LibreOffice QA Blog

LibreOffice 7.3 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2022 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 7.3 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 7.3 started in mid June, 2021. Since then, 4764 commits have been submitted to the code repository and more than 760 bugs were set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.

LibreOffice 7.3 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 ).

For help, you can contact the QA Team directly in the QA IRC channel or via Telegram.

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

Happy testing!!

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General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.2 was released on August 19
2. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) published a series of posts explaining how he fixed an interoperability issue. Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
3. Alain Romedenne improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library
4. Rafael Lima created Help pages for Development Tools, Search Commands, wildcards, removing duplicates in Calc, clarified and improved many pages and updated menu item references. He also added buttons for cloning and clearing direct formatting to Draw’s tabbed interface
5. Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated the intro video for online Help, created a page for Multivariate Regression in Calc and updated many menu item references. He also made several fixes to extended tooltips
6. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
7. Daniel Arato (NISZ) fixed a shape rotation issue with XLSX import
8. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) fixed the handling of linked background images and the rendering of graphic bullets with linked images, improved Writer’s bibliography feature, made it so list levels in paragraph styles are retained in DOCX files and fixed a shape property value entanglement issue
9. Noel Grandin (Collabora) continued converting uses of the homegrown osl::Mutex to std::mutex (locks preventing race conditions in threaded code), fixed issues found by Thread Sanitizer (TSan), improved the loading speed of certain XLS files, DOC files with RTL content, DOCX files with massive tables and RTFs with coloured text. He also made complex Logo commands and SVGs with pattern fills render faster and made many code cleanups and smaller optimisations
10. Attila Bakos (NISZ) fixed an issue with textboxes falling out of shapes in some cases
11. Arnaud Versini made some code cleanups
12. Heiko Tietze (TDF) made some accessibility improvements and made the colour of comments bar customisable
13. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) made the Skia graphics engine integration work on macOS, including Metal acceleration support
14. Muhammet Kara (Collabora) improved the redaction toolbar
15. Kevin Suo fixed an issue with embedded fonts in imported PDFs
16. Michael Warner fixed a problem with LibreOffice not closing when opened through the API
17. Chris Sherlock continued VCL refactoring work
18. Gábor Kelemen (NISZ) fixed table of contents heading style issues with DOCX files and added user-friendly names for UNO commands for opening Sidebar decks
19. Bubli fixed Image toolbar not matching sidebar regarding Area Fill info
20. Szymon Kłos (Collabora) made many improvements and additions to jsdialog used by Online
21. Julien Nabet fixed a problem with MySQL/MariaDB data types, fixed a regression causing data loss upon saving to XLS(X) and improved some UI strings
22. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) improved developer documentation and made some code cleanups
23. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) added support for exporting some slideshow settings in PPTX format and fixed a slide titling issue in imported PPTX files
24. Dennis Francis (Collabora) fixed the display of some newline characters in imported XLSX files
25. László Németh (NISZ) fixed several issues with change tracking
26. Balázs Varga (NISZ) added support for handling named ranges in XLSX files and fixed an axis positioning issue with OOXML chart import
27. Xisco Faulí (TDF) fixed a crash when saving large spreadsheets and added a couple of dozen automated tests
28. Dante Doménech improved MathML support and made Calc summation code take advantage of AVX512 CPU instruction set extension for increased speed
29. Vert D improved the template manager UI
30. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) made outline changes done via Tools -> Chapter Numbering be tracked by undo/redo, fixed a Writer anchor positioning issue when zooming and improved outline numbering
31. DaeHyun Sung improved support for Korean number formats
32. Roman Kuznetsov fixed an issue in the layout of the Windows installer
33. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed losing charts upon XLSX export, saving two-column setting in shapes to ODS and made many code cleanups and optimisations
34. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) improved the support of hyperlinks in textboxes and shapes
35. Andreas Heinisch fixed issues with return values and optional parameters in Basic, improved the sorting of custom document properties, fixed a layout issue with table control dialog elements and corrected the default width of CSV columns with multiline cells
36. Michael Meeks (Collabora) fixed a crash related to UI widgets
37. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) improved Development Tools and Search Commands, continued working on the new searching and indexing feature and made some code cleanups and refactorings
38. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) added support for Klingon and made several improvements to the handling of language tags and date formats, improved the robustness of Calc’s regex search, added an option ‘Evaluate formulas’ to CSV import and paste, added support for sep= separator setting in CSV import, improved the performance of CSV import preview and page break updates in certain cases, added handling of embedded null-characters in CSV import and fixed a name collision issue with named expressions and symbols in XMLSchema-2
39. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) fixed multiple style attributes being written into a single tag in HTML documents, fixed an issue with not being able to close Tip of the Day dialog when Impress Template dialog is also visible, fixed a performance issue with 1000 selected shapes in Draw and continued implementing the new GTK4 backend. He also made many cleanups and crash fixes
40. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed an issue with Calc’s Database Range dialog closing, if invalid name was inputted
41. Regina Henschel fixed an issue with incorrect positioning of grouped shapes in DOCX import, fixed many issues with wrap settings in DOCX import, fixed DOCX export of Bezier curves and fixed an issue with messed up polylines in VML import
42. Justin Luth (SIL) fixed an issue with comment markers affecting spellchecking, fixed an issue with outline level not being inherited from style assigned as Chapter Numbering in DOCX import and fixed issues with unwanted paragraph spacing in DOCX import
43. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many code and build-related cleanups
44. Jan-Marek Glogowski (allotropia) improved the robustness of the kf5 and qt5 UIs
45. Bayram Çiçek finished the GSoC project “100 Paper Cuts”
46. Sary Nasser finished the GSoC project “Integrate .ui dialogs with translation tooling/string search webservice to help translators”
47. Akshit Kushwaha finished the GSoC project “Tests for the VCL graphic backends”
48. Balázs Sántha finished the GSoC project “Implementing table styles DOCX support”
49. Panos Korovesis finished the GSoC project “Make SVM (StarView Metafile) format independent of the VCL Metafile + tests of the format”
50. Anshu Khare finished the GSoC project “Styles Highlighter”
51. Tushar Kumar Rai finished the GSoC project “Implement Interface for external data source import into Calc”

