LibreOffice QA Blog

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.1.7 was released on November 4
2. LibreOffice 7.2.3 was released on November 25
3. Alain Romedenne improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library and several Basic functions
4. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos updated the help strings for QR and Barcode dialog
5. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) made it so the navigation menus in Help close when clicking outside of them
6. Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the Help content for Digital Signatures, text filters, Calc’s CSV import and also did a lot of refactoring in Help
7. Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library, improved the Help for Writer’s Direct Cursor mode and did several refactorings and cleanups in Help
8. Steve Fanning improved the Help content for Calc’s CONVERT_OOO and SUM functions
9. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
10. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) improved the help for Calc’s MATCH function, improved language/locale display, made handling of German ß more robust, fixed an edge case issue of update references when sorting range of cells in Calc, fixed an issue with referencing Calc expression labels and made Regression Statistics more robust by using cell references for calculating offsets
11. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) improved the help for Basic’s CInt function, continued optimising UNO API’s Sequence, adapted a WebDAV fix to the new webdav-curl, improved the Visual Studio IDE integration, made the internal handling of units and constant numbers more robust, fixed a Windows installer issue, made registry updating more robust, improved handling of document print events as macro triggers and made many code cleanups
12. Ming Hua updated help for inserting a cross-reference
13. flywire improved the help for Python locations
14. Winfried Donkers made Calc’s WEEKS add-in function provide correct results
15. Michael Warner fixed a problem with Poppler PDF library not being properly installed and made Sentence case formatting operation honour selection
16. Michael Meeks (Collabora) fixed crashes related to fetching clipboard data and moving windows
17. René Engelhard (Debian) made a couple of build fixes
18. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made a couple of Qt improvements
19. Michael Weghorn improved Qt stability and layouts and fixed a HiDPI scaling bug affecting the KDE Frameworks UI
20. Sarper Akdemir (Collabora) implemented support for PPTX colour themes
21. Matt K removed an unnecessary pop-up dialog for read-only documents
22. Bubli made it possible to undo adding and editing animations in Impress
23. Rizal Muttaqin added icons for 1.15 line spacing and UNO Object Inspector
24. Chris Sherlock continued VCL refactoring work
25. Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) added sccache to the Windows build setup
26. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) implemented handling of DOCX content controls and made it so spaces in field instructions are preserved in DOCX export
27. Heiko Tietze (TDF) made spellchecking wavy lines more prominent depending on the zoom level, fixed an issue with Basic IDE in dark mode and made several layout improvements
28. David Alan Gilbert fixed some issues spotted by cppcheck
29. Dennis Francis (Collabora) made Calc’s copying to clipboard take objects into account
30. László Németh added section and parent RDF metadata support for Style Inspector, implemented change tracking for moved text, fixed a change tracking issue with referenced text and improved DOCX change tracking support as well
31. Szymon Kłos (Collabora) addded glow and soft edge panels for Fontwork Sidebar UI
32. Andreas Heinisch fixed a line spacing issue in Impress, made it so base64-encoded images are imported correctly from HTML files and fixed the handling of embedded newlines set via an API method in Calc
33. Andras Timar (Collabora) fixed a regression affecting scaling in charts driven by macros
34. Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) made “Perform file extension check” option respect finalisation via Windows registry, made it so file names are properly encoded in error dialogs and fixed button actions being reversed in image rotation prompt dialog
35. Regina Henschel enabled matte and metal extrusion surfaces for Fontwork
36. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) made many code cleanups and improvements to the code documentation. He also published a couple of blogpost about easyhacks, the first one about the use of atan2 and the second about the use of symbolic constants
37. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) implemented saving of password for editing with PPTX files and made it so character formatting targeting only numbering is imported correctly from DOCX files
38. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) added more Beanshell scripting samples for Writer and Calc and improved the line thickness presets and their presentation
39. Kohei Yoshida upgraded mdds and liborcus libraries
40. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) continued improving PPTX hyperlink support and fixed PPTX export of proportional line spacing and superscript and subscript positions
41. Björn Michaelsen fixed some regressions caused by refactoring of Writer internals
42. Xisco Faulí (TDF) made over sixty additions and improvements to automated tests
43. Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) fixed a problem with paper sizes when printing from Impress and made some code cleanups and build fixes
44. Jim Raykowski made many improvements to Navigator, including its tracking of objects and fixed an old focus-switching crash in Writer
45. Attila Szűcs (NISZ) fixed a problem where unwanted pages would appear in the context of multicolumn sections with footnotes
46. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) fixed signing OOXML documents with multiple certificates and images anchored to page in Writer sometimes getting the wrong z-order. He also worked on support for colour themes from OOXML documents.
47. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) fixed an issue with graphic sizes in RTF import, actions on IME-edited text not being grouped in the undo history, following styles when editing imported RTF files, several undo issues, handling of chart theme overrides in PPTX import and viewing of OLE objects in protected sections. He also worked on support for colour themes from OOXML documents and wrote about linked paragraph and character styles in Writer
48. Justin Luth (Collabora/SIL) fixed issues related to page styles in DOC/DOCX files, an autocorrect capitalisation issue, a DOCX SmartArt roundtrip issue, issues with text transparency and colour in PPTX import, an issue with paper sizes in print preview and visual artifacts appearing in the context of Calc’s autofilter
49. Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved thread-safety of the code, greatly improved the speed of Calc’s autofilter with big data sets, the speed of calculating fractions and made loading of large RTL Writer documents faster. He also made many code cleanups
50. Giuseppe Castagno worked on the implementation of Curl-based WebDAV
51. Michael Stahl (allotropia) worked on the implementation of Curl-based WebDAV, fixed issues with PDF export of Writer master documents, improved the MS Word compatibility with list indents and fixed a Writer undo crash. He also fixed some regressions and made code cleanups.
52. Kevin Suo fixed some CJK and localisation issues and made code cleanups
53. Julien Nabet improved MySQL/MariaDB support, fixed multiple Macro execution when triggered by Document print event, fixed some crashes and regressions and made many code cleanups
54. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made Java detection more robust on macOS and made many code and build-related cleanups, including dropping workarounds for the Boost library and improving the Windows clang-cl build support
55. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) fixed many crashes and UI issues and continued working on the new gtk4 UI backend
56. Jan-Marek Glogowski (allotropia) made several Qt improvements and fixed a Windows font GDI handle leak
57. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) greatly improved the speed of Calc’s autofilter with big data sets, improved the speed of Calc VLOOKUP function, implemented HiDPI support for Skia graphics engine on macOS and made macOS default to Skia and improved the Windows clang-cl build support He also made ccache work on Windows
58. Akshit Kushwaha added a Cubic-Bezier Curve Draw Test into VCL tests

