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 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) the forth pre-release since the development of version 24.2 started in mid June, 2023. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 24.2 RC1, 113 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 61 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 24.2 RC2 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it will replace the standard installation. 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: January 2024
QA/Dev Report: December 2023
General Activities LibreOffice 7.5.9 and 7.6.4 were announced on December 7 Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated menu item paths in Help pages and updated and restructured dozens of help pages Rafael Lima fixed line count width in Writer file properties dialog, added a button leading to Download page in the dialog showing up if trying to access Help without offline files available and made it possible to enter edit mode for comments in Calc via Navigator. He also updated ScriptForge help and added a Help page about installing offline Help Stanislav Horacek did many fixes and cleanups in Help pages Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) made it so multi-selection is no longer possible in Start Center as it is not actionable. He also streamlined the navigation layout of Help Stéphane Guillou (TDF) linked Sidebar decks to Help and did other Help updates Alain Romedenne updated ScriptForge help pages Dione Maddern updated Help for Draw’s Consolidate Text functionality Sophia Schröder did many cleanups in Help Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) added support for XF86Forward / XF86Back key events for use in Impress slideshows and did code cleanups in the area of unused config keys and includes Laurent Balland did many fixes in Impress templates, collaborating with
LibreOffice 24.2 RC1 is available for testing
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 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) the third pre-release since the development of version 24.2 started in mid June, 2023. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 24.2 Beta1, 158 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 59 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 24.2 RC1 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it will replace the standard installation. 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!!