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CODE 23.05.10.1
Released on 28 March 2024
Bug Fixes
- Fixed: Writer: Cannot set relative width in table properties dialog
- Fixed: Writer: Comment messes up entire window cool#8435
- Fixed: Calc: Strange behavior after adding sheet while in chart wizard. cool#8443
- Fixed: Calc: Conditional formatting handling bug in Calc 24.2 with different but overlapping ranges tdf#160117
- Fixed: Calc: Document Colours do not show any colour in the Palette
- Fixed: Calc: The cursor is in wrong cell, display corruption
- Fixed: Calc: Bogus cell view cursor overlay cool#8613
- Fixed: Calc: Copying from a document, closing it, reopening it and then pasting does nothing cool#8572
- Fixed: Calc: Heading 1 and Heading 2 font colour does not change in dark mode cool#8553
- Fixed: Impress: Presentation Layout/Master sidebars icons wrong status cool#8278
- Fixed: Impress: Undo doesn’t revert content of a comment
- Fixed: Impress: Exported pptx cannot be opened in PowerPoint because a referenced part does not exist tdf#159931
- Fixed: Impress: Exported pptx cannot be opened in PowerPoint because a referenced part does not exist tdf#160213
- Fixed: Impress: Multi-level bullet points keep skipping during slideshow
- Fixed: Improve visibility of paragraph formatting options in phone view cool#8492
- Fixed: Comments can overlap with browser zoom / display scaling cool#8531
- Fixed: Mouse cursor issues
- Fixed: Setting English (British English) language in NC doesn’t give metric units
- Fixed: Data loss when shutting down while using typer cool#8558
- Fixed: Review-Resolved Comments button in Tabbed should show as pressed when they are shown (like the buttons Record and Show do). cool#8526
CODE 23.05.9.4
Released on 11 March 2024
Bug Fixes
- UI: Calc: Added freeze-panes options to column/row headers.
- UI: Improved Paste special dialog (cool#8342)
- Fixed: Writer: Issues related to floating tables (tdf#159285, tdf#158986, tdf#159938)
- Fixed: Calc: Print range not used and cleared on print
- Fixed: Calc: Currency dropdown: Default value is confusing
- Fixed: Calc: sidebar: Styles dialog button should be hidden (cool#8135)
- Fixed: Calc: Moving through cells with overflowing content changes the cells’ height and wrapping (tdf#159938)
- Fixed: Calc: Error message when double-clicking in shape after typing
- Fixed: Impress: Applied date/time language not detected in insert header/footer dialog (tdf#159927)
- Fixed: Impress: Dragging slides sometimes results in wrong slide order (cool#6941)
- Fixed: When alias groups were defined with port, the automatic lok_allow setting was incorrect. Then it was not possible to insert images from Nextcloud. The fix removes the port for the lok_allow setting, as it only requires domain name or IP address.
- Fixed: If the document reloads while the user is on an input field (for example font size dropdown), do not take the focus away to the document.
- Fixed: Keyboard shortcut for downloading clipboard content does nothing
- Fixed: Resolved comments can get stuck in top left corner
- Fixed: Resolved comments are not hidden completely
- Fixed: Comments look broken when editing a document (cool#8407)
- Fixed: Comment: inconsistent width of comment annotation cards, i.e. a comment with a very short text – not filling a line – would result in a n abnormally narrow annotation card.
- Performance Optimization: use tools::JsonWriter for theme colors (cool#8327)
CODE 23.05.9.3
Released on 7 March 2024
Bug Fixes
- Fixed: Writer: Clicking on reviewed change shows a wrong tooltip
- Fixed: Writer: File (docx) fails to open in Collabora Online
- Fixed: Writer: Comment feature causes performance issue
- Fixed: Writer: Insert comment with tracked changes sometimes inserts empty comment
- Fixed: Calc: Cannot move the sheets
- Fixed: Calc: View jump cases
- Fixed: Calc: Tiles not invalidated after a tab move
- Fixed: Popup stays on idle screen when document is disconnected
- Fixed: Repair does not work with non-English UI
- Fixed: Tooltip gets messed with the Help modal
CODE 23.05.9
Released 16 February, 2024
Bug Fixes
- Fixed: Impress: No slide thumbnails show when loading a set of ODP slides
- Fixed: Calc: Formular bar startformula button (=, equal) not visible in dark mode
- Fixed: Calc: First-start tab is not visible
- Fixed: Calc: When selecting columns by dragging the mouse, the first column is deselected
- Fixed: Calc: Sheet gets disoriented with Auto-filter condition change
- Fixed: Issue when the other view’s actions are visible in an idle view
- Fixed: Issue with load balancers which could lead to copy/paste functionality not working
CODE 23.05.8
Released 29 January, 2024
Bug Fixes
- Fixed: Cannot hide sidebar after showing it. The sidebar stays visible once it’s shown and no way to hide it.
