LibreOffice QA Blog

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.4.2 was released on October 13
2. Rafael Lima made many improvements to how LibreOffice looks like in dark mode under Linux and Windows, cleaned up template categories that show up in Template Manager, fixed an issue with InsertText example Python macro, improved the layout of Calc’s Functions sidebar panel and improved some strings appearing in the UI. He also added a help page for chart data tables and improved the help for ImageMaps and Writer table formulas
3. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made some string fixes in help and in the UI code
4. Alain Romedenne made improvements and additions to macro help pages
5. Olivier Hallot (TDF) made large-scale cleanups regarding screenshots in help, improved help related to file properties, conditional formatting in Calc and layers in Draw
6. Laurent Balland converted all wizard templates to XML, making them easier to maintain. He also simplified the makefiles of Writer, Impress and Draw templates
7. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) added support for titles and tags in Writer content controls, made SVG export preserve tab characters, fixed losing preview images of embedded PDF objects, improved handling of bookmarks and images in Writer header/footer, fixed losing CDATA markup in Writer html import and improved handling of numbering portion formatting in Writer
8. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
9. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed an issue with embedded PPTX files displayed with incorrect zoom
10. Szymon Kłos, Ashod Nakashian, Mike Kaganski and Henry Castro (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements
11. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) improved how language scripts are mapped to language tags, made CSV/TSV clipboard import into Calc more robust, fixed rounding issues with time differences and dates in Calc and made Calc’s date acceptance pattern handling more robust. He also improved the help page for Find and Replace
12. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) did a lot of refactoring in Writer code
13. Julien Nabet fixed a crash in Report Designer
14. Jim Raykowski made many improvements to Writer’s Outline folding feature and the Navigator, including allowing multiple selections in Draw’s Navigator
15. Andreas Heinisch made it possible to edit a Writer index entry by double-clicking on it, made it so form components requiring input no longer add an empty item, fixed an issue with row height changes causing loss of Calc autofilter results (with Eike Rathke’s help), fixed a UI update issue in Writer’s cross-reference dialog, made autofilter more robust regarding Unicode strings and made it so missing optional parameters in Basic return an error code instead of a boolean
16. László Németh fixed superscript footnote numbering in non-English locales in DOCX files, fixed several issues with nested tables and made Writer spellchecking updates trigger more intuitively
17. Xisco Faulí (TDF) made massive refactorings to automated tests, greatly simplifying test code. He also fixed many crashes, improved the crash reporter and added some automated tests
18. Heiko Tietze (TDF) removed the option “Use printer metrics”
19. Michael Stahl (allotropia) improved the compliance of exported PDFs with Universal Accessibility standard and fixed several Writer regressions
20. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made the Windows installer script more robust, fixed an issue with DDE links dropping Unicode characters that are not representable in Windows system encoding and made Impress slideshows prevent screensaver/sleep mode on Windows. He also made many code cleanups
21. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) made numerous improvements to support for dark and high contrast operating system themes (Linux, macOS and Windows). He also made many other UI-related improvements and crash fixes
22. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) fixed an issue with macro dialog’s Assign button not leading to the expected place in the UI, made the Python script provider reload modified embedded scripts and improved support for alternative JDKs on macOS. He also adapted the code to compiler changes and made many code and build-related cleanups as well as test fixes
23. Rizal Muttaqin continued revising the Sifr icon them and also updated the other icon themes
24. Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved the performance of EPUB export on Windows, selecting all and cutting in certain large Writer documents with numbered lists, changing the formatting of large selections in Calc, creating pie charts for big data sets, PDF export of Writer documents with big tables and scrolling in a spreadsheet with many comments. He also made many code cleanups and general optimisations
25. Justin Luth (Collabora) fixed issues with event-driven VBA macros in DOC/X and XLS/X files, made it so unfreezing Calc rows/columns or (de)activating change tracking mark the spreadsheet as unsaved, made it possible to access FormField controls in StarBasic/VBA, fixed Calc’s validity dialog showing empty value when empty cells were not allowed and made conditional formatting with text matching be case insensitive like in Excel
26. Paris Oplopoios (Collabora) added many accessibility checks
27. Chris Sherlock added several automated tests and made code cleanups and improvements to readability
28. Maxim Monastirsky made internal improvements to Impress/Draw table style handling
29. Khaled Hosny (Alif Type) added support font embedding on macOS, improved handling of complex text scripts and fixed PDF exporting with certain problematic fonts. He also made many renovations in font-related code
30. Regina Henschel made many improvements to OOXML SmartArt support
31. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) fixed a Windows issue with mnemonics being triggered without Alt being pressed
32. Sarper Akdemir (Collabora) fixed PPTX import issues with transparent text and list item indentation
33. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) fixed some graphics-related regressions and made refactorings in graphics handling code
34. Andrea Gelmini cleaned up unused include files and fixed many typos in code
35. Chenxiong Qi ported DocumentHandling SDK examples to Python
36. Taichi Haradaguchi updated zlib and Python
37. Daniel Lohmann fixed an Impress Remote crash
38. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed incorrectly imported table border width in certain PPTX files
39. Balázs Varga (allotropia) improved the loading time of ODS files with optimal row height settings in cells and made Calc work in the WebAssembly build
40. Dennis Francis (Collabora) fixed re-exporting broken PDFs imported using Pdfium
41. Mert Tumer (Collabora) added a new UNO command for machine translation, for now only using DeepL API
42. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) fixed a crash on inserting a chart in Writer for tables with merged cells
43. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) worked on macOS app store packaging, including making Firebird database engine non-experimental in app store builds
44. Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed an issue with No List option in Styles Sidebar not removing list in non-English UI and changed a keyboard shortcut for better compatibility with French keyboards
45. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed incorrect RTF import of document variables with accented characters
46. Kevin Suo fixed a longstanding issue of RTL script runs getting reversed on PDF import and made the Loading and Saving strings in status bar localisable

