LibreOffice QA Blog

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.5.4 was released on June 8
2. Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued adding Tabbed UI examples into help instructions, corrected help pages to match UI changes and refactored PostgreSQL connection setup dialog
3. Seth Chaiklin made some UI label improvements and updated help after UI changes for Body Text style, AutoCorrect and Navigator heading manipulation
4. Laurent Balland fixed issues with rendering of moving average trend lines in charts, added support for embedded text in scientific number format and fixed an erroneous warning in CSV import dialog
5. Alain Romedenne updated help for ScriptForge
6. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer, improved the handling of vertically raised or lowered text in DOCX files and expanded the developer functionality for dumping Writer document layout data
7. Szymon Kłos (Collabora) optimised Style Preview performance and did some code cleanups
8. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) improved date & time (duration) handling in Calc
9. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued polishing support for document themes
10. Julien Nabet improved native number format handling, fixed issues found by code analysers and did many code cleanups
11. Andreas Heinisch made the Format Cell dialog in Calc remember its window state and implemented functionality for pinning favourite documents in Start Center
12. László Németh made many improvements to the change tracking of Writer tables
13. Xisco Faulí (TDF) added support for many SVG filters and fixed many SVG CSS issues. He also made many additions and changes in automated tests
14. Michael Stahl (allotropia) fixed many regressions and crashes
15. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made service names displayed in Language Settings match the UI language instead of the locale and implemented sorting for the language list in the Edit Modules dialog reached from Writing Aids options. He also fixed issues in XML Requirements Interchange Format export, made handling of Writer lists more robust, fixed issues causing unwanted paragraph margins in DOCX import, right-aligned numbers not being exported to PDF from DOCX files and direct formatting not read for empty last paragraphs in DOCX import
16. Caolán McNamara (Collabora) made several performance optimisations in UI code, fixed exporting the default Impress master slide to SVG and fixed deleting recent items in Special Character dialog. He also fixed crashes and issues found by code analysers
17. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made WebDAV URL handling more robust and did many code and build-related cleanups
18. Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved performance in Calc when loading various types of spreadsheets, when calculating cell borders and on macOS when using Keyboard Viewer, scrolling through large DOCX documents with lots of comments and Calc spreadsheets with lots of patterns and improved the startup time of LibreOffice in general. He also did many code cleanups
19. Justin Luth (Collabora) made subscript/superscript handling in text objects more intuitive, made it so saving a password protected read-only document under a new name offers the same password protection option by default, improved exporting content controls to PDF, fixed DOCX import issues related to strikethrough handling, numbering styles and overlap setting of images, fixed DOC import issues related to wrapping and anchoring, fixed many Notebookbar paper cuts, fixed Calc cell selection when using a split window and fixed an issue with paragraph spacing involving sections
20. Heiko Tietze (TDF) fixed an issue with unwanted scaling of overlay icons in Start Center, added some example multi-colour gradients and made it so the input field for number of copies is no longer hidden by default in the print dialog
21. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) worked on multi-color gradient support
22. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed resizing of cropped images to original size and fixed an issue with colour scale conditional formats in XLSX files
23. Paris Oplopoios worked on the GSoC project for implementing APNG (Animated PNG) support – now even blending modes work. He also did code cleanups
24. Baole Fang worked on the GSoC project for selecting tests to run on Gerrit patches based on machine learning. He also made it so Calc cells formatted as text don’t check for formula correctness, fixed an issue with unwanted style change caused by AutoCorrect, implemented alphabetical sorting of categories in Customize Keyboard dialog and made word boundary detection in AutoCorrect more robust
25. Dipam Turkar worked on the GSoC project for converting Writer’s Java UNO API tests to C++
26. Ahmed Gamal Eltokhy worked on the GSoC project for improving PGP/GPG encryption support
27. Bayram Çiçek worked on the GSoC project for adding a search field into Options
28. Michael Weghorn worked on the KDE Frameworks UI, adding a new kf6 UI plugin
29. Balázs Varga (allotropia) worked on the accessibility Sidebar panel, improved the XLSX compatibility of the CELL() function and implemented showing author and date in Calc comments
30. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) worked on the accessibility Sidebar panel, made Calc’s colour filtering work with cells with no content and made it so bootstrap variables in Java user classpath settings are allowed
31. Czeber László Ádám (NISZ) fixed an issue with Calc input line not updating after applying Repeat for text editing and fixed a Calc number formatting issue related to no-break spaces and filling available space
32. Khaled Hosny (TDF) fixed ccache cache size detection (for building LibreOffice from source), fixed issues with font fallback for surrogate pairs in RTL text, losing paragraph line spacing in DOCX files with certain fonts, CJK Emphasis marks not showing in slideshow, rendering of old Hangul in vertical layout, positioning of emphasis marks in PDF export of vertical text and alignment of Tangut and Khitan script in vertical layout. He also made it so there is no need to duplicate hunspell dictionaries for every Arabic locale and made fullwidth CJK punctuation respect the option for compression
33. Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) dropped some unused items from officecfg registry
34. Patrick Luby (NeoOffice) improved the performance of Calc UI when using Keyboard Viewer on macOS and fixed a macOS crash related to multiple monitors and changing formatting for a large number of cells. He also fixed hanging when selecting a column or row in Calc on macOS
35. Jaume Pujantell (Collabora) improved the support for annotations, when importing PDFs as images
36. Maxim Monastirsky implemented styles for Writer comments
37. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed a Chart Sidebar issue, which could cause an OOXML write error
38. Jim Raykowski made the detecting of unique names when renaming objects in Impress & Draw more robust
39. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) made some build fixes
40. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) fixed an issue causing Writer’s direct cursor to leave a trail to the screen
41. Dennis Francis (Collabora) improved the performance of Calc sheets with lots of repetitive row styles
42. Bartosz Kosiorek implemented EmfPlusDrawCurve with cardinal spline for EMF+ graphics
43. Ashod Nakashian, Henry Castro, Marco Cecchetti and Pranam Lashkari (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. Henry Castro also fixed many issues in Calc conditional formatting and made handling of multiline text in XLSX files more robust
44. Arnaud Versini did some code cleanups
45. Vladislav Tarakanov fixed an issue causing small Calc window size after deleting the registrymodifications.xcu configuration file
46. Satya Kompella (OpenText) fixed missing page numbers in the footer of a certain DOCX file
47. Luigi Iucci (Collabora) fixed issues with some fonts not getting embedded in ODT files, pasting images from Firefox to Calc and header columns disappearing when filtering pivot tables
48. Taichi Haradaguchi updated many dependencies
49. Rashesh Padia (Collabora) added support for multi image TIFF files
50. Michael Meeks (Collabora) fixed a crash in graphics handling code
51. Bogdan Buzea fixed line count in file properties resetting to zero after going past 65535 lines
52. Colomban Wendling (Hypra) improved gtk3 accessibility and fixed a crash related to accessibility handling
53. Franklin Weng fixed XHTML export applying unwanted zero margins and minimum widths
54. Regina Henschel continued the work on supporting multi-color gradients in ODF files and fixed issues related to gradients
55. David Gilbert did code cleanups