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

544 bugs, 52 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 320 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Telesto ( 35 )
2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 26 )
3. TorrAB ( 11 )
4. Regina Henschel ( 11 )
5. Mike Kaganski ( 10 )
6. Timur ( 10 )
7. sophie ( 10 )
8. Rafael Lima ( 9 )
9. Robert Großkopf ( 8 )
10. Colin ( 7 )

Triaged Bugs

698 bugs have been triaged by 96 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Roman Kuznetsov ( 81 )
2. Heiko Tietze ( 49 )
3. Jean-Baptiste Faure ( 47 )
4. Timur ( 44 )
5. Buovjaga ( 40 )
6. Julien Nabet ( 31 )
7. steve ( 22 )
8. Xisco Faulí ( 22 )
9. Dieter ( 21 )
10. Eleonora Govallo ( 20 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

553 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

182 bugs have been fixed by 39 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 24 )
2. Eike Rathke ( 12 )
3. László Németh ( 7 )
4. Regina Henschel ( 6 )
5. Andreas Heinisch ( 6 )
6. Miklos Vajna ( 6 )
7. Julien Nabet ( 6 )
8. Vasily Melenchuk ( 5 )
9. Mike Kaganski ( 5 )
10. Rafael Lima ( 4 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#143728 Certain presentation crashes Impress after starting slideshow (Win crashes, Linux hangs) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#143896 FILESAVE XLSX 1001+ rows are lost after saving new file ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
3. tdf#143940 FILESAVE: add a new line in a large spreadsheet and save causes crash ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#142003 FILEOPEN Tracked changes in .doc file footnotes shift to the right ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
2. tdf#142264 charts lost by calc export to xlsx ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
3. tdf#143023 Forms: Event “When losing focus” in tablecontrol appears when receiving focus ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
4. tdf#143657 Tools → SQL: Command couldn’t be executed. ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#143858 Outline numbering not showing any number, only the prefix/suffix ( Thanks to Vasily Melenchuk )
6. tdf#143957 Crash when switching transitions (kf5) ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
7. tdf#143990 Multilevel outline numbers not showing ( Thanks to Vasily Melenchuk )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#143572 Crash clicking Shape 2 Text Frame ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
2. tdf#143577 Crash on image delete with “Show outline-folding buttons” ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
3. tdf#143728 Certain presentation crashes Impress after starting slideshow (Win crashes, Linux hangs) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
4. tdf#143769 Calc crashes if a background for a sketch is selected ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#143843 Crash in: weld::CustomWidgetController::SetPointer(PointerStyle) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
6. tdf#143940 FILESAVE: add a new line in a large spreadsheet and save causes crash ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
7. tdf#143957 Crash when switching transitions (kf5) ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
8. tdf#144008 LO crashes when macro tries to start a form document in Base (kf5 only) ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
9. tdf#144022 Calc crashed in Copy & Paste Special ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
10. tdf#144105 LO crashes during mail merge wizard when an address block is modified ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#101083 Insert SVG with too small scaling causes LibreOffice to hang, consuming 100% cpu ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#131546 FILEOPEN DOCX: File takes longer to open in master ( Thanks to Balazs Santha )
3. tdf#139220 Regression: Selection of elements is very slow ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
4. tdf#143499 Slow response in document with many headings ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#143852 FILEOPEN: files with images take longer to open ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )

