The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.0 Beta1 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 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 7.0 started in the beginning of June, 2019. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.0 Alpha1, 831 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 179 bugs have been fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in LibreOffice 7.0. LibreOffice 7.0 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!!
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QA/Dev Report: April 2020
General Activities LibreOffice 6.4.3 was released on April, 16 LibreOffice 6.3.6 was released on April, 30 Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) published a couple of blogposts showing the progress done by the PPTX Team and the Macro Team in the last months Adolfo Jayme Barrientos and Steve Fanning made many Help improvements and cleanups Andreas Kainz continued to improve the galleries and dialog layouts. As a new task he took on improving Impress templates Rizal Muttaqin made many improvements in most of the icon themes and removed Tango icon theme from the core Miklos Vajna (Collabora) fixed import and export issues with PDF, SVG, HTML and DOCX. He also continued with padded numbering support in Writer Gábor Kelemen (NISZ) dropped Flash export filter and made many code cleanups Noel Grandin (Collabora) cleaned up the code in many places while improving readability Michael Weghorn fixed issues with the Android application and mail merge Luboš Luňák (Collabora) continued with the Skia engine integration and fixed a chart wizard freezing issue Justin Luth (SIL & Collabora) made many DOC/DOCX import improvements and did a lot of quality assurance work on DOC issues Balázs Varga (NISZ) fixed several chart label issues, related to both ODF and
LibreOffice 7.0 Alpha1 is ready for testing
The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.0 Alpha1 is ready for testing! LibreOffice 7.0 will be released as final at the beginning of August, 2020 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 7.0 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 7.0 started in the beginning of June, 2019. Since then, 6213 commits have been submitted to the code repository and more than 1200 bugs set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 7.0 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!!
QA/Dev Report: March 2020
General Activities LibreOffice 6.4.2 was announced on March, 19 Luca Carlon and Jan-Marek Glogowski introduced basic HiDPI scale for Qt5 in LibreOffice (tdf#127687) Mark Hung improved Impress/Draw table perfomance (tdf#120216) Seth Chaiklin, Sophia Schröder, Adolfo Jayme Barrientos and Steve Fanning made many Help improvements and cleanups Ilmari Lauhakangas and Olivier Hallot updated some menu references in Help Samuel Thibault (Hypra) improved accessibility testing and functionality László Németh (NISZ) fixed many DOCX table issues Xisco Fauli (TDF) created a new QA related easyhack to convert UItests to CppunitTest. Some UItests are not used to test UI elements. Converting them to CppunitTests makes them to run faster and on more platforms. UITests are only run on Linux Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued the crucial user interface backend work and did many cleanups and crash fixes Eike Rathke (Red Hat) improved named ranges and function wizard Andreas Kainz improved context menus, updated the Area Fill presets, arrows gallery, bullets, added a new gallery for Business Process Model and Notation. He also created a new icon gallery as an extension. See link 1, link 2 and link 3 Jun Nogata created new fontwork styles Muhammet Kara (Collabora) made it easy to work on LibreOffice