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

528 bugs, 61 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 322 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Eyal Rozenberg ( 46 )
2. Telesto ( 15 )
3. Regina Henschel ( 13 )
4. peter josvai ( 11 )
5. Mike Kaganski ( 11 )
6. Rizal Muttaqin ( 9 )
7. Hossein ( 8 )
8. Rafael Lima ( 7 )
9. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 7 )
10. Robert Großkopf ( 6 )

Triaged Bugs

437 bugs have been triaged by 85 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Buovjaga ( 43 )
2. m.a.riosv ( 41 )
3. raal ( 34 )
4. Dieter ( 29 )
5. Julien Nabet ( 25 )
6. Rafael Lima ( 24 )
7. Roman Kuznetsov ( 23 )
8. Heiko Tietze ( 15 )
9. V Stuart Foote ( 15 )
10. V Stuart Foote ( 13 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

464 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

190 bugs have been fixed by 35 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 23 )
2. Rafael Lima ( 12 )
3. Rizal Muttaqin ( 11 )
4. Khaled Hosny ( 9 )
5. Andreas Heinisch ( 9 )
6. Noel Grandin ( 8 )
7. László Németh ( 7 )
8. Regina Henschel ( 6 )
9. Eike Rathke ( 6 )
10. Michael Stahl ( 6 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#104597 RTL script text runs are reversed on PDF import, PDFIProcessor::mirrorString misbehaving ( Thanks to Kevin Suo )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#124098 FILEOPEN: Calc sheet showing multiple “adapt Row Height” responses, slow loading ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
2. tdf#124672 Hi-Contrast mode should use Sifr dark icons, not Sifr ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
3. tdf#136617 FILEOPEN: DOCX: table is larger from LO 7.1 ( Thanks to László Németh )
4. tdf#146500 Writer crash when entering a paragraph break or carriage return ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
5. tdf#150664 Calc Input Line in Formula Bar is moved down and cropped ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
6. tdf#151283 LO Calc hangs when try to open XLS file ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
7. tdf#151441 Queries don’t show any content when executed directly through GUI ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
8. tdf#151503 logical operator semantics on missing (optional) arguments has changed between 7.2 and 7.4 ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
9. tdf#98067 Menu bar and right tool bar are invisible, but functional in high-contrast-mode/theme ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#146500 Writer crash when entering a paragraph break or carriage return ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
2. tdf#149718 Writer Crashes on inserting a Chart based on a Table with merged cells ( Thanks to Hossein )
3. tdf#151094 FILESAVE: Writer crashes on save after deleting a paragraph style ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
4. tdf#151260 Crash in: SfxItemPool::SetDefaults(std::vector<SfxPoolItem *,std::allocator > *) ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
5. tdf#151316 CRASH in SwTextGridPage::CharorLineChangedHdl (gen) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
6. tdf#151375 Crash when running insertDocumentFromURL with certain document ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
7. tdf#151417 Editing with Draw, activating Form controls, selecting one, LO crash without code number. ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
8. tdf#151736 Opening Writer document with direct formatting crashes whole LO ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#124098 FILEOPEN: Calc sheet showing multiple “adapt Row Height” responses, slow loading ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
2. tdf#129101 CTRL+A & Cut very slow (see comment 38) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
3. tdf#133768 Export to EPUB is slow on Windows and causes massive disk activity ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
4. tdf#147842 Changing text to bold continuously slower so seems to Hang now ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

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

1. tdf#104278 UI: The text in the Type frame in the DocInformation tab in the Fields dialog isn’t aligned to the left ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
2. tdf#104597 RTL script text runs are reversed on PDF import, PDFIProcessor::mirrorString misbehaving ( Thanks to Kevin Suo )
3. tdf#105609 Python script provider does not reload modified embedded scripts ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
4. tdf#112152 Narrow No-Break Space (U+202F) causes PDF Error by using bundled Liberation fonts ( Thanks to Khaled Hosny )
5. tdf#113187 FILEOPEN: PPTX: SmartArt: Block cycle’s connectors not imported ( Thanks to Regina Henschel )
6. tdf#115634 in special characters dialog buttons for recent and favorite characters are not being scaled larger on high resolution screens ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
7. tdf#120326 Running slideshow must disable screensaver/sleep mode on Windows ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
8. tdf#36383 EDITING auto row height or change row height removes AutoFilter result ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
9. tdf#47979 Writer TABLES: impossible to select table ( Thanks to László Németh )
10. tdf#54095 FILEOPEN: Font color is wrong (white instead of black on white background) in DOCX SmartArt Horizontal Hierarchy (that cannot be edited in LO) ( Thanks to Regina Henschel )
11. tdf#72456 Font Embedding does not work on MacOS ( Thanks to Khaled Hosny )
12. tdf#83671 Fileopen XLSX: SmartArt is not displayed ( Thanks to Regina Henschel )
13. tdf#98067 Menu bar and right tool bar are invisible, but functional in high-contrast-mode/theme ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

WORKSFORME bugs

58 bugs have been retested by 31 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Roman Kuznetsov ( 9 )
2. Buovjaga ( 6 )
3. Julien Nabet ( 4 )
4. BogdanB ( 3 )
5. raal ( 3 )
6. Rafael Lima ( 3 )
7. خالد حسني ( 2 )
8. Timur (

