* Present:
+ Cloph, Caolan, Heiko, Ilmari, Jonathan, Michael W, Olivier, Regina,
Stephan, Miklos, Xisco
* Completed Action Items:
+ System requirements for Windows Server: research this & see if there is an
actual problem here (Cloph)
+ WS2016 already reports Win10, WS2012 is already EOL
+ probably don't need to anything here
* Pending Action Items:
* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
+ 26.2 RC3 & final: tagging next week, on Tue
+ 25.8.5 RC1 in 1 week
+ Windows arm bugs
+ MSVC C runtimes are not shipped
+ arm libs are included in the x64 ones
+ so manual install of msvc redistributables should not be necessary
after the patch
+ missing icons -> native build looks fine
+ workaround: disable Skia
+ maybe will do the build in the new baseline as a workaround
+ it has been in the most pressing bugs section (Xisco)
* Documentation (Olivier)
+ Helpcontents2
+ Fix help page (M. Otto - first patch in Help)
+ Guides
+ Working on Writer Guide 26.2
+ Online help opening when LO is associated with .html files (Heiko)
+ then we open these .html files in Writer/Web
+ a bit unexpected
+ hard to see how to find the default browser
+ on Linux, xdg-open is used to open the HTML file (Olivier)
+ not a specific LO issue
+ config issue (Heiko)
+ works as intended (Stephan)
+ Bugzilla Documentation statistics
204(204) bugs open
+ Updates:
BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
created 6(-2) 19(0) 71(-5) 183(3)
commented 25(11) 68(9) 209(3) 753(15)
resolved 4(0) 9(3) 40(-3) 126(3)
+ top 10 contributors:
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 33 changes in 1 month, and 129 changes in 1
year
Olivier Hallot made 23 changes in 1 month, and 459 changes in 1 year
Vernon, Stuart Foote made 18 changes in 1 month, and 77 changes in 1
year
Heiko Tietze made 17 changes in 1 month, and 87 changes in 1 year
Raal made 10 changes in 1 month, and 16 changes in 1 year
Takenori Yasuda made 9 changes in 1 month, and 11 changes in 1 year
Henschel, Regina made 7 changes in 1 month, and 62 changes in 1 year
Stephen made 4 changes in 1 month, and 4 changes in 1 year
Emrys made 4 changes in 1 month, and 4 changes in 1 year
Eyal Rozenberg made 3 changes in 1 month, and 56 changes in 1 year
* UX Update (Heiko)
+ Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
212(212) (topicUI) bugs open, 27(27) (needsUXEval) needs to be
evaluated by the UXteam
+ Updates:
BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
added 2(-8) 10(-8) 23(-11) 23(-11)
commented 29(-24) 67(-40) 195(-44) 593(-60)
removed 0(0) 0(0) 1(0) 1(0)
resolved 2(1) 3(0) 23(2) 88(-4)
+ top 10 contributors:
Heiko Tietze made 39 changes in 1 month, and 218 changes in 1 year
Vernon, Stuart Foote made 37 changes in 1 month, and 212 changes in 1
year
BDF made 13 changes in 1 month, and 15 changes in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 12 changes in 1 month, and 156 changes in 1
year
m.a.riosv made 6 changes in 1 month, and 32 changes in 1 year
Roman Kuznetsov made 5 changes in 1 month, and 31 changes in 1 year
Dieter made 5 changes in 1 month, and 6 changes in 1 year
Eyal Rozenberg made 5 changes in 1 month, and 66 changes in 1 year
Olivier Hallot made 5 changes in 1 month, and 10 changes in 1 year
Henschel, Regina made 4 changes in 1 month, and 14 changes in 1 year
+ Setting LibreOffice as os/DE default handler for .HTML causes LO offline
<F1> Help documentation to choke in Writer/Web
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170361
+ Improve visibility of the edit cursor in Writer
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170260
+ maybe inherit some settings from the OS
+ No UI for editing named section styles as opposed to a section's style
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170409
+ e.g. hidden attribute is a valid use-case
+ not straightforward to add, though
* Crash Testing (Caolan)
+ 85(+1) import failure, 13(+1) export failures
- https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Crashtesting
- new pdfs shuffled some ids around, but essentially unchanged
+ 11 coverity issues
- some fixes enqueued
+ 11 ossfuzz issues
- 2 int overflows, 8 timeouts, 1 OOM
- https://gcve.eu/ announced today
* Crash Reporting (from crashreport.libreoffice.org) (Xisco)
+ 25.8.1.1 42378(+400)
+ 25.8.2.2 34346(+344)
+ 25.8.3.2 41006(+4356)
+ 25.8.4.2 13001(+4617)
+ Fix a crash:
-
https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/10ce0a8084f94a00904d5d838a2a0df47a5be2ba%5E%21
* Mentoring/easyhack update (Hossein)
+ Reviewed submissions from the newcomers
+ Published new blog posts on dev blog
+ Outlook for the new year 2026
https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/?p=1643
+ Validating ODF and OOXML files
https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/?p=1625
+ does it make sense to replace the java based validators with LO/C++ code?
