Status report: consultancy team, week 28, 2026

[vmiklos]

Caolan

• bootstrap “–enable-developer” configure option
  → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/5809/3
• CODA test failure effort.
  • qt: schedule the deferred clipboard transfer on the destination’s kit poll
    → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6133
  • kit: release only the destroyed document’s clipboards
    → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6164
• a11y report
  • add Shift+F10 and open the keyboard context menu at the cursor
    → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6150
  • add F6 to move keyboard focus between the main application regions
    → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6278
  • macos select dropdowns are native but not within a11y guidelines
    → macos select dropdowns are native but not within a11y guidelines · Issue #15987 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
• efforts to speed up windows build
  • windows gbuild: get MSVC compile deps from cl /sourceDependencies
    → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6033
  • gbuild: put response-file temporaries under WORKDIR not TMPDIR
    → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6263
  • concat-deps: also write the per-object .d stub when reading the JSON deps
    → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6317
• crashtesting: don’t parallelize a conditional sum that grows its range
  → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6160
  → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6190
• CODA: give presenter console/view the checkmark toggle in editing mode too
  → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6291
• ofz: ignore an advance array shorter than the string
  → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/core/+/6129
• Crash and data loss, to test
  • debug/consider various possibilities wrt document timestamp changing unexpectedly for online
  • send ModifiedStatus to newly registered views
    → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/5728
• bgsave: don’t abort the save on a closing dialog notification
  → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6506
• ofz: pdf, clamp stream Length to the bytes actually read
  → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/core/+/6132
• ofz: pdf, check record againsts max allowed size
  → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/core/+/6131
• add Shift+F10 and open the keyboard context menu at the cursor
  → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6536
• ofz: wmf, check record against max allowed size
  → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/core/+/6130
• a11y
• various merge conflicts from overlapping issues
• cool#15987 make selects use base-select to style the dropdown option list
  → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6108
• crashtesting: leave a result on the stack after running a callable
  → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6153
• crashtesting: read a plain cell value when filling a matrix from a reference
  → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6151
• cid#561661 Unsafe output of data into innerHtml
  → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/5997
• windows speed up: link DLLs and executables with lld-link via --enable-ld
  → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6482
• put getFonts font-list cache under CacheOwner
  → https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6166

Mike

• Online does not embed fonts

  • Fixed related task
  • Re-tested again, still cannot repro
  • Waiting for an independent re-test

• PPTX connector import is incorrect

  • Working on this

• Some reviews

• Some build fixes

Tomaz

Calc: Pre-View Spreadsheet Filtering

• Fixed the issue with column headers
• Some more issues to fix found when doing a code review

Vector rendering for online:

• Adding missing primitives
  • Completed Graphic primitive
• Text prediction experiment
  • returning to this now, so it can be implemented properly
• Delta
  • reviewing the delta algorithm - initial patches ready
• Send Fonts
  • Initial implementation is OK - defer caching and segmentation to later.

Working with Ben to get LAMBDA support into Calc:

• Some more fixes for Lambda landed

Miklos

Worked on Impress slide copy: pointless re-parsing of PNG data · Issue #15962 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub