13 May 2020

QA/Dev Report: April 2020

General Activities

  1. LibreOffice 6.4.3 was released on April, 16
  2. LibreOffice 6.3.6 was released on April, 30
  3. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) published a couple of blogposts showing the progress done by the PPTX Team and the Macro Team in the last months
  4. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos and Steve Fanning made many Help improvements and cleanups
  5. Andreas Kainz continued to improve the galleries and dialog layouts. As a new task he took on improving Impress templates
  6. Rizal Muttaqin made many improvements in most of the icon themes and removed Tango icon theme from the core
  7. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) fixed import and export issues with PDF, SVG, HTML and DOCX. He also continued with padded numbering support in Writer
  8. Gábor Kelemen (NISZ) dropped Flash export filter and made many code cleanups
  9. Noel Grandin (Collabora) cleaned up the code in many places while improving readability
  10. Michael Weghorn fixed issues with the Android application and mail merge
  11. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) continued with the Skia engine integration and fixed a chart wizard freezing issue
  12. Justin Luth (SIL & Collabora) made many DOC/DOCX import improvements and did a lot of quality assurance work on DOC issues
  13. Balázs Varga (NISZ) fixed several chart label issues, related to both ODF and OOXML formats
  14. Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB) fixed several OOXML-related issues, including one about remembering the last used file type
  15. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued the crucial user interface backend work and did many cleanups and crash fixes
  16. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed some regressions and made many code cleanups
  17. László Németh (NISZ) fixed many issues with DOCX tables and numbered list formatting
  18. Xisco Faulí (TDF) added nearly 40 unit tests for old bug fixes and added and improved many UI tests. He also created a script that helps to identify missing unittests. Check this wiki page for more information
  19. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many cleanups, build fixes and UI test fixes
  20. Szabolcs Tóth and Regényi Balázs (NISZ) fixed several DOCX import and export issues related to shapes
  21. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) fixed some issues with Calc functions
  22. Heiko Tietze (TDF) implemented a brand new About dialog
  23. Michael Stahl (CIB) killed Python 2 support with fire and fixed some DOCX import and export issues
  24. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) did a lot of graphics handling improvements and cleanups
  25. Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) made improvements to debugging. He also made fixes and cleanups in code related to macOS and iOS
  26. Julien Nabet fixed exporting right-to-left content as HTML, the behaviour of Calc’s switch function, a problem with function wizard, an SQL parser issue and some crashes
  27. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) implemented chart axis position type property
  28. Pranam Lashkari (Collabora) fixed some issues with gradient fill
  29. Attila Bakos (NISZ) fixed some issues with graphical objects in DOCX files
  30. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed a spacing issue with grouped shapes in DOCX files
  31. Thorsten Behrens (CIB) improved handling of JPEG images in the PDF export process
  32. Aditya Sahu added unit tests for creation of renaming, deletion of gallery theme
  33. Roman Kuznetsov fixed a couple of issues with scrolling in the Start Center
  34. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed a couple of issues with numbered lists in DOCX files
  35. Pavel Klevakin improved the time to import and export HTML files with images

Reported Bugs

780 bugs, 92 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 417 people.

Top 10 Reporters

  1. Telesto ( 139 )
  2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 26 )
  3. andreas_k ( 26 )
  4. Mike Kaganski ( 17 )
  5. Regina Henschel ( 16 )
  6. Rizal Muttaqin ( 8 )
  7. Xisco Faulí ( 8 )
  8. Gerald Pfeifer ( 8 )
  9. Aron Budea ( 6 )
  10. sergio.callegari ( 5 )

Triaged Bugs

723 bugs have been triaged by 93 people.

Top 10 Triagers

  1. Buovjaga ( 130 )
  2. Dieter ( 88 )
  3. Julien Nabet ( 55 )
  4. Heiko Tietze ( 49 )
  5. Xisco Faulí ( 43 )
  6. Timur ( 31 )
  7. V Stuart Foote ( 30 )
  8. m.a.riosv ( 28 )
  9. Telesto ( 21 )
  10. Aron Budea ( 21 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

661 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

218 bugs have been fixed by 40 people.

Top 10 Fixers

  1. andreas kainz ( 19 )
  2. Caolán McNamara ( 16 )
  3. Luboš Luňák ( 14 )
  4. Julien Nabet ( 12 )
  5. László Németh ( 9 )
  6. Justin Luth ( 9 )
  7. Rizal Muttaqin ( 7 )
  8. Michael Weghorn ( 6 )
  9. Miklos Vajna ( 5 )
  10. Balazs Varga ( 5 )

List of critical bugs fixed

List of high severity bugs fixed

  1. tdf#130505 LibreOffice dialogs for save and open have default focus in the location field instead of file name field ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  2. tdf#131621 Crash saving template file (see comment 4) ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  3. tdf#131716 Freeze/hang after clicking Cancel in the Chart Wizard (with a large range of data selected) ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
  4. tdf#131721 Skia rendering (Vulkan or Raster) crash when attempting to dragging a few columns of data ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
  5. tdf#131729 IMAGE WRAP: Crash if you wrap an image with vertical position “Bottom + Page text area” ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
  6. tdf#131907 Crash: reject/clear formatting ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  7. tdf#132097 Find Previous with direction columns crashes in specific condition ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
  8. tdf#132278 crash after opening an old file ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  9. tdf#132282 FILEOPEN PPTX: Titles rendered vertically instead of horizontally ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
  10. tdf#132288 Spell check erases footnotes ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  11. tdf#132322 See log link is gone in new About Dialog 7.0 ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )

List of crashes fixed

  1. tdf#116243 App crash after click in Header or Footer on Writer ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
  2. tdf#126828 Variables having assigned objects from closed components pretend to still be valid. Attempts to inspect them in the IDE cause crashes. ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  3. tdf#128662 LibreOffice crashed when receiving certain WebDAV error responses ( Thanks to Julian Kalinowski )
  4. tdf#129372 FILEOPEN: PPTX: CRASH: File format error found at SfxBaseModel::storeToStorage: 0x20d(row,col) – works w/ PowerPoint 2013 ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
  5. tdf#130685 CRASH: after pasting and undoing (change tracking involved) ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
  6. tdf#131195 Android Viewer crashes when pressing back while loading document ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
  7. tdf#131613 Crash after object rename from Navigator ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  8. tdf#131621 Crash saving template file (see comment 4) ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  9. tdf#131663 CRASH: Crash while inserting large PNG image (SKIA) ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
  10. tdf#131684 Crash when doing undoing ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
  11. tdf#131715 Crash clicking on Data range in the Chart Wizard twice/three times ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  12. tdf#131721 Skia rendering (Vulkan or Raster) crash when attempting to dragging a few columns of data ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
  13. tdf#131729 IMAGE WRAP: Crash if you wrap an image with vertical position “Bottom + Page text area” ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
  14. tdf#131767 Crash when opening mail merge wizard for attached doc ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  15. tdf#131907 Crash: reject/clear formatting ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  16. tdf#131939 Crash on File Exit (SKIA) ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
  17. tdf#132001 FILEOPEN DOCX CRASH: File fails to open with frame in header and change tracked table ( Thanks to László Németh )
  18. tdf#132051 Crash with Skia when resize Draw window (debug build) ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
  19. tdf#132097 Find Previous with direction columns crashes in specific condition ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
  20. tdf#132143 CRASH using Ctrl+End in Object Catalog ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  21. tdf#132210 [1] Calc crashes when I close spreadsheet file ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
  22. tdf#132278 crash after opening an old file ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  23. tdf#132335 Skia: Crash with starting slideshow of presentation based on template “Blue Curve” ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
  24. tdf#132367 Skia: Crash with presenter console ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )

List of performance issues fixed

  1. tdf#131496 Presentation opens slower than before ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
  2. tdf#131716 Freeze/hang after clicking Cancel in the Chart Wizard (with a large range of data selected) ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
  3. tdf#131951 FILEOPEN: Quadratic time on reading and converting html files with images ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  4. tdf#132388 BASIC: Replace is awfully slow ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )

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

  1. tdf#73056 FILEOPEN: Non-global Table Row Margins of MS WORD 97-2003 DOC are only implemented for 1st Cell of Row. ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
  2. tdf#78749 [FILEOPEN]: DOCX import filter loses the frame’s (object’s) background bitmap ( Thanks to Attila Bakos )
  3. tdf#79426 Macros: Passing an error object to a function causes a run time error. ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
  4. tdf#79553 FILEOPEN: Incorrect spacing between numbers and lines when opening a .doc file ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
  5. tdf#91565 REPORT BUILDER: Missing insert field icon in Add Field dialog ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
  6. tdf#91818 UI: Start Centre Recent Files allows mouse wheel scroll when there is no scroll bar ( Thanks to Roman Kuznetsov )
  7. tdf#95425 Number format of data labels reset when format of data series is changed ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
  8. tdf#96760 Android: Viewer cannot open odp file with video inserted ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
  9. tdf#99197 Rendering error of punctuation mark in Word document. ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
  10. tdf#99674 Add IDEF diagram shapes to gallery ( Thanks to andreas kainz )

WORKSFORME bugs

107 bugs have been retested by 29 people.

