AOO 4.0.1 Release Notes

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General Remarks

Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 is a maintenance release, intended to fix critical issues and improve the overall quality of the application.

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

OpenOffice's bugzilla provides the 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 saving XLS files was boosted by more than 230%.

Improvements/Enhancements 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.

Bug Fixes

• Crashes when switching sidebar panes have been fixed
• Crashes with certain extensions have been fixed
• Crashes on Windows with text in complex scripts have been fixed
• Crashes 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 fixed
• Python compatibility has been improved
• Fixes to make C# extensions work
• Error on user profile migration regarding updating bundled extensions
• Error on opening Microsoft Office documents created in iWork (Pages, Numbers, Keynote)
• HTML export losing paragraph formatting
• Crashes on PDF export in Writer's Page Preview
• Crashes in Writer on 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 under certain circumstances fixed which showed double lines and white stripes
• Various fixes/improvements for handling the outmost SVG element having missing definitions in a SVG file
• Fixed and improved visualization of transformed bitmap graphics for Linux
• When exporting a bitmap graphic with a given pixel size it is used up to very large values
• Fixed Copy/Paste clipboard handling for transporting bitmap images (e.g. D&D or copy/paste from browser)
• Fixed 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
• User-defined connector changes import repaired
• Corrected line width for anchor visualization in writer for all systems
• Secured 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:

Updated translations available in Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 include:

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

Updated Dictionaries

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

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