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

1. tdf#100480 Improve the description of the “Match case” check box in the Find and Replace dialog ( Thanks to Rafael Lima )
2. tdf#101083 Insert SVG with too small scaling causes LibreOffice to hang, consuming 100% cpu ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
3. tdf#102846 CSV import: very long loop in preview’s field detection ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
4. tdf#103612 ToC is never shown in Master Document if it is in ODT in a section with a hide condition ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
5. tdf#112057 Clarify what Cell Edit Mode in Calc means ( Thanks to Rafael Lima )
6. tdf#50447 Text formatting changes (in docx-file) are not shown with track changes (and not recorded by the way) ( Thanks to László Németh )
7. tdf#59820 FILEOPEN: default csv column width is wrong with multiline cells ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
8. tdf#64086 Fileopen: named cell ranges from MSO are not imported in charts (because not supported in LO) ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
9. tdf#64703 PRINTING: Problem with page break when autofilter is on ( Thanks to Attila Szűcs )
10. tdf#66250 Use a Named range as data source for Chart ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
11. tdf#88205 Adapt uses of css::uno::Sequence to use initializer_list ctor ( Thanks to Zeynep Yavuz )
12. tdf#91519 Jump of document canvas view to the top of the comment disrupts editing of long comments ( Thanks to Bayram Çiçek )
13. tdf#96561 Fails to import CSV file created with CsvHelper ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
14. tdf#99932 Anchor “to Character”: Anchor changes position to the document when zoom-in or out ( Thanks to Vasily Melenchuk )

WORKSFORME bugs

96 bugs have been retested by 35 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Buovjaga ( 13 )
2. Roman Kuznetsov ( 12 )
3. Timur ( 6 )
4. Aron Budea ( 6 )
5. Telesto ( 6

The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.2 Release Candidate 2 is available for testing!

LibreOffice 7.2 will be released as final in mid August, 2021 ( Check the Release Plan for more information ) being LibreOffice 7.2 RC2 the fourth pre-release since the development of version 7.2 started at the end of November, 2020. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.2 RC1, 90 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 55 bugs have been fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in LibreOffice 7.2.

LibreOffice 7.2 RC2 can be downloaded from here for Linux, MacOS and Windows.

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

For help, you can contact the QA Team directly in the QA IRC channel or via Telegram.

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

Happy testing!!