Top 10 testers

  1. Buovjaga ( 28 )
  2. Michael Weghorn ( 11 )
  3. Julien Nabet ( 10 )
  4. Jean-Baptiste Faure ( 8 )
  5. Dieter ( 6 )
  6. Heiko Tietze ( 5 )
  7. Roman Kuznetsov ( 5 )
  8. Aron Budea ( 5 )
  9. Xisco Faulí ( 4 )
  10. Timur ( 4 )

DUPLICATED bugs

148 bugs have been duplicated by 36 people.

Top 10 testers

  1. Justin L ( 19 )
  2. Timur ( 17 )
  3. Buovjaga ( 16 )
  4. V Stuart Foote ( 13 )
  5. Dieter ( 8 )
  6. Xisco Faulí ( 8 )
  7. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 7 )
  8. Telesto ( 5 )
  9. eisa01 ( 5 )
  10. Lubos Lunak ( 5 )

Verified bug fixes

66 bugs have been verified by 12 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 48 )
  2. Regina Henschel ( 4 )
  3. Justin L ( 3 )
  4. Michael Weghorn ( 2 )
  5. Julien Nabet ( 2 )
  6. V Stuart Foote ( 1 )
  7. Jürgen Kirsten ( 1 )
  8. Timur ( 1 )
  9. Jim Raykowski ( 1 )
  10. raal ( 1 )

Categorized Bugs

411 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 32 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

  1. Dieter ( 103 )
  2. Telesto ( 56 )
  3. Aron Budea ( 44 )
  4. Roman Kuznetsov ( 41 )
  5. Buovjaga ( 27 )
  6. Heiko Tietze ( 22 )
  7. Rizal Muttaqin ( 15 )
  8. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 12 )
  9. Thomas Lendo ( 12 )
  10. V Stuart Foote ( 11 )

Regression Bugs

86 bugs have been set as regressions by 20 people.

Top 10

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 21 )
  2. Telesto ( 18 )
  3. Timur ( 8 )
  4. Buovjaga ( 7 )
  5. Aron Budea ( 6 )
  6. Dieter ( 5 )
  7. Justin L ( 3 )
  8. Oliver Brinzing ( 3 )
  9. Jan-Marek Glogowski ( 2 )
  10. David ( 2 )

Bisected Bugs

57 bugs have been bisected by 11 people.

Top 10 Bisecters

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 20 )
  2. Buovjaga ( 8 )
  3. Attila Baraksó (NISZ) ( 7 )
  4. Aron Budea ( 5 )
  5. Justin L ( 4 )
  6. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 4 )
  7. raal ( 4 )
  8. Telesto ( 2 )
  9. Michael Stahl (CIB) ( 1 )
  10. Michael Weghorn ( 1 )

Evolution of Unconfirmed Bugs

Check the current list of unconfirmed bugs here

Evolution of Open Regressions

Check the current list of open regressions here

Evolution of

12 May 2020

LibreOffice 7.0 Alpha1 is ready for testing

The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.0 Alpha1 is ready for testing!

LibreOffice 7.0 will be released as final at the beginning of August, 2020 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 7.0 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 7.0 started in the beginning of June, 2019. Since then, 6213 commits have been submitted to the code repository and more than 1200 bugs set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.

LibreOffice 7.0 Alpha1 can be downloaded from here for Linux, MacOS and Windows, and it can be installed alongside the standard version.

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

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

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

Happy testing!!

Download it now!

9 Apr 2020

QA/Dev Report: March 2020

General Activities

  1. LibreOffice 6.4.2 was announced on March, 19
  2. Luca Carlon and Jan-Marek Glogowski introduced basic HiDPI scale for Qt5 in LibreOffice (tdf#127687)
  3. Mark Hung improved Impress/Draw table perfomance (tdf#120216)
  4. Seth Chaiklin, Sophia Schröder, Adolfo Jayme Barrientos and Steve Fanning made many Help improvements and cleanups
  5. Ilmari Lauhakangas and Olivier Hallot updated some menu references in Help
  6. Samuel Thibault (Hypra) improved accessibility testing and functionality
  7. László Németh (NISZ) fixed many DOCX table issues
  8. Xisco Fauli (TDF) created a new QA related easyhack to convert UItests to CppunitTest. Some UItests are not used to test UI elements. Converting them to CppunitTests makes them to run faster and on more platforms. UITests are only run on Linux
  9. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued the crucial user interface backend work and did many cleanups and crash fixes
  10. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) improved named ranges and function wizard
  11. Andreas Kainz improved context menus, updated the Area Fill presets, arrows gallery, bullets, added a new gallery for Business Process Model and Notation. He also created a new icon gallery as an extension. See link 1, link 2 and link 3
  12. Jun Nogata created new fontwork styles
  13. Muhammet Kara (Collabora) made it easy to work on LibreOffice in the Gitpod online IDE service
  14. Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) worked on iOS app improvements
  15. Serge Krot (CIB) fixed issues with linked document handling in Writer and Calc
  16. Jim Raykowski continued improving the Navigator and fixed an issue with pasting list content after undo
  17. Noel Grandin (Collabora) cleaned up the code in many places, made XML parsing faster in general and improved the loading time of XLSX files with a huge number of images
  18. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many cleanups and raised Windows build baseline to Visual Studio 2019 16.4
  19. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) fixed an issue with links in presentations exported as PDF and added support for padded numbering in Writer
  20. Justin Luth (SIL & Collabora) fixed calculations of subscript positions and improved handling of image wrapping and tables in Writer
  21. Michael Stahl (CIB) worked on some convoluted DOCX interoperability issues concerning section breaks, bookmarks and linked images
  22. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) made it so font rendering now uses Skia engine
  23. Balázs Varga (NISZ) fixed many chart label issues
  24. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) added a feature for showing legends without overlapping the chart and fixed several issues with legends
  25. Rizal Muttaqin made many improvements in most of the icon themes
  26. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) improved PDF import support and made many internal improvements to the graphics code
  27. Michael Weghorn made dozens of improvements to the Android application
  28. Julien Nabet made several improvements to the Firebird database support and did code cleanups
  29. Armin Le Grand improved EMF+ support and made several fixes related to graphics
  30. Gülşah Köse (Collabora) fixed an issue with Advance Timing of presentations
  31. Bartosz Kosiorek fixed a bunch of EMF+ issues
  32. Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB) added an options to disallow opening files locked by other users and to prevent disabling read-only mode, improved screen size detection and fixed an issue with OLE object heights
  33. Björn Michaelsen continued renovating Writer memory management
  34. Jan Holešovský (Collabora) improved the Android application and inserting of PDFs as images
  35. Marco Cecchetti (Collabora) made it so inserted images are automatically rotated based on their EXIF orientation data
  36. Jussi Pakkanen converted some Perl scripts to Python while experimenting with Meson build system

Reported Bugs

695 bugs, 85 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 378 people.

Top 10 Reporters

  1. Telesto ( 36 )
  2. Xisco Faulí ( 32 )
  3. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 26 )
  4. Mike Kaganski ( 17 )
  5. Regina Henschel ( 14 )
  6. andreas_k ( 11 )
  7. Rizal Muttaqin ( 10 )
  8. Steve Fanning ( 10 )
  9. Timur ( 10 )
  10. sdc.blanco ( 8 )

Triaged Bugs

621 bugs have been triaged by 81 people.

Top 10 Triagers

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 133 )
  2. Dieter ( 69 )
  3. Timur ( 52 )
  4. Julien Nabet ( 41 )
  5. Heiko Tietze ( 39 )
  6. V Stuart Foote ( 25 )
  7. Oliver Brinzing ( 23 )
  8. Roman Kuznetsov ( 18 )
  9. m.a.riosv ( 18 )
  10. Michael Weghorn ( 14 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

561 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

205 bugs have been fixed by 50 people.

Top 10 Fixers

  1. Caolán McNamara ( 17 )
  2. Julien Nabet ( 16 )
  3. László Németh ( 8 )
  4. Noel Grandin ( 7 )
  5. Balazs Varga ( 6 )
  6. Justin Luth ( 6 )
  7. Eike Rathke ( 6 )
  8. Samuel Mehrbrodt ( 5 )
  9. Jim Raykowski ( 5 )
  10. Michael Weghorn ( 5 )

List of critical bugs fixed

  1. tdf#117088 FILEOPEN: Some labels in charts are not displayed by default ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )

List of high severity bugs fixed

  1. tdf#130746 Writer crashes when Alt+Arrow Up keys are pressed within a table row spanning two pages ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
  2. tdf#130878 Report does not show label-fields when run in 7.0 ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  3. tdf#131041 CRASH: when I try set border for page header ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  4. tdf#131096 Calc crashes when viewing details of two Statistical functions in Function Wizard ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
  5. tdf#131208 Crash on double click to paragraph style ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
  6. tdf#131380 Crash when opening xlsx file, FILEOPEN ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  7. tdf#59274 FILEOPEN: table in DOCX file is more narrower than it should be (fix AutoFit Table Layout with incomplete grids) ( Thanks to László Németh )
  8. tdf#80635 FILEOPEN: DOC file floating table spacing (margin) not imported properly ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
  9. tdf#84399 FILEOPEN: DOCX drawing canvas error (wrong size and text wrapping option imported) ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
  10. tdf#95854 Insert comment shortcut doesn’t let me edit existing comment ( Thanks to Maxim Monastirsky )