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

458 bugs, 56 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 285 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Hossein ( 19 )
2. Eyal Rozenberg ( 19 )
3. jindam, vani ( 13 )
4. Mike Kaganski ( 12 )
5. Xisco Faulí ( 12 )
6. Regina Henschel ( 10 )
7. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 8 )
8. William Friedman ( 8 )
9. Robert Großkopf ( 7 )
10. AvidSeeker ( 7 )

Triaged Bugs

387 bugs have been triaged by 61 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 75 )
2. Julien Nabet ( 46 )
3. m.a.riosv ( 32 )
4. Mike Kaganski ( 26 )
5. Heiko Tietze ( 24 )
6. Dieter ( 19 )
7. ⁨خالد حسني⁩ ( 16 )
8. ady ( 13 )
9. Xisco Faulí ( 13 )
10. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 9 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

517 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

193 bugs have been fixed by 40 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Xisco Fauli ( 16 )
2. Justin Luth ( 15 )
3. Khaled Hosny ( 13 )
4. Balazs Varga ( 13 )
5. Mike Kaganski ( 10 )
6. Michael Stahl ( 9 )
7. László Németh ( 7 )
8. Regina Henschel ( 6 )
9. Caolán McNamara ( 5 )
10. Baole Fang ( 5 )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#151946 Opening spreadsheet very slow ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#153517 CALC – wrong time value when using the autofill function and minutes are entered (not for 00 min) ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
3. tdf#155939 LibreOffice-7.5.4.2 Writer hangs when changing language of text ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#122081 Crash in SwFrame::FindFootnoteBossFrame(bool) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
2. tdf#146626 Crash in macOS Calc on font size operation on multi-monitor setup ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
3. tdf#152983 crash in layout with chained text frames anchored in footer ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
4. tdf#155685 CRASH: after undoing deletion with extended select all and table at end ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
5. tdf#155747 Writer crash when you delete/insert a new column and then select to accept the change ( Thanks to László Németh )
6. tdf#155825 Crash MCGR export special file odp -> pptx ( Thanks to Regina Henschel )
7. tdf#155951 crash with XTextRange::getString() ( Thanks to László Németh )
8. tdf#156091 BASIC IDE or Development Tools crash when expanding the + of ‘Background’ of master page ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#150534 Hiding Recently Expanded Columns Results in Significant Performance Loss ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#151946 Opening spreadsheet very slow ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

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

1. tdf#103869 FILEOPEN LibO doesn’t open .docx file with two table separated by a page break correctly ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
2. tdf#107718 Some of old Hangul not rendering faithfully in vertical layout ( Thanks to Khaled Hosny )
3. tdf#114432 Tangut character aligned incorrectly in vertical layout ( Thanks to Khaled Hosny )
4. tdf#115321 Vertical Japanese text lines with emphasis mark above in odt exported to PDF is shown a quarter font height lower than the normal lines, and no emphasis mark is shown ( Thanks to Khaled Hosny )
5. tdf#118087 FILEOPEN SVG with greyscale filter opens with colors ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
6. tdf#122081 Crash in SwFrame::FindFootnoteBossFrame(bool) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
7. tdf#122270 Tabbed Notebook Bar (Impress) View (tab) Normal and Master buttons do not properly update UI when user switches view ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
8. tdf#122676 FORMATTING Currency Negative Values does not Correctly Apply (*) with a Space ( Thanks to Czeber László Ádám )
9. tdf#122970 Direct cursor leaves screen trail with mouse pointer movement and no text ( Thanks to Hossein )
10. tdf#125154 writer calculation using variable within table does not work with formated numbers ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
11. tdf#38742 Pushpins/Favourites in recent menu and start center ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
12. tdf#43671 VIEWING: CJK Emphasis marks not showing in slideshow ( Thanks to Khaled Hosny )
13. tdf#54768 Asking to restore image to original size gets wrong size when the image is clipped ( Thanks to Tibor Nagy )
14. tdf#64830 RTL: LibreOffice requires duplicated hunspell dictionaries for

