LibreOffice QA Blog

LibreOffice 7.5 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2023 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 7.5 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) the third pre-release since the development of version 7.5 started in mid June, 2022. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.5 Beta1, 213 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 70 issues got fixed. Check the Release Notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.

LibreOffice 7.5 RC1 can be downloaded 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 Matrix.

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

Happy testing!!

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General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.3.7 was released on November 3
2. LibreOffice 7.4.3 was released on November 24
3. Rafael Lima made many improvements to how LibreOffice looks like in dark mode, grammar mistake colour configurable, made it so Macro Selector dialog remembers the last run macro, made the new LanguageTool feature more user friendly and improved some UI strings. He also improved help for Database Wizard, ODBC connection and frequently-used buttons
4. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made many string fixes in help and in the UI code as well as dialog layout improvements
5. Alain Romedenne made improvements and additions to macro help pages as well as the ones dealing with LibreOffice’s own file dialog and remote file services
6. Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued with help screenshot cleanups and improved the help pages for Writer toolbars, slide/page formatting and preview pane, change tracking and array formulas
7. Laurent Balland improved the documentation about templates in extras/README
8. Stéphane Guillou (TDF) made some help fixes
9. Bogdan Buzea made many string fixes in help and in the UI code. He also improved help page contents and corrected menu item paths
10. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) continued working on Writer content controls, made it possible to customise PDF watermark formatting and rotation and added support for semi-transparent text in imported SVGs
11. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
12. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed issues with embedded objects and images in PPTX and DOCX files and fixed a compatibility issue with artistic effects in DOCX files
13. Szymon Kłos, Mert Tumer and Mike Kaganski (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements. Szymon also fixed an issue with rendering embedded PDF files with large pages
14. Ashod Nakashian (Collabora) added support for embedded videos when exporting presentations to SVG
15. Henry Castro (Collabora) fixed issues with mail merge documents containing hidden sections
16. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) fixed an ODF backwards compatibility issue with Calc headers and footers, fixed an issue with formula caches of multiple open Calc documents getting mixed up, made CSV data format detection more robust and fixed an issue with dates being imported incorrectly from Calc into Writer database fields. He also made some help fixes
17. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) made many improvements to Writer accessibility checker
18. Julien Nabet fixed a bunch of crashes and leaks and a problem with BMP export
19. Jim Raykowski made many improvements to Writer’s Outline folding feature and the Navigator, including adding the ability to rename pages and objects in Draw/Impress directly in the Navigator and the ability to change the navigation order and grouping of objects by dragging and dropping
20. Andreas Heinisch made window switching via VBA macros more robust and fixed an issue with selecting concordance files in the Table of Contents dialog
21. László Németh improved native number formats, improved change tracking, fixed an issue with DOCX table formulas with comma delimiters and fixed an issue with extra lines in exported SVGs. He also fixed a couple of regressions
22. Xisco Faulí (TDF) continued refactoring automated tests, getting rid of much code duplication and created several new tests
23. Michael Stahl (allotropia) continued improving the compliance of exported PDFs with Universal Accessibility standard and worked on WASM build
24. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed DOCX corruption with a certain combination of input boxes and text boxes and implemented DOCX export support for glossary relations. He also made many code cleanups
25. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued polishing dark mode support, fixed some icon blurriness issues on Linux with HiDPI monitors, improved text kerning in comments, did a big cleanup on how symbol fonts are used and fixed text leaving traces behind when scrolling in Writer. He also made many other UI-related improvements and crash fixes
26. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made RTL text handling more robust and introduced two new Clang plugins to guard against problematic code. He also adapted the code to compiler changes and made many code and build-related cleanups as well as test fixes
27. David Gilbert fixed a crash related to the creation of temporary files
28. Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved the speed of loading certain PPT files, PDF export of Writer documents with big tables and saving complex drawings. He also made many code cleanups and general optimisations
29. Justin Luth (Collabora) worked on VBA ContentControls support, made handling of comments in Writer tables more robust and started working on Calc row/column freezing improvements
30. Paris Oplopoios (Collabora) improved XLSX compatibility on database-derived data, worked on accessibility checker and fixed an issue causing text clipping in EMF graphics
31. Chris Sherlock continued refactoring UI rendering code and made some optimisations
32. Maxim Monastirsky made it possible to manipulate and add Impress/Draw table styles via Sidebar
33. Khaled Hosny (Alif Type) implemented instantiation of OpenType variable fonts upon PDF export and fixed an issue where fallback fonts using artificial italic would be exported into PDF as regular. He also made many renovations in font-related code
34. Regina Henschel fixed an issue with PPTX WordArt using the wrong font and an issue with header and footer getting corrupted when saving a DOCX file
35. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) added options to exclude hidden text from HTML and ASCII filters and made them the default, added a re-scan button to PDF accessibility checker dialog and added an option to place comments in margin upon PDF export of Writer documents
36. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) improved the compliance of exported PDFs with Universal Accessibility standard and made refactorings in graphics handling code
37. Taichi Haradaguchi upgraded some dependencies and fixed OpenSSL patches
38. Daniel Lohmann made it possible to use presenter console in windowed mode in Impress and fixed some related mouse pointer issues
39. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed several PPTX import/export issues related to table borders, custom shapes and themes
40. Balázs Varga (allotropia) optimised Calc’s row height adapting feature, worked on WASM Writer and made it so Calc’s autofilter also hides comments
41. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) fixed an assertion (seen in debug builds) when opening date pickers in DOCX files and fixed an issue with bitmap scaling
42. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) worked on macOS app store packaging, including making Help play nice with browsers
43. Áron Budea (Collabora) worked on DeepL Translate menu
44. Kevin Suo continued polishing PDF import of RTL text, added Localization template category and a template for zh_CN and fixed issues with text grid
45. Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) worked on WASM build
46. Jan Holešovský (Collabora) fixed an issue with incorrect cropping of images in DOCX export
47. Fred Kruse fixed a bug affecting autocorrected non-default quotation marks in certain languages
48. Marco Cecchetti (Collabora) made it so footers and text fields are properly exported to SVG from Impress
49. Tarcísio Ladeia de Oliveira fixed some PDFium automated tests
50. Arnaud Versini improved the use of mutexes in the code
51. Michael Meeks, Nick Wingate, Skyler Grey and Rashesh Padia (Collabora) worked on the JavaScript dialog code used by Collabora Online
52. René Engelhard (Debian) made some build fixes
53. Xuan Chen added support for riscv64 CPU architecture in the build system
54. Andreas Kainz improved the layout of the chart Sidebar panel
55. Henner Drewes fixed an issue with icons disappearing from Groupedbar and Groupedbar compact UIs
56. Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) worked on the WASM build

