optimisation to LanguageTool locale loading
Paris Oplopoios (Collabora) added an easy to use conditional formatting menu to Calc

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

456 bugs, 66 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 279 people.

Top 10 Reporters

Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 37 )
Eyal Rozenberg ( 20 )
Xisco Faulí ( 20 )
Regina Henschel ( 10 )
Mike Kaganski ( 10 )
Gerald Pfeifer ( 8 )
Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 7 )
Tracey ( 7 )
Robert Großkopf ( 6 )
peter josvai ( 5 )

Triaged Bugs

639 bugs have been triaged by 71 people.

Top 10 Triagers

Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 184 )
Buovjaga ( 90 )
m.a.riosv ( 54 )
Heiko Tietze ( 43 )
Xisco Faulí ( 34 )
Dieter ( 29 )
raal ( 20 )
Mike Kaganski ( 19 )
Kira Tubo ( 14 )
Julien Nabet ( 12 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

604 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 30 people.

Top 10 Fixers

Balazs Varga ( 18 )
Patrick Luby ( 10 )
Justin Luth ( 10 )
Mike Kaganski ( 9 )
Miklos Vajna ( 9 )
Noel Grandin ( 9 )
Michael Weghorn ( 8 )
Caolán McNamara ( 8 )
Jim Raykowski ( 7 )
Michael Stahl ( 6 )

List of high severity bugs fixed

tdf#152571 Very slow save (macOS, ARM) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
tdf#156685 Default font color in tables is white over white background (font color should be black) ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )
tdf#157132 LibreOffice 7.6.0 copying of formulas in writer table – relative distance of cells in formula not preserved after copying to other lines ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
tdf#157515 Crash on clicking Reset when modifying Background presentation style (gtk3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
tdf#157613 Crash – Database Form – editing size of grid control causes hang requiring forced kill – SKIA raster rendering on (by default) ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
tdf#157680 Impress export corrupted pdf on MacOS ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )

List of crashes fixed

tdf#101376 Wordcount Beanshell macro execution causes crash ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
tdf#154142 Crash in: SfxUndoManager::SetMaxUndoActionCount(unsigned __int64) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
tdf#157182 Crashes when exporting a certain presentation as PDF in Archival format PDF/A-1b ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
tdf#157515 Crash on clicking Reset when modifying Background presentation style (gtk3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
tdf#157613 Crash – Database Form – editing size of grid control causes hang requiring forced kill – SKIA raster rendering on (by default) ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
tdf#157849 EDITING: crash on “Set Character Spacing” with custom value when hitting Enter (GTK3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of performance issues fixed

tdf#157590 HANG: opening file with floating table ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )

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

tdf#100584 With an RTL sheet, make added sheets RTL as well ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
tdf#101376 Wordcount Beanshell macro execution causes crash ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
tdf#101970 [PACKAGING] Make default templates installation optional ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
tdf#106057 General input/output error loading pdf file (because of multiple trailers which is valid per PDF specification) ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
tdf#111737 Not possible to create / add a new Master Slide with pressing Enter in slides/pages pane ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
tdf#116412 Bundled python fails to import bz2 on Windows ( Thanks to Taichi Haradaguchi )
tdf#126449 Tables in DOC document are overlapping (one floating multipage table-in-table-in-table) ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
tdf#127038 Tabbed toolbar: Unnecessary uno::InsertField redundancy in the “References” option group ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
tdf#42787 Functionality request for Writer: Add deleting of Sections using the Delete function inside of the Navigator ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
tdf#87638 Slide Pane should be titled ‘Master Slides’ when in master view ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
tdf#99822 FILEOPEN: Floating table objects in tables horizontal position relative to margin is wrong in Writer ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )

WORKSFORME bugs

81 bugs have been retested by 34 people.

Top 10 testers

Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 15 )
Buovjaga ( 13 )
Timur ( 6 )
Kira Tubo ( 6 )
Dieter ( 5 )
Alex Thurgood ( 4 )
Heiko Tietze ( 4 )
BogdanB ( 3 )
Xisco Faulí ( 2 )
libreofficebugs ( 2 )

DUPLICATED bugs

172 bugs have been duplicated by 27 people.

