LibreOffice QA Blog

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

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.1.2 was released on April 1st
2. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) wrote a nice report about the progress done by the Macro Team in the last year
3. Stanislav Horacek updated some menu paths in Help.
4. Seth Chaiklin clarified the meaning of numbered paragraphs in Help.
5. Olivier Hallot (TDF) made 20 changes and additions to Help with topics including menus, Calc cell protection and direct formatting.
6. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
7. Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library. Rafel also made it so word wrapping in shapes is enabled by default in Impress and Draw.
8. Xisco Faulí (TDF) made about 30 improvements and additions to unit and UI tests, fixed some regression bugs and added an automated check for translation domains in .ui files
9. Rizal Muttaqin made updates to all icon themes
10. Jan-Marek Glogowski, Armin Le Grand and Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) worked on the WASM build in a feature branch
11. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed losing internal hyperlinks upon PPTX import
12. Vert D improved renaming behaviour in the Template Manager
13. Tushar Kumar Rai fixed a Data Provider crash
14. Roland Kurmann fixed filtered/transpose paste in Calc while adding many new unit tests for the functionality, fixed copying multiple cells from a Calc column and pasting outside LibreOffice and made it so only the count of non-filtered rows will be shown in Calc’s status bar
15. Dante Doménech added some MathML structures and started making use of the Kahan summation algorithm in Calc in order to reduce the numerical error in the total of floating-point calculations
16. Ilhan Yesil made it so the tooltip of a button created by an extension in the Sidebar is refreshed immediately upon text changes
17. Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed a regression in the Modify DDE Link dialog layout
18. Attila Bakos (NISZ) fixed some Writer textbox crashes and regressions and fixed PPTX exporting of template textbox placeholders
19. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed some issues with Calc filtering
20. Jeff Huang fixed a Writer regression in inserting lines with arrow/circle
21. Mark Hung fixed an undo-redo crash
22. Andreas Kainz improved the Notebookbar command logic and improved the layout of some dialogs
23. Aditya Pratap Singh made the image export dialog behaviour more intuitive
24. Luke Deller fixed an issue with Writer using 100% CPU while idle
25. Pedro Pinto Silva improved the macro selector and about dialog layouts
26. Bubli fixed some Impress animation issues
27. Heiko Tietze (TDF) made it so the location in file properties dialog is a hyperlink and improved the Style Inspector layout
28. Matej Kivader fixed the display of custom button text colour in Basic dialog designer
29. Gábor Kelemen (NISZ) made improvements in menu accelerators, buttons and Impress/Draw general options layout
30. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many code cleanups, replaced apache-commons-logging with java.util.logging.Logger in report builder and elsewhere, fixed unnecessary authentication prompt upon having sftp URIs in recent documents and improved compatibility with C++20
31. Hossein Noorikhah converted all the README files to consistent Markdown format while updating them in many places. He also fixed problems with the HTML generation solution for the READMEs
32. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) made optimisations related to graphics rendering and bitmap loading and improved the Skia integration
33. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) fixed vanishing form controls in edit mode or print preview and fixed a couple of linked OLE object issues
34. László Németh (NISZ) continued adding metadata display capabilities to the Style Inspector, added support for deleted images in change tracking, improved the change tracking UX and fixed a mail merge document counting off by one error
35. Michael Stahl (allotropia) fixed a z-order issue with floating objects, fixed missing images in imported DOCX header/footer, improved the performance of Writer word count and fixed some Writer crashes
