LibreOffice 24.2 – with a new year.month versioning scheme – will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2024 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 24.2 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 24.2 started in mid June, 2023. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha1, 425 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 137 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 24.2 Beta1 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: December 2023
QA/Dev Report: November 2023
General Activities LibreOffice 7.5.8 was released on November 2 LibreOffice 7.6.3 was released on November 23 Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated menu item paths in Help pages and updated and restructured dozens of help pages Rafael Lima updated ScriptForge help Stanislav Horacek updated menu item paths in Help pages alongside other corrections Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) updated Help pages after UI string changes Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) did code cleanups in the area of unused config keys and includes Laurent Balland extended ODF to allow lowercase for exponent characters and blank expontent digits and did many fixes in Impress templates Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer. He also did code cleanups and build fixes Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Szymon Kłos, Michael Meeks and Marco Cecchetti (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online Henry Castro (Collabora) made Calc’s background colour autofiltering more robust and added an automated test for PPTX master slides Attila Szűcs (Collabora) improved FontWork text placement Skyler Grey (Collabora) continued polishing STYLEREF field support for DOCX compatibility Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made several improvements to date & time functions and calculations in Calc Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) wrote automated tests in preparation for OOXML