LibreOffice QA Blog

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 (

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.3.1 and 7.3.2 were released on March 3 and March 31 respectively
2. LibreOffice 7.2.6 was released on March 10
3. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos updated and cleaned up menu paths in Help and updated some tips of the day
4. Seth Chaiklin improved the Help and tooltip for Reset button
5. Alain Romedenne improved the Help page for CallByname Basic function as well as several other functions
6. Olivier Hallot (TDF) added or updated the Help pages for several toolbars, improved the Track Changes help, updated Calc’s Tools menu help and added a page for Share Spreadsheet
7. Rafael Lima added help ID targets for the Manage Changes dialog and improved the ScriptForge library help pages
8. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) added a clearing breaks feature into Writer and wrote a help page for it, continued working on colour themes in OOXML documents and improved the layout XML dump developer feature.
9. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
10. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) worked on fixing the PPTX export of media files, fixed an issue with text colour in DOCX shapes and an old issue with embedded images getting multiplied upon OOXML export
11. Paris Oplopoios made some code cleanups
12. Sarper Akdemir (Collabora) made it so section break formatting will not leak into bullets in imported DOCX files
13. Jürgen Funk (CIB) fixed a couple of regressions
14. Lemures Lemniscati fixed loss of precision in MediaBox elements in exported PDFs
15. Michael Meeks (Collabora) fixed a crash affecting collaborative editing
16. Dennis Francis, Mert Tumer, Andras Timar and Szymon Kłos (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements
17. Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed a Calc crash and an issue where shapes in certain cases were missing in imported XLSX files on Windows
18. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed an issue with cross-references and paragraph numbering and several RTF import issues
19. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made improvements to Calc’s evaluation of IFS() and SWITCH() functions, made DDE links from Calc to Writer more robust and made internal improvements to Calc’s text import code
20. Bartosz Kosiorek implemented the SETARCDIRECTION EMF graphic feature
21. David Gilbert made it so hyperlinks with user:password authentication do not get lost in PDF export
22. Vaibhav Malik wrote his first unit test
23. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) worked on sparkline support for Calc
24. Regina Henschel fixed shapes losing their fill after PPTX export
25. Arnaud Versini fixed a regression in the math formula editor and made some code cleanups
26. Julien Nabet made it so save transparency option works for PNG export, fixed an issue with creating Firebird database table views and fixed some assertion crashes. He also made many code cleanups
27. Kunal Pawar improved starting time on Windows by removing GetCaseCorrectPathName usage
28. zhutyra fixed a couple of security issues
29. Jim Raykowski worked on sorting and performance improvements for the Navigator, fixed an issue with docking split toolbar buttons using a shortcut key, improved the search wrapping messaging behaviour in Writer for frames, images, and OLE objects. He also made several other improvements to the Navigator and outline feature
30. Andreas Heinisch fixed an old Impress/Draw issue where typed input into shapes was not interpreted as Unicode, made it so favourites in special characters dialog are highlighted and do not lose focus when right-clicking, made Firebird database queries with column aliases work with Basic macros and made the creation of Table of Contents possible for levels lower than chapter or heading 2
31. László Németh continued improving change tracking
32. Xisco Faulí (TDF) made about sixty improvements and additions to automated tests
33. Heiko Tietze (TDF) made Colibre (Dark) available in icon themes, improved text contrast in dark mode and made other UI improvements
34. Gülşah Köse (Collabora) improved handling of table borders and tab sizes in PPTX import
35. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) worked on Advanced Diagram support
36. Michael Stahl (allotropia) fixed many Writer regressions related to spellchecking, footnotes and undo
37. Attila Bakos (NISZ) continued polishing text in grouped shapes
38. Jens Carl worked on Java test to C++ conversion
39. Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) improved font handling in printing and made code cleanups
40. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) added UNO API for custom Jump List categories to Windows Task Bar
41. Michael Weghorn made many internal improvements to the Linux and Windows accessibility code and fixed an issue with switching XForm to design mode from toolbar
42. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed line connectors becoming shapes in PPTX import and added glue points to basic shapes in PPTX
43. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) made it so drop-down fields in a protected Writer section are not editable, made some cleanups and wrote blog posts about development
44. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed importing MathML from clipboard on Linux, fixed misaligned checkmarks in menus, fixed blurry default icons in Start Center, fixed an issue with updating external links through macros and made many code cleanups and optimisations
45. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) added support for Windows 10/11 dark mode, fixed a performance issue related to font fallbacks and fixed an issue with Charts not showing in Report Builder reports. He also fixed crashes, issues found by fuzzers and many UI issues and continued working on the new gtk4 UI backend
46. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) fixed crashes and made many code and build-related cleanups as well as test fixes
47. Rizal Muttaqin made many updates to all the icon themes, especially focusing on the dark theme variants due to the newly-added Windows dark mode support
48. Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) made many code cleanups
49. Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved stack dumping on Windows to help diagnose problems seen in continuous integration build boxes, fixed some data races, improved the loading time of large files with many spelling errors and improved the saving time of large XLSX files with lots of character formatting. He also made many code cleanups
50. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) improved the loading time of large CSV files, pasting time of large tables into Calc, saving time of very large spreadsheets, PDF exporting time of very large Writer documents. He also polished the handling of 1024+ columns in Calc and made many improvements to Calc’s document loading and general performance
51. Justin Luth (SIL) fixed an unwanted Writer table alignment change when resizing its inner border, fixed issues with DocProperty field values in DOC files, incorrect Chart legend entries in DOCX files and pivot table data caching

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

552 bugs, 63 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 338 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Eyal Rozenberg ( 28 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 19 )
3. Telesto ( 16 )
4. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 14 )
5. Mike Kaganski ( 11 )
6. sdc.blanco ( 10 )
7. Pedro ( 8 )
8. Rafael Lima ( 8 )
9. Michael Weghorn ( 7 )
10. Rizal Muttaqin ( 7 )

Triaged Bugs

488 bugs have been triaged by 86 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Dieter ( 63 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 47 )
3. Buovjaga ( 46 )
4. Timur ( 42 )
5. Heiko Tietze ( 35 )
6. Julien Nabet ( 32 )
7. m.a.riosv ( 21 )
8. Roman Kuznetsov ( 17 )
9. raal ( 15 )
10. Mike Kaganski ( 13 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

460 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

162 bugs have been fixed by 37 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Luboš Luňák ( 13 )
2. Caolán McNamara ( 10 )
3. Julien Nabet ( 8 )
4. Rizal Muttaqin ( 8 )
5. Vasily Melenchuk ( 7 )
6. László Németh ( 7 )
7. Attila Bakos (NISZ) ( 6 )
8. Michael Stahl ( 6 )
9. Heiko Tietze ( 6 )
10. Noel Grandin ( 6 )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#111924 Focus lost on context menu ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
2. tdf#117159 REPORTBUILDER – Trying to edit chart leads to crash of whole LO ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
3. tdf#117162 REPORTBUILDER – Chart isn’t shown in report ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
4. tdf#147126 [DOCX] Diagrams/shapes text imported was wrong font size now missing in 7.4 ( Thanks to Attila Bakos (NISZ) )
5. tdf#147744 Calc crashes when pasting simple formula in a filtered column ( Thanks to Kohei Yoshida )
6. tdf#147830 CRASH when apply particular advanced filter in particular document ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
7. tdf#147961 Crash: Typing “++” and press Enter (AutoCorrect Create Table) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
8. tdf#148053 Typing or pasting ZWNJ leads to Writer crash (debug build only) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
9. tdf#50916 Allow more than 1024 columns in calc ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#117159 REPORTBUILDER – Trying to edit chart leads to crash of whole LO ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
2. tdf#147668 Writer crashes shortly after loading document with LanguageTool extension active ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
3. tdf#147744 Calc crashes when pasting simple formula in a filtered column ( Thanks to Kohei Yoshida )
4. tdf#147830 CRASH when apply particular advanced filter in particular document ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
5. tdf#147894 Calc is crashed when I tried fill a range to right from A1 to XFD1 ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
6. tdf#147928 Crash when inserting comment and undoing in Writer (gtk3 only) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
7. tdf#147961 Crash: Typing “++” and press Enter (AutoCorrect Create Table) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
8. tdf#148053 Typing or pasting ZWNJ leads to Writer crash (debug build only) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
9. tdf#148061 Crash when opening report of the file from tdf#148042 (DBG_UTIL only) ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
10. tdf#148063 Crash using incorrect type name ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#117366 Calc very slow on opening XLSX with a large table and Select All/Cut ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
2. tdf#122827 UI doesn’t respond for a while when selecting all cells in calc & pressing F7 (Spelling) ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
3. tdf#126326 FILESAVE XLSX Saving empty file with many sheets is slow ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
4. tdf#134268 Slow sorting of a column ( part 2 ) ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
5. tdf#141174 HANG: Select all and deleting sheet with revisions ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
6. tdf#141182 Excessively large ODS spreadsheet hangs LibreOffice ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
7. tdf#145862 calc taking too long to paste a table ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
8. tdf#147283 [FILEOPEN PPTX] list with custom style is 10 times slower on 1st run ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
9. tdf#148147 Calc freezes on “Sheet” menu after selecting multiple row ranges ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
10. tdf#94677 Calc is slow opening large CSV ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )

