Status report: consultancy team, week 27, 2026

[vmiklos]

Caolan

• Crash and data loss
• When background save is working skip guarding idle-saves on inactivity
  → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/5756
• svx: free the local text edit undo manager even if the edit object is gone
  → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/5705
• background save doesn’t send progress after user #2 joins then leaves
  → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/5736
• various backports of fixes around this issue
• sd: add test for text edit undo manager cleanup after shape deletion
  → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/5751
• When background save is working skip guarding idle-saves on inactivity
  → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/5881
• CODA
  • CODA M: impress can get stuck in full screen, closed
    → Sign in to Master
  • macOS: drop the always-true fillScreen parameter from placeWindow
    → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/5689
    → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/5689 - crashtesting
  • tolerate annotation ranges that share an end position
    → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/4725
  • clear the tracked-change flag when dropping the footnote mark buffer
    → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/4724
  • unshare formula cells the matrix import overwrites
    → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/4723
• CODA
  • set the same initial size for a floating presenter console as mac and qt
    → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/5735
• gbuild: use response-file names derived from the target and not mktemp
  → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/5640
• gbuild: use the no-op : recipe instead of true for suppressed tests
• Kasper from upstreaming 25 of their build fixes to us;
• https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/q/owner:kasperisager@hey.com
• default developer config setup --enable-developer
  → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/5814
• crashtesting
  • ofz#529419819 keep m_oLastAnchorPos valid while erasing the footnote char
    → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/5976
• various kasper reviews and porting from co-25.04 core to main monorepo
• attempt to fix flaky qt slide-copy test
• accessibility
  • F6 to move between regions
    → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6128
  • no keyboard way to trigger a context menu on keyboard without a dedicated menu button
    → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6150
  • the default mac OS provided select dropdowns fail a11y text contrast guidelines (chrome/chromium)
  • a cunning base-select scheme to get these working
    → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/5926

Mike

• PPTX 1st page background missing on open and after save

  • On hold

• Online does not embed fonts

  • Working on this

• Some reviews

• Some build fixes

Tomaz

Calc: Pre-View Spreadsheet Filtering

• Looking into the issue where the headers don’t update

Vector rendering for online:

• Adding missing primitives - so we can render correctly
• Text prediction experiment
  • started to look into this again after sending fonts was implemented
• Delta
  • A couple of patches ready to push - will do this soon
• Send Fonts
  • Initial implementation is OK - defer caching and segmentation to later.
• Reducing the size of the changes
  • reducing precision for some double numbers can 20-30% reduce the size of the json tree
  • implemented reduction for the DX array, which can get huge and we don’t need super sub-pixel percision
    • twips as double to 8 decimal places?
    • but 8 decimal places important for transform matrix

Working with Ben (volunteer) to get LAMBDA support into Calc:

• Optional parameters landed
• Fixed OOXML support as optional and eta-lambda is using a special name when exported
  • patches in CI
• Self evaluating OOXML test document for Lambda
  • is last in the patch series in CI
  • round-tripping OOXML, will also do the same for ODF

Review of Histogram patches from Devansh

• Waiting for next patches - adding to UI
• Will probably accelerate this to completion at some point