The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.2 Release Candidate 1 is available for testing! LibreOffice 7.2 will be released as final in mid August, 2021 ( Check the Release Plan for more information ) being LibreOffice 7.2 RC1 the third pre-release since the development of version 7.2 started at the end of November, 2020. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.2 Beta1, 208 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 100 bugs have been fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in LibreOffice 7.2. LibreOffice 7.2 RC1 can be downloaded from here for Linux, MacOS and Windows. 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: June 2021
General Activities LibreOffice 7.1.4 was released on June, 10 Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library. Alain also added some Basic keyword argument explanations and created a help page for Basic ThisDatabaseDocument object. Olivier Hallot (TDF) and Adolfo Jayme Barrientos clarified ‘whole sheet export’ for Calc PDF export in Help. Olivier also added help entries for VBA StrConv function, Advanced TSCP classification dialog and toolbar, revamped Bullets & Numbering dialog for Impress and Draw, Combine Text in Draw and made several improvements and tweaks. Michael Warner fixed an issue in PDF files containing Chinese characters generated with XeLaTeX Ming Hua added glossary entries about half-width and full-width characters to Help Steve Fanning documented how to escape double quotes in Help for Calc’s text functions Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Hossein Nourikhah started working for TDF as Developer Community Architect Michael Stahl (allotropia) fixed some Writer layout infinite loops Bai Xiaochun replaced uses of homegrown math functions with standard library ones and optimised a math function for speed Baltasar made it so in Basic the results of comparison of literals have proper boolean type Gülşah Köse (Collabora) fixed a text data loss issue
LibreOffice 7.2 Beta1 is available for testing
The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.2 Beta1 is available for testing! LibreOffice 7.2 will be released as final in mid August, 2021 ( Check the Release Plan for more information ) being LibreOffice 7.2 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 7.2 started at the end of November, 2020. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.2 Alpha1, 1163 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 221 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 7.2 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 2021
General Activities LibreOffice 7.1.3 was released on May 6 LibreOffice 7.0.6 was released on May 13 The PowerPoint compatibility team reported on its recent work Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library. Rafael Lima also documented the WeekDay Basic function and improved the help for Calc’s CONVERT function Kevin Suo improved the Python script for generating the file filter table for Help. Kevin also fixed a font family problem in the Help CSS related to Simplified Chinese display on Linux Steve Fanning made several improvements to Calc function Help pages. Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved Help on Calc functions, databases and Calc’s autofilter Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made Calc accept 123.45 fractional input on weird formats like 0″.” or 0″.”0, expanded NatNum12 modifier support for all day and month names and made it so Calc’s ROUND() function does not limit decimal digits Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Caolán McNamara not only continued with GTK3 backend polishing, but took on a new large-scale project: a GTK4 backend! See here and here. He also made many cleanups and crash fixes Noel Grandin (Collabora) started fixing memory leaks like an angry plumber. He also speeded up