General Activities Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made many minor improvements to Help text readability Seth Chaiklin updated the help for Bullets and Numbering toolbar and made several help page refactorings and tweaks. He also improved many LibreOffice UI strings, tips of the day and UI layouts Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) improved the style of code blocks in Help and started making tables mobile-friendly. He also updated the links to the Developer Guide in LibreOffice source code Alain Romedenne added notes to Help about Basic ‘New’ operator being optional when setting ‘Option Compatible’ and improved Help for ScriptForge. He also improved many LibreOffice UI strings Olivier Hallot (TDF) documented Writer manual row break in Help, updated Impress menu paths and made several other improvements to Help Miklos Vajna (Collabora) worked on content controls feature for Writer, continued working on colour themes in OOXML documents, polished the clearing breaks feature and improved the layout XML dump developer feature Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library and made a couple of small fixes to Access2Base Tünde Tóth (NISZ) finished fixing the handling of embedded and linked media in PPTX files and polished the fix for the old issue with embedded images getting multiplied upon OOXML
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QA/Dev Report: March 2022
General Activities LibreOffice 7.3.1 and 7.3.2 were released on March 3 and March 31 respectively LibreOffice 7.2.6 was released on March 10 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos updated and cleaned up menu paths in Help and updated some tips of the day Seth Chaiklin improved the Help and tooltip for Reset button Alain Romedenne improved the Help page for CallByname Basic function as well as several other functions Olivier Hallot (TDF) added or updated the Help pages for several toolbars, improved the Track Changes help, updated Calc’s Tools menu help and added a page for Share Spreadsheet Rafael Lima added help ID targets for the Manage Changes dialog and improved the ScriptForge library help pages Miklos Vajna (Collabora) added a clearing breaks feature into Writer and wrote a help page for it, continued working on colour themes in OOXML documents and improved the layout XML dump developer feature. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Tünde Tóth (NISZ) worked on fixing the PPTX export of media files, fixed an issue with text colour in DOCX shapes and an old issue with embedded images getting multiplied upon OOXML export Paris Oplopoios made some code cleanups Sarper Akdemir (Collabora) made it so section break
QA/Dev Report: February 2022
General Activities LibreOffice 7.3 was released on February 2 FOSDEM took place February 5-6. Watch all the talks here Alain Romedenne added a help page for CallByName Basic function and improved other Basic pages Stanislav Horáček and Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made some Help cleanups Rafael Lima and flywire improved the ScriptForge library help pages. Rafael also made the Manage changes sidebar panel non-experimental, created a command for duplicating sheets in Calc and fixed Search Commands deleting selected text instead of applying a command Seth Chaiklin improved the help page for Template Manager Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for Calc’s Recalculate Hard and Formula to value and improved Help for indentation and some Calc functions Renwa Hiwa and zhutyra fixed several security issues Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) fixed an issue with the UI logger Justin Luth (SIL) fixed some issues with Calc’s spelling context menu, Calc’s autofill and hidden/filtered cells, made Draw/Impress Find and replace more robust, made it so setting a border style in Writer adds borders, if there are none, fixed an issue with table layout when re-saving a DOC file and made Writer ruler tabstops respect spacing to contents in tables and frames. He also fixed many regressions
QA/Dev Report: January 2022
General Activities LibreOffice 7.2.5 was released on January 6 The European Commission’s Open Source Programme Office started a bug bounty programme for LibreOffice Alain Romedenne improved the Help content for Basic functions Olivier Hallot (TDF) finished documenting non-ODFF Calc functions, added Help pages for Style Inspector (with contributions from Jean Weber and Shivam Kumar) and PostgreSQL connection, started working on a page for Calc’s Data Stream feature and improved help for Calc Add-in function for Dates and Pricing Rafael Lima made numerous improvements to Help content, including adding pages for Navigator’s Rename Object dialog, document color command in Math and Find toolbar. He also added DevTools to the Tabbed interface and improved the Manage Changes dialog Stanislav Horáček improved the ScriptForge library Help content Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) added a global module to the Help navigation Seth Chaiklin updated the help page for Template Manager after UI changes Miklos Vajna (Collabora) improved the fidelity of exporting documents to PDF, also making command line export more powerful, improved the painting of borders in Word-style tables, fixed missing custom bullets in SVG export, improved the handling of tables in DOCX files and shapes in RTF files. He also continued working on support for