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!!
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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
QA/Dev Report: September 2023
General Activities LibreOffice 7.5.6 and LibreOffice 7.5.7 were announced on September 14 and September 26 respectively LibreOffice 7.6.1 and LibreOffice 7.6.2 were announced on September 7 and September 26 respectively Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued adding Tabbed UI examples into help instructions, added a help page for editing styles, improved the help page for accessibility checker, added or updated help for commands found in Writer’s Table, Styles and Form menu as well as Tools menu for all applications Stéphane Guillou (TDF) added help for Impress’s Use Background fill and made some help cleanups Rafael Lima added search functionality to the Calc Functions sidebar Bogdan Buzea improved help for vertical positioning Seth Chaiklin changed some UI strings to be more clear and updated help pages accordingly Bartosz Kosiorek added Poisson distribution to help on Calc’s Random Number Generator Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) dropped HTML Export wizard help pages, improved the layout of Area dialog and did code cleanups in the area of includes Laurent Balland improved the Impress template Growing Liberty 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 optimised
QA/Dev Report: August 2023
General Activities LibreOffice 7.6.0 was released on August 21 Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued adding Tabbed UI examples into help instructions, updated help for command line PDF export and anchoring of images in Writer, improved help for Title Page and added extended tips to its dialog and added help pages for tooltips when dragging scrollbars and document themes Juan C. Sanz added Firebird’s DATEADD and DATEDIFF functions to the SQL parser Stéphane Guillou (TDF) updated help for PDF export regarding comments in margin Rafael Lima fixed issues with F1 help shortcut not working in some contexts, made the table toolbar hidden when Notebookbar is active and updated help for ScriptForge Seth Chaiklin updated help for AutoRecovery Laurent Balland extended ODF support to include reserved blank spaces in Calc custom number formats Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer. He also made improvements to automated tests Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Szymon Kłos (Collabora) worked on jsdialog used by Collabora Online Marco Cecchetti and Attila Szűcs (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. Attila also added an Excel compatibility option to limit the creation of hyperlinks to only one per cell Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed a