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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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More information about the user profile is in the support forum and OpenOffice Wiki. 

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 charaters characters for Chinese language

Bug Fixes

• Basic: Fixed error 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 inserted
• 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)

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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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