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General Remarks

Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 is a maintenance release, intended to fix critical issues and improve the overall quality of the application.

General areas of improvement include: additional language support, bug fixes, performance improvements and Windows 8 compatibility enhancements. Further details on each of these areas are below.

For a more comprehensive overview of the changes from version 3.4.x see AOO 4.0 Release Notes

Improvements/Enhancements

Performance Improvements/Enhancements

The performance for loading XLS files was boosted by more than 230% compared to OpenOffice 4.0.0.

Other Improvements/Enhancements

(possibly: mention, as an addendum to the 4.0 Release Notes, that Presenter Screen is now integrated: see http://markmail.org/message/pntj24q3pc5g6rwi )

Bug Fixes

Crashes when switching sidebar panes have been fixed
Crashes with certain extensions have been fixed
Crashes on Windows with text in complex scripts have been fixed
Crashes when deleting footnotes have been solved
Loading *.123 files has been fixed
Rendering of charts with many data points has been fixed
Image rendering on MacOSX has been fixed
Python compatibility has been improved
Fixes to make C# extensions work
...

As of September 10 ^th there were 42 issues that have been resolved.

This list can be found at: <https://issues.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=4.0.1RelaseBlockersResolved>

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Additional Language Support

New translations available in Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 include:

Basque (eu)	Khmer (km)	Lithuanian (lt)
Polish (pl)	Serbian (sr)	Swedish (sv)
Traditional Chinese (zh-TW)	Turkish (tr)	Vietnamese (vi)

Updated translations available in Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 include:

Asturian (ast)	Czech (cs)	Dutch (nl)
English (en_GB)	Finnish (fi)	French (fr)
Galician (gl)	German (de)	Greek (el)
Italian (it)	Japanese (ja)	Portuguese (pt)
Portuguese (pt-BR)	Russian (ru)	Slovak (sk)
Spanish (es)	Tamil (ta)

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

Updated Dictionaries

English (en-US, en-*)

Gaelic (gd)

French (fr)

Italian (it)

Spanish (es)

Important bug fixes have been made in these areas:

None at this time.

The QE team has been tracking additional fixes as well. See their complete reports at:

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/QA/Report/WeeklyReport

Known Issues

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