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The following table is intended to collect and document new features, enhancements or other working areas related to the AOO 4.1 release.


More detailed description or potential specifications (as base for documentation, QA, development) should be provided on demand on linked feature sub-pages. And a corresponding Bugzilla ID should be provided for detailed tracking.

|| Component || Feature/Enhancement || Abstract || Volunteer(s) || Status || Task-ID ||
| Common \\ | Accessibility support | integrate iAccessibiltiy2 support to improve the usability | Yin Bing (Steve) \\ | {highlight:yellow}\\
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| Common \\ | Patch Mechanism in Windows | Enable the patch mechanism in Window, so that AOO can provide small and accumulated patches to customers. | Andre Fischer | {highlight:yellow}\\
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| Common \\ | Encryption GUI | Allow users to choose SHA256/AES or SHA1/Blowfish when saving ODF1.2 files. Design required, discussion recommended. See [Issue 119090|https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=119090#c31]. | | {highlight:red}Proposed \\
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| Draw (and others) | Fundamental changes needed for further bug fixing and features | Rework internal representation of drawing objects to use double precision and transformation matrix | Armin Le Grand | {highlight:yellow}started\\
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| Calc | Provide a internal framework for HPC | The [Matrix Template Library|http://osl.iu.edu/research/mtl/mtl2.php3] is a high-performance generic component library inspired on STL for matrix operations. \\
This toolkit or a similar alternative could provide elegant operations for programmers and at the same time provide HPC capabilities within the spreadsheet. | | | |
| All \\ | OpenSocial integration \\ | OpenSocial is an open standard for interacting with social networking software.  \\
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they could take the current slide and send it to their "friends" as an image, and ask for comments. \\ | robweir, Kevin Grignon (UX design) | | |
| Writer | Usability improvement in Ctrl+A and mouse operations in tables and sections | # The capability and usability of Ctrl+A is enhanced to make users  able to select and operate tables, nested tables, or tables within  sections at the top of a document through select all operation.
# The capability and usability of mouse operation is also enhanced to  make users able to select and operate the tables, nested tables, or  tables within sections at the top of a document through mouse to select  them from the end to the beginning. | Cheng Jian Hong | {highlight:red}Proposed \\
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| Writer | Interoperability improvement with MS Word 2007/2010 on Shape support | # The shape created in MS Word 2007/2010 can't be parsed and will  lost after importing. So, we propose to improve the implementation for  shape loading.
# The shape in MS Word 2007 described as VML format, and in MS Word  2007/2010, it's both in VML and DrawingML together. And to initial the  compatible for this part, we propose to support VML first. So we could  better interoperable with MS Word 2007 and MS word 2010 for common  cases. | Zhang Ying | {highlight:red}Proposed \\
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| Calc | XLS loading performance with multiple pivot tables | Improvements in both loading pivot table cache and in loading pivot table for the .xls files. \\
The loading performance for .xls files with multiple pivot tables is  improved a lot, especially with multiple pivot table caches. | Lei Wang \\ | {highlight:red}Proposed \\
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| Impress | Speaker notes support in normal view | A user interface improvement from Symphony to provide speaker notes in  normal view. Users can view and edit speaker notes in normal view  directly. | Steve Yin \\ | {highlight:red}Proposed \\
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| SDK | Include ODF Toolkit | Include the Apache ODF Toolkit with the OpenOffice SDK.  Also include  code samples showing how the ODF Toolkit can be used with OpenOffice. | robweir | {highlight:red}Proposed \\
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| Base | Update database engine to HSQLDB 2.2.x | The present versions uses HSQLDB 1.8.0.10 version, HSQLDB 2.x.x has more features, and it is a version in development. CWS [hsqldb19|http://hg.services.openoffice.org/cws/hsqldb19] was developed and tested extensively during 2009-11 (until April) by Ocke Janssen. The CWS is named 19 because it was started with a pre-release version of HSQLDB. It was actually developed and tested with release versions of HSQLDB 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2.x. The change from 3.3 to CWS was that the org.hsqldb.lib.Storage was retired and replaced by org.hsqldb.persist.RandomAccessInterface, which has similar methods | ? | {highlight:red}Proposed \\  \\
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| install | modernize install | create installer that loads resources as needed (downloaded or from local media) to solve current staging issues | | {highlight:red}Proposed{highlight} | |
| install | modernize install | allow for the download and install of extensions during install (esp. for lang/dictionary) | | {highlight:red}Proposed{highlight} | |
| | built in cloud storage | build in connector for cloud/Google Docs/CMIS | | {highlight:red}Proposed{highlight} | |
| help | option for online help | provide user option to use current online help content instead of storing locally | | {highlight:red}Proposed{highlight} | |
| help | custom search for help | integration of custom search on forums into help dialog | | {highlight:red}Proposed{highlight} | |
| | implement AOO server | formalize the use of headless AOO as document converter - potentially as Apache mod (mod_aoo ?) | | {highlight:red}Proposed{highlight} | |
| | real time collaboration | passing of ODF change sets over common transport (such as XMPP) | | {highlight:red}Proposed{highlight} | |
| | svn integration | storage of ODF in svn with ODF change sets instead of text diffs | | {highlight:red}Proposed{highlight} | |
| develop | remove sdf files | use po files directly, simpler handling (genLang) | | {highlight:yellow}Started{highlight} | On branch l10n40 |