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General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.1.4 was released on June, 10
2. Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library. Alain also added some Basic keyword argument explanations and created a help page for Basic ThisDatabaseDocument object.
3. Olivier Hallot (TDF) and Adolfo Jayme Barrientos clarified ‘whole sheet export’ for Calc PDF export in Help. Olivier also added help entries for VBA StrConv function, Advanced TSCP classification dialog and toolbar, revamped Bullets & Numbering dialog for Impress and Draw, Combine Text in Draw and made several improvements and tweaks.
4. Michael Warner fixed an issue in PDF files containing Chinese characters generated with XeLaTeX
5. Ming Hua added glossary entries about half-width and full-width characters to Help
6. Steve Fanning documented how to escape double quotes in Help for Calc’s text functions
7. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
8. Hossein Nourikhah started working for TDF as Developer Community Architect
9. Michael Stahl (allotropia) fixed some Writer layout infinite loops
10. Bai Xiaochun replaced uses of homegrown math functions with standard library ones and optimised a math function for speed
11. Baltasar made it so in Basic the results of comparison of literals have proper boolean type
12. Gülşah Köse (Collabora) fixed a text data loss issue with PPTX roundtrip
13. René Engelhard (Debian) made some fixes to unit tests
14. Bubli fixed missing decimal places in Sidebar rotation spinbox
15. Gopi Krishna Menon (Collabora) made crash reports more useful with additional data
16. Regina Henschel improved OOXML compatibility for shadow rotation and wrap margins
17. Chris Sherlock did some housecleaning in VCL
18. Todor Balabanov made several improvements to the NLP solver
19. Sarper Akdemir (Collabora) worked on PPTX header/footer field support
20. Georgy Litvinov fixed losing anchor and endnote links in exported PDFs
21. Michael Weghorn fixed an Android crash and made improvements to the Windows accessibility internals
22. Balázs Varga (NISZ) fixed the option “Secondary Y Axis” in Sidebar’s Chart deck, fixed OOXML export of chart secondary axis and made it so formatted dates in standard filters are preserved upon XLSX export
23. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) made optimisations related to graphics rendering and WMF graphic conversions
24. Oleg Shchelykalnov made it possible to respect hidden paragraphs when saving to TXT
25. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) added PPTX export support for a presentation’s loop attribute and improved the PPTX import support for custom slide show settings
26. Dennis Francis (Collabora) added support for cycling through Calc’s autocomplete matches
27. Andreas Heinisch fixed a focus issue in Custom Properties dialog, added file/product name to the Enter Password dialog title to help password managers, added column/row labels to descriptive statistics in Calc, made it so custom document properties are exported using utf8 encoding, fixed CSV import preview of text delimiter, fixed the display of custom unicode separators in the csv import dialog, corrected an issue with Chart spline calculation and made it so the filename in the import ASCII dialog title is not URL-encoded
28. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) added a new ODF numbered list parameter loext:num-list-format to allow for more flexibility in storing multilevel numberings. He also made some code optimisations and cleanups
29. Jim Raykowski made it so footnote numbers are not included in Navigator heading entries
30. Heiko Tietze (TDF) added an expert option to turn off sidebar’s minimum width, added an option to globally switch toolbar locking on/off, made the new Calc thick cursor optional, fixed layout issues in Writer Sidebar’s Page deck and fixed an RTL issue with Calc’s Insert Cell dialog
31. Arnaud Versini made some code cleanups
32. Tobias Schulz made it so TXT file encoding option is stored for later saving and added handling of BOM in text encoding detection
33. Roland Kurmann fixed an issue with transposed text and multi-range selections. He also made a lot of improvements and reorganisations for Calc’s copy/paste automated tests
34. Gabriel Masei (1&1) fixed some VCL-related crashes
35. Marco Falke fixed an oss-fuzz build script issue
36. Gábor Kelemen (NISZ) made many improvements to shortcut keys
37. Muhammet Kara (Collabora) made the Customization dialog indicate experimental commands
38. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) improved symbol extraction on Windows, related to crash reporting
39. Gizem Ozgun added a test for exporting conditional format font size in Calc
40. Rizal Muttaqin updated the Sifr icon theme
41. Bartosz Kosiorek continued making improvements to EMF and WMF graphics support. Valek Filippov helped with the file analysis and testing.
42. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made the setting of Calc formula separators better regarding accepted characters and added evaluation of AM/PM in dates in text-to-column and CSV
43. Julien Nabet fixed crashes in Impress, Writer and Calc. He also made many small code optimisations
44. Jan-Marek Glogowski (allotropia) made many fixes to threads and building
45. Justin Luth (Collabora/SIL) improved tab handling in DOCX import and made many improvements to the handling of numbering in DOC/DOCX formats
46. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed broken chart import at labels with quotes in OOXML files
47. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) added support for columns in text boxes, fixed some crashes and made many code cleanups and fixes to test and build problems
48. Caolán McNamara continued implementing the new GTK4 backend. He also made many cleanups and crash fixes. More information here, here, here and here
49. László Németh (NISZ) made several improvements to change tracking and made it possible to remove personal info from comments and changes
50. Xisco Faulí (TDF) made about 50 improvements and additions to automated tests
51. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many code and build-related cleanups and improved compatibility with new compiler versions and unreleased C++ standard changes
52. Noel Grandin (Collabora) continued his war on memory leaks, greatly improved the import time for DOCX documents with hundreds of images and made many code cleanups and optimisations
53. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) made many improvements to image handling in Writer’s XHTML export. He also made many code cleanups and removed a 16bit limit in line heights
54. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) added a document searching and indexing feature
55. Bayram Çiçek worked on the GSoC project “100 Paper Cuts”, adding hover effects to palettes in the Area tab and fixing an issue with cropping flipped images in Writer
56. Shubham Jain worked on the GSoC project “Write missing unit tests”
57. Sary Nasser worked on the GSoC project “Integrate .ui dialogs with translation tooling/string search webservice to help translators”
58. Akshit Kushwaha worked on the GSoC project “Tests for the VCL graphic backends”, adding some tests and a UI dialog for running tests and showing results
59. Balázs Sántha worked on the GSoC project “Implementing table styles DOCX support”, fixing missing format update of tables at table (cell) selection
60. Panos Korovesis worked on the GSoC project “Make SVM (StarView Metafile) format independent of the VCL Metafile + tests of the format”, adding 12 tests
61. Anshu Khare worked on the GSoC project “Styles Highlighter”
62. Tushar Kumar Rai worked on the GSoC project “Implement Interface for external data source import into Calc”

