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General Activities On August 8, LibreOffice 6.3.0 was announced On August 14, LibreOffice 6.2.6 was released On August 19, the GSOC coding period ended and the 6 students working on LibreOffice succeed with their projects. Gabor Kelemen Add checkbox to enable/disable sending crash reports to TDF Kohei Yoshida upgraded his orcus library allowing many XML import/export bugs to be closed Miklos Vajna (Collabora) keeps working on improving btLr text direction in Writer Miklos Vajna (Collabora) fixed some flickering issues Balazs Varga (NISZ Team) keeps fixing OOXML Chart issues Tünde Tóth (NISZ Team) keeps fixing hyperlink interoperability issues Tamás Zolnai (Collabora) fixed some ActiveX form control issues Grzegorz Araminowicz (Collabora) keeps improving SmartArt support Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed some potential crashes while using undo/redo with styles Christian Lohmaier added support for Android NDK 19 and above Scott Clarke added support for flagging comments as resolved Reported Bugs 592 bugs, 61 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 390 people. Top 10 Reporters Xisco Faulí ( 15 ) Nicolas Christener ( 14 ) Telesto ( 11 ) Roman Kuznetsov ( 10 ) Robert Großkopf ( 9 ) Mike Kaganski ( 9 ) Aron Budea ( 8 ) Gabor Kelemen ( 8

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General Activities LibreOffice 6.2.5 was announced on July 4 LibreOffice 6.3 RC1, RC2 and RC3 were released throughout the month A Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.3 RC1 was help on July 8 The 6 GSOC students passed the second evaluation. Reports with their weekly work are sent to the development mailing list Olivier Hallot has created Redaction and FOURIER function new help pages Ashod Nakashian (Collabora) implemented multiple selections in Slide sorter Tamás Zolnai (Collabora) continues his Interoperable text-based form controls work Arkadiy Illarionov keeps cleanining duplicated code Justin Luth (Collabora) implemented an option to consolidate multiple textObjs in Draw Michael Stahl (CIB) brought peace and harmony to fly at-char selection and fixed several crashes Miklos Vajna (Collabora) added support for comment on images and charts in Writer Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) bumped minimum Java version to 8 towards LibreOffice 6.4 Grzegorz Araminowicz (Collabora) keeps improving SmartArt support Tamas Bunth (Collabora) and Xisco Fauli fixed some Firebird issues right before the LibreOffice 6.3 final release Caolán McNamara (Ret Hat) keeps welding dialogs in order to give them a native feeling Coverity analyzer is back and many new reported problems are already fixed Balazs Varga (NISZ Team) keeps fixing OOXML

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General Activities LibreOffice 6.3 beta2 was released for testing on June, 25 The bibisect repositories from libreoffice-6-3-branch-point to latest master for Windows and Linux are available for cloning Miklos Vajna (Collabora) keeps working on btLr text direction Balazs Varga (NISZ Team) keeps improving Chart interoperability Noel Grandin (Collabora) keeps fixing performance issues. See ‘List of performance issues fixed’ below Arkadiy Illarionov is working on removing duplicated code Regina Henschel is working on converting Fontwork to TextWarp on export Jan-Marek Glogowski keeps improving Qt5 support Grzegorz Araminowicz (Collabora) keeps improving SmartArt support Tünde Tóth (NISZ Team) fixed some hyperlink interoperability problems Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) keeps improving support for iOs László Németh (NISZ Team) keeps working on improving tracking changes interoperability Thorsten Behrens (CIB) added support for PDF/A-2 export Roman Kuznetsov updated the fonts in the window installer Jim Raykowski fixed some undo and UI bugs Reported Bugs 544 bugs, 74 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 282 people. Top 10 Reporters Telesto ( 57 ) NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 22 ) Xisco Faulí ( 15 ) Roman Kuznetsov ( 13 ) Markus Elfring ( 11 ) Robert Großkopf ( 10 ) BottleOnTheGround ( 9 ) Regina Henschel ( 7

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