General Activities LibreOffice 25.2.6 was announced on September 8 Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the help for Select Function in Calc’s formula bar, expanded help for the selection of chart data sources, added AutoFilter and Pivot Table/Chart to the help page on sheet protection, added information about summary above/below to the help of Calc’s SUBTOTAL() function, documented sensitivity in the help page for Solver and added the description meta element to the Help page templates Gábor Kelemen (Collabora) improved the script for finding unneeded includes in the code and did many code cleanups Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) implemented a sheet view functionality in Calc allowing to manipulate AutoFilters in one view without affecting other views Pranam Lashkari, Maya Stephens, Gökay Şatır, Rashesh Padia and Mohit Marathe (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. Maya also fixed an issue with Ctrl+clicking hyperlinked objects Miklós Vajna (Collabora) expanded Writer Markdown export support, worked on change tracking of formatting, continued improving the handling of tracked changes that depend on each other and fixed bullet list style going missing with PPTX export Xisco Faulí (TDF) implemented right-to-left text direction and bidirectional text support in SVG import, added venv to the internal Python, fixed crashes, added
Year: 2025
QA/Dev Report: August 2025
General Activities LibreOffice 25.8.0 and LibreOffice 25.8.1 were announced on August 20 and August 29 respectively Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated help for the option to load printer settings with document, sorting blocks of cells in Calc, hyphenation, statistical functions, number of lines in charts, exponentiation operator in Calc, remote files, Edit menu in Calc, object rotation, Math options and MATCH function in Calc Celia Palacios added help for the new Intersect() method in ScriptForge Gábor Kelemen (Collabora) did many code cleanups Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) did many code cleanups and added OOXML test documents for text fitting / scaling Pranam Lashkari and Marco Cecchetti (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. Marco also made it so hovering with the mouse over Chart data range colour palette entries in the Sidebar shows a live preview in the active chart Miklós Vajna (Collabora) added list and inline code block support for Markdown export and continued improving the handling of tracked changes that depend on each other Xisco Faulí (TDF) fixed crashes, added over a dozen new automated tests, upgraded many dependencies and did many code cleanups and optimisations Michael Stahl (Collabora) made it so pasted anchored objects are no longer selected by
QA/Dev Report: July 2025
General Activities LibreOffice 25.2.5 was announced on July 17 Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated help for CSV import, explained Property Mapping in help for Charts and improved help for Calc’s FILTERXML function and AutoFilter Gábor Kelemen (Collabora) did many code cleanups Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) made internal hyperlinks in a table of contents accessible when exported to PDF/UA Pranam Lashkari, Szymon Kłos and Hubert Figuière (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online Parth Raiyani (Collabora) did reorganisations in some dialogs Miklós Vajna (Collabora) polished the support for floating tables in Writer, fixed some crashes and continued improving the handling of tracked changes that depend on each other Xisco Faulí (TDF) added Albanian and Moldovan locale, fixed short weekdays in Romanian locale, improved the translation checker script, added some new automated tests, upgraded many dependencies and did many code cleanups and optimisations Michael Stahl (Collabora) fixed an issue with expansion of list level numbering formats with repeated levels and fixed a column width issue in RTF tables Mike Kaganski (Collabora) implemented Markdown export, fixed not being able to apply colour to Chart walls via Sidebar, fixed an issue with paragraph numbering in RTF files, helped Miklós with floating table polishing, fixed an
LibreOffice 25.8 RC2 is available for testing
LibreOffice 25.8 will be released as final on August, 20, 2025 (check the Release Plan). LibreOffice 25.8 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) brings us closer to the final version, which will be preceded by Release Candidate 3 (RC3). Since the previous release, LibreOffice 25.8 RC1, 70 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 34 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 25.8 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 your contribution! Happy testing!!!