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
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LibreOffice 7.4 Beta1 is available for testing
The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.4 Beta1 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 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 7.4 started at the end of November, 2021. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.4 Alpha1, 920 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 220 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 7.4 Beta1 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 and your help is much appreciated. Happy testing!!
QA/Dev Report: May 2022
General Activities LibreOffice 7.2.7 was released on May, 12 LibreOffice 7.3.3 was released on May, 5 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made some minor improvements to Help text readability Seth Chaiklin improved the help for vertical positioning of objects, Print preview, Options tab for Frame/Object/Image, Outline bar for Impress and anchoring. He also improved many LibreOffice UI strings and tips of the day Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) added right-to-left support to Help Alain Romedenne improved the correctness of Basic help pages and documented the new Resize() and Center() methods for ScriptForge’s SF_Dialog flywire cleaned up ScriptForge examples in Help Rafael Lima documented the new CompactLeft and CompactUp methods from the Calc service in ScriptForge Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the help pages for Basic’s Shell function, CSV import filter, Direct SQL and colour palettes Miklos Vajna (Collabora) continued working on colour themes in OOXML documents and content controls for Writer Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed a bug that made Autorecovery option always save every 10 minutes regardless of the minute setting Dennis Francis and Szymon Kłos (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed an issue with numbering styles in imported DOCX files and fixed some regressions
QA/Dev Report: April 2022
General Activities Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made many minor improvements to Help text readability Seth Chaiklin updated the help for Bullets and Numbering toolbar and made several help page refactorings and tweaks. He also improved many LibreOffice UI strings, tips of the day and UI layouts Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) improved the style of code blocks in Help and started making tables mobile-friendly. He also updated the links to the Developer Guide in LibreOffice source code Alain Romedenne added notes to Help about Basic ‘New’ operator being optional when setting ‘Option Compatible’ and improved Help for ScriptForge. He also improved many LibreOffice UI strings Olivier Hallot (TDF) documented Writer manual row break in Help, updated Impress menu paths and made several other improvements to Help Miklos Vajna (Collabora) worked on content controls feature for Writer, continued working on colour themes in OOXML documents, polished the clearing breaks feature and improved the layout XML dump developer feature Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library and made a couple of small fixes to Access2Base Tünde Tóth (NISZ) finished fixing the handling of embedded and linked media in PPTX files and polished the fix for the old issue with embedded images getting multiplied upon OOXML