LibreOffice 7.6 will be released as final in mid August, 2023 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 7.6 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 7.6 started in mid December, 2022. Since then, 4670 commits have been submitted to the code repository and more than 754 bugs were set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 7.6 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: April 2023
General Activities Rafael Lima made smaller and improvements to menus, dark mode support, shortcuts and accelerators Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made some tweaks to wordings in UI and Help Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved help for regular expressions, Calc statistics features, Formatting Aids options, Calc Input options, Calc’s INDEX() function and added a help page documenting new command line PDF export options. He also made many refactorings and cleanups in Help. Seth Chaiklin made many text improvements both in the UI and in Help related to numbering, indexes and captions Stéphane Guillou (TDF) improved help for Calc’s Validity feature and Customize dialog Juan C. Sanz made it so data in Firebird embedded databases are saved automatically Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Szymon Kłos and Pranam Lashkari (Collabora) worked on jsdialog used by Collabora Online Eike Rathke (Red Hat) fixed an issue with Writer fields mishandling datetime when using a locale with comma as decimal separator as well as a datetime value formatting issue, fixed inconsistencies and inaccuracies in Calc rounding functions, fixed a bug in the display of Add-in function names in a localised context, made Calc’s RANK() function more
QA/Dev Report: March 2023
General Activities LibreOffice 7.5.1 was announced on March 2 LibreOffice 7.4.6 was announced on March 9 LibreOffice 7.5.2 was announced on March 30 Rafael Lima continued polishing dark mode support, made it so Calc solver settings are saved to file, including XLSX files and made some smaller tweaks to the UI and Help Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made some tweaks to wordings in UI and Help Olivier Hallot (TDF) corrected help for Calc’s INDEX() function, updated menu paths and made many refactorings and cleanups in Help. He also added better UNO API error messages for Calc sheet insertion and improved extended tooltips Seth Chaiklin made many text improvements both in the UI and in Help related to heading numbering, indexes, captions and styles Alain Romedenne corrected parameter names for Basic functions in Help Sophia Schröder made many cleanups in Help markup, with Christian Lohmaier (TDF) assisting in mass replacements Juan C. Sanz added a help page for Firebird external connection Angelle Leger created a help page for zoom in Calc Stanislav Horacek made small corrections in ScriptForge and regular expression Help pages Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Szymon Kłos
QA/Dev Report: February 2023
General Activities LibreOffice 7.5.0 was announced on February 2 Roman Kuznetsov gave a talk about QA in russian Rafael Lima continued polishing dark mode support, made it so empty BASIC libraries are populated by an empty module for better user experience, made zooming smoother in Impress and Draw, implemented shortcut-assignable zoom commands as well as commands for toggling Watch/Stack windows for Basic IDE, made colour schemes translatable and fixed some broken links in Help Adolfo Jayme Barrientos improved the layout of some dialogs and updated some Help texts after UI changes Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved Help pages for Template Manager, command line conversion filter info and Draw layers. He also added links to Calc function wiki articles Seth Chaiklin made many text improvements both in the UI and in Help related to heading numbering and indexes Alain Romedenne corrected malformed keyword names in BASIC function signatures and added a Help page for FormatPercent Basic/VBA function Sophia Schröder made many smaller fixes and markup rework in Help files Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Szymon Kłos, Dennis Francis and Henry Castro (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements. Szymon also made HTML