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General Activities LibreOffice 7.1.3 was released on May 6 LibreOffice 7.0.6 was released on May 13 The PowerPoint compatibility team reported on its recent work Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library. Rafael Lima also documented the WeekDay Basic function and improved the help for Calc’s CONVERT function Kevin Suo improved the Python script for generating the file filter table for Help. Kevin also fixed a font family problem in the Help CSS related to Simplified Chinese display on Linux Steve Fanning made several improvements to Calc function Help pages. Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved Help on Calc functions, databases and Calc’s autofilter Eike Rathke (Red Hat) made Calc accept 123.45 fractional input on weird formats like 0″.” or 0″.”0, expanded NatNum12 modifier support for all day and month names and made it so Calc’s ROUND() function does not limit decimal digits Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Caolán McNamara not only continued with GTK3 backend polishing, but took on a new large-scale project: a GTK4 backend! See here and here. He also made many cleanups and crash fixes Noel Grandin (Collabora) started fixing memory leaks like an angry plumber. He also speeded up

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General Activities LibreOffice 7.1.2 was released on April 1st Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) wrote a nice report about the progress done by the Macro Team in the last year Stanislav Horacek updated some menu paths in Help. Seth Chaiklin clarified the meaning of numbered paragraphs in Help. Olivier Hallot (TDF) made 20 changes and additions to Help with topics including menus, Calc cell protection and direct formatting. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library. Rafel also made it so word wrapping in shapes is enabled by default in Impress and Draw. Xisco Faulí (TDF) made about 30 improvements and additions to unit and UI tests, fixed some regression bugs and added an automated check for translation domains in .ui files Rizal Muttaqin made updates to all icon themes Jan-Marek Glogowski, Armin Le Grand and Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) worked on the WASM build in a feature branch Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed losing internal hyperlinks upon PPTX import Vert D improved renaming behaviour in the Template Manager Tushar Kumar Rai fixed a Data Provider crash Roland Kurmann fixed filtered/transpose paste in Calc while adding many new unit tests for the

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General Activities LibreOffice 7.0.5 was released on March 12 LibreOffice 7.1.1 was released on March 4 LibreOffice was accepted as a project for the Googgle Summer of Code 2021 program Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) created a new wiki widget to help with navigating the Calc function documentation Steve Fanning made corrections to the Help content for Calc’s database functions Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library. Rafael also updated Slide menu help for Impress and added an example for using hyperlink to folders in Writer and Calc Adolfo Jayme Barrientos and Johnny_M made smaller fixes and cleanups to Help pages Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the Help for Java, Special characters dialog, font embedding and made cleanups Seth Chaiklin made nearly 50 changes and additions to Help, with topics including list formatting, menus, chapter numbering, page styles and shortcuts. He also made many improvements to tooltips and labels in LibreOffice. Among the people he worked with on perfecting the changes were Mike Kaganski (Collabora) and Dieter Praas. Akshit Kushwaha changed the QR code encoder library to zxing-cpp, which will allow implementing barcode support. René Engelhard and Mike Kaganski helped

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