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QA/Dev Report: January 2026

LibreOffice 26.2 RC2 is available for testing

QA/Dev Report: December 2025

QA/Dev Report: November 2025

LibreOffice 26.2 Beta1 is available for testing

LibreOffice 26.2 Alpha1 is available for testing

LibreOffice 26.2 Beta1 is available for testing

LibreOffice 26.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2026 ( Check the Release Plan ). LibreOffice 26.2 Beta1 is the second pre-release since development of version 26.2 started at the beginning of June, 2025. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 26.2 Alpha1, 419 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 114 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 26.2 Beta1 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it can be installed alongside 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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LibreOffice 26.2 Alpha1 is available for testing

LibreOffice 26.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2026 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 26.2 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 26.2 started at the beginning of June, 2025. Since then, 4651 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 676 bugs were set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 26.2 Alpha1 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it can be installed alongside 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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QA/Dev Report: October 2025

General Activities LibreOffice 25.8.2 was announced on October 9 LibreOffice 25.2.7 was announced on October 30 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for R1C1 Calc formula syntax and DOI citation recognition and improved and updated help on dimension lines, form properties, master documents, command line operations, online update, text boundaries and VBA constants. He also adapted the helper script used for patch submission to a version that works with Help Gábor Kelemen (Collabora) improved the script for finding unneeded includes in the code and did many code cleanups Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) continued working on sheet view functionality in Calc Pranam Lashkari, Dennis Francis, Szymon Kłos, Jaume Pujantell and Gülşah Köse (Collabora) worked on LOKit/jsdialog used by Collabora Online Rashesh Padia (Collabora) made the revamped Impress transition list more robust Michael Meeks (Collabora) did code cleanups and optimisations in PPTX export code Miklós Vajna (Collabora) improved image handling in Markdown import and export, continued improving the handling of tracked changes that depend on each other and fixed issues with handling of bulleted lists in PPTX files Xisco Faulí (TDF) added sqlite3, dbm and pythonw.exe to the internal Python, fixed an Impress printing crash, added a few new automated tests and upgraded

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QA/Dev Report: September 2025

General Activities LibreOffice 25.2.6 was announced on September 8 Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the help for Select Function in Calc’s formula bar, expanded help for the selection of chart data sources, added AutoFilter and Pivot Table/Chart to the help page on sheet protection, added information about summary above/below to the help of Calc’s SUBTOTAL() function, documented sensitivity in the help page for Solver and added the description meta element to the Help page templates Gábor Kelemen (Collabora) improved the script for finding unneeded includes in the code and did many code cleanups Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) implemented a sheet view functionality in Calc allowing to manipulate AutoFilters in one view without affecting other views Pranam Lashkari, Maya Stephens, Gökay Şatır, Rashesh Padia and Mohit Marathe (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. Maya also fixed an issue with Ctrl+clicking hyperlinked objects Miklós Vajna (Collabora) expanded Writer Markdown export support, worked on change tracking of formatting, continued improving the handling of tracked changes that depend on each other and fixed bullet list style going missing with PPTX export Xisco Faulí (TDF) implemented right-to-left text direction and bidirectional text support in SVG import, added venv to the internal Python, fixed crashes, added

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