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.5.3 was released on May 4
2. LibreOffice 7.4.7 was released on May 11
3. Sophia Schröder corrected menu item paths in Help alongside other cleanups
4. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made some tweaks to wordings in UI and Help
5. Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for quick colour selector and Calc sheet events, improved help for PDF exporting, Calc error codes, sheet tabs, leap years and date & time, Line and Filling toolbar, Drawing Bars in Impress and Draw, shape control points, database relationships and connection properties, Navigator and Content Controls. He also started taking Tabbed UI into account in help instructions
6. Seth Chaiklin continued polishing the help for indexes and did other cleanups
7. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer
8. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
9. Szymon Kłos, Pranam Lashkari, Shehr Bano and Attila Szűcs (Collabora) worked on jsdialog and LOKit used by Collabora Online
10. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made date & time handling in Calc more robust
11. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued polishing support for document themes and the text auto-fit algorithm in Impress
12. Julien Nabet continued fixing issues with XML forms, fixed content not shown for field type ‘Bit’ in Base’s Tools – SQL, fixed a bunch of crashes and made many code cleanups
13. Andreas Heinisch made the dialogs for inserting/editing hyperlinks, splitting tables and moving/copying sheets remember their last used options and Calc Function Wizard to remember its last used function category. He also fixed issues with pasting involving comments in Calc
14. László Németh made many improvements to change tracking of tables in Writer and spell checking, for example limiting spell check suggestions to the best ones
15. Xisco Faulí (TDF) made forty test-related changes and fixed many crashes
16. Michael Stahl (allotropia) fixed many regressions and crashes
17. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed a memory leak in Writer UNO API, fixed an issue with exporting Writer documents with lists to XML Requirements Interchange Format, made autocorrecting double dashes more robust and fixed clearing direct formatting in Writer and saving resulting in lost page breaks. He also fixed some Writer regressions and made many code cleanups and optimisations
18. Caolán McNamara (Collabora) fixed some issues related to undo levels being set to zero and made many UI-related improvements and crash fixes. He also added support for GNOME logout inhibit if LibreOffice has open documents with unsaved changes.
19. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many code and build-related cleanups
20. Noel Grandin (Collabora) made it faster to import complex PDF documents, open RTF documents with coloured text, dividing vector graphic objects on Linux, doing operations on large selections of shapes and working with large Visio files. He also made many code cleanups
21. Justin Luth (Collabora) continued improving the page number wizard, made PDF export update the “Last printed” metadata fields in a document, made Notebookbar UIs more robust, fixed several binary DOC format import and export issues, fixed a DOCX export issue with character highlighting and an XLS import issue with option button grouping. He also fixed several Writer regressions and did a massive amount of triaging in binary DOC bug reports
22. Heiko Tietze (TDF) made Calc use better colours for focus indication on macOS and made several other UI improvements
23. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) worked on multi-color gradient support
24. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed an XLSX import issue with colour scales
25. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) improved the Accessibility Check Sidebar panel, added an option to sort by colour to Calc AutoFilter, made Expert Configuration respect finalised properties and fixed a corner case with read-only documents not being marked as modified when changing an editable section
26. Czeber László Ádám (NISZ) fixed a data corruption issue when saving from CSV to XLSX with content that resembled control characters, made it possible to persistently remove print range restrictions in XLSX files, fixed a false alarm in data validation in XLSX files and fixed broken formatting at undo of row/column insertion in Calc
27. Khaled Hosny (TDF) fixed a remaining issue with Compact Font Format (CFF) Version 2 fonts not being shown in exported PDFs, made handling of combining marks more robust, improved Hebrew font preview sample text, fixed an issue where selection of vertical text was shown incorrectly on macOS and made it so no extra space is shown between Indic and non-Indic text
28. Björn Michaelsen made refactorings to Writer code
29. Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) dropped many unused items from officecfg registry
30. Rizal Muttaqin added icons for PageNumberWizard, Watched Expressions and Call Stack
31. Vojtěch Doležal reworked bibliography mark link target to have user-selectable type
32. Patrick Luby (Collabora) fixed a macOS 13 issue with tooltips messing with window focus and fixed memory leaks when using macOS Keyboard Viewer in Calc
33. Jaume Pujantell (Collabora) fixed an issue with blank comments after a table of contents in a DOCX file
34. Maxim Monastirsky made Clear Formatting work with drawing styles
35. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fix export of modified On/Between chart tick marks
36. Jim Raykowski made it possible to use Navigator’s jumping functionality to create selections in Writer and made Navigator work with Impress Notes view
37. Baole Fang continued polishing digital object identifier (DOI) recognition in AutoCorrect, made manual applying of AutoCorrect work on all paragraph styles instead of just the default, fixed some remaining Impress and Draw Master Slide/Page discrepancies and made it so Document Type in Options always corresponds to the application that opened the dialog
38. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) worked on a couple of automated tests and made code cleanups
39. Dennis Francis (Collabora) made Calc’s data validation formatter more robust and made Calc’s INDIRECT function support table structured references
40. Bartosz Kosiorek added Poisson distribution to Random Number Generators in Calc and implemented EMR_POLYDRAW record for EMF graphic objects
41. Vert D made it so an entry can be added only once into the favourites in Special Characters dialog
42. Amin Irgaliev added optional navigation buttons for slideshows
43. Regina Henschel took the first steps in supporting multi-color gradients in ODF files and fixed an issue with shapes in copied and pasted cell ranges getting resized even if ‘resize with cell’ was not set
44. Michael Meeks (Collabora) made some performance improvements to UI rendering
45. Svante Schubert fixed a list text duplication issue in XHTML export
46. Bogdan Buzea improved the symbols in Calc Solver
47. Ahmed Eltokhy added a command to update selected field in Writer
48. Colomban Wendling (Hypra) worked on accessibility tests
49. Henry Castro (Collabora) made it so colour attributes set by colour scale conditional formatting gets copied to HTML from Calc
50. Matti Tyrväinen made it harder to accidentally mess up Reference Marks
51. Jussi Pakkanen added a configure switch to enable building the Windows installer with WiX
52. Laurent Balland added an option to control the detection of numbers in scientific notations at text paste or import in Calc and made Calc number formatter more robust in case of absolute seconds and milliseconds

