General Activities Olivier Hallot (TDF) added Help content for user interface selection dialog, Calc row recalculation at load time, automatic labeled ranges in Calc and font embedding. He also updated menu item paths in Help Rafael Lima added support for hidden named expressions in Calc, added Reload command to Notebookbar UIs and made named ranges created by the Solver in Calc hidden by default Stéphane Guillou (TDF) updated Help content for Navigator’s Navigate By Alain Romedenne continued improving the officehelper Python script for connecting to LibreOffice processes Dione Maddern improved Help content for inserting objects from the Gallery and did cleanups in Help Colton Garrett improved Help content for OpenCL and added a Help page for digital signing of paragraphs Laurent Balland did style cleanups in Impress templates Miklós Vajna (Collabora) fixed an issue with shape positioning in DOCX import and did many code cleanups Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed an issue with unwanted spacing in printed text Marco Cecchetti, Gökay Şatır, Pranam Lashkari, Szymon Kłos and Michael Meeks (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online Attila Szűcs (Collabora) continued improving the performance of handling transparent animated GIFs Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) improved the text scaling in Impress text boxes, implemented
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QA/Dev Report: March 2024
General Activities LibreOffice 7.6.6 and LibreOffice 24.2.2 were released on March 28 Olivier Hallot (TDF) renamed Fontwork to Text along Path in the UI while updating Help, added Help content for ExportAsFixedFormat VBA method and new Calc functions FILTER, SORT and SORTBY and did several cleanups and fixes in Help Rafael Lima made several improvements to Calc’s Solver dialog, improved the visual consistency of the Tabbed UI and added a warning about the need to reload file after changing macro security level Stéphane Guillou (TDF) updated Help content after UI changes and improved the Help page for macro security Alain Romedenne made many improvements to the officehelper Python script for connecting to LibreOffice processes Dione Maddern rewrote the Help page for Calc’s SUMIF function, updated Help for Writer’s View options and did cleanups in Help Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) did many cleanups in the area of includes while improving the script for finding unneeded includes. He also made some Help fixes Pierre F. made many improvements and fixes to Help pages, for example in the areas of regular expressions and Basic Andras Timar (Collabora) made Help build more robust on Windows and made some cleanups in Help regarding translatable strings Laurent
QA/Dev Report: February 2024
General Activities LibreOffice 7.6.5 was released on February 22 LibreOffice 24.2.1 was released on February 29 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help content for Calc’s XLOOKUP and XMATCH functions, Navigate By in Find toolbar, Draw’s Shrink text on overflow and did many fixed and cleanups in Help Rafael Lima made it so selected text in the BASIC editor is automatically inserted into the search bar, added a command for toggling code block commenting in BASIC IDE and fixed an issue where Duplicate Sheet command might create the sheet in the wrong file, if having two open files with the same name Stanislav Horacek updated command paths in Help Stéphane Guillou (TDF) updated command paths in Help Alain Romedenne updated ScriptForge Help pages, updated Python shell script Help for macOS and improved Python example in SDK Dione Maddern did many fixes and updates to Help pages, mostly fixing links Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) made some cleanups in Help and in UI and UNO bridges code Laurent Balland fixed an issue with skip empty cells option not working for the last column in Calc Text Import dialog, made it so custom number formats using the ? character replace trailing zeroes with figure spaces which
QA/Dev Report: January 2024
General Activities LibreOffice 24.2 was released on January, 31 Olivier Hallot (TDF) fixed a duplicate Covariance command in Notebookbar UIs, updated menu item paths in Help pages and updated Help pages for conversion filters and style Spotlight Rafael Lima added a Color Scheme switcher to Basic IDE, added a “Delete Comment” command to the Navigator context menu, fixed drawing comment triangles in Calc at all zoom levels, made it so the visibility of UI components in the Basic IDE is remembered, made Basic IDE highlight the line where the cursor is positioned, made it possible to open the “Go to Line” dialog from the statusbar in Basic IDE, fixed Calc AutoFilter arrow color in dark mode, made it so line numbering and breakpoint in Basic IDE are on the left even in right-to-left UI and fixed a crash in Dialog Editor. He also improved the ScriptForge Help pages Stanislav Horacek updated menu paths in Help alongside other cleanups and fixes Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) removed unnecessary images from SVG icon themes, saving nearly 5 MB of space. He also changed the Help CSS to account for a quirk in Safari Stéphane Guillou (TDF) continued linking Sidebar decks to Help Alain Romedenne