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Blog post was published on 2021-01-07: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/new-release-for-apple-s

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Dear OpenOffice Apache OpenOffice® Users,

Thank you for taking interest into OpenOffice your interest in Apache OpenOffice® and your ongoing on-going support
over the
years. As of late as you have heared through various channels,
an Issue has popped up on Big Sur.You may have heard (e.g., through our support forums) that OpenOffice has
problems with Apple's new macOS 11 (Big Sur).

When opening modern Microsoft Office Documents The issue affects on opening modern Microsoft Office Document formats
(files that end on with docx, xlsx, etc.), which causes openoffice to crash
on Mac OSX Big Sur. Affected, as far as we know, are all OpenOffice
versions.  for
example), OpenOffice crashes. There is no workaround within OpenOffice at this point, and but we will
address this issue in a new patch 4.1.9, which will be released to all
platforms, despiteare going to
fix the issue soon.

We would be happy to give you more details if you want to help us with testing. Just
write a mail to the developers mailing list dev@openoffice.apache.org.

The main reason is to fix the bug on Big Sur. We will also include some other minor fixes
in the release, so all platforms can benefit from the new release. We the main reason is the Issue on Mac. We will see to it that we include
some other minor development to the patch, so everyone has something
from this unfortunate incident. But we know that this is a
pressing
issue to our Mac users, So so you can expect the patch soonrelease soon on our
download web page.

In Order order to identify the issue we had first took a closer look at our build
in order to exclude any Issues with a wrong releaseissues with
an error in prior releases. Next, we updated the
build to a newer SDK Issue issue to excludeexclude any
an Issue issue in our support structures. After this we figured We believe that our non
production ready but upcoming Version version 4.2.0 (which is not
yet production-ready) is not affected by this
Issueissue. In an effort over Christmas a comparison
took place between the
4.2.0 and 4.1.8 Versions to loacate potential Issues.It seems we versions to locate the issue. We have found the
code change that is solving solves the crash on MacBig Sur.

However we We are testing the Solution solution at this point. If you want to join
the test riage of the new version of
this fix, drop a an e-mail in English to
the developers mailing list dev@openoffice.apache.org.
The more environments we can test the better
sooner we can react on Issuesrelease.

The Project OpenOffice project thanks Jim Jagelski Jagielski for his endless effort during Christmas
time, and
the French Forum users [...] who did support the development
by their dedicated testing effortsforum users  who supported the development effort with dedicated testing.

We wish you a peaceful year-end.

All the best and stay healthy.