Apache OpenOffice Changelog

What's new in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15

Jan 3, 2024

Wakefield, DE - 22 December 2023 - Apache OpenOffice, a leading Open Source office document productivity suite, announced today Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15, as usual available in 41 languages for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15 is a maintenance release incorporating bug fixes and other enhancements. All users of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.14 or earlier are advised to upgrade. You can download Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15 here. Windows 10 and 11 users can now also get Apache OpenOffice for selected languages in the "Microsoft Store" App.
To check that the download file is not broken or changed in any other way, please see our checksums page for instructions on how to verify this.
If you are upgrading from an earlier release you can verify that the release upgrade worked by opening the About box (menu "Help - About OpenOffice") for the version number.
Please review the Release Notes to learn what is new in this version as well as important remarks concerning known issues and their workarounds.
For a complete overview of all resolved issues please see the list in Bugzilla.
To get a copy of the source code see our source page for our Git repository or download prepared source tarballs from our project download page.
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New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.14 (Feb 27, 2023)

GENERAL REMARKS:
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.14 is a Micro release, incorporating bug fixes and little enhancements. All users of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.13 or earlier are advised to upgrade. You can download Apache OpenOffice 4.1.14 here. Windows 10 and 11 users can now also get Apache OpenOffice for selected languages in the "Microsoft Store" App.
Only use the original website "https://www.openoffice.org/download/" to download. The installed software can be verified with the About box (see menu "Help – About OpenOffice") by comparing the numbers with the reference data on the download webpage (see the text in the light green box). For Apache OpenOffice 4.1.14 it has to be "AOO4114m1 | Build ID 9811 | Rev. a0d24fb625".
IMPROVEMENTS/ENHANCEMENTS:
Other Improvements/Enhancements:
Writer: Dialog "Frame" in Writer / automatic size / changing shortcut keys (German)
Calc: Protect Table – Dialog too narrow for German heading string
Base: Dialog text in "Datenbank austauschen" (exchange database) dialog is cut (German)
Calc: Use the existing icon for "Remove Filter" in toolbar and menu
Calc: Text in cell comments is morer readable
Calc: Added support for Excel 2010s DateTime type cells.
BUG FIXES:
Highlighted Improvements/Enhancements:
Calc: Rich text cells imported from XLSX files have their contents duplicated
Several fixes for importing OOXML documents
All applications: Import fails when the Relationship "Target" attribute in _rels/.rels has superfluous slashes
Calc: XLSX with omitted cell references opens with empty cells
Calc: no text imported from XSLX when xl/sharedStrings.xml has wrong case
Several fixes for importing MS Excel 2003 SpreadsheetML files
Calc: ss:DateTime cell value is loaded as either only a date or a time
Calc: fractional seconds are silently ignored during import
Calc: cell with ss:MergeAcross="0" gets an extra empty cell to the right
Calc: import corrupts references to columns that are multiples of 26 (eg. Z)
Writer: Importing apostrophes from HTML fails
Calc: Cut-and-paste between spreadsheets causes incorrect cell reference changes
Writer: Awkward Chinese (ZH-TW) numbering suffix when importing RTF document
Calc: Last CSV line is silently lost on import if last field is quoted and end-of-file is reached before closing quote

New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.13 (Jul 28, 2022)

New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.12 (Jul 28, 2022)

New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.11 (Oct 7, 2021)

New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.10 (Aug 5, 2021)

New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7 (Sep 27, 2019)

New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.6 (Nov 22, 2018)

New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.5 (Dec 31, 2017)

New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 (Oct 10, 2016)

New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 (Oct 29, 2015)