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

472 bugs, 51 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 291 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Hossein ( 22 )
2. Mike Kaganski ( 19 )
3. Eyal Rozenberg ( 19 )
4. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 14 )
5. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 12 )
6. Robert Großkopf ( 10 )
7. BogdanB ( 9 )
8. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 9 )
9. Telesto ( 8 )
10. Rafael Lima ( 7 )

Triaged Bugs

642 bugs have been triaged by 78 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 104 )
2. Buovjaga ( 103 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 74 )
4. Dieter ( 40 )
5. Roman Kuznetsov ( 34 )
6. m.a.riosv ( 28 )
7. raal ( 27 )
8. V Stuart Foote ( 21 )
9. Julien Nabet ( 20 )
10. Alex Thurgood ( 17 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

547 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

181 bugs have been fixed by 34 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 24 )
2. Bogdan B ( 17 )
3. Rafael Lima ( 12 )
4. László Németh ( 9 )
5. Tibor Nagy ( 8 )
6. Eike Rathke ( 8 )
7. Samuel Mehrbrodt ( 7 )
8. Julien Nabet ( 6 )
9. Michael Stahl ( 5 )
10. Kevin Suo ( 4 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#148435 LibreOffice on macOS hangs on using window snapping / window manager (BetterTouchTool, Rectangle, Raycast, Amethyst, …) or any other redraw, context switch, etc, from idle thread ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#152014 Wrong result with match function when multiple spreadsheets are opened ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
2. tdf#33495 Allow minimizing or resizing the presenter screen while presentation is active (UI) ( Thanks to Daniel Lohmann )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#151608 Impress crashes after Impress Remote App Closed ( Thanks to dldld )
2. tdf#151929 LibreOffice Crashes if Video Card Changed (Win nVidia GTX 670) ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
3. tdf#151979 Crash when changing Text Grid type after I switch from Calc to Writer window ( Thanks to Kevin Suo )
4. tdf#152154 Crash in libmergedlo.so when Object Catalog undocked and BASIC IDE closed ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
5. tdf#152187 CRASH when opening Properties tab of Text Portion in UNO Inspector ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#147802 Clicking on header or footer area in long writer document takes a long time and slows down text selection and closing document ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

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

1. tdf#102914 Synthetic italic in fonts with partial coverage exported as regular in PDF ( Thanks to Khaled Hosny )
2. tdf#107405 Setting fixed kerning (text spacing) is limited to -2pt ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
3. tdf#108356 FILESAVE: Master slide background image set as tiled when exporting to PPTX ( Thanks to Tibor Nagy )
4. tdf#108497 Instantiate OpenType variable fonts when embedding in PDF ( Thanks to Khaled Hosny )
5. tdf#116566 Respect configured AutoSpellCheck colour in the dialog too ( Thanks to Rafael Lima )
6. tdf#120405 EDITING: Clicking at ‘Open’ in the concordance file button in the ToC dialog vanishes the ‘Edit…’ command ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
7. tdf#33495 Allow minimizing or resizing the presenter screen while presentation is active (UI) ( Thanks to Daniel Lohmann )
8. tdf#46444 Calc doesn’t filter any comments ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
9. tdf#47679 Copy + Paste changes “OpenSymbol” font to “StarSymbol” ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
10. tdf#57423 PDF: “Description” and “Title/Text Alternative” is only PDF-exported for Images, but not for Shapes, Formula, Frames, and OLE Objects ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
11. tdf#67866 ACCESSIBILITY: Missing language information in exported PDF ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
12. tdf#70293 FILESAVE XLSX Grouping of shapes is lost on export ( Thanks to Tibor Nagy )
13. tdf#77650 PDF Export dialog lacks options to position comments (as on Print dialog, e.g. in margin) ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
14. tdf#92222 FILESAVE: Shapes with Default Line Width Changed on Roundtrip (MSO 2010+ theme defaults not preserved) ( Thanks to Tibor Nagy )

WORKSFORME bugs

75 bugs have been retested by 36 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 8 )
2. V Stuart Foote ( 8 )
3. Dieter ( 8 )
4. Telesto ( 6 )
5. Buovjaga ( 5 )
6. Aron Budea ( 3 )
7. Robert Großkopf ( 3 )
8. Roman Kuznetsov ( 3 )
9. raal ( 3 )
10. Julien Nabet ( 2 )

DUPLICATED bugs

124 bugs have been duplicated by 31 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 28 )
2. V Stuart Foote ( 17 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 13 )
4. Buovjaga ( 11 )
5. Alex Thurgood ( 10 )
6. خالد حسني ( 4 )
7. Roman Kuznetsov ( 4 )
8. Dieter ( 4 )
9. Jorge Teixeira ( 3 )
10. Mike Kaganski ( 3 )

Verified bug fixes

55 bugs have been verified by 10 people.…

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!…