QA/Dev Report: September 2022

General Activities LibreOffice 7.3.6 was released on September 8 LibreOffice 7.4.1 was released on September 15 Rafael Lima added help for “Math baseline” option in Writer and improved the layout of Template Manager Adolfo Jayme Barrientos improved the layout of the Page Style dialog and made some cleanups both in UI strings and Help Alain Romedenne made Help updates on macro-related menus and dialogs Olivier Hallot (TDF) reworked and enriched the Help pages for conditional formatting and made many Help cleanups Laurent Balland fixed a formatting issue with the templates shipped with Impress, made documents created via Windows explorer be 0 bytes so they use the default template and created a UI test for Go to Sheet command Miklós Vajna (Collabora) added PDF export support for content controls in Writer and implemented combo box control type. He also added support for video looping in PPTX files, fixed several HTML import and export issues and started adding Help pages for content controls Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed a z-ordering issue with embedded OLE objects in PPTX files Szymon Kłos, Ashod Nakashian and Henry Castro (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) replaced outdated uses

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QA/Dev Report: August 2022

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

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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!!

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