Improvements/Enhancements:
Several distinct enhancements were applied to the WebDAV management and file locking: OpenOffice is now able to properly interact with Microsoft Sharepoint, enabling a more productive usage in corporate-level environments. These enhancements were funded, and contributed upstream, by the Emilia-Romagna regional administration (Italy), where OpenOffice was adopted a few years ago.
The PDF export dialog was redesigned for better usability on small laptop screens.
Underlying libraries for the solver and digital signing functionality have been updated, for better performance and increased security.
OpenOffice 4.1.2 fixes security vulnerabilities. See the security announcements page for more information.
Removed/Retired Features:
Support for the ancient .hwp file format was retired. This was a rarely used format created with versions of the program named "Hangul Word Processor" prior to 1997; therefore impact on users is expected to be minimal. The few users who have files in the .hwp format should convert them to ODF using Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 before upgrading.
Bug Fixes:
125326 - SVG] Missing type attribute of style element does not get default value
107619 - Bug in Find & replace with regular expression
125991 - Fatal Error "index out of bounds" on Gtk
126480 - Update meta data for OpenOffice 4.1.2
118923 - Build of OS/2 tree
125501 - Spellcheck does not work, category B modules are missing (OS/2)
125592 - 4.1.1 RC3 (os/2) can't open encrypted file, NSS modules are missing
126586 - automation deadlock: osl_closeSocket() doesn't wake up thread stuck in accept()
125613 - Insert Picture from file do not work
126447 - When using LanguageTools, toggling the checkbox "check grammar" in the spell checker removes content
125897 - Color palette has 'Blue 1' as the same color as 'Sky Blue 1'
63015 - DF-Export and Type1-Fonts: Error exporting umlaut
105098 - [Mac] inserting files (e. g. images) into a document by drag & drop isn't possible
121492 - Base can not filter by dates
122712 - PDF Export dialog too tall for some monitor screens
124158 - Update CoinMP
125194 - Cannot work with shared documents on Sharepoint webdav
125519 - CRASH when step through document from page to page
126281 - Remove HWP (Hangul Word Processor) filter
126305 - WebDAV lock on 4.1.1 does not work
126582 - When trying to access a read/only share on Sharepoint an error is shown
126120 - [IT] Wrong translation for "Record changes" (record di dati)
126572 - Update OpenSSL to 0.9.8zg
117989 - Basic functions Day(), Hour(), Minute(), and Second() return wrong results for dates

New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 (Aug 22, 2014)

