LibreOffice 7.0 RC2 is available for testing

The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.0 RC2 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 RC2 the fifth pre-release since the development of version 7.0 started in the beginning of June, 2019. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.0 RC1, 73 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 57 bugs have been fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in LibreOffice 7.0. LibreOffice 7.0 RC2 can be downloaded from here for Linux, MacOS and Windows. 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!!

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QA/Dev Report: June 2020

General Activities Adolfo Jayme Barrientos, Steve Fanning, Gábor Kelemen, Olivier Hallot (TDF) and Johnny_M made many Help improvements and cleanups Jan-Marek Glogowski improved the Writer comments ruler UI control and fixed a few Qt-related issues Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) implemented searching inside PDFs inserted as a graphic and added support for reading annotations in PDFs Chris Sherlock did graphics-related refactoring work Mike Kaganski (Collabora) improved the look of soft edges and shadows in slideshows Martin van Zijl added the ability to reset standard filter in Calc Luboš Luňák (Collabora) continued with the Skia graphics engine integration and improved the performance of undo operations in Calc Xisco Faulí (TDF) made over 40 additions and fixes to unit and UI tests Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed many issues with DOCX lists and fixed a DOCX paragraph spacing issue Noel Grandin (Collabora) made many code cleanups and made performance improvements in Calc in the areas of autofilling, loading of spreadsheets with huge autofilters and sorting data Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued the crucial user interface backend work and did many cleanups and crash fixes Rizal Muttaqin made many improvements in the icon themes and refreshed the Presenter Screen Balázs Varga (NISZ) fixed some OOXML chart

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LibreOffice 7.0 RC1 is available for testing

The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.0 RC1 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 RC1 the forth pre-release since the development of version 7.0 started in the beginning of June, 2019. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.0 Beta2, 174 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 116 bugs have been fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in LibreOffice 7.0. LibreOffice 7.0 RC1 can be downloaded from here for Linux, MacOS and Windows. 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!!

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