QA/Dev Report: January 2020

General Activities LibreOffice 6.4 was released on January 29 containing many performance and interoperability improvements Participants in Ankara, Turkey bootcamp completed many easy hacks Participants in the Free Software Winter Camp 2020 in Eskişehir, Turkey completed many easy hacks Noel Grandin (Collabora) further sped up loading an XLSX file with lots of comments. Noel also continued converting XML handling bits to use the performant FastParser API Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made it so functions in Calc can use case sensitive regular expressions. Mike also fixed an Excel compatibility issue involving booleans Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued the welding of UI elements, focusing on the Sidebar Tamás Bunth (Collabora) improved chart label interoperability with OOXML files Miklos Vajna (Collabora) made rotated text in Writer’s table rows with automatic height behave better Seth Chaiklin made dozens of improvements and additions to Help content. He also triaged and re-tested many bugs. Rizal Muttaqin improved most of the icon themes and Sifr in particular. Thorsten Wagner fixed a rendering issue in the character formatting font dropdown on macOS Serge Krot (CIB) improved the performance of Impress when typing into a list having an animation applied to it László Németh and Szabolcs Tóth (NISZ) fixed many

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