Top 10 testers

Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 83 )
Buovjaga ( 24 )
Heiko Tietze ( 11 )
Mike Kaganski ( 9 )
m.a.riosv ( 8 )
V Stuart Foote ( 5 )
Dieter ( 3 )
raal ( 3 )
Kira Tubo ( 3 )
Justin L ( 2 )

Verified bug fixes

41 bugs have been verified by 13 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

BogdanB ( 9 )
Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 6 )
Gerald Pfeifer ( 6 )
Alex Thurgood ( 5 )
Buovjaga ( 5 )
Xisco Faulí ( 3 )
Julien Nabet ( 1 )
Roman Kuznetsov ( 1 )
steve ( 1 )
sdc.blanco ( 1 )

Categorized Bugs

558 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 29 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

BogdanB ( 241 )
Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 180 )
Eyal Rozenberg ( 27 )
Dieter ( 14 )
Heiko Tietze ( 13 )
Buovjaga ( 12 )
Roman Kuznetsov ( 11 )
Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 8 )
Aron Budea ( 8 )
Michael Weghorn ( 8 )

Regression Bugs

95 bugs have been set as regressions by 16 people.

Top 10

Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 23 )
Xisco Faulí ( 23 )
Kira Tubo ( 11 )
BogdanB ( 8 )
raal ( 7 )
Buovjaga ( 6 )
Mike Kaganski ( 3 )
Alex Thurgood ( 3 )
m.a.riosv ( 2 )
Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 2 )

Bisected Bugs

85 bugs have been bisected by 11 people.

Top 10 Bisecters

Xisco

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30 Oct 2023

QA weekly focus: SVG

By Stéphane Guillou On 30 October 2023 In contributing

This week, we are kicking off a continuing “QA Weekly Focus” to attract attention to certain topics and areas.

For this first week, let’s look into issues related to our SVG support.

SVG stands for “Scalable Vector Graphics“, a widespread, open vector format and standard. It has become the most used vector format on the web, and it is for example used as the default format in Inkscape, the open source vector graphics editor.

LibreOffice supports importing and exporting SVGs in various places, and these issues are tracked in 3 meta bugs:

88278: SVG import image filter (all modules)
111450: SVG fileSave filter (Draw/Impress)
156066: SVG filters

In recent months, the SVG topic got a fair amount of attention, in particular thanks to Xisco Fauli’s work on the import filter (see illustration).

Our friends at Inkscape have also recently voiced their interest in improving interoperability with LibreOffice (see Inkscape’s post on Mastodon).

So let’s keep the momentum going, test how well SVG files are handled by LibreOffice, and review existing reports! They might need to be clarified, consolidated, or even closed because of all the recent improvements.

The list of bugs to review is in this collaborative pad. You can join IRC to chat with the QA team, and ask questions.