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.4.0 was released on August 18
2. Rafael Lima added documentation in Help for the new method Normalize in ScriptForge FileSystem and made the Templates dialog work better with HiDPI displays
3. Olivier Hallot (TDF) made some smaller fixes and cleanups in Help
4. Laurent Balland fixed an issue with Impress’s Inspiration template
5. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) did preparatory work for publishing LibreOffice in Microsoft Store under TDF
6. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) added support for cropped video for media shapes in Impress, made shift-clicking/double-clicking graphics in Writer work and fixed problems with exporting to XHTML with graphics as OLE objects and with vertical text and clearing breaks in Writer. He also made some crash fixes.
7. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
8. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed a problem with decimal tabulators in DOCX files and made it so long legend texts in charts are truncated
9. Szymon Kłos, Tor Lillqvist, Mert Tumer and Henry Castro (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements
10. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) fixed an issue with calling Calc’s add-in functions via macros while having a non-English UI, made it so switching to English function names in Calc does not require a restart, made Calc’s date pattern evaluation more robust and made it possible to create a new language list entry by simply dropping an autocorrect .dat file into a relevant autocorr directory inside the user profile
11. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued working on data tables for charts
12. Julien Nabet fixed hyphenation issues with Greek language, made it possible to align date fields in macro dialog boxes, fixed preview issues with horizontal alignment of objects in frames and page dimension in Print Preview. He also made some crash fixes.
13. Jim Raykowski made it so object selections in Impress or Draw are reflected in the Navigator, made page number display in status bar more intuitive and fixed an issue with Navigator’s Navigate By Page Next functionality
14. Andreas Heinisch made cursor navigation with Ctrl key in Writer treat narrow no-break spaces the same way as other space characters, made narrow no-break spaces visible by drawing a gray background, fixed Calc’s Formula to Value not taking immediate effect, improved Basic macro error messages and fixed Calc’s Formula bar suggestion tooltips misbehaving with non-ASCII characters
15. László Németh improved the layout of drop cap characters, made several improvements to change tracking and fixed regressions
16. Xisco Faulí (TDF) added over a dozen automated tests, made SVG marker-mid and marker-end handling more robust and fixed a crash
17. Heiko Tietze (TDF) made several UI improvements and made the recovery dialog easier to understand (thanks to earlier work by Danie Truter)
18. Michael Stahl (allotropia) fixed issues with dropdowns and paragraph borders in RTF files, made WebDAV TLS work with self-signed Certification Authorities and improved bookmark handling in the Navigator
19. Michael Weghorn fixed a qt/kf5 double-click issue (only in unreleased code) and made nearly sixty improvements and cleanup changes to Windows and Linux accessibility code
20. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) dropped the Elements docking window from Math and made it a Sidebar panel instead. He also fixed some crashes and regressions and an issue with importing XML files from paths with non-ASCII characters on Windows
21. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) implemented fully native scrollbars for gtk3 and gtk4 UIs, made it possible to align currency fields in macro dialog boxes, made automated tests more reliable by correct use of fonts and fixed an issue with active object selection not being indicated in Impress sometimes. He also continued working on gtk4 UI and fixed many crashes and issues found by Coverity and fuzzers, including even Hunspell Coverity issues
22. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many code and build-related cleanups as well as test fixes
23. Rizal Muttaqin updated the icons for Field and Field by Type
24. Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved the loading time for documents with charts having ridiculously long legends. He also made many code cleanups and general optimisations
25. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) made many cleanups in OpenCL code
26. Justin Luth fixed several issues related to numbered paragraphs and fixed incorrect anchoring in certain imported DOC files
27. Mark Hung fixed an issue causing unwanted hiding of RTL sections in Writer
28. Paris Oplopoios made cleanups to the graphics handling code as part of GSoC
29. Chris Sherlock made many code cleanups and improvements to readability
30. Áron Budea (Collabora) added Persian (fa-IR) dictionary to installset
31. Hannah Meeks worked on the VBA macro compatibility GSoC project
32. Maxim Monastirsky continued polishing icon flipping in the context of RTL, fixed a menu regression and made code cleanups
33. Khaled Hosny (Alif Type) fixed many issues affecting the layouting of Kashida characters in Arabic scripts, issues with letter spacing, made the preview in Styles dropdown use CJK/CTL fonts, improved how the text cursor moves in relation to ligatures in Writer and made it possible to disable default features in Font Features dialog. He also made it possible to search for combining marks in text containing complex scripts
34. Colomban Wendling (Hypra) worked on accessibility tests
35. Matt K made it so errors with PDF export only show one dialog instead of three
36. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) improved the bin/run build script and its documentation and fixed a footnote crash
37. Regina Henschel fixed an issue with saving Writer documents containing vertical text
38. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) made handling of frames more robust in Writer and fixed a couple of regressions
39. Pranam Lashkari (Collabora) made it so Writer’s paragraph dialog will show Tabs tab also when multiple paragraphs are selected and fixed a crash
40. Pedro Silva (Collabora) fixed some button image size inconsistencies
41. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) made dialog positioning more robust, made it possible to specify names for printer jobs via the API and made it so unused document variables are preserved with RTF import and export
42. Niko Fink fixed a crash in PyUNO
43. Wu Jiahuan (Loongson) added support for building with loongarch64 CPU architecture
44. Arnaud Versini made some code cleanups
45. Thierry Emery changed pasted images to be anchored to cell by default in Calc
46. Povilas Kanapickas implemented touchpad gesture support for rotating and zooming in Linux
47. Thorsten Wagner made some cosmetic improvements to button text colours and font height on macOS
48. Sarper Akdemir (Collabora) fixed a regression affecting PPTX tables
49. Roman Kuznetsov made it so the About dialog can show both OpenCL and threaded for Calc’s calculation mode
50. Łukasz Leszko fixed saving external links as relative in XLS files
51. Oguz Balkaya added an option to clear unavailable files from the Recent Documents menu and Start Center
52. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) reworked the code for rendering glow effects

