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General Activities LibreOffice 25.8.3 was announced on November 13 Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the help on sort options and keyboard shortcuts, added help for field variable formats, the Slide Properties Sidebar deck, named Calc formulas and Arabic fonts and right-to-left direction for Math. He also updated help for paragraph alignment after the change from Left/Right to Start/End Gábor Kelemen (Collabora) fixed crashes related to locked-down options, improved the script for finding unneeded includes in the code and did many code cleanups Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) fixed an issue with borders when changing the document theme and improved pivot table stability and test coverage Skyler Grey, Méven Car, Dennis Francis, Hubert Figuière, Szymon Kłos, Jaume Pujantell and Nick Wingate (Collabora) worked on LOKit/jsdialog used by Collabora Online. Szymon also made it so Notebookbar style preview shows favourite styles (supported in DOCX files) Rashesh Padia (Collabora) improved the stability of LanguageTool integration Miklós Vajna (Collabora) made it possible to use styles from a template when importing Markdown files, fixed inability to transition from a numbered list to a bulleted list in Impress in some cases, made it so the numbering rules are reset when toggling bullets/numbering, added a UNO command parameter to skip

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General Activities LibreOffice 25.8.2 was announced on October 9 LibreOffice 25.2.7 was announced on October 30 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for R1C1 Calc formula syntax and DOI citation recognition and improved and updated help on dimension lines, form properties, master documents, command line operations, online update, text boundaries and VBA constants. He also adapted the helper script used for patch submission to a version that works with Help Gábor Kelemen (Collabora) improved the script for finding unneeded includes in the code and did many code cleanups Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued working on sheet view functionality in Calc Pranam Lashkari, Dennis Francis, Szymon Kłos, Jaume Pujantell and Gülşah Köse (Collabora) worked on LOKit/jsdialog used by Collabora Online Rashesh Padia (Collabora) made the revamped Impress transition list more robust Michael Meeks (Collabora) did code cleanups and optimisations in PPTX export code Miklós Vajna (Collabora) improved image handling in Markdown import and export, continued improving the handling of tracked changes that depend on each other and fixed issues with handling of bulleted lists in PPTX files Xisco Faulí (TDF) added sqlite3, dbm and pythonw.exe to the internal Python, fixed an Impress printing crash, added a few new automated tests and upgraded

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