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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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General Activities LibreOffice 6.2 was released as final on February, 7 Xisco gave a talk about QA at FOSDEM Mark Hung added support for playing embedded videos in slideshow Mark Hung fixed an old issue, which prevented Linux users from adding sounds to custom animations in Impress Balazs Varga (NISZ) keeps fixing OOXML Chart bugs Miklos Vajna (Collabora) added support for the btLr text direction in Writer. Szymon Kłos (Collabora) added support for Browsersync integration for Online Dennis Francis (Collabora) implemented Discrete Fourier Transform in Calc Martin van Zijl fixed a bunch of old papercut issues, mostly related to selections in Writer Michael Weghorn did a lot of work on KDE5 & Qt5 file pickers Katarina Behrens (CIB) and Aleksei Nikiforov (BaseAlt) keep fixing KDE5 issues Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) continued the work on the new iOS app Zdeněk Crhonek created nearly 20 UI tests Andreas Kainz did many updates to the Sifr icon theme along with other UI improvements Tamas Bunth (Collabora) fixed some Firebird related bugs László Németh (NISZ) fixed some OLE in DOCX bugs Bjoern Michaelsen keeps fighting against SwClient Armin Le Grand and Katarina Behrens (CIB) improved tagged PDF export Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB) removed support for Java

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General Activities LibreOffice 6.2 RC2 was announced on January 11 A two days hackfest with 25 participants was held in Brussels right before FOSDEM 2019 Justin Luth (Collabora) fixed some old DrawingLayer FillStyles regressions Amharic script now works with Fontwork. tdf#66054 Performance of opening documents with embedded fonts was greatly improved by Mike Kaganski (Collabora).tdf#69060 CIB and NISZ teams announced they use Miloš Šrámek’s interoperability tools Some paper format bugs were found to be fixed by the 2018 GSoC print dialog revamp work Jens Carl made over 60 commits related to the Java tests to C++ conversion effort Mark Robbinson created SVG icons for Math Help pages Bartosz Kosiorek improved EMF+ support with several commits Caolán McNamara fixed about 70 UI issues Noel Grandin made several dialogs asynchronous Jim Raykowski kept adding the new style background tab page to dialogs that were missing it. The work is nearly done after a ton of effort! tdf#105225 Around 20 improvements to the KDE5 and Qt5 backends were made by Bubli (CIB), Aleksei Nikiforov (BaseALT), Jan-Marek Glogowski (Landeshauptstadt München) and Michael Weghorn Brian Fraser added support for drag’n’drop of multiple effects in animation pane Miklos Vajna (Collabora) continues working on smartArts improvements Help

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