- Fixed: Calc: avoid view jump when using formula wizard
- Fixed: Calc: Conditional formatting dialogue title is too large
- Fixed: Issue with Sheet Tab Context Menu and Tab Switching in Calc. We have addressed this issue by modifying the functionality. Now, when the context menu is triggered for a sheet tab, there is no automatic switch to another tab. This improvement ensures that users can access the context menu of a specific sheet tab without unintentionally navigating to a different tab.
- Fixed: Writer: Dark mode gives Light mode tiles when user clicks on Formating mark
- Fixed: Calc: Row height doesn’t work correctly.
- Fixed: Calc: Cell when edited covers cells beneath, also for other users
- Fixed: Calc: Long texts seem broken when a user tries to make a selection
- Fixed: Text cursor position doesn’t match text position in the RTL case
Improvements
- Updated translations
CODE 23.05.7
Update 23.05.7.5 released 22 January, 2024
New Features
- Impress: Present in a window
- It allows Present in a new window (as opposed to fullscreen presentation). It comes handy when the user is in a video conference and has to show slides. Full screen presentation is inconvenient in this use case. New button located in the “View” tab called “Present in Window”
- Edit Section in Writer
- In text document there can be sections, for example a possible use case to write-protect some parts of the documents. Now there is Edit Section… option in section’s local menu:
- Possibility to follow hyperlinks in read-only documents. Previously links in read-only documents were not clickable. Now they are.
- Tracked changes in a tooltip over changed text in Writer
- New Color picker (available via Character Highlighting Color and Font Color)
- Better consistency across apps. Now Collabora Online and Collabora Office share the same “Standard” color palette option in Calc and Impress
- The introduction of Document Colours functionality allows users to quickly pick any color in use in the current document
Bug fixes
- Fixed: Writer: Triple-clicking on first word selects another sentence
- Fixed: Writer: insert comment is placed under the status bar
- Fixed: Writer: collapsed comments do not update reply count in multi user
- Fixed: Writer: Drag selection does not work
- Fixed: Impress, mobile: Text cut/paste doesn’t work on presentation
- Fixed: validity List shows only one item
- Fixed: Cannot edit documents (iOS/Safari 13)
- Fixed: Document opened,, then changed shows different for second user
- Fixed: Font and Style dropdown types dark in Dark mode
- Fixed: Can’t insert image from Nextcloud
- Fixed: Many radio button and spinfields have bad spacing
- Fixed: Tabbed View: Some icons are not visible on Dark Mode
- Fixed: Microsoft office files getting reformatted
- Fixed: Annotation: revamp comment autosaving
- Fixed: Annotations: calc comment loses focus just after popup is opened
- Fixed: Lingering comments on sheet/slide change after autosave
- Fixed: Collapsed comment reply count not shown at document loading in big document
- Fixed: Ignore All not working for Spell Check with German UI
- Fixed: HideSaveOption should disable Ctrl+S shortcut
- Fixed: iPad: Text selection handles not visible
- Fixed: Calc: Broken calc re-rendering / split-panes
- Fixed: Calc: content of an edited cell moved to new sheet
- Fixed: Calc: view jump on delete / resize row caused by other view selection
- Fixed: Calc: sheet drop zone is too small
- Fixed: Calc: spreadsheet toolbar buttons not visible in Dark mode
- Fixed: Calc: Impossible to create same level groups
- Fixed: Calc: Multiple groups at the same level overlap, it’s not possible to see collapsed (‘+’) control boxes.