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

480 bugs, 44 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 289 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Telesto ( 28 )
2. Mike Kaganski ( 16 )
3. Tuomas Hietala ( 15 )
4. Rafael Lima ( 14 )
5. BogdanB ( 11 )
6. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 10 )
7. Hossein ( 9 )
8. Robert Großkopf ( 8 )
9. Regina Henschel ( 8 )
10. Eyal Rozenberg ( 7 )

Triaged Bugs

470 bugs have been triaged by 69 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Dieter ( 55 )
2. Julien Nabet ( 39 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 38 )
4. Timur ( 35 )
5. Mike Kaganski ( 25 )
6. V Stuart Foote ( 23 )
7. Roman Kuznetsov ( 21 )
8. m.a.riosv ( 21 )
9. Rafael Lima ( 20 )
10. Xisco Faulí ( 18 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

478 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 38 people.

Top 10 Fixers

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

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#149966 Crash on Windows and freeze on Linux when customizing Menu ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#149467 Follow URL link in Writer text when navigator displayed: Crash in: _chkstk ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
2. tdf#150034 LibreOffice Calc hangs on opening the particular file with pathological chart ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
3. tdf#150170 Crash in: mdds::flat_segment_tree::insert_to_pos(boost::intrusive_ptr<mdds::__st::node<mdds::flat_segment_tree > > &,long,long,bool) ( only LibreOffice 7.3 ) ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
4. tdf#150197 number lost (after assigning numbering to style) when exporting to DOCX ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
5. tdf#150236 Does not open full screen, ooSetupFactoryWindowAttributes not being filled ( steps in comment 21 ) ( LibreOffice 7.4 only ) ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
6. tdf#150331 EDITING: AutoCorrect without “Show as tip” always fills in rest of word regardless of next key stroke ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
7. tdf#150336 Shift + Up/Left no longer works to select cells in LO 7.4 beta 2 (using the Tabbed UI) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
8. tdf#150443 Track changes: Crash rejecting a grouped change ( Thanks to László Németh )
9. tdf#150452 Crash in: libc.so.6 ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
10. tdf#150499 CRASH: deleting sheet ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
11. tdf#150502 CRASH: after clicking between the horizontal and vertical rulers ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
12. tdf#150594 LO 7.4: crash when I update a chapter index (swlo!SwDoc::SetTOXBaseName+0x5cd:) ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
13. tdf#91764 RTL: Arabic, Hebrew diacritics cant be found using search dialog ( Thanks to Khaled Hosny )
14. tdf#94223 Selection box for text box not shown ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#147466 Crash swlo!SwDoc::InvalidateNumRules+0x657 (track changes involved) ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
2. tdf#149467 Follow URL link in Writer text when navigator displayed: Crash in: _chkstk ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
3. tdf#149548 CRASH: copying and pasting tracked content ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
4. tdf#149966 Crash on Windows and freeze on Linux when customizing Menu ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
5. tdf#150138 FILEOPEN: Writer crashes when opening ODT file ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
6. tdf#150170 Crash in: mdds::flat_segment_tree::insert_to_pos(boost::intrusive_ptr<mdds::__st::node<mdds::flat_segment_tree > > &,long,long,bool) ( only LibreOffice 7.3 ) ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
7. tdf#150219 EDITING: Crash when cutting trace dependent with precedent on different sheet ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
8. tdf#150222 REPORTBUILDER – Starting to set font for a text box crashes whole LO ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
9. tdf#150249 Crash in Fontworks applying style after undo ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
10. tdf#150265 Crash exporting a document with zoom to DOCX ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
11. tdf#150291 Macro-collection-management crashes when no macro-container is selected (gtk3 specific) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
12. tdf#150394 LibreOffice is crashing with long hyperlink on the last position (Don’t hyphenate the last word) ( Thanks to László Németh )
13. tdf#150443 Track changes: Crash rejecting a grouped change ( Thanks to László Németh )
14. tdf#150452 Crash in: libc.so.6 ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
15. tdf#150457 Crash on hovering footnote references after removing footnote ( Thanks to Hossein )
16. tdf#150499 CRASH: deleting sheet ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
17. tdf#150502 CRASH: after clicking between the horizontal and vertical rulers ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
18. tdf#150555 Crash after resizing Writer’s main window ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
19. tdf#150575 REPORTBUILDER: Crash when closing report after report navigator has been started ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
20. tdf#150594 LO 7.4: crash when I update a chapter index (swlo!SwDoc::SetTOXBaseName+0x5cd:) ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
21. tdf#150629 LibreOffice Writer crashes, when editing a page break ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#108560 Pasting or editing large amount of multi-line text into a cell result in unusable Calc with GTK3 (steps to reproduce in comment 29) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
2. tdf#150618 Serious performance regression: it takes 5min+ for SUMIFS formula recalculation when switching sheet (while it only takes 30s in 7.3) ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )

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

1. tdf#103492 Arabic words not formed well in textboxes when sentence begins with English word ( Thanks to Khaled Hosny )
2. tdf#104921

The LibreOffice Quality Assurance (QA) Team is happy to announce that LibreOffice 7.4 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) is available for testing!

LibreOffice 7.4 will be released as final in mid August, 2022 (check the Release Plan for more information), with LibreOffice 7.4 RC2 being the fourth pre-release since the development of version 7.4 started at the end of November 2021. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.4 RC1, 99 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 56 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.

LibreOffice 7.4 RC2 can be downloaded from here for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it will replace 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 Telegram.

LibreOffice is a volunteer-driven community project and your help is much appreciated.

