The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.1 Alpha1 is ready for testing! LibreOffice 7.1 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2021 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 7.1 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 7.1 started at the end of May, 2020. Since then, 5374 commits have been submitted to the code repository and more than 1100 bugs were set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 7.1 Alpha1 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, so please help us to test – we appreciate it! Happy testing!!
Month: October 2020
QA/Dev Report: September 2020
General Activities LibreOffice 7.0.1 was released on September 03 Ivan Stefanenko (Collabora) made improvements to the PDF accessibility checker Seth Chaiklin made improvements to the UX of menu and toolbar controls Tomofumi Yagi fixed a performance issue when editing with external tool and made Calc and Writer able to correctly import text in UTF-8 encoding without BOM Attila Szűcs and Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed longstanding issues with Calc’s drag-fill functionality, a frame width issue in DOCX files, missing AutoFilter button with XLSX export, vertical image alignment relative to bottom margin in DOCX import and invalid detective marks cells in XLSX import Szabolcs Tóth and Regényi Balázs (NISZ) fixed problems with shapes in DOCX/XLSX export, made it so word-wrapped textboxes are imported correctly in the case of DOCX files, fixed missing overflow properties of textboxes in exported XLSX files and made it so tracer arrows (Tools – Detective) are not needlessly exported in XLSX files Björn Michaelsen continued internal improvements to Writer Mike Kaganski (Collabora) improved the rounding of decimal numbers when drag-filling in Calc and made code cleanups and optimisations Szymon Kłos (Collabora) made improvements to Notebookbar and Styles preview Michael Stahl (CIB) fixed Writer regressions related to undo, bookmarks,