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!!
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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
QA/Dev Report: March 2022
General Activities LibreOffice 7.3.1 and 7.3.2 were released on March 3 and March 31 respectively LibreOffice 7.2.6 was released on March 10 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos updated and cleaned up menu paths in Help and updated some tips of the day Seth Chaiklin improved the Help and tooltip for Reset button Alain Romedenne improved the Help page for CallByname Basic function as well as several other functions Olivier Hallot (TDF) added or updated the Help pages for several toolbars, improved the Track Changes help, updated Calc’s Tools menu help and added a page for Share Spreadsheet Rafael Lima added help ID targets for the Manage Changes dialog and improved the ScriptForge library help pages Miklos Vajna (Collabora) added a clearing breaks feature into Writer and wrote a help page for it, continued working on colour themes in OOXML documents and improved the layout XML dump developer feature. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Tünde Tóth (NISZ) worked on fixing the PPTX export of media files, fixed an issue with text colour in DOCX shapes and an old issue with embedded images getting multiplied upon OOXML export Paris Oplopoios made some code cleanups Sarper Akdemir (Collabora) made it so section break