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
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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,
QA/Dev Report: August 2020
General Activities LibreOffice 7.0.0 was announced on August, 5 LibreOffice 6.4.6 was announced on August, 13 Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated the help for inserting layers and added a page for Comparison Options Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made renovations in the internal handling of strings. He also made many cleanups as well as build and test fixes Noel Grandin (Collabora) made many code cleanups, increased the use of the fast XML parser and fixed some memory leaks Justin Luth (Collabora/SIL) fixed issues with odd/even footers in exported DOCX, section breaks in exported DOCX, missing images in DOC/DOCX/RTF export and placement on images in table cells in imported DOCX Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) improved the behaviour of Area fill tab and fixed some very old issues with Writer table properties dialog. He also continued the crucial user interface backend work and did many cleanups and crash fixes Szabolcs Tóth and Regényi Balázs (NISZ) fixed some issues with imported and exported OOXML shapes and objects Dániel Arató (NISZ) fixed line spacing with inline pictures in imported DOCX Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) added support for paragraph mark formatting with character style for DOCX export Luboš Luňák (Collabora) continued polishing the Skia graphics engine integration. More