+ sounds like a lot of work for little value (Miklos)
+ Java-based tools are around 3k-4k Java LOC (Hossein)
+ New EasyHacks
+ tdf#170384 - Write tests for bitmap filters (Thanks to Xisco)
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170384
tdf#170415 - Add support for macOS in OfficeBean (Hossein)
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170415
committer... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 98(-82) 152(-70) 156(-70) 156(-70)
reviews 800(160) 1540(156) 4106(142) 12130(176)
merged 459(110) 1165(178) 3840(93) 13555(236)
abandoned 17(-3) 56(7) 175(3) 676(3)
own commits 271(100) 705(75) 2314(33) 9415(104)
review commits 68(20) 170(19) 587(23) 2172(19)
contributor... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 76(-103) 450(14) 452(12) 452(12)
reviews 1400(232) 3134(270) 8748(68) 31620(288)
merged 63(25) 144(9) 422(15) 1801(-8)
abandoned 19(5) 50(1) 175(-37) 1676(2)
own commits 18(-1) 57(-2) 239(-7) 831(3)
review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
+ easyHack statistics:
needsDevEval 9(9) needsUXEval 1(1) cleanup_comments 332(332)
total 396(396) assigned 27(27) open 329(329)
+ top 10 contributors:
Karthik Godha made 12 patches in 1 month, and 35 patches in 1 year
Parth Raiyani made 4 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
Simon Chenery made 3 patches in 1 month, and 95 patches in 1 year
Kurt Nordback made 3 patches in 1 month, and 25 patches in 1 year
viraj made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
Weblate made 2 patches in 1 month, and 17 patches in 1 year
Maya Stephens made 2 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
Rohan Singh made 2 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
Aya Jamal made 2 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
Tejas Shukla made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
+ top 10 reviewers:
Michael Stahl made 392 review comments in 1 month, and 1028 in 1 year
Hossein made 138 review comments in 1 month, and 446 in 1 year
Vajngerl, Tomaž made 116 review comments in 1 month, and 468 in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 790 in 1
year
Kaganski, Mike made 70 review comments in 1 month, and 584 in 1 year
Vajna, Miklos made 70 review comments in 1 month, and 1476 in 1 year
Caolán McNamara made 68 review comments in 1 month, and 1038 in 1 year
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 58 review comments in 1 month, and 826
in 1 year
Xisco Fauli made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 642 in 1 year
Timar, Andras made 50 review comments in 1 month, and 278 in 1 year
+ Patches automatically abandoned:
WIP convert vcl Windows backend to GDI+ ( Noel Grandin )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/180904
tdf#168226 Use o3tl::convert() for unit conversion in hwpfilter and sw
( Rosemary Ajayi )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/192868
tdf#158803 imported but unused ( Bogdan Buzea )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/192959
tdf#32506 Base: implement find & replace in record search ( Rosemary
Ajayi )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/193279
tdf#169151 first stab (doesn't work with Gtk3/4) ( Jim Raykowski )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/193480
tdf#147021: Replace SAL_N_ELEMENTS with std::size ( temateu kevin )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/193505
tdf#104276 fix alignment in calc header footer dialog ( siddhi salunkhe
)
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/193609
feat: enable insertbookmark.ui for jsdialog ( Skyler Grey )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/193848
fix: exclude editable field when edit is disabled ( Skyler Grey )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/193852
Add convenience functions to UNO Python module ( Ravi, Teja Medarametla
)
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/194116
Improve UNO component documentation with comprehensive docstrings (
Ravi, Teja Medarametla )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/194118
+ big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch,
since last report:
Anamay Narkar
Jonathan Wakely (Red Hat)
Masayuki Iizuka
viraj
* Outreachy (Ilmari)
+ Siddhi Salunkhe works on the project "Transform the existing Hyperlink dialog
into a standard SfxTabDialog" mentored by Heiko Tietze
+ https://www.outreachy.org/alums/2025-12/
+ timeline is in https://www.outreachy.org/docs/internship/#payments
+ https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/195201
* GSoC (Ilmari)
+ Ideas page is emptiest I've ever seen:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas
+ Needs not only 350-hour, but also smaller project ideas (175 h and/or 90 h)
+ https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
+ GSoC ideas w/o mentor updated, mentors welcome (Heiko)
LibreOffice
+
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas_without_a_mentor
+ Font handling - Substitution & Listing
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103342
+ Allow other keys than from US keyboard as shortcut keys
