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QA/Dev Report: January 2020

General Activities LibreOffice 6.4 was released on January 29 containing many performance and interoperability improvements Participants in Ankara, Turkey bootcamp completed many easy hacks Participants in the Free Software Winter Camp 2020 in Eskişehir, Turkey completed many easy hacks Noel Grandin (Collabora) further sped up loading an XLSX file with lots of comments. Noel also continued converting XML handling bits to use the performant FastParser API Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made it so functions in Calc can use case sensitive regular expressions. Mike also fixed an Excel compatibility issue involving booleans Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued the welding of UI elements, focusing on the Sidebar Tamás Bunth (Collabora) improved chart label interoperability with OOXML files Miklos Vajna (Collabora) made rotated text in Writer’s table rows with automatic height behave better Seth Chaiklin made dozens of improvements and additions to Help content. He also triaged and re-tested many bugs. Rizal Muttaqin improved most of the icon themes and Sifr in particular. Thorsten Wagner fixed a rendering issue in the character formatting font dropdown on macOS Serge Krot (CIB) improved the performance of Impress when typing into a list having an animation applied to it László Németh and Szabolcs Tóth (NISZ) fixed many

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LibreOffice 6.4 RC2 is ready for testing!

The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 6.4 RC2 is ready for testing! LibreOffice 6.4 will be released as final at the end of January, 2020, being LibreOffice 6.4 RC2 the forth pre-release since the development of version 6.4 started in the beginning of June, 2019 ( See the release plan ). Since LibreOffice 6.4 RC1 ( the previous pre-release ), 90 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 58 bugs have been fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 6.4 RC2 can be downloaded from here, it’s available for Linux, MacOS and Windows. ( Note that it will replace your actual installation ) In case you find any problem in this pre-release, please report it in Bugzilla ( You just need a legit email address in order to create a new account ) so it can get fixed before LibreOffice 6.4 final is released. For help, you can contact the QA Team directly in the IRC channel. Happy testing!!

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QA/Dev Report: December 2019

General Activities LibreOffice 6.3.4 was released on December, 12 LibreOffice 6.4.0 RC1 was released on December 23 and a Bug Hunting Session took place the same day Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) published a blogpost wrapping all the improvements achieved by the PPTX Team in the last months Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made find & replace regular expressions work with look-behind and look-ahead assertions, fixed the display of multi-line formulas, fixed the importing of DOCX files with Tables of Contents and other indices Jim Raykowski completed the integration of the new colour palette and removed the old background tab page code, fixed a very popular annoyance concerning duplicated labels in Customize dialog (with additional contributions from Caolán McNamara of Red Hat) and fixed many accessibility issues Jan Holešovský (Collabora) fixed many under-the-hood issues with the Android application Dennis Francis (Collabora) fixed a frame-anchoring issue, which made elements fly into all the wrong places in Writer Andreas Kainz improved the Notebookbar UIs László Németh (NISZ) fixed several issues with DOCX tables and pasting to Writer tables. He also implemented several AutoCorrect fixes and enhancements Chris Sherlock made many under-the-hood improvements to the EMF+ handling code and implemented support for more EMF+ features Justin Luth

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LibreOffice 6.4 RC1 is ready for testing!

The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 6.4 RC1 is ready for testing! LibreOffice 6.4 will be released as final at the end of January, 2020, being LibreOffice 6.4 RC1 the third pre-release since the development of version 6.4 started in the beginning of June, 2019 ( See the release plan ). Since LibreOffice 6.4 Beta1 ( the previous pre-release ), 410 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 195 bugs have been fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 6.4 RC1 can be downloaded from here, it’s available for Linux, MacOS and Windows. ( Note that it will replace your actual installation ) In case you find any problem in this pre-release, please report it in Bugzilla ( You just need a legit email address in order to create a new account ) so it can get fixed before LibreOffice 6.4 final is released. For help, you can contact us directly in our IRC channel. Happy testing!!

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