LibreOffice QA Blog

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.5.1 was announced on March 2
2. LibreOffice 7.4.6 was announced on March 9
3. LibreOffice 7.5.2 was announced on March 30
4. Rafael Lima continued polishing dark mode support, made it so Calc solver settings are saved to file, including XLSX files and made some smaller tweaks to the UI and Help
5. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made some tweaks to wordings in UI and Help
6. Olivier Hallot (TDF) corrected help for Calc’s INDEX() function, updated menu paths and made many refactorings and cleanups in Help. He also added better UNO API error messages for Calc sheet insertion and improved extended tooltips
7. Seth Chaiklin made many text improvements both in the UI and in Help related to heading numbering, indexes, captions and styles
8. Alain Romedenne corrected parameter names for Basic functions in Help
9. Sophia Schröder made many cleanups in Help markup, with Christian Lohmaier (TDF) assisting in mass replacements
10. Juan C. Sanz added a help page for Firebird external connection
11. Angelle Leger created a help page for zoom in Calc
12. Stanislav Horacek made small corrections in ScriptForge and regular expression Help pages
13. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer
14. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
15. Szymon Kłos and Pranam Lashkari (Collabora) worked on jsdialog used by Collabora Online
16. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) fixed issues brought up by Ady during review of Calc function articles in the wiki
17. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued polishing support for document themes and made the text auto-fit algorithm in Impress match OOXML better. He also made cleanups in code related to shapes
18. Julien Nabet made it possible to use the colon key in shortcuts
19. Andreas Heinisch made empty grid cells evident in the Special Characters dialog, fixed old issues with print ranges being lost upon copying a Calc sheet to another document and level settings being ignored in a table of contents created from custom styles, added support for Unicode minus (0x2212) in Calc value input, fixed an issue causing data loss when renaming libraries in Basic organizer and improved the compatibility of macro modules with other OpenOffice.org derivatives
20. László Németh fixed an issue with text files with very long lines causing instability alongside some Writer regressions
21. Xisco Faulí (TDF) did lots of refactoring in automated tests and added many new ones. He also made tracked changes in Calc display Unknown Author, if no name is set in user data and fixed some crashes.
22. Michael Stahl (allotropia) made many improvements to the export of accessible PDFs, allowing LibreOffice to export with accessible options by default and added a decorative flag for frame styles upon ODT and DOCX export
23. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed issues with Writer table of contents, autofitting column width in Calc, table indentation in exported HTML files, made many improvements to the LanguageTool remote checking support, made the VBA function StrConv more robust and improved the loading time of Writer documents with lots of tables. He also fixed crashes and made many code cleanups
24. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) made many improvements and fixes to all kinds of scrolling actions. He also made many other accessibility and UI-related improvements and crash fixes
25. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many code and build-related cleanups, for example changing the parsing of URLs with queries to respect the HTTP/1.1 protocol update from 2014, updating the homegrown string types to make use of C++20 features and dealing with new compiler releases
26. Noel Grandin (Collabora) made many code cleanups, for example improving the safety of concurrent code, reducing layers of abstraction, reducing the code verbosity of functions called often and making the Chart-related code simpler and more performant
27. Justin Luth (Collabora) created an experimental UI for setting list levels of paragraphs and fixed issues with page breaks, anchoring and text boxes in DOCX files as well as cycling Calc cell reference types in combination with frozen rows/columns
28. Heiko Tietze (TDF) increased the size of the status bar icons, reworked how light and dark themes are presented in Application Colors option view and made many other UI improvements and tweaks
29. Paris Oplopoios (Collabora) added a UNO command to change the application theme and made it possible for separate application views to have different colours
30. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) worked on multi-color gradient support
31. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed an issue with losing preset sizes of custom sized backgrounds in Impress
32. Tor Lillqvist, Marco Cecchetti and Michael Meeks (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements
33. Michael Weghorn worked on the Android version, Qt/KDE and accessibility
34. Regina Henschel improved Fontwork to WordArt compatibility
35. Franklin Weng made exported XHTML files nicer to read by adding newlines after certain tags
36. Balázs Varga (allotropia) fixed an issue with dropdown form control width
37. Colomban Wendling (Hypra) worked on accessibility tests
38. Kohei Yoshida fixed a Calc crash and improved unit tests
39. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) moved Accessibility Check from a dialog to the Sidebar
40. Czeber László Ádám (NISZ) fixed issues with unwanted empty paragraphs appearing before tables upon DOCX export and tracked field changes not being parsed properly upon DOCX import
41. Khaled Hosny (Alif Type) made it so proper Unicode code points are used for bullet style names
42. Jürgen Funk (CIB) fixed an issue with the display of keyboard shortcuts after deleting them and improved the git hooks used in the development process
43. Björn Michaelsen made refactorings to Writer code
44. Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) added support for DOCX importing and exporting of styles in tables of figures
45. Sarper Akdemir (Collabora) implemented support for default tab size in Impress alongside handling of such in PPTX files
46. Rizal Muttaqin completed a dark variant for Sukapura icon theme and made many updates to the other icon themes
47. Vojtěch Doležal made many improvements to Writer’s bibliography marks feature
48. Taichi Haradaguchi updated many dependencies
49. Patrick Luby (Collabora) fixed an issue with scrolling in Calc on macOS, improved macOS dark mode support and worked on the iOS version
50. Arnaud Versini made some code cleanups
51. Jaume Pujantell (Collabora) fixed an issue preventing WebDAV access via macros
52. Galdam Jitsu continued polishing the new mime type icons
53. Grigory Mozhaev added an optional Calc formula indicator
54. Maxim Monastirsky added support for drawing styles in Calc
55. Attila Szűcs (Collabora) added support for zip64-compressed OOXML files
56. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed some DOCX hyperlink issues
57. Mark Hung fixed issues with vertical writing emphasis mark position
58. Luigi Iucci made it so five most recently used currencies are displayed in the currency toolbar dropdown
59. Jim Raykowski fixed Tabbed Compact UI tabs not being updated upon context change
60. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) added support for document variables in DOCX import

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

630 bugs, 72 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 370 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Eyal Rozenberg ( 52 )
2. sdc.blanco ( 19 )
3. Mike Kaganski ( 13 )
4. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 13 )
5. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 11 )
6. Tuomas Hietala ( 10 )
7. Telesto ( 9 )
8. Robert Großkopf ( 9 )
9. ady ( 7 )
10. Roman ( 7 )

Triaged Bugs

842 bugs have been triaged by 86 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Buovjaga ( 199 )
2. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 185 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 54 )
4. eisa01 ( 44 )
5. m.a.riosv ( 35 )
6. Dieter ( 31 )
7. V Stuart Foote ( 31 )
8. Julien Nabet ( 24 )
9. raal ( 18 )
10. Mike Kaganski ( 16 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

649 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

207 bugs have been fixed by 42 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 22 )
2. Michael Weghorn ( 18 )
3. Seth Chaiklin ( 16 )
4. Rizal Muttaqin ( 10 )
5. Mike Kaganski ( 9 )
6. Justin Luth ( 7 )
7. Andreas Heinisch ( 7 )
8. Heiko Tietze ( 7 )
9. László Németh ( 6 )
10. Eike Rathke ( 6 )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#136904 Crash swlo!SwRedlineData::operator!=+0x177 (steps in comment 7) ( Thanks to László Németh )
2. tdf#149485 “Show Whitespace” condition changes other documents look ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
3. tdf#152406 macOS Calc: Scrolling: scrollbar showing wrong position resulting in unscrollable document ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
4. tdf#153628 Spellcheck now does not work v7.5.0.3 X86_64 ( Thanks to László Németh )
5. tdf#153669 Formula stops working after copy and paste onto a different cell ( Thanks to Kohei Yoshida )
6. tdf#153819 Copying table column outside of table crashes Writer ( Thanks to László Németh )
7. tdf#153891 Crash in: writerfilter::dmapper::DomainMapperTableHandler::endTable(unsigned int, bool) ( Thanks to László Németh )
8. tdf#153926 FORMATTING: CRASH when trying to change language for selection ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
9. tdf#154050 Crashes when inserting or changing a note in Calc With Standard Toolbar (Single Mode) enabled ( Thanks to Maxim Monastirsky )
10. tdf#154061 CRASH: undoing column insert ( Thanks to Paris Oplopoios )
11. tdf#154232 Using drag/drop to reorder a Heading in Navigator window causes Writer to crash (EDIT) (gtk only) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
12. tdf#94319 Copy/Paste of lines (and grouped object with lines inside) places the copy in unpredictable location ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#136904 Crash swlo!SwRedlineData::operator!=+0x177 (steps in comment 7) ( Thanks to László Németh )
2. tdf#148143 CRASH: after pasting twice the whole sheet ( Thanks to Kohei Yoshida )
3. tdf#150135 Accessing uninitialized TextInputStream methods crashes ( Thanks to Baole Fang )
4. tdf#153819 Copying table column outside of table crashes Writer ( Thanks to László Németh )
5. tdf#153891 Crash in: writerfilter::dmapper::DomainMapperTableHandler::endTable(unsigned int, bool) ( Thanks to László Németh )
6. tdf#153926 FORMATTING: CRASH when trying to change language for selection ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
7. tdf#154000 Large text lines cause it to crash or slow down to the point of unusability. ( Thanks to László Németh )
8. tdf#154039 LO crashes when navigating in Special Characters dialog table with NVDA screen reader enabled ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
9. tdf#154050 Crashes when inserting or changing a note in Calc With Standard Toolbar (Single Mode) enabled ( Thanks to Maxim Monastirsky )
10. tdf#154061 CRASH: undoing column insert ( Thanks to Paris Oplopoios )
11. tdf#154179 Crash opening Chapter Numbering dialog, when current paragraph has an outline style, but DF outline level “Text Body” ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
12. tdf#154205 Crash on reload of file (segfault in libswlo.so) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
13. tdf#154232 Using drag/drop to reorder a Heading in Navigator window causes Writer to crash (EDIT) (gtk only) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
14. tdf#154322 XML Form Document: Choosing Instance after first clicking on Bindings leads to Crash of LO ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
15. tdf#154378 LibreOffice crashed when use tablet/Insert the u-disk, and the recovery destroy the saved file (Skia Vulkan) ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#154486 A document with thousands of tables loads very slow, time grows quadratically ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )

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

1. tdf#102261 FILEOPEN PPTX Badly aligned text, using spaces as indentation ( Thanks to Sarper Akdemir )
2. tdf#104394 FILEOPEN DOCX: Textbox is missing ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
3. tdf#115625 FILEOPEN DOCX: Table placed on wrong position because of Frame Wrap ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
4. tdf#117037 localc does not understand unicode minus ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
5. tdf#124472 FILEOPEN DOCX Field code change is not parsed as Track Changes entry ( Thanks to Czeber László Ádám )
6. tdf#38890 Remove hard-coded project URLs ( Thanks to Adoche Onaji )
7. tdf#38948 FILESAVE – Calc does not save the solver’s model to files ( Thanks to Rafael Lima )
8. tdf#39667 Enable accessible/tagged PDF export options by default ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
9. tdf#40142 Table of Contents from Custom Styles ignores level limit ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
10. tdf#51195 : LibreOffice can not save fontwork as docx ( Thanks to Regina Henschel )
11. tdf#66613 EDITING: sheet copied to another document does not retain a defined print range ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
12. tdf#83283 LOCALHELP: Write help page for Label Field Selection in

