Collabora Online 24.04 Release Notes

Please find all information on updates, features, and fixes of the Collabora Online 24.04 branch on this page. Details about security updates are available here. For the best experience, we recommend that you use the latest version of Collabora Online from our most current stable branch. Minor releases bring new features, micro releases fix bugs.


Collabora Online 24.04.9.4

Released on 05 December 2024

Bug Fixes / Improvements

  • Fixed a few a corner cases with regards to clipboard handling
  • Fixed localization of Calc AutoFill context menu
  • Fixed an XLSX export bug that caused problems with opening in Excel (tdf#163842)

Collabora Online 24.04.9.3

Released on 22 November 2024

Features

  • Feature: Allow users to create Named Ranges from address input field cool #10115
    • Named ranges are a powerful feature in spreadsheet applications that allow users to assign a name to a specific range of cells. This name can then be used in formulas, functions, and various operations, making it easier to reference data without having to remember the exact cell addresses
  • Feature: @Mention users in the comments: Directly notify team members by using @mentions in comments. This feature enhances collaboration by allowing specific individuals to be easily tagged, ensuring they stay informed on relevant discussions and updates cool #1529
  • Feature: Impress Grid & Snap Grid cool #4556 , cool #7406
    • Now objects can be easily aligned with the help of grid.
  • Feature: Add the option to insert multimedia files (video or audio) into presentations

Bug Fixes /Improvements

  • Fixed: Navigator doesn’t jump on another try cool #10282
  • Improved: The new canvas based slideshow feature
  • Improved: Improved self-diagnostic of memory consumption
  • Reduced logging noise due to unexpected disconnections.
  • Fixed: Mention feature: insert extra space after inserting mention (cool #10394)
  • Fixed: Calc: fix: autocomplete formula edge (cool #10394)
  • Fixed: Handle limited open Connections due to keepalive connections (cool#9833)
  • Fixed: Calc: Can’t scroll down in a spreadsheet with browser at large zoom (cool #10353)
  • Fixed: show cluster configuration error when clipboard request fails to reach correct COOL server in multi COOL server setup
  • Fixed: Shows Calc comment indicator as a triangle (cool #10254)
  • Fixed: Cant color table cells in Impress
  • Fixed: Printing text lines disappear when printing in gray scale (tdf #157240)
  • Fixed: Font fallback: not taking roman vs swiss (sans vs serif) hints into account (tdf # 162072)
  • Fixed: Keyboard: allow Ctrl+Shift+I shortcut (cool #10391)
  • Fixed: DOCX Shape is misplaced upon reload when added to document with an image anchored as character tdf#163890
  • Fixed: FILESAVE Save to pptx loses fill on image tdf#163803
  • Fixed: Cant color table cells in Impress using fill tool from menu bar tdf#163805
  • Fixed: Cell filtering (list) not saved in XLSX format tdf #162992
  • Fixed: Conditional formatting Add rule warns of read-only file cool #10523
  • Improved: Background saving now automatically disabled when saving fails.
  • Improved Shortcuts by allowing to use Ctrl+Shift+Z for redo
  • Fixed: Caret pointer is shown in document on supposedly non-touch device

Collabora Online 24.04.8.5

Released on 6 November 2024

Bug Fixes

Feature

  • Feature: Hiding Server Signature
    • Hiding the server signature reduces the likelihood of targeted attacks by making it harder for attackers to identify the server’s configuration.
      • In built-in default configuration security.server_signature is set to false. It is also set to false in coolwsd.xml packaged with production builds. HTTP response header is like:
        Server: COOLWSD HTTP Server
      • In debug mode security.server_signature is set to true in coolwsd.xml. HTTP response header is like:
        Server: COOLWSD HTTP Server 24.04.8.5

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed: Impress: Font list shows no remote fonts
  • Fixed: Saving a particular spreadsheet takes a very long time tdf 163667
  • Fixed: Copy paste doesn’t work with  Traefik cool #9281

Collabora Online 24.04.8.4

Released on 31 October 2024

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed: Conditional Formatting Icon Set does not work.
  • Fixed: Cannot edit existing conditional format.
  • Fixed: Collabora Crashes – reject a change that contains a merge field.