Improvements/Enhancements:
The lookup gesture feature of Mac OSX has been fixed.
Bug fixes:
German Windows: "unoinfo java" indicates UTF-16LE encoding, but encoding is not UTF-16
Crash with sidebar
Hangs when applying default format across multiple lines
Crash when disabling sidebar view after undocking and closing sidebar
WW8: outline imported instead of simple numbered list
WW8: custom outline numbering has wrong first level style
WW8: some headings have no outline level on import
WW8: table of contents empty due to not assigned outline styles on import
WW6: outline not imported, thus no TOC entries displayed
WW8: wrong style assignment for outline numbering imported
WW8: custom Outline Numbering is imported with wrong 2nd level setting
Opening complex docx document takes several minutes (but succeeds)
Dictionaries updates right after installation
WW8: custom Outline numbering imported with wrong level assignment
CRASH when 'View - close sidebar' with Navigator active
Formular bar not updating
"Read Error" with embedded images after saving in Writer
Picture loss on save
Huge memory consumption for very large and complex .odt
CRASH when scroll through very large and complex .odt
Crash: after applying the comment arises the problem with using table
Comment/Annotation applies to wrong table selection
Send file as e-mail fails if AOO is in a path with spaces
Export to SVG: Error when line contains arrow and text
Bad SVG import with particular files
embedded OLE object imported with wrong style from PPTX
[SVG] svg node does not consider styles from a style element
cropping + scaling image in writer results in a blue rectangle
Mac64 only: Mighty Mouse horizontal scrolling issue
No multimedia support in MacOSX
layout differs in AOO 4.1.0 vs 4.0.1 (and previous)
remove obsoleted module-internal custom allocator in SAL
remove custom allocator support in stlport-replacement headers
Font Effects not applied correctly
Line length miscalculated when character spacing is expanded
Left-mouse-down above text edit area crashes, "Index out of bounds"
CStringEqual can return true for non-equal c-strings
helpex Export::CopyFile is too slow
2 scrollbars blocked at the ends of the sheet
[GTK] Scrollbars without steppers are buggy
nbintegration: Blanks or Colons in path seem unsupported under windows
doAccessibleAction(0) failed on combobox with dropdown
CRASH when open edit mode copy of older document.odt version
update meta data for AOO 4.1.1
Huge memory usage with docs which contain many graphics
Linked JPG image not preserved when exported to PDF with loss-less compression
Update English dictionaries for OpenOffice 4.1.1
Mac and Java Oracle 1.7
WW8: imported TOC empty, due to paragraphs having "outline level" property
Insert picture (from file) focus jumps to end of document
File - Versions - Always save a version on closing is not working
Inherited style property "Space above/below Paragraph" lost for particular styles
named range with visibility condition can crash writer
Embedded GDI Metafiles replaced by "Read Error" box after File - Save
reset formatting behind special formattings hangs AOO
AOO opens Word .docx with wrong text alignment
Embedded PNG Pictures replaced by "Read Error" box
conditional text field does not update view after changing variable
opening some documents is much slower in AOO 4.1
Regression Textfield.user cant be deleted via Script
*.docx import: import of overlapping bookmarks broken
input fields are no longer considered as cell values
URL of linked PNG images wrong after save when automatic save has taken place
Linked SVG image embedded after save when automatic save has taken place
conditional hidden paragraph does not update after textfield changes value
buildbot version 411 r1611634 crashes on attached document
Help Text isn't right-aligned, in Hebrew/Arabic languages
SVG export of a selected area causes the whole canvas to be exported
Build no more possible with Xcode 5.1
Font color and shadow color cannot be different
Pootle damaged file
New translations:
Catalan (ca)
Catalan (Valencian RACV) ca-XR)
Catalan (Valencian AVL) (ca-XV)
Updated translations:
German (de)
Hebrew (he)
Khmer (kh)
Lithuanian (lt)
Polish (pl)
Portuguese (European) (pt-PT)
Traditional Chinese (zh-tw)
Thai (th) Vietnamese (vi)
New Dictionaries:
Catalan (ca)
Catalan (Valencian RACV) ca-XR)
Catalan (Valencian AVL) (ca-XV)
Updated Dictionaries:
English (en)
French (fr)
Portuguese (European) (pt-PT)
Russian (ru)
Slovenian (sl)
Known Issues:
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 will be flagged by the new Gatekeeper facility in Mac OS X Mountain Lion and Maverick. This is a new feature to help guard against malware on Mac systems. There is a procedure laid out at the following link to allow applications not installed from the Mac App store to run. See the Mac support article.
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 supports Java 7, which is the recommended configuration; but (especially on 64-bit Windows) you might receive warnings about the Java version being defective. In that case, download and install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package. If you still have problems, install the most current JRE 6 version. Make sure you get the file "Windows x86 Offline (32-bit)". Then configure OpenOffice to use is at "Tools - Options - OpenOffice - Java". See this forum topic for more information.
For the MacOSX version only, any extensions that are written in C++ for AOO 4.0 (or earlier) will no longer work and be marked as disabled in the AOO extensions manager. This is because of the change of AOO from a 32-bit to a 64-bit application on MacOSX. Please report the problem to the developer of the extension.
Dictionaries for Spell Check are temporarily only included in complete localized Installers and not in Language packs (Issue 124423). They can be installed as extensions using Tools->Extension Manager.

New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (Apr 29, 2014)

New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 Beta (Mar 7, 2014)