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.4.5 was announced on January 26
2. Rafael Lima continued polishing dark mode support, made the BASIC code editor warn in case of read-only modules and dialogs and made it possible to toggle the display of section boundaries independent from text boundaries in Writer. He also added a help page for Calc’s STYLE function and improved and expanded ScriptForge help
3. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made many smaller string improvements both in help and in the UI
4. Olivier Hallot (TDF) added a guide to help for Content Controls, updated menu item paths and added help pages for Translate command, page numbering wizard and reworked help pages about indexes
5. Stéphane Guillou (TDF) improved the help for paragraph styles
6. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) made XHTML export more robust, created plumbing for citation handling in Writer and expanded the XML layout dumping developer functionality. He also fixed crashes and several Writer regressions
7. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
8. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed issues with oversized bounding boxes when editing embedded objects in PPTX or XLSX files and made it so linked OLE objects are retained upon PPTX export
9. Szymon Kłos, Pranam Lashkari, Mert Tumer, Ashod Nakashian, Andras Timar and Henry Castro (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements. Szymon also corrected the exporting of symbol characters to DOCX. Andras added support for importing colours with transparency from HTML
10. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) fixed issues related to the Calc option “Use English function names” and Manage Changes dialog in Calc. He also corrected the help references for End and Shift+End keyboard shortcuts in Calc
11. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) polished support for document themes, for example adding a dialog for changing the theme used in the document
12. Julien Nabet made many cleanups in autocorrect entries for different languages (together with Caolán), also adding a script to check for mistakes in the autocorrect definition files. He also fixed an issue with copying content in Base to a table without an auto value primary key and an issue with rendering text warp shapes in RTF files (together with Regina Henschel)
13. Jim Raykowski added an indicator for linked images in Navigator and made it possible to navigate by field starting from the last field
14. Andreas Heinisch made it so AutoText dialog proposes the name and shortcut for a new snippet based on currently selected text, made Calc sheet arrangement in the tab bar respect RTL settings and made CSV import dialog display RTL words in the expected order
15. László Németh made DOCX import of tables more relaxed in case of missing definitions, made it so hidden bookmarks don’t display markers in the document, fixed a WebDAV upload issue and fixed some crashes and regressions
16. Xisco Faulí (TDF) made over 20 additions and improvements to automated tests and fixed some crashes
17. Michael Stahl (allotropia) improved the DOCX and RTF compatibility with hidden paragraph breaks, made it so URLs are not hyphenated by default, improved DOCX and RTF compatibility with table of content styles and fixed issues with XForms form submission and selecting all when a hidden paragraph is at the start or end of a Writer document
18. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed issues with list numbering and line height in DOCX files and a layout refresh issue after running certain macros. He also made many code cleanups and improvements to readability
19. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) improved the accessibility of the Envelope dialog, worked on initial accessibility support for gtk4, continued polishing dark mode support and removed the arbitrary limit of thirty thousand words in dictionaries. He also made many other UI-related improvements and crash fixes
20. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many code and build-related cleanups, for example adding support for dynamic_cast on UNO proxy objects, simplifying accessibility code, refactoring many helper classes, removed some dead C++ UNO bridge implementations and fixed some deadlocks. He also made fixes to automated tests
21. Noel Grandin (Collabora) updated Skia to the latest version. He also made many code cleanups, for example fixing issues found by ThreadSanitizer, working toward the goal of converting VCL to use alpha instead of transparency in colours, simplifying code by using dynamic_cast instead of XUnoTunnel and reducing complexity in Impress and Draw code that uses UNO
22. Justin Luth (Collabora) added support for conditional text to DOC and RTF export, VBA macro buttons in XLSM files, Linked Cell property of checkboxes in XLSX files and FormField controls in BASIC and VBA. He also fixed issues with DOCX Merge Field Formatting, unnecessary highlighting of No List toolbar button, incorrect table cell heights in DOC and DOCX files and made big improvements to outline numbering
23. Heiko Tietze (TDF) improved the accessibility of status icons for colour blind people, made the Paragraph Style toolbar dropdown less cluttered and made several other UI improvements
24. Paris Oplopoios (Collabora) worked on Content Controls and DOCX compatibility with comment replies
25. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made refactorings in graphics handling code, for example changing how graphical primitives are rendered with Direct2D
26. Taichi Haradaguchi updated some patches for external dependencies and updated curl
27. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed incorrect scaling in shape backgrounds with PPTX export
28. Radhey Parekh fixed an issue with unwanted line breaks in imported text files and limited sheet insertion action in Calc to just the button instead of the whole tab bar
29. Arnaud Versini made some code cleanups
30. Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) worked on the WASM build
31. Chenxiong Qi ported many Java SDK examples to Python
32. Laurent Balland fixed issues in Calc number formats
33. Patrick Luby (NeoOffice) fixed issues related to Skia and improved stability on macOS
34. Attila Szűcs (Collabora) fixed PPTX import issues related to shape transparency, connectors and line breaks in Fontwork
35. Dennis Francis (Collabora) made PDF exporting more robust
36. Michael Weghorn worked on the Android build
37. Ilhan Yesil made it possible to set a background colour for listbox form controls
38. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed RTF import issues related to list numbering, indent in tables and table cell widths
39. Regina Henschel implemented conversion of WordArt to Fontwork upon DOCX import, started working on Fontwork DOCX export support and improved compatibility with DOCX document themes
40. Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed a regression affecting right-to-left UI
41. Wu Jiahuan (Loongson) fixed a test failure affecting loongarch64 UNO bridge
42. Winfried Donkers made MATCH, HLOOKUP and VLOOKUP Calc functions comply with the ODF specification
43. Gülşah Köse (Collabora) fixed a pie chart MS Office compatibility issue and made the Sidebar area property panel more intuitive
44. Fred Kruse made improvements that benefit the performance of the LanguageTool extension
45. Balázs Varga (allotropia) added formula support to Calc’s data validation feature
46. Colomban Wendling (Hypra) worked on accessibility tests
47. Kohei Yoshida added support for wrap-text and shrink-to-fit flags in Excel 2003 XML import, fixed a character encoding issue in Calc’s XML source feature and upgraded mdds and orcus libraries
48. Mark Hung worked on custom animation sound support for PPTX export
49. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) improved the VCL workbench examples
50. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) converted dialogs warning about disabled macro functionality into infobars

