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Translations: Dutch (nl) - French (fr)

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Translations: - Polish (pl)


Table of Contents

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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OSLink
Windows XP and older

C:\Documents and Settings\<user name><username>\Application Data\OpenOffice

Windows 7–11C:\Users\<user name><username>\AppData\Roaming\OpenOffice
macOS/Users/<user name><username>/Library/Application Support/OpenOffice
Linux/home/<user name><username>/.openoffice

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

Improvements/Enhancements

  • Writer: Set firstline auto indent to 2 characters for Chinese language

Bug Fixes

  • Basic: 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)tbd

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

Additional Language Support

No New new translations

Updated translations

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No new Dictionaries

Updated Dictionaries

Danish (da)English (en-GB)English (en-ZAScottish Gaelic (gd)

Platform Support 

Binaries are still provided for the same platforms as OpenOffice 4.1.14.

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  • Apache OpenOffice will be flagged by the Gatekeeper facility in macOS. This is a feature to help guard against malware on Mac systems. The Apache OpenOffice disk images are signed by Apache as required by Apple, but Gatekeeper may still be triggered. If that happens, please follow the below steps.
    • For macOS  macOS up to 10.11 “El Capitan”: There is a procedure laid out at the following link to allow applications not installed from the Mac App Store to run. See the Mac support article.

    • For macOS  macOS 10.12 “Sierra” and up:  In In Finder, Control-click or right-click the icon of the app. Select Open from the top of the contextual menu that appears. Click Open in the dialog box. If prompted, enter an administrator name and password. This is needed just the first time you launch Apache OpenOffice.

  • Due to a known bug in Oracle Java, installations of Apache OpenOffice on macOS that do not have the legacy Apple Java 6 installed will not be able to recognize Oracle Java 7, 8, and maybe 9. If not able to upgrade to Java 9, then install the legacy version of Apple Java from the following link: Legacy Apple Java 6. This allows the portions of AOO that require Java to run properly.

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For Linux Users

  • When the Apache OpenOffice UI looks

    oldfashioned

    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.

    For
    Linux with RPM support
    :
    • Check with "
    rpm -qa
    • dnf list | grep gdk-pixbuf2-xlib"
    install
    • Install with "dnf install gdk-pixbuf2-xlib"
    For
    Linux with DEB support
    :
    • Check with "
    tbd
    • apt list --installed | grep gdk-pixbuf-xlib"
    • Install with "
    tbd
    • apt install libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-0"


  • NOTE: It depends on the used Linux distrubution distribution and graphical system. Therefore it is possibe , the library has might have a slightly different name.

Installation Information

Installation instructions can be found at: https://www.openoffice.org/download/common/instructions.html 

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