The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.2 Beta1 is available for testing! LibreOffice 7.2 will be released as final in mid August, 2021 ( Check the Release Plan for more information ) being LibreOffice 7.2 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 7.2 started at the end of November, 2020. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.2 Alpha1, 1163 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 221 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 7.2 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!!
Month: June 2021
QA/Dev Report: May 2021
General Activities LibreOffice 7.1.3 was released on May 6 LibreOffice 7.0.6 was released on May 13 The PowerPoint compatibility team reported on its recent work Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library. Rafael Lima also documented the WeekDay Basic function and improved the help for Calc’s CONVERT function Kevin Suo improved the Python script for generating the file filter table for Help. Kevin also fixed a font family problem in the Help CSS related to Simplified Chinese display on Linux Steve Fanning made several improvements to Calc function Help pages. Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved Help on Calc functions, databases and Calc’s autofilter Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made Calc accept 123.45 fractional input on weird formats like 0″.” or 0″.”0, expanded NatNum12 modifier support for all day and month names and made it so Calc’s ROUND() function does not limit decimal digits Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Caolán McNamara not only continued with GTK3 backend polishing, but took on a new large-scale project: a GTK4 backend! See here and here. He also made many cleanups and crash fixes Noel Grandin (Collabora) started fixing memory leaks like an angry plumber. He also speeded up