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Apache OpenOffice SDK Changelog

What's new in Apache OpenOffice SDK 4.1.14

Feb 26, 2023
  • General Remarks:
  • Apache OpenOffice 4.1.14 is a Micro release, incorporating bug fixes and little enhancements. All users of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.13 or earlier are advised to upgrade. You can download Apache OpenOffice 4.1.14 here. Windows 10 and 11 users can now also get Apache OpenOffice for selected languages in the "Microsoft Store" App.
  • Please review these Release Notes to learn what is new in this version, as well as important remarks concerning known issues and their workarounds.
  • 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 4.1.14 it has to be "AOO4114m1 | Build ID 9811 | Rev. a0d24fb625".
  • Other Improvements/Enhancements:
  • Writer: Dialog "Frame" in Writer / automatic size / changing shortcut keys (German)
  • Calc: Protect Table – Dialog too narrow for German heading string
  • Base: Dialog text in "Datenbank austauschen" (exchange database) dialog is cut (German)
  • Calc: Use the existing icon for "Remove Filter" in toolbar and menu
  • Calc: Text in cell comments is morer readable
  • Calc: Added support for Excel 2010s DateTime type cells.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Highlighted Improvements/Enhancements:
  • Calc: Rich text cells imported from XLSX files have their contents duplicated
  • Several fixes for importing OOXML documents
  • All applications: Import fails when the Relationship "Target" attribute in _rels/.rels has superfluous slashes
  • Calc: XLSX with omitted cell references opens with empty cells
  • Calc: no text imported from XSLX when xl/sharedStrings.xml has wrong case
  • Several fixes for importing MS Excel 2003 SpreadsheetML files
  • Calc: ss:DateTime cell value is loaded as either only a date or a time
  • Calc: fractional seconds are silently ignored during import
  • Calc: cell with ss:MergeAcross="0" gets an extra empty cell to the right
  • Calc: import corrupts references to columns that are multiples of 26 (eg. Z)
  • Writer: Importing apostrophes from HTML fails
  • Calc: Cut-and-paste between spreadsheets causes incorrect cell reference changes
  • Writer: Awkward Chinese (ZH-TW) numbering suffix when importing RTF document
  • Calc: Last CSV line is silently lost on import if last field is quoted and end-of-file is reached before closing quote

New in Apache OpenOffice SDK 4.1.13 (Jul 22, 2022)

  • Improvements/Enhancements:
  • Other Improvements/Enhancements:
  • Visual improvements in Print Preview
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Highlighted Improvements/Enhancements:
  • Inconsistent labeling of unsaved documents
  • Opening ODF document from LibreOffice 7 displays error

New in Apache OpenOffice SDK 4.1.12 (May 5, 2022)

  • Improvements/Enhancements:
  • Other Improvements/Enhancements:
  • Zoom in Page Preview - negative values were treated as max factor
  • File selection box too small in Navigator
  • Several corrections in translations
  • Visual improvements in Sidebar
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Highlighted Improvements/Enhancements:
  • Search for strings in date formats fails
  • Rendering for extrusion depth of custom shapes was wrong
  • New and Updated Dictionaries:
  • Updated Dictionaries:
  • English (en-GB)

New in Apache OpenOffice SDK 4.1.11 (Oct 5, 2021)

  • Performance Improvements/Enhancements
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Highlighted Improvements/Enhancements
  • Additional Language Support:
  • New translations available in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.11 include:
  • Updated translations available in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.11 include
  • New and Updated Dictionaries:
  • New Dictionaries

New in Apache OpenOffice SDK 4.1.10 (Apr 30, 2021)

  • General Remarks:
  • Apache OpenOffice 4.1.10 is a Security release incorporating important bug fixes. All users of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.9 or earlier are strongly advised to upgrade. You can download Apache OpenOffice 4.1.10 here.
  • Please review these Release Notes to learn what is new in this version as well as important remarks concerning known issues and their workarounds.
  • 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 4.1.10 it has to be "AOO4110m2 | Build ID 9807 | Rev. TBD".
  • Improvements/Enhancements:
  • Bug Fixes
  • Updated dictionaries
  • Security:
  • CVE 2021-30245 - Code execution in Apache OpenOffice via non-http(s) schemes in Hyperlinks
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Highlighted Improvements/Enhancements:
  • Inconsistent results when incorporating MP3 files in a presentation 11:14:03
  • For a complete overview of all resolved issues, please see the list in Bugzilla.
  • Language Support:
  • New and Updated Translations:
  • There are no new or updated languages.
  • New and Updated Dictionaries:
  • New Dictionaries:
  • No new dictionaries for this release
  • Updated Dictionaries:
  • Danish (da) English (en-GB, en-ZA)
  • For a complete list of available languages and language packs see the download webpage (click the language drop-down-box).

New in Apache OpenOffice SDK 4.1.9 (Jan 25, 2021)

  • Improvements/Enhancements:
  • Solves crash issue with docx files
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Highlighted Improvements/Enhancements:
  • Opening a .docx crash on macOS 11.0.1 Big Sur
  • For a complete overview of all resolved issues please see the list in Bugzilla.
  • Language Support:
  • New and Updated Translations:
  • There are no new or updated languages.