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115052
+ Redesign of the keyboard tab of the Customization dialog
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115527
Writer
+ Allow resetting individual style attributes
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89826
+ Dialog to change the properties of a table styles
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105933
+ Redesign Column tab of Table Properties dialog
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145739
+ Manage AutoText and AutoCorrect from the
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166464
+ Improve usability and visibility of AutoText feature
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52607
+ Improvements for Table Manipulation in Writer / Table handling
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113603
Calc
+ Chart wizard
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90307
+ Chart styles
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62925
+ New UI for conditional formatting
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169060
+ Rework the pivot table dialog and provide a preview
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131654
Draw/Impress
+ Ability to create line hops/jumps for crossing lines
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54990
* Commit Access
* Developer Certification (Hossein/Jonathan/Laszlo/Stephan)
+ resting since: 5 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)
* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 176 ok: 172 ko: 3 fail ratio: 1.70% mean_ok:
11 ( 19) median_ok: 8 ( 15)
gerrit_android_arm jobs: 175 ok: 172 ko: 3 fail ratio: 1.71% mean_ok:
10 ( 18) median_ok: 7 ( 14)
gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 177 ok: 173 ko: 3 fail ratio: 1.69% mean_ok:
9 ( 18) median_ok: 7 ( 14)
gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 177 ok: 173 ko: 3 fail ratio: 1.69% mean_ok:
10 ( 18) median_ok: 7 ( 14)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 364 ok: 298 ko: 62 fail ratio: 17.03%
mean_ok: 45 ( 51) median_ok: 42 ( 51)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 392 ok: 347 ko: 32 fail ratio: 8.16% mean_ok:
26 ( 32) median_ok: 20 ( 25)
gerrit_mac jobs: 361 ok: 321 ko: 37 fail ratio: 10.25%
mean_ok: 42 ( 43) median_ok: 36 ( 37)
gerrit_windows_wsl jobs: 609 ok: 281 ko: 315 fail ratio: 51.72%
mean_ok: 51 (160) median_ok: 50 (159)
gerrit_master_ml jobs: 439 ok: 251 ko: 158 fail ratio: 35.99%
mean_ok: 262 (264) median_ok: 209 (210)
gerrit_master jobs: 57 ok: 36 ko: 19 fail ratio: 33.33%
mean_ok: 234 (234) median_ok: 222 (222)
gerrit_master_seq jobs: 381 ok: 215 ko: 138 fail ratio: 36.22%
mean_ok: 264 (266) median_ok: 209 (209)
+ tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
3 CppunitTest_chart2_xshape gerrit_linux_gcc_release
3 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter2 gerrit_windows_wsl
4 CppunitTest_sd_import_tests gerrit_mac
4 CppunitTest_vcl_pdf_encryption gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
4 JunitTest_toolkit_unoapi_1 gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
7 UITest_calc_dialogs gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
10 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
11 UITest_writer_tests gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
+ this week: nothing really standing out
+ one builder didn't auto-disabled itself -> fixed now
+ ui test failure: on libreoffice-25-8 (Xisco)
+ was a flaky test that only passed once, fixed now
* What’s cooking (Miklos)
+ A11y update (Michael W)
+ tdf#170338 - The accessible formula of table cells should be end-user
consumable, even when they contain cell references
+ tdf#170274 - Orca screen reader does not read formatting changes when
applied
+ RTL/CTL/CJK update (Jonathan)
+ tdf#162120 Auto-detect paragraph directions when not set explicitly
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162120
+ Now enabled by default
+ tdf#169035 Change default text alignments to start
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169035
+ Now the default in Writer
+ ...and Writer default toolbar buttons, etc. now use start/end
+ macOS / UI (Dan)
+ ODF-TC (Olivier + Regina)
+ (no ODF-TC meeting this week)
* FOSDEM https://fosdem.org/2026/ (Cloph)
+ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/2026/FOSDEM
+ have a matrix room now: #fosdem2026:documentfoundation.org
+ post-event hackfest:
https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-office-fosdem-fringe-hackfest/4326
+ if you want to join, please +1 here:
https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/13884 (Thorsten)
* QA update (Xisco)
+ UNCONFIRMED: 2159 (-16)
+ enhancements: 625 (-1)
+ needsUXEval: 12 (-9)
+ haveBackTrace: 13 (+0)
+ needsDevAdvice: 46 (-1)
+ documentation: 7 (+0)
+ android: 0 (+0)
+ iOS: 0 (+0)
+ Online: 4 (+0)
+ Most pressing bugs:
New:
None
Old:
+ Using the Lock feature in an AutoFilter with dates causes a crash
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167395
+ Sahil ?
