Navigator imprevements by Jim Raykowski

Jim Raikowski, one from LibreOffice's developers, has made many very nice Navigator improvements for Writer and Calc.

- Navigator's categories are gray if they don't have any items. It works in Writer and in Calc Navigators.

- New items Go To, Edit, Delete, Rename were added for all objects context menu in Writer's Navigator (Headings, Tables, Frames, Images, etc.)

- New items Promote/Demote level and Promote/Demote chapter were added to Headings context menu in Writer's Navigator

- Added a new feature "Outline tracking" for Headings in Writer's Navigator. You'll can find it in Hedings context menu in the Navigator. It can be in three states: Default, Focus, Off. Try click by your mouse in several place in your big text document with many headings. You'll see that Headings in Navigator will be selected automatically according to text cursor position.

- It was replaced the navigation toolbox with the navigate by elements control. 

It all will be available in future LibreOffice 7 release in early August 2020. But you already can try it right now if you'll install a LibreOffice's daily build from https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/current.html.

Thanks Jim for your great work!

Russian LibreOffice Draw guide is updated to 6.3 version

Today I ended to update Russain LibreOffice Draw Guide from 4.3 to 6.3 version. It isn't a translate from an original guide to Russain because there is no original Draw Guide for 6.3 version.

You can download Russain LibreOffice Draw Guide6.3 by link.

LibreOffice 6.4 RC3 is available

LibreOffice 6.4 RC3 is available for downloading now. There are builds for all main OS for 64 bit. There is a 32 bit build for Windows also. These builds are only for testing.

Links for direct downloading below:

Windows 7 and more new, 32 bit

Windows 7 and more new, 64 bit

Linux, RPM packages, 64 bit

Linux, DEB packages, 64 bit

macOS, 64 bit

Source code

Description of fixed bugs in LibreOffice 6.4 RC3 compare with LibreOffice 6.4 RC2 is by link.

If you found a bug in LibreOffice 6.4 RC3, then please file a bug reprort in our Bugzilla.
I think it's a latest test build before final LibreOffice 6.4 release. Possibly LibreOffice 6.4 RC3 will be a final release without any change as it already was before.

Next release after LibreOffice 6.4 will be LibreOffice 7

Congratulations! Next release after LibreOffice 6.4 will be LibreOffice 7 instead LibreOffice 6.5. Look at that message in marketing mail list.

LibreOffice 6.4 RC2 is available

LibreOffice 6.4 RC2 is available for downloading now. There are builds for all main OS for 64 bit. There is a 32 bit build for Windows also. These builds are only for testing.

Links for direct downloading below:

Windows 7 and more new, 32 bit

Windows 7 and more new, 64 bit

Linux, RPM packages, 64 bit

Linux, DEB packages, 64 bit

macOS, 64 bit

Source code

Description of fixed bugs in LibreOffice 6.4 RC2 compare with LibreOffice 6.4 RC1 is by link.

If you found a bug in LibreOffice 6.4 RC2, then please file a bug reprort in our Bugzilla.
Else one candidat release will be before final release of LibreOffice 6.4.

Problem with LibreOffice installed with SiGUI

This note is more for QA people in LibreOffice project. 

If you test LibreOffice in Windows then possibly you use the SiGUI tool for parallel installing of many versions of LibreOffice.

Some days ago I got a crash in current developer build (future LibreOffice 6.5) that was installed with SiGUI. Nobody could repro that crash, but I got it every time. Deleting of user profile have not help. I always installed LibreOffice for testing into the same directory on top of old version. It was a reason for my problem! A crash disappeared only after LibreOffice installing to another clean directory.

So better install LibreOffice for testing with SiGUI only in clean path and if you want use for it only one directory, then delete all subdirectories and all files from it before install.

About problems in LibreOffice from Linux distro packages

Very big thank you for all people who write bug reports about LibreOffice in to our bugzilla. But sometime I see, that your problems are only in Linux distro's (like SuSe, Ubuntu, Arch, etc.) LibreOffice and we can't repro your problem in LibreOffice from TDF site.

Your reports are really very important for our project and you really help make LibreOffice better. Unfortunately, we have only several active QA member now. So I have a big request for you, dear bug reporters: before post a report with LibreOffice problem in to our bugzilla, please make sure that your problem reproducible not only in your installed LibreOffice but also in LibreOffice downloaded from TDF site. It makes QA work more simple.

Thank you for your reports anyway.