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

473 bugs, 54 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 299 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Regina Henschel ( 16 )
2. Robert Großkopf ( 14 )
3. Telesto ( 14 )
4. Hossein ( 13 )
5. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 11 )
6. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 11 )
7. Mike Kaganski ( 10 )
8. Xisco Faulí ( 10 )
9. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 9 )
10. Alexander Kurakin ( 8 )

Triaged Bugs

550 bugs have been triaged by 70 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 165 )
2. m.a.riosv ( 56 )
3. Buovjaga ( 54 )
4. Heiko Tietze ( 34 )
5. Roman Kuznetsov ( 25 )
6. Dieter ( 20 )
7. Xisco Faulí ( 20 )
8. Mike Kaganski ( 20 )
9. Julien Nabet ( 16 )
10. raal ( 15 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

628 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

248 bugs have been fixed by 40 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Justin Luth ( 19 )
2. Caolán McNamara ( 16 )
3. Noel Grandin ( 11 )
4. Mike Kaganski ( 9 )
5. Khaled Hosny ( 8 )
6. Michael Stahl ( 8 )
7. László Németh ( 8 )
8. Julien Nabet ( 8 )
9. Andreas Heinisch ( 7 )
10. Heiko Tietze ( 6 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#155149 Crash when exiting cell edit mode in Calc (Tab, Enter or click out) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#140557 NB Tabbed interface not using whole width of the NB to show controls (STR comment 11) ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
2. tdf#154478 Fileopen DOCX: Comments empty after ToC ( Thanks to Jaume Pujantell )
3. tdf#155186 CRASH: Inserting tables and switching slides (gtk3) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
4. tdf#155543 Define a custom color does not work any longer ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#108889 Crash: When editing a document which is opened at the moment of setting the undo count to zero (0) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
2. tdf#134308 Crash ntdll!RtlReportCriticalFailure with zero undo steps ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
3. tdf#138512 CRASH: Changing vertical alignment (GTK3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
4. tdf#147526 Basic Macro manipulating text table crashes LibreOffice Writer ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#154551 Copying or cutting a variable field (type: variable, number range, user field) results in crash ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
6. tdf#154927 Crash when a11y toolbar is visible and try to insert a math object ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
7. tdf#155002 CRASH: loading document ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
8. tdf#155037 Crash in: rtl_uString_new when attempting to copy sheet to a sheet containing VBA macro ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
9. tdf#155143 LibreOffice Apps crashes when scrolling document with the mouse on 4K screen ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
10. tdf#155149 Crash when exiting cell edit mode in Calc (Tab, Enter or click out) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
11. tdf#155186 CRASH: Inserting tables and switching slides (gtk3) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
12. tdf#155231 CRASH: with embedded OLE chart ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
13. tdf#155235 Draw crashes on close: SIGSEGV in SalInstance:GetYieldMutex() ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
14. tdf#155346 CRASH: trying to copy/paste protected content ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
15. tdf#155393 Crash in SfxShell::GetViewShell() ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
16. tdf#155436 CRASH: exporting to PDF ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
17. tdf#155515 CRASH: clicking on sheet (gtk3) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
18. tdf#155528 crash with SIGSEGV in SalInstance::GetYieldMutex() on exit after inserting image (GTK3) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
19. tdf#155542 checkGlyphsEqual assert on IS_UNSAFE_TO_BREAK inconsistency seen in crashtesting ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
20. tdf#155562 crash when switching to PostgreSQL connector in Database wizard ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
21. tdf#155611 Wrong layout and crash closing text documents with nested sections and tables in 7.5.3 ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#105404 Draw very slow dividing vector graphic (only Linux problem) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

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

1. tdf#100034 Impossible to persistently remove print-range restrictions in .xlsx spreadsheet ( Thanks to Czeber László Ádám )
2. tdf#101876 UI: resizing function wizard only resize the formula field, not the structure and parameter fields width ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )
3. tdf#104005 Expert Configuration dialog does not respect finalized configuration values ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
4. tdf#104487 Function Wizard should remember Category selection per session ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
5. tdf#105404 Draw very slow dividing vector graphic (only Linux problem) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
6. tdf#107965 Apply a font color to multiple cells doesn’t colorize all text (steps in Comment 16) ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
7. tdf#108889 Crash: When editing a document which is opened at the moment of setting the undo count to zero (0) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
8. tdf#109149 HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\windows will be accessed every time when pressing “Enter” ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
9. tdf#36711 FILOPEN .DOC Wrap around frame positions wrong, horizontal relative to Page, vertical relative to Paragraph (MSO opens wrong self saved DOCX) ( Thanks to Justin