List of crashes fixed

  1. tdf#118893 CRASH Impress: UI locks up when I drag a slide from the left “Slides” view to the Windows taskbar ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  2. tdf#130680 CRASH: cutting content of document ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
  3. tdf#130746 Writer crashes when Alt+Arrow Up keys are pressed within a table row spanning two pages ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
  4. tdf#131015 CRASH: using the pipette in Edit Contour dialog ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  5. tdf#131041 CRASH: when I try set border for page header ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  6. tdf#131096 Calc crashes when viewing details of two Statistical functions in Function Wizard ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
  7. tdf#131164 EDITING: Base Crashes on Tools>User Administration… (Firebird) ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
  8. tdf#131179 Android Viewer crashes trying to open document containing comments ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
  9. tdf#131208 Crash on double click to paragraph style ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
  10. tdf#131210 UI: Language Options: editing ‘Date acceptance patterns’ crashes whole application (gtk3) ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
  11. tdf#131248 Crash when closing SQL Edit Query (gtk3 only) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  12. tdf#131273 Crash when pasting quotes with fixed width ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
  13. tdf#131380 Crash when opening xlsx file, FILEOPEN ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  14. tdf#131389 Crash when clearing table background color from sidebar (GTK3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  15. tdf#131464 Crash when trying to create an index of Writer in Japanese locale ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
  16. tdf#131507 FILEOPEN: CRASH at import time ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  17. tdf#131533 Qt5 crash when closing LO with a 2nd consecutive selection ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
  18. tdf#131553 A PPTX with SmartArt shapes crashes Impress ( Thanks to nd101)
  19. tdf#131571 Crash when clicking the “Text direction from top to bottom” toolbar icon ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
  20. tdf#131712 Base EDITING Crash on SQL select command or double click on table with non null float field – mysql native connector (mariadb) ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

List of performance issues fixed

  1. tdf#131185 LO Writer “hangs” on scrolling/saving of a document where embedded image doesn’t exist ( Thanks to Gülşah Köse )
  2. tdf#131530 FILEOPEN: Hang at import time ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
  3. tdf#93831 FILEOPEN XLSX Slow to open ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

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

  1. tdf#36737 default values of string type and object type for optional parameters are not processed ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
  2. tdf#59274 FILEOPEN: table in DOCX file is more narrower than it should be (fix AutoFit Table Layout with incomplete grids) ( Thanks to László Németh )
  3. tdf#61274 PDF EXPORT Links are off by one page if presentation includes (unexported) hidden slides. ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
  4. tdf#75330 EDITING: “Show the legend without overlapping the chart” ( Thanks to Tünde Tóth )
  5. tdf#80194 Impress: Default value for ‘Raise/lower by’ in Subscript not proper ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
  6. tdf#80635 FILEOPEN: DOC file floating table spacing (margin) not imported properly ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
  7. tdf#84399 FILEOPEN: DOCX drawing canvas error (wrong size and text wrapping option imported) ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
  8. tdf#89849 Unify superscript and subscript behaviour between apps ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
  9. tdf#89901 Insertion of DXF image fail to produce a correct image ( Thanks to Armin Le Grand )
  10. tdf#93831 FILEOPEN XLSX Slow to open ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  11. tdf#95854 Insert comment shortcut doesn’t let me edit existing comment ( Thanks to Maxim Monastirsky )

WORKSFORME bugs

73 bugs have been retested by 32 people.

Top 10 testers

  1. Aron Budea ( 11 )
  2. Timur ( 8 )
  3. Michael Weghorn ( 7 )
  4. Xisco Faulí ( 4 )
  5. Buovjaga ( 4 )
  6. Oliver Grimm ( 4 )
  7. Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB) ( 4 )
  8. Dieter ( 3 )
  9. b. ( 2 )
  10. Roman Kuznetsov ( 2 )

DUPLICATED bugs

157 bugs have been duplicated by 29 people.

Top 10 testers

  1. Timur ( 45 )
  2. Xisco Faulí ( 25 )
  3. V Stuart Foote ( 8 )
  4. Heiko Tietze ( 7 )
  5. Dieter ( 7 )
  6. Aron Budea ( 7 )
  7. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 7 )
  8. Julien Nabet ( 7 )
  9. Oliver Brinzing ( 5 )
  10. Justin L ( 4 )

Verified bug fixes

93 bugs have been verified by 16 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 50 )
  2. Dieter ( 15 )
  3. Timur ( 8 )
  4. Roman Kuznetsov ( 4 )
  5. Julien Nabet ( 3 )
  6. Justin L ( 2 )
  7. Michael Weghorn ( 2 )
  8. Buovjaga ( 2 )
  9. V Stuart Foote ( 1 )
  10. Stephan Bergmann ( 1 )

Categorized Bugs

338 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 36 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

  1. Dieter ( 108 )
  2. Roman Kuznetsov ( 75 )
  3. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 18 )
  4. Xisco Faulí ( 16 )
  5. Thomas Lendo ( 14 )
  6. sdc.blanco ( 14 )
  7. Heiko Tietze ( 12 )
  8. Rizal Muttaqin ( 12 )
  9. Justin L ( 11 )
  10. Aron Budea ( 5 )

Regression Bugs

87 bugs have been set as regressions by 17 people.

Top 10

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 52 )
  2. Timur ( 10 )
  3. Oliver Brinzing ( 4 )
  4. Dieter ( 4 )
  5. Cor Nouws ( 3 )
  6. Aron Budea ( 3 )
  7. Buovjaga ( 1 )
  8. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 1 )
  9. Roman Kuznetsov ( 1 )
  10. Justin L ( 1 )

Bisected Bugs

79 bugs have been bisected by 10 people.

Top 10 Bisecters

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 52 )
  2. Timur ( 10 )
  3. Aron Budea ( 7 )
  4. Oliver Brinzing ( 3 )
  5. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 2 )
  6. raal ( 1 )
  7. Justin L ( 1 )
  8. Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB) ( 1 )
  9. Michael Weghorn ( 1 )
  10. Mike Kaganski ( 1 )

Evolution of Unconfirmed Bugs

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Evolution of Open Regressions

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Evolution of Open bibisectRequests

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9 Mar 2020

QA/Dev Report: February 2020

General Activities

  1. LibreOffice 6.3.5 was announced on February, 20
  2. LibreOffice 6.4.1 was announced on February, 27
  3. LibreOffice was present at FOSDEM and many presentations about LibreOffice were given on February, 1
  4. A 2 days Hackfest took place in Brussels right after FOSDEM
  5. Michael Weghorn implemented native PopupMenus for the qt5/kf5 VCL plugin
  6. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) fixed blurry text in macOS and did many code cleanups
  7. Jim Raykowski continued to improve Navigator in general and its context menu
  8. Seth Chaiklin made many Help update patches
  9. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) continues to polish Skia library in LibreOffice
  10. Maxim Monastirsky added Highlighting tab for shapes and comments to Format>Character dialog in Writer and in Calc
  11. Noel Grandin (Collabora) did many cleanups under the hood, including changes that speed up development
  12. Jan Holešovský (Collabora) enabled spell-checking on Android
  13. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued the crucial user interface backend work and also did many cleanups to the code
  14. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made it so decimals input into Calc are represented with the correct precision value
  15. Michael Stahl (CIB) improved DOCX exporting of footnote separators and rotated text fields
  16. Jan-Marek Glogowski (CIB) fixed several qt5/kf5 issues
  17. Xisco Fauli (TDF) added basic unittests for LWP files
  18. Gábor Kelemen (NISZ) fixed issues with missing titles and period separators in charts
  19. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) improved label placement for stacked area charts and fixed XLSX exporting of chart line markers
  20. Bakos Attila (NISZ) fixed chart wrap setting with DOCX import and shape anchoring to table with DOCX export
  21. László Németh (NISZ) fixed several issues with tables in imported DOCX files
  22. Szabolcs Tóth (NISZ) fixed inherited list level of custom styles with DOCX import
  23. Balázs Varga (NISZ) fixed several issues with chart label positioning with OOXML import and export
  24. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) fixed several DOCX import and export issues and implemented semi-transparent text for Writer
  25. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) improved handling of named references in Calc
  26. Julien Nabet fixed the precision and scale for decimal and numeric fields in Firebird databases
  27. Armin Le Grand improved the performance of rendering dashed lines
  28. Arnaud Versini added minimum support for PDF/A3
  29. Serge Krot (CIB) fixed DOCX exporting of bold text under certain conditions
  30. Andreas Kainz made many UI improvements in Sidebar
  31. Rizal Muttaqin made many improvements in most of the icon themes
  32. Heiko Tietze (TDF) added a note in the UI for Draw page renaming conflicts
  33. Jens Carl moved several Java tests to C++

Reported Bugs

679 bugs, 98 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 442 people.

Top 10 Reporters

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 32 )
  2. sdc.blanco ( 22 )
  3. Roman Kuznetsov ( 21 )
  4. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 16 )
  5. Mike Kaganski ( 13 )
  6. Rizal Muttaqin ( 13 )
  7. Robert Großkopf ( 9 )
  8. Kevin Suo ( 9 )
  9. stdedos ( 8 )
  10. Timur ( 7 )

Triaged Bugs

668 bugs have been triaged by 95 people.

