CodeWeavers announces CrossOver Office 5.0.3
[Posted June 26, 2006 by cook]
| From: |
| Jeremy White <jwhite-AT-codeweavers.com> |
| To: |
| announce-AT-crossover.codeweavers.com |
| Subject: |
| [CodeWeavers-Announce] Announcing CrossOver Office Server Edition
5.0.3 and CrossOver Office Professional version 5.0.3 |
| Date: |
| Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:31:02 -0500 |
Hi Folks,
I am very glad to announce the release of version 5.0.3 of our Server Edition product,
the first release of Server Edition at the 5.X level.
This version will bring all of the CrossOver 5.0 features, including support
for Office 2003 and the ability to manage virtual Windows environments
(aka Bottles), to the Solaris and Linux thin client environments.
We're also lowering the price on the Server Edition product to $295 per server;
licensing for end users remains the same as licensing for CrossOver Office Professional.
We are simultaneously releasing a bug fix version of CrossOver Office
Professional, version 5.0.3. This should fix some issues with changes
made in Fedora Core 5 that broke CrossOver.
There are also a pretty wide range of nice minor fixes as well; iTunes
should work again, for example. There are some minor adjustments to
make it easier to distribute RPMs; support for menus on very new versions
of KDE (e.g. SuSE 10.1), and other minor details. A complete list of changes
is included.
At any rate, if you are an existing customer with active support, you can
download this version by visiting our web site,
www.codeweavers.com, and logging onto our store system
using the email you used to purchase the software with.
If you don't have your password, the system will email it to you.
Once logged in, you should be able to go to 'My Downloads'
to download this release, presuming you are a customer on active support
(you can review your purchase history on your account tab as well).
If you have questions or need some help, please feel free to
drop an email to sales at codeweavers.com, where we'll do our best to
help you.
Once again, I'd like to thank you all for your support.
Cheers,
Jeremy White
CEO
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* CrossOver Office Professional 5.0.3 - 2006/06/22
Major changes (since 5.0.1):
Fix the 'no-execute' and SELinux compatibility issues that happen
on recent Fedora Core 4 and Fedora Core 5 distributions.
If ClamAV is installed, then CrossOver's wine script will now
scan executables and attachments before running them. This
should not be seen as an ironclad anti-virus shield but as one
more step to prevent accidental infection through CrossOver's
associations.
Make it possible to upgrade bottle RPMs. Many other bottle RPM
fixes and improvements.
Added support for repackaging an existing CrossOver installation
as an RPM for distributing site-specific customizations.
Add support for side-by-side installation of multiple versions
of the Loki, RPM and Solaris packages.
Added a Polish translation (thanks go to Mandriva Poland).
Updated the Portuguese translation (thanks go to José Melo).
Updated the Japanese translation (thanks go to Takeshi KOUNO).
Application fixes:
Fixed iPod support.
Fixed an authentication issue which should let iTunes access
the Music Store again.
Work around an Internet Explorer 6 installer bug which causes it
to complain about the 'download information' being 'damaged',
including on Windows. The workaround should make this
condition less likely.
Fix some copy and paste failures in Word 2003 and Excel 2003.
Fixed a number of crashes in PowerPoint 2003.
Fixed some scrolling issues in FrameMaker.
Fixed regression when installing the Microsoft JVM.
Fixed a crash which occurred when printing some large documents.
Fixed most sticky Alt key issues.
Server Edition changes:
Added full bottle support.
Each client can connect to multiple servers, one per bottle.
Added Netscape plugin support (but only on the server, not on
the clients).
Desktop menu fixes:
Work around a KDE 3.5.1 bug so the 'Windows Applications' menu
is visible on SUSE 10.1.
Work around a KDE 3.5.1 and 3.5.2 bug so the CrossOver
associations appear in the 'Open with...' list. This fixes
recent Fedora Core 5 versions, SUSE 10.1 and Ubuntu 6.06.
Work around a Mandriva 2006.0 bug so '&' and ';' won't break all
the menus.
