General Activities LibreOffice 7.4.5 was announced on January 26 Rafael Lima continued polishing dark mode support, made the BASIC code editor warn in case of read-only modules and dialogs and made it possible to toggle the display of section boundaries independent from text boundaries in Writer. He also added a help page for Calc’s STYLE function and improved and expanded ScriptForge help Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made many smaller string improvements both in help and in the UI Olivier Hallot (TDF) added a guide to help for Content Controls, updated menu item paths and added help pages for Translate command, page numbering wizard and reworked help pages about indexes Stéphane Guillou (TDF) improved the help for paragraph styles Miklós Vajna (Collabora) made XHTML export more robust, created plumbing for citation handling in Writer and expanded the XML layout dumping developer functionality. He also fixed crashes and several Writer regressions Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed issues with oversized bounding boxes when editing embedded objects in PPTX or XLSX files and made it so linked OLE objects are retained upon PPTX export Szymon Kłos, Pranam Lashkari, Mert Tumer, Ashod Nakashian, Andras Timar and Henry Castro (Collabora) worked
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LibreOffice 7.5 RC2 is available for testing
LibreOffice 7.5 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2023 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 7.5 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) the forth and final pre-release since the development of version 7.5 started in mid June, 2022. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.5 RC1, 89 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 39 issues got fixed. Check the Release Notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 7.5 RC2 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it will replace 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!!
QA/Dev Report: December 2022
General Activities Rafael Lima continued polishing dark mode features and improved scrolling and zooming in the Basic code editor. He also improved help for ScriptForge Adolfo Jayme Barrientos updated the icons and colours in Help to match the new application icons Alain Romedenne improved help pages on built-in file dialogs Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved several extended tooltips and improved the help on cell references and cell addressing in Calc Bogdan Buzea improved the quality of the applause audio clip found in the gallery and made many string fixes and improvements in help and in the UI code Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) dropped the unnecessary name attribute from link elements in help with support from Christian Lohmaier Miklós Vajna (Collabora) added new commands .uno:GotoMark for jumping to a bookmark and .uno:UpdateBookmarks to update the content of a bookmark (helps especially with Zotero citations) and enhanced .uno:InsertBookmark and .uno:InsertField to allow specifying bookmark/refmark text. He also improved the Writer layout XML dump developer feature, improved the DOCX compatibility of paragraph marker formatting, fixed a layout issue related to bookmarks and fixed some Writer crashes. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Szymon Kłos, Andras Timar and Michael Meeks (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements.
LibreOffice 7.5 RC1 is available for testing
LibreOffice 7.5 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2023 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 7.5 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) the third pre-release since the development of version 7.5 started in mid June, 2022. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.5 Beta1, 213 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 70 issues got fixed. Check the Release Notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 7.5 RC1 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it will replace 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!!