# Status report: consultancy team, week 20, 2026 **URL:** \ **Category:** Status reports\ **Created:** [May 19, 2026, 11:22am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/status-report-consultancy-team-week-20-2026/4675 "2026-05-19T11:22:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vmiklos](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.collaboraonline.com/vmiklos/32/787_2.png) [@vmiklos](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/vmiklos)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2026, 11:22am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/status-report-consultancy-team-week-20-2026/4675/1 "2026-05-19T11:22:01Z")
# Caolan - cool#15578 detect and ignore Carlito/Caladea variants with metric change → [https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2141](https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2141) - remove some stray leftovers after presenter console removal → [https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2168](https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2168) - optimize GetBackColor by iterating over pattern ranges → [https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2362](https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2362) - accessibility things - a11y: check for spatial words in a11y text → [https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/core/+/2201](https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/core/+/2201) - Announce the new-tab change of context to screen readers → [https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/1779](https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/1779) - Remove frames where there is only non-interactive preview content → [https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/core/+/2176](https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/core/+/2176) - Announce the new-tab change of context to screen readers → [https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/1775](https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/1775) - share syncDocumentLogoAriaLabel for menubar variant → [share syncDocumentLogoAriaLabel for menubar variant by caolanm · Pull Request #15736 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/15736) - accessibility - a11y: give the calc functions sidebar labels → [https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2513](https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2513) - reduce watchdog timeout trigger to 75ms → [https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2592](https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2592) - fix preset wordbook install and reenable tests, disabled test was reporting a real failure there on co-26.04 → [https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2615](https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2615) - accessibility - reenable Text Import Dialog a11y test → [https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2611](https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2611) - cypress: improve a11y\_sidebar\_spec.js Chart (LinePropertyPanel) stabi… → [cypress: improve a11y\_sidebar\_spec.js Chart (LinePropertyPanel) stabi… by caolanm · Pull Request #15750 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/15750) - fix cypress ci failure → [https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2633](https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2633) - more readonly isn’t readonly findings - unset ReadOnlyDoc on sc slots that mutate doc or shared view-data → [https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2605](https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2605) - honour SID\_DOC\_READONLY in document Properties dialog → [https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/core/+/2554](https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/core/+/2554) - more link control work - drop redundant getUserAllowsLinkUpdate guard around Connect in SwGrfNode::ReRead → [https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2628](https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2628) - refactor to share the same infobar code for sw/sc/sd → [https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2386](https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2386) - ci cypress throughput improvement efforts: - cypress: rename run\_parallel.sh to run\_buffered.sh → [https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2637](https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2637) - cypress: parallelize check-desktop and check-mobile with -jN → [https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2638](https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2638) - various flaky tests efforts - Most of the builds are vms/docker images on the same computer, so big spikes of cpu on the overall host seem to grind the cypress tests to a halt and flakiness wrt races becomes a problem. # Mike Worked on “PPTX 1st page background missing on open and after save”. # Tomaz Calc: Pre-View Spreadsheet Filtering - Fixing issues with sheet view invalidation - got a patch ready - Other issues found by testing - TODO: backport to 25.04 Vector rendering for online: - Initial vector rendering commit: - TS types for primitives from JSON - Render to canvas - Only background color primitive added now, adding more support one by one - “&vector=true” to enable vector rendering in URL - Assemble thumbnail creation pieces and change on invalidation - Mocha test the renderer - Idea to create JSON files in core from documents, primitive there, then use them in Mocha tests Carlito Font issue: - TODO - Migrator for Calc draw shapes and EditEng # Miklos Worked on [Interdependent Change tracking fails with Formatting on top of formatting · Issue #15749 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](http://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/15749)