General Activities LibreOffice 24.2.6 was released on September 5 LibreOffice 24.8.1 was released on September 12 LibreOffice 24.8.2 was released on September 27 Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued with a massive Help bookmark cleanup effort, updated help for BASIC Now() function, improved the help for regular expressions by including a description of \w and \W patterns and extended the Document Type Definition of Help XML Pierre F. improved readability and maintainability of the Document Type Definition of Help XML and updated help for Navigator in Calc after the addition of comment deletion functionality Dione Maddern added help pages for Properties Sidebar decks, updated help for Styles Sidebar deck and added a help page for database table references Adolfo Jayme Barrientos improved UI strings in Calc and updated Help pages accordingly Bogdan Buzea improved UI strings and updated Help pages accordingly Laurent Balland did many updates and cleanups to Impress templates, for example replacing images with vector graphics for better quality Miklós Vajna (Collabora) implemented per-paragraph semi-transparent shape text in Impress and added digital signing support to LOKit Michael Meeks, Tomaž Vajngerl, Bayram Çiçek, Rashesh Padia, Gülşah Köse and Marco Cecchetti (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online Jaume Pujantell (Collabora)
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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,
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
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,