05 Dec 2013

LibreOffice 4.2 International Bug Hunting Session

Posted in QA By Italo Vignoli On December 5, 2013

Berlin, December 5, 2013 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 4.2 International Bug Hunting Session, which will start on December 6th and will end on December 8th. During the three days, volunteers from all over the world will test the beta of LibreOffice 4.2 to find bugs and regressions.

LibreOffice 4.2 will be released at the end of January 2014, with a large number of new features (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.2) and loads of fixed bugs. The community is working to make this major release the finest in the history of the free office suite.

In order to join the bug hunting session, volunteers should download LibreOffice 4.2 Beta 2, available from http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/.

Mentors will be available at least from 08:00 UTC to 22:00 UTC, and will be reachable through IRC (irc://chat.freenode.net/libreoffice-qa) and the QA mailing list.

Other information on LibreOffice 4.2 International Bug Hunting Session are available at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugHunting_Session_4.2.0.

Comments

  1. By Viktor

    Hi, I test Libre Office on Mavericks. It’s unstable.

  2. By paul2012

    Great way to make an excellent product even better. Good Luck with Bug Hunting!!

    I am extensively testing LibreOffice 4.2 Beta 2 while at the same time running LibreOffice 4.1.2.3 for mission critical work by running both versions at the same time. This can be done by installing LibreOffice in parallel. This comment is typed on LibreOffice 4.2 Beta 2 with LibreOffice 4.1.2.3 running as well for other files.

    How to install LibreOffice 4.2 in Parallel in Ubuntu

    Source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/306420/how-to-install-multiple-versions-of-libreoffice

    There is a nice YouTube video about this by Florian Reisinger here: http://flosmind.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/parallel-installation-on-linux

    The only change I would like to make is:
    To run LibreOffice 4.2 Beta 2 → Find & and execute oosplash by Double clicking the icon oosplash from the folder/file called something like DEBS/install/opt/libreoffice4.2/program/oosplash

    • By paul2012

      PS: Errata: I am running LibreOffice Version: 4.2.0.0.beta1 & not LibreOffice 4.2 Beta 2. Sorry for the mistake. This is installed on version 13.10 of Ubuntu.

  3. By davidgerard

    Are there any performance tests available? I presume the Calc refactoring improved throughput considerably. Or third parties should be invited to do checkable benchmarks.

  4. By Mike

    I wish I’m able to print landscape documents as landscape view when 4.2 is released 🙂