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

501 bugs, 44 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 302 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 26 )
2. BogdanB ( 23 )
3. Mike Kaganski ( 17 )
4. Telesto ( 14 )
5. Regina Henschel ( 13 )
6. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 13 )
7. Xisco Faulí ( 13 )
8. sdc.blanco ( 9 )
9. Robert Großkopf ( 8 )
10. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 6 )

Triaged Bugs

717 bugs have been triaged by 77 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Buovjaga ( 207 )
2. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 136 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 38 )
4. m.a.riosv ( 33 )
5. Julien Nabet ( 32 )
6. Telesto ( 26 )
7. Dieter ( 21 )
8. V Stuart Foote ( 21 )
9. Xisco Faulí ( 16 )
10. Mike Kaganski ( 15 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

541 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

164 bugs have been fixed by 34 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 21 )
2. Michael Stahl ( 10 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 8 )
4. Rafael Lima ( 8 )
5. Justin Luth ( 7 )
6. László Németh ( 6 )
7. Mike Kaganski ( 6 )
8. Andreas Heinisch ( 5 )
9. Patrick Luby ( 5 )
10. Noel Grandin ( 5 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#153059 CRASH: Clicking on the header/footer button after scrolling ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#107625 Envelope dialog: Make dialog more a11y friendly ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
2. tdf#146248 Crash at undo header swlo!sw::XTextRangeToSwPaM+0x5f9: ( Thanks to László Németh )
3. tdf#147342 [macOS] UI Scale not working on non HighDPI external display when using Skia and a laptop with Retina display (HighDPI) ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
4. tdf#150380 Calc crash when clicking on the title of the Border Color toolbar popdown ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
5. tdf#152245 Crash with copy-paste from Calc to Writer table with tracked changes ( Thanks to László Németh )
6. tdf#152710 CRASH: importing ooo84576-1.odt, crashtest; corrupt document structure ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
7. tdf#152950 Calc sort crashes after changing from default language to a different one ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
8. tdf#152964 Crash on undo deletion of table with track changes enabled ( Thanks to László Németh )
9. tdf#153003 Copying a query and pasting as table in same database impossible ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
10. tdf#153161 FILESAVE: Data cannot save successfully if I open an old presentation, add some text in it, save it and close it. ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
11. tdf#42437 Enable the macOS press-and-hold functionality for special character input (é, ñ, etc.) ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
12. tdf#45147 right-to-left words appear in the wrong order in the CSV import dialog ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#146248 Crash at undo header swlo!sw::XTextRangeToSwPaM+0x5f9: ( Thanks to László Németh )
2. tdf#148453 LibreOffice crashes/hangs when macOS onscreen keyboard is enabled (Arm64) M1 ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
3. tdf#150380 Calc crash when clicking on the title of the Border Color toolbar popdown ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
4. tdf#150819 CRASH & assert after a few paste and undo (Assertion failed: (abs(rNode.GetIndex() – pMoveText->pDestNode->GetIndex()) == SwNodeOffset(1)), function SwClientNotify, file txtfrm.cxx, line 2135) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
5. tdf#152245 Crash with copy-paste from Calc to Writer table with tracked changes ( Thanks to László Németh )
6. tdf#152404 Crash in Writer when using Japanese Hiragana input method and shortcut Ctrl+Alt+C to insert a new comment while there is uncommitted text ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
7. tdf#152710 CRASH: importing ooo84576-1.odt, crashtest; corrupt document structure ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
8. tdf#152950 Calc sort crashes after changing from default language to a different one ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
9. tdf#152964 Crash on undo deletion of table with track changes enabled ( Thanks to László Németh )
10. tdf#153059 CRASH: Clicking on the header/footer button after scrolling ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
11. tdf#153116 CRASH when removing text box from drawing object (GTK3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
12. tdf#153154 changing instance structure in XML Forms document causes crash ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
13. tdf#153220 CRASH: Clicking on Border and background after undoing header insertion ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