Top 10 Triagers

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 159 )
  2. Dieter ( 83 )
  3. Julien Nabet ( 51 )
  4. Heiko Tietze ( 47 )
  5. Oliver Brinzing ( 25 )
  6. Aron Budea ( 22 )
  7. V Stuart Foote ( 22 )
  8. raal ( 18 )
  9. eisa01 ( 14 )
  10. Alex Thurgood ( 11 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

578 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

242 bugs have been fixed by 54 people.

Top 10 Fixers

  1. Caolán McNamara ( 32 )
  2. Noel Grandin ( 10 )
  3. Jan-Marek Glogowski ( 9 )
  4. László Németh ( 8 )
  5. Michael Weghorn ( 8 )
  6. Seth Chaiklin ( 8 )
  7. Miklos Vajna ( 7 )
  8. Eike Rathke ( 7 )
  9. Balazs Varga ( 6 )
  10. Samuel Mehrbrodt ( 6 )

List of critical bugs fixed

  1. tdf#122218 After Update to 6.1.4 on macOS fonts are blurred on retina display (xcode 10) ( Thanks to Christian Lohmaier )
  2. tdf#130482 Can’t align text in a textbox ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
  3. tdf#130614 Crash in: SfxItemPool::IsInRange(unsigned short) ( Thanks to Xisco Faulí )
  4. tdf#130959 LibreOffice crashes when opening files with non-existing hyperlinks ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

List of high severity bugs fixed

  1. tdf#128873 Calc – long time to open file in 6.4 beta ( Thanks to Serge Krot )
  2. tdf#129529 Cannot open 819-pages ODT ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
  3. tdf#129912 Cannot open DOC – regression ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
  4. tdf#130373 Since update, substitute color only works if left set to transparent. ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  5. tdf#130483 Crash on pasting a table from Writer ( Thanks to Mark Hung )
  6. tdf#130623 Base: Empty Field Properties (gtk3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  7. tdf#130760 Impress crashes on broken hyperlink click ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
  8. tdf#130794 kf5: Keyboard input ignored ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
  9. tdf#130809 File dialogs in Mac OS are in German ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
  10. tdf#130878 Report does not show label-fields when run in 7.0 ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  11. tdf#130917 FILESAVE DOCX Signature line export creates invalid document ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
  12. tdf#130951 FILEOPEN: DOCX: picture does not display doc saved by MSWord ( Thanks to Armin Le Grand )
  13. tdf#130960 edit / track changes / compare documents does not work ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  14. tdf#91219 FILESAVE: Crash when anchoring a shape with a textbox to a frame that is anchored to that shape ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )

List of crashes fixed

  1. tdf#127205 Crash when terminating the StarDesktop from running a document macro ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
  2. tdf#129809 LibreOffice Writer crash while moving one letter with hyperlink (gtk3/kf5) ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
  3. tdf#130274 TRACK CHANGES: Crash in swlo.dll with track changes enabled and AutoCorrect ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
  4. tdf#130340 cmd + space = crashes reliably for keymap window ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  5. tdf#130414 Crash when setting window position via API (gtk3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  6. tdf#130483 Crash on pasting a table from Writer ( Thanks to Mark Hung )
  7. tdf#130499 kf5: Crash when closing Writer after D’n’D of text ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
  8. tdf#130513 CRASH: Writer crashes changing UI to notebookbar (win) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  9. tdf#130541 Crash after changing text type property of a text box control ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  10. tdf#130555 Crash when clearing the ‘Find’ text field ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
  11. tdf#130614 Crash in: SfxItemPool::IsInRange(unsigned short) ( Thanks to Xisco Faulí )
  12. tdf#130658 Crash on adding word to User-defined dictionary (gtk3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  13. tdf#130756 CRASH: traversing tabs with Ctrl+PageUp/Down (gen) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  14. tdf#130760 Impress crashes on broken hyperlink click ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
  15. tdf#130831 CRASH when displaying a dialog containing a checkbox ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
  16. tdf#130922 CRASH: Moving backwards in Paste Table wizard (gen) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  17. tdf#130952 CRASH: launching Bullets & Numbering dialog from sidebar (gtk3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  18. tdf#130959 LibreOffice crashes when opening files with non-existing hyperlinks ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  19. tdf#91219 FILESAVE: Crash when anchoring a shape with a textbox to a frame that is anchored to that shape ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )

List of performance issues fixed

  1. tdf#128873 Calc – long time to open file in 6.4 beta ( Thanks to Serge Krot )

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

  1. tdf#42695 [UI] When Navigator is docked, new documents show an inactive “List Box”. When Navigator is undocked and “List Box” is turned “Off” then no items are shown when Navigator is docked again ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
  2. tdf#57307 Basic IDE: adding variable to Watch window performs incorrectly if variable name contains_underscores ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
  3. tdf#57879 EDITING : consider an underscore to be part of a string ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
  4. tdf#84553 Detect and warn of Windows Antivirus in configure … ( Thanks to Michel Thomas )
  5. tdf#90749 support leader lines for data labels ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
  6. tdf#91219 FILESAVE: Crash when anchoring a shape with a textbox to a frame that is anchored to that shape ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
  7. tdf#92472 FILEOPEN: First legacy checkbox in row has too large dimensions on docx import ( Thanks to László Németh )
  8. tdf#92484 UI: lock toolbar by default ( Thanks to A_GAN )
  9. tdf#94234 Period separator missing from data series label formatting dialog ( Thanks to Gabor Kelemen )
  10. tdf#95495 Fileopen: List levels not recognized in .docx custom outline numbering ( Thanks to Szabolcs Toth )

WORKSFORME bugs

65 bugs have been retested by 31 people.

Top 10 testers

  1. Julien Nabet ( 7 )
  2. eisa01 ( 6 )
  3. Timur ( 5 )
  4. Dieter ( 5 )
  5. Heiko Tietze ( 5 )
  6. Xisco Faulí ( 4 )
  7. raal ( 4 )
  8. Buovjaga ( 3 )
  9. Roman Kuznetsov ( 3 )
  10. Aron Budea ( 2 )

DUPLICATED bugs

172 bugs have been duplicated by 38 people.

Top 10 testers

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 42 )
  2. Dieter ( 18 )
  3. V Stuart Foote ( 15 )
  4. Maxim Monastirsky ( 12 )
  5. Timur ( 11 )
  6. Julien Nabet ( 8 )
  7. Heiko Tietze ( 7 )
  8. Alex Thurgood ( 5 )
  9. eisa01 ( 4 )
  10. Aron Budea ( 4 )

Verified bug fixes

82 bugs have been verified by 14 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 60 )
  2. Timur ( 5 )
  3. Roman Kuznetsov ( 3 )
  4. sdc.blanco ( 2 )
  5. Michael Weghorn ( 2 )
  6. V Stuart Foote ( 2 )
  7. Julien Nabet ( 2 )
  8. Oliver Grimm ( 1 )
  9. Kevin Suo ( 1 )
  10. Heiko Tietze ( 1 )

Categorized Bugs

344 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 31 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

  1. Dieter ( 79 )
  2. Roman Kuznetsov ( 75 )
  3. Rizal Muttaqin ( 28 )
  4. sdc.blanco ( 22 )
  5. Aron Budea ( 20 )
  6. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 15 )
  7. V Stuart Foote ( 13 )
  8. Heiko Tietze ( 8 )
  9. Xisco Faulí ( 8 )
  10. Michael Weghorn ( 8 )

Regression Bugs

119 bugs have been set as regressions by 24 people.

Top 10

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 55 )
  2. raal ( 8 )
  3. Oliver Brinzing ( 7 )
  4. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 7 )
  5. Roman Kuznetsov ( 6 )
  6. eisa01 ( 5 )
  7. Robert Großkopf ( 5 )
  8. Aron Budea ( 3 )
  9. Dieter ( 3 )
  10. Alex Thurgood ( 2 )

Bisected Bugs

108 bugs have been bisected by 11 people.

Top 10 Bisecters

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 64 )
  2. Aron Budea ( 16 )
  3. raal ( 8 )
  4. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 7 )
  5. Michael Weghorn ( 3 )
  6. Oliver Brinzing ( 3 )
  7. Timur ( 2 )
  8. Kevin Suo ( 2 )
  9. Roman Kuznetsov ( 1 )
  10. Justin L ( 1 )

