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QA/Dev Report: March 2023

General Activities LibreOffice 7.5.1 was announced on March 2 LibreOffice 7.4.6 was announced on March 9 LibreOffice 7.5.2 was announced on March 30 Rafael Lima continued polishing dark mode support, made it so Calc solver settings are saved to file, including XLSX files and made some smaller tweaks to the UI and Help Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made some tweaks to wordings in UI and Help Olivier Hallot (TDF) corrected help for Calc’s INDEX() function, updated menu paths and made many refactorings and cleanups in Help. He also added better UNO API error messages for Calc sheet insertion and improved extended tooltips Seth Chaiklin made many text improvements both in the UI and in Help related to heading numbering, indexes, captions and styles Alain Romedenne corrected parameter names for Basic functions in Help Sophia Schröder made many cleanups in Help markup, with Christian Lohmaier (TDF) assisting in mass replacements Juan C. Sanz added a help page for Firebird external connection Angelle Leger created a help page for zoom in Calc Stanislav Horacek made small corrections in ScriptForge and regular expression Help pages Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Szymon Kłos

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QA/Dev Report: February 2023

General Activities LibreOffice 7.5.0 was announced on February 2 Roman Kuznetsov gave a talk about QA in russian Rafael Lima continued polishing dark mode support, made it so empty BASIC libraries are populated by an empty module for better user experience, made zooming smoother in Impress and Draw, implemented shortcut-assignable zoom commands as well as commands for toggling Watch/Stack windows for Basic IDE, made colour schemes translatable and fixed some broken links in Help Adolfo Jayme Barrientos improved the layout of some dialogs and updated some Help texts after UI changes Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved Help pages for Template Manager, command line conversion filter info and Draw layers. He also added links to Calc function wiki articles Seth Chaiklin made many text improvements both in the UI and in Help related to heading numbering and indexes Alain Romedenne corrected malformed keyword names in BASIC function signatures and added a Help page for FormatPercent Basic/VBA function Sophia Schröder made many smaller fixes and markup rework in Help files Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Szymon Kłos, Dennis Francis and Henry Castro (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements. Szymon also made HTML

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QA/Dev Report: January 2023

General Activities LibreOffice 7.4.5 was announced on January 26 Rafael Lima continued polishing dark mode support, made the BASIC code editor warn in case of read-only modules and dialogs and made it possible to toggle the display of section boundaries independent from text boundaries in Writer. He also added a help page for Calc’s STYLE function and improved and expanded ScriptForge help Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made many smaller string improvements both in help and in the UI Olivier Hallot (TDF) added a guide to help for Content Controls, updated menu item paths and added help pages for Translate command, page numbering wizard and reworked help pages about indexes Stéphane Guillou (TDF) improved the help for paragraph styles Miklós Vajna (Collabora) made XHTML export more robust, created plumbing for citation handling in Writer and expanded the XML layout dumping developer functionality. He also fixed crashes and several Writer regressions Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed issues with oversized bounding boxes when editing embedded objects in PPTX or XLSX files and made it so linked OLE objects are retained upon PPTX export Szymon Kłos, Pranam Lashkari, Mert Tumer, Ashod Nakashian, Andras Timar and Henry Castro (Collabora) worked

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LibreOffice 7.5 RC2 is available for testing

LibreOffice 7.5 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2023 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 7.5 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) the forth and final pre-release since the development of version 7.5 started in mid June, 2022. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.5 RC1, 89 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 39 issues got fixed. Check the Release Notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 7.5 RC2 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it will replace the standard version. In case you find any problem in this pre-release, please report it in Bugzilla ( You just need a legit email account in order to create a new account ). For help, you can contact the QA Team directly in the QA IRC channel or via Matrix. LibreOffice is a volunteer-driven community project, so please help us to test – we appreciate it! Happy testing!!

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