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
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QA/Dev Report: July 2020
General Activities LibreOffice 6.4.5 was announced on July, 2 A Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 7.0 RC1 took place on July, 6 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added a help page for Calc cell styles László Németh (NISZ) documented the new “Localized options” of AutoCorrect in help and fixed DOCX import issues concerning paragraph spacing and rotated text in table cell Octavio Alvarez made Clear Direct Formatting help match reality Stanislav Horacek, Mihkel Tõnnov, Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF), Olivier Hallot (TDF) and Johnny_M made many Help improvements and cleanups Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) fixed a print preview clip region issue and a mismatch of document names with their thumbnails in the Start Center with right-to-left UI. He also continued the crucial user interface backend work and did many cleanups and crash fixes Eike Rathke (Red Hat) improved the correctness of Calc’s input field number scanner, made it so TIMEVALUE() accepts minutes or seconds > 59 and improved handling of decimal separators Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many cleanups, C++ conformance fixes and build and test fixes Luboš Luňák (Collabora) fixed saving big documents with a password and continued with the Skia graphics engine integration Noel Grandin (Collabora) made many code cleanups and improved
QA/Dev Report: June 2020
General Activities Adolfo Jayme Barrientos, Steve Fanning, Gábor Kelemen, Olivier Hallot (TDF) and Johnny_M made many Help improvements and cleanups Jan-Marek Glogowski improved the Writer comments ruler UI control and fixed a few Qt-related issues Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) implemented searching inside PDFs inserted as a graphic and added support for reading annotations in PDFs Chris Sherlock did graphics-related refactoring work Mike Kaganski (Collabora) improved the look of soft edges and shadows in slideshows Martin van Zijl added the ability to reset standard filter in Calc Luboš Luňák (Collabora) continued with the Skia graphics engine integration and improved the performance of undo operations in Calc Xisco Faulí (TDF) made over 40 additions and fixes to unit and UI tests Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed many issues with DOCX lists and fixed a DOCX paragraph spacing issue Noel Grandin (Collabora) made many code cleanups and made performance improvements in Calc in the areas of autofilling, loading of spreadsheets with huge autofilters and sorting data Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued the crucial user interface backend work and did many cleanups and crash fixes Rizal Muttaqin made many improvements in the icon themes and refreshed the Presenter Screen Balázs Varga (NISZ) fixed some OOXML chart
QA/Dev Report: May 2020
General Activities LibreOffice 6.4.4 was released as final on May, 21 The fist Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 7.0 took place on May, 11 Roman Kuznetsov wrote a nice post explaining how to create new patches directly in Gerrit Michael Stahl (CIB) made ODF 1.3 Extended the default ODF version. See the current status for more information Mike Kaganski (Collabora) improved how glow effects and soft edge effects are imported into LibreOffice Adolfo Jayme Barrientos, Steve Fanning, Olivier Hallot and Johnny_M made many Help improvements and cleanups Xisco Fauli (TDF) rewrote all the office-interoperability-tools scripts in python, used for finding interoperability regressions of different formats. The code has been simplified and cleaned up, and execution time has halved from 10 days to 5 days. Jim Raykowski added a tooltip to Navigator displaying the word count of sections Noel Grandin (Collabora) made many code cleanups and made Calc autofilling and searching in autofilter much faster Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued the crucial user interface backend work and did many cleanups and crash fixes Andreas Kainz continued to improve the galleries, dialog layouts and Impress templates. He also made improvements to the Notebookbar interfaces Xisco Faulí (TDF) made nearly 60 additions and