The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 6.4 RC1 is ready for testing! LibreOffice 6.4 will be released as final at the end of January, 2020, being LibreOffice 6.4 RC1 the third pre-release since the development of version 6.4 started in the beginning of June, 2019 ( See the release plan ). Since LibreOffice 6.4 Beta1 ( the previous pre-release ), 410 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 195 bugs have been fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 6.4 RC1 can be downloaded from here, it’s available for Linux, MacOS and Windows. ( Note that it will replace your actual installation ) In case you find any problem in this pre-release, please report it in Bugzilla ( You just need a legit email address in order to create a new account ) so it can get fixed before LibreOffice 6.4 final is released. For help, you can contact us directly in our IRC channel. Happy testing!!
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QA/Dev Report: November 2019
General Activities LibreOffice 6.4 Beta1 was announced on November 18 A new version of LibreOffice Impress Remote for Android was announced The new LibreOffice Macro Team posted a progress report Julien Nabet improved the code quality based on cppcheck results Coverity’s defect density is back to 0 Andreas Kainz continued improving dialog layout and the UI with nearly sixty commits Caolán McNamara made the customize dialog open quickly again Luboš Luňák and Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) introduced the Skia graphics engine into the codebase. It supports rendering the UI using GPU with Vulkan. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed a long standing problem in basic’s syntax checker. He also added support for Windows Default apps settings Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) started the work on replacing boost::optional with std::optional Justin Luth (Collabora) removed a bunch of obsolete hacks and fixed several issues related to styles and tables in Writer Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made it possible to use long passwords in OOXML documents Tamás Bunth (Collabora) added support for importing and exporting custom label text in DOCX documents Miklos Vajna (Collabora) improved the interoperability of math objects from PPTX Noel Grandin (Collabora) continued working on more than 1024 columns support for Calc, solved an
LibreOffice 6.4 Beta1 is ready for testing
The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 6.4 Beta1 is ready for testing! LibreOffice 6.4 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2020 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 6.4 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 6.4 started in the beginning of June, 2019. Since then, 5677 commits have been submitted to the code repository and more than 850 bugs have been set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 6.4 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. Happy testing!!
QA Report: October 2019
General Activities The first Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.4 took place on October, 21 The last release of the 6.2 family ( LibreOffice 6.2.8 ) was released on October, 17 LibreOffice 6.3.3 was released on October, 31 Jan-Marek Glogowski (CIB ) fixed a slide tearing issue that affected many users Andreas Kainz reworked the layout of many dialogs. E.g. Autocorrect Dialog The GTK UI backend now uses native dialogs thanks to the tireless work of Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) Miklos Vajna (Collabora) finished implementing continuous endnotes compatibility setting in Writer layout, allowing rendering endnotes in a way which is closer to what Word users expect Miklos Vajna (Collabora) added support for allow-overlap shape property Muhammet Kara (Collabora) implemented full-sheet previews for Calc and harmonised UI references to “pages” and “slides” in Draw and Impress Tamás Zolnai (Collabora) added a table section to the Writer’s sidebar Luboš Luňák (Collabora) and Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) are working on a replacement of cairo with skia Gülşah Köse (Collabora) added support for text camera z rotation while pptx import Noel Grandin (Collabora), Aron Budea (Collabora) and Eike Rathke (Ret Hat) are adapting the code base to allow Calc to have more than 1024 columns