General Activities LibreOffice 25.8.0 and LibreOffice 25.8.1 were announced on August 20 and August 29 respectively Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated help for the option to load printer settings with document, sorting blocks of cells in Calc, hyphenation, statistical functions, number of lines in charts, exponentiation operator in Calc, remote files, Edit menu in Calc, object rotation, Math options and MATCH function in Calc Celia Palacios added help for the new Intersect() method in ScriptForge Gábor Kelemen (Collabora) did many code cleanups Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) did many code cleanups and added OOXML test documents for text fitting / scaling Pranam Lashkari and Marco Cecchetti (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. Marco also made it so hovering with the mouse over Chart data range colour palette entries in the Sidebar shows a live preview in the active chart Miklós Vajna (Collabora) added list and inline code block support for Markdown export and continued improving the handling of tracked changes that depend on each other Xisco Faulí (TDF) fixed crashes, added over a dozen new automated tests, upgraded many dependencies and did many code cleanups and optimisations Michael Stahl (Collabora) made it so pasted anchored objects are no longer selected by
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QA/Dev Report: July 2025
General Activities LibreOffice 25.2.5 was announced on July 17 Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated help for CSV import, explained Property Mapping in help for Charts and improved help for Calc’s FILTERXML function and AutoFilter Gábor Kelemen (Collabora) did many code cleanups Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) made internal hyperlinks in a table of contents accessible when exported to PDF/UA Pranam Lashkari, Szymon Kłos and Hubert Figuière (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online Parth Raiyani (Collabora) did reorganisations in some dialogs Miklós Vajna (Collabora) polished the support for floating tables in Writer, fixed some crashes and continued improving the handling of tracked changes that depend on each other Xisco Faulí (TDF) added Albanian and Moldovan locale, fixed short weekdays in Romanian locale, improved the translation checker script, added some new automated tests, upgraded many dependencies and did many code cleanups and optimisations Michael Stahl (Collabora) fixed an issue with expansion of list level numbering formats with repeated levels and fixed a column width issue in RTF tables Mike Kaganski (Collabora) implemented Markdown export, fixed not being able to apply colour to Chart walls via Sidebar, fixed an issue with paragraph numbering in RTF files, helped Miklós with floating table polishing, fixed an
QA/Dev Report: June 2025
General Activities LibreOffice 25.2.4 was announced on June 6 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help for compact layout Pivot Tables, Writer table formula MOD and improved the help for Writer’s Send menu commands, font colour, text attributes for drawing objects, Calc shortcut keys, Calc’s LOOKUP function, Of-Pie charts and file conversion filters Pierre F. added help for Writer table formula INT Gábor Kelemen (Collabora) simplified code for VCL settings and did many other code cleanups Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued polishing support for embedded fonts in PowerPoint files Marco Cecchetti (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online Jaume Pujantell (Collabora) improved the import of ref fields in DOCX files Parth Raiyani (Collabora) makde it so the Layouts panel in Impress Sidebar now uses a native IconView widget instead of the ValueSet widget Miklós Vajna (Collabora) fixed a Writer list indent removal issue, implemented RTF export of section breaks right sections, fixed an issue with images inside shapes being sized incorrectly in RTF files and continued improving the handling of tracked changes that depend on each other Xisco Faulí (TDF) implemented Writer table formula MOD, added support for transparent fill colour in SVGs, removed the Euro converter wizard, added several new automated
QA/Dev Report: May 2025
General Activities LibreOffice 24.8.7 was announced on May 8 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added a help page for Page Layout, expanded help for paragraph justification, updated menu paths in Help, added help pages for newly-added Calc functions and of-pie charts, updated help for Business cards and Labels, improved extended tooltips and error messages for Manage Names dialog, corrected an example spreadsheet used for Calc Data Statistics help and improved help for IsNull BASIC function among many other Help cleanups and updates Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) did many code cleanups Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued polishing support for embedded fonts in PowerPoint files and fixed unexpected changing of background images upon saving and reloading in Draw Darshan Upadhyay, Szymon Kłos, Michael Meeks and Jaume Pujantell (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. Szymon also implemented saving checkbox state to XLSX files Gökay Şatır (Collabora) fixed an issue in Draw with connector text disappearing when “Adjust to contour” option was active Marco Cecchetti (Collabora) added a feature to select colour palettes for chart data series Pranam Lashkari (Collabora) fixed an issue with unwanted expansion of reference mark fields after insertion and typing Miklós Vajna (Collabora) continued improving the handling of tracked changes that depend