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

524 bugs, 77 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 254 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 63 )
2. Telesto ( 37 )
3. Eyal Rozenberg ( 27 )
4. Valek Filippov ( 21 )
5. Timur ( 12 )
6. stragu ( 12 )
7. Tracey ( 10 )
8. Mike Kaganski ( 9 )
9. Roman Kuznetsov ( 8 )
10. Regina Henschel ( 8 )

Triaged Bugs

432 bugs have been triaged by 74 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Dieter ( 45 )
2. Timur ( 42 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 32 )
4. V Stuart Foote ( 27 )
5. m.a.riosv ( 22 )
6. Roman Kuznetsov ( 19 )
7. Xisco Faulí ( 18 )
8. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 16 )
9. Telesto ( 15 )
10. Uwe Auer ( 13 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

476 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

161 bugs have been fixed by 38 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 12 )
2. Olivier Hallot ( 9 )
3. László Németh ( 7 )
4. Heiko Tietze ( 7 )
5. Andreas Heinisch ( 7 )
6. Noel Grandin ( 6 )
7. Gabor Kelemen ( 5 )
8. Tünde Tóth ( 5 )
9. Tibor Nagy ( 5 )
10. Justin Luth ( 4 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#142478 [CRASH] searching on slide notes will crash Impress ( Thanks to Tomaž Vajngerl )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#140360 Provide option to turn off sidebar’s minimum width ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )
2. tdf#141769 Crash in: cppu::OInterfaceContainerHelper::disposeAndClear(com::sun::star::lang::EventObject const &) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
3. tdf#92917 Impress 64-bit crash when I open .PPSX or .PPTX with MP3 sound ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#139447 Crash when dragging a query or table from “Data Sources Explorer” window to a calc sheet. ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
2. tdf#141769 Crash in: cppu::OInterfaceContainerHelper::disposeAndClear(com::sun::star::lang::EventObject const &) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
3. tdf#142393 CRASH: Clicking on filter by color dropdownlist (gen) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
4. tdf#142478 [CRASH] searching on slide notes will crash Impress ( Thanks to Tomaž Vajngerl )
5. tdf#142618 LibreOffice Viewer 7.2.0.0.alpha1+ crashes on “about” > “show notice” ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
6. tdf#142638 CRASH: leaving embedded object (GTK3) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
7. tdf#142860 Crash: press Page Columns Button on Tab UI ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
8. tdf#142932 Crash when pasting cells with comments and “skip empty cells” option selected ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
9. tdf#143032 CRASH (assertion failed) when typing a format string in DBGUTIL build ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
10. tdf#143113 Crash when dragging Navigator heading (gtk3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
11. tdf#92917 Impress 64-bit crash when I open .PPSX or .PPTX with MP3 sound ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