General Activities

1. Rafael Lima made smaller and improvements to menus, dark mode support, shortcuts and accelerators
2. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made some tweaks to wordings in UI and Help
3. Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved help for regular expressions, Calc statistics features, Formatting Aids options, Calc Input options, Calc’s INDEX() function and added a help page documenting new command line PDF export options. He also made many refactorings and cleanups in Help.
4. Seth Chaiklin made many text improvements both in the UI and in Help related to numbering, indexes and captions
5. Stéphane Guillou (TDF) improved help for Calc’s Validity feature and Customize dialog
6. Juan C. Sanz made it so data in Firebird embedded databases are saved automatically
7. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer
8. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
9. Szymon Kłos and Pranam Lashkari (Collabora) worked on jsdialog used by Collabora Online
10. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) fixed an issue with Writer fields mishandling datetime when using a locale with comma as decimal separator as well as a datetime value formatting issue, fixed inconsistencies and inaccuracies in Calc rounding functions, fixed a bug in the display of Add-in function names in a localised context, made Calc’s RANK() function more robust and fixed a regression making COUNTIF() and COUNTIFS() functions produce incorrect results in some cases
11. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued polishing support for document themes and the text auto-fit algorithm in Impress
12. Julien Nabet added support for Ukrainian letters in bullets and numbering, fixed many issues with XML forms and fixed an issue with transparent objects not being displayed in exported GIFs. He also fixed crashes and debug assertions
13. Andreas Heinisch fixed inserting line breaks to Calc cells with a macro, improved Heading Numbering dialog, added a timeout (debouncer) to Calc’s Auto Filter search input to improve performance, made Calc cell reference type cycling more robust and made Quick Find reuse the last used search term
14. László Németh improved handling of bookmarks in the Navigator and DOCX export of new change-tracked tables
15. Xisco Faulí (TDF) made a dozen test-related changes and fixed many crashes
16. Michael Stahl (allotropia) continued improving the export of accessible PDFs, made it so mime types of media files are guessed based on their file names, added an option to Load/Save – General that makes LibreOffice load the view position with the document even if it was saved by a different user and made WebDAV file locking more robust
17. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) continued polishing table indentation in exported HTML files, fixed a section layout issue after copying and pasting and fixed antialiasing property (negative) not being honoured when exporting graphics. He also fixed crashes and made many code cleanups and optimisations
18. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) made the link in Crash Report dialog clickable and added new file format fuzzers. He also made many UI-related improvements and crash fixes
19. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) added a –with-coredumpctl option to obtain core dumps of crashed tests from coredumpctl. He also made many code and build-related cleanups, for example removing unused variables found by an experimental Clang build and making some string-related cleanup Clang plugins more robust
20. Noel Grandin (Collabora) fixed the calculation of compression rate shown in the image compression dialog, fixed a Writer anchoring issue and improved the performance of exporting spreadsheets to PDF and undoing the deletion of large Writer tables. He also made many code cleanups, for example reducing the number of temporary string objects found with the help of a new Clang plugin he created, doing many other string-related optimisations and continued making the Chart-related code simpler and more performant
21. Justin Luth (Collabora) made many improvements to DOCX frame object compatibility, fixed an issue with duplicated bookmarks in imported DOCX file, rearranged outline numbering suggestions and improved the page number wizard
22. Heiko Tietze (TDF) made Calc’s comment indicator colour customisable and made several other UI improvements
23. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) worked on multi-color gradient support
24. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed an issue with copying Calc conditional formats with colour scales
25. Paris Oplopoios, Ashod Nakashian and Michael Meeks (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements
26. Michael Weghorn worked on Qt/KDE UI and accessibility
27. Balázs Varga (allotropia) made Calc text hyperlinks stand out more, made deleting hidden sections in Writer pop up a confirmation dialog and made Calc’s fill interaction more robust
28. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) improved the Accessibility Check Sidebar panel
29. Czeber László Ádám (NISZ) fixed an RTF issue with misplaced table with negative indent and DOCX issues in the areas of lists inside tables and form controls
30. Khaled Hosny (Alif Type) made the positioning of combining marks more robust
31. Björn Michaelsen made refactorings to Writer code
32. Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) made many code cleanups, for example removing unneeded using declarations
33. Sarper Akdemir (Collabora) implemented clipping of vertical text overflow in Impress and Draw, added PPTX compatibility for table cell vert (vertical) property and fixed a table shadow offset issue in imported PPTX files
34. Rizal Muttaqin added icons for Accessibility Checker Sidebar panel and made many other updates to the icon themes
35. Vojtěch Doležal made it possible to copy hyperlink locations from protected fields
36. Patrick Luby (Collabora) fixed a Japanese keyboard issue seen on macOS and a crash under presentation mode on macOS
37. Jaume Pujantell (Collabora) fixed a bug in json_writer
38. Maxim Monastirsky continued polishing drawing styles in Calc
39. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed some DOCX hyperlink issues and XLSX shape and line property issues
40. Jim Raykowski added a feature to indicate direct formatting as well as paragraph and character styles in Writer document margins and made it possible to list objects in the Navigator per z-order
41. Baole Fang added digital object identifier (DOI) recognition to AutoCorrect and harmonised some terminology in Impress and Draw
42. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) worked on Windows ARM64 build
43. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) fixed wrong RTL content control field position in exported PDFs
44. Dennis Francis (Collabora) implemented compact layout for Pivot Tables
45. Nirnay Korde added a UI for PostgreSQL connection settings
46. Bartosz Kosiorek improved the performance of handling complex EMF+ graphics
47. Rachael Odetayo and Ximena Alcaman revamped the Windows installer to use WiX
48. Chenxiong Qi ported a developer guide code example to Python
49. Bayram Çiçek made it so drawing a text box in Impress no longer reduces its height to one line

