General Activities LibreOffice 7.5.5 was released on July 20 Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued adding Tabbed UI examples into help instructions, added an example on how to get user data from registry with BASIC, added help pages for document themes and Calc drawing styles and fixed a JavaScript issue related to displaying different embedded help content depending on the operating system Stanislav Horáček improved the help for Sort command in Writer Juan C. Sanz added a new help section for direct connections to PostgreSQL databases Nay Catina Dia-Schneebeli added a help page for the new Style Spotlight feature Stéphane Guillou (TDF) improved help pages for hyphenation, Outline Folding and labels Rafael Lima fixed issues with F1 help shortcut not working in some contexts and fixed incorrect menu positions with KDE Frameworks 5 UI. He also updated help for ScriptForge, improved help on setting PYTHONPATH and did a lot of fixes in help bookmarks that connect something in the UI to a relevant help target Seth Chaiklin added help for the new “Place backup in same folder as document” option and added a tip of the day entry about Search Commands Laurent Balland added optional detection of numbers in scientific notation to
Month: August 2023
LibreOffice 7.6 RC2 is available for testing
LibreOffice 7.6 will be released as final in mid-August 2023 (check the Release Plan), with LibreOffice 7.6 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) the forth pre-release since the development of version 7.6 started in mid December, 2022. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.6 RC 1, 100 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 62 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 7.6 RC2 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it will replace 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 Matrix. LibreOffice is a volunteer-driven community project, so please help us to test – we appreciate it! Click the banner below to download and test – and thanks for testing!