Release Notes for Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3
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General Remarks
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 is a maintenance release incorporating security fixes, updated dictionaries, and build fixes. 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.
Security Note
The fix for security issue CVE-2016-1513, previously only provided in source code and as a Hotfix patch, is incorporated in the 4.1.3 binary distribution.
Bug Fixes
- https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125980 Set default currency to Euro in Lithuanian locale
- https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127103 Update metadata for OpenOffice 4.1.3 release
- https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127108 Update the Coyright year
- https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127112 Update bundled dictionaries for AOO 4.1.3 release
- https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127140 Installer includes VC package older than 4.1.2
Furthermore, we got several reports that the following issue is no longer occurring. It was fixed by updating the build environment on Mac OS X to Xcode 8:
- https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126622 Base 4.1.2 does not open Tables and Queries in Mac OSX
For all issues please see the list in Bugzilla.
Additional Language Support
- OpenOffice 4.1.3 supports the same languages as the previous releases.
- No translations were updated.
- The following dictionaries were updated:
| English (en_GB) | English (en_US) |
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| 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) |
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For a complete list of available languages and language packs see: http://www.openoffice.org/download/ (click the language drop-down-box)
Additional Platform Support
Binaries are still provided for the same platforms as for the previous OpenOffice 4.x releases:
- Windows
- Mac OS X
- Linux 32-bit (RPM and DEB)
- Linux 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
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