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This page is all about our Most Annoying Bugs (aka MABs).

What are “Most Annoying Bugs” ?

LibreOffice keeps track of our Most Annoying Bugs (MAB) by setting the Priority field to highest. The goal of identifying MABs is to attract the attention of the QA Team and Developers to bugs of special importance.

How to mark a bug as a MAB

To add a bug,

1. Make sure you're a member of the Contributors group in Bugzilla. This group has the necessary privileges to Prioritize bugs.
2. Update the bug report:
   • Change the Priority field to highest
   • Add a comment describing why this bug should be prioritized such, and explaining why this bug is a “most annoying” one.
   • Double-check to make sure that the Summary and other fields on the report are correct
   • Finally, click Save Changes.

Bugs by Release Series

We previously used tracking bugs to keep track of MABs for each LibreOffice release series. We still group MABs by release series, but now use Bugzilla fields (Status: OPEN + Priority: highest) to keep track of which bugs are MABs.

New Style

(Version list as of 2023-03-20)

	Release series (earliest version bug confirmed)	All bugs	Open bugs	Comment
Active
	7.6	all	open
	7.5	all	open
	7.4	all	open
End of Life
	7.3	all	open
	7.2	all	open
	7.1	all	open
	7.0/6.5	all	open	(6.5 was renamed to 7.0)
	6.4	all	open
	6.3	all	open
	6.2	all	open
	6.1	all	open
	6.0	all	open
	5.4	all	open
	5.3	all	open
	5.2	all	open
	5.1	all	open
	5.0/4.5	all	open	(4.5 was renamed to 5.0)
	4.4	all	open
	4.3	all	open
	4.2	all	open
	4.1	all	open
	4.0	all	open
	3.6	all	open
	3.5	all	open
	3.4	all	open
	3.3	all	open
Others
	Inherited from OOo	all	open
	preBibisect	all	open
	unspecified	all	open

Old Style

Classic MABs

Release version	Tracking bug	Query still open bugs	Open bugs absent in later MAB lists	Daily builds
3.4	tdf#35673	opened
3.5	tdf#37361	opened
3.6	tdf#44446	opened
4.0	tdf#54157	opened
4.1	tdf#60270	opened
4.2	tdf#65675	opened	Open bugs absent in mab4.3 Open bugs absent in mab4.4
4.3	tdf#75025	opened	Open bugs absent in mab4.4	libreoffice-4-3
4.4	tdf#79641	opened		libreoffice-4-4
5.0	tdf#86696	opened		master

Also see

• Tracking Bugs - Various bugs that we use to track sets of related bug reports.