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

1. tdf#100584 With an RTL sheet, make added sheets RTL as well ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
2. tdf#101731 Rename gradient ‘border’ label to something more meaningful ( Thanks to Stéphane Guillou )
3. tdf#106731 No indication macro is read-only ( Thanks to Rafael Lima )
4. tdf#107625 Envelope dialog: Make dialog more a11y friendly ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#112417 UI – Insert Sheet called when clicking anywhere on the footer ( Thanks to Radhey Parekh )
6. tdf#113439 [UX] Add a Show/hide entry in context menu of layers tabs in Draw ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )
7. tdf#114537 Filesave: Export ConditionalText field to DOC ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
8. tdf#114973 Ctrl+A and Select All don’t work

General Activities

1. Rafael Lima continued polishing dark mode features and improved scrolling and zooming in the Basic code editor. He also improved help for ScriptForge
2. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos updated the icons and colours in Help to match the new application icons
3. Alain Romedenne improved help pages on built-in file dialogs
4. Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved several extended tooltips and improved the help on cell references and cell addressing in Calc
5. Bogdan Buzea improved the quality of the applause audio clip found in the gallery and made many string fixes and improvements in help and in the UI code
6. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) dropped the unnecessary name attribute from link elements in help with support from Christian Lohmaier
7. Miklós Vajna (Collabora) added new commands .uno:GotoMark for jumping to a bookmark and .uno:UpdateBookmarks to update the content of a bookmark (helps especially with Zotero citations) and enhanced .uno:InsertBookmark and .uno:InsertField to allow specifying bookmark/refmark text. He also improved the Writer layout XML dump developer feature, improved the DOCX compatibility of paragraph marker formatting, fixed a layout issue related to bookmarks and fixed some Writer crashes.
8. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
9. Szymon Kłos, Andras Timar and Michael Meeks (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements. Michael also fixed a macOS deadlock related to user input events
10. Henry Castro (Collabora) added a mail merge unit test and made some code cleanups
11. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) fixed an issue with date handling in Base, made it so line breaks are preserved in multi-line text when applying Formula to Value in Calc and fixed some crashes. He also improved the help for STYLE and INDEX Calc functions
12. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) polished support for document themes, for example adding the ability for reading theme colours from OOXML
13. Julien Nabet fixed an issue with Base table UI, made Calc’s Paste Special dialog fully translatable, added an Nvidia GPU to Skia Vulkan denylist and fixed some crashes
14. Jim Raykowski implemented a feature that highlights elements in a Writer document when selecting or hovering over their counterparts in the Navigator. He also made several other improvements to the Navigator, such as making it possible to delete references through it
15. Andreas Heinisch made it so AutoText no longer inserts an additional empty paragraph, made bibliography entries appear sorted by identifier in Insert Bibliography dialog and improved the behaviour of input fields with a length restriction
16. László Németh improved LibreLogo rendering speed and made it support more character formatting features. He also made it possible to check the spelling of hyperlinks, fixed an issue with comments disappearing from corrected misspelled words, added two options to spell checking dealing with compound words and fixed some regressions
17. Xisco Faulí (TDF) continued refactoring automated tests, getting rid of much code duplication and created several new tests. He also improved the script used for downloading documents from online forums and fixed several crashes
18. Michael Stahl (allotropia) continued improving the compliance of exported PDFs with Universal Accessibility standard, made DOCX export of bold attributes more robust and fixed some regressions
19. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made the code for setting property values safer, improved the new Math Sidebar panel, improved Visual Studio debugging experience, added support for hyphen-minus in style IDs. He also made many code cleanups and improvements to readability
20. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued polishing dark mode support, improved the opening performance of Application Colors option view, made it so localised font names match UI language instead of system locale, made text layouting more robust, added a button to remove all document events and made it possible to discover the causes of event-bound macro warnings through an infobar, made Statusbar in Writer show tooltips for sections and tables, made Calc’s sheet navigation and insertion buttons show tooltips and improved the Romanian AutoCorrect file. He also made many other UI-related improvements and crash fixes
21. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) improved the debugging experience of unit tests. He also adapted the code to compiler changes and made many code and build-related cleanups as well as test fixes
22. Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved the performance of SUMPRODUCT(IF..) in Calc and fixed an API usage issue with some chart UNO objects not advertising their types properly. He also made many code cleanups and general optimisations
23. Justin Luth (Collabora) worked on VBA ContentControls support, improved the DOCX roundtripping of content controls, improved the indentation of list styles and made font and highlight colour toolbar buttons work in comments
24. Paris Oplopoios (Collabora) added support for hidden status of range filter buttons in XLSX files, improved XLSX compatibility of charts and DOCX compatibility of content controls and made saving Writer documents with macros to Microsoft format conform to the DOCM file type requirement. He also improved Writer’s Accessibility checker
25. Chris Sherlock made some code cleanups in vcl
26. Maxim Monastirsky improved the handling of Draw table styles, for example making pasting action behave more intuitively
27. Khaled Hosny (Alif Type) removed the bundled Source Serif/Sans/Code Pro, Kacst Book/Office fonts due to various issues, separated stylistics sets and character variants in the Font Features dialog, fixed the calculation of ascenders and descenders of some fonts upon PDF export, worked around an issue with strike out formatting of text using Liberation Serif font, improved the handling of different script types in various text previews and fixed an issue with gaps appearing after Kashida. He also made many renovations in font-related code
28. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) improved the appearance of the blur effect with shadows and made refactorings in graphics handling code
29. Taichi Haradaguchi upgraded some dependencies
30. Daniel Lohmann made it so the presenter screen displayed as a normal window can also be shown on a single monitor
31. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed issues with tiled image sizes being reset in the Area tab, incorrect 3D shape properties in PPTX export and tiled background images in PPTX import
32. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) made huge optimisations to the build performance of help and made many other build-related optimisations such as avoiding needless rebuilding of icon and gallery themes
33. Kevin Suo fixed PDF import issues with Asian font settings not being loaded correctly and ligatures in RTL text being reversed incorrectly
34. Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) made some build-related improvements and fixed a Writer unit test
35. Arnaud Versini made some code cleanups
36. Nick Wingate (Collabora) worked on the JavaScript dialog code used by Collabora Online
37. Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) worked on the WASM build
38. Chenxiong Qi ported many Java SDK examples to Python
39. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed an issue with charts getting lost upon DOCX export
40. Galdam Jitsu replaced application and mime type icons with newly designed ones
41. Patrick Luby (NeoOffice) fixed many macOS issues, including a printing issue with the Skia graphics engine and crashes and hangs. He also implemented support for the macOS press-and-hold functionality for special character input and made the macOS installation process faster by switching from bzip2 to lzfse compression in the .dmg file
42. Tarcísio Ladeia de Oliveira fixed some unit test issues
43. Aurimas Fišeras made some cleanups in configure.ac
44. Povilas Kanapickas implemented support for touchpad zoom gestures
45. Đoàn Trần Công Danh made a Boost 1.81.0 compatibility fix
46. Attila Szűcs (Collabora) fixed conditional border colour not being exported to XLSX
47. Dennis Francis (Collabora) made PDFium-based import of PDF files more robust
48. Roman Kuznetsov added Duplicate Page command to Draw’s page pane context menu
49. Michael Weghorn fixed a KDE UI issue in the BASIC Dialog Editor and worked the Android build
50. Ilhan Yesil fixed an issue with the size of wizard pages created using the UNO API
51. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) made handling of invalid styles in RTF files more robust and implemented checking of Windows Security Zones to determine macro security level
52. Brett T. Warden (Intel) made the SVG conversion method of QR codes compatible with the latest library version

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

437 bugs, 53 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 260 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. BogdanB ( 35 )
2. Eyal Rozenberg ( 22 )
3. Mike Kaganski ( 16 )
4. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 15 )
5. Rafael Lima ( 8 )
6. rferraro ( 8 )
7. steve ( 7 )
8. Robert Großkopf ( 6 )
9. خالد حسني ( 6 )
10. Telesto ( 6 )

Triaged Bugs

583 bugs have been triaged by 65 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Buovjaga ( 147 )
2. Stéphane Guillou (stragu) ( 89 )
3. Dieter ( 42 )
4. m.a.riosv ( 37 )
5. Heiko Tietze ( 26 )
6. Alex Thurgood ( 22 )
7. V Stuart Foote ( 22 )
8. خالد حسني ( 19 )
9. Mike Kaganski ( 17 )
10. Julien Nabet ( 17 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

534 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

146 bugs have been fixed by 31 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 27 )
2. Khaled Hosny ( 9 )
3. Bogdan B ( 8 )
4. Patrick Luby ( 8 )
5. László Németh ( 7 )
6. Rafael Lima ( 6 )
7. Tünde Tóth ( 5 )
8. Julien Nabet ( 5 )
9. Michael Stahl ( 5 )
10. Tibor Nagy ( 5 )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#142147 File->Save As: “Save with password” is deselected by default for password-protected documents ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
2. tdf#146842 All pages are empty/white when printing (skia, macOS only) ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
3. tdf#146875 Writer: ToC Index updating hangs ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
4. tdf#151842 Font “Base size” reverts to sm config default of 12pt after reloading any formula (OLE object and standalone document) ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
5. tdf#151894 FILEOPEN a Base Document with customized event for open a startform by “open document” LO stuck ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
6. tdf#152434 FILEOPEN:PPTX: Images not displayed ( Thanks to Tibor Nagy )
7. tdf#152520 Crash: if macro uses module TITLE_CASE or SENTENCE_CASE in Transliteration module ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
8. tdf#152606 Crash if I open the specified pptx file ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
9. tdf#152717 DDE linking in calc is broken since 7.4.3 RC1 ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
10. tdf#42437 Enable the macOS press-and-hold functionality for special character input (é, ñ, etc.) ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#145843 Incidental Crash on macOS with skia raster (STR comment 8) ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
2. tdf#146765 Base Form – crash when scrolling in dual form & “data as table” display (macOS Arm) ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
3. tdf#152495 crash when closing ruby (phonetic guide) dialog with escape (gtk3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
4. tdf#152520 Crash: if macro uses module TITLE_CASE or SENTENCE_CASE in Transliteration module ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
5. tdf#152606 Crash if I open the specified pptx file ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
6. tdf#82115 Repeatable crash/hang entering Japanese into a Writer comment on OSX ( see comment 4 ) ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#105575 Slow rendering when using a Logo command ( Thanks to László Németh )
2. tdf#152301 slow opening of Options > Application Colors ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

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

1. tdf#105575 Slow rendering when using a Logo command ( Thanks to László Németh )
2. tdf#120190 Data “Formula to Value” don’t preserve line break with multi-line text value ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
3. tdf#121297 LO Impress: “JPG Quality” overlapping with “Reduce image resolution” in Presentation Minimizer Wizard in some GTK3 ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
4. tdf#42437 Enable the macOS press-and-hold functionality for special character input (é, ñ, etc.) ( Thanks to Patrick Luby )
5. tdf#45949 SPELL check does not work for words with hyperlink ( Thanks to László Németh )
6. tdf#53023 AutoText (text only) embeds extra carriage return ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
7. tdf#65535 Correcting a misspelled word with a comment in the middle erases the comment (see comment 38) ( Thanks to László Németh )
8. tdf#82115 Repeatable crash/hang entering Japanese into a Writer comment on OSX ( see comment 4 ) ( Thanks to

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LibreOffice 7.5 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2023 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 7.5 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 7.5 started in mid June, 2022. Since then, 4875 commits have been submitted to the code repository and more than 759 bugs were set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.

LibreOffice 7.5 Alpha1 can be downloaded from here for Linux, MacOS and Windows, and it can be installed alongside the standard version.

In case you find any problem in this pre-release, please report it in Bugzilla ( You just need a legit email account in order to create a new account ).

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