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

513 bugs, 88 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 289 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 24 )
2. Rafael Lima ( 22 )
3. Don Matschull ( 20 )
4. Eyal Rozenberg ( 18 )
5. sdc.blanco ( 13 )
6. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 12 )
7. Robert Großkopf ( 11 )
8. Xisco Faulí ( 11 )
9. Telesto ( 11 )
10. Mike Kaganski ( 10 )

Triaged Bugs

596 bugs have been triaged by 71 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 147 )
2. Buovjaga ( 108 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 45 )
4. Dieter ( 35 )
5. Julien Nabet ( 32 )
6. m.a.riosv ( 29 )
7. Mike Kaganski ( 20 )
8. raal ( 18 )
9. Xisco Faulí ( 16 )
10. Eike Rathke ( 15 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

565 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

201 bugs have been fixed by 44 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 26 )
2. Eike Rathke ( 13 )
3. Julien Nabet ( 10 )
4. Mike Kaganski ( 10 )
5. Andreas Heinisch ( 9 )
6. Seth Chaiklin ( 8 )
7. László Németh ( 8 )
8. Heiko Tietze ( 8 )
9. Noel Grandin ( 7 )
10. Tünde Tóth ( 5 )

List of critical bugs fixed

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#138124 FILEOPEN: MSO DOCX with image in footnote crashes and uses up 100% memory ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
2. tdf#152619 Basic, Writer: Trying to inspect a just created not yet inserted instance of textfield.DateTime in the IDE causes a crash. ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
3. tdf#154040 Not possible to insert interactive frame ( Thanks to Tomaž Vajngerl )
4. tdf#154481 Fileopen DOCX: Last pages cut after grouped shape ( Thanks to Attila Bakos (NISZ) )
5. tdf#154599 Crash while moving columns in Writer table ( Thanks to László Németh )
6. tdf#154677 Crash when clicking on Tools – Options – Language Settings – DeepL ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
7. tdf#154789 EMF+ graphic causes hang / catastrophic memory leak ( Thanks to Bartosz Kosiorek )
8. tdf#154991 CRASH: hiding column ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )
9. tdf#155028 Crash in: `anonymous namespace’::lcl_PasteFlyOrDrawFormat ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
10. tdf#45705 DRAW/IMPRESS: New UNO commands for “Zoom in” and “Zoom out” of document canvas, to support keyboard zoom (comment 47) ( Thanks to Rafael Lima )
11. tdf#61594 FILEOPEN:docx with multi-page floating table (workaround from MS Office: Table Properties – set Text Wrapping to None) ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
12. tdf#91332 Saving XLSX File Removes textbox Linked to Other Tabs ( Thanks to Tünde Tóth )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#104011 FORMCONTROLS. Dialog editor causes crash with Fatal Error when adding a Combo Box from FormControls toolbar. ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
2. tdf#113286 Crash report url/link should be clickable in Crash Report dialog ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
3. tdf#119659 LOOKUP function >> application crashes, if “Result vector” argument is array of constant with more than one value in search direction, and search value is out of vector ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
4. tdf#138124 FILEOPEN: MSO DOCX with image in footnote crashes and uses up 100% memory ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
5. tdf#143200 Crash: Assertion failing when pasting a cell to a large-height range ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
6. tdf#146068 Calc crashes when trend line using MA(central) lacks data ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
7. tdf#147503 Crashes when trying to insert a hyperlink with XML Form Document ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
8. tdf#151560 Calc crashes when loading a previously saved document which has cells with “#” values ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
9. tdf#151971 Crash in: rtl_uString_alloc when using some Sounds Like (Japanese)” settings (steps in comment 7) ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
10. tdf#152257 Crash: Selecting an option in dropdown content control leads to unexpected exit with code 139 ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
11. tdf#152619 Basic, Writer: Trying to inspect a just created not yet inserted instance of textfield.DateTime in the IDE causes a crash. ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
12. tdf#153958 Hyphenation crashes with special combined word ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
13. tdf#154016 Libreoffice Math Crash when scrolling through “element categories” ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
14. tdf#154546 Crash when using presentation mode on macOS ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
15. tdf#154599 Crash while moving columns in Writer table ( Thanks to László Németh )
16. tdf#154629 Crash: after opening print preview, closing print preview, right click on TOC ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
17. tdf#154677 Crash when clicking on Tools – Options – Language Settings – DeepL ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
18. tdf#154912 CRASH/Assert: “pBasicEntry && \”FindEntry: no Entry ?!\”” ( gen) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
19. tdf#154991 CRASH: hiding column ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )
20. tdf#155017 Crash when closing an HTML in a debug build ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
21. tdf#155028 Crash in: `anonymous namespace’::lcl_PasteFlyOrDrawFormat ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
22. tdf#155077 CRASH exporting a dialog with language resources ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#151206 Auto filtering search entry / text input widget should use a timer-based search activation algorithm to improve performance ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )

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

1. tdf#104011 FORMCONTROLS. Dialog editor causes crash with Fatal Error when adding a Combo Box from FormControls toolbar. ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
2. tdf#105035 FILEOPEN DOCX changed framePr: Two frames, anchored to the same paragraph, imported as a single frame (comment 7) ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
3. tdf#113027 Editing F4 (Sheet – Cycle Cell Reference Types) doesn’t cycle remote references with space in sheet name ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
4. tdf#113286 Crash

