The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.4 Beta1 is available for testing! LibreOffice 7.4 will be released as final in mid August, 2022 ( Check the Release Plan for more information ) being LibreOffice 7.4 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 7.4 started at the end of November, 2021. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.4 Alpha1, 920 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 220 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 7.4 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 2022
QA/Dev Report: May 2022
General Activities LibreOffice 7.2.7 was released on May, 12 LibreOffice 7.3.3 was released on May, 5 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made some minor improvements to Help text readability Seth Chaiklin improved the help for vertical positioning of objects, Print preview, Options tab for Frame/Object/Image, Outline bar for Impress and anchoring. He also improved many LibreOffice UI strings and tips of the day Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) added right-to-left support to Help Alain Romedenne improved the correctness of Basic help pages and documented the new Resize() and Center() methods for ScriptForge’s SF_Dialog flywire cleaned up ScriptForge examples in Help Rafael Lima documented the new CompactLeft and CompactUp methods from the Calc service in ScriptForge Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the help pages for Basic’s Shell function, CSV import filter, Direct SQL and colour palettes Miklos Vajna (Collabora) continued working on colour themes in OOXML documents and content controls for Writer Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed a bug that made Autorecovery option always save every 10 minutes regardless of the minute setting Dennis Francis and Szymon Kłos (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed an issue with numbering styles in imported DOCX files and fixed some regressions