General Activities Adolfo Jayme Barrientos, Steve Fanning, Gábor Kelemen, Olivier Hallot (TDF) and Johnny_M made many Help improvements and cleanups Jan-Marek Glogowski improved the Writer comments ruler UI control and fixed a few Qt-related issues Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) implemented searching inside PDFs inserted as a graphic and added support for reading annotations in PDFs Chris Sherlock did graphics-related refactoring work Mike Kaganski (Collabora) improved the look of soft edges and shadows in slideshows Martin van Zijl added the ability to reset standard filter in Calc Luboš Luňák (Collabora) continued with the Skia graphics engine integration and improved the performance of undo operations in Calc Xisco Faulí (TDF) made over 40 additions and fixes to unit and UI tests Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed many issues with DOCX lists and fixed a DOCX paragraph spacing issue Noel Grandin (Collabora) made many code cleanups and made performance improvements in Calc in the areas of autofilling, loading of spreadsheets with huge autofilters and sorting data Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued the crucial user interface backend work and did many cleanups and crash fixes Rizal Muttaqin made many improvements in the icon themes and refreshed the Presenter Screen Balázs Varga (NISZ) fixed some OOXML chart
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LibreOffice 7.0 RC1 is available for testing
The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.0 RC1 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 RC1 the forth pre-release since the development of version 7.0 started in the beginning of June, 2019. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.0 Beta2, 174 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 116 bugs have been fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in LibreOffice 7.0. LibreOffice 7.0 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!!
LibreOffice 7.0 Beta2 is available for testing
The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.0 Beta2 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 Beta2 the third pre-release since the development of version 7.0 started in the beginning of June, 2019. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.0 Beta1, 257 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 142 bugs have been fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in LibreOffice 7.0. LibreOffice 7.0 Beta2 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 2020
General Activities LibreOffice 6.4.4 was released as final on May, 21 The fist Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 7.0 took place on May, 11 Roman Kuznetsov wrote a nice post explaining how to create new patches directly in Gerrit Michael Stahl (CIB) made ODF 1.3 Extended the default ODF version. See the current status for more information Mike Kaganski (Collabora) improved how glow effects and soft edge effects are imported into LibreOffice Adolfo Jayme Barrientos, Steve Fanning, Olivier Hallot and Johnny_M made many Help improvements and cleanups Xisco Fauli (TDF) rewrote all the office-interoperability-tools scripts in python, used for finding interoperability regressions of different formats. The code has been simplified and cleaned up, and execution time has halved from 10 days to 5 days. Jim Raykowski added a tooltip to Navigator displaying the word count of sections Noel Grandin (Collabora) made many code cleanups and made Calc autofilling and searching in autofilter much faster Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued the crucial user interface backend work and did many cleanups and crash fixes Andreas Kainz continued to improve the galleries, dialog layouts and Impress templates. He also made improvements to the Notebookbar interfaces Xisco Faulí (TDF) made nearly 60 additions and