New in Apache OpenOffice SDK 4.1.7 (Sep 20, 2019)

  • New Features:
  • Support AdoptOpenJDK
  • Adds support for AdoptOpenJDK as well as Oracle Java
  • Improvements/Enhancements:
  • Performance Improvements/Enhancements
  • Other Improvements/Enhancements
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Highlighted Improvements/Enhancements:
  • For a complete overview of all resolved issues please see the see the list in Bugzilla

New in Apache OpenOffice SDK 4.1.6 (Nov 13, 2018)

  • Fixed:
  • instsetoo_native generates en-US_uk instead of uk for Ukrainian
  • Do not stretch Logo in Installation Wizard
  • locale data file for Kabyle
  • Updated icons for Mac OS X
  • fix typo in systemactions.pm
  • Update OpenSSL in the stable branch to version 0.9.8zh
  • Allow building when gcc -dumpversion does not use the canonical x.y.z format
  • Save As ... DocBook is not available in W7 or W10 but is available in Linux and XP
  • fix bugs in property handling in Microsoft Office Drawing Binary File Format data streams
  • fix bugs in group shape handling in Microsoft Office Drawing Binary File Format data streams
  • fix bad potential invalid subscript bug when using Microsoft Uniscribe text layout API
  • fix a loop that visits all objects on a page so that all objects get visited
  • Upgraded bundled curl from 7.19.7 to 7.61.1

New in Apache OpenOffice SDK 4.1.5 (Dec 27, 2017)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • BZ 127568 Diagrams become corrupt (not retrievable) when Calc document is saved
  • BZ 127580 Fix for Issue 127568 created a new bug in Base
  • BZ 127581 Writer crashes after copying all content
  • Updated dictionaries:
  • English (en-GB)
  • Additional platform support:
  • Binaries are still provided for the same platforms as OpenOffice 4.1.4: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux 32-bit and 64-bit (RPM and DEB).
  • Known issues:
  • Apache OpenOffice 4.1.5 will be flagged by the Gatekeeper facility in Mac OS X. This is a feature to help guard against malware on recent Mac OS X systems.
  • For Mac OS X 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 Mac OS X 10.12 "Sierra": In Finder, Control-click or right click the icon of the app. Select Open from the top of 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 OS X that do not have the legacy Apple Java 6 installed will not be able to recognize Oracle Java 7 and 8. If not able to upgrade to Java 9 than install the legacy version of Apple Java from the following link: Legacy Apple Java 6. This will allow the portions of AOO that require Java to run properly.
  • For Windows users:
  • Apache OpenOffice 4.1.5 supports Java 8, which is the recommended configuration; but (especially on 64-bit Windows) you might receive warnings about the Java version being defective. In that case, download and install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package.
  • For developers:
  • The OpenOffice SDK won't build with Java 8. Either build with --disable-odk or see the dev list archives for possible solutions.

New in Apache OpenOffice SDK 4.1.4 (Oct 25, 2017)

  • Improvements/Enhancements:
  • Updated graphics/logos (new Apache feather)
  • Updated dictionaries
  • Enhancements to the build tools
  • Bug Fixes:
  • BZ 119208 Cannot select a different icon set (menu "Tools - Options - View").
  • BZ 125147 Crash when applying a style to a new text document.
  • BZ 127176 Different installed Java Runtime Environment cannot be selected (menu "Tools - Options - Java").
  • Updated translations available in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4 include:
  • Basque (eu)
  • Galician (gl)
  • German (de)
  • Hebrew (he)
  • Norwegian (nb)
  • Valencian RACV (ca-XR)
  • Valencian AVL (ca-XV)
  • Updated dictionaries available in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4 include:
  • Asturian (ast)
  • Catalan (ca)
  • Valencian RACV (ca-XR)
  • Valencian AVL (ca-XV)
  • English (en-GB)
  • English (en-US)
  • German (de)
  • German Austria (de-AT)
  • German Switzerland (de-CH)
  • Portuguese European (pt)
  • Russian (ru)
  • Spanish (es)

New in Apache OpenOffice SDK 3.0.0 (Apr 4, 2009)

  • Installation in the office
  • The SDK installs now in an existing office installation. That means as a new sub directory "sdk" in the new base layer of an office installation. This way it can be easy shared between any branded office versions based on the same base layer (e.g. OpenOffice.org 3 or StarOffice 9). On Windows it is recommended to accept the suggested installation directory during the setup. On Mac OSX the SDk is installed in a separate directory OpenOffice.org3.0_SDK because it is not possible to install into the office application bundle.
  • API's
  • The OpenOffice.org API covers now 4064 UNO IDL type definitions. For OpenOffice.org 3.0 we have introduced 197 new UNO IDL types (whereas 16 are new published types). In this version 13 unpublished tpyes are removed. Please see "Overview of new API's" for a roughly overview of the new types.
  • The UNO IDL reference documentation gets improved by inserting missing or correct existing documentation as well by fixing errors in our autodoc tool that is used for the generation of the reference.