General Activities Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) reimplemented the MediaWiki Bugzilla integration as a widget, so the unmaintained extension could be removed. He also made the Help content regarding keyboard shortcuts more accurate for macOS users Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library Steve Fanning made corrections to the Help content for Calc functions Stéphane Guillou, Roman Kuznetsov and Stanislav Horacek made a few updates to the Help content to match the current user interface Balaharipreetha Muthu added missing Help pages for the Data Bar section of Calc’s Conditional Formatting. She also added explanations for Find and Replace dialog’s Kashida and Diacritics sensitivity options Seth Chaiklin made 27 changes to Help, with topics including templates, Find and Replace, styles and AutoCorrect Olivier Hallot (TDF) made many smaller fixes and reorganisations in the Help content Maxim Monastirsky fixed Anchor drop down button not working properly in Tabbed UI Jan-Marek Glogowski (allotropia) made internal improvements to the Windows UI code Marco Cecchetti (Collabora) made many improvements to the SVG export of Impress presentations David Alan Gilbert made many code corrections based on Cppcheck reports Michael Weghorn made accessing Calc columns safer
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LibreOffice 7.1 RC2 is available for testing
LibreOffice 7.1 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2021 ( Check the Release Plan for more information ) being LibreOffice 7.1 RC2 the fourth pre-release since the development of version 7.1 started at the end of May, 2020. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.1 RC1, 87 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 64 bugs have been fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in LibreOffice 7.1. LibreOffice 7.1 RC2 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 as both channels are bridged to each other. LibreOffice is a volunteer-driven community project and your help is much appreciated.
QA/Dev Report: December 2020
General Activities LibreOffice 7.0.4 was released on December, 17 Stanislav Horáček updated Help for using custom styles in chapter numbering Ayhan Yalçınsoy, Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) and Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made some cleanups in Help content Triveni Remany added a note on using optimal height with wrapping in XLS files in Help content Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the readability of print selection and PDF accessibility Help content Ming Hua added information to Help about locking and unlocking toolbars Balaharipreetha Muthu added a Help page for Calc image anchoring, a section about data bars in Help for Calc conditional formatting and a note about Calc grouping and change tracking Seth Chaiklin made 26 changes to Help, with topics including menu item updates, date patterns, keyboard navigation with footnotes and endnotes, templates, crash reporting, renaming Calc sheets, Calc data validity criteria and creating styles Noel Grandin (Collabora) made XML parsing faster in various areas, fixed some automated tests and made many code cleanups and optimisations Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued on the last stretch of the massive UI backend work, fixed an old issue of extended tooltips not showing in menus, dropped many uses of deprecated GTK methods and made many cleanups and
LibreOffice 7.1 RC1 is available for testing
LibreOffice 7.1 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2021 ( Check the Release Plan for more information ) being LibreOffice 7.1 RC1 the third pre-release since the development of version 7.1 started at the end of May, 2020. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.1 Beta1, 234 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 132 bugs have been fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in LibreOffice 7.1. LibreOffice 7.1 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, merry Christmas and happy new year!!