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General Remarks 

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.16 is a Security Release, incorporating other bug fixes and little enhancements. All users of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15 or earlier are advised to upgrade. You can download Apache OpenOffice 4.1.16 here. Windows 10 and 11 users can now also get Apache OpenOffice for selected languages in the "Microsoft Store" App.

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

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 4.1.16 it has to be "AOO4116m3 | Build ID 9816 | Rev. 277251aa7e".

Security

  • CVE-2025-64401: Remote documents loaded without prompt via IFrame
  • CVE-2025-64402: Remote documents loaded without prompt via OLE objects
  • CVE-2025-64403: Remote documents loaded without prompt via "external data sources" in Calc
  • CVE-2025-64404: Remote documents loaded without prompt via background and bullet images
  • CVE-2025-64405: Remote documents loaded without prompt via DDE function
  • CVE-2025-64406: Possible memory corruption during CSV import
  • CVE-2025-64407: URL fetching can be used to exfiltrate arbitrary INI file values and environment variables

Improvements/Enhancements

Other Improvements/Enhancements

  • Addition of AES-256 encryption in ODF 1.2 documents
  • Autotext templates for Turkish
  • Removal of unused "bmpmaker" module
  • Increased MathML compatibility
  • Removal of automatic check for updates that caused deadlocks on MacOS

No other improvements for this release.

Bug Fixes

Highlighted Improvements/Enhancements

  • OpenOffice app will never finish to load while searching updates

  • Zoom slider disappears after changing page/slide in Draw/Impress

  • Base does not properly parse CSV files as per RFC-4180 (while Calc does)

  • Control files have bad permissions

  • Untranslated objects names in AutoTexts (pt_BR)

  • Cut and Paste of fontwork performs a copy and paste

  • Swedish translation of above/below in relative references are switched

  • Slide show 1st hide slide

  • Tooltip on footnote-signs need line-break

  • Text entry or CSV import treats $.nn as text

  • Customize: wrong icon for "help"

  • Crash at startup in fontconfig functions when certain fonts are installed

  • Recent documents - clear list only hides entries but do not delete it in real

  • Enable fallback URL for dejavu package

  • Change from "InsertFormula" to "Import Formula" is incomplete

  • Help, Impress/Draw - wrong icons for styles in the Styles and Formatting topic

  • Typo in Italian list of gradients

  • Recently Used panel - redundant item in the context menu

For a complete overview of all resolved issues, please see the list in Bugzilla.

Additional Language Support

No new or updated translations for this release.

For a complete list of available languages and language packs, see the download webpage (click the language drop-down-box).

New and updated Dictionaries

New Dictionaries

No new dictionaries for this release.

Updated Dictionaries

Danish (da)English (en-AU)English (en-CA)
English (en-GB)English (en-US) English (en-ZA)

Platform Support 

Binaries are still provided for the same platforms as OpenOffice 4.1.15.

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux 32-bit (RPM and DEB)
  • Linux 64-bit (RPM and DEB)

Known Issues

For macOS users

  • Apache OpenOffice will be flagged by the Gatekeeper facility in macOS. This is a feature to help guard against malware on Mac systems. The Apache OpenOffice disk images are signed by Apache as required by Apple, but Gatekeeper may still be triggered. If that happens, please follow the below steps.
    • For macOS  up to 10.11 "El Capitan": 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.

    • For macOS  10.12 "Sierra" and up: In Finder, Control-click or right-click the icon of the app. Select Open from the top of the contextual menu that appears. Click Open in the dialog box. If prompted, enter an administrator name and password. This is needed just the first time you launch Apache OpenOffice.

  • Due to a known bug in Oracle Java, installations of Apache OpenOffice on macOS that do not have the legacy Apple Java 6 installed will not be able to recognize Oracle Java 7, 8, and maybe 9. If not able to upgrade to Java 9, then install the legacy version of Apple Java from the following link: Legacy Apple Java 6. This allows the portions of AOO that require Java to run properly.

For Windows Users

  • Apache OpenOffice supports Java 8 (32-bit), 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++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019.
  • NOTE: You MUST have a 32-bit Java Runtime Environment (JRE) even on a 64-bit machine.

Installation Information

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

Stay informed about Apache OpenOffice

You are encouraged to subscribe to the Apache OpenOffice announcement mailing list to receive important notifications such as product updates and security patches. To subscribe, you can email: announce-subscribe@openoffice.apache.org.

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