The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 6.3 Alpha1 is ready for testing! LibreOffice 6.3 will be released as final in mid August ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 6.3 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 6.3 started in mid November, 2018. Since then, 6390 commits have been submitted to the code repository and more than 1050 bugs have been set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 6.3 Alpha1 is already available for downloading here, for Linux, MacOS and Windows. In case you find any problem in this pre-release, please report it in Bugzilla ( You just need a legit email account in order to create a new account ). For help, you can contact the QA Team directly in the QA IRC channel or via Telegram. Happy testing!!
Month: May 2019
QA Report: April 2019
General Activities LibreOffice 6.2.3 was released on April 18, 2019 László Németh (NISZ) fixed the Autocorrect capitalization of the English i’m László Németh (NISZ) continues his work with pasting table from Calc to table in Writer. Now Calc table with hidden rows pastes in Writer table without these rows Grzegorz Araminowicz (Collabora) improved SmartArt interoperability Stephan Bergmann added support for JRE installations with unknown java vendor Andreas Kainz ended update Sifr icon theme. Some review and feedback are welcome Heiko Tietze implemented a nice Tip-of-the-Day dialog that is prompted when LibreOffice is launched. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) has fixed many OpenGL bugs Mike Kaganski (Collabora) has fixed some Pivot table interoperability problems when import/export them into XLSX format Using the new Windows bibisect repo for 4.3 created by Cloph, Buovjaga was able to solve many old regression mysteries Gábor Kelemen (NISZ) closed many reports as duplicates, Chart issues in particular Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved different opening/saving performance hotspots for some documents in Writer, like documents with lots of bookmarks. Buovjaga decided to profile dozens of existing file saving issues just in case. Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved the opening time of different documents in Calc. Xisco Fauli found many crashes ( many