The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 6.4 Beta1 is ready for testing! LibreOffice 6.4 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2020 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 6.4 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 6.4 started in the beginning of June, 2019. Since then, 5677 commits have been submitted to the code repository and more than 850 bugs have been set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 6.4 Beta1 can be downloaded from here for Linux, MacOS and Windows, and it can be installed alongside the standard version. 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: November 2019
QA Report: October 2019
General Activities The first Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.4 took place on October, 21 The last release of the 6.2 family ( LibreOffice 6.2.8 ) was released on October, 17 LibreOffice 6.3.3 was released on October, 31 Jan-Marek Glogowski (CIB ) fixed a slide tearing issue that affected many users Andreas Kainz reworked the layout of many dialogs. E.g. Autocorrect Dialog The GTK UI backend now uses native dialogs thanks to the tireless work of Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) Miklos Vajna (Collabora) finished implementing continuous endnotes compatibility setting in Writer layout, allowing rendering endnotes in a way which is closer to what Word users expect Miklos Vajna (Collabora) added support for allow-overlap shape property Muhammet Kara (Collabora) implemented full-sheet previews for Calc and harmonised UI references to “pages” and “slides” in Draw and Impress Tamás Zolnai (Collabora) added a table section to the Writer’s sidebar Luboš Luňák (Collabora) and Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) are working on a replacement of cairo with skia Gülşah Köse (Collabora) added support for text camera z rotation while pptx import Noel Grandin (Collabora), Aron Budea (Collabora) and Eike Rathke (Ret Hat) are adapting the code base to allow Calc to have more than 1024 columns