Thanks everyone for your contributions!…

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6 Oct 2023

QA/Dev Report: September 2023

By x1sc0 On 6 October 2023 In reports

General Activities

LibreOffice 7.5.6 and LibreOffice 7.5.7 were announced on September 14 and September 26 respectively
LibreOffice 7.6.1 and LibreOffice 7.6.2 were announced on September 7 and September 26 respectively
Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued adding Tabbed UI examples into help instructions, added a help page for editing styles, improved the help page for accessibility checker, added or updated help for commands found in Writer’s Table, Styles and Form menu as well as Tools menu for all applications
Stéphane Guillou (TDF) added help for Impress’s Use Background fill and made some help cleanups
Rafael Lima added search functionality to the Calc Functions sidebar
Bogdan Buzea improved help for vertical positioning
Seth Chaiklin changed some UI strings to be more clear and updated help pages accordingly
Bartosz Kosiorek added Poisson distribution to help on Calc’s Random Number Generator
Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) dropped HTML Export wizard help pages, improved the layout of Area dialog and did code cleanups in the area of includes
Laurent Balland improved the Impress template Growing Liberty
Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer
Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
Szymon Kłos (Collabora) worked on LOKit and jsdialog used by Collabora Online. He also optimised the performance of data filtering in combination with conditional formats in Calc and fixed an issue with text-decoration property in exported SVGs
Henry Castro and Skyler Grey (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. Henry also improved Calc’s RTF filter and did fixes and improvements to database connectivity
Áron Budea (Collabora) did some code cleanups
Eike Rathke (Red Hat) improved the accuracy of Calc’s SUM() with mixed formula and value cells
Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued polishing support for document themes. He also fixed an issue with importing row styles in XLSX spreadsheets and did some optimisations and code cleanups
Julien Nabet fixed an off-by-one error in saving colour themes, made it possible to replace events set for objects, fixed an issue with changing database links while keeping original registered names and fixed a couple of database regressions. He also fixed many crashes
Andreas Heinisch polished the pinned items feature and fixed an off-by-one error in navigating fields with GoToNextPlacemarker command
László Németh improved Writer change tracking related to tables
Xisco Faulí (TDF) dropped the HTML export wizard, improved and added automated test, did some SVG handling improvements and fixed an accessibility crash
Michael Stahl (allotropia) fixed a hang with exporting accessible/tagged PDFs and optimised the size of exported tagged PDFs
Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed issues with incorrectly imported DOCX plain text content control properties and LibreOffice Portable not starting from long paths. He also made it so the read-only attributes of directories on Windows are ignored as is the normal behaviour on the platform
Caolán McNamara (Collabora) made it so SVG export of slides shows a progress indicator, improved the security of untrusted documents in relation to OLE objects and improved the speed of importing PDFs. He also did code cleanups and fixed issues found by code analysers
Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) raised the build baseline to C++20 alongside many tweaks and fixes that it required
Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved the performance of selecting and dragging complex group objects and improved the stability of LibreOffice’s test suites by disabling unreliable tests. He also did many code cleanups and optimisations
Justin Luth (Collabora) fixed an issue with unreliable display of shape properties and made it so unchangeable options are disabled in PDF export dialog
Heiko Tietze (TDF) improved the Writer Compatibility options dialog and made activating overwrite mode for the first time display a notification
Michael Weghorn (TDF) fixed accessibility issues in areas such as dialogs using multi-line edit controls, font colour toolbar item, search in options, print dialog, selection handling in macros and Calc’s SUMIF function. He also made the kf5 and qt6 UIs automatically use dark icon themes and dark document background colours when the system is in dark mode and made preparations for switching from JDK 9 to 17
Balázs Varga (allotropia) improved the accessibility checker
Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) implemented importing slide background fill from PPT files and improved the accessibility checker
Khaled Hosny (TDF) implemented support for right-to-left layout in Formula Editor while also polishing the Math visual editing feature and enabling it by default, made it possible to change Math font, added support for Arabic math expressions, made Tools -> Special Character work in Math and made it so symbols in Math Symbols Catalogue are rendered using document settings. He also updated Noto font versions and fixed saving of localized Italic Greek symbols and missing background colour in style preview
Patrick Luby (NeoOffice) fixed some transparency to alpha rework fallout, fixed issues related to Skia graphics engine and PDF export of documents with embedded PDFs on macOS
Jim Raykowski polished the Style Spotlight feature, improved the master document navigator context menu and expanded Navigator’s feature for bringing items to attention in the document when hovering over them
Bayram Çiçek polished the search feature in Options dialog
Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) made Calc’s Ctrl+End view jump behave better and ported some Developer’s Guide examples to Python and BASIC
Arnaud Versini did some code cleanups
Taichi Haradaguchi updated several dependencies
Björn Michaelsen did some code cleanups
Sarper Akdemir (allotropia) worked on adding XMP, Adobe PDF Schema and Dublin Core metadata support to PDF export, fixed PPTX issues with table shadows and image transparency and added JavaScript UNO bindings for WASM with Embind
Kohei Yoshida upgraded liborcus to 0.19.0
Armin Le Grand (allotropia) continued with the rework of handling attributes and properties
Dan Horák (Fedora) fixed build and test issues related to powerpc64 and s390x architectures
Gökay Şatır (Collabora) made it so authors can reply to their own comments in Writer
Dennis Francis (Collabora) implemented sort by selection in Pivot Tables in non-manual mode
Dung Saga made Search Commands also look for submenu names
Darshan Upadhyay (Collabora) added an option to autoformat bulleted lists after space
Christian Lohmaier (TDF) raised the Linux runtime baseline to RHEL 8 or CentOS 8 and comparable and build baseline to GCC 12 or Clang 12 with libstdc++ 8.5

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

483 bugs, 67 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 319 people.

Top 10 Reporters

Eyal Rozenberg ( 22 )
Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 12 )
Regina Henschel ( 10 )
Xisco Faulí ( 9 )
Jim Avera ( 8 )
Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 8 )
Mike Kaganski ( 8 )
Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) ( 8 )
Jeff Fortin Tam ( 8 )
peter josvai ( 5 )

Triaged Bugs

590 bugs have been triaged by 74 people.

