LibreOffice 24.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2024 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 24.2 started in mid June, 2023. Since then, 4271 commits have been submitted to the code repository and more than 787 bugs were set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha1 can be downloaded 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 Matrix. LibreOffice is a volunteer-driven community project, so please help us to test – we appreciate it! Happy testing!!
Month: November 2023
QA/Dev Report: October 2023
General Activities Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued adding Tabbed UI examples into help instructions and updated and restructured dozens of help pages Rafael Lima added support for hidden named ranges in Calc, fixed named ranges associated to sheets being lost upon XLSX export and made it so renaming a sheet updates ranges in solver models Bogdan Buzea made some UI string improvements Seth Chaiklin updated help after UI label change related to outline levels Stanislav Horacek improved the help for Firebird wizard Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) added a method to automated test for dealing with DPI variance, improved Search Commands result presentation, updated help after UI string changes and improved the accessibility of help navigation Alain Romedenne updated ScriptForge help Bartosz Kosiorek added handling for invalid records in Windows Metafile graphics Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) did code cleanups in the area of includes, created a script to find unused config groups/keys and improved some UI strings Laurent Balland did code cleanups Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Szymon Kłos (Collabora) worked on LOKit and jsdialog used by Collabora Online. He also worked on the simple conditional formatting dialog created by Paris Oplopoios