LibreOffice 6.2 RC2 is ready for testing

The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 6.2 RC2 is ready for testing! LibreOffice 6.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2019, being LibreOffice 6.2 RC2 the forth pre-release since the development of version 6.2 started in mid May, 2018. See the release plan. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 6.2 RC2 can be downloaded from here, and it’s available 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 ) so it can get fixed before LibreOffice 6.2 final is released. For help, you can contact us directly in our IRC channel. Happy testing!!

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QA Report: December 2018

General Activities LibreOffice 6.1.4 was announced on December 18 LibreOffice 6.2 RC1 was released and it’s ready for testing On December 21, the bug hunting session for LibreOffice 6.2 RC1 took place bibisect repositories for LibreOffice 6.3 were created Katarina Behrens (CIB) fixed some Drag&Drop problems on KDE5 Drew Jensen tested the Firebird assistant migration with an assembled group of test files Luboš Luňák (Collabora) did lots of OpenCL fixes New Bugzilla component “iOS” Moggi wrote a blogpost about automated testing in LibreOffice NISZ LibreOffice Team reported many Conditional formatting issues LibreOffice 6.1.4.2 and 6.2.0.1 for macOS have been rebuilt to solve crashes and freezes affecting many users on MacOS Mojave Jens Carl moved dozens of Java tests to C++ Balázs Varga fixed a bunch of chart issues Justin Luth fixed an old annoying issue, where clearing direct formatting would damage the document styles Andreas Kainz made dozens of Notebookbar and icon improvements New team member Durgapriyanka continued to do a significant amount of triaging KDE4 support was removed in master Eike Rathke (Red Hat) reworked the Statistics dialog Mike Kaganski (Collabora) added Scan support for LibreOffice x64 on Windows Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) added support for exporting to .xltx and .dotx

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LibreOffice 6.2 RC1 is ready for testing

The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 6.2 RC1 is ready for testing! LibreOffice 6.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2019, being LibreOffice 6.2 RC1 the third pre-release since the development of version 6.2 started in mid May, 2018. See the release plan. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 6.2 RC1 can be downloaded from here, and it’s available 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 ) so it can get fixed before LibreOffice 6.2 final is released. For help, you can contact us directly in our IRC channel. Happy testing!!

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QA Report: November 2018

General Activities LibreOffice 6.2 beta1 was released On November 19, the bug hunting session for LibreOffice 6.2 beta1 took place Tabbed notebookbar moved out of experimental Miklos Vajna (Collabora) worked on improving Smartart In the FR community Pierre Choffardet has been very active these last days, helped by other members of FR QA team, he narrowed several bugs like: bug 121128, bug 121116, bug 121117, bug 121118, bug 121119, bug 121120 Németh László worked on improving LibreLogo Telesto tested LibreOffice 6.2 on MacOSX in deep Vera Blagoveschenskaya tested KDE5 Markus Mohrhard fixed many chart bugs Mike Kaganski (Collabora) implemented a proper console mode on Windows. Liad Skiva found some crashes in the properties dialog Many bugs found by NISZ LibreOffice Team regarding interoperability Franklin Weng, Cheng-Chia Tseng and Jeff Huang hosted a QA event at the University of Cheng-Kung, Taiwan, where 70 students attended. Bartosz Kosiorek improved EMF+ support with several patches Mark Hung improved slideshow rendering with several patches Jens Carl moved dozens of Java tests to C++ Zdeněk Crhonek created two dozen UI tests Tomaž Vajngerl ( Collabora ) worked on Document encription Rizal Muttaqin worked on Elementary icons Jim Raykowski collaborated with Andreas Kainz to make Notebookbars

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