AOO 4.1.2 Release Notes

Translations: Deutsch (de)

THIS IS A DRAFT PAGE. APACHE OPENOFFICE 4.1.2 HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED YET.

General Remarks

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 is a bugfix release: its main focus is on fixing critical issues. All users of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 or earlier are advised to upgrade. You can download Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 here.

Please review these Release Notes to learn what is new in this version as well as important remarks concerning known issues and their workarounds.

Our Bugzilla issue tracking database provides a detailed list of solved issues.

General areas of improvement include: <additional text as needed> Further details on each of these areas are below.

New Features

<None at this time>

Improvements/Enhancements

Performance Improvements/Enhancements

<None at this time>

Other Improvements/Enhancements

<None at this time>

Removed/Retired Features

Starting with version 4.1.2, OpenOffice will no longer open files created with the program named "Hangul Word Processor", versions prior to 97. See https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126281 for more information. This file format is no longer in use for a very large majority of users; the few users who have files in the .hwp format should convert them to ODF before the upgrade.

Bug Fixes

See the list in Bugzilla

Additional Language Support

New translations available in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 include:

Updated translations available in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 include:

For a complete list of available languages and language packs see: http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html

New and Updated Dictionaries

New Dictionaries

Updated Dictionaries

Note: The extension contains multiple variants. The en-GB, -US, and -CA variants have been updated.

Additional Platform Support

• Binaries are still provided for the same platforms as 4.1.1: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux 32-bit and 64-bit (RPM and DEB).
• OpenOffice can now be built on modern Linux distributions.
• OpenOffice 4.1.2 contains many build fixes that allow for a full integration in FreeBSD (courtesy of Don Lewis and Pedro Giffuni)
• OpenOffice 4.1.2 can be built under OS/2 (courtesy of Yuri Dario).

Known Issues

• Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 will be flagged by the Gatekeeper facility in Mac OS X. 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.
• Due to a known bug in Oracle Java installations of Apache OpenOffice on OSX that do not have the legacy Apple Java 6 installed will not be able to recognize Oracle Java 7, 8, and possibly 9. The work around until the Java bug is fixed is to install the legacy version of Apple Java from the following link: Legacy Apple Java 6. This will allow the portions of AOO that require Java to run properly.
• For developers: the source package of OpenOffice 4.1.2 will not build on 32-bit versions of Ubuntu 14.04  and similar distributions. The source fails to build in main/svl with this error: undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail'. This can be worked around by copying and pasting the command that fails and running it manually with "-lc" appended (as the missing __stack_chk_fail symbol is present in libc, but the linker doesn't search there).
• For developers: the OpenOffice SDK won't build with Java 8. Either build with --disable-odk or see the dev list archives for possible solutions.

Installation Information

Installation instructions can be found at:  http:www.openoffice.org/download/common/instructions.html

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