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QA/Dev Report: December 2025

QA/Dev Report: November 2025

LibreOffice 26.2 Beta1 is available for testing

LibreOffice 26.2 Alpha1 is available for testing

QA/Dev Report: October 2025

QA/Dev Report: September 2025

LibreOffice 6.3 on Linux, a statement

Following the availability of LibreOffice 6.3 Beta, there have been speculations about 32-bit compatibility based on a the missing 32-bit binaries for Linux. We have prepared a short and a long statement to clarify the situation. TL;DR 1. The Document Foundation is ending the provision of 32-bit binaries, and NOT 32-bit compatibility as a whole. 2. Distro vendors or anyone running a more current 32-bit Linux system can still create 32-bit versions of LibreOffice, as developers have not in any way removed 32-bit compatibility from the source code. Additionally, we are not removing any 32-bit builds that were previously created. 3. Most Linux users are sourcing LibreOffice from their distro repositories, which are usually compiled against the distro’s version of the various external libraries. We do not anticipate distros dropping 32-bit LibreOffice packages. 4. TDF does not anticipate the same decision happening for LibreOffice 32-bit binaries for Windows any time soon. LONG 1. During the last two years, the number of downloads of the 32-bit Linux distribution-neutral binaries provided by The Document Foundation have decreased to a very low number. Today, the time needed to compile, test, maintain and distribute those binaries is not worth the effort, based on current

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QA Report: May 2019

General Activities LibreOffice 6.1.6.3 was released on May, 7 LibreOffice 6.2.4.2 was released on May, 22 Jan-Marek Glogowski keeps fixing and improving QT5 bugs Luboš Luňák and Dennis Francis (Collabora) fixed the multi_type_vector regressions affecting performance in Calc Gülşah Köse (Collabora) added new customize and position merged dialog Grzegorz Araminowicz (Collabora) continues his SmartArt interoperability work Tamás Zolnai (Collabora) has fixed some PPTX import/export problems Noel Grandin (Collabora) did a great job on improving the import/export performance of Writer and Calc files Andreas Keinz continues improving the Notebookbar László Németh (NISZ Team) has fixed some DOCX import and track changes interoperability problems Luboš Luňák (Collabora) wrote a nice blogpost about compiling times in LibreOffice Rizal Muttaqin added Karasa Jaga SVG icons and made some updating for Elementary icon theme Miklos Vajna (Collabora) has fixed some flickering UI bugs on Windows Heiko Tietze added a new ‘What’s New?’ infobar pointing to the release notes when a new version is started for the first time Muhammet Kara (Collabora) added all the information regarding the new feature ‘Redaction’ to the release notes Muhammet Kara (Collabora) killed Mozilla Personas support Michael Stahl (CIB) fixed all the regressions introduced by bug 114306 Michael Weghorn (City

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LibreOffice 6.3 Beta1 ready for testing

The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 6.3 Beta1 is ready for testing! LibreOffice 6.3 will be released as final in mid August, 2019, being LibreOffice 6.3 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 6.3 started in mid November, 2018 ( See the release plan ). Since LibreOffice 6.3 Alpha1, 683 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 141 bugs have been set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 6.3 Beta1 can be downloaded from here, it’s available for Linux, MacOS and Windows. Besides, and it can be installed along with your actual installation. In case you find any problem in this pre-release, please report it in Bugzilla ( You just need a legit email account in order to create a new account ) so it can get fixed before LibreOffice 6.3 final is released. For help, you can contact us directly in our IRC channel. Happy testing!!

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LibreOffice 6.3 Alpha1 is ready for testing

The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 6.3 Alpha1 is ready for testing! LibreOffice 6.3 will be released as final in mid August ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 6.3 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 6.3 started in mid November, 2018. Since then, 6390 commits have been submitted to the code repository and more than 1050 bugs have been set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 6.3 Alpha1 is already available for downloading here, for Linux, MacOS and Windows. In case you find any problem in this pre-release, please report it in Bugzilla ( You just need a legit email account in order to create a new account ). For help, you can contact the QA Team directly in the QA IRC channel or via Telegram. Happy testing!!

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