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

1. tdf#104390 FILEOPEN RTF Courier New erroneously replaced with fallback font, when file does not contain \pard\plain ( Thanks to Vasily Melenchuk )
2. tdf#109214 Highlight the favorites in the grid of special characters ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
3. tdf#111851 FILEOPEN: RTF: table’s shading ignored ( Thanks to Vasily Melenchuk )
4. tdf#111924 Focus lost on context menu ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
5. tdf#113066 [EMF] Writer wrongly shows graphics semicircles from CAD that were pasted as GDI ( Thanks to Bartosz Kosiorek )
6. tdf#114150 Remove duplication of strings found in linux and windows file dialogs ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
7. tdf#116256 DOCX Import: LAYOUT?: incorrect placement of textbox in table in floating frame, from ignoring LayoutInCell. ( Thanks to Attila Bakos (NISZ) )
8. tdf#116358 Writer doesn’t keep a table row with the next in RTF documents ( Thanks to Vasily Melenchuk )
9. tdf#35030 Customize Keyboard Reset button doesn’t work ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )
10. tdf#38669 Typing an accented letter when focus on a figure, display another character ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
11. tdf#50916 Allow more than 1024 columns in calc ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
12. tdf#69648 FILEOPEN: DOCX Import renders text-boxes with text alignement (text anchoring property of frame) wrong ( Thanks to Attila Bakos (NISZ) )
13. tdf#73125 Recorded change type (Action) for comment should be Comment instead of Insertion ( Thanks to László Németh )
14. tdf#73499 FILEOPEN: Linked Textbox Grouping Cause partially Missing Text and Messed

