A new version of LibreOffice’s Calc program has broken many spreadsheets, users say, and a perceived unwillingness by developers to address the problem has sparked an ill-tempered argument.

The problem has to do with a new method of sorting reference cells that diverges from the method used in both previous versions of Calc and in most other spreadsheets that was included in a recent version of the software. The result is that some users, apparently, are seeing formulas return incorrect results in their spreadsheets, leading to data loss.

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