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
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LibreOffice 6.4 Alpha1 is ready for testing
The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 6.4 Alpha1 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 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 6.4 started in the beginning of June, 2019. Since then, 4600 commits have been submitted to the code repository and more than 720 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 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. Happy testing!!
QA Report: September 2019
General Activities LibreOffice 6.3.1 and LibreOffice 6.2.7 were released on September 5 LibreOffice 6.3.2 was released on September 26 The PPT/PPTX Team was created and announced publicly. The Macro Team was created and announced publicly. Roman Kuznetsov changed fonts in Help installer to Segoe UI 9 pt Many problems with bullets and numbering in DOCX files were fixed: tdf#64222 (Michael Stahl, Samuel Mehrbrodt CIB) tdf#95848 (Michael Stahl) Timur was able to close many reports as duplicates of the fixed bugs Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) did a massive amount of UI work under the hood, for example renovating the wizard dialogs Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) removed the gtk+2 backend from master Miklos Vajna (Collabora) solved a cluster of issues related to textbox alignment and spacing in DOCX files https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124600 Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed a bunch of OOXML hyperlink issues László Németh (NISZ) improved the workflow of manipulating tables in Writer tdf#84806 and tdf#118311 Balazs Varga (NISZ) keeps improving OOXML Charts interoperability Xisco Fauli fixed some SVG issues Björn Michaelsen keeps fighting against the SwClient monster. Check his last update Reported Bugs 627 bugs, 87 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 394 people. Top 10 Reporters NISZ LibreOffice Team (
QA Report: August 2019
General Activities On August 8, LibreOffice 6.3.0 was announced On August 14, LibreOffice 6.2.6 was released On August 19, the GSOC coding period ended and the 6 students working on LibreOffice succeed with their projects. Gabor Kelemen Add checkbox to enable/disable sending crash reports to TDF Kohei Yoshida upgraded his orcus library allowing many XML import/export bugs to be closed Miklos Vajna (Collabora) keeps working on improving btLr text direction in Writer Miklos Vajna (Collabora) fixed some flickering issues Balazs Varga (NISZ Team) keeps fixing OOXML Chart issues Tünde Tóth (NISZ Team) keeps fixing hyperlink interoperability issues Tamás Zolnai (Collabora) fixed some ActiveX form control issues Grzegorz Araminowicz (Collabora) keeps improving SmartArt support Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed some potential crashes while using undo/redo with styles Christian Lohmaier added support for Android NDK 19 and above Scott Clarke added support for flagging comments as resolved Reported Bugs 592 bugs, 61 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 390 people. Top 10 Reporters Xisco Faulí ( 15 ) Nicolas Christener ( 14 ) Telesto ( 11 ) Roman Kuznetsov ( 10 ) Robert Großkopf ( 9 ) Mike Kaganski ( 9 ) Aron Budea ( 8 ) Gabor Kelemen ( 8