General Activities LibreOffice 7.3.7 was released on November 3 LibreOffice 7.4.3 was released on November 24 Rafael Lima made many improvements to how LibreOffice looks like in dark mode, grammar mistake colour configurable, made it so Macro Selector dialog remembers the last run macro, made the new LanguageTool feature more user friendly and improved some UI strings. He also improved help for Database Wizard, ODBC connection and frequently-used buttons Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made many string fixes in help and in the UI code as well as dialog layout improvements Alain Romedenne made improvements and additions to macro help pages as well as the ones dealing with LibreOffice’s own file dialog and remote file services Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued with help screenshot cleanups and improved the help pages for Writer toolbars, slide/page formatting and preview pane, change tracking and array formulas Laurent Balland improved the documentation about templates in extras/README Stéphane Guillou (TDF) made some help fixes Bogdan Buzea made many string fixes in help and in the UI code. He also improved help page contents and corrected menu item paths Miklós Vajna (Collabora) continued working on Writer content controls, made it possible to customise PDF watermark formatting and rotation and
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QA/Dev Report: October 2022
General Activities LibreOffice 7.4.2 was released on October 13 Rafael Lima made many improvements to how LibreOffice looks like in dark mode under Linux and Windows, cleaned up template categories that show up in Template Manager, fixed an issue with InsertText example Python macro, improved the layout of Calc’s Functions sidebar panel and improved some strings appearing in the UI. He also added a help page for chart data tables and improved the help for ImageMaps and Writer table formulas Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made some string fixes in help and in the UI code Alain Romedenne made improvements and additions to macro help pages Olivier Hallot (TDF) made large-scale cleanups regarding screenshots in help, improved help related to file properties, conditional formatting in Calc and layers in Draw Laurent Balland converted all wizard templates to XML, making them easier to maintain. He also simplified the makefiles of Writer, Impress and Draw templates Miklós Vajna (Collabora) added support for titles and tags in Writer content controls, made SVG export preserve tab characters, fixed losing preview images of embedded PDF objects, improved handling of bookmarks and images in Writer header/footer, fixed losing CDATA markup in Writer html import and improved handling of
QA/Dev Report: September 2022
General Activities LibreOffice 7.3.6 was released on September 8 LibreOffice 7.4.1 was released on September 15 Rafael Lima added help for “Math baseline” option in Writer and improved the layout of Template Manager Adolfo Jayme Barrientos improved the layout of the Page Style dialog and made some cleanups both in UI strings and Help Alain Romedenne made Help updates on macro-related menus and dialogs Olivier Hallot (TDF) reworked and enriched the Help pages for conditional formatting and made many Help cleanups Laurent Balland fixed a formatting issue with the templates shipped with Impress, made documents created via Windows explorer be 0 bytes so they use the default template and created a UI test for Go to Sheet command Miklós Vajna (Collabora) added PDF export support for content controls in Writer and implemented combo box control type. He also added support for video looping in PPTX files, fixed several HTML import and export issues and started adding Help pages for content controls Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed a z-ordering issue with embedded OLE objects in PPTX files Szymon Kłos, Ashod Nakashian and Henry Castro (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) replaced outdated uses
QA/Dev Report: August 2022
General Activities LibreOffice 7.4.0 was released on August 18 Rafael Lima added documentation in Help for the new method Normalize in ScriptForge FileSystem and made the Templates dialog work better with HiDPI displays Olivier Hallot (TDF) made some smaller fixes and cleanups in Help Laurent Balland fixed an issue with Impress’s Inspiration template Christian Lohmaier (TDF) did preparatory work for publishing LibreOffice in Microsoft Store under TDF Miklós Vajna (Collabora) added support for cropped video for media shapes in Impress, made shift-clicking/double-clicking graphics in Writer work and fixed problems with exporting to XHTML with graphics as OLE objects and with vertical text and clearing breaks in Writer. He also made some crash fixes. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed a problem with decimal tabulators in DOCX files and made it so long legend texts in charts are truncated Szymon Kłos, Tor Lillqvist, Mert Tumer and Henry Castro (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements Eike Rathke (Red Hat) fixed an issue with calling Calc’s add-in functions via macros while having a non-English UI, made it so switching to English function names in Calc does not require a restart, made Calc’s date pattern evaluation more robust and made