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