THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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Translations: Dutch (nl) - French (fr) - Polish (pl)
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General Remarks
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15 is a Maintenance Security Release, incorporating bug fixes and little enhancements. All users of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.14 or earlier are advised to upgrade. You can download Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15 here. Windows 10 and 11 users can now also get Apache OpenOffice for selected languages in the "Microsoft Store" App.
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Only use the original website "https://www.openoffice.org/download/" to download. The installed software can be verified with the About box (see menu "Help – About OpenOffice") by comparing the numbers with the reference data on the download webpage (see the text in the light green box). For Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15 it has to be "tbd AOO4115m2 | Build ID tbd 9813 | Rev. tbd5f13fa0070".
Important Note
It is recommended to make a backup of the Apache OpenOffice users profile when you have installed 4.1.13 or older and now want to install 4.1.15. It is especially essential for users who use the Master Password functionality and may decide to use an older version later. There is a change in the encoding of stored passwords in this 4.1.15 release that may make your user profile unusable for previous versions.
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More information about the user profile is in the support forum and OpenOffice Wiki.
Improvements/Enhancements
Other Improvements/Enhancements
- tbd
Bug Fixes
Highlighted Improvements/Enhancements
Security
- CVE-2012-5639: Loading internal / external resources without warning
- CVE-2022-43680: "Use after free" fixed in libexpat
- CVE-2023-1183: Arbitrary file write in Apache OpenOffice Base
- CVE-2023-47804: Macro URL arbitrary script execution
Improvements/Enhancements
- Writer: Set firstline auto indent to 2 characters for Chinese language
Bug Fixes
- Basic: Error Basic: Fixed error in help text for function "len"
- Writer: Dialog "Bullets & Numbering: The tooltip for the first numbering type is shown as "Number %NUMBERINGSAMPLE"
- Writer: MS Word import - CJK numbering ordered list fallback to Arabic numerals
- Calc: Function wizard - Spelling error for function "PROB"
- Calc: Cannot save document as ODS (AOO builds using non-Latin alphabets, due to changes of transliteration rules at runtime)
- Calc: Displacement problem with related formulas when moving cells
- Math: Do not remove outer braces
- Math: Existing command text is repeated when formula is insertedWriter: Set firstline auto indent to 2 charaters for Chinese language
- General: Some glyphs are not replaced by GSUB table from OpenType font
- Basic: Image control - Wrong picture in Help
- Code: Possible access to unintended variable in "openoffice/main/sfx2/source/doc/sfxbasemodel.cxx" line 940
- Code: Remove extra files from source package (clog, config.out)
For a complete overview of all resolved issues, please refer to the list in Bugzilla.
Additional Language Support
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Updated translations
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When the Apache OpenOffice UI looks old-fashioned (like if it would run on Windows 98 or similar), it is very likely that a specific library is not installed. In a terminal, please check if the package is installed. If not, you have to add it. After a restart of Apache OpenOffice, you should see a much more modern UI.
Linux with RPM support - Check with "dnf list | grep gdk-pixbuf2-xlib"
- install Install with "dnf install gdk-pixbuf2-xlib"
Linux with DEB support - Check with "apt list --installed | grep gdk-pixbuf-xlib"
- Install with "apt install libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-0"
- NOTE: It depends on the used Linux distribution and graphical system. Therefore, the library might have a slightly different name.
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