The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 6.4 RC1 is ready for testing! LibreOffice 6.4 will be released as final at the end of January, 2020, being LibreOffice 6.4 RC1 the third pre-release since the development of version 6.4 started in the beginning of June, 2019 ( See the release plan ). Since LibreOffice 6.4 Beta1 ( the previous pre-release ), 410 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 195 bugs have been fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 6.4 RC1 can be downloaded from here, it’s available for Linux, MacOS and Windows. ( Note that it will replace your actual installation ) In case you find any problem in this pre-release, please report it in Bugzilla ( You just need a legit email address in order to create a new account ) so it can get fixed before LibreOffice 6.4 final is released. For help, you can contact us directly in our IRC channel. Happy testing!!
Month: December 2019
QA/Dev Report: November 2019
General Activities LibreOffice 6.4 Beta1 was announced on November 18 A new version of LibreOffice Impress Remote for Android was announced The new LibreOffice Macro Team posted a progress report Julien Nabet improved the code quality based on cppcheck results Coverity’s defect density is back to 0 Andreas Kainz continued improving dialog layout and the UI with nearly sixty commits Caolán McNamara made the customize dialog open quickly again Luboš Luňák and Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) introduced the Skia graphics engine into the codebase. It supports rendering the UI using GPU with Vulkan. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed a long standing problem in basic’s syntax checker. He also added support for Windows Default apps settings Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) started the work on replacing boost::optional with std::optional Justin Luth (Collabora) removed a bunch of obsolete hacks and fixed several issues related to styles and tables in Writer Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made it possible to use long passwords in OOXML documents Tamás Bunth (Collabora) added support for importing and exporting custom label text in DOCX documents Miklos Vajna (Collabora) improved the interoperability of math objects from PPTX Noel Grandin (Collabora) continued working on more than 1024 columns support for Calc, solved an