Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-announce (22 mails)

[Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I’m happy to announce that OpenOffice.org 2.4.1rc1 is available in the Build 
Service OpenOffice.org:UNSTABLE project.


Call for testing:

It is the first release candidate of OOo-2.4.1 and we would like to ask you 
for testing and reporting bugs.


Where to get it:

The list of repositories can be found at
http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories#OpenOffice.org_UNSTABLE


Installation problems:

There are some problems with the version update on older distributions. You 
might need to select the right version by hand, see 
http://en.opensuse.org/OpenOffice#Dependencies_During_Update


Bug reports:

Please report the bugs into https://bugzilla.novell.com/ for the 
product "OpenOffice_org 2.0". Do not forget to mention enough information 
about the problem, see http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:OOo.


Known bugs:

There are already known three blocker bugs:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/buglist.cgi?issue_id=87092+90011
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=391197

Also the following issue might get a blocker:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=391197


Changes in this version:

The GO-OO project changes are listed at
http://svn.gnome.org/svn/ooo-build/tags/OOO_BUILD_2_4_1_1/NEWS

The upstream changes are listed at
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.4.1rc1.html


General information about the build:

The build is based on the GO-OO project. It includes lots bug fixes, features 
and optimizations in compare with the regular OpenOffice.org build:

        * better startup performance
        * improved VBA interoperability
        * improved import filters (OOXML, WordPerfect)
        * additional import filters (WordPerfect Graphics, Microsoft Works, ...)
        * native KDE Open/Save dialog
        * WebDAV locking
        * new 3D slide transitions
        * multimedia in Impress via GStreamer
        * multiple formula syntax (Calc A1, Excel A1 and Excel R1C1)
        * ...

, see also http://go-oo.org/discover/


-- 
Best Regards,

Petr Mladek
software developer
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