By Xisco Faulí, Quality Assurance (QA) engineer
LibreOffice 6.0 was released on January 31 and this is what happened during its development in LibreOffice’s Bugzilla, which started when the 5.4 branch was branched off from master on May 18 2017.
Note: This blog post has been created based on bugs in Bugzilla that have the whiteboard ‘target:6.0.0’, which means a commit for that bug is included in the release.…
Update: Reference card for runtime library is now available.
One of the recurring issue when using LibreOffice as a replacement of other office applications is the migration of macros to the LibreOffice BASIC dialect and objects. While the LibreOffice BASIC programming language is almost standard, the objects inside a document have different names, methods and properties, and a rework on the macro is necessary in most cases to make it operational again, when imported from other suites.
Last week, we have published the crash report chart just two days after the announcement of LibreOffice 6.0.1, to show the impact of the new version on the issues reported by Windows users.
Ten days after the announcement the impact is even more visible, and the chart on the left shows that the situation is now under control.…
The Document Foundation was incorporated in Berlin on February 17, 2012. Today is the 6th anniversary, and all TDF Members around the world are celebrating another year of outstanding achievements. The last one has been the successful announcement of LibreOffice 6, which represents the combined effort of hundreds of people around the world, involved in development, localization, quality assurance, documentation and marketing.…
On January 31, we released LibreOffice 6.0 (shortly followed up by 6.0.1). So what has happened in the last two weeks? Let’s look at some statistics…
Yes, there have been almost 1 million downloads of LibreOffice 6.0 since release day. Of course, this is just part of the overall downloads of LibreOffice – we also offer the “still” 5.4 family, which has reached version 5.4.5 and is more suited to enterprise deployments.…
Showing our love for free software at LibreOffice FOSDEM booth, and around FOSDEM. Above, from left to right: Italo Vignoli (Italy), Sophie Gautier (France), Mike Saunders (UK/Germany) and Marinela Gogo (Albania). Below, from left to right: Jona Azizaj (Albania), Michael Meeks (UK), and Valerie Dagrain (France).