- Fixed: Calc sheet tab hover effect
- Fixed: Calc sheet tab active status not visible
- Fixed: Calc: collapsing groups still shows child groups
- Fixed: Calc: pixel shifting between dark and light mode
- Fixed: Calc: Formula bar: Sometimes when in dark mode the equal icon is imperceptible
- Fixed: Calc: Spreadsheet toolbar: In some cases “Go to Next/Prev sheet” icons have the wrong orientation
- Fixed: Calc: When editing cell, the row/column selection indicator isn’t shown
- Fixed: Improve error message on invalid WOPI host
- Fixed: Dark mode does not set light text in read-only shared document
- Fixed: Multiple dialog boxes appeared for chart properties option
- Fixed: Invalidation offset problem in calc on share
- Fixed: Sizing and selecting of columns does not work properly
- Fixed: Calc: Impossible to create same level groups
Released 12 January, 2024
New Features
- New Color picker (available via Character Highlighting Color and Font Color)
- Add palette selector to Calc and Impress
- The introduction of Document Colours functionality allows users to quickly pick any color in use in the current document
- Better consistency across apps. Now Collabora Online and Collabora Office share the same “Standard” color palette option
- Add palette selector to Calc and Impress
Bug fixes
- Fixed: Writer: Triple-clicking on first word selects another sentence
- Fixed: Writer: insert comment is placed under the status bar
- Fixed: Writer: collapsed comments do not update reply count in multi user
- Fixed: Writer: Drag selection does not work
- Fixed: Impress, mobile: Text cut/paste doesn’t work on presentation
- Fixed: Cannot edit documents (iOS/Safari 13)
- Fixed: Document opened,, then changed shows different for second user
- Fixed: Font and Style dropdown types dark in Dark mode
- Fixed: Can’t insert image from Nextcloud
- Fixed: Many radio button and spinfields have bad spacing
- Fixed: Tabbed View: Some icons are not visible on Dark Mode
- Fixed: Microsoft office files getting reformatted
- Fixed: Annotations: calc comment loses focus just after popup is opened
- Fixed: Lingering comments on sheet/slide change after autosave
- Fixed: Collapsed comment reply count not shown at document loading in big document
- Fixed: Ignore All not working for Spell Check with German UI
- Fixed: HideSaveOption should disable Ctrl+S shortcut
- Fixed: iPad: Text selection handles not visible
- Fixed: Calc: content of an edited cell moved to new sheet
- Fixed: Calc: view jump on delete / resize row caused by other view selection
- Fixed: Calc: sheet drop zone is too small
- Fixed: Calc: spreadsheet toolbar buttons not visible in Dark mode
- Fixed: Calc: Impossible to create same level groups
- Fixed: Calc: Multiple groups at the same level overlap, it’s not possible to see collapsed (‘+’) control boxes.
- Fixed: Calc sheet tab hover effect
- Fixed: Calc sheet tab active status not visible
- Fixed: Calc: collapsing groups still shows child groups
- Fixed: Calc: pixel shifting between dark and light mode
- Fixed: Calc: Formula bar: Sometimes when in dark mode the equal icon is imperceptible
- Fixed: Calc: Spreadsheet toolbar: In some cases “Go to Next/Prev sheet” icons have the wrong orientation
- Fixed: Calc: When editing cell, the row/column selection indicator isn’t shown
- Fixed: Improve error message on invalid WOPI host
- Fixed: Dark mode does not set light text in read-only shared document
- Fixed: Multiple dialog boxes appeared for chart properties option
- Fixed: Sizing and selecting of columns does not work properly
- Fixed: Calc: Impossible to create same level groups
CODE 23.05.6
Update: 23.05.6.5 on 7 January, 2024
- Fixed a problem for users of Collabora Kubernetes Controller: tiles of migrated documents did not get updated.
Released on 18 December, 2023
This version update includes performance improvements and various bug fixes for different parts of the product. See details of the latest improvements and fixes below.