36. Bayram Çiçek made it so MIME type icons are displayed in the recent documents menu list
37. Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved the speed of opening XLSX files with thousands of shape objects (with additional contributions by Caolán McNamara), improved the speed of opening XLSX files with massive amounts of row range style attributes and made many code cleanups and optimisations
38. Arnaud versini fixed a regression in breaking links to external images
39. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) added unit tests for Basic dialog XML serialisation (none existed so far)
40. Andreas Heinisch added checks for valid range names and cell references inserted via API, made Calc range name definition errors show in a tooltip, taught UI tests how to check tooltip text, made Calc sorting respect “Include formats” option, made Calc’s IRR function accept an array as argument, limited the calculation of Pearson coefficient in Calc’s RSQ and PEARSON functions and improved the Calc Manage Names dialog
41. Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) added initial support for sccache builds on Windows
42. Regina Henschel fixed DOCX import of group or line with rotation
43. Bartosz Kosiorek implemented PAINTRGN record and complex clipping support for EMF graphics
44. Jan-Marek Glogowski (allotropia) fixed clipboard handling with Wayland + Qt as well as several other Qt/kf5 issues
45. Gülşah Köse (Collabora) fixed a mail merge issue where empty fields were returned
46. Tomoyuki Kubota helped Caolán with the UI backend work with a couple of patches
47. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) made internal improvements to graphics handling code
48. Justin Luth (Collabora/SIL) fixed losing outline levels upon DOC export, fixed z-order issues with background shapes in DOC import, made DOCX export support russianUpper/russianLower numbering, fixed a DOC import layout issue related to MS Word’s excessively liberal design settings, fixed DOC/RTF export of fixed date and time fields, fixed dupliction of comments, fields and footnotes in DOCX export and fixed many DOC/DOCX import/export issues related to numbering
49. Michael Weghorn made many improvements to the Android version with topics including recent file display, file saving and PDF export
50. Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) worked on the iOS version and improved the event tracing API
51. Rounak Modi added his first unit test
52. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) overhauled VBA Range getFormula(R1C1) to make it work properly
53. Szymon Kłos (Collabora) added a Fontwork options panel into the Sidebar and made Impress collaborative editing more robust
54. Julien Nabet fixed regressions in image filters and made code cleanups and crash fixes
55. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) continued improving gutter margins (RTL) and made improvements to the bibliography feature (URL handling, page references). He also fixed issues with OLE object sizing in HTML export
56. Jim Raykowski improved the Outline folding feature, made crash fixes, added the ability to navigate by fields with the Navigate By control and added fields content type to Navigator
57. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) added a mechanism to selectively enable macros for document events
58. Matt K added a check for ODF file format associations on Windows upon startup and changed the Windows file dialog to run on the main thread to avoid crashes
59. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) improved the Calc tab bar look, made it so pasting RTF content does not wipe out document settings, added DOCX export/import of resolved comments as “done” and made code cleanups and optimisations, crash fixes and improvements to unit tests
60. Caolán McNamara fixed an infinite loop in spellchecking dialog layout, fixed an issue with duplicated and misplaced images in exported Archive/A-1b PDFs, made dragging hyperlinks in Writer with GTK3 backend work, continued on the last stretch of the massive UI backend work and made many cleanups and crash fixes

