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on dev@openoffice.apache.org Peter submitted the following text proposal:


Dear OpenOffice Users


Thank you for taking interest into OpenOffice and your ongoing support
over the years. As of late as you have heared through various channels,
an Issue has popped up on Big Sur.

The issue affects on opening modern Microsoft Office Document formats
(files that end on docx, xlsx, etc.), which causes openoffice to crash
on Mac OSX Big Sur. Affected, as far as we know, are all OpenOffice
versions.

There is no workaround within OpenOffice at this point, and we will
address this issue in a new patch 4.1.9, which will be released to all
platforms, despite

the main reason is the Issue on Mac. We will see to it that we include
some other minor development to the patch, so everyone has something
from this unfortunate incident. But we know that this is a pressing
issue to our users,

So expect the patch soon.


In Order to identify the issue we had first a closer look at our build
in order to exclude any Issues with a wrong release. Next we updated the
build to a newer SDK Issue to exclude

an Issue in our support structures. After this we figured that our non
production ready but upcoming Version 4.2.0 is not affected by this
Issue. In an effort over Christmas a comparison took place between the
4.2.0 and 4.1.8 Versions to loacate potential Issues.

It seems we have found the code change that is solving the crash on Mac.
However we are testing the Solution at this point. If you want to join
the test riage of this fix, drop a mail in English to
dev@openoffice.apache.org. The more environments we can test the better
we can react on Issues.

The Project thanks Jim Jagelski for his endless effort during Christmas
time, and the French Forum users [...] who did support the development
by their dedicated testing efforts.


All the best and stay healthy



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