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.2.5 was released on January 6
2. The European Commission’s Open Source Programme Office started a bug bounty programme for LibreOffice
3. Alain Romedenne improved the Help content for Basic functions
4. Olivier Hallot (TDF) finished documenting non-ODFF Calc functions, added Help pages for Style Inspector (with contributions from Jean Weber and Shivam Kumar) and PostgreSQL connection, started working on a page for Calc’s Data Stream feature and improved help for Calc Add-in function for Dates and Pricing
5. Rafael Lima made numerous improvements to Help content, including adding pages for Navigator’s Rename Object dialog, document color command in Math and Find toolbar. He also added DevTools to the Tabbed interface and improved the Manage Changes dialog
6. Stanislav Horáček improved the ScriptForge library Help content
7. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) added a global module to the Help navigation
8. Seth Chaiklin updated the help page for Template Manager after UI changes
9. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) improved the fidelity of exporting documents to PDF, also making command line export more powerful, improved the painting of borders in Word-style tables, fixed missing custom bullets in SVG export, improved the handling of tables in DOCX files and shapes in RTF files. He also continued working on support for colour themes in OOXML documents, adding Help content related to the feature.
10. Jan-Marek Glogowski (allotropia) merged the WebAssembly port from a feature branch to master. He also continued improving makefiles, improved the Qt UI and made it possible to build LibreOffice statically
11. Jussi Pakkanen continued exploring building LibreOffice with Meson
12. Roland Kurmann fixed Calc’s INFO(“OSVERSION”) output on Linux
13. Bubli fixed missing highlighting in Template Manager
14. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) made Calc sheet copying more robust in case of database ranges
15. Dennis Francis (Collabora) worked on RTL support for LOKit
16. Lai Verne (OSS Integral Institute) improved the UI of Auto-Redact tool
17. Szymon Kłos (Collabora) worked on RTL support for LOKit and made more dialogs async
18. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) worked on the WebAssembly port and fixed a couple of regressions
19. Jeff Huang (OSS Integral Institute) improved the UI of Image toolbar
20. Andreas Kainz improved the layout of Sidebar’s Alignment section
21. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) added Pennsylvania Dutch (pdc-US) to language list and as a locale, reintroduced approximate summation after Kahan algorithm changed the behaviour, fixed a database query issue caused by Base relying on hardcoded internal index IDs, fixed Calc cell contents getting messed up with very long paragraphs as well as issues with unwanted jumping with keyboard selection in Calc and incorrect automatic labels
22. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library and improved the script for generating the Development/DispatchCommands wiki page
23. Heiko Tietze (TDF) implemented a redesign of font name and effects pages and made several other UI improvements
24. Xisco Faulí (TDF) made nearly forty additions and improvements to automated tests
25. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) made it so a warning for missing hyphenation data will not be displayed in case of languages that do not use hyphenation
26. Andreas Heinisch improved VBA compatibility of Chr and ChrW Basic functions and made handling of charsets more robust with concordance files
27. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) improved the performance of documents with complex graphical objects, added support for WebP image format and improved the Skia graphics engine integration
28. Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) dropped the confirmation question when applying new doc hyperlink and fixed URL encoding when querying extensions. He also made many code cleanups
29. Andras Timar (Collabora) added support for WinBMPv3-NT version of BMP files found in Visio files and changed rpm compression algorithm to multi threaded xz
30. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed losing color filter condition in XLSX files
31. Michael Stahl (allotropia) fixed a problem with changing section footnote/endnote position, fixed a crash when updating table of contents and some regressions. He also polished the Curl-based WebDAV implementation
32. Michael Weghorn improved screenreader performance on Windows and made other Windows accessibility improvements. He also improved the robustness of the Qt file picker
33. Dhiraj Holden added all subtotal functions to Calc’s autosum and fixed a problem with flipped shapes
34. Justin Luth (Collabora/SIL) made it so the actual character spacing is shown as selected in Sidebar’s popup menu and fixed unwanted footnotes in DOCX export. He also fixed several regressions
35. Sarper Akdemir (Collabora) made Z rotation work with rotation transform in imported PPTX files
36. Chris Sherlock continued VCL refactoring work and fixed VCL demos crashing on shutdown
37. Julien Nabet made numerous improvements to Mysql/MariaDB and Firebird database functionality
38. Michael Meeks (Collabora) improved the performance of LOKit
39. Jim Raykowski made many improvements to Navigator, including better sorting of elements. He also fixed Find and Replace dialog changing position when reopening on Linux with gtk3
40. Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) fixed XHTML export duplicating text in list item and an issue with shapes anchored to table cells in Writer. He also made it possible to paste PDFs into Impress
41. Attila Bakos (NISZ) continued working on support for text in grouped shapes
42. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed a problem with master objects visible property in PPTX import and export
43. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed losing caption shapes in OOXML export and losing outline character formatting in PPTX export
44. László Németh made several improvements to change tracking of tables
45. Kevin Suo fixed a first line indent issue with Chinese text
46. Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) added a minimal dummy WebAssembly UNO bridge and improved the build time for packaging install sets
47. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many code and build-related cleanups as well as test fixes
48. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed the alignment of checkmarks and icons in menus, inserting hyperlinks with ports, improved the speed of Basic’s Replace function and fixed some crashes and hangs. He also made many code cleanups and optimisations
49. Arnaud Versini made some code cleanups
50. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued with text kerning improvements and made it so printer metrics are saved to DOCX. He also fixed many crashes and UI issues and continued working on the new gtk4 UI backend
51. Noel Grandin (Collabora) started working on a renovation of chart code with improved performance being the main goal. He also made many code cleanups and optimisations
52. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued vcl refactoring work and improved VBA macro compatibility

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

576 bugs, 70 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 352 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Telesto ( 49 )
2. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 13 )
3. Kevin Suo ( 12 )
4. Xisco Faulí ( 11 )
5. Mike Kaganski ( 10 )
6. sdc.blanco ( 9 )
7. Regina Henschel ( 6 )
8. Colin ( 6 )
9. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 6 )
10. Albrecht Müller ( 6 )

