General Activities LibreOffice 7.0.4 was released on December, 17 Stanislav Horáček updated Help for using custom styles in chapter numbering Ayhan Yalçınsoy, Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) and Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made some cleanups in Help content Triveni Remany added a note on using optimal height with wrapping in XLS files in Help content Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the readability of print selection and PDF accessibility Help content Ming Hua added information to Help about locking and unlocking toolbars Balaharipreetha Muthu added a Help page for Calc image anchoring, a section about data bars in Help for Calc conditional formatting and a note about Calc grouping and change tracking Seth Chaiklin made 26 changes to Help, with topics including menu item updates, date patterns, keyboard navigation with footnotes and endnotes, templates, crash reporting, renaming Calc sheets, Calc data validity criteria and creating styles Noel Grandin (Collabora) made XML parsing faster in various areas, fixed some automated tests and made many code cleanups and optimisations Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued on the last stretch of the massive UI backend work, fixed an old issue of extended tooltips not showing in menus, dropped many uses of deprecated GTK methods and made many cleanups and
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QA/Dev Report: November 2020
General Activities LibreOffice 7.1 Beta1 was released on November, 24 Chris Mayo optimised icon installation on Linux and cleaned up obsolete mime type files Rizal Muttaqin made updates to Colibre, Sukapura and Elementary icon themes Björn Michaelsen continued internal improvements to Writer Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) worked on the iOS app and worked on build support related to macOS arm64 and Windows Subsystem for Linux. He also added support for displaying multiple code point emojis Noel Grandin (Collabora) made XML parsing faster in various areas, worked on tools::Long to mitigate the harmful effect of the ‘long’ type bitness difference between Windows and Linux and made many code cleanups Heiko Tietze (TDF) fixed Status bar indication for selected PDF objects, made it so application colours are respected in the font preview of character properties and redesigned the Paste Special dialog Sven Lüppken fixed an issue with border padding in exported DOCX files and improved the Bullets and Numbering dialog in the context of Draw Muhammet Kara gave lectures in Hacettepe University and many students completed their first easy hack Deb Barkley-Yeung made it so wildcards on the command line are handled on Windows Pranam Lashkari (Collabora) added a new parameter UseCurrentDocument to
QA/Dev Report: October 2020
General Activities LibreOffice 7.0.2.1 was released on October 8 and LibreOffice 7.0.3.1 on October 29 Meanwhile, LibreOffice 7.1 Alpha 1 was released on October 30, being the first pre-release of LibreOffice 7.1 The openSuse + LibreOffice Conference was run from October 15 – 17. You can find many interesting talks about QA and Development here Thorsten Behrens (CIB) made tab pages scrollable and fixed a couple of build issues Miklos Vajna (Collabora) improved handling of direct formatting with pasted ODT & RTF content, fixed an indentation issue with bulleted lists in RTF documents, did internal pdfium-related improvements, fixed a problem with accidentally opening a file twice, improved handling of page breaks with DOCX import Luboš Luňák (Collabora) continued polishing the Skia graphics engine integration, improved graphics handling in many areas and reduced CPU load during slideshow animations Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many cleanups as well as build and test fixes Ayhan Yalçınsoy fixed misplaced master password dialog and made some UI tweaks Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved the UI linter script, made XML parsing faster in various areas, fixed printing of very large font sizes and made many code cleanups Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) fixed inputting Japanese characters in Header
QA/Dev Report: September 2020
General Activities LibreOffice 7.0.1 was released on September 03 Ivan Stefanenko (Collabora) made improvements to the PDF accessibility checker Seth Chaiklin made improvements to the UX of menu and toolbar controls Tomofumi Yagi fixed a performance issue when editing with external tool and made Calc and Writer able to correctly import text in UTF-8 encoding without BOM Attila Szűcs and Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed longstanding issues with Calc’s drag-fill functionality, a frame width issue in DOCX files, missing AutoFilter button with XLSX export, vertical image alignment relative to bottom margin in DOCX import and invalid detective marks cells in XLSX import Szabolcs Tóth and Regényi Balázs (NISZ) fixed problems with shapes in DOCX/XLSX export, made it so word-wrapped textboxes are imported correctly in the case of DOCX files, fixed missing overflow properties of textboxes in exported XLSX files and made it so tracer arrows (Tools – Detective) are not needlessly exported in XLSX files Björn Michaelsen continued internal improvements to Writer Mike Kaganski (Collabora) improved the rounding of decimal numbers when drag-filling in Calc and made code cleanups and optimisations Szymon Kłos (Collabora) made improvements to Notebookbar and Styles preview Michael Stahl (CIB) fixed Writer regressions related to undo, bookmarks,