General Activities LibreOffice 7.1 Beta1 was released on November, 24 Chris Mayo optimised icon installation on Linux and cleaned up obsolete mime type files Rizal Muttaqin made updates to Colibre, Sukapura and Elementary icon themes Björn Michaelsen continued internal improvements to Writer Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) worked on the iOS app and worked on build support related to macOS arm64 and Windows Subsystem for Linux. He also added support for displaying multiple code point emojis Noel Grandin (Collabora) made XML parsing faster in various areas, worked on tools::Long to mitigate the harmful effect of the ‘long’ type bitness difference between Windows and Linux and made many code cleanups Heiko Tietze (TDF) fixed Status bar indication for selected PDF objects, made it so application colours are respected in the font preview of character properties and redesigned the Paste Special dialog Sven Lüppken fixed an issue with border padding in exported DOCX files and improved the Bullets and Numbering dialog in the context of Draw Muhammet Kara gave lectures in Hacettepe University and many students completed their first easy hack Deb Barkley-Yeung made it so wildcards on the command line are handled on Windows Pranam Lashkari (Collabora) added a new parameter UseCurrentDocument to
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LibreOffice 7.1 Beta1 is available for testing
The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.1 Beta1 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 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 7.1 started at the end of May, 2020. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.1 Alpha1, 1131 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 245 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 7.1 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 2020
General Activities LibreOffice 7.0.2.1 was released on October 8 and LibreOffice 7.0.3.1 on October 29 Meanwhile, LibreOffice 7.1 Alpha 1 was released on October 30, being the first pre-release of LibreOffice 7.1 The openSuse + LibreOffice Conference was run from October 15 – 17. You can find many interesting talks about QA and Development here Thorsten Behrens (CIB) made tab pages scrollable and fixed a couple of build issues Miklos Vajna (Collabora) improved handling of direct formatting with pasted ODT & RTF content, fixed an indentation issue with bulleted lists in RTF documents, did internal pdfium-related improvements, fixed a problem with accidentally opening a file twice, improved handling of page breaks with DOCX import Luboš Luňák (Collabora) continued polishing the Skia graphics engine integration, improved graphics handling in many areas and reduced CPU load during slideshow animations Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many cleanups as well as build and test fixes Ayhan Yalçınsoy fixed misplaced master password dialog and made some UI tweaks Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved the UI linter script, made XML parsing faster in various areas, fixed printing of very large font sizes and made many code cleanups Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) fixed inputting Japanese characters in Header
LibreOffice 7.1 Alpha1 is ready for testing
The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.1 Alpha1 is ready for testing! LibreOffice 7.1 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2021 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 7.1 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 7.1 started at the end of May, 2020. Since then, 5374 commits have been submitted to the code repository and more than 1100 bugs were set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 7.1 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!!