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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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General Activities LibreOffice 7.1 Community was released on February 3 Steve Fanning made corrections to the Help content for Calc functions Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated the Help for Calc’s View menu and made many smaller fixes and reorganisations in Help Seth Chaiklin made 27 changes and additions to Help, with topics including menus, styles and AutoCorrect. He also made many improvements to tooltips and labels in LibreOffice Srijita Mallick and Akshit Shan created their first unit test and their first accessibility improvements George Bateman added a “Keep asking during this session” checkbox to Calc’s paste import options dialog Andrzej Hunt (Google) improved the fuzzing setup Dipanshu Garg made it so information about Calc’s Jumbo sheet status appears in the About dialog Deb Barkley-Yeung added a unit test for BColorModifier Andreas Kainz improved the Notebookbar and Sidebar UIs Justin Luth (Collabora/SIL) fixed character highlight issues related to numbering, fixed a Writer crash related to superscript, a superscript applying issue with DOCX export and a bulleted list copying problem with imported DOC files David Tardon (Red Hat) made it possible to dump

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General Activities Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) reimplemented the MediaWiki Bugzilla integration as a widget, so the unmaintained extension could be removed. He also made the Help content regarding keyboard shortcuts more accurate for macOS users Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library Steve Fanning made corrections to the Help content for Calc functions Stéphane Guillou, Roman Kuznetsov and Stanislav Horacek made a few updates to the Help content to match the current user interface Balaharipreetha Muthu added missing Help pages for the Data Bar section of Calc’s Conditional Formatting. She also added explanations for Find and Replace dialog’s Kashida and Diacritics sensitivity options Seth Chaiklin made 27 changes to Help, with topics including templates, Find and Replace, styles and AutoCorrect Olivier Hallot (TDF) made many smaller fixes and reorganisations in the Help content Maxim Monastirsky fixed Anchor drop down button not working properly in Tabbed UI Jan-Marek Glogowski (allotropia) made internal improvements to the Windows UI code Marco Cecchetti (Collabora) made many improvements to the SVG export of Impress presentations David Alan Gilbert made many code corrections based on Cppcheck reports Michael Weghorn made accessing Calc columns safer

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