Evolution of Unconfirmed Bugs

Check the current list of unconfirmed bugs here

Evolution of Open Regressions

Check the current list of open regressions here

Evolution of Open bibisectRequests

Check the current list of open bibisectrequests here

Evolution of Highest Priority Bugs

Check the current list of highest priority bugs here

Evolution of High Priority Bugs

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12 Feb 2020

QA/Dev Report: January 2020

General Activities

  1. LibreOffice 6.4 was released on January 29 containing many performance and interoperability improvements
  2. Participants in Ankara, Turkey bootcamp completed many easy hacks
  3. Participants in the Free Software Winter Camp 2020 in Eskişehir, Turkey completed many easy hacks
  4. Noel Grandin (Collabora) further sped up loading an XLSX file with lots of comments. Noel also continued converting XML handling bits to use the performant FastParser API
  5. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made it so functions in Calc can use case sensitive regular expressions. Mike also fixed an Excel compatibility issue involving booleans
  6. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued the welding of UI elements, focusing on the Sidebar
  7. Tamás Bunth (Collabora) improved chart label interoperability with OOXML files
  8. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) made rotated text in Writer’s table rows with automatic height behave better
  9. Seth Chaiklin made dozens of improvements and additions to Help content. He also triaged and re-tested many bugs.
  10. Rizal Muttaqin improved most of the icon themes and Sifr in particular.
  11. Thorsten Wagner fixed a rendering issue in the character formatting font dropdown on macOS
  12. Serge Krot (CIB) improved the performance of Impress when typing into a list having an animation applied to it
  13. László Németh and Szabolcs Tóth (NISZ) fixed many DOCX table issues
  14. Jim Raykowski made the Navigator item category list appearance more user friendly. He also fixed a bunch of Navigator and Sidebar issues
  15. Balázs Varga (NISZ) fixed many OOXML chart label issues
  16. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed a few issues with OOXML chart legends and data labels
  17. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) continued polishing the Skia graphics engine integration
  18. Heiko Tietze (TDF) and Andreas Kainz made many improvements to dialogs and Sidebar views
  19. Michael Stahl (CIB) made several fixes in PyUNO and Python build-related things. He also added an option to show markers for bookmarks inside the document text
  20. Andreas Kainz revampted the Compress Image dialog
  21. Guilhem Moulin and Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) improved the logerrit script, which helps when sending patches to Gerrit
  22. Regina Henschel implemented a fix for the skewing of drawing objects
  23. Luca Carlon added an SVG version of the Breeze dark icon set
  24. Katarina Behrens (CIB) fixed issues affecting the presentation console under Linux
  25. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) implemented accessibility checker and support for PDF/UA specs

Reported Bugs

604 bugs, 64 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 363 people.

Top 10 Reporters

  1. sdc.blanco ( 35 )
  2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 18 )
  3. Xisco Faulí ( 15 )
  4. Mike Kaganski ( 14 )
  5. andreas_k ( 14 )
  6. Roman Kuznetsov ( 11 )
  7. R. Green ( 9 )
  8. TorrAB ( 9 )
  9. Telesto ( 8 )
  10. Regina Henschel ( 7 )

Triaged Bugs

607 bugs have been triaged by 83 people.

Top 10 Triagers

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 129 )
  2. Heiko Tietze ( 63 )
  3. Dieter ( 57 )
  4. Julien Nabet ( 52 )
  5. Timur ( 30 )
  6. Roman Kuznetsov ( 23 )
  7. V Stuart Foote ( 21 )
  8. Oliver Brinzing ( 18 )
  9. m.a.riosv ( 17 )
  10. Mike Kaganski ( 13 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

555 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

222 bugs have been fixed by 50 people.

Top 10 Fixers

  1. Caolán McNamara ( 23 )
  2. Mike Kaganski ( 18 )
  3. Seth Chaiklin ( 15 )
  4. Miklos Vajna ( 8 )
  5. László Németh ( 8 )
  6. Jim Raykowski ( 8 )
  7. Balazs Varga ( 6 )
  8. Luboš Luňák ( 6 )
  9. Michael Stahl ( 5 )
  10. Szabolcs Toth ( 4 )

List of critical bugs fixed

  1. tdf#127619 macOS — LibreOffice crash within 40s after opening app when online update automatically enabled, or with check from the Extension manager — https certificate issues ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
  2. tdf#129484 Crash when trying to view property of a component from forms (gtk3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  3. tdf#130090 Create New Folder in the Save Dialog crashes with the gen (X11) VCL plugin ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  4. tdf#130179 CRASH: inserting comment to picture ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
  5. tdf#130286 Crash in: SwDrawTextShell::Execute(SfxRequest &) ( Thanks to Szymon Kłos )

List of high severity bugs fixed

  1. tdf#125662 Bad allocation crash while saving Calc with copied columns (x86) ( Thanks to Dennis Francis )
  2. tdf#128782 When execute undo, Text box moves. ( Thanks to Vasily Melenchuk )
  3. tdf#129883 Section links are lost on save and reload (see c3-c4) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  4. tdf#129887 CRASH: Scrolling down document ( Thanks to Serge Krot )
  5. tdf#129908 Crash at Data > Group and outlone > AutoOutline ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  6. tdf#130075 EDITING – While pasting data in a table, selecting “Next” makes Base crash ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  7. tdf#130093 FILEOPEN: LWP: General input/output error ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  8. tdf#130214 CRASH: importing file ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  9. tdf#93389 Document recovery strips encryption ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  10. tdf#94801 Fileopen DOCX: Text in table different width in Writer (multiple lines) and Word (single line) for Microsoft fonts – 0,1cm difference ( Thanks to László Németh )

List of crashes fixed

  1. tdf#125662 Bad allocation crash while saving Calc with copied columns (x86) ( Thanks to Dennis Francis )
  2. tdf#127619 macOS — LibreOffice crash within 40s after opening app when online update automatically enabled, or with check from the Extension manager — https certificate issues ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
  3. tdf#129382 CRASH: Importing a specific file ( See comment 6 ) ( Thanks to Vasily Melenchuk )
  4. tdf#129412 Crash when registered data source is not available. ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
  5. tdf#129484 Crash when trying to view property of a component from forms (gtk3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  6. tdf#129546 Skia: Crash when starting LO without supported device ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
  7. tdf#129659 CRASH on file opening ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
  8. tdf#129712 Crash in: mergedlo.dll after pasting as Unformatted text in Draw’s Text box ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  9. tdf#129798 Crash in: SwViewShell::GetDoc() — show print with Field dialog open ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  10. tdf#129805 Crash when copying the content of a complex DOCX ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
  11. tdf#129839 Crash inspecting properties of cell range object in IDE ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  12. tdf#129850 CRASH: Inserting table (gtk3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  13. tdf#129887 CRASH: Scrolling down document ( Thanks to Serge Krot )
  14. tdf#129908 Crash at Data > Group and outlone > AutoOutline ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  15. tdf#130075 EDITING – While pasting data in a table, selecting “Next” makes Base crash ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  16. tdf#130090 Create New Folder in the Save Dialog crashes with the gen (X11) VCL plugin ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  17. tdf#130155 Writer navigator crashes when + is pressed on entries without children ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
  18. tdf#130179 CRASH: inserting comment to picture ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
  19. tdf#130214 CRASH: importing file ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  20. tdf#130239 CRASH: Closing LibreOffice while Infobox is displayed ( gtk3 ) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  21. tdf#130286 Crash in: SwDrawTextShell::Execute(SfxRequest &) ( Thanks to Szymon Kłos )

List of performance issues fixed

  1. tdf#129158 sorting multiple selected rows leads to CALC hanging ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  2. tdf#129708 Impress: Long operation during typing in animated list ( Thanks to Serge Krot )

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

  1. tdf#45589 Show bookmarks: make them visible in a document ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
  2. tdf#48436 Data Label Placement needs absolute coordinates ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
  3. tdf#54938 Adapt supportsService implementations to cppu::supportsService ( Thanks to Batuhan Taskaya )
  4. tdf#57113 Macros: Unicode vs. password protected user libraries ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  5. tdf#77796 FILEOPEN: DOCX – Table cell padding (defined in table style) not imported correctly ( Thanks to László Németh )
  6. tdf#78840 Add the regular expression (?ismwx-ismwx: … ) Flag settings. Evaluate parenthesized expression with specifics flags enabled or -disabled. To have a case sensitive mode in functions using regular expressions. ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
  7. tdf#83779 FILESAVE: Error in saving as Excel files – logical boolean type of FALSE and TRUE values not preserved during input ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  8. tdf#88496 FORMATTING Multiple row table header pushed to next page if rows do not fit (unless one sets table properties .. uncheck Repeat Heading). behavior different from MS Word ( Thanks to László Németh )
  9. tdf#88713 Cycling through Navigator reminders is done in the wrong order ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
  10. tdf#90069 DOCX: Font style table inconsistencies, new cells resetting font styles ( Thanks to László Németh )
  11. tdf#92497 Update documentation for style management group button in Styles & Formatting sidebar ( Thanks to Seth Chaiklin )
  12. tdf#93389 Document recovery strips encryption ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  13. tdf#94411 In alphabetical indexes f. and ff. should be used – not p. or pp. ( Thanks to Seth Chaiklin )
  14. tdf#94801 Fileopen DOCX: Text in table different width in Writer (multiple lines) and Word (single line) for Microsoft fonts – 0,1cm difference ( Thanks to László Németh )
  15. tdf#95033 Borders missing from some table cells in DOCX file (borders element of tblPrEx tag) ( Thanks to László Németh )

WORKSFORME bugs

96 bugs have been retested by 33 people.

Top 10 testers

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 18 )
  2. Timur ( 11 )
  3. Buovjaga ( 11 )
  4. sdc.blanco ( 8 )
  5. Julien Nabet ( 8 )
  6. Telesto ( 6 )
  7. Cor Nouws ( 4 )
  8. b. ( 3 )
  9. Heiko Tietze ( 3 )
  10. Terrence Enger ( 2 )

DUPLICATED bugs

121 bugs have been duplicated by 32 people.

