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LibreOffice 26.2 RC2 is available for testing

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

LibreOffice 24.8 Beta1 is available for testing

LibreOffice 24.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2024 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 24.8 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 24.8 started at the beginning of December, 2023. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 24.8 Alpha1, 672 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 191 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR WINDOWS 7 USERS Internal python version has been upgraded to python 3.9 which no longer supports Windows 7. It’s very important to us to know whether LibreOffice 24.8 still works on Windows 7 or not, as well as its python functionalities. Please, do test this version and give us feedback. LibreOffice 24.8 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

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QA/Dev Report: May 2024

General Activities LibreOffice 24.2.3 was released on May 2 LibreOffice 7.6.7 was released on May 10 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for SEQUENCE and UNIQUE Calc functions and finalised help for RANDARRAY, XLOOKUP, XMATCH, FILTER, RANDARRAY, SORT and SORTBY functions. He also improved the help for Calc’s Advanced Filter, added extended tips to Sparklines dialog and improved the descriptions seen in the UI for Calc’s RANDARRAY and UNIQUE functions Adolfo Jayme Barrientos improved the readability and grammar of Help pages Stéphane Guillou (TDF) added help content for the new ability to start a presentation from the command line at an arbitrary slide number Alain Romedenne added unit tests for officehelper.py Dione Maddern added help content for new bar-of-pie and pie-of-pie chart types, updated help for File Properties, Slide Show Settings, Calc View Options, Summary and Expand Slides, Edit Points Bar, Calc change tracking, Shapes menu, Bullets and Numbering Image tab alongside various fixes and cleanups Stanislav Horacek did corrections to Calc help content Bogdan Buzea improved help about object positioning in Writer Gábor Kelemen (allotropia) did code cleanups in the area of measurement units and snap lines, code simplification and includes Laurent Balland did cleanups in Impress templates and

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LibreOffice 24.8 Alpha1 is available for testing

LibreOffice 24.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2024 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 24.8 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 24.8 started at the beginning of December, 2023. Since then, 4448 commits have been submitted to the code repository and more than 667 bugs were set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 24.8 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: April 2024

General Activities Olivier Hallot (TDF) added Help content for user interface selection dialog, Calc row recalculation at load time, automatic labeled ranges in Calc and font embedding. He also updated menu item paths in Help Rafael Lima added support for hidden named expressions in Calc, added Reload command to Notebookbar UIs and made named ranges created by the Solver in Calc hidden by default Stéphane Guillou (TDF) updated Help content for Navigator’s Navigate By Alain Romedenne continued improving the officehelper Python script for connecting to LibreOffice processes Dione Maddern improved Help content for inserting objects from the Gallery and did cleanups in Help Colton Garrett improved Help content for OpenCL and added a Help page for digital signing of paragraphs Laurent Balland did style cleanups in Impress templates Miklós Vajna (Collabora) fixed an issue with shape positioning in DOCX import and did many code cleanups Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed an issue with unwanted spacing in printed text Marco Cecchetti, Gökay Şatır, Pranam Lashkari, Szymon Kłos and Michael Meeks (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online Attila Szűcs (Collabora) continued improving the performance of handling transparent animated GIFs Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) improved the text scaling in Impress text boxes, implemented

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