General Activities LibreOffice 7.5.6 and LibreOffice 7.5.7 were announced on September 14 and September 26 respectively LibreOffice 7.6.1 and LibreOffice 7.6.2 were announced on September 7 and September 26 respectively Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued adding Tabbed UI examples into help instructions, added a help page for editing styles, improved the help page for accessibility checker, added or updated help for commands found in Writer’s Table, Styles and Form menu as well as Tools menu for all applications Stéphane Guillou (TDF) added help for Impress’s Use Background fill and made some help cleanups Rafael Lima added search functionality to the Calc Functions sidebar Bogdan Buzea improved help for vertical positioning Seth Chaiklin changed some UI strings to be more clear and updated help pages accordingly Bartosz Kosiorek added Poisson distribution to help on Calc’s Random Number Generator Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) dropped HTML Export wizard help pages, improved the layout of Area dialog and did code cleanups in the area of includes Laurent Balland improved the Impress template Growing Liberty 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 optimised
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QA/Dev Report: August 2023
General Activities LibreOffice 7.6.0 was released on August 21 Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued adding Tabbed UI examples into help instructions, updated help for command line PDF export and anchoring of images in Writer, improved help for Title Page and added extended tips to its dialog and added help pages for tooltips when dragging scrollbars and document themes Juan C. Sanz added Firebird’s DATEADD and DATEDIFF functions to the SQL parser Stéphane Guillou (TDF) updated help for PDF export regarding comments in margin Rafael Lima fixed issues with F1 help shortcut not working in some contexts, made the table toolbar hidden when Notebookbar is active and updated help for ScriptForge Seth Chaiklin updated help for AutoRecovery Laurent Balland extended ODF support to include reserved blank spaces in Calc custom number formats Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer. He also made improvements to automated tests Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Szymon Kłos (Collabora) worked on jsdialog used by Collabora Online Marco Cecchetti and Attila Szűcs (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. Attila also added an Excel compatibility option to limit the creation of hyperlinks to only one per cell Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed a
QA/Dev Report: July 2023
General Activities LibreOffice 7.5.5 was released on July 20 Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued adding Tabbed UI examples into help instructions, added an example on how to get user data from registry with BASIC, added help pages for document themes and Calc drawing styles and fixed a JavaScript issue related to displaying different embedded help content depending on the operating system Stanislav Horáček improved the help for Sort command in Writer Juan C. Sanz added a new help section for direct connections to PostgreSQL databases Nay Catina Dia-Schneebeli added a help page for the new Style Spotlight feature Stéphane Guillou (TDF) improved help pages for hyphenation, Outline Folding and labels Rafael Lima fixed issues with F1 help shortcut not working in some contexts and fixed incorrect menu positions with KDE Frameworks 5 UI. He also updated help for ScriptForge, improved help on setting PYTHONPATH and did a lot of fixes in help bookmarks that connect something in the UI to a relevant help target Seth Chaiklin added help for the new “Place backup in same folder as document” option and added a tip of the day entry about Search Commands Laurent Balland added optional detection of numbers in scientific notation to
QA/Dev Report: June 2023
General Activities LibreOffice 7.5.4 was released on June 8 Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued adding Tabbed UI examples into help instructions, corrected help pages to match UI changes and refactored PostgreSQL connection setup dialog Seth Chaiklin made some UI label improvements and updated help after UI changes for Body Text style, AutoCorrect and Navigator heading manipulation Laurent Balland fixed issues with rendering of moving average trend lines in charts, added support for embedded text in scientific number format and fixed an erroneous warning in CSV import dialog Alain Romedenne updated help for ScriptForge Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer, improved the handling of vertically raised or lowered text in DOCX files and expanded the developer functionality for dumping Writer document layout data Szymon Kłos (Collabora) optimised Style Preview performance and did some code cleanups Eike Rathke (Red Hat) improved date & time (duration) handling in Calc Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued polishing support for document themes Julien Nabet improved native number format handling, fixed issues found by code analysers and did many code cleanups Andreas Heinisch made the Format Cell dialog in Calc remember its window state and implemented functionality for pinning favourite documents in Start Center László