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

483 bugs, 45 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 311 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Telesto ( 36 )
2. Rafael Lima ( 11 )
3. Mike Kaganski ( 10 )
4. sophie ( 8 )
5. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 7 )
6. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 7 )
7. Colin ( 6 )
8. Kevin Suo ( 6 )
9. Xisco Faulí ( 6 )
10. David ( 5 )

Triaged Bugs

477 bugs have been triaged by 84 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 89 )
2. Buovjaga ( 43 )
3. Dieter ( 39 )
4. Heiko Tietze ( 36 )
5. Julien Nabet ( 25 )
6. Kevin Suo ( 18 )
7. m.a.riosv ( 18 )
8. Mike Kaganski ( 15 )
9. Michael Warner ( 13 )
10. Roman Kuznetsov ( 12 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

499 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 41 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 32 )
2. Justin Luth ( 12 )
3. Luboš Luňák ( 11 )
4. László Németh ( 7 )
5. Heiko Tietze ( 7 )
6. Eike Rathke ( 5 )
7. Michael Stahl ( 5 )
8. Tibor Nagy ( 4 )
9. Vasily Melenchuk ( 4 )
10. Bjoern Michaelsen ( 4 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#144940 Calc disables header/footer or loses footer content when saves a spreadsheet ( part 2 ) ( Thanks to Attila Bakos (NISZ) )
2. tdf#145584 Writer crashes on exporting as PDF with its Range in PDF Options set to ‘Selection’ ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#119206 Freeze if Option “Edit document properties before saving” is Enabled ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
2. tdf#121546 CRASH undoing table paste ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
3. tdf#142420 Filter By Color: Hangs after apply a color filter and then deselect the filter ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
4. tdf#143511 Writer: Comment oversized and text missing when printed in margin in Linux ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#143815 EDITING: images duplicated after undo ( Thanks to Bjoern Michaelsen )
6. tdf#143971 LibreOffice 7.2 introduced addition popup for read only file that shouldn’t be showing ( Thanks to Matt K )
7. tdf#144249 Deleting 10.000 rows column in a spreadsheet: 15 sec with 4.1| 10 sec up to 300+ sec with 6.2| 130 sec with 7.3 ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
8. tdf#145158 character format dialog doesn’t show the current character size any more ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
9. tdf#145621 Crash swlo!IDocumentMarkAccess::IsLegalPaMForCrossRefHeadingBookmark+0x2681 at overwriting certain area ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#121546 CRASH undoing table paste ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
2. tdf#145207 One click and three presses of TABs crashes Writer ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
3. tdf#145464 Crash when opening Digital signatures dialog from infobar (GTK3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
4. tdf#145486 LO crashes with finalized ooSetupLastVersion ( Thanks to homeboy445 )
5. tdf#145567 Crash when click “File > Open” if previously a Draw document is opened via Writer and closed ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
6. tdf#145584 Writer crashes on exporting as PDF with its Range in PDF Options set to ‘Selection’ ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
7. tdf#145611 CRASH: Inserting page breaks and undoing ( Thanks to Attila Szűcs )
8. tdf#145621 Crash swlo!IDocumentMarkAccess::IsLegalPaMForCrossRefHeadingBookmark+0x2681 at overwriting certain area ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
9. tdf#145731 CRASH: Closing document ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
10. tdf#145786 Crash in: libgobject-2.0.so.0 Gtk-CRITICAL when attempting to change color palette (UI, Sidebar) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
11. tdf#145863 Crash when click on autofilter dropdown, cancel and then click on the dropdown again ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
12. tdf#145952 CRASH: pressing any arrow key after displaying autofilter dropdown (gen) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#133835 Calc autofilter freeze after deselecting an item (in a column containing many unique string values) and pressing OK ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
2. tdf#133867 Open file slightly slower & ctrl+a causes CPU to peak (autofilter related?) ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
3. tdf#144249 Deleting 10.000 rows column in a spreadsheet: 15 sec with 4.1| 10 sec up to 300+ sec with 6.2| 130 sec with 7.3 ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )

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

1. tdf#110003 Lower-case ß is capitalized as SS instead of ẞ ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
2. tdf#48622 Line thickness specification – too many choices, nonintuitive ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
3. tdf#54465 FORMATTING: Inserting footnote in section (with columns), make that sections size grow to the full page ( Thanks to Attila