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

1. tdf#103388 UI: “View > Show Formula” shows the shortcut as “Ctrl+grave” ( Thanks to Gabor Kelemen )
2. tdf#104995 Cropping flipped images occurs at the wrong side ( Thanks to Bayram Çiçek )
3. tdf#105089 Base: Item Status Changed ( Thanks to Olivier Hallot )
4. tdf#106541 FILEOPEN: Numbering from custom style based on Heading 1 is not considered in this DOC ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
5. tdf#108518 FILEOPEN: DOC file list numbers incorrectly italicized ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
6. tdf#38187 ENDNOTES: when .odt is exported to PDF, links between anchors and endnotes are missing in both directions ( Thanks to Georgy Litvinov )
7. tdf#46626 UI: Navigator: heading with footnote displays footnote number full size ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
8. tdf#47365 Impress does not honor loop in PPTX presentation (fileopen done, filesave left) ( Thanks to Tibor Nagy )
9. tdf#58250 FILEOPEN UI Custom separator is corrupted in CSV dialog ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
10. tdf#66553 Add file name to title bar of Enter Password dialog for autofilling with KeePass ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
11. tdf#68976 Formulas change after cut and paste special action with Transpose ( Thanks to scito )
12. tdf#69207 Text delimiter not used in preview until changed (CSV import OK) ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
13. tdf#79069 DOCX: cannot delete table with Tracking changes (before: could be deleted but made a comeback after RT) ( Thanks to László Németh )
14. tdf#90401 Allow resetting or removing personal information (author, date/time) on comments and changes ( Thanks to László Németh )
15. tdf#92525 docx export: Text position in shape not correct ( Thanks to Attila Bakos (NISZ) )
16. tdf#92917 Impress 64-bit crash when I open .PPSX or .PPTX with MP3 sound ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

WORKSFORME bugs

57 bugs have been retested by 32 people.

Top 10 testers

1. stragu ( 6 )
2. Timur ( 6 )
3. Telesto ( 5 )
4. Dieter ( 4 )
5. Andreas Heinisch ( 3 )
6. Xisco Faulí ( 3 )
7. Heiko Tietze ( 3 )
8. Buovjaga ( 3 )
9. Robert Großkopf ( 2 )
10. geraldg ( 2 )

DUPLICATED bugs

111 bugs have been duplicated by 32 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Timur ( 16 )
2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 12 )
3. V Stuart Foote ( 11 )
4. Heiko Tietze ( 10 )
5. Telesto ( 7 )
6. m.a.riosv ( 7 )
7. stragu ( 6 )
8. Xisco Faulí ( 5

