General Activities LibreOffice 7.4.0 was released on August 18 Rafael Lima added documentation in Help for the new method Normalize in ScriptForge FileSystem and made the Templates dialog work better with HiDPI displays Olivier Hallot (TDF) made some smaller fixes and cleanups in Help Laurent Balland fixed an issue with Impress’s Inspiration template Christian Lohmaier (TDF) did preparatory work for publishing LibreOffice in Microsoft Store under TDF Miklós Vajna (Collabora) added support for cropped video for media shapes in Impress, made shift-clicking/double-clicking graphics in Writer work and fixed problems with exporting to XHTML with graphics as OLE objects and with vertical text and clearing breaks in Writer. He also made some crash fixes. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed a problem with decimal tabulators in DOCX files and made it so long legend texts in charts are truncated Szymon Kłos, Tor Lillqvist, Mert Tumer and Henry Castro (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements Eike Rathke (Red Hat) fixed an issue with calling Calc’s add-in functions via macros while having a non-English UI, made it so switching to English function names in Calc does not require a restart, made Calc’s date pattern evaluation more robust and made
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QA/Dev Report: July 2022
General Activities LibreOffice 7.3.5 was announced on July 21 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos improved the layout of many dialogs Rafael Lima expanded the help for ScriptForge with many new features Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated the help for Fontwork and CSV import Laurent Balland fixed an issue with customer number formats with embedded text in decimal not saving correctly to ODS. He also fixed the footer of some Impress templates Christian Lohmaier (TDF) did lots of preparatory work for publishing LibreOffice in Apple Store under TDF Miklós Vajna (Collabora) fixed an issue with RTL text and floating objects in DOCX files and a couple of XHTML export issues. He also continued working on content controls for Writer Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed DOCX export of line breaks in text frames and made saving style names to DOCX more robust Szymon Kłos, Henry Castro and Michael Meeks (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made it so two leading apostrophes before a number collapse to one when typing into a Calc cell with default formatting. He also made handling of Calc date formats more robust Bartosz Kosiorek fixed an issue with ordered bullets in Lotus
LibreOffice 7.4 RC1 is available for testing
The LibreOffice Quality Assurance (QA) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.4 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is available for testing! LibreOffice 7.4 will be released as final in mid August, 2022 ( Check the Release Plan for more information ) being LibreOffice 7.4 RC1 the third pre-release since the development of version 7.4 started at the end of November, 2021. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.4 Beta1, 280 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 121 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 7.4 RC1 can be downloaded from here 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 Telegram. LibreOffice is a volunteer-driven community project and your help is much appreciated. Happy testing!!
QA/Dev Report: June 2022
General Activities LibreOffice 7.3.4 was released on June 9 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos updated the font stack used in Help and made many small tweaks to content (with help from Celia Palacios). He also made some UI improvements Dietrich Schulten updated Calc help for cell copying after a new option was added to only select visible cells Seth Chaiklin updated help for Arrow styles, object anchoring, list indenting, table resizing and many menu and toolbar items. He also improved many LibreOffice UI strings and tooltips Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) improved the help for AutoCorrect Alain Romedenne documented some Python resources in Help and improved the help for ScriptForge Rafael Lima expanded the help for ScriptForge with many new features and made some smaller help fixes Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for the new Calc Sparklines feature and pivot table formatting, updated the help for Insert Image and Navigator, expanded the help for toolbars and made many other smaller Help fixes. He also made many updates to extended tooltips Laurent Balland added a new Calc command GoTo Sheet and wrote help for it Christian Lohmaier (TDF) prepared for Apple Store distribution, for example fixing access to macOS address book and making Impress