LibreOffice 5.4 will be announced at the end of July 2017, with a large number of new features which are summarized on the release notes page: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.4. In order to find, report and triage bugs, the QA team is organizing the second bug hunting session on Friday, June 09, 2017. Tests will be performed on the second Beta version of LibreOffice 5.4, which will be available on the pre-releases server (http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/pre-releases/…
Year: 2017
Month of LibreOffice, May 2017: The results!
So the Month of LibreOffice, May 2017 has come to a close. We’ve had awesome contributions all across the project, from code patches and bug report confirmations, through to translations and user support. Here’s how many stickers have been awarded:
Click the number for the full details. And then, if you see your name (or username) on that page, claim your sticker!…
LibreOffice Quality Assurance: six months in statistics (part 1)
During the last six months (from 23 November 2016 to 21 May 2017), many things have happened in LibreOffice and in Bugzilla, its bug tracker, where bugs are reported by users, triaged by the quality assurance (QA) team and finally handled by developers, if needed.
New bugs
During this time, 3664 bugs were reported by 1621 users, of which 425 are tagged as enhancement requests.…
Video interview: Olivier Hallot, Documentation Coordinator
Olivier is one of the founding members of The Document Foundation, and has been involved in LibreOffice (and OpenOffice.org before that) for many years. Today he works as the Documentation Coordinator for LibreOffice, and in this video he talks about updates to the technology used by the documentation team, as well as the importance of building communities:
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Month of LibreOffice, May 2017: The final week
There’s one more week to go in the Month of LibreOffice for May 2017 – so you still have a chance to get a snazzy printed sticker for your laptop or desktop PC! Here’s how many stickers have been awarded so far:
Click the number to see how the contributions are spread across projects in the community.…
LibreOffice leverages Google’s OSS-Fuzz to improve quality of office suite
Berlin, May 23, 2017 – For the last five months, The Document Foundation has made use of OSS-Fuzz, Google’s effort to make open source software more secure and stable, to further improve the quality and reliability of LibreOffice’s source code. Developers have used the continuous and automated fuzzing process, which often catches issues just hours after they appear in the upstream code repository, to solve bugs – and potential security issues – before the next binary release.…