- Re-designed and enhanced PostMessage test harness for integrators/developers
- Added frame properties to Writer’s user interface (support of floating frames, see Miklos’ blog)
- Support of STYLEREF fields in Writer
- Improved fontwork text placement (tdf#148000)
- Adjust OOXML import to handle first header/footer (tdf#136472)
- Support writing SVG images into OOXML using the MS OOXML extension (tdf#126084)
- Crash fixes
- Performance fixes
- User interface polishing
- Updated translations
CODE 23.05.5
Update: Update on 13 November, 2023 – 23.05.5.4
- Fixed: Cannot edit documents (iOS/Safari 13)
- Fixed: Copying from the document doesn’t work ((FF, a11y disabled)
- Fixed: Unable to Copy the Link from text document
- Easier to use user interface for Calc conditional formatting, and fixed icon set order for smilies
- Fixed: off-by-one month in log date, a regression in previous minor version
- don’t try to set TCP_NODELAY on local Unix sockets, which caused excessive log messages unnecessarily
- Fixed:performance of Calc’s formulabar
- Fixed:’Tileprocessed message did not arrive in time’ for slide preview
- Fixed small cosmetic issues in user interface such as missing icons
- Translation updates
Update on 27 October, 2023 – 23.05.5.3
Improvements
- Improved: conditional formatting UI in Calc
- Improved: accessibility in Calc and Impress
- Improved: Display of track change hierarchy in Writer’s Manage Changes dialog
Bug Fixes
- Fixed: Calc – Cancel Button does not remove the empty Comment Dialogue
- Fixed: Collabora – the page number menu item is in English
- Fixed: Tabbed view: Button labels are inconsistent in non-en UI
- Fixed: PostMessage on idle/active
- Fixed: Calc: row/column header context menu is mis-positioned
- Fixed: ODT document : delete keystrokes don’t work
- Fixed: Drop-downs have wrong mark colour in browsers
- Fixed: Scrollbar on Data – Validity dialogue
- Fixed: Draw – Text and Hover text says ModifyPage instead Sidebar
- Fixed: Notebookbar: Online help in non-English UI still with %productName
- Fixed: Calc – view jumping, can’t select cell
- Fixed: Calc – Crash when the second user closes session
- Fixed: Dialogues shouldn’t be taller than viewport and should be scrollable
- Fixed: Crash on copy of text and chart
Update on 21 October, 2023 – 23.05.5.2
Improvements
- Initial support for STYLEREF fields of MS Word files
- Use content controls for text in block SDTs instead of text fields, so properties like alias and formatting are retained
- Multi-page floating tables in Writer: nested tables
- Improved change tracking in Writer: deleting text from other users tracked insertion does not break the insertion to two independent changes any more
Bug Fixes
- Fixed integration of Duden Corrector
- Fixed handling of BiDi text in spreadsheet cells
- Crash fixes
- UI polish
- Translation updates
Released on 13 October, 2023
Improvements
- Improved: Copy to clipboard message ergonomics.
- Improved: Clipboard
- Update messages
- Don’t show full warning on paste
- Set equal width for progress dialogues
- Complete dialogue shows 100% progress bar
- Make dialogues more unified
- Keyboard shortcuts for snack-bar messages
- Improved: Snack-bar Improvement
- Make progress visible
- Use ESC to dismiss sidebar
- Improved: Translation using Weblate (Turkish, Swedish, Polish, Dutch, Hungarian, Croatian, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazil)
- Improved: Browser reconnect experience smoother
- Updated German keyboard shortcuts
Bug Fixes
- Fixed: No info is shown that spreadsheet is read-only
- Fixed: Calc, mobile: Auto-filter doesn’t work
- Fixed: File gets downloaded instead of getting saved
- Fixed: Menu items in English and Portuguese instead pure Portuguese
- Fixed: Some Help buttons in Dialogue result in 404
- Fixed: Get_Export_Formats response only contains PDF in 23.05
- Fixed: Empty screen at document opening, until clicked
- Fixed: Allow http Range header for media files
- Fixed: Safari Workaround SVG position bug
- Fixed: Change the local storage setting name “CompactMode” to “compactMode”
- Fixed: Enable “Set Background Image” button in tabbed view
- Fixed: Browser: make reconnect experience smoother
- Fixed: Impress: screen reader support for text shape editing
- Fixed: Autosaved comment cannot be closed
- Fixed: Calc: Clone formatting cursor has misaligned hotspot
- Fixed: Avoid spell-check dialog from outside selection
- Fixed: Calc: rendering acceleration
- Fixed: LOKit: always display hidden chars when showing formatting marks
- Fixed: The document doesn’t change in online
- Fixed: Crash copying text + chart to clipboard
- Fixed: Crash on double click of value set item in bullets and numbering
- Fixed: Missing background color in style preview
- Fixed: Wrong cursor position after paste
- Fixed: Increase scale for external PDF data
CODE 23.05.4.2
Released on 21 September, 2023
Security Fix
- CVE-2023-4863 – Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in libwebp < 1.3.2
Bug Fixes
- Fixed: Read-only shared document does not immediately show fonts
- Fixed: Pasting in Firefox 117 pastes old content because Ctrl+C doesn’t copy
- Fixed: Calc: Only print current sheet by default
- Fixed: Tabbed bar: Missing French translations
- Fixed: Writer: Not all content controls are marked
- Fixed: No style previews / font selector when switching from compact to tabbed mode
- Fixed: Error/warning log for read only with new version
- Fixed: Use “Insert hyperlink” dialogue from core: Inserting hyperlink with shortcut still triggers the simple dialogue
- Fixed: Save icon in tabbed bar doesn’t show changed status
- Fixed: PDF: Comments don’t get saved
CODE 23.05.4
Released on 14 September, 2023
23.05.4 version includes new features and bug fixes for different areas of the product. See details of the latest improvements and fixes below.