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.2.2 was released on October, 14
2. Alain Romedenne improved the Help content for running Python Interactive Console, Basic’s Option Compatible Statement and added help for VBA Color Named Constants
3. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos fixed a broken Basic example in Help
4. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) fixed a problem with newlines in Help bookmark strings breaking the generated JavaScript file
5. Olivier Hallot (TDF) added Help entries for the scanner dialog, deleting array formulas in Calc (shout out to Alex Sims) and filter options for CSV, Lotus dBase and DIF data. He also improved Help on text filter options and the Load Styles functionality and documented the XInfobarProvider API
6. Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library, Writer page styles and some Calc functions, updated menu and dialog references, created a guide on Calc macros for reading and writing cell values, added Help pages for the Basic’s “IS” keyword, “New” operator and Collection object
7. Ross Johnson renamed Calc’s “Split Cells” command to “Unmerge Cells” and adjusted the UI and Help accordingly. Regarding the Help system, he made index filtering results stay focused on the current module, improved Writer Help for object positioning and Calc Help for page styles
8. Steve Fanning improved the Help content for Calc functions
9. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
10. Balázs Sántha fixed a Writer table issue affecting table style undo operations
11. Björn Michaelsen fixed some regressions caused by refactoring of Writer internals
12. Akshit Kushwaha added support for generating one-dimensional bar codes and switched to a newer version of the zxing-cpp bar code library
13. Michael Weghorn improved accessibility code related to selecting elements
14. Dennis Francis (Collabora) changed Calc’s autocompletion to offer partial suggestions when there are many different strings starting with the same characters
15. Tomoyuki Kubota made some code cleanups
16. Emanuel Schorsch (Google) made some code cleanups
17. Tibor Nagy and Attila Szűcs (NISZ) improved the accuracy of row heights in imported XLSX files
18. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed password protection issues related to PPTX, XLSX and DOCX files
19. Regina Henschel made several improvements to Fontwork, imported OOXML WordArt shapes and ODF custom shapes
20. Jan Holešovský (Collabora) fixed the handling of 0-byte .txt files
21. Michael Stahl (allotropia) added tests for digital signing and upgraded the Network Security Services (NSS) library
22. Mark Hung fixed an issue with header and footer being excluded from the calculation of characters per line in vertical writing mode. He also fixed an issue with vertical text in imported DOCX files
23. Balázs Varga (NISZ) fixed breaking of external file references in roundtripped XLSX files
24. René Engelhard (Debian) made a couple of build fixes
25. Arnaud Versini made some code cleanups
26. Kevin Suo improved font feature handling with PDF import, fixed a cell indent issue with XLSX export and fixed a Calc HTML import issue related to MSO number formats
27. Juan C. Sanz added the UI part of connecting to a Firebird database server
28. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) fixed an issue with digital signing and made it so multiple Impress edit sessions will not disturb each other
29. Andreas Heinisch made it possible to watch variables returning values from functions in the Basic editor, fixed rounding of inputted font sizes in toolbar/sidebar and made several improvements related to macros
30. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) made many code cleanups and improvements to the code documentation. He also wrote a blogpost about how to automatically bisect an issue
31. Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed a Writer regression that caused text in specific font family and size to disappear when page grid lines were visible
32. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) fixed crashes in Calc formula iterations and updating database range references, fixed adding charts with macros using Excel A1 syntax, highlighting named ranges with relative references, using HYPERLINK() in array mode, using TEXTJOIN() with referenced empty cells, made the CSV import choose proper ISO date(+time) format if detected and made several locale and language related improvements
33. Szymon Kłos (Collabora) fixed a crash related to PDF annotations
34. Ismael Luceno fixed libc version check and added linux-musl to the allowed systems
35. Chris Sherlock fixed a problem with fixed fonts not showing in font list and continued VCL refactoring work
36. Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) made macOS-related code cleanups and test fixes
37. Rizal Muttaqin updated Breeze icons for cell borders and added Breeze icons for UNO Object Inspector
38. László Németh fixed several Writer change tracking issues and DOCX user index and index entry support
39. Xisco Faulí (TDF) made three dozen additions and improvements to automated tests and also did many test cleanups
40. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) added support for macOS SDK 12.0 and made many code and build-related cleanups, including optimising string handling, removing cruft from the API and fixing test dependencies
41. Roman Kuznetsov improved the Windows installer layout and removed an unnecessary menu entry from Calc’s comment context menu
42. Julien Nabet fixed a problem with custom shape extrusion values not being saved and made many code cleanups
43. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) made many performance optimisations and wrote about the bigger goal motivated by multi-user editing
44. Justin Luth (Collabora/SIL) fixed DOCX export of automatic table width, a problem with Writer table minimising, applying a style leaking to unselected cells in Writer tables, editing an SSH remote save service and a data loss regression related to localised number formatting in Writer tables
45. Andras Timar (Collabora) made some localisation-related build improvements
46. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) added support for hyperlinks in shapes in PPTX import/export and added PPTX export support for interactions and hyperlinks in images
47. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed Calc’s data sort direction option being saved incorrectly, created some new unit tests, improved the Visual Studio IDE integration and made many code cleanups and optimisations, including starting a wide-reaching optimisation in UNO API’s Sequence
48. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) fixed an issue causing missing list elements in XHTML export, improved the Writer layout XML dumping developer tool, made DOCX import properly handle the z-order of chart objects and fixed interaction between multi-column shape text and automatic height in Impress. He also wrote about table shadow transparency in PPTX files
49. Heiko Tietze (TDF) made it so bookmarks in Writer are displayed like fields and improved the usability of Impress’s animation sidebar deck
50. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) improved the XLSX compatibility of colour filtering, fixed several Writer numbered list issues, fixed inability to sometimes close Writer’s Fields dialog and fixed incorrect bookmark positioning in RTF export
51. Jim Raykowski made many improvements to Navigator and the Navigation toolbar, including adding a way to collapse all categories at once and adding tracking options for all categories
52. Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved the performance of breaking long lines in cells, opening large RTL Writer documents and recalculating many VLOOKUP formulas in Calc. He also made many code cleanups
53. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) fixed an issue with incorrect font sizes in Base’s table views, non-working Styles Preview scrollbar, made many improvements to the SSH remote save dialog and continued working on the new gtk4 UI backend

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

558 bugs, 56 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 368 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Telesto ( 36 )
2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 15 )
3. Regina Henschel ( 15 )
4. Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) ( 11 )
5. Rafael Lima ( 8 )
6. Michael Kůr ( 7 )
7. phv ( 6 )
8. Justin L ( 6 )
9. Colin ( 5 )
10. Eyal Rozenberg ( 5 )

Triaged Bugs

467 bugs have been triaged by 85 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Dieter ( 44 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 33 )
3. Julien Nabet ( 32 )
4. Heiko Tietze ( 32 )
5. Roman Kuznetsov ( 29 )
6. Buovjaga ( 25 )
7. m.a.riosv ( 24 )
8. Mike Kaganski ( 21 )
9. Robert Großkopf ( 15 )
10. V Stuart Foote ( 14 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

498 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

138 bugs have been fixed by 38 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 14 )
2. Jim Raykowski ( 9 )
3. Vasily Melenchuk ( 8 )
4. Justin Luth ( 7 )
5. László Németh ( 7 )
6. Eike Rathke ( 7 )
7. Andreas Heinisch ( 6 )
8. Noel Grandin ( 6 )
9. Olivier Hallot ( 5 )
10. Ross Johnson ( 4 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#131025 Writer document with tables lost data in cells (apparently) replacing with 0 ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
2. tdf#144650 LO crashes after opening of read-only file (attempt to increment a singular iterator) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#140901 EDITING Crash when deleting rows that are referenced by a chart ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
2. tdf#140992 Direct input through copy and paste to table is lost ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
3. tdf#143392 Title on Base-Window doesn’t show the name of the database. ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
4. tdf#143978 Calc: shrink to fit makes font size unnecessary small compared to cell width ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
5. tdf#144843 Selecting the whole table and then clicking background in the toolbar causes the LibreOffice app to crash. ( Thanks to Armin Le Grand (Allotropia) )
6. tdf#144952 Writer crashes when I try to print ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
7. tdf#145093 EDITING ODT LO crashes moving a list item in tracking change over a tracked paragraph insertion ( Thanks to László Németh )
8. tdf#145203 EDITING:FIREBIRD cannot create a table ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#140901 EDITING Crash when deleting rows that are referenced by a chart ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
2. tdf#144650 LO crashes after opening of read-only file (attempt to increment a singular iterator) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
3. tdf#144748 CRASH: Undoing table deletion with tracked changes ( Thanks to László Németh )
4. tdf#144843 Selecting the whole table and then clicking background in the toolbar causes the LibreOffice app to crash. ( Thanks to Armin Le Grand (Allotropia) )
5. tdf#144952 Writer crashes when I try to print ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
6. tdf#145093 EDITING ODT LO crashes moving a list item in tracking change over a tracked paragraph insertion ( Thanks to László Németh )
7. tdf#145377 Crash in: SvxScriptErrorDialog::ShowDialog(SvxScriptErrorDialog *,void *) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#144513 Perf: editengine hangs for *very* long time in TextEngine::CreateLines when trying to display a long line in a cell ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

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

1. tdf#102151 LOCALHELP for Calc: Add continuous page numbers on PDF export ( Thanks to Ross Johnson )
2. tdf#33749 Inconsistencies in Help pages on Cell Merging and Splitting (unmerging) in Calc ( Thanks to Ross Johnson )
3. tdf#54412 UI: Navigation bar does not get activated when I jump using cross-reference ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
4. tdf#57308 Basic IDE: watching of variable not working if variable is returning value of function ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
5. tdf#74604 UI: Make Navigation toolbar work on Hyperlinks and (Field) Cross-references too. ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
6. tdf#78427 FILEOPEN PDF Import: sometimes bold and italic font properties are imported incorrectly (see comment 34 for TODO list) ( Thanks to Kevin Suo )
7. tdf#83090 UI: Entered font sizes (e.g., 12.4 pt, 12.7 pt) are being rounded off (rather than up) in the toolbar / sidebar ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
8. tdf#88359 CSV import could recognize ISO 8601 date/time fields without having to check “Detect special numbers” on ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
9. tdf#92015 wrong language detection if style:rfc-language-tag is malused ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
10. tdf#93747 Apply style in a selected table cell leaks to another table cell (when selecting “backwards”) ( Thanks to Justin Luth )

WORKSFORME bugs

57 bugs have been retested by 34 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Julien Nabet ( 9 )
2. Buovjaga ( 6 )
3. Telesto ( 5 )
4. Dieter ( 3 )
5. Xisco Faulí ( 2 )
6. Regina Henschel ( 2 )
7. Robert Großkopf ( 2 )
8. steve ( 2 )
9. Heiko Tietze ( 2 )
10. Rainer Bielefeld

