General Activities LibreOffice 7.3 was released on February 2 FOSDEM took place February 5-6. Watch all the talks here Alain Romedenne added a help page for CallByName Basic function and improved other Basic pages Stanislav Horáček and Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made some Help cleanups Rafael Lima and flywire improved the ScriptForge library help pages. Rafael also made the Manage changes sidebar panel non-experimental, created a command for duplicating sheets in Calc and fixed Search Commands deleting selected text instead of applying a command Seth Chaiklin improved the help page for Template Manager Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for Calc’s Recalculate Hard and Formula to value and improved Help for indentation and some Calc functions Renwa Hiwa and zhutyra fixed several security issues Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) fixed an issue with the UI logger Justin Luth (SIL) fixed some issues with Calc’s spelling context menu, Calc’s autofill and hidden/filtered cells, made Draw/Impress Find and replace more robust, made it so setting a border style in Writer adds borders, if there are none, fixed an issue with table layout when re-saving a DOC file and made Writer ruler tabstops respect spacing to contents in tables and frames. He also fixed many regressions
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QA/Dev Report: January 2022
General Activities LibreOffice 7.2.5 was released on January 6 The European Commission’s Open Source Programme Office started a bug bounty programme for LibreOffice Alain Romedenne improved the Help content for Basic functions Olivier Hallot (TDF) finished documenting non-ODFF Calc functions, added Help pages for Style Inspector (with contributions from Jean Weber and Shivam Kumar) and PostgreSQL connection, started working on a page for Calc’s Data Stream feature and improved help for Calc Add-in function for Dates and Pricing Rafael Lima made numerous improvements to Help content, including adding pages for Navigator’s Rename Object dialog, document color command in Math and Find toolbar. He also added DevTools to the Tabbed interface and improved the Manage Changes dialog Stanislav Horáček improved the ScriptForge library Help content Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) added a global module to the Help navigation Seth Chaiklin updated the help page for Template Manager after UI changes Miklos Vajna (Collabora) improved the fidelity of exporting documents to PDF, also making command line export more powerful, improved the painting of borders in Word-style tables, fixed missing custom bullets in SVG export, improved the handling of tables in DOCX files and shapes in RTF files. He also continued working on support for
LibreOffice 7.3 RC2 is available for testing
The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.3 RC2 is available for testing! LibreOffice 7.3 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2022 ( Check the Release Plan for more information ) being LibreOffice 7.3 RC2 the forth and last pre-release since the development of version 7.3 started in mid June, 2021. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.3 RC1, 117 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 65 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 7.3 RC2 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: December 2021
General Activities LibreOffice 7.2.4 and LibreOffice 7.1.8 were released on December 6 providing an important security fix Alain Romedenne improved the Help content for Basic functions Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help for sep= in CSV files, VBA mode for RGB functions and warnings, improved help for Writer fields and started annotating Help for functions that are not in ODF spec Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library, fixed opening Help from an Expert Configuration property dialog, improved subscript/superscript help about Sidebar and fixed CTL information in Hyphenation help page Kevin Suo corrected the Calc error string STR_LONG_ERR_NO_VALUE in the code and fixed a couple of Calc error strings in Help flywire improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library Stanislav Horáček made fixes in Basic and Python Help content Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Miklos Vajna (Collabora) continued working on support for colour themes in OOXML documents and made OLE object previews reliable Krzysztof Hałasa fixed a problem with connecting to a Mysql/MariaDB instance Ismael Luceno improved the POSIX-compatibility of the build system Chris Sherlock continued VCL refactoring work and improved font matching for CJK text Rizal Muttaqin made many updates to the Colibre icon