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General Activities LibreOffice 7.2.2 was released on October, 14 Alain Romedenne improved the Help content for running Python Interactive Console, Basic’s Option Compatible Statement and added help for VBA Color Named Constants Adolfo Jayme Barrientos fixed a broken Basic example in Help Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) fixed a problem with newlines in Help bookmark strings breaking the generated JavaScript file Olivier Hallot (TDF) added Help entries for the scanner dialog, deleting array formulas in Calc (shout out to Alex Sims) and filter options for CSV, Lotus dBase and DIF data. He also improved Help on text filter options and the Load Styles functionality and documented the XInfobarProvider API Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library, Writer page styles and some Calc functions, updated menu and dialog references, created a guide on Calc macros for reading and writing cell values, added Help pages for the Basic’s “IS” keyword, “New” operator and Collection object Ross Johnson renamed Calc’s “Split Cells” command to “Unmerge Cells” and adjusted the UI and Help accordingly. Regarding the Help system, he made index filtering results stay focused on the current module, improved Writer Help for object positioning and Calc Help for page styles Steve Fanning

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General Activities LibreOffice 7.2.1 was released on September 16 LibreOffice 7.1.6 was released on September 9 Allotropia published a couple of blogposts about their recent work on master documents and ODF 1.3 transition Alain Romedenne improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library Adolfo Jayme Barrientos improved the accuracy of some Help texts and made some smaller fixes Rafael Lima created a guide about Calc macros for formatting cell borders, improved the Help pages for Slide master, Calc AutoCorrect and document encryption. Steve Fanning improved the help for EUROCONVERT and CONVERT_OOO Calc functions Olivier Hallot (TDF) added Help pages for Accessibility Check Tool, ProtectFields and ProtectBookmarks, improved the pages for GPG signing and Database Advanced Settings, added examples for using Calc functions in macros and updated many menu item references. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) replaced Help’s index filtering JS library with a more performant one Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Ross Johnson improved paragraph keyboard navigation in Writer and fixed a problem with the grouping of Help index filter results Juan C. Sanz implemented connecting to a Firebird server (still missing UI) Natalia Gavrilova made Calc’s focus rectangle use the highlight colour rather than the default font colour Aleksei

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General Activities LibreOffice 7.2 was released on August 19 Hossein Nourikhah (TDF) published a series of posts explaining how he fixed an interoperability issue. Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 Alain Romedenne improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library Rafael Lima created Help pages for Development Tools, Search Commands, wildcards, removing duplicates in Calc, clarified and improved many pages and updated menu item references. He also added buttons for cloning and clearing direct formatting to Draw’s tabbed interface Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated the intro video for online Help, created a page for Multivariate Regression in Calc and updated many menu item references. He also made several fixes to extended tooltips Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Daniel Arato (NISZ) fixed a shape rotation issue with XLSX import Miklos Vajna (Collabora) fixed the handling of linked background images and the rendering of graphic bullets with linked images, improved Writer’s bibliography feature, made it so list levels in paragraph styles are retained in DOCX files and fixed a shape property value entanglement issue Noel Grandin (Collabora) continued converting uses of the homegrown osl::Mutex to std::mutex (locks preventing race conditions in threaded code), fixed issues found by Thread Sanitizer (TSan),

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