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lp_solve

lp_solve was replaced by CoinMP

This functionality is invoked by the user in Calc via Tools->Solver.  It is used for solving linear programming problems, including integer programming.

CoinMP comes from the Coin-OR open source project, an open source project that involves operations research professionals and includes cutting edge algorithms.

According to one research paper CoinMP offers superior performance compared to lp_solve.  So the overall user impact from this change should be positive.

i18nregexp

i18nregexp was replaced by ICU Regular Expressions.

No major impact for users; regular expressions work as usual and are faster. The ICU regexp engine provides more capabilities such as better unicode support, look-aheads, look-behinds, back-references, better word-boundaries, etc. operators. Some deprecated extended syntax supported in earlier versions may not be available.

MySQL Connector/C++

MySQL connector can only be built when the C++ connector is pre-installed on the system. It will not be part of the binary release.

SVG: librsvg, libcroco, libgsf, gdk-pixbuf, glib, gettext, pango

These libraries have been removed from the product.

Instead of using an external SVG rendering library, Apache OpenOffice 3.4 has a major new feature of native SVG support, giving high quality, scalable, standards-compliant rendering on screen, print and PDF export.

libwpd

The libwpd library was removed from the product.

The WordPerfect filter ("WordPerfect Document (.wpd)") is not available anymore unless the library is provided by the platform. It depended on version 0.8 of the library anyways so no replacement unless someone creates a filter extension that can be installed separately.

fonts (liberation)

These fonts have been removed from the distribution due to an incompatible license.

Metrically equivalent fonts from Google's ChromeOS have been included as replacements: Tinos, Arimo and Cousine. Moreover, users may independently install liberation fonts to their system, in accordance with their license.  so there is no further user impact.

libneon

The neon library was removed from the distribution due to an incompatible license.

The neon library was used to for all http based communication including WebDAV, so it was possible to insert an image via an http Url.

The Apache licensed libserf replaced libneon (118569).

berkeleydb

The berkeleydb library was removed from the distribution due to an incompatible license.

The berkeleydb was only employed for managing extentions. Originally it was also used for indexing help content.

Managing a handful of extensions using a database was overkill anyways and so replacing it by a much more light-weight solution was easily possible to get rid of it (118569).

core, flute, flow-engine, libbase, libfonts, libformula, liblayout, libloader, librepository, libserializer, libxml

Libraries used by the Report Builder extension were removed due to an incompatible license.

Report Builder extension will not be available unless someone works on it as a third-party extension.

ooo_crystal_images-1.tar.gz
ooo_oxygen_images-2009-06-17

Crystal and Oxygen and Tango icons sets were removed.

These were used by XOrg as defaults in KDE and Gnome. The user can still choose other icon sets like galaxy.