Top 10 testers

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 22 )
  2. Timur ( 19 )
  3. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 12 )
  4. V Stuart Foote ( 11 )
  5. Julien Nabet ( 8 )
  6. Heiko Tietze ( 6 )
  7. Oliver Brinzing ( 5 )
  8. sdc.blanco ( 3 )
  9. Dieter ( 3 )
  10. Roman Kuznetsov ( 3 )

Verified bug fixes

83 bugs have been verified by 15 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 60 )
  2. Dieter ( 6 )
  3. Roman Kuznetsov ( 4 )
  4. Timur ( 2 )
  5. Gerhard Weydt ( 1 )
  6. V Stuart Foote ( 1 )
  7. Gerald Pfeifer ( 1 )
  8. Kevin Suo ( 1 )
  9. mhall ( 1 )
  10. Ming Hua ( 1 )

Categorized Bugs

302 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 32 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

  1. sdc.blanco ( 62 )
  2. Dieter ( 55 )
  3. Roman Kuznetsov ( 41 )
  4. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 21 )
  5. V Stuart Foote ( 21 )
  6. Eyal Rozenberg ( 19 )
  7. Aron Budea ( 10 )
  8. DaeHyun Sung ( 8 )
  9. Buovjaga ( 7 )
  10. Oliver Brinzing ( 7 )

Regression Bugs

77 bugs have been set as regressions by 18 people.

Top 10

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 31 )
  2. Timur ( 12 )
  3. Roman Kuznetsov ( 9 )
  4. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 3 )
  5. Telesto ( 3 )
  6. Buovjaga ( 2 )
  7. V Stuart Foote ( 2 )
  8. m.a.riosv ( 2 )
  9. raal ( 2 )
  10. Cor Nouws ( 2 )

Bisected Bugs

62 bugs have been bisected by 11 people.

Top 10 Bisecters

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 33 )
  2. Telesto ( 7 )
  3. raal ( 6 )
  4. Aron Budea ( 5 )
  5. Mihkel Tõnnov ( 2 )
  6. Roman Kuznetsov ( 2 )
  7. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 2 )
  8. Kevin Suo ( 2 )
  9. Buovjaga ( 1 )
  10. Timur ( 1 )

Evolution of Unconfirmed Bugs

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Evolution of Open Regressions

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Evolution of Open bibisectRequests

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Evolution of Highest Priority Bugs

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Evolution of High Priority Bugs

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13 Jan 2020

LibreOffice 6.4 RC2 is ready for testing!

The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 6.4 RC2 is ready for testing!

LibreOffice 6.4 will be released as final at the end of January, 2020, being LibreOffice 6.4 RC2 the forth pre-release since the development of version 6.4 started in the beginning of June, 2019 ( See the release plan ). Since LibreOffice 6.4 RC1 ( the previous pre-release ), 90 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 58 bugs have been fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.

LibreOffice 6.4 RC2 can be downloaded from here, it’s available for Linux, MacOS and Windows. ( Note that it will replace your actual installation )

In case you find any problem in this pre-release, please report it in Bugzilla ( You just need a legit email address in order to create a new account ) so it can get fixed before LibreOffice 6.4 final is released.

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

Happy testing!!

Download it now!

10 Jan 2020

QA/Dev Report: December 2019

General Activities

  1. LibreOffice 6.3.4 was released on December, 12
  2. LibreOffice 6.4.0 RC1 was released on December 23 and a Bug Hunting Session took place the same day
  3. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) published a blogpost wrapping all the improvements achieved by the PPTX Team in the last months
  4. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made find & replace regular expressions work with look-behind and look-ahead assertions, fixed the display of multi-line formulas, fixed the importing of DOCX files with Tables of Contents and other indices
  5. Jim Raykowski completed the integration of the new colour palette and removed the old background tab page code, fixed a very popular annoyance concerning duplicated labels in Customize dialog (with additional contributions from Caolán McNamara of Red Hat) and fixed many accessibility issues
  6. Jan Holešovský (Collabora) fixed many under-the-hood issues with the Android application
  7. Dennis Francis (Collabora) fixed a frame-anchoring issue, which made elements fly into all the wrong places in Writer
  8. Andreas Kainz improved the Notebookbar UIs
  9. László Németh (NISZ) fixed several issues with DOCX tables and pasting to Writer tables. He also implemented several AutoCorrect fixes and enhancements
  10. Chris Sherlock made many under-the-hood improvements to the EMF+ handling code and implemented support for more EMF+ features
  11. Justin Luth (Collabora/SIL) fixed a DOCX import footnote issue and completed a multifaceted fix for a DOCX issue involving subscripts in character styles
  12. Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB) added an infobar notification for cases of missing hyphenation information and improved the infobar behaviour in general
  13. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) improved the behaviour of measurement units in the UI input fields, fixed issues in Calc cell style settings dialog and made many improvements to the UI code, including getting native GTK widgets working in the Sidebar
  14. Regina Henschel fixed unwanted rotation and position changes of a shape anchored to a Calc cell
  15. Noel Grandin (Collabora) fixed a performance issue when copying a large bulleted list, improved the speed of exporting a large document to PDF, improved the loading time of an XLSX file with lots of comments and made many cleanups under the hood
  16. Balázs Varga (NISZ) fixed number formatting in DOCX chart data labels
  17. Bakos Attila (NISZ) fixed shape anchoring in DOCX tables
  18. Michael Stahl (CIB) fixed an issue with DOCX continuous sections
  19. Muhammet Kara (Collabora) guided students in Ankara, Turkey to complete many C++ easy hacks
  20. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) added functionality to check Writer documents for accessibility problems to make the document conform to PDF/UA requirements
  21. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) added support for semi-transparent text
  22. Kohei Yoshida published some Benchmark results on mdds multi_type_vector

Reported Bugs

580 bugs, 83 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 320 people.

Top 10 Reporters

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 36 )
  2. Nicolas Christener ( 29 )
  3. sdc.blanco ( 20 )
  4. Mike Kaganski ( 16 )
  5. Roman Kuznetsov ( 14 )
  6. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 13 )
  7. DM ( 9 )
  8. R. Green ( 9 )
  9. Markus Elfring ( 9 )
  10. Rizal Muttaqin ( 8 )

Triaged Bugs

595 bugs have been triaged by 81 people.

Top 10 Triagers

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 150 )
  2. Dieter Praas ( 58 )
  3. Timur ( 56 )
  4. Heiko Tietze ( 34 )
  5. V Stuart Foote ( 31 )
  6. Julien Nabet ( 30 )
  7. Oliver Brinzing ( 20 )
  8. Roman Kuznetsov ( 17 )
  9. Olivier Hallot ( 16 )
  10. Mike Kaganski ( 15 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

578 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

183 bugs have been fixed by 43 people.

Top 10 Fixers

  1. Caolán McNamara ( 22 )
  2. Mike Kaganski ( 11 )
  3. László Németh ( 10 )
  4. Noel Grandin ( 8 )
  5. Michael Stahl ( 6 )
  6. Jim Raykowski ( 5 )
  7. Jan-Marek Glogowski ( 5 )
  8. Roman Kuznetsov ( 4 )
  9. Miklos Vajna ( 4 )
  10. Samuel Mehrbrodt ( 4 )

List of critical bugs fixed

  1. tdf#112989 Time required to export a large document has doubled for Latin (text layout issue) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  2. tdf#129533 Calc crashes on Navigator click or move ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  3. tdf#99711 Sidebar Position and Size displays incorrect width and height when units in mm ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of high severity bugs fixed

  1. tdf#105225 Color palette cannot be chosen in various places ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
  2. tdf#108458 Label changes for Toolbar use degrade function listing in the Customize dialog–have duplicate entries on the list ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  3. tdf#116194 table content from .DOCX shown as text in Writer ( Thanks to László Németh )
  4. tdf#127022 menu bar is broken in RTL interface on Windows ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
  5. tdf#128077 Always reproducible complete crash/lock of all LibreOffice windows ( steps in comment 10 ) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  6. tdf#128449 Inserting image as background results in blue bg ( Thanks to Aron Budea )
  7. tdf#128845 EDITING: cannot modify a bibliography entry after creating it ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  8. tdf#129119 crash in launching Customize dialog from StartCenter Tools -> Customize ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  9. tdf#129127 Crash when sort by column of Excel 97-2003 file with specific data ( Thanks to Dennis Francis )
  10. tdf#129165 Impress: right-click menu on slide in Slide Pane is not available anymore ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
  11. tdf#129210 CRASH: recovering database file ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  12. tdf#37156 FORMATTING: Paste table result different for paste destination “table cell” or “normal text area” ( Thanks to László Németh )

List of crashes fixed

  1. tdf#127955 Crash when opening Insert Fields in Writer ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  2. tdf#128077 Always reproducible complete crash/lock of all LibreOffice windows ( steps in comment 10 ) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  3. tdf#129056 CRASH: changing line’s colour in chart sidebar ( Thanks to Muhammet Kara )
  4. tdf#129076 impress slideshow crashes with skia backend ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
  5. tdf#129119 crash in launching Customize dialog from StartCenter Tools -> Customize ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  6. tdf#129127 Crash when sort by column of Excel 97-2003 file with specific data ( Thanks to Dennis Francis )
  7. tdf#129136 crash in basic function CurDir ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
  8. tdf#129192 Sharing a file will crash the Android app ( Thanks to Jan Holesovsky )
  9. tdf#129210 CRASH: recovering database file ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  10. tdf#129346 CRASH: sd::SdUnoSlideView::getCurrentPage() ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  11. tdf#129519 Crash when using two or more documents from the same WebDAV server ( Thanks to Thorsten Behrens )
  12. tdf#129533 Calc crashes on Navigator click or move ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

