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THIS IS A DRAFT PAGE. APACHE OPENOFFICE  4.1.9 HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED YET.

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General Remarks

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.9 is a  Maintenance release a Maintenance release incorporating important bug fixes. All users of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.8 or earlier are advised to upgrade. You can download Apache OpenOffice 4.1.9 here.

Please review these Release Notes to learn what is new in this version as well as important remarks concerning known issues and their workarounds.

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 4.1.9 it has to be "AOO419m1 | Build ID 9805 | Rev. 561082130a".

Improvements/Enhancements

  • Bug Fixes

  • Updated dictionaries

Security

  • CVE 2017-18926 - Calculate max nspace declarations correctly for XML writerSolves crash issue with docx files

Bug Fixes

Highlighted Improvements/Enhancements

  •  Issue 128415 - Opening a .docx, .xlsx, .pptx file crash on macOS 11.0.1 Big Sur
  • Headless mode: Crash on DOC to PDF conversion

  • ".desktop" files installed by DEB archive in "/opt/openoffice4/share/xdg" are not executable

  • (d)make clean deletes source when solar environment is not set

For a complete overview of all resolved issues please see the list in Bugzilla.

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