General Activities LibreOffice 6.4.2 was announced on March, 19 Luca Carlon and Jan-Marek Glogowski introduced basic HiDPI scale for Qt5 in LibreOffice (tdf#127687) Mark Hung improved Impress/Draw table perfomance (tdf#120216) Seth Chaiklin, Sophia Schröder, Adolfo Jayme Barrientos and Steve Fanning made many Help improvements and cleanups Ilmari Lauhakangas and Olivier Hallot updated some menu references in Help Samuel Thibault (Hypra) improved accessibility testing and functionality László Németh (NISZ) fixed many DOCX table issues Xisco Fauli (TDF) created a new QA related easyhack to convert UItests to CppunitTest. Some UItests are not used to test UI elements. Converting them to CppunitTests makes them to run faster and on more platforms. UITests are only run on Linux Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued the crucial user interface backend work and did many cleanups and crash fixes Eike Rathke (Red Hat) improved named ranges and function wizard Andreas Kainz improved context menus, updated the Area Fill presets, arrows gallery, bullets, added a new gallery for Business Process Model and Notation. He also created a new icon gallery as an extension. See link 1, link 2 and link 3 Jun Nogata created new fontwork styles Muhammet Kara (Collabora) made it easy to work on LibreOffice
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QA/Dev Report: February 2020
General Activities LibreOffice 6.3.5 was announced on February, 20 LibreOffice 6.4.1 was announced on February, 27 LibreOffice was present at FOSDEM and many presentations about LibreOffice were given on February, 1 A 2 days Hackfest took place in Brussels right after FOSDEM Michael Weghorn implemented native PopupMenus for the qt5/kf5 VCL plugin Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) fixed blurry text in macOS and did many code cleanups Jim Raykowski continued to improve Navigator in general and its context menu Seth Chaiklin made many Help update patches Luboš Luňák (Collabora) continues to polish Skia library in LibreOffice Maxim Monastirsky added Highlighting tab for shapes and comments to Format>Character dialog in Writer and in Calc Noel Grandin (Collabora) did many cleanups under the hood, including changes that speed up development Jan Holešovský (Collabora) enabled spell-checking on Android Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued the crucial user interface backend work and also did many cleanups to the code Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made it so decimals input into Calc are represented with the correct precision value Michael Stahl (CIB) improved DOCX exporting of footnote separators and rotated text fields Jan-Marek Glogowski (CIB) fixed several qt5/kf5 issues Xisco Fauli (TDF) added basic unittests for LWP files Gábor
QA/Dev Report: January 2020
General Activities LibreOffice 6.4 was released on January 29 containing many performance and interoperability improvements Participants in Ankara, Turkey bootcamp completed many easy hacks Participants in the Free Software Winter Camp 2020 in Eskişehir, Turkey completed many easy hacks Noel Grandin (Collabora) further sped up loading an XLSX file with lots of comments. Noel also continued converting XML handling bits to use the performant FastParser API Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made it so functions in Calc can use case sensitive regular expressions. Mike also fixed an Excel compatibility issue involving booleans Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued the welding of UI elements, focusing on the Sidebar Tamás Bunth (Collabora) improved chart label interoperability with OOXML files Miklos Vajna (Collabora) made rotated text in Writer’s table rows with automatic height behave better Seth Chaiklin made dozens of improvements and additions to Help content. He also triaged and re-tested many bugs. Rizal Muttaqin improved most of the icon themes and Sifr in particular. Thorsten Wagner fixed a rendering issue in the character formatting font dropdown on macOS Serge Krot (CIB) improved the performance of Impress when typing into a list having an animation applied to it László Németh and Szabolcs Tóth (NISZ) fixed many
QA/Dev Report: December 2019
General Activities LibreOffice 6.3.4 was released on December, 12 LibreOffice 6.4.0 RC1 was released on December 23 and a Bug Hunting Session took place the same day Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) published a blogpost wrapping all the improvements achieved by the PPTX Team in the last months Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made find & replace regular expressions work with look-behind and look-ahead assertions, fixed the display of multi-line formulas, fixed the importing of DOCX files with Tables of Contents and other indices Jim Raykowski completed the integration of the new colour palette and removed the old background tab page code, fixed a very popular annoyance concerning duplicated labels in Customize dialog (with additional contributions from Caolán McNamara of Red Hat) and fixed many accessibility issues Jan Holešovský (Collabora) fixed many under-the-hood issues with the Android application Dennis Francis (Collabora) fixed a frame-anchoring issue, which made elements fly into all the wrong places in Writer Andreas Kainz improved the Notebookbar UIs László Németh (NISZ) fixed several issues with DOCX tables and pasting to Writer tables. He also implemented several AutoCorrect fixes and enhancements Chris Sherlock made many under-the-hood improvements to the EMF+ handling code and implemented support for more EMF+ features Justin Luth