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
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QA/Dev Report: July 2022
General Activities LibreOffice 7.3.5 was announced on July 21 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos improved the layout of many dialogs Rafael Lima expanded the help for ScriptForge with many new features Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated the help for Fontwork and CSV import Laurent Balland fixed an issue with customer number formats with embedded text in decimal not saving correctly to ODS. He also fixed the footer of some Impress templates Christian Lohmaier (TDF) did lots of preparatory work for publishing LibreOffice in Apple Store under TDF Miklós Vajna (Collabora) fixed an issue with RTL text and floating objects in DOCX files and a couple of XHTML export issues. He also continued working on content controls for Writer Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed DOCX export of line breaks in text frames and made saving style names to DOCX more robust Szymon Kłos, Henry Castro and Michael Meeks (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made it so two leading apostrophes before a number collapse to one when typing into a Calc cell with default formatting. He also made handling of Calc date formats more robust Bartosz Kosiorek fixed an issue with ordered bullets in Lotus
QA/Dev Report: June 2022
General Activities LibreOffice 7.3.4 was released on June 9 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos updated the font stack used in Help and made many small tweaks to content (with help from Celia Palacios). He also made some UI improvements Dietrich Schulten updated Calc help for cell copying after a new option was added to only select visible cells Seth Chaiklin updated help for Arrow styles, object anchoring, list indenting, table resizing and many menu and toolbar items. He also improved many LibreOffice UI strings and tooltips Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) improved the help for AutoCorrect Alain Romedenne documented some Python resources in Help and improved the help for ScriptForge Rafael Lima expanded the help for ScriptForge with many new features and made some smaller help fixes Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for the new Calc Sparklines feature and pivot table formatting, updated the help for Insert Image and Navigator, expanded the help for toolbars and made many other smaller Help fixes. He also made many updates to extended tooltips Laurent Balland added a new Calc command GoTo Sheet and wrote help for it Christian Lohmaier (TDF) prepared for Apple Store distribution, for example fixing access to macOS address book and making Impress
QA/Dev Report: May 2022
General Activities LibreOffice 7.2.7 was released on May, 12 LibreOffice 7.3.3 was released on May, 5 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made some minor improvements to Help text readability Seth Chaiklin improved the help for vertical positioning of objects, Print preview, Options tab for Frame/Object/Image, Outline bar for Impress and anchoring. He also improved many LibreOffice UI strings and tips of the day Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) added right-to-left support to Help Alain Romedenne improved the correctness of Basic help pages and documented the new Resize() and Center() methods for ScriptForge’s SF_Dialog flywire cleaned up ScriptForge examples in Help Rafael Lima documented the new CompactLeft and CompactUp methods from the Calc service in ScriptForge Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the help pages for Basic’s Shell function, CSV import filter, Direct SQL and colour palettes Miklos Vajna (Collabora) continued working on colour themes in OOXML documents and content controls for Writer Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed a bug that made Autorecovery option always save every 10 minutes regardless of the minute setting Dennis Francis and Szymon Kłos (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed an issue with numbering styles in imported DOCX files and fixed some regressions