QA/Dev Report: July 2022

General Activities LibreOffice 7.3.5 was announced on July 21 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos improved the layout of many dialogs Rafael Lima expanded the help for ScriptForge with many new features Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated the help for Fontwork and CSV import Laurent Balland fixed an issue with customer number formats with embedded text in decimal not saving correctly to ODS. He also fixed the footer of some Impress templates Christian Lohmaier (TDF) did lots of preparatory work for publishing LibreOffice in Apple Store under TDF Miklós Vajna (Collabora) fixed an issue with RTL text and floating objects in DOCX files and a couple of XHTML export issues. He also continued working on content controls for Writer Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed DOCX export of line breaks in text frames and made saving style names to DOCX more robust Szymon Kłos, Henry Castro and Michael Meeks (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made it so two leading apostrophes before a number collapse to one when typing into a Calc cell with default formatting. He also made handling of Calc date formats more robust Bartosz Kosiorek fixed an issue with ordered bullets in Lotus

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Help us to test LibreOffice 7.4 RC2!

The LibreOffice Quality Assurance (QA) Team is happy to announce that LibreOffice 7.4 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) is available for testing! LibreOffice 7.4 will be released as final in mid August, 2022 (check the Release Plan for more information), with LibreOffice 7.4 RC2 being the fourth pre-release since the development of version 7.4 started at the end of November 2021. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.4 RC1, 99 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 56 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 7.4 RC2 can be downloaded from here 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 Telegram. LibreOffice is a volunteer-driven community project and your help is much appreciated. Happy testing!

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LibreOffice 7.4 RC1 is available for testing

The LibreOffice Quality Assurance (QA) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.4 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is available for testing! LibreOffice 7.4 will be released as final in mid August, 2022 ( Check the Release Plan for more information ) being LibreOffice 7.4 RC1 the third pre-release since the development of version 7.4 started at the end of November, 2021. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.4 Beta1, 280 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 121 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 7.4 RC1 can be downloaded from here 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 Telegram. LibreOffice is a volunteer-driven community project and your help is much appreciated. Happy testing!!

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QA/Dev Report: June 2022

General Activities LibreOffice 7.3.4 was released on June 9 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos updated the font stack used in Help and made many small tweaks to content (with help from Celia Palacios). He also made some UI improvements Dietrich Schulten updated Calc help for cell copying after a new option was added to only select visible cells Seth Chaiklin updated help for Arrow styles, object anchoring, list indenting, table resizing and many menu and toolbar items. He also improved many LibreOffice UI strings and tooltips Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) improved the help for AutoCorrect Alain Romedenne documented some Python resources in Help and improved the help for ScriptForge Rafael Lima expanded the help for ScriptForge with many new features and made some smaller help fixes Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for the new Calc Sparklines feature and pivot table formatting, updated the help for Insert Image and Navigator, expanded the help for toolbars and made many other smaller Help fixes. He also made many updates to extended tooltips Laurent Balland added a new Calc command GoTo Sheet and wrote help for it Christian Lohmaier (TDF) prepared for Apple Store distribution, for example fixing access to macOS address book and making Impress

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