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

577 bugs, 71 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 362 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Xisco Faulí ( 24 )
2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 24 )
3. Telesto ( 24 )
4. Eyal Rozenberg ( 22 )
5. Regina Henschel ( 13 )
6. Olivier Hallot ( 8 )
7. Scito ( 6 )
8. Roman Kuznetsov ( 6 )
9. BDF ( 6 )
10. Rizal Muttaqin ( 6 )

Triaged Bugs

609 bugs have been triaged by 100 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 111 )
2. Heiko Tietze ( 56 )
3. Dieter ( 50 )
4. Buovjaga ( 49 )
5. Timur ( 33 )
6. Julien Nabet ( 22 )
7. Mike Kaganski ( 17 )
8. Roman Kuznetsov ( 16 )
9. raal ( 15 )
10. Olivier Hallot ( 15 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

617 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

207 bugs have been fixed by 47 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 23 )
2. Mike Kaganski ( 10 )
3. Andreas Heinisch ( 9 )
4. Olivier Hallot ( 9 )
5. Justin Luth ( 7 )
6. László Németh ( 7 )
7. scito ( 6 )
8. Miklos Vajna ( 6 )
9. Jan-Marek Glogowski ( 6 )
10. Attila Bakos (NISZ) ( 5 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#106282 Crash in: windows.storage.dll when hitting cancel in file open dialog, when a file search is running ( Thanks to Matt K )
2. tdf#86321 EDITING, FORMATTING: diagram didn’t automatic update when change variable (steps in comment 28) ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#106195 Change docs to explain how to handle and remove direct formatting ( Thanks to Olivier Hallot )
2. tdf#132472 FILEOPEN PPTX Table text imported with white color ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
3. tdf#132901 Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Online update crashes if “online update” feature is not installed ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
4. tdf#138785 Empty frames after deleting an image and (auto-saving the file) (track changes involved) ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
5. tdf#140639 It is not possible to work with an older document from LO 6.4 in new LO 7.0, slow perf ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
6. tdf#141345 new feature gutter-margin in LO7.2 produces unnecessary incompatibility with LO7.1 ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
7. tdf#141504 UI Images look ugly with 1-bit depth with QT5 backend ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
8. tdf#141703 EDITING Tab key no longer moves to next cell in Impress table ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#106282 Crash in: windows.storage.dll when hitting cancel in file open dialog, when a file search is running ( Thanks to Matt K )
2. tdf#131634 Crash in sd::View::SdrEndTextEdit(bool) ( Thanks to Mark Hung )
3. tdf#132901 Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Online update crashes if “online update” feature is not installed ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
4. tdf#135997 SPECIAL CHARACTER DIALOG: Crash in: SvxCharacterMap::updateRecentCharControl() ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
5. tdf#141405 LO crashes when adding control in dialog editor ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
6. tdf#141499 Crash inserting hyperlink (fairly often) and cursor not starting in URL field ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
7. tdf#141511 CRASH: creating new document while navigator is displayed ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
8. tdf#141531 Android Viewer crashes trying to open mail merge file with unavailable data source ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
9. tdf#141537 UNO Object Inspector: Crash while inspecting file ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
10. tdf#141547 CRASH: opening Standard Filter dialog ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
11. tdf#141557 DOCX file crashes when the anchor changed to_paragraph from as_char ( Thanks to Attila Bakos (NISZ) )
12. tdf#141689 Crash with trendline using moving average with 2 points and type central ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
13. tdf#141701 EDITING Crash when closing 3D View dialog of 3D chart ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
14. tdf#141708 CRASH: closing document while navigator is open ( gen ) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
15. tdf#141854 Crash in: mergedlo.dll ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
16. tdf#141887 Crash on closing Writer via window decoration (X) with unmodified document and active IM ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
17. tdf#141924 A specific file crashes with Style Inspector open, after deleting some text ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
18. tdf#141967 Crash when closing Asian Phonetic Guide (gtk3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#140639 It is not possible to work with an older document from LO 6.4 in new LO 7.0, slow perf ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
2. tdf#141416 [FILEOPEN] Excel file very long to open (more than one hour) ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
3. tdf#141556 Ongoing 100% CPU usage after opening document ( Thanks to Luke Deller )
4. tdf#45820 insanely slow wmf import (complex