Triaged Bugs

512 bugs have been triaged by 88 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Timur ( 60 )
2. raal ( 44 )
3. Buovjaga ( 44 )
4. Heiko Tietze ( 36 )
5. Dieter ( 36 )
6. Xisco Faulí ( 26 )
7. m.a.riosv ( 21 )
8. Julien Nabet ( 20 )
9. Telesto ( 18 )
10. Mike Kaganski ( 13 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

517 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

167 bugs have been fixed by 43 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 23 )
2. Noel Grandin ( 9 )
3. Olivier Hallot ( 6 )
4. László Németh ( 6 )
5. Eike Rathke ( 6 )
6. Heiko Tietze ( 5 )
7. Julien Nabet ( 5 )
8. Mike Kaganski ( 5 )
9. Andreas Heinisch ( 4 )
10. Gabor Kelemen ( 4 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#145321 Crash swlo!SwDrawTextInfo::GetSperren+1069 scrolling DOCX to bottom ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#146367 SUM() does not use approx summation anymore since Kahan summation is used ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
2. tdf#146402 LibreOffice aborts when starting with an empty profile (Windows + probably AMD GPU) ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
3. tdf#146571 Crash when close Manage changes dialog ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
4. tdf#146757 Embedded Firebird ignores parameterized query input ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
5. tdf#146876 FILEOPEN PPTX: various graphical elements misplaced at position (0,0) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
6. tdf#146991 Insert chart -> crash (gtk3) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
7. tdf#66039 FILEOPEN: table in DOCX text box is not imported – add groupshape support ( Thanks to Attila Bakos (NISZ) )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#145321 Crash swlo!SwDrawTextInfo::GetSperren+1069 scrolling DOCX to bottom ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#146285 Crash mergedlo!SfxItemPool::PutImpl+0x1a7: ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
3. tdf#146432 LibreOffice Base crashes when a mysql query with REGEXP_REPLACE() is executed in query editor with direct connection to MariaDB ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
4. tdf#146499 Crash to desktop when activating presentation mode (unsatisfied query for interface of type com.sun.star.lang.XUnoTunnel!) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
5. tdf#146571 Crash when close Manage changes dialog ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
6. tdf#146617 Calc crashes when stopping XEnhancedMouseClickHandler listener from event handling macro. ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
7. tdf#146747 Crash mergedlo!SfxItemPool::PutImpl+0x1a7: ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
8. tdf#146891 Crash (assert) when opening the paragraph properties from an outline ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
9. tdf#146941 Crash with debug build when changing paths in options (kf5) ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
10. tdf#146967 FILEEDIT ODT Crash: Redo of tracked table row moving ( Thanks to László Németh )
11. tdf#146970 CRASH: Pasting content from edit mode ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
12. tdf#146991 Insert chart -> crash (gtk3) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#146306 Sluggishness with NVDA and Calc ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )

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

1. tdf#106899 Unicode Index Entries that are not English is ignored. ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
2. tdf#108910 Concordance file for indexes breaks UTF-8 and turns the characters into ASCII ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
3. tdf#115566 Custom bullet (-) in presentation not exported into SVG ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
4. tdf#66039 FILEOPEN: table in DOCX text box is not imported – add groupshape support ( Thanks to Attila Bakos (NISZ) )
5. tdf#67026 [LOCALHELP] Limitations in Calc precision need to be documented ( Thanks to Olivier Hallot )
6. tdf#68341 pilot class for MySQL should ignore spaces at begining and and of the class name ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
7. tdf#83523 UI: Ruler background only changes according to application background setting *after* closing and restarting writer ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
8. tdf#94537 com.microsoft.foo functions are not correctly documented to the user. ( Thanks to Olivier Hallot )
9. tdf#97046 ensure build system variables start with gb_ unless there are very, very good reasons not to ( Thanks to Arjun )

WORKSFORME bugs

78 bugs have been retested by 30 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Buovjaga ( 13 )
2. Telesto ( 11 )
3. Timur ( 9 )
4. Xisco Faulí ( 5 )
5. Heiko Tietze ( 4 )
6. Robert Großkopf ( 3 )
7. Julien Nabet ( 3 )
8. Dieter ( 3 )
9. Adolfo Jayme ( 3 )
10. Olivier Hallot ( 2 )

