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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QA/Dev Report: April 2024
General Activities Olivier Hallot (TDF) added Help content for user interface selection dialog, Calc row recalculation at load time, automatic labeled ranges in Calc and font embedding. He also updated menu item paths in Help Rafael Lima added support for hidden named expressions in Calc, added Reload command to Notebookbar UIs and made named ranges created by the Solver in Calc hidden by default Stéphane Guillou (TDF) updated Help content for Navigator’s Navigate By Alain Romedenne continued improving the officehelper Python script for connecting to LibreOffice processes Dione Maddern improved Help content for inserting objects from the Gallery and did cleanups in Help Colton Garrett improved Help content for OpenCL and added a Help page for digital signing of paragraphs Laurent Balland did style cleanups in Impress templates Miklós Vajna (Collabora) fixed an issue with shape positioning in DOCX import and did many code cleanups Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed an issue with unwanted spacing in printed text Marco Cecchetti, Gökay Şatır, Pranam Lashkari, Szymon Kłos and Michael Meeks (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online Attila Szűcs (Collabora) continued improving the performance of handling transparent animated GIFs Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) improved the text scaling in Impress text boxes, implemented
QA/Dev Report: March 2024
General Activities LibreOffice 7.6.6 and LibreOffice 24.2.2 were released on March 28 Olivier Hallot (TDF) renamed Fontwork to Text along Path in the UI while updating Help, added Help content for ExportAsFixedFormat VBA method and new Calc functions FILTER, SORT and SORTBY and did several cleanups and fixes in Help Rafael Lima made several improvements to Calc’s Solver dialog, improved the visual consistency of the Tabbed UI and added a warning about the need to reload file after changing macro security level Stéphane Guillou (TDF) updated Help content after UI changes and improved the Help page for macro security Alain Romedenne made many improvements to the officehelper Python script for connecting to LibreOffice processes Dione Maddern rewrote the Help page for Calc’s SUMIF function, updated Help for Writer’s View options and did cleanups in Help Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) did many cleanups in the area of includes while improving the script for finding unneeded includes. He also made some Help fixes Pierre F. made many improvements and fixes to Help pages, for example in the areas of regular expressions and Basic Andras Timar (Collabora) made Help build more robust on Windows and made some cleanups in Help regarding translatable strings Laurent
QA/Dev Report: February 2024
General Activities LibreOffice 7.6.5 was released on February 22 LibreOffice 24.2.1 was released on February 29 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help content for Calc’s XLOOKUP and XMATCH functions, Navigate By in Find toolbar, Draw’s Shrink text on overflow and did many fixed and cleanups in Help Rafael Lima made it so selected text in the BASIC editor is automatically inserted into the search bar, added a command for toggling code block commenting in BASIC IDE and fixed an issue where Duplicate Sheet command might create the sheet in the wrong file, if having two open files with the same name Stanislav Horacek updated command paths in Help Stéphane Guillou (TDF) updated command paths in Help Alain Romedenne updated ScriptForge Help pages, updated Python shell script Help for macOS and improved Python example in SDK Dione Maddern did many fixes and updates to Help pages, mostly fixing links Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) made some cleanups in Help and in UI and UNO bridges code Laurent Balland fixed an issue with skip empty cells option not working for the last column in Calc Text Import dialog, made it so custom number formats using the ? character replace trailing zeroes with figure spaces which