Fix menu duplication issue for root installs on Mandriva 2006.0.
Fix menu duplication issue on Debian 3.1, Mandrake 10.1 and
others.
Fix menus on SUSE 9.0.
Avoid creating icons on Gnome's legacy desktop. This means users
of modern Gnome should no longer get the annoying 'Link To
Old Desktop' icon.
Fix handling of KDE's desktop icons for root installs.
Improve handling of the Windows 2000 menus. Installing an
unsupported application in a Windows 2000 bottle should now
always result in the creation of the corresponding menus.
Desktop association fixes:
Make associations work with email tools that create temporary
files with no extension. Strictly check the extension against
the association's MIME type.
Fixed XDG associations so that they now work with Evolution.
Work around a Mozilla bug to make the associations work again
in that browser.
More Excel association fixes.
Add aliases for the PowerPoint MIME types. This should stop
PowerPoint associations from being ignored on some systems.
Ignore bad MIME types used by some Windows applications so their
associations can be exported anyway.
Fix a bug which caused garbage to be put in the description of
a couple of rarely used Internet Explorer MIME types.
Rename 'alternate associations' to 'alternative associations'
for more clarity.
General CrossOver fixes:
The CrossOver RPM packages now minimize the 'rpm --verify'
output and correctly identify documentation files.
Fixed some issues with spaces in the bottle names, especially
with managed bottles.
Improved the default browser detection in Gnome and KDE.
Improved the Windows Application CD detection.
Improved cxreset so it catches all hung Wine processes.
Improved support for CD-ROMs that are auto-mounted by means of
Supermount (Mandriva), Subfs (SUSE) or HAL (recent
distributions). In practice this means CrossOver Setup should
no longer get into a loop trying to fix your CD-ROM
configuration over and over again.
Made it easier to install Multi-CD applications on Supermount
systems.
Improved CrossOver's cxsu tool which is used to run commands as
root so it automatically knows when to use sudo (e.g. on
Ubuntu) and when to use su.
Fix the conversion of icons to PNG format. This should avoid
some xpmtoppm error messages.
* CrossOver Office 5.0.1 - 2006/01/09
Application fixes:
Fixed a crash in Project that appeared when opening a
recently-saved document
Fixed EMF drawing in Word and PowerPoint XP
Fixed the launching of Lotus Notes via the application menu
Fixed the creation of Office 2000 shortcuts
Fixed occasional crashes in Outlook 2000 and XP
Improved EndNote's ability to connect to remote databases
Fixed a problem in MS Office that produced files with
multiple extensions like foo.xls.xls.xls
Replaced the icons that indicate which components are being
included during custom installation of MS Office 2000 and XP.
Fixed installation of the Office 2003 spellchecker and equation
editor.
Fixed the Lotus Notes minimization bug that cause Notes windows
to bounce back after being minimized.
Fixed a problem that caused IE to lose focus whenever a tooltip
was displayed
General CrossOver fixes:
Patched the WMF security flaw
Added support for Gnome mime associations
Improved debian package support
Improved general mime association behavior
Fixed menu support for Xandros and Linspire
Fixed menu support for Ubuntu 5.1
Fixed pasting of Cyrillic and German text
Updated Russian and German messages
Lots of changes to the Demo code
Improved time zone handling
Improved the upgrade process from previous versions
Fixed support for the KDE printing subsystem
Fixed the CrossOver setup tools so that they still work on
systems with SCIM enabled.
* CrossOver Office 5.0.0 - 2005/10/25
New Application support (since 4.2):
Microsoft Office 2003 (excluding Outlook)
New Features (since 4.2):
Major improvements in installer technology so
that most applications should now install
with CrossOver.
Support for virtual Windows environments running
either in traditional Windows 98 compatibility
or for environments supporting Windows 2000/XP.
'Bottle Manager' - the ability to manage multiple
simultaneous virtual Windows environments
simply and easily. This allows you to segregate
applications into different environments (aka 'bottles')
to simplify testing and to improve stability.
