diff --git a/0001-rhbz-1956977-crash-on-switch-from-active-comment-to-.patch b/0001-rhbz-1956977-crash-on-switch-from-active-comment-to-.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a023665
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-rhbz-1956977-crash-on-switch-from-active-comment-to-.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+From fd87193917a26437ffd6ce08a33bb22e7b7353fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Caol=C3=A1n=20McNamara?= <caolanm@redhat.com>
+Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 21:04:40 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] rhbz#1956977 crash on switch from active comment to slide
+ sorter
+
+Change-Id: I2b5a5cb8b0631971b775a70d96f2cbf0c118c090
+---
+ sd/source/ui/annotations/annotationmanager.cxx | 7 +++++--
+ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/sd/source/ui/annotations/annotationmanager.cxx b/sd/source/ui/annotations/annotationmanager.cxx
+index 155862469313..898eb201d78e 100644
+--- a/sd/source/ui/annotations/annotationmanager.cxx
++++ b/sd/source/ui/annotations/annotationmanager.cxx
+@@ -947,10 +947,13 @@ IMPL_LINK_NOARG(AnnotationManagerImpl, UpdateTagsHdl, void*, void)
+ 
+ void AnnotationManagerImpl::CreateTags()
+ {
+-
+     if( !(mxCurrentPage.is() && mpDoc) )
+         return;
+ 
++    auto xViewShell = mrBase.GetMainViewShell();
++    if (!xViewShell)
++        return;
++
+     try
+     {
+         int nIndex = 1;
+@@ -963,7 +966,7 @@ void AnnotationManagerImpl::CreateTags()
+         {
+             Reference< XAnnotation > xAnnotation( xEnum->nextElement() );
+             Color aColor( GetColorLight( mpDoc->GetAnnotationAuthorIndex( xAnnotation->getAuthor() ) ) );
+-            rtl::Reference< AnnotationTag > xTag( new AnnotationTag( *this, *mrBase.GetMainViewShell()->GetView(), xAnnotation, aColor, nIndex++, maFont ) );
++            rtl::Reference< AnnotationTag > xTag( new AnnotationTag( *this, *xViewShell->GetView(), xAnnotation, aColor, nIndex++, maFont ) );
+             maTagVector.push_back(xTag);
+ 
+             if( xAnnotation == mxSelectedAnnotation )
+-- 
+2.31.1
+
diff --git a/libreoffice.spec b/libreoffice.spec
index 8c30ae6..d1fba4e 100644
--- a/libreoffice.spec
+++ b/libreoffice.spec
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Summary:        Free Software Productivity Suite
 Name:           libreoffice
 Epoch:          1
 Version:        %{libo_version}.2
-Release:        3%{?libo_prerelease}%{?dist}
+Release:        4%{?libo_prerelease}%{?dist}
 License:        (MPLv1.1 or LGPLv3+) and LGPLv3 and LGPLv2+ and BSD and (MPLv1.1 or GPLv2 or LGPLv2 or Netscape) and Public Domain and ASL 2.0 and MPLv2.0 and CC0
 URL:            http://www.libreoffice.org/
 
@@ -252,6 +252,7 @@ Patch4: 0001-rhbz-1918152-fix-FTBFS.patch
 Patch5: 0001-Related-tdf-141197-critical-a11y-warning.patch
 Patch6: 0001-tdf-141197-if-we-have-a-sysobj-child-then-include-th.patch
 Patch7: 0001-Get-rid-of-apache-commons-logging.patch
+Patch8: 0001-rhbz-1956977-crash-on-switch-from-active-comment-to-.patch
 
 # not upstreamed
 Patch500: 0001-disable-libe-book-support.patch
@@ -2237,6 +2238,9 @@ gtk-update-icon-cache -q %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor &>/dev/null || :
 %{_includedir}/LibreOfficeKit
 
 %changelog
+* Wed May 05 2021 Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 1:7.1.2.2-4
+- Resolves: rhbz#1956977 Impress crashes on switch from commenting to slide sorter
+
 * Thu Apr 29 2021 Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 1:7.1.2.2-3
 - Resolves: rhbz#1955013 build libreoffice-langpack-fy for libreoffice