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.1.3 was released on May 6
2. LibreOffice 7.0.6 was released on May 13
3. The PowerPoint compatibility team reported on its recent work
4. Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library. Rafael Lima also documented the WeekDay Basic function and improved the help for Calc’s CONVERT function
5. Kevin Suo improved the Python script for generating the file filter table for Help. Kevin also fixed a font family problem in the Help CSS related to Simplified Chinese display on Linux
6. Steve Fanning made several improvements to Calc function Help pages.
7. Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved Help on Calc functions, databases and Calc’s autofilter
8. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made Calc accept 123.45 fractional input on weird formats like 0″.” or 0″.”0, expanded NatNum12 modifier support for all day and month names and made it so Calc’s ROUND() function does not limit decimal digits
9. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
10. Caolán McNamara not only continued with GTK3 backend polishing, but took on a new large-scale project: a GTK4 backend! See here and here. He also made many cleanups and crash fixes
11. Noel Grandin (Collabora) started fixing memory leaks like an angry plumber. He also speeded up saving large ODS files, made a big refactoring as part of a longer-term goal of doing UI widget rendering only inside a top-level render- context and made many code cleanups and optimisations
12. Linus Heckemann made it so the code for opening links is more portable considering different *nix systems
13. Szabolcs Tóth (NISZ) fixed a case, where Calc autofilter item list would be lost after saving and reloading the spreadsheet
14. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed a DOCX import problem with list item indentation
15. Joshua Williams swapped comparison operators for static strings, so Basic macro code behaves logically
16. Muhammet Kara (Collabora) made it so experimental commands are hidden, when experimental mode is not active. He also fixed a crash in Additions when fetching bad JSON data
17. Thorsten Wagner polished the macOS window scaling implementation for Retina displays
18. Aritz Erkiaga fixed a problem with Stock Charts corrupting upon saving
19. Oleg Shchelykalnov added an option to respect hidden paragraphs, when exporting to plain text
20. Vert D fixed a problem with deleting categories in the Template Manager
21. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed some Calc autofilter problems
22. Edward Lynch fixed Impress Grow/Shrink animation scaling
23. Bubli fixed hatch and bitmap lists being hidden in the Sidebar
24. Justin Luth (Collabora/SIL) fixed some DOCX/DOC numbered list problems and improved the character formatting dialog presentation of subscripts and superscripts
25. Georgy Litvinov fixed losing sections at the end of text inserted with the “Insert text from file” functionality in Writer
26. Sarabjot Singh added a thick cursor into Calc in the style of MS Excel and Gnumeric. The cursor is used when hovering over cells.
27. Baltasar changed the behaviour of adding commands to menus, so instead of an altert reporting of a duplicate command, the Add button becomes disabled
28. Matt K made it so multiple Tip-of-the-Day tips can be opened and the user can interact with the application without closing the tips. He also added new UI options when opening a locked or non-writeable document to allow the user to be notified when such a document becomes editable
29. Rizal Muttaqin made updates to Sukapura, elementary and Colibre icon themes
30. Maxim Monastirsky made it so Calc sets the font size for the default cell style when saving ODS files
31. Dennis Francis (Collabora) made many improvements to Calc’s autocompletion feature. The logic for presenting suggestions is now more user-friendly.
32. Regina Henschel fixed wrong scaling of shape groups and incorrect rotation of VML shapes in imported DOCX files
33. Arnaud versini made some code cleanups
34. Tibor Nagy and Attila Szűcs (NISZ) fixed unhiding grid lines in imported XLSX files and fixed lost column break in shapes in imported DOCX files with support from Justin Luth
35. Heiko Tietze (TDF) added a dark colour set in order to provide a dark theme leveraging the Application Colours feature
36. Jan-Marek Glogowski and Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) worked on the WASM build, now merged into master
37. Michael Weghorn made many improvements to the Android version with topics including stability, document view and inserting images
38. Mark Hung improved the rendering of vertical text
39. László Németh (NISZ) made many improvements to change tracking and made line style dropdowns display all of the styles in imported DOCX files
40. Bartosz Kosiorek made a whopping 16 improvements to EMF and WMF graphics support, inching closer to perfect support. Valek Filippov helped with the file analysis and testing.
41. Jim Raykowski made it so drawing objects selected in the document are highlighted in Navigator’s content navigation view. He also added shortcut keys for each Sidebar deck and improved the outline folding feature
42. Attila Bakos (NISZ) fixed z-ordering and positioning of shapes in imported DOCX files
43. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed PPTX import/export problems related to slide names, internal hyperlinks and custom slide shows
44. Daniel Arato (NISZ) fixed DOCX exporting of hidden headers and DOCX importing of text wrapping in headers
45. Balázs Varga (NISZ) fixed several Calc autofilter issues
46. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) improved the handling of 0-byte files, made Calc CSV import properly handle the case of no string delimiter, improved the look of the new thick Calc cursor on Windows and made many code cleanups
47. Xisco Faulí (TDF) made over 50 improvements and additions to unit and UI tests
48. Chris Sherlock did some housecleaning in VCL
49. Dante Doménech finished the work on using Kahan summation algorithm in Calc in order to reduce the numerical error in the total of floating-point calculations. He also the Math formula input box zoomable
50. Roland Kurmann made many improvements to Calc transposed and special pasting
51. Andreas Heinisch made Basic respect case-insensitivity in find & replace, fixed a problem with sheet references not updating in charts when copying multiple sheets in Calc, fixed an issue with item selection properties not being updated in a Base form after selecting all, fixed 3D look listbox in Chart wizard not showing selected text, made macro import/export use UTF-8 with BOM and made it so externally linked tables in Calc get named based on their HTML caption element
52. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many code cleanups and continued improving compatibility with C++20
53. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) fixed handling of list labels and a bunch of other things in Writer XHTML export, fixed a problem with OLE object display areas, fixed a couple of crashes and made many code cleanups and optimisations
54. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) implemented the very popular request for filtering by colours in Calc
55. Gábor Kelemen (NISZ) made some improvements to dialogs, toolbars and Hungarian shortcuts
56. Gülşah Köse (Collabora) improved the new UNO object inspector, removed the warning of missing data sources upon load as the Mail Merge dialog also warns about it and fixed a PPTX export highlighting colour issue
57. Mert Tumer (Collabora) improved the table cell selection logic in Impress & Draw
58. Julien Nabet made many code cleanups and optimisations
59. Michael Stahl (allotropia) fixed some Writer layout crashes and infinite loops
60. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) fixed a build issue with recent Cygwin versions, improved the VS Code workspace template and started cleaning up the installer codebase
61. Tushar Kumar Rai made the StrConv VBA Function handle its third argument (LCID) and fixed related QA tests. He also fixed a Data Provider crash
62. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) added a hecking awesome Heads-up Display type of search and made internal improvements to graphics handling code
63. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) made optimisations related to graphics rendering and bitmap loading and improved the Skia integration. He also made it possible to write canvas unit tests and added a bunch of tests

