OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 Is Available
| From: | Louis Suarez-Potts <luispo-AT-gmail.com> | |
| To: | announce-AT-openoffice.org, dev-AT-marketing.openoffice.org, dev-AT-native-lang.openoffice.org | |
| Subject: | [ooo-announce] OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 Is Here. Download It Now. | |
| Date: | Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:05:41 -0400 | |
| Cc: | dev-AT-openoffice.org, users-AT-openoffice.org |
All, OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 is now ready for download, three months since the release of 2.0.2. This latest release contains a mixture of new features, bug fixes, and security patches, and demonstrates the OpenOffice.org Community's determination to maintain its position as the world's leading open-source office productivity suite. The security patches fix vulnerabilities that have been found in internal security audits. Although there are currently no known exploits, we urge all users of 2.x to upgrade to the new version or install their vendor's patches accordingly. Patches for users of OpenOffice.org 1.1.5 will be available shortly. For details of the security issues fixed, see Security Bulletin 2006-06-29: * http://www.openoffice.org/security/bulletin-20060629.html> Key features of the new release: * performance improvements: for example, a 23 percent improvement in certain Calc benchmarks * further improvements to file format compatibility with Microsoft Office files * new email integration features for users wanting to send emails in Microsoft file formats * more control over how exported PDF documents will display when opened in a PDF reader * support for more languages and improvements in hyphenation and thesaurus * support for Intel architecture for Mac OS X plus improved Mac OS X System integration * built-in check for updated versions OpenOffice.org is also the first office suite to support the ISO approved OpenDocument Format as its native file format. The standard - ISO/IEC 26300 - defines how office documents (spreadsheets, wordprocessor documents, etc.) must be stored so that they can be exchanged with any compliant software package. Its adoption represents an historic "Freedom of Information" breakthrough for the IT industry. Download OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 now from our volunteer servers. Not all languages may be ready, so check with your favourite Native Language project (http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html). * http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.3/ If you find the pages too busy, try using our legal peer-to-peer (P2P) system. * http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/ If you do not have a suitable internet connection, consider buying a CD-ROM from an OpenOffice.org Community Distributor. * http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/ --The OpenOffice.org Team About OpenOffice.org The OpenOffice.org Community is an international team of volunteer and sponsored contributors who develop, support, and promote the leading open-source office productivity suite, OpenOffice.org®. OpenOffice.org supports the Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) OASIS Standard (ISO/IEC 26300) as well as legacy industry file formats and is available on major computing platforms in over 70 languages. OpenOffice.org is provided under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL) and may be used free of charge for any purpose, private or commercial. The OpenOffice.org Community acknowledges generous sponsorship from a number of companies, including Sun Microsystems, the founding sponsor and primary contributor. Links The OpenOffice.org Community can be found at http://www.openoffice.org To learn more of the project, see http://about.openoffice.org/ OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 may be downloaded free of charge from http:// download.openoffice.org Further information about the suite may be found at http:// www.openoffice.org/product Press Contacts John McCreesh (UTC +01h00) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead jpmcc@openoffice.org +44 (0)7 810 278 540 Cristian Driga (UTC +0200) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead cdriga@openoffice.org +40 7887 000 60 Louis Suarez-Potts (UTC -04h00) OpenOffice.org Community Manager louis@openoffice.org +1 (416) 625 3843 Worldwide Marketing Contacts http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: announce-unsubscribe@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: announce-help@openoffice.org
Posted Jun 30, 2006 18:36 UTC (Fri)
by yodermk (subscriber, #3803)
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1. Does it work natively on 64 bit systems yet? Last I heard, it still wasn't quite ready as of 2.0.0.
2. Does it compile cleanly with GCC 4.1.x yet? Last I heard, it did not.
3. Have they started development on a 2.1?
Posted Jun 30, 2006 19:02 UTC (Fri)
by khim (subscriber, #9252)
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I have gentoo system with gcc 4.1.1 and OOo 2.0.2 - works Ok, so far (no huge patches to make it happen - just 2Kb patch to fix some path issues). I'd be surprised if 2.0.3 lost this ability. As for 64bit cleannes - that's good question: there are patches to compile it for x86-64 - but then it stops compiling for IA32 !
Posted Jun 30, 2006 19:36 UTC (Fri)
by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989)
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Posted Jul 1, 2006 0:27 UTC (Sat)
by pzb (guest, #656)
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Posted Jun 30, 2006 19:07 UTC (Fri)
by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750)
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1. I _think_ it now either works with 2.0.3, or is finally able to be done properly during the next few months (ie. Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10 should include native 64-bit OOo).
2. Yes, it should according to some mailist list messages.
3. AFAIK the branch is not yet open, but planning is probably on the way in some fashion. It's going to be 3.0 however, it seems, with planned availability somewhere around 2007/2008.
Posted Jun 30, 2006 20:13 UTC (Fri)
by proski (subscriber, #104)
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Posted Jun 30, 2006 18:47 UTC (Fri)
by cruff (subscriber, #7201)
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Posted Jun 30, 2006 19:04 UTC (Fri)
by khim (subscriber, #9252)
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It's waaay too niche platform right now. May be 2-3 years from now it'll become the norm, but right now for the developers "Mac OS = PPC"...
Posted Jun 30, 2006 19:32 UTC (Fri)
by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750)
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Posted Jun 30, 2006 19:39 UTC (Fri)
by nedrichards (subscriber, #23295)
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Posted Jun 30, 2006 20:21 UTC (Fri)
by proski (subscriber, #104)
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Posted Jul 1, 2006 19:08 UTC (Sat)
by jonabbey (guest, #2736)
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Posted Jul 3, 2006 0:51 UTC (Mon)
by proski (subscriber, #104)
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General OOo status questions ...OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 Is Available
OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 Is Available
How is the scriptability?OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 Is Available
If you know where to look, you can almost nearly write useful VBA macros against MSOffice. Can we kludge OOo as easily?
The ooo-build project has support for VBA in OOo 2.0.x. I don't think it has been merged into 2.0 upstream.OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 Is Available
(please correct if I'm wrong, I'm no OOo expert in any way)OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 Is Available
Native OpenOffice.org for x86_64 has been in Fedora Development for a while. Try this:
OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 Is Available
yum -y --enablerepo=development install openoffice.org-writer.x86_64
Many thanks to OpenOfiice.org and Red Hat developers for making it possible. Special thanks to Caolan McNamara.
I poked around the web site but can't actually find the Mac OS X Intel version.Can't find the Mac OS X Intel version
Can't find the Mac OS X Intel version
The reason for the original comment was probably the text on the front page that says "support for Intel architecture for Mac OS X plus improved Mac OS X System integration"...Can't find the Mac OS X Intel version
I believe the website you're looking for is http://www.neooffice.org/ although currently i think the Intel sources are under the 'pay us $10 to get the binary licence' (source is free and Free).Can't find the Mac OS X Intel version
I agree, the website is a mess and many links are broken. But I could find it at ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/
Can't find the Mac OS X Intel version
I'm a bit troubled that they felt the need to describe BitTorrent as their 'legal P2P system,' here.OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 Is Available
And I'm a bit troubled that their link to P2P (http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.3/index.html) on http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.3/index.html is down. Are we going to blame RIAA for that?
OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 Is Available