Happy testing!…

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.3.4 was released on June 9
2. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos updated the font stack used in Help and made many small tweaks to content (with help from Celia Palacios). He also made some UI improvements
3. Dietrich Schulten updated Calc help for cell copying after a new option was added to only select visible cells
4. Seth Chaiklin updated help for Arrow styles, object anchoring, list indenting, table resizing and many menu and toolbar items. He also improved many LibreOffice UI strings and tooltips
5. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) improved the help for AutoCorrect
6. Alain Romedenne documented some Python resources in Help and improved the help for ScriptForge
7. Rafael Lima expanded the help for ScriptForge with many new features and made some smaller help fixes
8. Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for the new Calc Sparklines feature and pivot table formatting, updated the help for Insert Image and Navigator, expanded the help for toolbars and made many other smaller Help fixes. He also made many updates to extended tooltips
9. Laurent Balland added a new Calc command GoTo Sheet and wrote help for it
10. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) prepared for Apple Store distribution, for example fixing access to macOS address book and making Impress remote connection dialog not depend on Bluetooth access. He also made generating help files reproducible by changing how the ID generation works
11. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) implemented allowing negative page border distances in Writer for interoperability and improved the HTML exporting of table backgrounds, lists and image links. He also continued working on colour themes in OOXML documents and content controls for Writer
12. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
13. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) made it so changing the autorecovery setting works again and made exporting of hyperlink style names interoperable with DOCX
14. Szymon Kłos and Pranam Lashkari (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements
15. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made several improvements to Calc arrays, fixed an issue with cell references, made it so number formatting for booleans is respected, fixed an undo issue related to cutting, improved the compatibility of VBA Range.Sort and made handling letter cases more robust
16. Bartosz Kosiorek fixed the rendering of EMF+ gradients and implemented support for custom line caps in the graphics format
17. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) added support for interoperability of OOXML text inset values
18. Julien Nabet fixed issues with databases, TIFF images and saving to network locations
19. Jim Raykowski improved the vertical alignment of the Navigator view when tracking elements
20. Andreas Heinisch made VBA parsing more robust, improved Writer’s Hyperlink dialog, improved data handling in pivot tables and made Basic’s MsgBox handle its arguments correctly
21. László Németh added support for hyphenation zones to improve OOXML interoperability and implemented change tracking for numbered paragraphs in Writer. He also documented new hyphenation options in Help
22. Xisco Faulí (TDF) wrote a script to get attachments from various online forums to help expand our test document corpus and fixed many crashes and other dangerous pieces of code detected by the document crash testing system. He also added over twenty automated tests
23. Heiko Tietze (TDF) redesigned the Character Formatting dialog to be more useful for Asian and CTL language users, improved the Frame dialog and made the Snap to Grid command easier to access across the UI
24. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) worked together with Samuel Mehrbrodt and Michael Stahl to make the “Use background fill” option interoperable with PPTX files
25. Michael Stahl (allotropia) fixed many Writer regressions and made change tracking more robust
26. Michael Weghorn improved the Qt/kf5 UI and made accessibility improvements
27. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) continued improving the Fontwork dialog and icon list UI element, for example adding accessibility, made image cropping in imported PPTX files more robust, made improvements to Basic and fixed an issue with using file paths in macros that send emails with attachments. He also made many corrections to Help pages
28. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued working on TIFF image handling improvements, fixed dozens of crashes and made UI improvements
29. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made the warning dialog for executing external programs more reliable, removed deprecated idlc and regmerge from the SDK and made many code and build-related cleanups as well as test fixes
30. Attila Szűcs (NISZ) made it so spaces at line ends in margins are displayed in Writer when View → Formatting Marks is active
31. Rizal Muttaqin made many updates to the icon themes, including better differentiation between some icons
32. Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) added new shortcuts for moving slides and turning off mouse as pen in Impress
33. Noel Grandin (Collabora) made it so dialog size and position are remembered during a session, letter case font effects are shown in the Navigator, improved the look of comboboxes on macOS, made string to number replacements in Calc two orders of magnitude faster, improved the zooming performance in complex Writer documents and improved the import speed of complex PDF files. He also made many code cleanups and general optimisations
34. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) fixed a graphical glitch when dragging text around in Calc’s formula bar, improved the performance of importing XLSX files with pivot tables, fixed several crash regressions and made code cleanups
35. Justin Luth fixed issues with character style “None” being ignored in Number Styles upon ODT import, applied numbering leaking across Writer table cells in certain cases and missing frame borders in exported DOCX files
36. Daniel Lohmann fixed a graphical glitch with OpenGL Impress transitions
37. Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) made cross-building more robust
38. Enhua Xu improved the sizing logic of the Sidebar
39. Mark Hung fixed a couple of issues with CJK text grid
40. Jan-Marek Glogowski (allotropia) fixed many Qt/kf5 UI issues, worked on the WebAssembly port and refactored window handling on Windows
41. Lera Goncharuk improved the crash report analysis script
42. Paris Oplopoios entered the official GSoC coding period and worked on compression support for graphics, improved WMF file detection and made CSS handling in SVG files more robust
43. Chris Sherlock made cleanups in vcl, registry, io and store modules
44. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) made fixes related to PPTX preset shapes and internal hyperlinks
45. Balázs Varga (allotropia) fixed a regression affecting Calc’s conditional formatting and made a couple of build fixes
46. René Engelhard (Debian) made several build fixes
47. Gülşah Köse (Collabora) fixed an issue with the Glow effect
48. Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed a UI regression in Calc Data Table dialog
49. Henry Castro (Collabora) made some code cleanups
50. Nathan Teodosio (Canonical) made compatibility fixes for Poppler PDF library 22.06
51. Marco Cecchetti (Collabora) added support for emphasis spin animation in SVG export of Impress presentation
52. Siddhant Chaudhary improved privacy when opening a locked file and made it so Paste Special options are remembered across sessions
53. Hannah Meeks entered the official GSoC coding period and implemented the Value2 property for VBA’s Range object
54. Ilhan Yesil fixed an issue with setting image URLs via UNO API
55. Maxim Monastirsky worked on merging the Single Toolbar and Contextual Single UIs
56. Lukas Molleman made many cleanups in Python scripts
57. Khaled Hosny (Alif Type) made PDF exporting more robust regarding glyph widths
58. Colomban Wendling (Hypra) worked on converting accessibility tests from Java to C++