DUPLICATED bugs

128 bugs have been duplicated by 37 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Timur ( 15 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 11 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 10 )
4. Telesto ( 8 )
5. raal ( 7 )
6. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 6 )
7. V Stuart Foote ( 6 )
8. Roman Kuznetsov ( 5 )
9. Julien Nabet ( 5 )
10. Attila Bakos (NISZ) ( 5 )

Verified bug fixes

71 bugs have been verified by 15 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

1. stragu ( 13 )
2. BogdanB ( 12 )
3. Xisco Faulí ( 11 )
4. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 10 )
5. Buovjaga ( 5 )
6. Dieter ( 4 )
7. Julien Nabet ( 4 )
8. Timur ( 3 )
9. Kevin Suo ( 2 )
10. Gerald Pfeifer ( 2 )

Categorized Bugs

229 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 35 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

1. Dieter ( 36 )
2. Heiko Tietze ( 25 )
3. stragu ( 18 )
4. Roman Kuznetsov ( 17 )
5. sdc.blanco ( 16 )
6. V Stuart Foote ( 12 )
7. Buovjaga ( 10 )
8. BogdanB ( 10 )
9. Aron Budea ( 8 )

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.2.4 and LibreOffice 7.1.8 were released on December 6 providing an important security fix
2. Alain Romedenne improved the Help content for Basic functions
3. Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help for sep= in CSV files, VBA mode for RGB functions and warnings, improved help for Writer fields and started annotating Help for functions that are not in ODF spec
4. Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library, fixed opening Help from an Expert Configuration property dialog, improved subscript/superscript help about Sidebar and fixed CTL information in Hyphenation help page
5. Kevin Suo corrected the Calc error string STR_LONG_ERR_NO_VALUE in the code and fixed a couple of Calc error strings in Help
6. flywire improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library
7. Stanislav Horáček made fixes in Basic and Python Help content
8. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
9. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) continued working on support for colour themes in OOXML documents and made OLE object previews reliable
10. Krzysztof Hałasa fixed a problem with connecting to a Mysql/MariaDB instance
11. Ismael Luceno improved the POSIX-compatibility of the build system
12. Chris Sherlock continued VCL refactoring work and improved font matching for CJK text
13. Rizal Muttaqin made many updates to the Colibre icon theme
14. Áron Budea (Collabora) made a Python-related build fix for Win 10 with Win 11 SDK
15. René Engelhard (Debian) fixed a UI test
16. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) created a build target for vscode-ide-integration and made some other build-related improvements
17. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed OOXML import of transparent hatching
18. Arnaud Versini made some code cleanups
19. Regina Henschel improved extrusion of custom shapes
20. Dhiraj Holden added all subtotal functions to Calc’s autosum
21. David Tardon (Red Hat) updated the libmwaw library providing support for legacy Mac documents
22. Kohei Yoshida updated liborcus and mdds libraries used by Calc and fixed Calc child styles not inheriting from parent
23. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) created a minimal VCL example application and fixed a problem with line spacing in inserted SVG files
24. Michael Weghorn implemented accessibility handling for focused Calc cell state
25. Heiko Tietze (TDF) made some UI improvements
26. Winfried Donkers fixed Function wizard lying about DCOUNT and DCOUNTA arguments
27. Attila Bakos (NISZ) continued working on support for text in grouped shapes
28. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made border line width use the correct default, made right-clicking hyperlinks in Calc behave more intuitively, fixed handling of closing brackets in hyperlinks and worked on fixing a glitch in diagonal border lines
29. Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) fixed a Windows build issue and made some cleanups
30. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) fixed saving Calc color filter when having multiple data ranges in sheet
31. Urja Rannikko fixed a time tick issue on 32-bit Linux that caused problems with auto-playing slideshows and long-running macros
32. Laurent Balland-Poirier improved the Writer templates shipped with LibreOffice by removing their hardcoded page size setting
33. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) added a document setting for image preferred DPI and did a lot of refactoring in drawinglayer and vcl
