QA/Dev Report: August 2024

General Activities LibreOffice 24.8.0 was released on August 22 Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued with improvements to Calc function help pages, added help pages for Sidebar settings and graphics export via command line, improved help pages for Writer Status Bar, Calc’s Similarity Search and database ranges, updated menu item paths in Help, did lots of Help cleanups, added some extended tooltips, improved the dialog for easy conditional formatting in Calc and removed a misleading Restore Default button from Sidebar Settings Alain Romedenne improved help for BASIC’s If statement and added unit tests for IF THEN statements in BASIC and VBA Pierre F. made two dozen improvements to help, in areas such as Calc functions, word count, change tracking, BASIC, regular expressions, AutoRecovery and backup, and freezing of rows and columns in Calc Dione Maddern added a help page for Quick Find Sidebar deck, updated the help for Writing Aids, reworked help pages for Navigator and Navigation toolbar and updated the instructions for enabling remote control in Impress Remote user guide Adolfo Jayme Barrientos updated help pages about digital signatures after UI changes Laurent Balland did cleanups in Resume Writer template and Beehive, Blue Curve, DNA, Blueprint Plans, Focus, Inspiration, Light, DNA,

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QA/Dev Report: July 2024

General Activities LibreOffice 24.2.5 was released on July, 25 Olivier Hallot (TDF) did many improvements to Calc function help pages and added documentation for wildcards in the Find & Replace help content Alain Romedenne added a help page for supported MS Office VBA object features and improved the help for IF Basic statement Pierre F. did many improvements to Calc function help pages and clarified the help text on crash reporter Dione Maddern reworked the help pages concerning Styles Sidebar deck and added a help page for Page Sidebar deck Stanislav Horáček updated help for Calc’s XMATCH function Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) did code cleanups in the area of warnings Laurent Balland did cleanups in Yellow Idea, Candy, Freshes and Growing Liberty Impress templates Miklós Vajna (Collabora) continued polishing support for content controls, improved the performance of working with documents having an unusually large number of bulleted lists, disabled export of form fields as PDF forms by default to match user expectations better and improved font fallback in DOCX import Szymon Kłos, Jaume Pujantell, Attila Szűcs, Michael Meeks, Pranam Lashkari, Marco Cecchetti, Áron Budea and Henry Castro (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued refactoring and

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QA/Dev Report: June 2024

General Activities LibreOffice 24.2.4.2 was announced on June 6 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for LET Calc function, improved the help for other new Calc functions, made it so help pages show a link to LibreOffice guide books, updated help pages for Save and Calc View options and updated help pages after UI string changes Alain Romedenne updated some Basic and Python help pages Pierre F. updated the help for regular expressions, pointing to ICU Regular Expressions documentation Dione Maddern updated help for Bullets and Numbering Image tab, Clone Formatting and Insert Table command in Impress Bogdan Buzea did code cleanups in the area of includes and UI files Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) fixed an issue with hiding drawing shapes from printing Laurent Balland did cleanups in Impress Yellow Idea template, replaced built-in binary template for HTML files with an OTH file generated from XML sources and fixed a special Calc number formatting case involving misplaced minus signs Miklós Vajna (Collabora) continued polishing the implementation of continuous endnotes for Microsoft Word compatibility, added a helper script to diff reference rendering vs. LibreOffice rendering via PDF, fixed a DOCX import glitch involving paragraph borders getting mixed up with table cell borders,

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QA/Dev Report: May 2024

General Activities LibreOffice 24.2.3 was released on May 2 LibreOffice 7.6.7 was released on May 10 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for SEQUENCE and UNIQUE Calc functions and finalised help for RANDARRAY, XLOOKUP, XMATCH, FILTER, RANDARRAY, SORT and SORTBY functions. He also improved the help for Calc’s Advanced Filter, added extended tips to Sparklines dialog and improved the descriptions seen in the UI for Calc’s RANDARRAY and UNIQUE functions Adolfo Jayme Barrientos improved the readability and grammar of Help pages Stéphane Guillou (TDF) added help content for the new ability to start a presentation from the command line at an arbitrary slide number Alain Romedenne added unit tests for officehelper.py Dione Maddern added help content for new bar-of-pie and pie-of-pie chart types, updated help for File Properties, Slide Show Settings, Calc View Options, Summary and Expand Slides, Edit Points Bar, Calc change tracking, Shapes menu, Bullets and Numbering Image tab alongside various fixes and cleanups Stanislav Horacek did corrections to Calc help content Bogdan Buzea improved help about object positioning in Writer Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) did code cleanups in the area of measurement units and snap lines, code simplification and includes Laurent Balland did cleanups in Impress templates and

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