NEW FEATURES:
Comments/Annotations on text ranges:
In Writer comments/annotations are now possible on text ranges instead of only on text positions.
This feature had been introduced in the OpenDocument file format (ODF) in version 1.2 and improves among other things the interoperability with the OOXML file format, but until now had not been implemented in OpenOffice. The OSBA OOXML improvement project includes the implementation of this feature. Accordingly, the implementation based on the integration of the work done by SUSE for this OSBA project - corresponding patches had been provided under ALv2.
Details on the feature:
comment/annotation on a text range inside a paragraph (part of OSBA project)
comment/annotation on arbitrary text ranges
comments/annotations on overlapping text ranges
highlight of commented/annotated text range (part of OSBA project plus needed improvements)
ODF import/export
basic import/export functionality (part of OSBA project plus needed fixes)
support for author initials (part of OSBA project plus needed ODF conformance fix)
OOXML import
basic import functionality (part of OSBA project)
import of author initials (part of OSBA project plus needed fix)
import of author and creation date
IMPROVEMENTS/ENHANCEMENTS:
In Writer the user experience for editing Input Fields has been improved.
The user can now modify the content of an Input Field directly in the document's text area - no additional dialog is needed. When traveling with the cursor into an Input Field the users gets feedback about Entering and Leaving the Input Field. A bounding rectangle is drawn around the Input Field when the cursor is inside the Input Field - see following illustration.
When the cursor is inside an Input Field the user can navigate to the next or the previous Input Field using the TAB-key respectively the SHIFT-TAB-Key - similar to the navigation from one cell to another cell inside a table. To insert a TAB-character into an Input Field CTRL-TAB-key has to be used.
In read-only text documents the user can still edit the existing Input Fields and navigate from one Input Field to the other. Also the field shadings are visible for Input Fields in read-only text documents.
Input Fields can only contain text without formatting. Accordingly, the corresponding edit and insert actions for Input Fields are restricted and character formattings are applied to the complete Input Field. This means no change compared to former OpenOffice versions.
Interactive Crop Feature:
The Interactive Crop feature for selected Graphic Objects in Draw/Impress allows intuitive cropping of Graphic Object content. However, it only worked flawlessly when the object was not transformed except being translated and scaled. For AOO 4.0 a preview of the cropped part was already added, for AOO 4.1 the interactive cropping will work in combination with all possible Graphic Object transformations; if your Graphic Object is rotated, sheared, mirrored in X and/or Y, it can now be interactively cropped flawlessly. Also the cropped result will be correct now in all combinations of transformations and all possible graphic contents (pixel graphics, metafiles, SVG, ...) in all exports (Print, PDF Export, ...)
Import Picture from File and Drag&Drop of Graphic Data:
Importing Picture/Graphic Data from File and Drag&Drop of that data has been enhanced and unified for all situations and all Applications of AOO 4.1. The main goal was to make the re-usage of existing documents or copy/pasting of single Pages easier by allowing simpler replacement of the content of existing Graphic Objects. You can now for example copy/paste Slides and easily replace the Graphic content of Graphic Objects without changing their Position or Orientation. This is also possible for Writer Graphic Objects, so e.g. copy/paste Pages in Writer containing Graphic Objects or copying Pages from another Document and then replace the Pictures
The following actions work the same in all AOO 4.1 Applications
For using the Import Picture from File Dialog
If no Graphic Object is selected, a new one will be inserted at Cursor position (as usual)
If a Graphic Object is selected, it's content will be replaced without changing the Position or Orientation
If a Draw Object is selected, the new Graphic content will be used as Graphic FillStyle for that Object
Selecting the 'Link' feature in the Dialog will create a linked Graphic Object in the first two cases
For Drag&Drop
If there is no Graphic Object at the drop position, a new one will be inserted there (as usual)
If there is a Graphic Object at the drop position, it's content will be replaced without changing the Position or Orientation
If there is a Draw Object at the drop position, the new Graphic content will be used as Graphic FillStyle for that Object
Pressing CTRL+SHIFT will create a linked Graphic Object in the first two cases
This was an enhancement request to make re-usage of existing Graphic Objects easier - the problem was that the user had to insert a new Graphic Object, note the Position and Size of the old one and apply this to the new one to cleanly replace the old Graphic Object.
Load/Import of 3D Charts improved:
There was a performance problem when Documents with big 3D charts were Loaded (own Formats) or Imported (external Formats). That issue was located in the creation of a huge amount of 3D Objects for Chart visualization. This has been improved. For example; an example document (External with a huge Chart containing 100x100x5 vertical 3D Data Boxes) could not be imported at all.
Improved Graphic Modifications/Filters for Vector Graphics:
When applying Modifications and/or Filters to Graphic Objects the change was often applied by internally changing the Vector Graphic (SVG or Metafile) to a Pixel-Based variant. This makes the advantages of Vector Graphics vanish and often results in bad output quality for Print and PDF export. Also the handling of Graphic Objects varied between Writer and other AOO Applications in this aspect. This has been internally unified so that all usages of Vector Data in Graphic Objects are equally improved for this aspect and in the future.
It is not possible to enhance all modifications AOO offers to GraphicObjects to Vector Graphics in this way, but many were improved. Vector Graphics will stay enhanced when applying the following modifications:
Gray scale
Black/White
Watermark
Transparency (additional, 0% to 100%)
Red/Green/Blue modification (-100% to 100%)
Brightness (-100% to 100%)
Contrast (-100% to 100%)
Gamma Correction (0.10 to 10)
This also works for all combinations of the above modifications. This enhancement is already visible in the Edit Views, but it's main goal is to increase Print and PDF export quality (and other exports that can keep Vector Data) when working with Vector Graphic content accordingly. Here is an example from the Edit Views (Left: AOO 4.0.1, Right: AOO 4.1). It's the same SVG graphic modified to Grayscale
Keep original Graphic Data when ever possible:
Previous versions of AOO eventually modified the type of inserted Graphic Data, for example inserted JPEG files were in some scenarios saved as PNG in the created ODF files. These scenarios were different for the different AOO Applications since it was not handled the same internally. This has been improved so that AOO 4.1 handles this equal in all Applications and tries to always keep your inserted original Graphic Data when possible. This gives advantages for the file size of the created ODF Files, but also for the Image quality. There were scenarios in which JPEG files were recoded to JPEG which will in no case improve the image quality but has the potential to lower it
This works for BMP, JPEG, PNG and GIF for pixel-oriented graphics. It is also in place for Vector-based Graphics like SVG and Metafiles
Clipboard enhancements for Graphic Content:
The Clipboard support for exchange of PNG is further improved, so that Pixel-based Graphic modification cycles (e.g. copying graphic content to an external Application, modifying it and copying it back to AOO 4.1) will work better with more external Image Editors of your choice. Broader support for PNG means that transparency in Pixel-based graphics will be preserved in more places. Did you know that you can copy any Graphic Object from AOO 4.1 to the clipboard and paste it to any external Image editor of your choice to modify them and copy them back?
Other Improvements/Enhancements:
Seamonkey replaced by NSS ("Network Security Services"):
Outdated code from Mozilla that was used to include cryptography services and address book access has been replaced with the more modern and more secure NSS libraries. This grwatly simplifies the build process and source code maintenance and is transparent to end users in general.
End users are affected only in the following ways:
Under Windows XP, trying to add the Windows Address Book as an OpenOffice database; this has always been the case on any newer Windows versions (Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8).
Thunderbird users will not see direct Thunderbird address book support in OpenOffice's address book wizard, but the OpenOffice support for CSV can replace it for now. Users can use Thunderbird's Tools->Export->AsCsv functionality to get their address book as comma separated text.
Authenticated LDAP access is now unsupported (the non-authenticated access was already unsupported).
Additional Language Support:
New translations available in Apache OpenOffice 4.1 include:
Bulgarian
Kazakh
Danish
Norwegian Bokmal
Hindi
Thai
Updated translations available in Apache OpenOffice 4.1 include:
Basque
Dutch
German
Lithuanian
Portuguese
Serbian
Spanish
Turkish
New Dictionaries:
Lithuanian
Updated Dictionaries:
English