List of performance issues fixed

  1. tdf#112989 Time required to export a large document has doubled for Latin (text layout issue) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  2. tdf#119227 A five second freeze when copying a large bulleted list ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  3. tdf#129227 Poor performance in a Basic code ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  4. tdf#129228 FILEOPEN XLSX: file won’t open then very slow (2 speedups in this bug) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  5. tdf#129256 ReDim is slow when array custom type is explicitly known ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )

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

  1. tdf#34517 UI: Texts in context menu ‘Arrangement for chart lines’ interchanged ( Thanks to Kelemen Gábor )
  2. tdf#35570 Moving rows (and columns too) in tables overwrites content ( Thanks to László Németh )
  3. tdf#37156 FORMATTING: Paste table result different for paste destination “table cell” or “normal text area” ( Thanks to László Németh )
  4. tdf#38394 EDITING: Can’t insert a French opening quote after an apostrophe using AutoCorrection ( Thanks to László Németh )
  5. tdf#47583 PRINTING: Behaviour of Writer Print Options are not Transparent ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
  6. tdf#54409 AutoCorrect not correcting word next to smart/curved quote-mark (single or double) ( Thanks to László Németh )
  7. tdf#59327 BASIC: A missing optional argument is treated as a not declared variable. ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  8. tdf#59666 EDITING: Option to disable Greek letters (αβγδελμ..) converting to big letters (ABGDE…) as automatic capitalization of first letters in sentence ( Thanks to László Németh )
  9. tdf#64902 Add new menu options to move rows/columns in tables without overwriting the original cells ( Thanks to László Németh )
  10. tdf#65038 EDITING: Search&Replace doesn’t replace regular expression with Look assertions (ahead-behind) ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  11. tdf#75806 SearchWords in ReplaceDescriptor ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  12. tdf#83248 PRINTING: “Single-line” text box always printed in black ( Thanks to Arnaud Versini )
  13. tdf#87569 FILEOPEN: Incorrect layout of table in DOCX file ( Thanks to Bakos Attila )

WORKSFORME bugs

111 bugs have been retested by 49 people.

Top 10 testers

  1. Timur ( 17 )
  2. Xisco Faulí ( 11 )
  3. Michael Weghorn ( 8 )
  4. Alex Thurgood ( 6 )
  5. Julien Nabet ( 6 )
  6. Buovjaga ( 6 )
  7. m.a.riosv ( 5 )
  8. Telesto ( 3 )
  9. Dieter Praas ( 3 )
  10. Heiko Tietze ( 3 )

DUPLICATED bugs

150 bugs have been duplicated by 38 people.

Top 10 testers

  1. Timur ( 44 )
  2. Xisco Faulí ( 23 )
  3. Michael Weghorn ( 7 )
  4. V Stuart Foote ( 6 )
  5. Heiko Tietze ( 5 )
  6. Dieter Praas ( 5 )
  7. m.a.riosv ( 5 )
  8. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 4 )
  9. Mike Kaganski ( 4 )
  10. BogdanB ( 4 )

Verified bug fixes

170 bugs have been verified by 17 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

  1. raal ( 78 )
  2. Xisco Faulí ( 54 )
  3. Dieter Praas ( 9 )
  4. Thorsten Behrens (CIB) ( 8 )
  5. Buovjaga ( 4 )
  6. Timur ( 3 )
  7. Roman Kuznetsov ( 3 )
  8. BogdanB ( 2 )
  9. V Stuart Foote ( 1 )
  10. Vera Blagoveschenskaya ( 1 )

Categorized Bugs

304 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 36 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

  1. Roman Kuznetsov ( 69 )
  2. Dieter Praas ( 56 )
  3. Aron Budea ( 35 )
  4. sdc.blanco ( 20 )
  5. V Stuart Foote ( 14 )
  6. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 14 )
  7. Chris Sherlock ( 14 )
  8. oesterblog-admin ( 11 )
  9. Timur ( 9 )
  10. Oliver Brinzing ( 8 )

Regression Bugs

106 bugs have been set as regressions by 23 people.

Top 10

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 51 )
  2. Timur ( 17 )
  3. raal ( 5 )
  4. Roman Kuznetsov ( 5 )
  5. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 4 )
  6. Oliver Brinzing ( 4 )
  7. Mike Kaganski ( 2 )
  8. Dieter Praas ( 2 )
  9. Justin L ( 2 )
  10. Boaz Dodin ( 1 )

Bisected Bugs

84 bugs have been bisected by 12 people.

Top 10 Bisecters

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 59 )
  2. raal ( 10 )
  3. Oliver Brinzing ( 4 )
  4. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 2 )
  5. Justin L ( 2 )
  6. Telesto ( 1 )
  7. Kevin Suo ( 1 )
  8. Terrence Enger ( 1 )
  9. Mike Kaganski ( 1 )
  10. Thomas Bertels ( 1 )

Evolution of Unconfirmed Bugs

Check the current list of unconfirmed bugs here

Evolution of Open Regressions

Check the current list of open regressions here

Evolution of Open bibisectRequests

Check the current list of open bibisectrequests here

Evolution of Highest Priority Bugs

Check the current list of highest priority bugs here

Evolution of High Priority Bugs

Check the current list of high priority bugs here

Thank you all for making Libreoffice rock!
Join us and help to keep LibreOffice super reliable!
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23 Dec 2019

LibreOffice 6.4 RC1 is ready for testing!

The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 6.4 RC1 is ready for testing!

LibreOffice 6.4 will be released as final at the end of January, 2020, being LibreOffice 6.4 RC1 the third pre-release since the development of version 6.4 started in the beginning of June, 2019 ( See the release plan ). Since LibreOffice 6.4 Beta1 ( the previous pre-release ), 410 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 195 bugs have been fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.

LibreOffice 6.4 RC1 can be downloaded from here, it’s available for Linux, MacOS and Windows. ( Note that it will replace your actual installation )

In case you find any problem in this pre-release, please report it in Bugzilla ( You just need a legit email address in order to create a new account ) so it can get fixed before LibreOffice 6.4 final is released.

For help, you can contact us directly in our IRC channel.

Happy testing!!

Download it now!

7 Dec 2019

QA/Dev Report: November 2019

General Activities

  1. LibreOffice 6.4 Beta1 was announced on November 18
  2. A new version of LibreOffice Impress Remote for Android was announced
  3. The new LibreOffice Macro Team posted a progress report
  4. Julien Nabet improved the code quality based on cppcheck results
  5. Coverity’s defect density is back to 0
  6. Andreas Kainz continued improving dialog layout and the UI with nearly sixty commits
  7. Caolán McNamara made the customize dialog open quickly again
  8. Luboš Luňák and Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) introduced the Skia graphics engine into the codebase. It supports rendering the UI using GPU with Vulkan.
  9. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed a long standing problem in basic’s syntax checker. He also added support for Windows Default apps settings
  10. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) started the work on replacing boost::optional with std::optional
  11. Justin Luth (Collabora) removed a bunch of obsolete hacks and fixed several issues related to styles and tables in Writer
  12. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made it possible to use long passwords in OOXML documents
  13. Tamás Bunth (Collabora) added support for importing and exporting custom label text in DOCX documents
  14. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) improved the interoperability of math objects from PPTX
  15. Noel Grandin (Collabora) continued working on more than 1024 columns support for Calc, solved an acessibility-related performance issue with complex tables, made ODS documents with lots of countif functions load faster and changed various XML-handling code to use FasterParser
  16. Jan-Marek Glogowski (CIB), Michael Weghorn (LHM), Katarina Behrens (CIB) keep reducing the Kf5/Qt5 funtionality gap compared to other VCL backends
  17. Gülşah Köse and Tamas Bunth (Collabora) improved how PPTX rotated objects and text are imported and exported
  18. Balazs Varga (NISZ) fixed the position and size of custom chart legends and digits of percentages of data points when saving OOXML charts
  19. Jim Raykowski made it so list styles can be deleted in Custom Styles view
  20. Bartosz Kosiorek and Chris Sherlock added support for EMF+ custom line cap
  21. Michael Weghorn fixed loading printer settings with the document
  22. László Németh (NISZ) fixed the table line spacing in a certain DOCX document
  23. Szabolcs Toth (NISZ) fixed the displaying of table borders in a certain DOCX document
  24. Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB) added API support for the infobar

Reported Bugs

585 bugs, 67 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 365 people.

Top 10 Reporters

  1. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 28 )
  2. Xisco Faulí ( 23 )
  3. Mike Kaganski ( 12 )
  4. Roman Kuznetsov ( 9 )
  5. andreas_k ( 8 )
  6. Nicolas Christener ( 7 )
  7. ricky.tigg ( 7 )
  8. sdc.blanco ( 6 )
  9. Pablo ( 6 )
  10. Nukool Chompuparn ( 6 )

Triaged Bugs

652 bugs have been triaged by 76 people.

Top 10 Triagers

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 194 )
  2. Heiko Tietze ( 58 )
  3. Dieter Praas ( 50 )
  4. Timur ( 35 )
  5. Julien Nabet ( 30 )
  6. Oliver Brinzing ( 29 )
  7. Alex Thurgood ( 29 )
  8. V Stuart Foote ( 25 )
  9. Roman Kuznetsov ( 23 )
  10. raal ( 15 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

610 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

236 bugs have been fixed by 43 people.