Collabora Online 24.04.8.3

Released on 25 October 2024

Bug Fixes & Improvements

  • Improved document locking performance. 333
  • Fixed corner-case issues with document locking.
  • Fixed recovery from document upload failures, reducing “conflict” cases.
  • The font is not preserved if i type before the first character in a bulleted list cool #6382
  • Fixed: Autofilter: filter changes 1st row’s height cool #8961
  • Improved: Improve grammar check popups from Duden tdf #160127
  • Removed mount_namespaces config option. Now coolwsd always tries to use Linux Namespaces first, and then falls back to use capabilities.
  • Improved copy paste by allowing people to copy from the comment cool #6967
  • Fixed: Calc: Split view changes with switching sheets often
  • Fixed: Conditional Formatting issues tdf #162475

Collabora Online 24.04.7.3

Released on 2 October 2024

Features

  • Feature: We split the .deb and .rpm packages and put the support for the “non-namespace” versions of our helpers into a “deprecated” subpackage. We think Linux Namespaces are sufficiently widely available and enabled by default on contemporary Linux OSes that we can rely on them existing, but if your system doesn’t support them then you can install the “deprecated” package if you need to retain support for installation on a system without Linux Namespace availability. If namespace support is not available Collabora Online will log a suggestion to install the coolwsd-deprecated package (cool #9771)
  • Feature: Optimization to not block and wait when looking up DNS data (cool #9786)

Improvements

  • Improved visual appearance of hyperlink popup by centering it and adding an arrow to indicate the caret position for better user interaction (cool #10099)

Shortcuts Improvements

  • Added: Keyboard: CTRL + Alt + R combination for insert comment command. ( cool #9795)
  • Added: Keyboard: Ctrl + Insert as copy to clipboard shortcut (cool #9794)

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed: Show fallback for inline formulas in PPTX files (tdf#129061)
  • Fixed: In DOCX files, tables were limited in width by an overlapping floating frame instead of being shifted down, causing layout inconsistencies (tdf#162781)
  • Fixed: A rendering issue where SVG conversion to curves caused text to disappear (tdf#162455)
  • Fixed: German UI and styles: footnote number position should be superscript (tdf#162884)
  • Fixed: Collaborative editing: dark and light mode make some Automatic color text not seen
  • Fixed Editing Data Range in a chart by editing cell number doesn’t work (tdf#162597)
  • Fixed: Crash when pasting (tdf#162574)
  • Fixed: Automatic color shows black text instead of white with black background


Collabora Online 24.04.6.3

Released on 30 August 2024

Features
  • Expose Poco version in admin console (cool#9710)
  • Added hardware resource warning to server audit dialog
  • Updated translations
Bug Fixes
  • Fixed: Writer: Comment box cut off when zooming in (cool #9866)
  • Fixed: Keyboard: Add Ctrl + Insert as copy to clipboard shortcut (cool #9794)
  • Fixed: Crash when pasting (tdf #162574)
  • Fixed: Issue where copying using the context menu on mobile triggered an incorrect “use on-screen keyboard for copy/paste” message. (cool #9671)
  • Fixed: A long standing file-descriptor leak that made it necessary to reboot some servers from time to time” (cool #9349)
  • Fixed: Issue where row/column header context menu wouldn’t close when accessing the spreadsheet toolbar. (cool #9664)
  • Fixed: UI issues on mobile. (cool #9662)
  • Fixed: UI of status bar icons in dark mode. (cool #9640)
  • Fixed: Issue with jumping to own cursor on any key press. (cool #9639)
  • Fixed: Calc: jump to cell on address input. (cool #9584)
  • Fixed: Python scripts not working in some cases (cool #9597)
  • Fixed: Adjusted drawing order of cell cursors to prevent overlap with column & row headers. (cool #9548)
  • Fixed: Adjusted other view cell cursor pop-up positions when needed. (cool #9547)
  • Fixed: Cell cursor visibility issue. (cool #9515)
  • Fixed: PDF export to disable export of form fields as PDF forms by default. (tdf#153040)
  • Fixed: DOCX import to handle font family for characters. (tdf#162072)
  • Fixed: Slow paste of a URL into a document with lots of bullets in Writer. (cool #9504)
  • Fixed: PDF corruption after adding a comment to a PDF containing screenshots. (tdf#162161)
  • Fixed: Collaborative editing issue where other users experienced inverted background effects. (cool #9626)
  • Fixed: Dark mode not setting light text in read-only marked documents. (cool #9660)
  • Fixed a few crashers (tdf#162370tdf#162398)
  • Improved performance of document layout (cool#9735)
  • Restored display of core build configuration in admin console
  • Don’t show Help button when there is no help (cool#9699)
  • Calc autofilter fix (cool#9704)


Collabora Online 24.04.5.4

Released on 09 August 2024

Bug Fixes
  • Python scripts not working in some cases (cool #9597)
  • A long standing file-descriptor leak that made it necessary to reboot some servers from time to time (cool #9349)
  • UI of status bar icons in dark mode (cool #9640)
  • Crash when copy-pasting HTML content from Writer
    tdf #162398
  • PDF corruption after adding a comment to a PDF containing screenshots.


Collabora Online 24.04.5.3

Released on 29 July 2024

Features
  • Form Filling API: This new automated feature for admins makes form filling hassle-free. Admins can easily fill and store data from forms without having to manually process the files. The API offers two main functionalities:
    • 1. Extract data from a Form
      • Reads and extracts user input from a form so that admins can use it as necessary.
    • 2. Fill data in a Form
      • Fills in the form with stored data.
    • This feature provides an interface between the integrating environment and Collabora Online, it is up to the integration to implement a use case relying on the form filling API. For better understanding please check the SDK.
  • Run COOL in rootless environment using the “mount_namespaces” feature, resulting in better container integration. It is enabled by default in CODE.
  • Unveiling Precision: Introducing the Ruler Feature in Impress/Draw cool #8966
  • Improved PDF Annotation Support
    • We have added enhanced support for importing and exporting a wider range of PDF annotation types and properties. This includes:
      • Stamps
      • Free text annotations
      • Line size adjustments
      • Line and fill color for polygons, rectangles, and circles
      • You can now insert various types of annotations such as images, polygons, and text. These annotations can be edited just like any other objects within the document. To experience these improvements, open a PDF containing various types of annotations. You should be able to move, resize, and change the properties of these annotations seamlessly.
Bug Fixes
  • Writer: Content control: bad widget position when combined with notes-in-margin for PDF export tdf #161970
  • Writer: Exporting a content control with an empty value to DOCX produces a document unreadable in Word tdf #161771
  • Writer: Hangs opening a specific document with a table with some cells merged, having minimal row height tdf #161508
  • Writer: Content control: color is lost when exporting to PDF forms tdf #161708
  • Writer: Vertical line with offset in certain DOCX file is imported as horizontal line tdf #161779
  • Calc: Wrong cell cursor position in RTL sheets cool #9506
  • Calc: Multiple text cursors in the same cell are not aligned cool #9468
  • Calc: Cannot edit and remove hyperlink outside of edit mode cool #9467
  • Calc: Dark Mode Invert Background option not working as expected cool #9379
  • Calc: View jumping case in Calc cool #9170
  • Calc: All users get Autofilter warning dialog
  • “Follow user” feature is not stable cool #9507
  • Random crashes in coolwsd cool #9471
  • Improve URL popups cool #9461
  • Improved UX when working with shapes cool #9469 cool #9488
  • WOPI Lock/Unlock request did not get sent in some cases cool #9395
  • File tab: Revision history is sometimes rendered as inline button cool #9324
  • Some issues with icons on mobile devices cool #9381
  • Styles view: Fix dark mode background and border cool #9365


Collabora Online 24.04.4.5

Released on 12 July 2024

Bug Fixes
  • Fixed: coolwsd was unnecessarily killed on kit segfault
  • Fixed: remove all but scheme://hostname:port/ from a URI for policy directives
  • Fixed: simplify CheckFileInfo and prevent a crash
  • Attempt to fix curious assertion around ServerAuditUtil
Translations
  • Updated and corrected Traditional Chinese translation (thanks to TY Wong at Peopleware, Hong Kong)