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 7.1 Community was released on February 3
2. Steve Fanning made corrections to the Help content for Calc functions
3. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library
4. Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library
5. Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated the Help for Calc’s View menu and made many smaller fixes and reorganisations in Help
6. Seth Chaiklin made 27 changes and additions to Help, with topics including menus, styles and AutoCorrect. He also made many improvements to tooltips and labels in LibreOffice
7. Srijita Mallick and Akshit Shan created their first unit test and their first accessibility improvements
8. George Bateman added a “Keep asking during this session” checkbox to Calc’s paste import options dialog
9. Andrzej Hunt (Google) improved the fuzzing setup
10. Dipanshu Garg made it so information about Calc’s Jumbo sheet status appears in the About dialog
11. Deb Barkley-Yeung added a unit test for BColorModifier
12. Andreas Kainz improved the Notebookbar and Sidebar UIs
13. Justin Luth (Collabora/SIL) fixed character highlight issues related to numbering, fixed a Writer crash related to superscript, a superscript applying issue with DOCX export and a bulleted list copying problem with imported DOC files
14. David Tardon (Red Hat) made it possible to dump intermediate XML structure of Lotus Word Pro imports into file
15. Quan Nguyen made it so adding a word in the Spelling dialog immediately applies autocorrection and added rendering support for hiding Chart titles
16. Andreas Heinisch fixed a problem with sort options not being saved in Calc documents
17. Shubham Jain wrote new tests for BASIC literals
18. Anshu Khare added a “No List” list style to make unstyling interaction more clear
19. Balázs Varga (NISZ) improved the XLSX import and export of autofilters
20. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed sorting of autofiltered Calc rows, added an option to only select visible Calc cells for copying and fixed clearing of Calc row and column selection when extending selection over filtered rows
21. Tibor Nagy and Attila Szűcs (NISZ) fixed incorrect multiple conditional formatting rules in the same cell range with XLSX import, fixed hidden Calc columns being printed, fixed DOCX page margins imported as border padding and fixed a missing page break with DOCX export
22. Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed a password protection regression in Windows 7
23. Tamás Zolnai (Collabora) fixed broken master slide list after switching view mode
24. András Timár (Collabora) fixed OOXML chart label import, matching system locale like MSO
25. Gülşah Köse (Collabora) fixed a PPTX import image cropping issue
26. Andrew Udvare made a couple of improvements to the macOS build process
27. Jan-Marek Glogowski (allotropia) fixed incorrect scaling of input method cursor with Qt backend
28. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) improved idle priority task handling, improved the performance of rendering transformed bitmaps and improved document load times by using zlib’s crc32() function
29. Michael Weghorn improved the Qt Creator integration
30. Maxim Monastirsky fixed missing DisplayName property for Writer table styles
31. Christian Lohmaier (TDF) improved Visual Studio Code integration
32. Julien Nabet added backepsilon symbol to Math elements panel and fixed a Calc hyperlink insertion crash
33. Szymon Kłos (Collabora) made it so scrolling a treelist does not leave artifacts on the screen and improved the Style preview widget
34. Attila Bakos (NISZ) fixed shape and anchor going out of synch in an exported DOCX file and fixed losing Contour shape wrap in DOCX export
35. Björn Michaelsen continued internal improvements to Writer
36. Armin Le Grand (allotropia) improved the handling of font scaling in metafile images
37. Regina Henschel fixed shape handling in RTL Calc sheets, fixed bringing Fontwork objects to front and fixed incorrect anchor type of rotated shapes in imported XLSX files
38. Michael Stahl (allotropia) fixed copying and deleting tables in sections via the API, fixed hyperlinks in user-defined indexes pointing to certain types of targets and made VML shapes in exported DOCX files compatible with MS Word
39. Ouyang Leyan made it so no data loss occurs when copying a chart in Calc with errors in formulas and fixed copying of numbers in Calc chart categories into Writer
40. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made the CELL() Calc function implementation conform to the ODF 1.2 spec
41. Dante Doménech made many internal improvements to Math
42. Rizal Muttaqin made updates to all icon themes regarding find & replace and formatting
43. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) fixed a crash with UNO bootstrapping related to absolute paths and made many code cleanups as well as build and test fixes
44. Noel Grandin (Collabora) fixed importing of pathological SVG images and made many code cleanups, crash fixes and optimisations
45. Jim Raykowski made it possible to right-click the style previews in Notebookbar Tabbed and made a couple of improvements to the Outline view functionality
46. Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) added support for series name in Chart data series labels, implemented chart:regression-moving-type and improved the layout of Chart trendline and data label dialogs
47. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made sweeping improvements to unit conversion code, made it so the locale is set when language is defined by command line invocation, improved tests and made code cleanups.
48. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) worked on the new UNO object inspector and made internal improvements to graphics handling code
49. László Németh (NISZ) bumped libnumbertext to version 1.0.7, improved the Track Changes toolbar auto-appear behaviour, fixed an XLSX import issue with dashed line styles, greatly improved the performance of importing DOCX footnotes and endnotes and fixed losing comment position in tracked deletions
50. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) made it so tabs can show tooltips, Ctrl+A works to select all in Impress comments, continued on the last stretch of the massive UI backend work and made many cleanups and crash fixes
51. Gábor Kelemen (NISZ) added new shortcuts for Impress pointer as pen functionality
52. Heiko Tietze (TDF) added templates from the competition and removed some older templates, improved the print dialog and made some improvements to the Start Center
53. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) continued improving the handling of inserted PDFs and improved Writer’s support for gutter margins
54. Xisco Faulí (TDF) made the missing unit tests script use Bugzilla API and made over 70 improvements and additions to unit and UI tests
55. Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) made LibreOffice Vanilla (Mac) version work with embedded Firebird databases and made Calc row height adjustment behaviour less annoying

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate this list.

Reported Bugs

659 bugs, 75 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 399 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Telesto ( 80 )
2. sdc.blanco ( 19 )
3. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 19 )
4. Regina Henschel ( 19 )
5. Xisco Faulí ( 10 )
6. Petr Valach ( 8 )
7. Aron Budea ( 7 )
8. Ulrich Windl ( 7 )
9. Dieter ( 6 )
10. Eyal Rozenberg ( 6 )

Triaged Bugs

599 bugs have been triaged by 101 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 131 )
2. Heiko Tietze ( 47 )
3. Buovjaga ( 44 )
4. Dieter ( 41 )
5. Timur ( 33 )
6. Aron Budea ( 20 )
7. BogdanB ( 17 )
8. Regina Henschel ( 17 )
9. Julien Nabet ( 17 )
10. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 16 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