Top 10 Fixers

  1. Caolán McNamara ( 32 )
  2. Balazs Varga ( 12 )
  3. Mike Kaganski ( 11 )
  4. László Németh ( 9 )
  5. Samuel Mehrbrodt ( 9 )
  6. Miklos Vajna ( 8 )
  7. Justin Luth ( 7 )
  8. Jan-Marek Glogowski ( 7 )
  9. andreas kainz ( 6 )
  10. Olivier Hallot ( 6 )

List of critical bugs fixed

  1. tdf#118526 CRASH: Notebookbar crashes in read mode ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
  2. tdf#121963 button flashing – mouse wheel zooming breaks ( Thanks to Armin Le Grand )
  3. tdf#128659 Cannot add AutoCorrect entries once the user/autocorr/acor_xx-XX.dat file is created ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

List of high severity bugs fixed

  1. tdf#118639 Editing password-protected non-ODF files creates multiple empty files in backup directory ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  2. tdf#124270 Editing: Err:522 on copying of rows with “Calc: threaded” enabled ( steps in comment 6 ) ( Thanks to Dennis Francis )
  3. tdf#124708 CRASH: Selecting all and deleting ( Thanks to Muhammet Kara )
  4. tdf#127921 Presenter View of Impress 6.3.x doesn’t remember slide after Slides and Close, as it used to, but returns to 1 during presentation ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
  5. tdf#128538 Restart in safe mode: Open containig folder doesn’t work and Show user profile gets a error message ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
  6. tdf#128562 Pressing F5 (Navigation) in Calc crashes document, corrupts user profile, and makes Calc impossible to use ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  7. tdf#128862 CRASH: Unable to open tables in HSQLDB odb-files with apostrophe ” ‘ ” character in table name ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
  8. tdf#44462 Provide a proper ‘File Association Manager’ for the windows version of Libreoffice ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  9. tdf#47490 CONFIGURATION: “Show overwrite warning when pasting data” setting is not honored when “Enter” is used to paste ( Thanks to Aditya )

List of crashes fixed

  1. tdf#118526 CRASH: Notebookbar crashes in read mode ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
  2. tdf#123851 Crash on start with KDE integration installed ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
  3. tdf#124708 CRASH: Selecting all and deleting ( Thanks to Muhammet Kara )
  4. tdf#128335 CRASH: cutting textboxes ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
  5. tdf#128375 CRASH: Closing LibreOffice after cutting content from document ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
  6. tdf#128441 Crash in: mergedlo.dll (nvidia with device 0x2182 + Win10) ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
  7. tdf#128562 Pressing F5 (Navigation) in Calc crashes document, corrupts user profile, and makes Calc impossible to use ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  8. tdf#128599 Crash when typing in the Authentication Required dialog ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  9. tdf#128603 CRASH: Cutting a textbox in a reopened document ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
  10. tdf#128667 Crash when pasting text with line wrap ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  11. tdf#128736 CRASH: Moving content to 2 page and undoing ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
  12. tdf#128737 CRASH: Importing a specific file ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
  13. tdf#128739 CRASH: working with fields ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
  14. tdf#128746 Opening table properties window causes crash in development build ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  15. tdf#128753 CRASH: Closing LibreOffice after cutting content from document ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
  16. tdf#128767 CRASH: Clicking on Export Directly to PDF (gen) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  17. tdf#128788 Crash when trying to put autovalue on a field of a table ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  18. tdf#128802 customize toolbar with drag and drop causes crash ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  19. tdf#128862 CRASH: Unable to open tables in HSQLDB odb-files with apostrophe ” ‘ ” character in table name ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
  20. tdf#129025 CRASH: Closing LibreOffice while Options dialog is open ( gen ) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )

List of performance issues fixed

  1. tdf#108642 FILEOPEN: document with a complex table structure takes double the time to open when the sidebar is enabled (gtk3) ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
  2. tdf#126043 Tools -> Customize has a nagging delay of 3 seconds on each opening ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
  3. tdf#128812 LibreOffice – calc – specific xlsx document (almost) any operation (FILEOPEN, FORMATTING) takes about 1 min ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

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

  1. tdf#38199 Writer EDITING: Why when I press tab in read-only mode, then the document scrolls to top? ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
  2. tdf#41205 PRINTING: clicking radio button “Pages” should select pane contents for page selection ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
  3. tdf#42112 EMF+ Fileopen: Embedded grouped diagram from particular DOC still doesn’t preview arrows correctly (diagram opens fine if extracted from MSO) ( Thanks to Bartosz Kosiorek )
  4. tdf#43021 Macros: FilePicker method setDisplayDirectory shows wrong folder with native dialog Win 7 (64-bit) ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
  5. tdf#44462 Provide a proper ‘File Association Manager’ for the windows version of Libreoffice ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
  6. tdf#47490 CONFIGURATION: “Show overwrite warning when pasting data” setting is not honored when “Enter” is used to paste ( Thanks to Aditya )
  7. tdf#54204 Hyperlinks between documents not works if link contains anchor at the end ( Thanks to Tünde Tóth )
  8. tdf#76586 FILEOPEN 2007 DOCX Column width of table within table not imported properly (OK if resaved in MSO) ( Thanks to László Németh )
  9. tdf#84183 [Infobar] Wrong appearance of clicked close button ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
  10. tdf#84929 EDITING: Clicking in the footer area brings focus/view to last cursor position on page ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
  11. tdf#88922 Resizing a chart legend makes the chart’s body rezise on top of it ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
  12. tdf#94288 Entering chart mode doesnt show chart sidebar ( Thanks to Muhammet Kara )
  13. tdf#95374 FILEOPEN DOCX Margin import error. LibreOffice imports with -1cm margin that should be 0cm ( Thanks to László Németh )

WORKSFORME bugs

106 bugs have been retested by 40 people.

Top 10 testers

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 15 )
  2. Timur ( 11 )
  3. Buovjaga ( 9 )
  4. Julien Nabet ( 8 )
  5. eisa01 ( 7 )
  6. Robert Großkopf ( 5 )
  7. Heiko Tietze ( 5 )
  8. Roman Kuznetsov ( 4 )
  9. Dieter Praas ( 4 )
  10. Aron Budea ( 3 )

DUPLICATED bugs

131 bugs have been duplicated by 29 people.

Top 10 testers

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 29 )
  2. Timur ( 15 )
  3. V Stuart Foote ( 11 )
  4. Alex Thurgood ( 8 )
  5. Oliver Brinzing ( 8 )
  6. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 7 )
  7. Roman Kuznetsov ( 5 )
  8. libreoffice.bak ( 4 )
  9. Heiko Tietze ( 4 )
  10. Dieter Praas ( 4 )

Verified bug fixes

104 bugs have been verified by 20 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 75 )
  2. Timur ( 6 )
  3. Dieter Praas ( 4 )
  4. Buovjaga ( 2 )
  5. BogdanB ( 2 )
  6. Michael Weghorn ( 2 )
  7. roland ( 2 )
  8. raal ( 1 )
  9. Patrick Jaap ( 1 )
  10. Eike Rathke ( 1 )

Categorized Bugs

241 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 32 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

  1. Dieter Praas ( 51 )
  2. Roman Kuznetsov ( 32 )
  3. LibreOfficiant ( 29 )
  4. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 27 )
  5. V Stuart Foote ( 19 )
  6. sdc.blanco ( 11 )
  7. Rizal Muttaqin ( 9 )
  8. Xisco Faulí ( 7 )
  9. Aron Budea ( 7 )
  10. Luke ( 5 )

Regression Bugs

114 bugs have been set as regressions by 24 people.

Top 10

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 52 )
  2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 10 )
  3. Alex Thurgood ( 8 )
  4. Timur ( 6 )
  5. Roman Kuznetsov ( 5 )
  6. Oliver Brinzing ( 5 )
  7. eisa01 ( 3 )
  8. Jan-Marek Glogowski ( 2 )
  9. Dieter Praas ( 2 )
  10. Julien Nabet ( 2 )

Bisected Bugs

99 bugs have been bisected by 13 people.

Top 10 Bisecters

  1. Xisco Faulí ( 66 )
  2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 9 )
  3. Aron Budea ( 6 )
  4. raal ( 6 )
  5. Oliver Brinzing ( 3 )
  6. Roman Kuznetsov ( 2 )
  7. writepaperforme2 ( 1 )
  8. Gabor Kelemen ( 1 )
  9. Buovjaga ( 1 )
  10. Michael Weghorn ( 1 )

Evolution of Unconfirmed Bugs

Check the current list of unconfirmed bugs here

Evolution of Open Regressions

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Evolution of Open bibisectRequests

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Evolution of Highest Priority Bugs

Check the current list of highest priority bugs here

Evolution of High Priority Bugs

Check the current list of high priority bugs here

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18 Nov 2019

LibreOffice 6.4 Beta1 is ready for testing

The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 6.4 Beta1 is ready for testing!

LibreOffice 6.4 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2020 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 6.4 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 6.4 started in the beginning of June, 2019. Since then, 5677 commits have been submitted to the code repository and more than 850 bugs have been set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice.

LibreOffice 6.4 Beta1 can be downloaded from here for Linux, MacOS and Windows, and it can be installed alongside the standard version.

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

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

Happy testing!!

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