Collabora Online 24.04.4.4

Released on 8 July 2024

Bug Fixes
  • Bundle fonts of Google’s DocRepair Project
    DocRepair Project intended to improve compliance with the ISO/IEC 29500 standard by providing fallback for proprietary fonts that minimizes text reflow in Office Open XML documents.
  • Fixed: startup issue with unusual configuration file
  • Fixed: Two stability issues that potentially affect the availability of the service cool #9440,  cool #9439
  • Fixed: re-added Source Sans Pro font in order to preserve formatting of templates that use them.
  • Fixed: Writer: grey background during loading tiles after coming back from idled out session cool #9338
  • Fixed: dark mode background and border of styles preview on notebookbar cool #9389
Translations
  • 100% Traditional Chinese Translation (thanks to TY Wong at Peopleware, Hong Kong)


Collabora Online 24.04.4.3

Released on 28 June 2024

Features
  • Created a framework for showing “server audit” results, primarily targeted at administrators. It can detect issues with integration and give hints to resolve them. The Server auditbutton is available from the Helptab. This feature will be extended in future releases.
  • Writer now has much better support for continuous / inline endnotes (not on a separate page), and it is enabled by default for DOCX files. See more in Miklos Vajna’s blog post: Section-based continuous endnotes in Writer
  • Now it is possible to switch light/dark modes selectively for the user interface and the document. It becomes handy when the user is in dark mode, but wants to check the document as it would look like in print or PDF (cool#9061). The Invert Background button is on the View tab.
  • Print Slides with Notes cool #9198
Bug Fixes
  • Fixed: CVE-2024-37311 Remote host TLS certificates are not fully verified
    • You can disable certificate verification in config: ssl.ssl_verification=false
  • Fixed: Writer: Unexpected page break, specific document opens with 3 pages instead of 1 (tdf#161318)
  • Fixed: Calc: Validity dropdown doesn’t work properly on tall cell cool #9250
  • Fixed: Calc: Formula range indicator not shown anymore (cool#9195)
  • Fixed: Calc: Mouse cursor can grow thinner/thicker as the user types
  • Fixed: Calc: When user is resizing a row/column, other user cannot insert comment (cool#9169)
  • Fixed: Calc: Edit mode controls in formula bar are misplaced
  • Fixed: Calc: Zoom in/Out causes View jump
  • Fixed: Calc: Can’t select cells when trying to pick source for pivot table
  • Fixed: Calc: Display issue after fill down and undo
  • Fixed: Cannot paste between two servers cool #9219
  • Fixed: View jump when zooming in/out cool #9154
  • Fixed: Issues with user list after reconnection cool #9243
  • Fixed: Invert background button was visible in Light mode cool #9251
  • Fixed: Missing icons in dark mode
  • Fixed: Page down does not work right away after opening certain document cool #9245
  • Fixed: Mobile RTL scroll cool #9203
  • Fixed: Allow changing compact to tabbed mode cool #9222
  • Fixed: Background save does not always work cool #9082
  • Fixed: Can’t add watermark when exporting document to PDF (cool#9165)
  • Fixed: Impress: Clear Direct Formatting icon on toolbar is incorrect
  • Fixed: Draw/Impress: Editing SVG (cool#9174)
  • Fixed: Embedded video playback on HAProxy
  • Fixed: File with long filename cannot be quarantined cool #9264
  • Fixed: Missing dark mode icons for 24.04 (cool#9149)
  • Improved: color contrast in application canvas (cool#9050)


Collabora Online 24.04.3.6

Released on 18 June 2024

  • Fixed an issue related to background save (cool#9082)


Collabora Online 24.04.3.5

Released on 12 June 2024

  • A more complete fix to the crash that was fixed in 24.04.3.4
  • Added a few missing dark mode icons


Collabora Online 24.04.3.4

Released on 11 June 2024

  • Fixed: a crash in Writer that occurred a few times on demo sites, and it was also reported by a customer.


Collabora Online 24.04.3.3

Released on 7 June 2024

  • Fixed: Impress: Opening an existing, older presentation, formatting of objects gets blue/messed up.
  • Fixed: Calc: Formula range indicator not shown anymore (cool#9195)


Collabora Online 24.04.3.2

Released on 3 June 2024

Security Fixes
Bug Fixes 
  • Fixed: Dark mode missing icons (cool#9059)
  • Fixed: Calc: Chart labels not or partially shown (tdf#161222)
  • Fixed: Calc: Automatic color text printed from dark mode not seen
  • Fixed: Calc: When selecting a cell, its content is not shown in the right cell
  • Fixed: Calc: Text inside shapes is not visible


Collabora Online 24.04.3

Released on 23 May 2024

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