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.2.1 was released on September 16
2. LibreOffice 7.1.6 was released on September 9
3. Allotropia published a couple of blogposts about their recent work on master documents and ODF 1.3 transition
4. Alain Romedenne improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library
5. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos improved the accuracy of some Help texts and made some smaller fixes
6. Rafael Lima created a guide about Calc macros for formatting cell borders, improved the Help pages for Slide master, Calc AutoCorrect and document encryption.
7. Steve Fanning improved the help for EUROCONVERT and CONVERT_OOO Calc functions
8. Olivier Hallot (TDF) added Help pages for Accessibility Check Tool, ProtectFields and ProtectBookmarks, improved the pages for GPG signing and Database Advanced Settings, added examples for using Calc functions in macros and updated many menu item references.
9. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) replaced Help’s index filtering JS library with a more performant one
10. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
11. Ross Johnson improved paragraph keyboard navigation in Writer and fixed a problem with the grouping of Help index filter results
12. Juan C. Sanz implemented connecting to a Firebird server (still missing UI)
13. Natalia Gavrilova made Calc’s focus rectangle use the highlight colour rather than the default font colour
14. Aleksei Nikiforov (basealt) fixed a Linux crash related to SVG icon themes
15. Pierre Marty (Linagora) fixed an Impress autolayout issue
16. Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) worked on the iOS version
17. Daniel Arato (NISZ) fixed issues with footers in XLSX export and custom shapes in DOCX export
18. Jim Raykowski completed the work on Navigator focus tracking for all content types while greatly improving its performance and improved the Outline folding feature
19. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) added support for hyperlinks in images in PPTX import
20. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) added line thickness presets for borders and fixed a couple of DOCX import hyperlink issues
21. Gábor Kelemen (NISZ) fixed a regression in Mail Merge email output ranges
22. Michael Stahl (allotropia) fixed an issue of spelling dialog in Impress messing up text formatting in shapes and made several crash fixes
23. Regina Henschel fixed an issue with line object rotation in XLSX export
24. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) improved the Calc colour filter feature
25. Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed a crash caused by a performance improvement
26. Julien Nabet made emoji toolbar button work on Windows, fixed a regression in Calc’s standard filter with gtk3 UI, improved the behaviour of Base’s Direct SQL dialog and fixed the percentage display in the Check for Updates dialog
27. Jan-Marek Glogowski (allotropia) made internal directory handling and Windows-specific printing related code more robust
28. Rizal Muttaqin updated Sukapura and Colibre icon themes
29. Ilhan Yesil made internal hyperlinks in spreadsheets work in the Android app
30. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued working on the new searching and indexing feature
31. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) fixed a font size problem in WMF graphics and added preliminary support for Visual Studio 2022 for building on Windows
32. László Németh (NISZ) improved the coverage of change tracking, adding paragraph style tracking and making table tracking more complete
33. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many code and build-related cleanups
34. Chris Sherlock continued VCL refactoring work
35. Michael Weghorn made many improvements to Windows and Qt 5 accessibility and added a Qt 6 VCL plugin
36. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) fixed several Calc regressions related to number formats, date patterns, sorting and filtering. He also improved date pattern recognition robustness and made out-of-bounds dates show an #FMT error
37. Justin Luth (SIL) improved the DOC/DOCX support for multi-level list attributes in paragraph styles and made Writer table row height optimisation more robust
38. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) introduced per-process lock directories for Firebird to allow running multiple LibreOffice Base instances with Firebird embedded databases. He also fixed other Firebird issues like crashes, a LIST function issue and path issues. He also made many code cleanups and optimisations
39. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) improved the backtrace functionality (code debugging), improved the performance of Calc’s COUNTIF function and made many code and build-related cleanups
40. Andreas Heinisch added support for case-insensitive operations for non-ASCII characters in the VBA Collection object, made it so missing optional parameters in Basic code are handled properly, improved handling of CSV files in UTF-8 with BOM format, made it possible to set cell font colour from VBA macros and improved VBA error messaging
41. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed handling of password protection in XLSX and DOCX files
42. Xisco Faulí (TDF) made a couple of dozen additions and improvements to automated tests
43. Balázs Varga (NISZ) fixed losing images and shapes in charts upon OOXML export and made it possible to save ranges in a single Mail Merge document
44. Attila Bakos (NISZ) added support for text in grouped shapes
45. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) improved robustness of Sidebar minimum widths, fixed issues with fonts in Base table views, content of Base Tablecontrols being invisible in PDF export, Windows spell checking underlines rendered with a black background and continued implementing the new GTK4 backend. He also made many cleanups and crash fixes
46. Heiko Tietze (TDF) made it so Application colour Field Shading is respected with dark backgrounds, added colour palettes to integrated providing of additions, improved Calc’s Paste Special dialog and made it possible to access Writer table formula editing via context menu
47. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) added support for ODT import and export of multi-level list paragraph style attributes, improved Writer layout XML dump (debugging feature), added support for linked character styles in Writer (including DOCX support), fixed unwanted shadow blurring in imported PPTX files, fixed image frame anchor type changing upon DOCX export and undo not restoring image anchor position
48. Noel Grandin (Collabora) made it faster to load large Writer tables, insert large charts and export PDFs, optimised the parallel loading of spreadsheets and made many code cleanups and smaller optimisations

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

591 bugs, 67 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 331 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 41 )
2. Telesto ( 38 )
3. Mike Kaganski ( 18 )
4. elias estatistics ( 11 )
5. flywire ( 9 )
6. Elmar ( 8 )
7. John ( 8 )
8. medmedin2014 ( 7 )
9. Rafael Lima ( 7 )
10. Luke Kendall ( 6 )

Triaged Bugs

571 bugs have been triaged by 88 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Heiko Tietze ( 52 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 52 )
3. Roman Kuznetsov ( 50 )
4. Dieter ( 43 )
5. Timur ( 42 )
6. Buovjaga ( 39 )
7. m.a.riosv ( 28 )
8. Julien Nabet ( 27 )
9. Mike Kaganski ( 26 )
10. Telesto ( 16 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