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

567 bugs, 57 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 323 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 38 )
2. Valek Filippov ( 31 )
3. Telesto ( 24 )
4. Regina Henschel ( 14 )
5. Xisco Faulí ( 12 )
6. Thorsten Wagner ( 10 )
7. Mike Kaganski ( 9 )
8. Rafael Lima ( 8 )
9. Nico ( 7 )
10. Heiko Tietze ( 7 )

Triaged Bugs

584 bugs have been triaged by 85 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 70 )
2. Timur ( 61 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 50 )
4. Dieter ( 50 )
5. Roman Kuznetsov ( 36 )
6. V Stuart Foote ( 26 )
7. Julien Nabet ( 25 )
8. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 20 )
9. Harshita Nag ( 20 )
10. Aron Budea ( 17 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

620 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

198 bugs have been fixed by 52 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 16 )
2. Bartosz Kosiorek ( 11 )
3. László Németh ( 9 )
4. Andreas Heinisch ( 7 )
5. Balazs Varga ( 7 )
6. Gülşah Köse ( 7 )
7. Eike Rathke ( 6 )
8. Noel Grandin ( 6 )
9. Tibor Nagy ( 5 )
10. Michael Weghorn ( 5 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#142390 calc 7.2.0.0.a0+ >2021-05-19, no mouse cursor in cell area ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#138302 Restart of numbering is not saved when saving to DOC ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
2. tdf#141571 Base crashed on creation of user function ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
3. tdf#141613 Crash: swlo!SwTableNode::DelFrames+0x27: ( Thanks to Daniel Arato (NISZ) )
4. tdf#141930 libreoffice math does not ask to save changes when closing ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#142040 CSV import broken in master ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
6. tdf#142150 Application crashes when EDITING line end styles (arrows) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
7. tdf#142255 Crash when trying to insert a shape ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
8. tdf#142367 Writer crashes when opening docx (GTK3) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
9. tdf#142370 CRASH: Closing tip of the day ( GTK3 ) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
10. tdf#142547 Crash when adding comment in a table in Writer ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
11. tdf#54037 FILESAVE: Loss of internal hyperlinks in PPT/PPTX ( Thanks to Tibor Nagy )
12. tdf#76258 Filter by colors in Calc ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
13. tdf#91874 A Search by function or keyword over main menu– similar to SpotLight, Tell Me, or Ubuntu’s HUD but native for LO GUI ( Thanks to Tomaž Vajngerl )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#126226 CRASH: Adding comment to Track Change ( Thanks to László Németh )
2. tdf#136292 Additions: Bad JSON crashes LibreOffice ( Thanks to Muhammet Kara )
3. tdf#138855 Draw crashes if I use ALT+TAB to switch between two draw windows while the cursor focus is in a text box ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
4. tdf#139500 Crash mergedlo!EditUndo::GetComment+54 press undo inside table in impress ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
5. tdf#141307 Crash in: SvtBroadcaster::Add (probably a basic macro issue) ( Thanks to Bjoern Michaelsen )
6. tdf#141571 Base crashed on creation of user function ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
7. tdf#141613 Crash: swlo!SwTableNode::DelFrames+0x27: ( Thanks to Daniel Arato (NISZ) )
8. tdf#141973 Calc crashes after F5 pressing when opened some file ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
9. tdf#142150 Application crashes when EDITING line end styles (arrows) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
10. tdf#142255 Crash when trying to insert a shape ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
11. tdf#142364 Crash when closing document after canceling chart wizard (Writer) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
12. tdf#142367 Writer crashes when opening docx (GTK3) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
13. tdf#142370 CRASH: Closing tip of the day ( GTK3 ) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
14. tdf#142467 Inserting series in Stock Chart Data Table crashes Writer (Fedora only?) ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
15. tdf#142479 CRASH: pressing return key after opening arrow styles floating window ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
16. tdf#142547 Crash when adding comment in a table in Writer ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#142080 FILEOPEN: DOCX: Hang after opening the file ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
2. tdf#79049 FILEOPEN: OOXML Workbook file hangs when opening ( Thanks