General Activities Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved Writer help for hyphenation zones and controlling section visibility, fixed the help example for Calc’s SUMIF function, clarified the topic of fixed colours in the help for document themes, expanded the help for Calc’s sort options, explained in help the option for removing cross-document links in PDF export and added help for Calc’s CHOOSECOLS, CHOOSEROWS and INDEX functions Stanislav Horáček updated and improved help texts Michael Otto fixed issues in Calc help Alain Romedenne updated help for ScriptForge Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) fixed a rendering issue when resizing text boxes containing bullets in Impress and Draw and made it so the default drawing style in Impress and Draw uses theme colours for fill and line Szymon Kłos, Pranam Lashkari, Henry Castro, Shardul Vikram Singh and Maya Stephens (Collabora) worked on LOKit/jsdialog used by Collabora Online. Szymon also improved the layout of Impress’s Animation Sidebar deck and Pranam fixed math formula issues in DOCX files Jaume Pujantell (Collabora) made it so soft edges are not applied, if 3D effects are present in PPTX files and made DOCX hyperlink roundtripping more robust Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on tracking of interdependent changes, worked on interactive document comparison in
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QA/Dev Report: December 2025
General Activities LibreOffice 25.8.4 was announced on December 18 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added a help page for Markdown in Writer, JSON in Calc, updated or improved help for View and Appearance options, accessibility options, sort criteria in Calc, file conversion filters, ODF versions, handling of empty cells in Calc, Data Provider and CHOOSECOLS and CHOOSEROWS Calc functions Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) fixed exporting pivot tables to XLSX, made autofilter sorting more robust when changing sheet views, created an XPath search helper benefiting automated tests and did many code cleanups Dennis Francis, Szymon Kłos, Jaume Pujantell and Henry Castro (Collabora) worked on LOKit/jsdialog used by Collabora Online. Szymon also made the style list in Sidebar work the same way as in Notebookbar UIs Miklós Vajna (Collabora) made the handling of “none” numbering types smarter for improved DOCX compatibility and continued polishing the handling of tracked changes that depend on each other Xisco Faulí (TDF) added several automated tests and upgraded many dependencies Michael Stahl (Collabora) fixed building on Windows with address sanitizer Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made it so cycling through references in Calc also works for multiline formulas, fixed a Writer footnote numbering issue, fixed DeepL translation issues and did many code
QA/Dev Report: November 2025
General Activities LibreOffice 25.8.3 was announced on November 13 Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the help on sort options and keyboard shortcuts, added help for field variable formats, the Slide Properties Sidebar deck, named Calc formulas and Arabic fonts and right-to-left direction for Math. He also updated help for paragraph alignment after the change from Left/Right to Start/End Gábor Kelemen (Collabora) fixed crashes related to locked-down options, improved the script for finding unneeded includes in the code and did many code cleanups Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) fixed an issue with borders when changing the document theme and improved pivot table stability and test coverage Skyler Grey, Méven Car, Dennis Francis, Hubert Figuière, Szymon Kłos, Jaume Pujantell and Nick Wingate (Collabora) worked on LOKit/jsdialog used by Collabora Online. Szymon also made it so Notebookbar style preview shows favourite styles (supported in DOCX files) Rashesh Padia (Collabora) improved the stability of LanguageTool integration Miklós Vajna (Collabora) made it possible to use styles from a template when importing Markdown files, fixed inability to transition from a numbered list to a bulleted list in Impress in some cases, made it so the numbering rules are reset when toggling bullets/numbering, added a UNO command parameter to skip
QA/Dev Report: October 2025
General Activities LibreOffice 25.8.2 was announced on October 9 LibreOffice 25.2.7 was announced on October 30 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for R1C1 Calc formula syntax and DOI citation recognition and improved and updated help on dimension lines, form properties, master documents, command line operations, online update, text boundaries and VBA constants. He also adapted the helper script used for patch submission to a version that works with Help Gábor Kelemen (Collabora) improved the script for finding unneeded includes in the code and did many code cleanups Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued working on sheet view functionality in Calc Pranam Lashkari, Dennis Francis, Szymon Kłos, Jaume Pujantell and Gülşah Köse (Collabora) worked on LOKit/jsdialog used by Collabora Online Rashesh Padia (Collabora) made the revamped Impress transition list more robust Michael Meeks (Collabora) did code cleanups and optimisations in PPTX export code Miklós Vajna (Collabora) improved image handling in Markdown import and export, continued improving the handling of tracked changes that depend on each other and fixed issues with handling of bulleted lists in PPTX files Xisco Faulí (TDF) added sqlite3, dbm and pythonw.exe to the internal Python, fixed an Impress printing crash, added a few new automated tests and upgraded