General Activities LibreOffice 24.2 was released on January, 31 Olivier Hallot (TDF) fixed a duplicate Covariance command in Notebookbar UIs, updated menu item paths in Help pages and updated Help pages for conversion filters and style Spotlight Rafael Lima added a Color Scheme switcher to Basic IDE, added a “Delete Comment” command to the Navigator context menu, fixed drawing comment triangles in Calc at all zoom levels, made it so the visibility of UI components in the Basic IDE is remembered, made Basic IDE highlight the line where the cursor is positioned, made it possible to open the “Go to Line” dialog from the statusbar in Basic IDE, fixed Calc AutoFilter arrow color in dark mode, made it so line numbering and breakpoint in Basic IDE are on the left even in right-to-left UI and fixed a crash in Dialog Editor. He also improved the ScriptForge Help pages Stanislav Horacek updated menu paths in Help alongside other cleanups and fixes Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) removed unnecessary images from SVG icon themes, saving nearly 5 MB of space. He also changed the Help CSS to account for a quirk in Safari Stéphane Guillou (TDF) continued linking Sidebar decks to Help Alain Romedenne
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QA/Dev Report: December 2023
General Activities LibreOffice 7.5.9 and 7.6.4 were announced on December 7 Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated menu item paths in Help pages and updated and restructured dozens of help pages Rafael Lima fixed line count width in Writer file properties dialog, added a button leading to Download page in the dialog showing up if trying to access Help without offline files available and made it possible to enter edit mode for comments in Calc via Navigator. He also updated ScriptForge help and added a Help page about installing offline Help Stanislav Horacek did many fixes and cleanups in Help pages Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) made it so multi-selection is no longer possible in Start Center as it is not actionable. He also streamlined the navigation layout of Help Stéphane Guillou (TDF) linked Sidebar decks to Help and did other Help updates Alain Romedenne updated ScriptForge help pages Dione Maddern updated Help for Draw’s Consolidate Text functionality Sophia Schröder did many cleanups in Help Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) added support for XF86Forward / XF86Back key events for use in Impress slideshows and did code cleanups in the area of unused config keys and includes Laurent Balland did many fixes in Impress templates, collaborating with
QA/Dev Report: November 2023
General Activities LibreOffice 7.5.8 was released on November 2 LibreOffice 7.6.3 was released on November 23 Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated menu item paths in Help pages and updated and restructured dozens of help pages Rafael Lima updated ScriptForge help Stanislav Horacek updated menu item paths in Help pages alongside other corrections Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) updated Help pages after UI string changes Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) did code cleanups in the area of unused config keys and includes Laurent Balland extended ODF to allow lowercase for exponent characters and blank expontent digits and did many fixes in Impress templates Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer. He also did code cleanups and build fixes Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Szymon Kłos, Michael Meeks and Marco Cecchetti (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online Henry Castro (Collabora) made Calc’s background colour autofiltering more robust and added an automated test for PPTX master slides Attila Szűcs (Collabora) improved FontWork text placement Skyler Grey (Collabora) continued polishing STYLEREF field support for DOCX compatibility Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made several improvements to date & time functions and calculations in Calc Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) wrote automated tests in preparation for OOXML
QA/Dev Report: October 2023
General Activities Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued adding Tabbed UI examples into help instructions and updated and restructured dozens of help pages Rafael Lima added support for hidden named ranges in Calc, fixed named ranges associated to sheets being lost upon XLSX export and made it so renaming a sheet updates ranges in solver models Bogdan Buzea made some UI string improvements Seth Chaiklin updated help after UI label change related to outline levels Stanislav Horacek improved the help for Firebird wizard Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) added a method to automated test for dealing with DPI variance, improved Search Commands result presentation, updated help after UI string changes and improved the accessibility of help navigation Alain Romedenne updated ScriptForge help Bartosz Kosiorek added handling for invalid records in Windows Metafile graphics Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) did code cleanups in the area of includes, created a script to find unused config groups/keys and improved some UI strings Laurent Balland did code cleanups Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Szymon Kłos (Collabora) worked on LOKit and jsdialog used by Collabora Online. He also worked on the simple conditional formatting dialog created by Paris Oplopoios