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.5.0 was announced on February 2
2. Roman Kuznetsov gave a talk about QA in russian
3. Rafael Lima continued polishing dark mode support, made it so empty BASIC libraries are populated by an empty module for better user experience, made zooming smoother in Impress and Draw, implemented shortcut-assignable zoom commands as well as commands for toggling Watch/Stack windows for Basic IDE, made colour schemes translatable and fixed some broken links in Help
4. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos improved the layout of some dialogs and updated some Help texts after UI changes
5. Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved Help pages for Template Manager, command line conversion filter info and Draw layers. He also added links to Calc function wiki articles
6. Seth Chaiklin made many text improvements both in the UI and in Help related to heading numbering and indexes
7. Alain Romedenne corrected malformed keyword names in BASIC function signatures and added a Help page for FormatPercent Basic/VBA function
8. Sophia Schröder made many smaller fixes and markup rework in Help files
9. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer
10. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
11. Szymon Kłos, Dennis Francis and Henry Castro (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements. Szymon also made HTML export more robust regarding closing tags. Henry fixed an issue with master slide previews in Impress
12. Andras Timar (Collabora) made some build-related improvements and fixes
13. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) fixed an issue with dates showing as integers in XLSX files, added Saraiki to languages and made many code cleanups
14. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) made PDFs exported as hybrid conform to PDF validity requirements and continued polishing support for document themes
15. Julien Nabet fixed an issue with setting search attributes via macros and implemented support for CSS color rules using alpha values when pasting HTML text from clipboard
16. Andreas Heinisch added an expert option for sorting recent documents list according to the currently active LibreOffice module, made it so the UTF-8 byte order mark is preserved in saved CSV files, made line number alignment look better in Basic IDE and polished the look of highlighting of favourites in Special Characters dialog
17. László Németh fixed an issue where saving to a WebDAV server too frequently caused the saving to fail
18. Xisco Faulí (TDF) made over 40 additions and improvements to automated tests, made it possible to change the UI when viewing a read-only document and fixed many crashes
19. Michael Stahl (allotropia) improved the image alternative text compatibility with different versions of the DOCX format, continued polishing DOCX table of contents style support, improved both the internal handling and the terminology related to the different ECMA-376 DOCX format editions, fixed an issue with bullets in an ODT originating from MS Word and fixed an issue causing text indent and margin in a paragraph style to not override the respective properties in a list style
20. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed an issue where changing anchoring in a Writer document via a macro would not set modified and undo states, fixed instability and performance issues related to conditional formatting in Calc, made searching by style in Calc more robust, made it possible to install Python-based extensions with spaces in their file names and run macros with non-ASCII characters in their names from the command line, fixed a DOCX compatibility issue affecting text colour and made the logic for adding spaces between the components of table of contents entries smarter. He also made many code cleanups and build fixes
21. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued polishing dark mode support (like, a lot) and made it so closing the license window does not close LibreOffice. He also made many other UI-related improvements and crash fixes
22. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many code and build-related cleanups, for example updating the type reference for the API and making the Clang plugin for detecting mistakes in unit tests smarter. He also fixed crashes and improved and added automated tests
23. Noel Grandin (Collabora) made many code cleanups, for example converting homegrown mutexes to standard library ones, simplifying allocations and flattening code by removing unnecessary uses of “Pointer to implementation” programming technique
24. Justin Luth (Collabora) added UI access for Id and TabIndex of FormField controls and fixed DOCX import issues with extra empty paragraphs getting added to sections and incorrect page break positions
25. Heiko Tietze (TDF) made View Layout status bar icons hidden in Print Preview and improved the layout of Calc’s Sort dialog
26. Paris Oplopoios (Collabora) fixed an issue with comment replies in DOCX files not getting a paragraph ID
27. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) worked on multi-color gradient support
28. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed a priority issue in conditional formatting rules with XLSX import, improved shape connector handling with PPTX files and made it so custom size is retained when saving a background style in PPTX files
29. Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) worked on the WASM build
30. Laurent Balland made it so unnecessary options are disabled when using spelled-out number format in Calc and made it so Delete Sheet command in Calc tells you the number of sheets that are to be deleted
31. Michael Weghorn worked on the Android version, Qt/KDE and accessibility
32. Regina Henschel improved Fontwork to WordArt compatibility
33. Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed a couple of crashes
34. Balázs Varga (allotropia) added VBA function ExportAsFixedFormat for Calc (PDF export)
35. Colomban Wendling (Hypra) worked on accessibility tests
36. Kohei Yoshida made it so Calc’s XML source includes the root element of the group
37. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) fixed a build configure issue caused by Visual Studio telemetry and made a couple of unit tests work with higher display scalings
38. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) fixed issues with table of contents dialog
39. Czeber László Ádám (NISZ) fixed an issue with extra cells appearing in nested tables with RTF export
40. Khaled Hosny (Alif Type) made it so macOS’s own Arabic spelling dictionary is detected and corrected the position of the wavy lines indicating spelling errors in case of right-to-left text
41. Hannah Meeks corrected colour conversions in VBA
42. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) made some build fixes
43. Jürgen Funk (CIB) made toolbar tooltips update immediately after shortcut changes
44. Sebastian Andrzej Siewior made the bin/lo-pack-sources script for compressing sources use more efficient methods of compression
45. Bartosz Kosiorek improved rendering of arcs in EMF graphics
46. Björn Michaelsen made refactorings to Writer code
47. Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) added extra labels to help recognize View menus items when searching in the Customize – Keyboard tab and made it so Rename Sheet only appears once in the Customize dialog
48. Joel Dowdy fixed bad scoping of frac after MathML import
49. Sarper Akdemir (Collabora) fixed an issue with extra line breaks in imported PPTX files
50. Rizal Muttaqin updated Colibre and Sukapura icons in Start Center to match new branding and started working on dark mode support for Sukapura
51. Vojtěch Doležal made it possible to edit bibliography mark content when right-clicking a bibliography table entry