New in Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0 (May 8, 2012)

New in Apache OpenOffice 3.3.0 (Dec 16, 2010)

News Facts:
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Open and Integrated for Office Productivity Anywhere:
Oracle Cloud Office and Oracle OpenOffice 3.3 are enterprise-class office productivity suites that offer applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, database and drawings.
Both products allow for ubiquitous document authoring and collaboration and enhanced productivity across the enterprise. Specifically:
Oracle Cloud Office 1.0 is a web and mobile office suite that enables web 2.0-style collaboration and mobile document access. Compatibility with Microsoft Office and integration with Oracle Open Office enable rich and seamless offline editing of complex presentations, text and spreadsheet documents.
Oracle Open Office 3.3 includes new enterprise connectors to Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle E-Business Suite, other Oracle Applications and Microsoft Sharepoint, to allow for fast, seamless integration into existing enterprise software stacks. In addition, it adds increased stability, compatibility and performance at up to five times lower license cost compared to Microsoft Office.
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Supporting Quote:
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Apache OpenOffice Changelog

What's new in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15

New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.14 (Feb 27, 2023)

New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.13 (Jul 28, 2022)

New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.12 (Jul 28, 2022)

New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.11 (Oct 7, 2021)

New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.10 (Aug 5, 2021)

New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7 (Sep 27, 2019)

New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.6 (Nov 22, 2018)

New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.5 (Dec 31, 2017)

New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 (Oct 10, 2016)

New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 (Oct 29, 2015)

New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 (Aug 22, 2014)

New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (Apr 29, 2014)

New in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 Beta (Mar 7, 2014)

New in Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0 (May 8, 2012)

New in Apache OpenOffice 3.3.0 (Dec 16, 2010)

New in Apache OpenOffice 2.4.2 (Oct 31, 2008)