General Activities LibreOffice 6.2 RC2 was announced on January 11 A two days hackfest with 25 participants was held in Brussels right before FOSDEM 2019 Justin Luth (Collabora) fixed some old DrawingLayer FillStyles regressions Amharic script now works with Fontwork. tdf#66054 Performance of opening documents with embedded fonts was greatly improved by Mike Kaganski (Collabora).tdf#69060 CIB and NISZ teams announced they use Miloš Šrámek’s interoperability tools Some paper format bugs were found to be fixed by the 2018 GSoC print dialog revamp work Jens Carl made over 60 commits related to the Java tests to C++ conversion effort Mark Robbinson created SVG icons for Math Help pages Bartosz Kosiorek improved EMF+ support with several commits Caolán McNamara fixed about 70 UI issues Noel Grandin made several dialogs asynchronous Jim Raykowski kept adding the new style background tab page to dialogs that were missing it. The work is nearly done after a ton of effort! tdf#105225 Around 20 improvements to the KDE5 and Qt5 backends were made by Bubli (CIB), Aleksei Nikiforov (BaseALT), Jan-Marek Glogowski (Landeshauptstadt München) and Michael Weghorn Brian Fraser added support for drag’n’drop of multiple effects in animation pane Miklos Vajna (Collabora) continues working on smartArts improvements Help