34. Justin Luth (Collabora/SIL) fixed a Calc UI focus issue, Other options in Find and Replace dialog not staying closed in certain cases, horizontal alignment in certain imported XLSX files, an issue with disabled buttons in Mailmerge toolbar, reappearing Calc hidden columns, an issue with Calc comment marks not getting hidden when hiding columns, an issue with Impress/Draw bullets and numbering not activating from the dialog, made it so applying a border colour on an image activates border as well and added easier autocomplete access to frequently used Calc functions
35. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) added a workaround for “At least” line spacing not being supported by PPTX format
36. László Németh made many improvements to DOCX and ODT change tracking, especially regarding tables
37. Andreas Heinisch fixed an issue with using dates in Calc conditional formatting, an issue with Basic variable information being overwritten, made Basic boolean operators return values of type Boolean and made Home key behave more intuitively in Basic IDE
38. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) improved relative cell address parsing in Calc, fixed an issue with XML data always importing to first sheet in certain cases and made the Calc functions AND(), OR(), XOR() propagate their errors
39. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many code and build-related cleanups as well as test fixes
40. Jim Raykowski made many improvements to Navigator, including list order of elements and added an expert option ‘navigateonselect’ to navigate by single click instead of double
41. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) fixed an issue with unwanted kerning changes when working in Calc and improved autofilter submenu arrangement. He also fixed many crashes and UI issues and continued working on the new gtk4 UI backend
42. Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) made it so EXIF rotation of inserted images is applied without asking and made the Hide Columns section in Sidebar smarter
43. Roland Kurmann made it so non-sequentially selected rows or columns are counted in Calc’s statusbar and fixed the output for Calc’s function INFO(“OSVERSION”) on Linux
44. Julien Nabet fixed issues with Evolution email client as address database, made quick find in Calc search by value by default, made Parameter query with :parameter IS NULL work in Firebird databases and made it possible to delete external tables in Firebird databases. He also fixed several crashes and regressions and made many code cleanups
45. Michael Stahl (allotropia) finished the implementation of Curl-based WebDAV and was able to remove Neon and Serf dependencies
46. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) continued improving the Windows clang-cl build support, continued improving the speed of Calc VLOOKUP function, fixed an issue with images appearing blurred in Impress edit mode and made it so Calc text operations are not queried by numeric value allowing to make substring queries on dates, for example
47. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) implemented Word content controls support
48. Jan-Marek Glogowski (allotropia) made extensive improvements to the build system
49. Xisco Faulí (TDF) made over thirty additions and improvements to automated tests
50. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed an issue with dragging and dropping images with Unicode characters in their filenames into documents on Windows, added support for detecting UTF-16 data without BOM, improved the VSCode IDE integration, made saving registrymodifications.xcu more robust (resistant to corruption) on Windows, fixed problems caused by recently opened remote files that are not accessible, fixed check marks rendered incorrectly in menus on scaled-up desktops and made many code cleanups
51. Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved thread-safety of the code and the load time of large charts. He also made many code cleanups

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

489 bugs, 49 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 304 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Telesto ( 60 )
2. Kevin Suo ( 13 )
3. Mike Kaganski ( 12 )
4. achim ( 9 )
5. Hossein ( 9 )
6. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 8 )
7. Aron Budea ( 7 )
8. Regina Henschel ( 7 )
9. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 6 )
10. Colin ( 5 )

Triaged Bugs

504 bugs have been triaged by 88 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Dieter ( 54 )
2. Buovjaga ( 41 )
3. raal ( 30 )
4. Julien Nabet ( 26 )
5. Heiko Tietze ( 22 )
6. V Stuart Foote ( 21 )
7. Mike Kaganski ( 20 )
8. stragu ( 19 )
9. zcrhonek ( 19 )
10. Xisco Faulí ( 18 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

489 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

167 bugs have been fixed by 32 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 13 )
2. Julien Nabet ( 11 )
3. Justin Luth ( 10 )
4. Michael Stahl ( 10 )
5. Noel Grandin ( 10 )
6. László Németh ( 9 )
7. Mike Kaganski ( 6 )
8. Eike Rathke ( 5 )
9. Jim Raykowski ( 4 )
10. Olivier Hallot ( 4 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#144244 Crash when FILESAVE a calc file after delete some columns ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
2. tdf#146286 Crash/hang calling context menu ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#128895 Hidden Columns but keep reappearing! Unlike Rows which will stay hidden (steps: comment 19) ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
2. tdf#136855 Crash correcting with spell checker with track & changes enabled ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
3. tdf#141175 CRASH: cutting content with redlines ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
4. tdf#144565 Crash in: SfxItemSet::Clone(bool,SfxItemPool *) ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
5. tdf#146141 Delete empty comment crash – Crash in: `anonymous namespace’::collectUIInformation ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#136452 Crash swlo!SwTextFrame::HasFootnote+0xc0d: at undo ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
2. tdf#136855 Crash correcting with spell checker with track & changes enabled ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
3. tdf#139843 Crash swlo!SwNumRule::MakeNumString ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
4. tdf#141175 CRASH: cutting content with redlines ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
5. tdf#144244 Crash when FILESAVE a calc file after delete some columns ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
6. tdf#144565 Crash in: SfxItemSet::Clone(bool,SfxItemPool *) ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
7. tdf#145062 Crash when inserting hidden field over input field ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
8. tdf#145090 LO Calc Crash with drop-down-menu (GTK3) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
9. tdf#145892 Crash (failed assert) in DBGUTIL build when inserting a section from a WEBP ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
10. tdf#145928 Crash mergedlo!SdrUndoObj::ImpShowPageOfThisObject+33 (SwpHints::Check(bool) ndhints.cxx:359) ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
11. tdf#146141 Delete empty comment crash – Crash in: `anonymous namespace’::collectUIInformation ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
12. tdf#146179 Developer Tools crashes LO when inspecting object in special file ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
13. tdf#146208 FILEEDIT DOCX Crash at Redo of accepting table row deletions ( Thanks to László Németh )
14. tdf#146286 Crash/hang calling context menu ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
15. tdf#146295 Base linked to txt or csv files crashes on filter dialog ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
16. tdf#146333 Crash when closing table wizard, then odb file only (not whole LO). ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
17. tdf#146363 [regression] LibreOffice Draw crashes when changing width/height of text box ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#146037 Autofilter is slow when filter conditions are set in multiple columns ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
2. tdf#146108 Calc is slow to change cell focus in a document with a big background image ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

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

1. tdf#103331 Child styles not inheriting from parent ( Thanks to Kohei Yoshida )
2. tdf#104823 For Word 2016 Content Controls Placeholder Text is Being Displayed Instead of Text from XML ( Thanks to Vasily Melenchuk )
3. tdf#107292 uninterrupted deletion tracked changes inserted in wrong order during ODF import ( Thanks to László Németh )
4. tdf#58125 [UI] Comment marks not hidden when column is hidden ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
5. tdf#90805 TOOLBAR: Enabling border color on an image should enable border ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
6. tdf#92010 Easier autocomplete access to more frequently used functions ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
7. tdf#99027 [FORMATTING] Default table border width is useless ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )

WORKSFORME bugs

92 bugs have been retested by 41 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Buovjaga ( 15 )
2. Dieter ( 8 )
3. Robert Großkopf ( 5 )
4. Kevin Suo ( 4 )
5. Julien Nabet ( 4 )
6. Ezinne ( 3 )
7. Aron Budea ( 3 )
8. BogdanB ( 3 )
9. Michael Warner ( 3 )
10. m.a.riosv ( 3 )

DUPLICATED bugs

100 bugs have been duplicated by 37 people.

Top 10 testers

1. V Stuart Foote ( 9 )
2. stragu ( 8 )
3. Julien Nabet ( 8 )
4. phv ( 6 )
5. Dieter ( 6 )
6. Heiko Tietze ( 5 )
7. Buovjaga ( 5 )
8. Michael Stahl (allotropia) ( 4 )
9. Telesto ( 4 )
10. Kevin Suo ( 3 )

Verified bug fixes

71 bugs have been verified by 18 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

1. stragu ( 20 )
2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 15 )
3. BogdanB ( 9 )
4. Dieter ( 5 )
5. Buovjaga ( 4 )
6. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 3 )
7. Aron Budea ( 2 )
8. Kevin Suo ( 2 )
9. Xisco Faulí ( 2 )
10. Rizal Muttaqin ( 1 )

Categorized Bugs

300…