New Features
- Font previews in Online
- Bring to Online Barcode / QR code dialogue
Bug Fixes
- Fixed: Navigator Sidebar: Headings Do Not Update Nesting Instantly
- Fixed: Calc: With multiple views, an edited comment is committed when the other user switches sheets
- Fixed: Calc: Elements in Chart Type dialogue when editing chart positioned incorrectly
- Fixed: Calc: Wrong column width after save .xlsx file
- Fixed: Dark Mode – Document and text is dark
- Fixed: Calc: No info is shown that spreadsheet is read-only
- Fixed: Android app or browser: cannot open PDF
- Fixed: Notebookbar: Online help mixed with keyboard shortcuts
CODE 23.05.3
Released on 29 August, 2023
This version update includes performance improvements and various bug fixes for different parts of the product. See details of the latest improvements and fixes below.
Performance Improvements
- Improved “laggy user experience”: slow response while editing different types of documents.
- Improved the performance of Calc/Writer when scrolling the page down, contents was delayed.
- Fixed performance issues with large XLSM files when it was hard to open, edit, scroll.
- Improved the loading time for large XLSM files.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed: can not play the presentation on iPad.
- Fixed: view separation doesn’t seem to work for multiple views, that have different colour configurations for the Draw/Impress presentation.
- Fixed: Calc fill-down handle doesn’t work with display scaling.
- Fixed: PPTX issues.
- During slideshow the paragraph content after heading on left is underlined.
- During slideshow the whole lines are underlined.
- During slide view and presentation mode the headings have bullets (they don’t in PP)
- During slide view and presentation mode the actual bulleted entries are far apart.
- Fixed: page navigation automatically opens the ‘Bookmarks’ section and scrolls down when first clicked on.
- Fixed: the spellcheck has wrong dark mode, it is white and doesn’t otherwise show automatic colour text.
- Fixed: the Collabora iFrame is on the same page as another textbox, the Collabora Online iFrame takes the focus away from the cursor in the other textbox after some time, usually within 10 seconds.
- Fixed: nothing happens when the user tries to insert a Text Box in a Presentation with the menu in Compact View.
- Fixed: sidebar – spacing, indent number fields don’t work with up clicks in 23.05.2
- Fixed: Calc: no way to pick chart type when inserting chart.
Accelerator Keys Improvements
- Improved Accelerator Keys: Press the “Alt” key on the keyboard now shows the info boxes.
CODE 23.05.2
Released on July 24, 2023
- Copying from filtered rows in Calc copied nothing to clipboard
- Text in document was garbled during collaborative editing (cool#6897)
- Slide previews did not load sometimes
- Delete key didn’t remove text in Firefox (cool#6631)
- Difficult to select words using double-click (cool#6833)
- Various performance improvements.
- Various UI fixes.
CODE 23.05.1
Update: July 11, 2023
- Fixed cool#6803: made snackbar non-modal
- version: 23.05.1.3
Released on June 28, 2023
- New feature in Impress, that the user can hide/show slides on Slide Pane, and hidden slides are not shown any more in the full screen presentation.
- View separation of editengine, i.e. when one user works in dark mode and the other in light mode on the same document, the views of textboxes for example will have dark and light mode views respectively, as expected.
- Fixed embedded video playback in Impress.
- Performance improvements: optimizations to caching and rendering of tiles.
- Fixed a few crashers and started to fix issues that Coverity code checker found.
- A lot of small UI fixes.
- Translation updates.
CODE 23.05.0
Released on June 13, 2023
- Major new version. Please read the press release.