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Behind the scenes at TDF: LibreOffice QA (Halloween Bug Hunting)

LibreOffice QA has been busy during the last few months! We had our first BugHunting Session for the upcoming LibreOffice 5.1 release over the Halloween weekend at the end of October. Testing our alpha1 builds, members of the QA Team helped to lead users, developers, and other community members in identifying and documenting problems in our very first binaries available for this release series. Having support from members of QA, L10n, Developers, members of the Design community, and regular LibreOffice users was a great sign for continued cross-team participation. We’re looking forward to seeing a similar mix of contributors during our next BugHunting Session coming up this weekend. We identified 104 bugs during the Halloween BugHunting session, primarily from initial testing with the alpha1. Of the 74 of bugs remaining open, 80% have been triaged to previous versions, leaving only 15 bugs tied to LibreOffice 5.1. Looking at all 5.1 versions, there are only 212 open bugs pegged to this release series, with only 44 open bugs pegged against 5.1 alpha1. We’ve been busy with regression-hunting, performing over 550 bibisects this year, and over 200 since June. With one of our chief regression hunters and bibisect sorcerer Matthew Francis taking a well-earned respite from the cauldron of crafting new bibisect repositories and hacking

Help us to squeeze out bugs!

For those interested in helping to squeeze out some bugs of LibreOffice, the community hosts monthly bug hunting sessions. The next one is tomorrow, September 6th. More details can be found at the respective wiki page.

Annual Report: LibreOffice Quality Assurance in 2021

Quality Assurance (QA) is a cornerstone of the LibreOffice project, thanks to the activity of a large number of volunteers and the feedback of many users who help in reporting bugs and regressions. (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2021 – we’ll post the full version here soon.) In 2021, the QA team triaged thousands of bugs, bisected hundreds of regressions, and answered questions from countless bug reporters. As one of the most visible groups directly responding to end users, the QA team must be nimble and able to adapt to changes. In addition, it must deal with specific requests for help from other teams. The QA team meets regularly on IRC on the #libreoffice-qa channel, which is the best medium for discussing bugs and regressions. The IRC channel provides an excellent opportunity to remain in close contact with team members, and to tutor new members in the art and skill of LibreOffice QA. This is bridged to the Telegram group. During 2021, 6,804 bugs were reported by 3,022 users, which means 131 new bugs were reported every week on average. Top 10 bug reporters Telesto (571) NISZ LibreOffice Team (296) Regina Henschel (126) Mike Kaganski

Annual Report 2021: LibreOffice releases and updates

In 2021, LibreOffice celebrated its eleventh birthday. Two new major versions of the suite introduced a variety of new features, while minor releases helped to improve stability as well (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2021 – we’ll post the full version here soon.) The Document Foundation announced two major releases of LibreOffice in 2021: version 7.1 on February 3, and version 7.2 on August 19. In addition 13 minor releases were also made available: LibreOffice 7.1.1 – March 4 LibreOffice 7.0.5 – March 12 LibreOffice 7.1.2 – April 1 LibreOffice 7.1.3 – May 6 LibreOffice 7.0.6 – May 13 LibreOffice 7.1.4 – June 10 LibreOffice 7.1.5 – July 22 LibreOffice 7.1.6 – September 9 LibreOffice 7.2.1 – September 16 LibreOffice 7.1.7 – November 4 LibreOffice 7.2.3 – November 25 LibreOffice 7.2.4 and 7.1.8 – December 6 In July, our Quality Assurance community organised a Bug Hunting Session in preparation for the release of LibreOffice 7.2. This was based on the first Release Candidate (RC), and we encouraged technically-minded users to try out the RC and help to identify and fix bugs before the final release. Communication took part on our QA IRC channel, which is

LibreOffice project recap: July 2021

Check out our summary of what happened in the LibreOffice community last month… We started July by welcoming allotropia to The Document Foundation’s Advisory Board. Founded in late 2020 with five long-time LibreOffice developers, allotropia’s stated mission is to bring LibreOffice to shine – in as many different shapes and forms as necessary, to serve the modern needs of office productivity software. allotropia was spun off from CIB, another long-time provider of LibreOffice-based products and services (and also a member of the Advisory Board). On the very same day, our documentation team announced the LibreOffice Getting Started Guide 7.1. Covering all LibreOffice modules, from the Calc spreadsheet to the Base database and including chapters on the suite settings as well as macro coding, the Getting Started Guide 7.1 is a valuable companion for organizations that want to deploy documentation on LibreOffice together with the software suite on their offices and also at user’s homes. Meanwhile, we chatted with Tim Brennan Jr. from the Brazilian LibreOffice community. He’s on the Brazilian Portuguese translation and editing team, and recently decided to become a Member of The Document Foundation. Welcome, Tim! Then the Spanish-speaking community held an online meeting with video talks streamed

Annual Report: LibreOffice in 2020

In 2020, LibreOffice celebrated its tenth birthday. Two new major versions of the suite introduced a variety of new features, while minor releases helped to improve stability as well (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2020 – the full version will be posted here on the blog soon.) The Document Foundation announced two major releases of LibreOffice in 2020: version 6.4 on January 29, and version 7.0 on August 5. In addition, 13 minor releases were made available over the year: RELEASE DATE LibreOffice 6.3.5 February 20 LibreOffice 6.4.1 February 27 LibreOffice 6.4.2 March 19 LibreOffice 6.4.3 April 16 LibreOffice 6.3.6 April 30 LibreOffice 6.4.4 May 21 LibreOffice 6.4.5 July 2 LibreOffice 6.4.6 August 13 LibreOffice 7.0.1 September 3 LibreOffice 7.0.2 October 8 LibreOffice 6.4.7 October 22 LibreOffice 7.0.3 October 29 LibreOffice 7.0.4 December 17 Throughout the year, we held three Bug Hunting Sessions in preparation for new major releases. These typically took place on a single day between set times, so that experienced developers and QA engineers could help new volunteers to file and triage bugs via the IRC channels and mailing lists. The Bug Hunting Sessions for LibreOffice 7.0 were held on May 11

Press Releases

Announcement of LibreOffice 25.8.4

Berlin, 18 December 2025 – LibreOffice 25.8.4, the fourth minor update to the free office suite developed by volunteers for…

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