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

372 bugs, 53 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 220 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Xisco Faulí ( 27 )
2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 16 )
3. Regina Henschel ( 11 )
4. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 11 )
5. Telesto ( 9 )
6. Mike Kaganski ( 9 )
7. Rafael Lima ( 9 )
8. Eyal Rozenberg ( 7 )
9. sdc.blanco ( 6 )
10. phv ( 6 )

Triaged Bugs

403 bugs have been triaged by 69 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 43 )
2. Rafael Lima ( 35 )
3. Timur ( 34 )
4. Heiko Tietze ( 28 )
5. Dieter ( 28 )
6. Julien Nabet ( 25 )
7. Aron Budea ( 17 )
8. Buovjaga ( 17 )
9. m.a.riosv ( 16 )
10. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 15 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

422 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

174 bugs have been fixed by 37 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Noel Grandin ( 14 )
2. Eike Rathke ( 13 )
3. Seth Chaiklin ( 12 )
4. Caolán McNamara ( 9 )
5. Olivier Hallot ( 8 )
6. Michael Stahl ( 8 )
7. Luboš Luňák ( 8 )
8. László Németh ( 7 )
9. Miklos Vajna ( 5 )
10. Justin Luth ( 4 )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#147822 LO Calc with RadioButton Crash in: ScUnoListenerCalls::ExecuteAndClear() – steps Comment 22 ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
2. tdf#149408 CRASH: opening the WriterInspectorTextPanel in a OLE object ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
3. tdf#149502 CRASH/Hang: deleting sheet ( Thanks to Attila Szűcs )
4. tdf#149529 Calc Insert Sheet + save Freeze ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#149554 CRASH: using empty transpose ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
6. tdf#149574 HANG: deleting sheet ( Thanks to Attila Szűcs )
7. tdf#149679 CRASH: importing document in ScQueryEvaluator::compareByString ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
8. tdf#149752 CRASH: importing spreadsheet ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#145843 Incidental Crash on macOS with skia raster ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
2. tdf#147822 LO Calc with RadioButton Crash in: ScUnoListenerCalls::ExecuteAndClear() – steps Comment 22 ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
3. tdf#148624 Crash in: GrVkPipelineState::setAndBindInputAttachment(GrVkGpu *,gr_sp,GrVkCommandBuffer *) ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
4. tdf#149325 VBA reference to a sheet by name, not index, crashes Calc ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
5. tdf#149389 Crash when closing document in dead key mode while adding comment ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
6. tdf#149408 CRASH: opening the WriterInspectorTextPanel in a OLE object ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
7. tdf#149502 CRASH/Hang: deleting sheet ( Thanks to Attila Szűcs )
8. tdf#149503 CRASH: Pasting content from sheet ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
9. tdf#149507 CRASH: pasting and undoing ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
10. tdf#149509 CRASH: inserting page break in content control ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
11. tdf#149550 CRASH: copying textbox ( Thanks to Attila Bakos (NISZ) )
12. tdf#149554 CRASH: using empty transpose ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
13. tdf#149655 Crash: “Helplines while moving” crashes debug-build ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
14. tdf#149679 CRASH: importing document in ScQueryEvaluator::compareByString ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
15. tdf#149692 CRASH: importing document from commandline ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
16. tdf#149748 CRASH: selecting None from Color bar ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
17. tdf#149752 CRASH: importing spreadsheet ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
18. tdf#149787 CRASH: closing area dialog after closing Add color palette via extension dialog ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#126109 EDITING/UI: Slow when replacing string to number ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#148309 Mail-merging a complex document with many data records significantly slower after fix for bug 144565 ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
3. tdf#149574 HANG: deleting sheet ( Thanks to Attila Szűcs )

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

1. tdf#115523 FILEOPEN Track Changes: Writer does not show the change in number of deleted numbered paragraphs ( Thanks to László Németh )
2. tdf#115524 FILEOPEN Track Changes does not show the change in number of added numbered paragraphs ( Thanks to László Németh )
3. tdf#117539 Assert after cut and paste operation of a chart stick ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
4. tdf#43100 EDITING: It is better for spaces at the end of line to cause a new line ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
5. tdf#43244 VIEWING nonprinting characters (spaces) missing at page margin ( Thanks to Attila Szűcs )
6. tdf#52602 Excel Visual Basic compatibility issue in LibreOffice Calc: NumberFormat to date/time ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
7. tdf#68335 EDITING: Maximum fixed line spacing limited to 10 cm ( Thanks to Gabor Kelemen )
8. tdf#69750 Feature request: Preserve last used Paste special options selection for next session (after restarting LibreOffice) ( Thanks to Siddhant Chaudhary )
9. tdf#75297 FORMATTING: Number Styles, character style of “None” is ignored ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
10. tdf#81293 The dialog “manage names” forgets size and column width settings ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

