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Fixing a LibreOffice bug in less than eight hours!

LibreOffice’s QA community works on identifying, testing and fixing bug reports from users around the world. Gabriele Ponzo, a long-time LibreOffice contributors and part of The Document Foundation’s Membership Committee, tells us about how a bug was recently fixed in just under eight hours:

I’m particularly used to keyboard usage of LibreOffice, and thus I noticed that something I did really often wasn’t working anymore: searching backwards with the Find Toolbar. At least not in the way I used to do it: hitting Shift+Enter after having typed the text to be searched.

So I tried several times and then decided to submit a bug. I’m not new in bug reporting, and several bugs that I’ve reported in the past were solved, sooner or later.

But this time, I was surprised by the resolution speed: less than eight hours!

Obviously this is just one particular and very positive case, but it deserves to be highlighted – since it’s a sign of how strong the activity is in our community.

A big thank you goes to Caolán McNamara, in this case, but to the whole community that I’m proud to represent when I speak in public, being part of it, and also part of the TDF governance.

Great work, Gabriele and Caolán! See here for the bug report and the steps that were taken to resolve it. And to all LibreOffice users: if you’ve found something in LibreOffice that isn’t working as expected, you can give our QA community a hand by submitting your own report. Thanks!

First batch of videos from the LibreOffice Conference 2021

Our online conference for 2021 took place last week, and we’ve already uploaded a bunch of videos from it! Check out the playlist, using the button in the top-right – or scroll down for links to individual videos:

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Note: many of these are also available on PeerTube, and more will be added!

LibreOffice Conference 2021: How-to for participants

The online LibreOffice Conference 2021 starts tomorrow! Here’s how to take part…

Program

The schedule of the conference is available from here. Time zone is on the upper left: depending on your system settings, it usually is Europe/Berlin time (UTC+2).

There is an app available too – downloads from here:

Attending

Talks will be streamed on the website and on YouTube. Links will be made available on the first day of the conference and will be always available on the conference website. Please check the YouTube links regularly, at least once per day, as they might change.

We strongly recommend one of the two streaming above, but you can still join the Jitsi instance as a fallback with these links (to post questions/comments, please use the separate discussion channels below):

For socializing, chatting, seeing each other, and testing their video setup, all registered attendees can now use our “LibOCon Social” room (this room is neither streamed nor recorded).

Note that you are requested to register (if you are not a speaker) here in that case.

If you are not registered already, and if you register during the conference, it might take a while to get processed. And make sure that you are muted when you join and there are no videos active on your side.

Note: The current Jitsi version does NOT work with Safari on macOS at all. Firefox and Chrome work without problems. The Jitsi app for Android and iOS will likely not work with the Jitsi instance. We strongly recommend participating from a desktop device, or use one of the other mobile-compatible streaming facilities above (website, YouTube)

Asking questions

If you want to ask questions to the speakers, you can do so via Matix, IRC and Telegram. The 3 channels are bridged together, so you only need to join your preferred one:

The moderator of the talk will read your questions to the speaker and they will answer in the stream. Do not ask your questions on the Jitsi chat.

General

There are two more channels at your disposal: we will publish all announcements on the two Telegram groups: LibreOffice Virtual Conference Announcements and LibreOffice Virtual Conference. On IRC, the general channel is here, while on Matrix it is here.

If you want to support the conference by purchasing LibreOffice Conference swag from Freewear, you can do so from this page.

Our Code of Conduct applies during the virtual conference too.

We wish all attendees a great time at the conference – thanks for taking part!

LibreOffice 7.2.1 Community available for download

Berlin, September 16, 2021 – LibreOffice 7.2.1 Community, the first minor release of the LibreOffice 7.2 family targeted at technology enthusiasts and power users, is available for download from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/. This version includes 87 bug fixes and improvements to document compatibility.

For enterprise-class deployments, TDF strongly recommends the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners, with long-term support options, professional assistance, custom features and Service Level Agreements: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/.

LibreOffice Community and the LibreOffice Enterprise family of products are based on the LibreOffice Technology platform, the result of years of development efforts with the objective of providing a state of the art office suite not only for the desktop but also for mobile and the cloud.

Products based on LibreOffice Technology are available for major desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS), mobile platforms (Android and iOS) and the cloud. They may have a different name, according to each company brand strategy, but they share the same LibreOffice unique advantages, robustness and flexibility.

Most significant new features of LibreOffice 7.2

LibreOffice 7.2 Community provides a large number of interoperability improvements with Microsoft’s proprietary DOCX/XLSX/PPTX file formats: Writer tables (better import/export and management of table functions, and better support for change tracking in floating tables); management of cached field results in Writer; support of spacing below the header’s last paragraph in DOC/DOCX files; and additional SmartArt improvements when importing PPTX files.

In addition, LibreOffice 7.2 Community offers numerous performance improvements in handling large files, opening certain DOCX and XLSX files, managing font caching, and opening presentations and drawings that contain large images. There are also drawing speed improvements when using the Skia back-end that was introduced with LibreOffice 7.1.

LibreOffice 7.2 Community is also available natively for Apple Silicon, a series of processors designed by Apple and based on the ARM architecture. Because of the early stage of development on this specific platform, binaries are provided but should not be used for critical purposes. Software is available from the following page: https://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/7.2.1/mac/aarch64/.

Availability of LibreOffice 7.2.1 Community

LibreOffice 7.2.1 Community represents the bleeding edge in term of features for open source office suites. For users whose main objective is personal productivity and therefore prefer a release that has undergone more testing and bug fixing over the new features, The Document Foundation provides LibreOffice 7.1.6.

LibreOffice 7.2.1 change log pages are available on TDF’s wiki: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.2.1/RC1 (changed in RC1) and https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/7.2.1/RC2 (changed in RC2).

LibreOffice Technology based products for Android and iOS are listed here: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/android-and-ios/, while for App Stores and ChromeOS are listed here: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-from-microsoft-and-mac-app-stores/

LibreOffice individual users are assisted by a global community of volunteers: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/community-support/. On the website and the wiki there are guides, manuals, tutorials and HowTos. Donations help us to make all of these resources available.

LibreOffice users are invited to join the community at https://ask.libreoffice.org, where they can get and provide user-to-user support. People willing to contribute their time and professional skills to the project can visit the dedicated website at https://whatcanidoforlibreoffice.org.

LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can provide financial support to The Document Foundation with a donation via PayPal, credit card or other tools at https://www.libreoffice.org/donate.

LibreOffice 7.2 is built with document conversion libraries from the Document Liberation Project: https://www.documentliberation.org.

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