589 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

186 bugs have been fixed by 43 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 18 )
2. Eike Rathke ( 8 )
3. Andreas Heinisch ( 8 )
4. Mike Kaganski ( 7 )
5. László Németh ( 7 )
6. Heiko Tietze ( 6 )
7. Balazs Varga ( 6 )
8. Julien Nabet ( 5 )
9. Noel Grandin ( 5 )
10. Miklos Vajna ( 5 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#144132 Crash when insert formula object in Writer ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#144184 Calc disables header/footer or looses footer content when saves a spreadsheet ( Thanks to Daniel Arato (NISZ) )
3. tdf#144740 Criteria query (COUNTIF(), MATCH() et al) for numeric values broken considering number formats ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#143854 FILESAVE: Empty bullet added when saving from PPT to ODP ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
2. tdf#144106 FILEOPEN: LibreOffice crashes on opening CSV file with “Trim spaces” option enabled ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
3. tdf#144155 CALC Row operations over 100 times slower in 7.2 compared to 7.1 ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
4. tdf#144209 Result with “Precision as shown” with custom string+General number format becomes 0 ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
5. tdf#144249 Deleting 10.000 rows column in a spreadsheet: 15 sec with 4.1| 10 sec up to 300+ sec with 6.2| 130 sec with 7.3 ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
6. tdf#144729 Crash when trying to modify a style (gtk3 only) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#117842 Firebird: Enabling connection pooling for firebird:sdbc driver crashes Libo when creating connection to data engine ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
2. tdf#140951 Base crashes as soon as I start an ‘Abfrage’ (Windows) ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
3. tdf#144106 FILEOPEN: LibreOffice crashes on opening CSV file with “Trim spaces” option enabled ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
4. tdf#144132 Crash when insert formula object in Writer ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
5. tdf#144135 Calc causes repeatable fatal crash when I attempted to sort columns ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
6. tdf#144139 LO crashes when trying to print a form ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
7. tdf#144193 CRASH: importing document (gtk3) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
8. tdf#144304 CRASH: Selecting all and cutting in specific document / Inserting section ( Thanks to Aron Budea )
9. tdf#144340 A query against an embedded FB database fails, and then crashed program on close on Windows ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
10. tdf#144376 Crash when triggering twice “Protected cells can not be modified” (reproducible) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
11. tdf#144564 CRASH When reloading mail merge documents ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
12. tdf#144598 Crash in: SkRect::round() ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
13. tdf#144624 LibreOffice with “gen” UI backend crashes on Linux of SVG icon theme is default ( Thanks to Aleksei Nikiforov )
14. tdf#144729 Crash when trying to modify a style (gtk3 only) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#125892 Time to export a certain PDF increased with in 10 fold (previously 30 seconds (6.0) now 5 minutes (6.4) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
2. tdf#143268 Slow response in document with many tables after Table tree is expanded in Navigator ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
3. tdf#144155 CALC Row operations over 100 times slower in 7.2 compared to 7.1 ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
4. tdf#144249 Deleting 10.000 rows column in a spreadsheet: 15 sec with 4.1| 10 sec up to 300+ sec with 6.2| 130 sec with 7.3 ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )

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

1. tdf#100777 Bind Ctrl+Up/Down to uno:GoToStartStartOfPara/EndOfPara (instead of next/prev. paragraph) ( Thanks to Ross Johnson )
2. tdf#105689 Emoji toolbar button (bug 100100 emoji.json implementation) not functional on Windows ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
3. tdf#35129 Form spin button doesn’t expose ROLE_SPIN_BUTTON to AT-SPI ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
4. tdf#39828 Writer table not calculating correctly if Tracked Changes shown ( Thanks to László Németh )
5. tdf#45525 TABLES, Problem on adjust selected Row or Column to equal space ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
6. tdf#50421 UI: “Check for Updates” menu leads to an unusable dialog (shows “%PERCENT%”) ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
7. tdf#73139 PRINTING: Content of Tablecontrols isn’t printed, when the whole Fonts are default (black) text color ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
8. tdf#88163 [WMF] FILEOPEN Wrong size of fonts ( Thanks to Hossein )
9. tdf#89383 Writer: Read-only passwords on OOXML files are not working ( Thanks to Tünde Tóth )
10. tdf#95378 Navigator does not select/highlight names of images, objects, tables etc that get focus, also not with Content View activated ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )

WORKSFORME bugs

69 bugs have been retested by 36 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Roman Kuznetsov ( 10 )
2. Buovjaga ( 9 )
3. Dieter ( 5 )
4. Telesto ( 4 )
5. Julien Nabet ( 4 )
6. Xisco Faulí ( 3 )
7. Heiko Tietze ( 3 )
8. Alex Thurgood ( 2 )
9. Elmar ( 2 )
10. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) ( 2 )

DUPLICATED bugs

154 bugs have been duplicated by 37 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Timur ( 27 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 17 )
3. Buovjaga ( 16 )
4. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 12 )
5. m.a.riosv ( 10 )
6. Heiko Tietze ( 7 )
7. Mike Kaganski ( 7 )
8. Telesto ( 6 )
9. Jan-Marek Glogowski ( 5 )
10. Ming Hua ( 5 )

