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QA/Dev Report: November 2024

General Activities LibreOffice 24.8.3 was announced on November 14 Olivier Hallot (TDF) did big updates to screenshots in Help, added a help page for login/password dialog and improved help pages on Skia, Writer Navigator and Edit – External links in Draw and Impress. He also added extended tips for Style dialog and Skia options Pierre F. continued reorganising help pages for Calc functions Dione Maddern added help pages for Number Format and Design Sidebar decks Alain Romedenne improved help for BASIC’s Mid method and updated help for ScriptForge’s Exception.PythonShell() method Bogdan Buzea fixed over 50 issues pointed out by PVS-Studio static analyser, did other code cleanups and worked on harmonising the use of date formats in Help to ISO 8601 Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) started working on PDF 2.0 and PDF/A-4 support Jaume Pujantell (Collabora) fixed an issue with fill content of graphic objects being lost upon PPTX export Bayram Çiçek, Szymon Kłos, Skyler Grey, Vivek Javiya, Marco Cecchetti, Pranam Lashkari, Hubert Figuière and Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. Vivek also added a command to remove content control formatting Julien Nabet did some internal improvements to database code and fixed several issues pointed out by static

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LibreOffice 25.2 Beta1 is available for testing

LibreOffice 25.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.2 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 25.2 started in mid Juny, 2024. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha1, 450 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 105 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 25.2 Beta1 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it can be installed alongside the standard version. 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 Matrix. LibreOffice is a volunteer-driven community project, so please help us to test – we appreciate it! Happy testing!!

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LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha1 is available for testing

LibreOffice 25.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 25.2 started in mid Juny, 2024. Since then, 5184 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 710 bugs were set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha1 can be downloaded for Linux, macOS and Windows, and it can be installed alongside the standard version. 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 Matrix. LibreOffice is a volunteer-driven community project, so please help us to test – we appreciate it! Happy testing!!

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QA/Dev Report: October 2024

General Activities LibreOffice 24.2.7 was released on October 31 Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued with a massive Help bookmark cleanup effort and improved the help for BASIC’s Option Explicit statement Pierre F. reorganised some help pages for Calc functions Bogdan Buzea fixed nearly 70 issues pointed out by PVS-Studio static analyser Miklós Vajna (Collabora) made the Hide Whitespace feature in Writer more robust, fixed an issue with losing the character position of an anchor point when copying content and fixed an issue with frames becoming disconnected from their content after dragging Tomaž Vajngerl, Szymon Kłos, Skyler Grey, Vivek Javiya, Marco Cecchetti, Rashesh Padia, Jaume Pujantell and Henry Castro (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online Julien Nabet synchronised the API code with Java Database Connectivity version 4.3 and fixed several issues pointed out by static analysers Xisco Faulí (TDF) fixed nearly 80 issues pointed out by PVS-Studio static analyser, improved the support for context-fill and context-stroke in SVG files, converted many Java tests to CppUnit tests, added support for “greater than or equal” attribute in conditional formatting, added many automated tests while also simplifying code used across tests, upgraded many dependencies and fixed some crashes Michael Stahl (allotropia) did some

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