WORKSFORME bugs

42 bugs have been …

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.2.7 was released on May, 12
2. LibreOffice 7.3.3 was released on May, 5
3. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made some minor improvements to Help text readability
4. Seth Chaiklin improved the help for vertical positioning of objects, Print preview, Options tab for Frame/Object/Image, Outline bar for Impress and anchoring. He also improved many LibreOffice UI strings and tips of the day
5. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) added right-to-left support to Help
6. Alain Romedenne improved the correctness of Basic help pages and documented the new Resize() and Center() methods for ScriptForge’s SF_Dialog
7. flywire cleaned up ScriptForge examples in Help
8. Rafael Lima documented the new CompactLeft and CompactUp methods from the Calc service in ScriptForge
9. Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the help pages for Basic’s Shell function, CSV import filter, Direct SQL and colour palettes
10. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) continued working on colour themes in OOXML documents and content controls for Writer
11. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
12. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed a bug that made Autorecovery option always save every 10 minutes regardless of the minute setting
13. Dennis Francis and Szymon Kłos (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements
14. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed an issue with numbering styles in imported DOCX files and fixed some regressions
15. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) fixed issues with Calc’s AGGREGATE and COUNTIFS functions, counting times with SUM, made array formulas more robust and made some Calc optimisations. Together with Mike Kaganski he fixed an issue where copying and pasting a sheet with a chart resulted in incorrect chart data ranges
16. Bartosz Kosiorek added support for several EMF+ graphics features
17. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) worked on chart code refactoring and polished the Calc sparkline feature
18. Regina Henschel fixed issues with curved arrow shapes and arcs
19. Julien Nabet changed TIFF image handling to be done with libtiff library together with Caolán McNamara
20. Jim Raykowski made many polishing fixes to Navigator, including to display of hyperlinks and media objects
21. Andreas Heinisch made it so LibreOffice (non-native) file dialog shows directory path upon hover in the Places list, fixed Basic bugs with case-sensitivity and VBA parsing and made page style handling more robust
22. László Németh continued improving change tracking, fixed bugs related to Writer footnotes and an issue with saving recovery information for password-protected XLSX files. He also added options for skipping hyphenation with short words and the last word in a paragraph
23. Xisco Faulí (TDF) fixed many issues with exporting PDF form elements, created a script to help manage crash reports and fixed some crashes. He also added a couple of dozen automated tests
24. Heiko Tietze (TDF) improved the UI for Calc’s sparkline feature, made list indent and level shortcuts consistent and made some other UI improvements
25. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) worked on Advanced Diagram support
26. Michael Stahl (allotropia) polished the curl-based webdav implementation, made it so JVM UNO components can be run out-of-process and made crash fixes, regression fixes and cleanups
27. Attila Bakos (NISZ) continued polishing text in grouped shapes
28. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) made Windows installer more robust and made Calc’s formula bar remember its height per document
29. Michael Weghorn made many Android cleanups and improved the Qt/kf5 UI
30. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) fixed a couple of regressions and worked on developer’s guide C++ SDK examples
31. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) improved the Fontwork dialog layout (and icon lists in general), made Windows file dialog more robust, made some test fixes and many cleanups and optimisations
32. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued making automated tests more robust regarding use of fonts, made many improvements to TIFF image handling after the collaboration with Julien Nabet on switching to libtiff, fixed some right-to-left issues, fixed an issue with Chinese fonts in tooltips on macOS, made Impress animation panel scroll to object upon selection, made gtk UIs detect high contrast theme, fixed crashes, issues found by fuzzers and many UI issues. He also made the gtk UIs follow org.freedesktop.appearance.color-scheme setting
33. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made master documents allow subdocuments with multiple consecutive spaces in their file names, fixed crashes and made many code and build-related cleanups as well as test fixes
34. Rizal Muttaqin continued improving the dark icon variants, added new icons to Breeze and Colibre themes and updated tips of the day to match current UI
35. Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) made some code cleanups
36. Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved the loading speed of a PPT file with equation objects, made many code cleanups and general optimisations
37. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) continued optimising the layouting of text glyphs and made many optimisations to Calc internal queries with one result being that COUNTIFS function speed is much faster than in competing suites
38. Justin Luth (SIL) improved Writer’s page style UI and fixed a formatting issue with imported XLSX files
39. Pranam Lashkari (Collabora) made copying Writer comments more robust
40. Daniel Lohmann fixed graphical glitches in Impress when upscaling images
41. Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) made creating LibreOffice installers faster
42. Enhua Xu made some mnemonics cleanups
43. Mark Hung added support for hang baseline feature of OpenType fonts
44. Jan-Marek Glogowski (allotropia) fixed many Qt/kf5 UI issues
45. Roman Kuznetsov made several code cleanups
46. Louis Possoz fixed an issue with custom footnote/endnote formats not being loaded from saved ODT files
47. Daniel Kamil Kozar made fill Series dialog respect the number format of the source cell in Calc
48. hasban12138 fixed a cell range selection issue in Calc
49. Ashleigh Sinclair made it so clicking on the document canvas with a shape tool activated creates a shape with default size in Writer, Impress and Draw
50. Lera Goncharuk made many cleanups in Python UI tests
51. Paris Oplopoios added Z compressed graphic formats support for EMF/WMF
52. Jürgen Funk (CIB) fixed an OLE object update regression
53. Chris Sherlock added automated tests for vcl and store modules
54. Kohei Yoshida fixed an issue with switching language during spell-check in Calc
55. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed PPTX import/export issues related to shape connectors and hyperlinks

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

524 bugs, 53 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 269 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. sdc.blanco ( 42 )
2. Telesto ( 27 )
3. Eyal Rozenberg ( 24 )
4. Rafael Lima ( 16 )
5. Xisco Faulí ( 14 )
6. Olivier Hallot ( 14 )
7. Mike Kaganski ( 10 )
8. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 9 )
9. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 9 )
10. Regina Henschel ( 9 )

