The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.3 RC1 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 RC1 the third pre-release since the development of version 7.3 started in mid June, 2021. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.3 Beta1, 241 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 130 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 7.3 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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QA/Dev Report: November 2021
General Activities LibreOffice 7.1.7 was released on November 4 LibreOffice 7.2.3 was released on November 25 Alain Romedenne improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library and several Basic functions Adolfo Jayme Barrientos updated the help strings for QR and Barcode dialog Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) made it so the navigation menus in Help close when clicking outside of them Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the Help content for Digital Signatures, text filters, Calc’s CSV import and also did a lot of refactoring in Help Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library, improved the Help for Writer’s Direct Cursor mode and did several refactorings and cleanups in Help Steve Fanning improved the Help content for Calc’s CONVERT_OOO and SUM functions Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Eike Rathke (Red Hat) improved the help for Calc’s MATCH function, improved language/locale display, made handling of German ß more robust, fixed an edge case issue of update references when sorting range of cells in Calc, fixed an issue with referencing Calc expression labels and made Regression Statistics more robust by using cell references for calculating offsets Mike Kaganski (Collabora) improved the help for Basic’s CInt function, continued optimising UNO API’s Sequence,
LibreOffice 7.3 Beta1 is available for testing
The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.3 Beta1 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 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 7.3 started in mid June, 2021. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.3 Alpha1, 1199 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 205 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 7.3 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: October 2021
General Activities LibreOffice 7.2.2 was released on October, 14 Alain Romedenne improved the Help content for running Python Interactive Console, Basic’s Option Compatible Statement and added help for VBA Color Named Constants Adolfo Jayme Barrientos fixed a broken Basic example in Help Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) fixed a problem with newlines in Help bookmark strings breaking the generated JavaScript file Olivier Hallot (TDF) added Help entries for the scanner dialog, deleting array formulas in Calc (shout out to Alex Sims) and filter options for CSV, Lotus dBase and DIF data. He also improved Help on text filter options and the Load Styles functionality and documented the XInfobarProvider API Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library, Writer page styles and some Calc functions, updated menu and dialog references, created a guide on Calc macros for reading and writing cell values, added Help pages for the Basic’s “IS” keyword, “New” operator and Collection object Ross Johnson renamed Calc’s “Split Cells” command to “Unmerge Cells” and adjusted the UI and Help accordingly. Regarding the Help system, he made index filtering results stay focused on the current module, improved Writer Help for object positioning and Calc Help for page styles Steve Fanning