522 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

153 bugs have been fixed by 37 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 11 )
2. Seth Chaiklin ( 8 )
3. László Németh ( 6 )
4. Heiko Tietze ( 6 )
5. Regina Henschel ( 5 )
6. Miklos Vajna ( 5 )
7. Noel Grandin ( 5 )
8. Luboš Luňák ( 4 )
9. Julien Nabet ( 4 )
10. Tünde Tóth ( 3 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#134607 LO7RC1 – LANGPACK macOS – many versions fail to recognize LibreOffice 7.0 / 7.1 installation as valid on Catalina and Big Sur ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
2. tdf#138068 When there are a lot of pictures, typing the text is very slow (macOS/GTK3/GDI) ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
3. tdf#140280 Crash in: KERNELBASE.dll when double click a slide content box and file is opened read-only ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
4. tdf#140308 Crash import old OpenOffice template (stw, stc, sti, std) ( steps in comment 12 ) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#139511 Impress: Shrinking table by dragging bottom border up or top down not working anymore ( Thanks to Gülşah Köse )
2. tdf#140437 FILEOPEN: Writer document “Read Error. Format error discovered in the file in sub-document content.xml at 2,1311816(row,col).” ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
3. tdf#140444 EDITING: Creating a view from a query crashes whole LO ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
4. tdf#140528 Crash in: swlo.dll In “Save As” dialog in “Tools -Chapter Numbering”, when switching from Numbering to Position tab ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
5. tdf#140572 FILESAVE DOCX Crash when saving a file with superscript formatting ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
6. tdf#36466 Add option to Select Visible Cells Only (to be copied from or copied to) ( Thanks to Tünde Tóth )
7. tdf#76260 FILEOPEN: slow loading and dump of .docx with lots of footnotes (see Comment 27 and Comment 43) ( Thanks to László Németh )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#137406 Crash when clicking “Apply to Master” in Slide Master mode on Bullets and Numbering dialog ( Thanks to Gokce Kuler )
2. tdf#139039 PDF export: Error message if filepath is URL coded / crash when saving as DOCX ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
3. tdf#140014 Calc crashes when using COUNTIF, SUMIF, etc. on columns “far away” without data ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
4. tdf#140225 Crash in: libmergedlo.so g_lo_action_group_change_state FILEOPEN ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#140280 Crash in: KERNELBASE.dll when double click a slide content box and file is opened read-only ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
6. tdf#140308 Crash import old OpenOffice template (stw, stc, sti, std) ( steps in comment 12 ) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
7. tdf#140414 Crash pressing Ctrl-K in input line in Calc ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
8. tdf#140444 EDITING: Creating a view from a query crashes whole LO ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
9. tdf#140528 Crash in: swlo.dll In “Save As” dialog in “Tools -Chapter Numbering”, when switching from Numbering to Position tab ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
10. tdf#140572 FILESAVE DOCX Crash when saving a file with superscript formatting ( Thanks to Justin Luth )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#120351 Writer hangs for over 20 minutes loading a 3MB, 450-page DOCX Edit with thousands of endnotes ( Thanks to László Németh )
2. tdf#138068 When there are a lot of pictures, typing the text is very slow (macOS/GTK3/GDI) ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
3. tdf#139820 Hang: Undoing paste of block with empty cells ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
4. tdf#76260 FILEOPEN: slow loading and dump of .docx with lots of footnotes (see Comment 27 and Comment 43) ( Thanks to László Németh )

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

1. tdf#105301 sort options not remembered thoroughly in saved document ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
2. tdf#36466 Add option to Select Visible Cells Only (to be copied from or copied to) ( Thanks to Tünde Tóth )
3. tdf#57667 Immediately apply AutoCorrection when added per Spelling and Grammar dialog ( Thanks to Quan Nguyen )
4. tdf#60237 : Bug in API call StoreAsURL (or in the OO Basic API description) ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
5. tdf#66409 failure to correctly implement CELL ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
6. tdf#76260 FILEOPEN: slow loading and dump of .docx with lots of footnotes (see Comment 27 and Comment 43) ( Thanks to László Németh )
7. tdf#91920 No support for gutter margins ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
8. tdf#92622 WRITER: context menu “Unstyle selected text” from list style to “no-list” style ( Thanks to Anshu )
9. tdf#92768 support hiding title objects ( Thanks to Quan Nguyen )
10. tdf#94235 Ability to add series name to data series label ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )

WORKSFORME bugs

110 bugs have been retested by 33 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 37 )
2. Buovjaga ( 13 )
3. Telesto ( 6 )
4. Dieter ( 6 )
5. Aron Budea ( 5 )
6. Timur ( 4 )
7. BogdanB ( 4 )

LibreOffice 7.1 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2021 ( Check the Release Plan for more information ) being LibreOffice 7.1 RC2 the fourth pre-release since the development of version 7.1 started at the end of May, 2020. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.1 RC1, 87 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 64 bugs have been fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in LibreOffice 7.1.

LibreOffice 7.1 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 as both channels are bridged to each other.

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