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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.

The list of solved issues can be found at http://s.apache.org/AOO401solved

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
Error on user profile migration regarding updating bundled extensions
Error on opening Microsoft Office documents created in iWork (Pages, Numbers, Keynote)
HTML export losing paragraph formatting
Crashes on PDF export in Writer's Page Preview
Crashes in Writer on deleting content which had been copied to the clipboard
Error/Crashes on importing Microsoft Word documents
No possible keyboard text selection in Writer's text frames
Lost database connection in text documents on save - related to Mail Merge
Errors in Calc's filter functions
Calculation error in IMABS() function
Formatting error of boolean values in Calc
...

Additional Language Support

New translations available in Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 include:

Basque (eu)	Khmer (km)	Lithuanian (lt)
Polish (pl)	Serbian Cyrillic (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)

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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