LibreOffice 24.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2024 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 24.8 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 24.8 started at the beginning of December, 2023. Since then, 4448 commits have been submitted to the code repository and more than 667 bugs were set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 24.8 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: May 2024
QA/Dev Report: April 2024
General Activities Olivier Hallot (TDF) added Help content for user interface selection dialog, Calc row recalculation at load time, automatic labeled ranges in Calc and font embedding. He also updated menu item paths in Help Rafael Lima added support for hidden named expressions in Calc, added Reload command to Notebookbar UIs and made named ranges created by the Solver in Calc hidden by default Stéphane Guillou (TDF) updated Help content for Navigator’s Navigate By Alain Romedenne continued improving the officehelper Python script for connecting to LibreOffice processes Dione Maddern improved Help content for inserting objects from the Gallery and did cleanups in Help Colton Garrett improved Help content for OpenCL and added a Help page for digital signing of paragraphs Laurent Balland did style cleanups in Impress templates Miklós Vajna (Collabora) fixed an issue with shape positioning in DOCX import and did many code cleanups Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed an issue with unwanted spacing in printed text Marco Cecchetti, Gökay Şatır, Pranam Lashkari, Szymon Kłos and Michael Meeks (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online Attila Szűcs (Collabora) continued improving the performance of handling transparent animated GIFs Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) improved the text scaling in Impress text boxes, implemented