General Activities LibreOffice 7.0.1 was released on September 03 Ivan Stefanenko (Collabora) made improvements to the PDF accessibility checker Seth Chaiklin made improvements to the UX of menu and toolbar controls Tomofumi Yagi fixed a performance issue when editing with external tool and made Calc and Writer able to correctly import text in UTF-8 encoding without BOM Attila Szűcs and Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed longstanding issues with Calc’s drag-fill functionality, a frame width issue in DOCX files, missing AutoFilter button with XLSX export, vertical image alignment relative to bottom margin in DOCX import and invalid detective marks cells in XLSX import Szabolcs Tóth and Regényi Balázs (NISZ) fixed problems with shapes in DOCX/XLSX export, made it so word-wrapped textboxes are imported correctly in the case of DOCX files, fixed missing overflow properties of textboxes in exported XLSX files and made it so tracer arrows (Tools – Detective) are not needlessly exported in XLSX files Björn Michaelsen continued internal improvements to Writer Mike Kaganski (Collabora) improved the rounding of decimal numbers when drag-filling in Calc and made code cleanups and optimisations Szymon Kłos (Collabora) made improvements to Notebookbar and Styles preview Michael Stahl (CIB) fixed Writer regressions related to undo, bookmarks,
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QA/Dev Report: August 2020
General Activities LibreOffice 7.0.0 was announced on August, 5 LibreOffice 6.4.6 was announced on August, 13 Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated the help for inserting layers and added a page for Comparison Options Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made renovations in the internal handling of strings. He also made many cleanups as well as build and test fixes Noel Grandin (Collabora) made many code cleanups, increased the use of the fast XML parser and fixed some memory leaks Justin Luth (Collabora/SIL) fixed issues with odd/even footers in exported DOCX, section breaks in exported DOCX, missing images in DOC/DOCX/RTF export and placement on images in table cells in imported DOCX Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) improved the behaviour of Area fill tab and fixed some very old issues with Writer table properties dialog. He also continued the crucial user interface backend work and did many cleanups and crash fixes Szabolcs Tóth and Regényi Balázs (NISZ) fixed some issues with imported and exported OOXML shapes and objects Dániel Arató (NISZ) fixed line spacing with inline pictures in imported DOCX Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) added support for paragraph mark formatting with character style for DOCX export Luboš Luňák (Collabora) continued polishing the Skia graphics engine integration. More
QA/Dev Report: July 2020
General Activities LibreOffice 6.4.5 was announced on July, 2 A Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 7.0 RC1 took place on July, 6 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added a help page for Calc cell styles László Németh (NISZ) documented the new “Localized options” of AutoCorrect in help and fixed DOCX import issues concerning paragraph spacing and rotated text in table cell Octavio Alvarez made Clear Direct Formatting help match reality Stanislav Horacek, Mihkel Tõnnov, Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF), Olivier Hallot (TDF) and Johnny_M made many Help improvements and cleanups Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) fixed a print preview clip region issue and a mismatch of document names with their thumbnails in the Start Center with right-to-left UI. He also continued the crucial user interface backend work and did many cleanups and crash fixes Eike Rathke (Red Hat) improved the correctness of Calc’s input field number scanner, made it so TIMEVALUE() accepts minutes or seconds > 59 and improved handling of decimal separators Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many cleanups, C++ conformance fixes and build and test fixes Luboš Luňák (Collabora) fixed saving big documents with a password and continued with the Skia graphics engine integration Noel Grandin (Collabora) made many code cleanups and improved
LibreOffice 7.0 RC2 is available for testing
The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.0 RC2 is available for testing! LibreOffice 7.0 will be released as final at the beginning of August, 2020 ( Check the Release Plan for more information ) being LibreOffice 7.0 RC2 the fifth pre-release since the development of version 7.0 started in the beginning of June, 2019. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.0 RC1, 73 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 57 bugs have been fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in LibreOffice 7.0. LibreOffice 7.0 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. LibreOffice is a volunteer-driven community project and your help is much appreciated. Happy testing!!