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THIS IS A DRAFT PAGE. APACHE OPENOFFICE  4.1.3 HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED YET.

 

General Remarks


Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 is a maintenance release incorporating security fixes, updated dictionaries, and build fixes. The fix for security issue CVE-2016-1513, https://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2016-1513.html, previously  only provided in source code and as a Hotfix patch, is incorporated in the 4.1.3 binary distribution.

All users of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 or earlier are advised to upgrade. You can download Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 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:  Further details on each of these areas are below.

 

New Features

 

Improvements/Enhancements

Performance Improvements/Enhancements

Other Improvements/Enhancements

 

Bug Fixes

 

https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127100 "Make NSIS 3.* a build requirement for building Windows installers"

 

https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127119 "configure does not check all Perl modules that are used at build time"

 

https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127120 "Update code for downloading dependencies"

 

https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127118 "Update dmake URL in configure"

 

https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127121 "Update broken download URLs of external dependencies"

 

 

See the list in Bugzilla

Additional Language Support

New translations available in Apache OpenOffice 4.x.x include:

Language (ISO Code)

Language (ISO Code)

Language (ISO Code)

Updated translations available in Apache OpenOffice 4.x.x include:

Language (ISO Code)

Language (ISO Code)

Language (ISO Code)

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

New and Updated Dictionaries

New Dictionaries

Language (ISO Code)Language (ISO Code)Language (ISO Code)

Updated Dictionaries

English (en_GB)English (en_US)

 

German (de)German Austria (de_AT)German Switzerland (de_CH)
Dutch (nl)French (fr)Italian (it)
Spanish (es)Romanian (ro)Russian (ru)
Khmer (km)Scottish Gaelic (gd)Basque (eu)
Slovanian (sl)Norwegian (no)Swedish (sv)
Portuguese European (pt_PT)Catalan (ca_XV) 

Note: The extension contains multiple variants. Only the en-GB dictionary has been updated.

 

Additional Platform Support

 

  • Binaries are still provided for the same platforms as OpenOffice 4.1.2: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux 32-bit and 64-bit (RPM and DEB).

 

Known Issues

 

  • Mac OS X: Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 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.
  • Mac OS X: 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 4.1.3 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

 

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 send an email to:  announce-subscribe@openoffice.apache.org.

 

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