The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.0 Beta2 is available for testing! LibreOffice 7.0 will be released as final at the beginning of August, 2020 ( Check the Release Plan for more information ) being LibreOffice 7.0 Beta2 the third pre-release since the development of version 7.0 started in the beginning of June, 2019. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.0 Beta1, 257 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 142 bugs have been fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in LibreOffice 7.0. LibreOffice 7.0 Beta2 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. LibreOffice is a volunteer-driven community project and your help is much appreciated. Happy testing!!
Month: June 2020
QA/Dev Report: May 2020
General Activities LibreOffice 6.4.4 was released as final on May, 21 The fist Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 7.0 took place on May, 11 Roman Kuznetsov wrote a nice post explaining how to create new patches directly in Gerrit Michael Stahl (CIB) made ODF 1.3 Extended the default ODF version. See the current status for more information Mike Kaganski (Collabora) improved how glow effects and soft edge effects are imported into LibreOffice Adolfo Jayme Barrientos, Steve Fanning, Olivier Hallot and Johnny_M made many Help improvements and cleanups Xisco Fauli (TDF) rewrote all the office-interoperability-tools scripts in python, used for finding interoperability regressions of different formats. The code has been simplified and cleaned up, and execution time has halved from 10 days to 5 days. Jim Raykowski added a tooltip to Navigator displaying the word count of sections Noel Grandin (Collabora) made many code cleanups and made Calc autofilling and searching in autofilter much faster Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued the crucial user interface backend work and did many cleanups and crash fixes Andreas Kainz continued to improve the galleries, dialog layouts and Impress templates. He also made improvements to the Notebookbar interfaces Xisco Faulí (TDF) made nearly 60 additions and
LibreOffice 7.0 Beta1 is available for testing
The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.0 Beta1 is available for testing! LibreOffice 7.0 will be released as final at the beginning of August, 2020 ( Check the Release Plan for more information ) being LibreOffice 7.0 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 7.0 started in the beginning of June, 2019. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.0 Alpha1, 831 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 179 bugs have been fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in LibreOffice 7.0. LibreOffice 7.0 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. LibreOffice is a volunteer-driven community project and your help is much appreciated. Happy testing!!