The free productivity suite has received a new update today

Sep 27, 2013 07:04 GMT  ·  By

The freeware OpenOffice.org productivity suite has received a new brand update today, with version 4.0.1 bringing a lot of bug fixes, as well as performance improvements and new options.

According to the official release notes rolled out this morning, the new build packs additional language support and updated translations for English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish versions.

It also boosts performance for saving XLS files by more than 230 percent, while also integrating the popular extensions "Presenter Screen" and "Presentation Minimizer" into the core product.

Bug fixes are also part of the release, so you no should no longer experience issues with deleting footnotes or when working with SVG files and Mail Merge options.

The update is available on all platforms, so Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X users can download version 4.0.1 right away.

Download OpenOffice.org 4.0.1 for Windows

Download OpenOffice.org 4.0.1 for Linux

Download OpenOffice.org 4.0.1 for Mac OS X