+ No icons show in the UI AARM64 Win64 builds with skia lib rendering
(neither raster nor Vulkan), GDI+ works but slow (comment 22 for workaround)
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166803
+ specific to arm64/windows, so can't really bisect
+ Cloph is looking at this
Fixed:
+ Crash when trying to edit template
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170399
+ Thanks to Michael Weghorn
+ New high severity bugs of the week:
+ Cannot insert the image by drag and drop (Windows-only)
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169485
+ already fixed, thanks to Mike
* QA stats
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
+83 -13 (-80) overall)
many thanks to the top bug squashers:
Buovjaga 16
QA Administrators 10
m_a_riosv 9
Heiko Tietze 6
Justin L 5
V Stuart Foote 5
raal 4
Aron Budea 3
Noel Grandin 2
Samuel Mehrbrodt 2
+ top 10 bugs reporters:
Aron Budea 4
BDF 4
Alexander Kurakin 3
Gabor Kelemen (Collabora) 2
Mike Kaganski 2
Prasanta Hembram 2
Regina Henschel 2
Alex Thurgood 1
Gauthier 1
Gerald Pfeifer 1
+ top 10 bugs fixers:
Justin Luth 5
Aron Budea 3
Ilmari Lauhakangas 3
Grandin, Noel 2
Samuel Mehrbrodt 2
Xisco Fauli 2
Barry T 1
Jim Raykowski 1
Kaganski, Mike 1
Mohit Marathe 1
+ top 10 bugs confirmers:
Ilmari Lauhakangas 29
Heiko Tietze 8
m.a.riosv 8
Aron Budea 4
Dieter 4
Raal 3
Xisco Fauli 2
Bogdan B 1
Henschel, Regina 1
Kaganski, Mike 1
* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
+ more accurate - down to a single commit.
+ http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
+
done by:
Ilmari Lauhakangas 4
Raal 3
Timur Gadzo 2
vijaya chandra 1
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
+ 1293(-6) bugs open of 14536(+8) total 21(+0) high prio.
done by:
Raal 3
Ilmari Lauhakangas 2
Alex Thurgood 1
Timur Gadzo 1
* ~Component count net * high severity regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
Writer - 11(+0)
Calc - 5(+0)
LibreOffice - 3(+0)
Impress - 1(+0)
UI - 1(+0)
by OS:
All - 16(+0)
Linux - 5(+0)
Mac OS X - 0(+0)
Windows - 0(+0)
* ~Component count net * all regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
Writer: other - 439(-1)
Calc - 243(+0)
Impress - 134(+1)
LibreOffice - 63(+0)
Crashes - 48(-1)
Writer: docx filter - 48(+0)
Draw - 46(+0)
Borders - 37(-1)
Base - 34(+0)
UI - 33(-1)
Writer: perf - 32(+0)
Writer: other filter - 30(+0)
filters and storage - 29(-2)
Printing and PDF export - 26(+0)
Chart - 23(+1)
RTL - 20(+0)
Writer: doc filter - 19(+0)
BASIC - 18(+0)
graphics stack - 15(-3)
Formula Editor - 8(+0)
framework - 3(+0)
Extensions - 2(+0)
Linguistic - 2(+0)
sdk - 2(+0)
Installation - 1(+0)
