General Activities LibreOffice 6.2.5 was announced on July 4 LibreOffice 6.3 RC1, RC2 and RC3 were released throughout the month A Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.3 RC1 was help on July 8 The 6 GSOC students passed the second evaluation. Reports with their weekly work are sent to the development mailing list Olivier Hallot has created Redaction and FOURIER function new help pages Ashod Nakashian (Collabora) implemented multiple selections in Slide sorter Tamás Zolnai (Collabora) continues his Interoperable text-based form controls work Arkadiy Illarionov keeps cleanining duplicated code Justin Luth (Collabora) implemented an option to consolidate multiple textObjs in Draw Michael Stahl (CIB) brought peace and harmony to fly at-char selection and fixed several crashes Miklos Vajna (Collabora) added support for comment on images and charts in Writer Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) bumped minimum Java version to 8 towards LibreOffice 6.4 Grzegorz Araminowicz (Collabora) keeps improving SmartArt support Tamas Bunth (Collabora) and Xisco Fauli fixed some Firebird issues right before the LibreOffice 6.3 final release Caolán McNamara (Ret Hat) keeps welding dialogs in order to give them a native feeling Coverity analyzer is back and many new reported problems are already fixed Balazs Varga (NISZ Team) keeps fixing OOXML
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QA Report: June 2019
General Activities LibreOffice 6.3 beta2 was released for testing on June, 25 The bibisect repositories from libreoffice-6-3-branch-point to latest master for Windows and Linux are available for cloning Miklos Vajna (Collabora) keeps working on btLr text direction Balazs Varga (NISZ Team) keeps improving Chart interoperability Noel Grandin (Collabora) keeps fixing performance issues. See ‘List of performance issues fixed’ below Arkadiy Illarionov is working on removing duplicated code Regina Henschel is working on converting Fontwork to TextWarp on export Jan-Marek Glogowski keeps improving Qt5 support Grzegorz Araminowicz (Collabora) keeps improving SmartArt support Tünde Tóth (NISZ Team) fixed some hyperlink interoperability problems Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) keeps improving support for iOs László Németh (NISZ Team) keeps working on improving tracking changes interoperability Thorsten Behrens (CIB) added support for PDF/A-2 export Roman Kuznetsov updated the fonts in the window installer Jim Raykowski fixed some undo and UI bugs Reported Bugs 544 bugs, 74 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 282 people. Top 10 Reporters Telesto ( 57 ) NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 22 ) Xisco Faulí ( 15 ) Roman Kuznetsov ( 13 ) Markus Elfring ( 11 ) Robert Großkopf ( 10 ) BottleOnTheGround ( 9 ) Regina Henschel ( 7
QA Report: May 2019
General Activities LibreOffice 6.1.6.3 was released on May, 7 LibreOffice 6.2.4.2 was released on May, 22 Jan-Marek Glogowski keeps fixing and improving QT5 bugs Luboš Luňák and Dennis Francis (Collabora) fixed the multi_type_vector regressions affecting performance in Calc Gülşah Köse (Collabora) added new customize and position merged dialog Grzegorz Araminowicz (Collabora) continues his SmartArt interoperability work Tamás Zolnai (Collabora) has fixed some PPTX import/export problems Noel Grandin (Collabora) did a great job on improving the import/export performance of Writer and Calc files Andreas Keinz continues improving the Notebookbar László Németh (NISZ Team) has fixed some DOCX import and track changes interoperability problems Luboš Luňák (Collabora) wrote a nice blogpost about compiling times in LibreOffice Rizal Muttaqin added Karasa Jaga SVG icons and made some updating for Elementary icon theme Miklos Vajna (Collabora) has fixed some flickering UI bugs on Windows Heiko Tietze added a new ‘What’s New?’ infobar pointing to the release notes when a new version is started for the first time Muhammet Kara (Collabora) added all the information regarding the new feature ‘Redaction’ to the release notes Muhammet Kara (Collabora) killed Mozilla Personas support Michael Stahl (CIB) fixed all the regressions introduced by bug 114306 Michael Weghorn (City
QA Report: April 2019
General Activities LibreOffice 6.2.3 was released on April 18, 2019 László Németh (NISZ) fixed the Autocorrect capitalization of the English i’m László Németh (NISZ) continues his work with pasting table from Calc to table in Writer. Now Calc table with hidden rows pastes in Writer table without these rows Grzegorz Araminowicz (Collabora) improved SmartArt interoperability Stephan Bergmann added support for JRE installations with unknown java vendor Andreas Kainz ended update Sifr icon theme. Some review and feedback are welcome Heiko Tietze implemented a nice Tip-of-the-Day dialog that is prompted when LibreOffice is launched. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) has fixed many OpenGL bugs Mike Kaganski (Collabora) has fixed some Pivot table interoperability problems when import/export them into XLSX format Using the new Windows bibisect repo for 4.3 created by Cloph, Buovjaga was able to solve many old regression mysteries Gábor Kelemen (NISZ) closed many reports as duplicates, Chart issues in particular Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved different opening/saving performance hotspots for some documents in Writer, like documents with lots of bookmarks. Buovjaga decided to profile dozens of existing file saving issues just in case. Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved the opening time of different documents in Calc. Xisco Fauli found many crashes ( many