Verified bug fixes

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General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.1.5 was released on July, 22
2. The Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 7.2 RC1 took place on July, 19
3. Roman Kuznetsov is teaching a group of russian volunteers called ‘the hamsters QA Team” how to triage bugs in LibreOffice
4. Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library – many Python examples were added. Rafael also improved the Advanced Filter and NUMBERVALUE help pages.
5. Steve Fanning improved some Calc function help pages
6. Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated the help page for Impress object transformations
7. Bai Xiaochun replaced uses of homegrown math functions with standard library ones
8. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed incorrect formatting being applied to Writer text fields while editing them and added delimiting to chapter fields
9. Dante Doménech created a new version of the OpenSymbol font
10. Jeff Huang cleaned out the unused code for collecting usage data
11. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) improved the Sidebar preview of theme colour sets by adding name display, continued working on the new searching and indexing feature and made some code cleanups and refactorings
12. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) took the first step in getting Skia graphics engine integration to work on macOS and fixed an issue with image sizes in exported HTML
13. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) improved the kf5 UI
14. Daniel Arato (NISZ) added a “Same content on first page” option to Calc’s Header/Footer dialog
15. Bubli added support for applying pattern fills from the toolbar and fixed unwanted jumping in Impress when applying animations
16. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) added support for long slide names and presentation timing attribute in PPTX import and “Start from“ setting in PPTX export
17. Szymon Kłos (Collabora) made many improvements and additions to jsdialog used by Online
18. Deb Barkley-Yeung made the font features button show as disabled in the Character formatting dialog, if the font does not have features
19. Arnaud Versini made some improvements to threaded code
20. Rizal Muttaqin added icons for diagonal border line
21. Michael Meeks (Collabora) fixed a couple of UI-related crashes
22. Gábor Kelemen (NISZ) improved the find-unneeded-includes script used for optimising LibreOffice code
23. Justin Luth (SIL) fixed an issue with numbering levels in imported DOC files, adapted the code for unique naming of custom hatches and gradients to Writer code, made a big rework for handling outline numbering in imported DOCX files and fixed a text alignment issue in RTF import
24. Jun Nogata improved Japanese font support and added a PowerPoint-compatible screen size preset for Impress
25. Kevin Suo fixed problems with importing bold and italic font properties from PDF files
26. Hochwasser fixed a crash in Impress remote control
27. Gülşah Köse (Collabora) added support for handling embedded OLE objects in PPTX import
28. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) added support for new Google Drive authentication and also fixed OneDrive authentication
29. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many code and build-related cleanups and fixed an old data corruption issue in UNO C++ bridge
30. Todor Balabanov did some refactoring of the NLP solver code
31. Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) improved some C++ SDK examples, ported C++/Java DocumentLoader SDK example to Python, fixed an issue with DOC/DOCX exported lines, fixed a regression causing Tabbed UI not working in Impress and Draw and added extra checks into SmartArt import tests
32. Michael Weghorn made many improvements to the accessibility of the qt5 UI and also fixed a Windows accessibility issue of not announcing spinbox values
33. Björn Michaelsen made some internal improvements to Writer code
34. Gökçe Kuler made it so bullets are not automatically added to empty lines in bulleted lists in Impress – a preview is shown instead
35. Baltasar made it so Basic’s Round function follows half-to-even rounding and wrote a unit test for it
36. Mert Tumer (Collabora) made spellchecking wavy lines cached to improve performance
37. Gizem Özgün fixed truncation of long class names in UNO object inspector
38. Vert D made it so built-in categories in the Template Manager show deleting as disabled
39. Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) made a build fix for iOS
40. Heiko Tietze (TDF) clarified the AutoCorrect option to replace dashes, fixed “Get more dictionaries online“ not opening Extension dialog, made border style selection dropdown adapt to dark theme, made the infobar for “missing hyphenation data“ more user-friendly and made it so indices are not spellchecked
41. DaeHyun Sung fixed Korean line breaking rules, numbering and date acceptance patterns
42. Andrzej Hunt made many internal improvements to Impress Remote
43. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) added DOC import support for fixed date/time fields, fixed DOCX importing of AM/PM time values, fixed unwanted bullet in PPTX WordArt after roundtrip, fixed some crashes and memory leaks and made many code cleanups
44. Xisco Faulí (TDF) improved the Basic macro automated test suite and added many new tests to it. He also added several UI and unit tests for other areas.
45. Michael Stahl (allotropia) fixed a window focus issue affecting Eclipse RCP applications on Windows and made it so unused page background images are removed from imported ODF files
46. Regina Henschel fixed DOCX import of “Outside only“ wrap option, a positioning issue of child elements in group upon DOCX export, an issue with the distance of an image to text in DOCX import and improved DOCX import/export of contour wrap
47. Bartosz Kosiorek made several improvements to EMF+ graphics support
48. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made a big rework to how Base handles date formatting, fixed an issue with Calc date acceptance patterns for Japanese and Chinese locales, fixed an XLSX roundtrip issue with booleans, added handling for Microsoft’s non-standard use of x-none language tag, added functionality to export all Calc sheets to CSV from the command line and made it so whitespace characters including LF and CR are preserved in Calc formula expressions
49. Attila Szűcs and Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed DOCX import of negative page margins, zeroing of huge page sizes in imported DOCX files and fixed printing page breaks after hiding rows
50. Jan-Marek Glogowski (allotropia) improved the qt5 UI
51. László Németh (NISZ) added support for tracking changes in images and tables in imported DOCX files and improved removing personal info of comments and changes in DOCX export
52. Attila Bakos (NISZ) fixed corrupt shape anchoring in text in DOCX export
53. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
54. Sarper Akdemir (Collabora) worked on PPTX header/footer field support
55. Andreas Heinisch made Navigator tooltips show without URL encoding, made it so gallery item list accessed from Bullets and Numbering dialog only shows the filename, improved the implementations of Basic text search functions, made HTML tables in the Link to External Data Source list in order of their appearance and increased the precision of single-precision variables in Basic debugger
56. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) made some file dialogs remember their last directory and added support for hyperlinks on shapes in Writer
57. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed several XLSX autofilter issues and an XLSX export hyperlink issue
58. Noel Grandin (Collabora) made PDF exporting of very large spreadsheets much faster, improved the performance of formatting many comments at once, started converting uses of the homegrown osl::Mutex to std::mutex (locks preventing race conditions in threaded code), made it possible to use Thread Sanitizer (TSan) against the codebase, implemented logging access violations on Windows build boxes in order to get more useful feedback of issues and made many code cleanups and optimisations
59. Caolán McNamara continued implementing the new GTK4 backend, fixed a memory use issue when selecting a shape in the gtk3 UI and improved the user experience of inputting hex colours. He also made many cleanups and crash fixes
60. Julien Nabet updated HarfBuzz to 2.8.2 and fixed several regression and crashes
61. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) made XLSX export support button form controls, fixed handling of named ranges referring to PathMissing sheets in imported XLSX files, improved the bibliography database UI and improved XHTML import of object elements containing images. He also made many code cleanups
62. Bayram Çiçek worked on the GSoC project “100 Paper Cuts”. You can follow his work here
63. Shubham Jain worked on the GSoC project “Write missing unit tests”
64. Sary Nasser worked on the GSoC project “Integrate .ui dialogs with translation tooling/string search webservice to help translators”
65. Akshit Kushwaha worked on the GSoC project “Tests for the VCL graphic backends”, adding support for viewing test results in the UI and storing results in a zip file
66. Balázs Sántha worked on the GSoC project “Implementing table styles DOCX support”, fixing missing styles after copying & pasting, disappearing page breaks and redoing row insertions
67. Panos Korovesis worked on the GSoC project “Make SVM (StarView Metafile) format independent of the VCL Metafile + tests of the format”, creating an SvmWriter class
68. Anshu Khare worked on the GSoC project “Styles Highlighter”, adding a StyleList control
69. Tushar Kumar Rai worked on the GSoC project “Implement Interface for external data source import into Calc”, completing his original project goal and adding a Find and Replace Transformation

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

497 bugs, 65 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 276 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Telesto ( 57 )
2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 25 )
3. Mike Kaganski ( 15 )
4. Regina Henschel ( 13 )
5. sophie ( 10 )
6. R. Green ( 9 )
7. Xisco Faulí ( 9 )
8. Robert Großkopf ( 8 )
9. Rafael Lima ( 7 )
10. stragu ( 6 )

Triaged Bugs

804 bugs have been triaged by 88 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Buovjaga ( 202 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 88 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 39 )
4. Julien Nabet ( 38 )
5. Roman Kuznetsov ( 37 )
6. Timur ( 34 )
7. Dieter ( 29 )
8. V Stuart Foote ( 23 )
9. Telesto ( 22 )
10. BogdanB ( 21 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

571 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

199 bugs have been fixed by 47 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Julien Nabet ( 12 )
2. Andreas Heinisch ( 10 )
3. Caolán McNamara ( 9 )
4. László Németh ( 8 )
5. Heiko Tietze ( 7 )
6. Eike Rathke ( 7 )
7. Tünde Tóth ( 7 )
8. Mike Kaganski ( 6 )
9. Justin Luth ( 6 )
10. Regina Henschel ( 5 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#140506 REGRESSION Setting to repeat heading in writer tables no longer works ( Thanks to Bjoern Michaelsen )
2. tdf#143398 When I click to add a single sheet. It makes automatically two sheets. ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
3. tdf#143400 Query with most functions could not be created in GUI ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#139426 Update of Contents is freezing LibreOffice ( Thanks to Armin Le Grand (Allotropia) )
2. tdf#142235 FILESAVE PPTX Textbox vertical top align becomes middle in PP ( Thanks to Attila Bakos (NISZ) )
3. tdf#142923 Deleting comment in Writer leaves visual artifact behind ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
4. tdf#143291 Selecting the None slide transition has no effect ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#143399 FILEOPEN DOCX Writer 7.2 doesn’t import Word endnotes ( Thanks to László Németh )
6. tdf#143412 CRASH: converting images ( steps in comment 12 ) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
7. tdf#59323 Impress conversion to PPTX doesn’t save (header and footer) fields – with sample or steps in Comment 7 ( Thanks to Sarper Akdemir )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#119312 Remote control of impress; Crash in: sdext::presenter::PresenterSlideShowView::LateInit() ( Thanks to Hochwasser )
2. tdf#143081 Basic Replace() function crashes LO ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
3. tdf#143125 EDITING Crash when closing Custom Slide Shows dialog ( Thanks to Tibor Nagy )
4. tdf#143146 Crash by click on properties symbol for calc data in writer ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#143149 Crash in: vcl::Window::GetParentWithLOKNotifier() ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
6. tdf#143153 Editing Crash when grouping Text (Fit to Frame) and object ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
7. tdf#143320 Crash at paste/undo paste again (swlo!BigPtrArray::Index2Block+0xc8) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
8. tdf#143342 Crash when using “Search Command” feature ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
9. tdf#143355 crash with .uno:FontWork ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
10. tdf#143412 CRASH: converting images ( steps in comment 12 ) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin

The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.2 Release Candidate 1 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 RC1 the third pre-release since the development of version 7.2 started at the end of November, 2020. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.2 Beta1, 208 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 100 bugs have been fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in LibreOffice 7.2.

LibreOffice 7.2 RC1 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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