OpenOffice.org 3.2 is available

At the start of its tenth anniversary year, and with over three hundred 
million downloads recorded in total, the OpenOffice.org Community today 
announced the release of the latest version of its personal productivity 
suite. OpenOffice.org 3.2 gets to work faster, offers new and improved 
functions, offers better compatibility with other office software, and 
fixes bugs and potential security vulnerabilities.

In just over a year from launch, OpenOffice.org 3 had recorded over one 
hundred million downloads from the central download site alone, and the 
number continues to rise. Users range from individuals with a single PC 
to corporates with many tens of thousands of users. The OpenOffice.org 
Community would like to thank all the volunteer mirrors for their 
fantastic work over the past nine years. Thanks to their invaluable 
support, millions of users can reliably download our software. Our 
special thanks go to the Oregon State University Open Source Lab 
(OSUOSL) for providing and maintaining our central download system.

OpenOffice.org 3.2 new features include:

* faster start up times
* improved compatibility with open standard (ODF) and proprietary file 
formats
* improvements to all components, particularly the Calc spreadsheet, 
with over a dozen new or enhanced features
* the Chart module (usable throughout OpenOffice.org) has had a 
usability makeover as well as offering new chart types

All users are encouraged to upgrade to the new release, because of the 
potential security vulnerabilities addressed in 3.2. Any people still 
using OpenOffice.org 2 should note that this version was declared 'end 
of life' in December 2009, with no further security patches or bugfixes 
being issued by the Community. Enterprise support with longer lifecycles 
might be available from distributors as well as commercial vendors, like 
Oracle, the project's main sponsor. For details, see 
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/eol.html

A full guide to new features is available at 
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.2/

The security bulletin with full details of the potential vulnerabilities 
fixed will be published tomorrow at 
http://www.openoffice.org/security/bulletin.html

Download OpenOffice.org 3.2 here: http://download.openoffice.org

Read our Press Release:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2100/01/prweb3584404.htm

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