Bottles can be backed up, archived, and restored,
and bottles can be deployed via RPM, making the
process of deploying a Windows application as simple
as pushing an RPM around.
Plugin support for 64-bit browsers
New Technical Details (since 4.2):
Major changes in the underlying Wine technology base
which should bring a wide range of improvements,
including:
- Window manager rewrite; windows should interoperate
properly with X window managers; odd flickers
and painting issues should be greatly reduced.
- COM / MSI implementation, which now enables
CrossOver to install a far wider range of
applications.
- Better sound support.
- Improved game support.
- Many, many other improvements.
* CrossOver Office 4.2.3 - 2005/07/21
Application bug fixes:
Fix the Notes drag and drop regression. This regression would cause
Notes to go into an infinite loop using all the CPU. However this
fix may be causing redraw issues in various other applications.
Make it possible to save multiple attachments at once in Notes.
Fixed the drawing of buttons embedded in Excel spreadsheets.
Fix OpenGL drawing in child windows.
Added support for the WEST timezone.
Various other fixes.
CrossOver improvements:
Blacklist text/plain so it does not get associated with PowerPoint
due to the '.pot' extension.
Fixed a bug which could cause CrossOver Setup to lose track of the
Windows menus.
Update the Portuguese and French translations.
* CrossOver Office 4.2 - 2005/03/29
New Application support:
EndNote 8
Quicken 2005
iTunes 4.7.1
Application bug fixes:
Fixed the importation of databases into Excel (via Data ->
Import External Data -> New Database Query)
Fixed the viewing of 'shared desktops' in netmeeting
Fixed broken URLs for MS file viewers
Fixed an error (1321) that appeared when running Outlook 2000
in Managed Multi-user mode
Fixed a crash that happened when printing 16-bit dibs
Fixed the saving of attachments in Lotus Notes
Fixed a bug that caused QuickTime to freeze at startup on some
systems
Fixed the 'sideways text' bug in Outlook
CrossOver improvements:
Added Portuguese localization, thanks to the translation work
of José Melo
Fixed documentation-browser startup on FC3
Fixed associations on systems that don't have KDE
Fixed some occasional vfolder errors when creating menus
Resolved some installation warning messages
Resolved issues with cross-product rpm upgrades
Fixed support for floppy drives
Fixed the upgrading of 3.1-style drives
Many other upgrade fixes
Fixed some association issues on Mandrake 10.1
Fixed menu translations for some locales
Fixed reading of ppd files in some locales
Improved menu support on some newer distros
* CrossOver Office 4.1 - 2004/12/20
iTunes:
Drastically improved responsiveness on 2.6 kernels; eliminated
many skipping problems
Improved menu redrawing
Eliminated several potential crashes
Fixed drag and drop
Other applications:
Improved font appearances in some Microsoft Office applications
Fixed a hang that happened after certain cuts and pastes in Microsoft
Office
Installation:
Fixed the /etc/auto.master installation bug; now we are much
more tolerant of variations in that file
Disabled DGA, as that was causing the screen to go blank with some
video hardware
Improved error reporting for some menu problems
Fixed menu problems on several newer Linux distributions
Fixed shortcut corruption when installing iTunes with Office
Fixed menu creation of FC3 and in some other settings
Other CrossOver changes:
Improved --save-state and --restore-state behavior (important
for buildrpm users.)
Fixed a couple of minor Office Setup bugs
Fixed a bug with printing on SUSE in certain locales.
Fixed a serious problem with Windows->Unix associations
* CrossOver Office 4.0 - 2004/11/16
New application support:
Support for iTunes and iTMS. Limited iPod support; drivers for ripping
are not supported.
Support for Adobe FrameMaker 7.1
Support for QuickTime 6.5.2
Reviewed plugin support: removed some, updated others
Application bug fixes:
Office:
Fixed a bug that was causing IE to crash when a 'favorite' was added
Fixed a bug that prevented Office 2000 and Project from being installed
together
Some bugfixes for Outlook 2000
Fixed a bug that prevented WMP from playing local media files
Quicken:
Cleaned up Quicken installation process
Fixed several Quicken bugs
Reviewed and improved Quicken 2004 support
Others:
Fixed Dreamweaver uninstallation
Fixed several Dreamweaver bugs
Fixed installation problems with Scientific Word
CrossOver changes and improvements:
Installation:
Fixed several CrossOver installation and uninstallation issues
Improved CrossOver upgrade support
Fixed a bug that caused the menu database to be erased when
additional office components (such as the Equation Editor)
were added
Improved menu support for (among others) SUSE 9.2 and Fedora Core 3
Officesetup:
Added the 'Control Panel' tab to OfficeSetup
Improved officesetup startup time
Several improvements to OfficeSetup user interface; fixed keyboard
navigation
Fixed uninstallation of unsupported software
Solved a bug that sometimes corrupted downloadable installers
General:
CrossOver now deals with prelinking and execshield without the
need for disabling them
Fixed handling of SIGCHLD. This fixes several install failures
and should improve general stability quite a bit.
Switched to a new, more modern build machine. This may
affect installation dependencies.
Improved serial port support
Added volume labels for Windows drives
Improved font caching
Dramatic improvement in application speed
Adopted new, simpler system for drive-letter mapping
Fixed a crash when LANG=zh_TW.utf8
* CrossOver Office 3.0.1 - 2004/05/11
Major Fedora Core 2 Bug fixes:
* Properly quote the PRELINK_OPTS in /etc/sysconfig/prelink
which should ensure that exec shield remains disabled
* Set the personality to PER_LINUX32 to work around the 4G address space
* Fix cases where an upgrade on Fedora could result
in duplicate links.
Fix the proxy password dialog, should allow proxy installations to work.
Fix for FrameMaker dialog crashing issues
Minor fixes to gradient printing.
Bug fix where right clicking in the file dialog can cause crashes.
Fix issues where deleted printers don't go away in managed multiuser mode.
Process TEMP and TMP a bit better when invoking Unix programs, should make
calling Unix programs from Windows ones work a bit better.
Tweak to the system tray window so that it's resizable
Minor tweaks to sound support
Fix rare bug with strange names in installed plugins
Minor bug fixes for managed multi user mode
Minor bug fixes for rpms built with buildrpm
Enable Photoshop to work properly in managed multi user mode.
Support Gnome's change to '~/Desktop'
Minor tweaks to creating icons so things like Acrobat Reader
now makes desktop icons
Fix for Notes failing to open HTML attachments
Fix the problem with IE crashing each time a bookmark was added
* CrossOver Office 3.0.0 - 2004/05/11
Support for Lotus Notes 6.5.1.
Support for Microsoft Project 2000.
Support for Microsoft Outlook XP.
Made Remedy usable.
CrossOver now detects ExecShield and Prelink systems and offers to
disable ExecShield since it interfers with Windows Applications.
This should be especially useful for Fedora and RedHat
Enterprise Linux users.
The Standard and Pro editions now include support for the Netscape
plugins which was previously only present in CrossOver
Plugin. Now a single CrossOver installation can handle
all your needs!
Improved localization: now all of the application interface,
including the desktop menus and scripts can be localized.
A complete translation to French is provided.
Improved internationalization support: CrossOver Setup should
now correctly list applications that use non-ascii characters.
The application menus should also be created with the right
character encoding.
Made it possible to switch from the demo to the full version
without reinstalling.
Added a tool to capture the system configuration. This should
help us better diagnose issues.
Systematically log a trace of the Windows application
installations to help diagnosis in case of a problem. The size
of this log is capped so it cannot fill the disk.
General bug fixes:
Sound should now work on i810-based soundcards, provided that
you configure CrossOver to use the winealsa sound driver.
The cxuninstall script now offers to clean up the CrossOver
environment when run by a non-root user in private or managed
multi-user mode. It will also remind you of all the steps to
take to fully uninstall CrossOver in these modes.
The cxuninstall script now also works for RPM and Debian
installations.
The old Loki uninstaller does not work on new Linux distributions.
We now upgrade it to make sure the uninstallation proceeds
smoothly.
Fixed the Netscape plugin removal when uninstalling.
Fixed many bugs in cxwinassoc. Associating file types with Unix
applications should now be more reliable.
Fix the Windows drive setup when there are many floppy or
CD-ROM drives.
CrossOver Setup:
CrossOver Setup should start faster and be more responsive.
Better detect whether an application installed successfully or
not.
Made it possible to install all the fonts in one go.
Fix the handling of bad paths in the 'My Documents' field.
The menu tab has been improved and a new fonts tab added.
Fixed an issue where a bad symbolic link to the CrossOver
configuration file would cause an infinite loop in CrossOver
Setup.
Desktop integration:
Added support for the Ximian Desktop 2 desktop menus. Fixed an
issue where uninstalling CrossOver would remove the 'Office'
Ximian menu.
The desktop menus should no longer have a tendency to disappear
on SuSE 8.x systems configured to use the SuSE-specific
menus.
Uninstalling CrossOver Office should no longer delete the
CrossOver Plugin menus on VFolder systems.
Many other menu issues have been fixed.
Fixed the association ceration on Mandrake.
Managed multi-user support (a Pro and Server Edition feature):
In the Pro Edition, it is now possible to choose between the
private and managed multi-user modes at install time.
Made it possible to make a copy the managed multi-user
environment in a non-root account.
Made it possible to disable the 'running as root' warning.
In the Server Edition a new users tab lets you manage the
CrossOver user accounts.
Fixed many bugs in buildrpm. The RPMs it generates can now be
upgraded.
Made it possible to use hard-links when creating the per-user
environment to limit the inode usage.
Application-specific fixes:
Fixed the toolbar flicker, occasional freezes when opening a
new window and many other issues in Internet Explorer.
Associating a file type, like PDF files, with a Unix application,
like Acrobat Reader, now works in Internet Explorer too.
In some cases installing Office XP would not create the desktop
menus. This should now be fixed.
Word XP should no longer systematically prompt to save
'normal.dot' when exiting.
Fixed the font list dropdown in Word.
Most movies should now play correctly in PowerPoint.
Fixed the entries in the 'Windows' menu in Visio.
Fixed drawing issues in Visio.
It is now possible to sort the files by date or other criteria
in Excel 97's open file dialog.
* CrossOver Office 2.1.0 - 2003/10/21
Support for all known versions of glibc, including the new
Native Posix Thread Library (NPTL) interface. This represents
a major technical advance for Wine, as glibc instability has
been a problem throughout 2003.
Support for the Dreamweaver MX Studio.
Support for Minitab 13, Geometer Sketchpad, and Scientific Word.
Beginning support for Remedy Help Desk.
Provide dynamic loading of OpenGL; this allows a much greater
range of unsupported applications, especially games such
as Half-Life, to run.
Fixes for latest versions of Gnome and KDE; CrossOver should now
interact properly with all known versions of Gnome and KDE.
Implement basic proxy support, allows IE to function even when
an authenticating proxy is in use.
Significant improvements in Internationalization.
General bug fixes:
Many printing fixes, including full and proper support
for the HP4000.
Fix printing using gimp-print filters.
Support for a kprinter entry in the printer list.
(thanks for the suggestion, Josh)
Numerous other border condition fixes and improvements.
Bug fix with interaction with various clipboards, including Klipper.
CrossOver Setup:
A bug fix for uninstalling Windows applications; this
should allow many more Windows uninstallers to
operate properly.
Add an option to hide the system tray (for environments
where Wine system tray integration does not work).
A modest boost in performance in creating menus.
Many other subtle improvements.
Bug fixes with Microsoft Office:
Resolve a number of PowerPoint display problems.
Fix a bug when cropping certain charts in Excel.
Signficant reduction in Office XP installation failures.
Prevent several crashes in Word XP operation.
Expand shared heap pool which prevents a resource
problem in Outlook.
Many other miscellaenous bug fixes in both Office 2000
and Office XP.
Miscellaneous bug fixes for Quicken, Visio, and Lotus Notes.
* CrossOver Office 2.0.1 - 2003/05/08
Added a Xandros edition.
Added a SuSE edition.
Add further internationalization, including German documentation.
Fixed a critical bug with Quicken painting in certain areas.
Fix a bug where Photoshop would hang at exit.
Fixed the 'Updater' problem with root upgrades which was occurring
when CrossOver 1.x was installed in a non-default location.
Improved the upgrade of some (of the less often used) 1.x
configuration settings.
Fixed 'wait4' error with pre 2.2.19 kernels.
Fixed 'Other .exe' display in cxsetup.
Fixed issues occurring when fstab or mtab are not readable.
Fixed a bug while printing with gimp-print.
Fixed printing on the HP4000.
Allow a CUPS port to be redirectable.
Added more known Unix TrueType font directories.
Fixed a bug in running newer versions of DCOM95 that come with
updated versions of MS Office 2000.
Potentially fixed a bug in which searching for DCOM95 could
take a long time.
* CrossOver Office 2.0.0 - 2003/04/21
Support for Photoshop 7.
Support for Access 2000.
Support for Word, Excel and PowerPoint XP.
Support for Internet Explorer 6.
Support for glibc 2.3, including NPTL-based ones. This adds
support for RedHat 9.0 and Mandrake 9.1.
Microsoft Office:
* More work on getting service packs to install fully and
correctly.
* Fix hangs in the installation.
* Fix the Internet Explorer 'Favorites' menu.
* The Outlook folders no longer remain bold when they should not.
* Word should now be able to start Access for mail-merge
operations.
* Fix copy/paste issues between Word and X applications.
* Fix a display problem in Word Draw.
* Fixed an issue with the Office 97 splash window.
* Fix the chart display in Excel 2000 and XP.
* PowerPoint is no longer sent to the background when doing an
'Insert Slide' or clicking in the XP registration window.
* Fix printing to a second printer from PowerPoint.
* Fix display bugs in the Office 2000 help application.
Visio:
* Fixed some installation issues.
* Fix the cursor position in text editing.
* Fixed drawing of the 'Target' logo (from the Marketing diagrams
stencil).
* Fix 'Save As jpeg': prevents Visio 2000 from running out of
memory when saving large diagrams as a jpeg.
CrossOver Configuration:
* Major changes to the CrossOver configuration program to
hopefully clarify and simplify its usage.
* Autodetect X directories containing TrueType fonts and
register them for use by CrossOver. Fixed compatibility
issues with some fonts.
* Make it possible to delete or recreate individual menus.
* Added a button to make the preferred Unix browser the default
after Internet Explorer has set itself as the default.
* Major improvement to the way we handle CDs: we now truly
run the Autorun off the CD. This should improve behavior for
obscure versions of MS Office and unsupported applications.
* Improved CD mounting. Detect CDs that are affected by the
unhide bug so we know when to fix fstab. Improved fstab
handling.
* Correctly detect installed fonts.
* Improved the online help.
General:
* Added file locking and file change notification support.
* Printing speed ups and improved printer compatibility.
* Make the ppd file handling more resilient. This should fix
issues with CUPS.
* Fix the CUPS default printer detection.
* Add support for tablets for Photoshop.
* Add scripts so the technically inclined can have Windows
applications open specific file types using Unix applications,
for instance opening PDF fles with the Unix Acrobat Reader.
* Way too many other cleanups and bug fixes to list here.
* CrossOver Office 1.3.1 - 2002/10/31
Dramatic improvements in support for Visio 2000,
including bug fixes which caused random crashes,
bug fixes in a wide range of templates, and
many others. This also includes a fix to
permit the installation of Visio Enterprise edition.
Critical installation bug fix: prevent older installers from
overwriting newer DLLs. This should avoid the situation where
installing a miscellaneous 'old' software product suddenly
breaks something that had been working
Quicken
* Bug fixes in printing
* Fix a bug that entering a memo would clear the category
* Fix with short file names
* Bug fixes in IE that better enable Quicken to
perform web based transactions
* Fix a bug with Quicken flickering too much.
* Better support for Quicken 2003
(but bugs do remain)
Enable MathType to install (though we have not really tested its
behavior)
Enable Remedy to install (though we have not really tested its
behavior)
'Anti-Klez' patch to prevent users from accidentally opening
Windows executable attachments
Support for RedHat 8.0, Mandrake 9.0, and SuSE 8.1
Office Bug fixes
* Print embedded eps files
* Prevent crash in PowerPoint on 'Insert->Movies'
* Bug fix in a property sheet in Outlook
* Enable HTML printing in Outlook
* Bug fix for crashes in Outlook contact handling
* Fix incorrect pie chart printing
* Fix crashes in PowerPoint on certain presentations
* Make the IE toolbar customization work
* Improve IE content rating behavior
* Enable IE to save files (helps Quicken)
* Fix Office 97 saving problems
* Fix for 'n-up' printing in MS Word
* Fix for printing bugs with WordArt and other
misc Word documents
* Autodetect a more reasonable default for the
"My Documents" setting
* Fix an incorrect date appearing in Outlooks calendar
* Fix many bugs with the Save As/Open dialogs.
* Fix handling of attachments with unknown mime types
* Don't create the IE "Connect to the Internet" icon
Notes
* Fix a bug with multiple file attachments
Implement a 'skeleton' based method for root installations
With this approach, we will be able to advocate root
installs, and the CrossOver executables are shared,
but each user has a private Windows environment.
Minor graphical improvements in OfficeSetup
Improve the CrossOver Interaction with Linux clipboard,
notably for rtf files
Better support for Type 42 fonts and non RENDER enabled X servers
Fix a bug with installations in multibyte locales
Enable HTML help in certain applications
Make a change that will hopefully permit CrossOver to interoperate
with new versions of glibc 2.3
Many other minor bug fixes
* CrossOver Office 1.2.0 - 2002/08/07
Support for Quicken.
Support for Visio 2000.
Support for QuickBooks 2000 and QuickBooks Pro 6.0.
Improving support for international versions of MS Office:
Includes specific fixes for Greek, Brazillian, Bulgarian,
and several more.
Includes a fix to allow the use of Unicode file names.
Enable the Office 2000 Service Pack, Release 1, to install smoothly.
Allow the user to change the location of the "My Documents"
directory, set default to the home directory.
Major bug fix that corrects occasional hangs during Office
installations.
Started work on FreeBSD support (not there yet :-( ).
Clipboard handling improvements (should fix some cut & paste
issues).
More font handling improvements.
Automate the version number used by buildrpm.sh.
Better handle Mime types and descriptions.
Improve upgrade handling (should make the 1.x --> 1.2 process a
bit smoother).
Fix bugs involving paths with spaces.
Fix menu and desktop handling, notably for Debian and KDE3. This
includes adding the ability to recreate the menus and icons.
Fix for Insert->Picture->Clipart.
Fixed bugs related to installations needing the CD. For
example, you can now add the Analysis toolpack in Excel.
Improve behaviour of cxoffice_reset script and add a '-f' option
to eliminate the prompt.
Fixed a bug in Excel handling certain files.
Now compatible with FreeType 2.0.x and 2.1.x, which helps if not
using the internal FreeType library.
Improved installation support for some non supported applications.
Add A3 paper size.
Get the initial paper size from the locale information.
Major improvements in time zone handling which improves
Outlook calendaring
Fixed a bug with IE displaying PNG images (requires IE reinstall,
though)
Fixed a bug with IE crashing right away (but bug may sometimes
recur, added FAQ to tell user how to repair situation)
Many other bug fixes.
* CrossOver Office 1.1.0 - 2002/06/11
Improved on-screen font rendering, especially in small types.
Our internal FreeType library now includes Apple's patented
hinting technology so that fonts will render as cleanly and
crisply as on Windows.
Very much improved printing quality. Now the fonts used for
printing always match the fonts used for on-screen display.
Printed documents and should match Windows printouts.
Improved support for non U.S. versions of Office:
Added support for deadkeys.
Better detection/installation of non English 'SETUP.EXE' files.
Fully support multi-user (i.e. root) installations, including in
NFS environments.
Improved support for remote displays, in particular non Intel
(big endian) X terminals.
Added support for Internet Explorer 5.5 as well as 5.0 when
installed as part of Office 2000.
Major bug fixes in Outlook and Internet Explorer.
Added a new facility to secure Outlook by preventing it from
launching external applications.
Improved the Wine socket handling. cxoffice_reset should not be
necessary anymore after a crash. The bugs which prevented
cxoffice_reset from working correctly in 1.0.0 have been
fixed too.
Detect and setup CD drives, including multi-cd configurations.
Detect and optionally fix fstab CD drive entries that do not
include the 'unhide' and 'user' options. This solves an issue
with some MS Office CDs that include 'hidden' files.
Fix: Make Internet Explorer work in multi-user configurations.
Fix: Make the Outlook account wizard work.
Fix: Display of icons and images in Outlook.
Fix: PowerPoint should not longer issue errors when saving files.
Fix: Word 97 should no longer issue the 'unable to save' error.
Fix: The equation editor should work in Word 97.
Fix: Office 95 should now install. But note that its operation
has not been tested.
Fix: Some movement keys (home, etc) would not work with
Numlock set.
Fix: Building RPMs on non i386 kernels.
Improved Visual Basic script support in all Office applications.
Improved the Office 97 installation process.
Improved the KDE, Gnome and Mailcap associations handling. In
particular, associations should now work with Mozilla and
Netscape 7.
Improved drag and drop support.
Improved handling of applications which require a 'reboot' during
their installation process.
Improved the uninstaller. It should no longer leave any KDE, Gnome
or other setting behind.
Added a menu entry to perform a simulated reboot.
Added a script to manually create icons, if they have been lost.
A minor fix that improves Spaceward Ho! behavior.
(but doesn't fix it, yet...)
Many, many more fixes and improvements.
* CrossOver Office 1.0.0 - 2002/03/27
Fixed chart handling in Excel.
Fixed ruler problem in Word.
Fixed a bug preventing the use of the custom dictionary in Word.
Fixed bug that was preventing CD ejection after installing CrossOver
Office from a CD.
Changed default paper size to letter and fixed the margins.
Remove all CrossOver Office menu entries when uninstalling.
Added support for multi-user installs.
Make it possible to build an RPM for site installations.
X is no longer necessary for installing/removing such RPMs.
* CrossOver Office 1.0.0 beta1 - 2002/03/19
The documentation is now included.
Included a known good version of freetype with the
installation in order to overcome freetype bugs.
Support for root installs is better, but not
yet perfect. This includes the addition of the
'buildrpm.sh' tool.
Fix many Office97 bugs.
Understand the process for installing Office97,
upgrade edition (but it's not yet documented;
it's tricky).
Add command line links to make it easy to
start winword, excel, etc.
Fix resize logic (make it faster, reduce bugs).
Fix bugs with '.xxx' directory names.
Fix bugs in many dialogs where text was being truncated.
Fix the $DISPLAY test in .mailcap files.
Fix some installations where wine wouldn't start.
Fix some scrolling issues.
Make all of the Office 2000 wizards work.
Fix several 'gdb' style crashes during Office installation.
Only unmaximize managed windows, since unmanaged windows have an
unmaximize button. Auto un-maximize in window managers that
don't support maximization.
Make shortcuts KDE 1.x compatible.
Many other bug fixes too numerous to mention.
* CrossOver Office 0.9.0 beta1 - 2002/03/11
Text changes suggested by Steve Fox.
Other minor text/help changes.
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