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

589 bugs, 78 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 382 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. sdc.blanco ( 41 )
2. Rafael Lima ( 14 )
3. Mike Kaganski ( 13 )
4. Regina Henschel ( 12 )
5. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 12 )
6. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 8 )
7. Eyal Rozenberg ( 8 )
8. peter josvai ( 8 )
9. jul ( 7 )
10. Telesto ( 6 )

Triaged Bugs

665 bugs have been triaged by 83 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Buovjaga ( 137 )
2. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 111 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 51 )
4. m.a.riosv ( 47 )
5. Dieter ( 38 )
6. Olivier Hallot ( 29 )
7. Julien Nabet ( 28 )
8. V Stuart Foote ( 26 )
9. Xisco Faulí ( 19 )
10. Mike Kaganski ( 17 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

483 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

164 bugs have been fixed by 37 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 20 )
2. Seth Chaiklin ( 15 )
3. Mike Kaganski ( 7 )
4. Michael Stahl ( 6 )
5. László Németh ( 6 )
6. Michael Weghorn ( 6 )
7. Rafael Lima ( 6 )
8. Justin Luth ( 6 )
9. Noel Grandin ( 6 )
10. Heiko Tietze ( 5 )

List of critical bugs fixed

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#132714 Crash when icon deleting table-row used for diagram generation. ( Thanks to László Németh )
2. tdf#152738 LO75RC1: Automatic spell-check not underlining misspelled words; dialog doesn’t use paragraph’s language ( Thanks to László Németh )
3. tdf#153078 Whole section of Groupedbar Compact UI disappear ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
4. tdf#153756 Unable to open form wizard (GTK3) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
5. tdf#153855 Crash on opening Fontwork dialog with Insert > Fontwork (gtk3) ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
6. tdf#153857 Writer hangs or crashes when right-clicking on form field ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
7. tdf#56696 No option to make recent documents list show items for just the currently active LibO module ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#132714 Crash when icon deleting table-row used for diagram generation. ( Thanks to László Németh )
2. tdf#153434 crash clicking on “tools -> macro -> manage macro -> basic -> new” ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
3. tdf#153501 Crash when trying to do WollMux mail merge ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
4. tdf#153622 Crash in: SvListView::SelectListEntry(SvTreeListEntry *,bool) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#153855 Crash on opening Fontwork dialog with Insert > Fontwork (gtk3) ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
6. tdf#153857 Writer hangs or crashes when right-clicking on form field ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

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

1. tdf#104804 Help on “Export Bookmarks” and help on “Export bookmarks as named destinations” is not clear enough ( Thanks to Seth Chaiklin )
2. tdf#105628 Change “Evaluate” to “Show” in the Entries tab of Table of Contents/Index dialog, when Chapter Number is selected ( Thanks to Seth Chaiklin )
3. tdf#114773 TOC: Remove additional space after chapter number in ToC ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
4. tdf#30920 Closing License (WRITER-) document closes LibO [summary in comment 36] ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#56696 No option to make recent documents list show items for just the currently active LibO module ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
6. tdf#63965 CONFIGURATION: two identical functions ( Thanks to Gabor Kelemen )
7. tdf#78510 FILEOPEN: MSO ODT – Bullet points in wrong location ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
8. tdf#82254 FILESAVE: UTF-8 BOM removed from CSV when saving file ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
9. tdf#95936 Shortcut in tooltip not updated after changing the command’s shortcut ( Thanks to Juergen Funk )
10. tdf#96039 Not possible to set shortcuts to view modes ( Thanks to Gabor Kelemen )

WORKSFORME bugs

73 bugs have been retested by 35 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Buovjaga ( 15 )
2. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 6 )
3. Dieter ( 5 )
4. V Stuart Foote ( 4 )
5. m.a.riosv ( 4 )
6. Julien Nabet ( 4 )
7. Olivier Hallot ( 3 )
8. Robert Großkopf ( 3 )
9. خالد حسني ( 3 )
10. tagishsimon ( 2 )

DUPLICATED bugs

125 bugs have been duplicated by 29 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 36 )
2. Buovjaga ( 17 )
3. V Stuart Foote ( 15 )
4. Xisco Faulí ( 7 )
5. m.a.riosv ( 6 )
6. Heiko Tietze ( 5 )
7. Telesto ( 5 )
8. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 4 )
9. Dieter ( 4 )
10. Rafael Lima ( 3 )

Verified bug fixes

45 bugs have been verified by 17 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

1. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 6 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 6 )
3. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 5 )
4. Buovjaga ( 4 )
5. BogdanB ( 3 )
6. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 3 )
7. V Stuart Foote ( 3 )
8. Julien Nabet ( 3 )
9. lol ( 2 )
10. Michael Weghorn ( 2 )

Categorized Bugs

426 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 34 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

1. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 129 )
2. sdc.blanco ( 48 )
3. Buovjaga ( 37 )
4. Heiko Tietze ( 35 )
5. Dieter

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