Top 10 Triagers

Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 142 )
Buovjaga ( 96 )
m.a.riosv ( 66 )
Heiko Tietze ( 41 )
Xisco Faulí ( 34 )
Julien Nabet ( 24 )
Dieter ( 16 )
Mike Kaganski ( 14 )
Michael Weghorn ( 13 )
Kira Tubo ( 11 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

507 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

161 bugs have been fixed by 35 people.

Top 10 Fixers

Julien Nabet ( 13 )
Khaled Hosny ( 10 )
Michael Weghorn ( 9 )
Miklos Vajna ( 7 )
Caolán McNamara ( 7 )
Xisco Fauli ( 6 )
László Németh ( 6 )
Samuel Mehrbrodt ( 5 )
Patrick Luby ( 5 )
Heiko Tietze ( 4 )

List of high severity bugs fixed

tdf#156894 kf5/qt6: Dark system themes don’t automatically enable corresponding dark icon themes ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
tdf#157115 crash on inserting chart (gtk3): Assertion `m_pBody != NULL’ failed ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
tdf#157174 LibreOffice crashes when clicking “Print Preview” ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
tdf#157231 webp 0-day CVE-2023-4863 affects LO ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
tdf#157260 Test connection is not using the port specified in connection string for PostgreSQL using 5432 instead ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
tdf#157288 During Table editing, right click on a field doesn’t show “Primary Key” for other fields than those already primary key ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
tdf#157312 Current cell highlight doesn’t update with skia hardware rendering on macOS ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )

List of crashes fixed

tdf#156126 Crash when using gpl color palette in debug build ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
tdf#156683 Crash in: comphelper::AccessibleEventNotifier::revokeClientNotifyDisposing(unsigned int, com::sun::star::uno::Reference const&) ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
tdf#156958 Crash in: (anonymous namespace)::TabBarEdit::LinkStubImplEndEditHdl(void*, void*) when renaming layer ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
tdf#157085 CRASH: fixing accessibility check of deleted image ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
tdf#157088 qt6: Crash on exit after using font color toolbox item with Orca running ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
tdf#157092 Using search feature in options dialog causes crash when NVDA is running ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
tdf#157096 CRASH: removing everything in document ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
tdf#157115 crash on inserting chart (gtk3): Assertion `m_pBody != NULL’ failed ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
tdf#157131 CRASH: after pasting all and undoing ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
tdf#157160 [CRASH] New “Search” field in Options dialog crashes all the time ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
tdf#157174 LibreOffice crashes when clicking “Print Preview” ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
tdf#157266 Crash when trying to use new Filter feature on Tools → Options ( Thanks to Bayram Çiçek )
tdf#157277 CRASH Writer crashing when hiding Sidebar and using Navigator to go to bookmark ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
tdf#157299 Calc crashes when accessing cells containing a sumif formula with NVDA ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
tdf#157304 Macro: Retrieving selected text in FocusIn event for column crashes LO ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )

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

tdf#105303 Drop html export wizard ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
tdf#106663 GoToNextPlacemarker skips placeholder after header ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
tdf#111705 Allowing Arabic mathematical expressions ( Thanks to Khaled Hosny )
tdf#122718 Sidebar Functions panel misses search like Function Wizard ( Thanks to Rafael Lima )
tdf#124591 Update Noto Fonts to latest releases ( Thanks to Khaled Hosny )
tdf#32418 Add an “insert symbol” to Math ( Thanks to Khaled Hosny )
tdf#48083 FILEOPEN PPT: Slide Background Fill is none instead of slide color (PPTX fixed in 5.2) ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
tdf#49895 Add a “search” field in (non-advanced) Options dialog ( Thanks to Bayram Çiçek )
tdf#55160 Fileopen: docx layout not imported correctly – support for nested floating tables ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
tdf#62174 Italic Greek symbols (iGreek set) fails if UI Language is changed ( Thanks to Khaled Hosny )
tdf#85263 same shortcuts for Company and Cancel in “Tools/Options/User Data” ( Thanks to Gabor Kelemen )
tdf#88744 Visual formula editor does not use system clipboard ( Thanks to Khaled Hosny )
tdf#97710 SVG import cant fill overlapped polyline ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )