LibreOffice 7.3 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2022 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 7.3 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 7.3 started in mid June, 2021. Since then, 4764 commits have been submitted to the code repository and more than 760 bugs were set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 7.3 Alpha1 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, so please help us to test – we appreciate it! Happy testing!!
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QA/Dev Report: September 2021
General Activities LibreOffice 7.2.1 was released on September 16 LibreOffice 7.1.6 was released on September 9 Allotropia published a couple of blogposts about their recent work on master documents and ODF 1.3 transition Alain Romedenne improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library Adolfo Jayme Barrientos improved the accuracy of some Help texts and made some smaller fixes Rafael Lima created a guide about Calc macros for formatting cell borders, improved the Help pages for Slide master, Calc AutoCorrect and document encryption. Steve Fanning improved the help for EUROCONVERT and CONVERT_OOO Calc functions Olivier Hallot (TDF) added Help pages for Accessibility Check Tool, ProtectFields and ProtectBookmarks, improved the pages for GPG signing and Database Advanced Settings, added examples for using Calc functions in macros and updated many menu item references. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) replaced Help’s index filtering JS library with a more performant one Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Ross Johnson improved paragraph keyboard navigation in Writer and fixed a problem with the grouping of Help index filter results Juan C. Sanz implemented connecting to a Firebird server (still missing UI) Natalia Gavrilova made Calc’s focus rectangle use the highlight colour rather than the default font colour Aleksei
QA/Dev Report: August 2021
General Activities LibreOffice 7.2 was released on August 19 Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) published a series of posts explaining how he fixed an interoperability issue. Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 Alain Romedenne improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library Rafael Lima created Help pages for Development Tools, Search Commands, wildcards, removing duplicates in Calc, clarified and improved many pages and updated menu item references. He also added buttons for cloning and clearing direct formatting to Draw’s tabbed interface Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated the intro video for online Help, created a page for Multivariate Regression in Calc and updated many menu item references. He also made several fixes to extended tooltips Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Daniel Arato (NISZ) fixed a shape rotation issue with XLSX import Miklos Vajna (Collabora) fixed the handling of linked background images and the rendering of graphic bullets with linked images, improved Writer’s bibliography feature, made it so list levels in paragraph styles are retained in DOCX files and fixed a shape property value entanglement issue Noel Grandin (Collabora) continued converting uses of the homegrown osl::Mutex to std::mutex (locks preventing race conditions in threaded code), fixed issues found by Thread Sanitizer (TSan),
QA/Dev Report: July 2021
General Activities LibreOffice 7.1.5 was released on July, 22 The Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 7.2 RC1 took place on July, 19 Roman Kuznetsov is teaching a group of russian volunteers called ‘the hamsters QA Team” how to triage bugs in LibreOffice Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library – many Python examples were added. Rafael also improved the Advanced Filter and NUMBERVALUE help pages. Steve Fanning improved some Calc function help pages Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated the help page for Impress object transformations Bai Xiaochun replaced uses of homegrown math functions with standard library ones Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed incorrect formatting being applied to Writer text fields while editing them and added delimiting to chapter fields Dante Doménech created a new version of the OpenSymbol font Jeff Huang cleaned out the unused code for collecting usage data Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) improved the Sidebar preview of theme colour sets by adding name display, continued working on the new searching and indexing feature and made some code cleanups and refactorings Luboš Luňák (Collabora) took the first step in getting Skia graphics engine integration to work on macOS and fixed an issue with image sizes in