LibreOffice 7.5 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2023 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 7.5 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 7.5 started in mid June, 2022. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.5 Alpha1, 353 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 116 issues got fixed. Check the Release Notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 7.5 Beta1 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: November 2022
General Activities LibreOffice 7.3.7 was released on November 3 LibreOffice 7.4.3 was released on November 24 Rafael Lima made many improvements to how LibreOffice looks like in dark mode, grammar mistake colour configurable, made it so Macro Selector dialog remembers the last run macro, made the new LanguageTool feature more user friendly and improved some UI strings. He also improved help for Database Wizard, ODBC connection and frequently-used buttons Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made many string fixes in help and in the UI code as well as dialog layout improvements Alain Romedenne made improvements and additions to macro help pages as well as the ones dealing with LibreOffice’s own file dialog and remote file services Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued with help screenshot cleanups and improved the help pages for Writer toolbars, slide/page formatting and preview pane, change tracking and array formulas Laurent Balland improved the documentation about templates in extras/README Stéphane Guillou (TDF) made some help fixes Bogdan Buzea made many string fixes in help and in the UI code. He also improved help page contents and corrected menu item paths Miklós Vajna (Collabora) continued working on Writer content controls, made it possible to customise PDF watermark formatting and rotation and
LibreOffice 7.5 Alpha1 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 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 7.5 started in mid June, 2022. Since then, 4875 commits have been submitted to the code repository and more than 759 bugs were set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 7.5 Alpha1 can be downloaded from here 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 Telegram. LibreOffice is a volunteer-driven community project, so please help us to test – we appreciate it! Happy testing!!
QA/Dev Report: October 2022
General Activities LibreOffice 7.4.2 was released on October 13 Rafael Lima made many improvements to how LibreOffice looks like in dark mode under Linux and Windows, cleaned up template categories that show up in Template Manager, fixed an issue with InsertText example Python macro, improved the layout of Calc’s Functions sidebar panel and improved some strings appearing in the UI. He also added a help page for chart data tables and improved the help for ImageMaps and Writer table formulas Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made some string fixes in help and in the UI code Alain Romedenne made improvements and additions to macro help pages Olivier Hallot (TDF) made large-scale cleanups regarding screenshots in help, improved help related to file properties, conditional formatting in Calc and layers in Draw Laurent Balland converted all wizard templates to XML, making them easier to maintain. He also simplified the makefiles of Writer, Impress and Draw templates Miklós Vajna (Collabora) added support for titles and tags in Writer content controls, made SVG export preserve tab characters, fixed losing preview images of embedded PDF objects, improved handling of bookmarks and images in Writer header/footer, fixed losing CDATA markup in Writer html import and improved handling of