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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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QA Report: April 2019

General Activities LibreOffice 6.2.3 was released on April 18, 2019 László Németh (NISZ) fixed the Autocorrect capitalization of the English i’m László Németh (NISZ) continues his work with pasting table from Calc to table in Writer. Now Calc table with hidden rows pastes in Writer table without these rows Grzegorz Araminowicz (Collabora) improved SmartArt interoperability Stephan Bergmann added support for JRE installations with unknown java vendor Andreas Kainz ended update Sifr icon theme. Some review and feedback are welcome Heiko Tietze implemented a nice Tip-of-the-Day dialog that is prompted when LibreOffice is launched. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) has fixed many OpenGL bugs Mike Kaganski (Collabora) has fixed some Pivot table interoperability problems when import/export them into XLSX format Using the new Windows bibisect repo for 4.3 created by Cloph, Buovjaga was able to solve many old regression mysteries Gábor Kelemen (NISZ) closed many reports as duplicates, Chart issues in particular Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved different opening/saving performance hotspots for some documents in Writer, like documents with lots of bookmarks. Buovjaga decided to profile dozens of existing file saving issues just in case. Noel Grandin (Collabora) improved the opening time of different documents in Calc. Xisco Fauli found many crashes ( many

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QA Report: March 2019

General Activities Libreoffice 6.2.1 and LibreOffice 6.2.2 were released Heiko and Roman Kuznetsov killed the more controls toolbar Roman Kuznetsov continues to sort the bugs by META (total about 2000 bugs for last 4 month) Dennis Francis (Collabora) added new Fourier analysis tool to Data→Statistics Andras Timar (Collabora) puts in order the info about licenses Andreas Kainz made huge Sifr icon theme update Jan-Marek Glogowski fixed some Qt5 bugs Several students tried to fix some Easy Hacks before GsoC in LibreOffice starts Katarina Behrens (CIB) has fixed many KDE5/Qt bugs The total number of open KDE-related reports dropped to under 50 Luboš Luňák (Collabora) and Miklos Vajna (Collabora) have fixed some OpenGL bugs Laurent Alonso made many changes in libetonyek library (parser for the file format of Apple iWork documents) Roadmap for personal growth in QA was created Jens Carl made nearly 70 commits related to the Java tests to C++ conversion effort Noel Grandin (Collabora) discovered that some performance issues involving large tables had been fixed and then proceeded to optimise the code further. He also fixed some other performance issues during the month Miklos Vajna (Collabora) continues improving smartart support Saurav Chirania wrote a nice post about things

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