QA/Dev Report: March 2021

General Activities LibreOffice 7.0.5 was released on March 12 LibreOffice 7.1.1 was released on March 4 LibreOffice was accepted as a project for the Googgle Summer of Code 2021 program Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) created a new wiki widget to help with navigating the Calc function documentation Steve Fanning made corrections to the Help content for Calc’s database functions Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library. Rafael also updated Slide menu help for Impress and added an example for using hyperlink to folders in Writer and Calc Adolfo Jayme Barrientos and Johnny_M made smaller fixes and cleanups to Help pages Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the Help for Java, Special characters dialog, font embedding and made cleanups Seth Chaiklin made nearly 50 changes and additions to Help, with topics including list formatting, menus, chapter numbering, page styles and shortcuts. He also made many improvements to tooltips and labels in LibreOffice. Among the people he worked with on perfecting the changes were Mike Kaganski (Collabora) and Dieter Praas. Akshit Kushwaha changed the QR code encoder library to zxing-cpp, which will allow implementing barcode support. RenĂ© Engelhard and Mike Kaganski helped

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