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Translations available for: Deutsch (de) | Dutch (nl) | Spanish (es) | Русский (ru) |  简体中文 (zh) | Italian (it) | Portuguese (pt)

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General Remarks

Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 is a maintenance release , intended to fix which fixes critical issues and improve improves the overall quality of the application. All users of Apache OpenOffice 4.0 or earlier are advised to upgrade. You can download Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 here.

General areas of improvement include: additional native language supporttranslations, bug fixes, performance improvements and Windows 8 compatibility enhancements. Further details on each of these areas are below.

Our Bugzilla issue tracking database provides a detailed list of solved issues.

For a more comprehensive overview of the changes from version 3.4.x see AOO 4.0 Release Notes

Improvements/Enhancements

Performance Improvements/Enhancements compared to OpenOffice 4.0.0

The performance for loading saving XLS files was boosted by more than 230%.

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Improvements/Enhancements

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missing in the OpenOffice 4.0.0 release notes

OpenOffice 4.0 integrated the very popular extensions "Presenter Screen" and "Presentation Minimizer" into the core product.(possibly: mention, as an addendum to the 4.0 Release Notes, that Presenter Screen is now integrated: see http://markmail.org/message/pntj24q3pc5g6rwiImage Removed )

Bug Fixes

  • Crashes Crash when switching sidebar panes have been fixed
  • Crashes Crash with certain extensions have been fixed
  • Crashes Crash on Microsoft Windows with text in complex scripts have been fixed
  • Crashes Crash when deleting footnotes have been solved
  • Loading *.123 files has been fixed
  • Rendering of charts with many data points has been fixed
  • Image rendering on MacOSX has been fixedMac OS X
  • Python compatibility has been improved
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As of September 10 th there were 42 issues that have been resolved.

This list can be found at: <https://issues.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=4.0.1RelaseBlockersResolved>

You will need an OpenOffice Bugzilla login to view it.

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  • Fixes to make C# extensions work
  • Error on user profile migration regarding updating bundled extensions
  • Error on opening Microsoft Office documents created in Apple iWork (Pages, Numbers, Keynote)
  • HTML export losing paragraph formatting
  • Crashes on PDF export in Writer's Page Preview
  • Crashes in Writer when deleting content which had been copied to the clipboard
  • Error/Crashes on importing Microsoft Word documents
  • No possible keyboard text selection in Writer's text frames
  • Lost database connection in text documents on save - related to Mail Merge
  • Errors in Calc's filter functions
  • Calculation error in IMABS() function
  • Formatting error of boolean values in Calc
  • Repaint errors in Calc which showed double lines and white stripes
  • Various fixes/improvements for SVG files
  • Fixed and improved visualization of transformed bitmap graphics for Linux
  • Fix to exporting a bitmap graphic with a given pixel size
  • Fixed Copy/Paste clipboard handling for transporting bitmap images (e.g. drag & drop or copy/paste from browser)
  • Fixed Microsoft Windows-specific performance task with very large bitmaps, enhanced buffering for all systems
  • Repaired some modes of text editing for graphic objects where the text was not always readable
  • Fix to import of user-defined connector changes
  • Corrected line width for anchor visualization in Writer
  • Fixed EMF/WMF reader for some critical cases to enhance the import quality
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Additional Language Support

New translations available in Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 include:

Chinese Basque (zh-TWeu)

Khmer (km)

Lithuanian (lt)

Polish (pl)

Serbian Cyrillic (sr)

Swedish (sv) Vietnamese

Chinese (vizh-TW)

Swedish Turkish (svtr)

Basque Vietnamese (euvi)

Updated translations available in Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 include:

Asturian (ast)

Czech (cs)

Dutch (nl)

English (en_GB)

Finnish (fi)

French (fr)

Galician (gl)

German (de)

Greek (el)

Italian (it)

Japanese (ja)

Portuguese (pt-BRPT)

Portuguese (pt-BR)

Russian (ru)

Spanish Slovak (essk) Slovak

Spanish (skes)

Tamil (ta)

For a complete list of available languages and language packs see: http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.htmlImage Removed

Updated Dictionaries

English (en-US, en-*)

Gaelic (gd)

French (fr)

Italian (it)

Spanish (es)

Important bug fixes have been made in these areas:

  • None at this time.

The QE team has been tracking additional fixes as well. See their complete reports at:

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/QA/Report/WeeklyReport

Known Issues

  • On recent versions of Mac OS X it might happen, especially after a "Force quit", that the following error message appears: "Restore Windows - The application OpenOffice.org was forced to quit while trying to restore its windows. Do you want to try to restore its windows again?". If you cannot get rid of it: Option-click the "Go" menu; choose "Library" from the menu to open the folder in the Finder; click on the folder "Saved Application State"; delete the file "org.openoffice.script.savedState". See bug 119006 and bug 123681 for more information.
  • For other known issues See the 4.0.0 Release Notes

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Stay informed about Apache OpenOffice

You are encouraged to subscribe to the Apache OpenOffice announcement mailing list , to be receive important notifications such as of product updates and security patches.  To subscribe you can send an email to:  announce-subscribe@openoffice.apache.org.

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