Triaged Bugs

662 bugs have been triaged by 83 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 104 )
2. Buovjaga ( 97 )
3. Dieter ( 46 )
4. Heiko Tietze ( 39 )
5. Timur ( 39 )
6. Timur ( 26 )
7. Rafael Lima ( 24 )
8. raal ( 24 )
9. Mike Kaganski ( 23 )
10. Regina Henschel ( 18 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

607 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

210 bugs have been fixed by 43 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 25 )
2. Seth Chaiklin ( 12 )
3. László Németh ( 9 )
4. Luboš Luňák ( 7 )
5. Xisco Fauli ( 5 )
6. Julien Nabet ( 5 )
7. Jan-Marek Glogowski ( 5 )
8. Eike Rathke ( 5 )
9. Michael Stahl ( 5 )
10. Stephan Bergmann ( 5 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#149106 LOdev 7.4.0.0alpha1 cannot be installed over an existing installation ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#147844 UI: Edit track changes dialog missing buttons (reject/accept) ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
2. tdf#148954 Writer Crash on loading files with RTL/CTL text and certain glyphs (debug build only) ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
3. tdf#149071 SUMIFS generates wrong result ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
4. tdf#149072 Export PDF doesn’t work with PDF/UA in GUI after Index language was set ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#147708 Writer crashes trying to open file with 3000 pages ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
2. tdf#148148 CRASH: Format – Text – Cycle Case (part 2) ( Thanks to Michael Warner )
3. tdf#148365 CRASH: Writer 7.4 enters infinite loop while opening DOCX file (high CPU, previously hangup) ( Thanks to Attila Bakos (NISZ) )
4. tdf#148683 Editing: Crash when deleting a piece of text with change tracking enabled, but hidden ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
5. tdf#148954 Writer Crash on loading files with RTL/CTL text and certain glyphs (debug build only) ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
6. tdf#148985 Impress crash on animation search ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
7. tdf#149079 EDITING Calc crashes when editing cell content in inserted rows ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
8. tdf#149184 Crash during save to DOCX after removing footer ( Thanks to Hossein )
9. tdf#149198 Crash on DOCX save ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
10. tdf#149231 Crash on print preview of master document (Linux) ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
11. tdf#149261 Impress crashes when starting slide show the second time ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
12. tdf#149268 FILEOPEN: particular document will CRASH after opening the navigator ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
13. tdf#149280 CRASH: reinstalling extension from addition dialog ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#144777 countifs() in Calc is slower than Excel’s countifs() ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
2. tdf#148911 FILEOPEN RTF Opening time of an RTF with a very large page splitting table has grown a lot ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
3. tdf#89331 [WMF/EMF] Slow performance scrolling doc and missing items ( Thanks to Bartosz Kosiorek )

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

1. tdf#103954 Support compressed metafile formats WMZ/EMZ ( Thanks to offtkp )
2. tdf#104930 please handle ‘hang’ baseline feature of OpenType fonts ( Thanks to Mark Hung )
3. tdf#105972 PDF form export does not save field types ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
4. tdf#107765 CALC: Switching language during spell-check doesn’t change the text’s language property ( Thanks to Kohei Yoshida )
5. tdf#108188 PageStyle property “isInUse” is always true ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
6. tdf#117006 On GNU/Linux, with High Contrast theme, the icon set is not correct ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
7. tdf#50400 PDF export: Warn that password field does not accept Unicode characters other than ASCII (see Comment 6) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
8. tdf#56266 FILESAVE: “Track/record changes”: interdependentant revision marks not correctly saved to ODT file ( Thanks to László Németh )
9. tdf#65067 change defaults to avoid unnecessary horizontal spacing around formulas ( Thanks to Rafael Lima )
10. tdf#66228 FILESAVE: save to PPTX changes connector style ( Thanks to Tibor Nagy )
11. tdf#74331 16bit “Photometric Interpretation: min-is-black” tiff not loaded correctly ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
12. tdf#89331 [WMF/EMF] Slow performance scrolling doc and missing items ( Thanks to Bartosz Kosiorek )
13. tdf#91035 UI: Available paragraph styles in Conditional Style defaults to All Styles but dropdown says Hidden Styles ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
14. tdf#99708 Calc Formula Bar multiline input doesn’t remember state ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )

WORKSFORME bugs

144 bugs have been retested by 44 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 37 )
2. Buovjaga ( 22 )
3. Dieter ( 10 )
4. Timur ( 8 )
5. Timur ( 8 )
6. Telesto ( 5 )
7. Martin Srdoš ( 5 )
8. BogdanB ( 4 )
9. Julien Nabet ( 4 )
10. Michael Weghorn ( 3 )

DUPLICATED bugs

110 bugs have been duplicated by 37 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Mike Kaganski ( 12 )
2. Heiko Tietze ( 10 )
3. Xisco Faulí ( 9 )
4. Timur ( 8 )
5. Buovjaga ( 7 )
6. Dieter ( 7 )
7. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 6 )
8. Timur ( 6 )
9. Rafael Lima ( 5 )
10. Lubos Lunak ( 4 )

Verified bug fixes

80 bugs have been verified by 24 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

1. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 19 )
2. Dieter ( 10 )
3. Xisco Faulí ( 9 )
4. Julien Nabet ( 8 )
5. Michael Weghorn ( 4 )
6. Timur ( 3 )
7. sdc.blanco ( 3 )
8. BogdanB ( 3 )
9. Aron Budea ( 2 )
10. Buovjaga ( 2 )

Categorized Bugs

360 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 30 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

1. sdc.blanco ( 77 )
2. Aron Budea (