Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 released [LWN.net]

The long-awaited OpenOffice 4.1.3 release is out. "Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 is a maintenance release incorporating important bug fixes, security fixes, updated dictionaries, and build fixes. All users of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 or earlier are advised to upgrade."

From:		Marcus <marcus-AT-apache.org>
To:		announce-AT-openoffice.apache.org
Subject:		Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 released
Date:		Wed, 12 Oct 2016 23:31:20 +0200
Message-ID:		<57FEABA8.4000601@apache.org>

12 October 2016 - Apache OpenOffice, the leading Open Source office 
document productivity suite, announced today Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3, 
now available in 41 languages on Windows, OS X and Linux.

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 is a maintenance release incorporating important 
bug fixes, security fixes, updated dictionaries, and build fixes. All 
users of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 or earlier are advised to upgrade.

Main improvements include:
* Key security vulnerability fixes
* Support for new language dictionaries
* Numerous bug fixes, including installer and database support on OS X
* Enhancements to the build tools (for developers)

Full version of this announcement:
https://s.apache.org/JiCT

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 Release Notes:
https://s.apache.org/Vnpt

Download Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3:
http://www.openoffice.org/download/

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Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 released

Posted Oct 13, 2016 16:28 UTC (Thu) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link] (3 responses)

<snark> Long-awaited? by whom? </snark> Even my grandma uses LibreOffice instead …

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 released

Posted Oct 13, 2016 16:36 UTC (Thu) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (2 responses)

Long awaited like the sealing of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The 100 million vulnerable copies in the wild won't magically go away.

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 released

Posted Oct 13, 2016 20:00 UTC (Thu) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] (1 responses)

Are you suggesting 100 million people will upgrade their copy of openoffice ?

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 released

Posted Oct 13, 2016 21:34 UTC (Thu) by xtifr (guest, #143) [Link]

It's a better chance than the chance that they would somehow magically discover the existence of a patch, and be willing and able to manually apply that patch! Especially since I believe that even OOo had a "check for updates and notify the user" feature.

Unless the AOO team disabled that. And I'm not sure they have the manpower to do something so complicated. I just hope they had the manpower to update the URI it checked, so some dead machine at sun.com isn't still getting hammered with status requests. :)

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 released

Posted Oct 13, 2016 18:49 UTC (Thu) by andrewsh (subscriber, #71043) [Link]

I wonder when they finally deprecate Apache OpenOffice.

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 released

Posted Oct 14, 2016 0:24 UTC (Fri) by LightDot (guest, #73140) [Link] (1 responses)

...the leading Open Source office document productivity suite...

That's not funny anymore.

Not sure that I should, but I do commend all that worked hard to make a release of that code again.

That being said, what's the status of redirecting the users and domains to LibreOffice?

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 released

Posted Oct 20, 2016 16:57 UTC (Thu) by simosx (guest, #24338) [Link]

It looks like they will continue until there will be no value left on the "openoffice.org" domain.

If they played fairly and had "www.openoffice.org" point to both AOO and LibreOffice, they would not get many downloads.

The decent thing for them would have been to make "www.openoffice.org" to point to both the "apache.openoffice.org" (for AOO) and "www.libreoffice.org" for LibreOffice. Anything less than that is pure dishonesty on the part of the Apache Software Foundation.

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 released

Posted Oct 14, 2016 7:55 UTC (Fri) by dtardon (subscriber, #53317) [Link] (9 responses)

This announcement is so overblown in importance that it makes me laugh... Important bug fixes? I assume that is supposed to be the regression in Base on OS X? So which are the other ones (to justify the use of plural)? .-) Key security vulnerability fixes? The release notes list a single CVE. So which was the other one? .-) Numerous bug fixes? The release notes list 3, including the CVE. I guess we have different definitions of the word "numerous" .-) On the plus side, they finally noticed that Lithuania switched to Euro in 2015...

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 released

Posted Oct 14, 2016 8:04 UTC (Fri) by dtardon (subscriber, #53317) [Link]

Before anyone accuses me: I am not poking fun at AOO, just at this announcement.

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 released

Posted Oct 14, 2016 9:46 UTC (Fri) by gomadtroll (guest, #11239) [Link] (7 responses)

Release notes:
"For a complete overview of all resolved issues please see the list in Bugzilla."

Congrats on the release.

greg

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 released

Posted Oct 14, 2016 11:11 UTC (Fri) by dtardon (subscriber, #53317) [Link] (6 responses)

I did, but you probably did not. The Bugzilla list contains "numerous" 12 issues, including such "critical" ones as "Update the Copyright year" or "Update metadata for OpenOffice 4.1.3 release". And most of them appear to be either installer or build fixes, or rel-eng actions.

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 released

Posted Oct 14, 2016 12:43 UTC (Fri) by Felix (subscriber, #36445) [Link] (5 responses)

I was about to comment that the bugzilla list only contains the issues explicitly attached to version 4.1.3 and that the AOO devs probably committed a lot more while the corresponding tickets might not have been marked explicitly for 4.1.3.

However reality is sad:
svn log https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/branches/AOO413/ | less

The first revision after 4.1.2 seems to be r1760212 (pats | 2016-09-11) and indeed it seems as if 4.1.3 is actually a very small minor release.

Anyway, nice to see that AOO can still release something. I'd just wish AOO would agree to change the contents of "openoffice.org" so that it presents a "neutral" listing (yet visually appealing) of "OpenOffice.org" successors (LibreOffice and AOO being the most popular ones but maybe NeoOffice could be listed as well?).

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 released

Posted Oct 14, 2016 18:06 UTC (Fri) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link] (4 responses)

> The first revision after 4.1.2 seems to be r1760212 (pats | 2016-09-11)

No, that's the first revision after the "hotfix" (https://lwn.net/Articles/698801/). The real first revision after 4.1.2 seems to be r1754535 (kschenk | 2016-07-29: "Fixes for CVE-2016-1513").

> and indeed it seems as if 4.1.3 is actually a very small minor release.

As a release, it really is a very small minor release, as can be expected from its version number.

For the project itself, however, I'd consider it a major release. As discussed at https://lwn.net/Articles/699755/, the project was nearly dead; after a whole month of hard work, they managed to make it compile again in all the relevant platforms, rediscovered all the steps necessary to make a release, uploaded gigabytes of data to the mirrors, and did all the Apache-specific bureaucratic steps, which require several developers to each recompile the whole project on their own machine.

Time will tell whether they will be able to keep the developer energy, or whether, now that the danger of retirement has passed, it will be abandoned again.

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 released

Posted Oct 15, 2016 9:48 UTC (Sat) by jubal (subscriber, #67202) [Link] (3 responses)

after a whole month of hard work, they managed to make it compile again in all the relevant platforms

I don't even know if you're serious or just sarcastic…

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 released

Posted Oct 17, 2016 15:29 UTC (Mon) by ledow (guest, #11753) [Link] (2 responses)

Gosh, if only there was a project that solved all the complicated compilation issues on the same codebase and had code that could be compiled easily, and which incorporated the same fixes, and which knew how to push out releases as its developers are pushing new ones almost every month still.

Sorry, too sarcastic?

AOO is dead. Bury it already. It's starting to stink up the place and give the OO codebase a bad name.

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 released

Posted Oct 20, 2016 0:20 UTC (Thu) by davidgerard (guest, #100304) [Link] (1 responses)

As noted by AOO project participants, they're flooded with email from volunteers:

http://www.mail-archive.com/recruitment@openoffice.apache...

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 released

Posted Oct 20, 2016 0:59 UTC (Thu) by ms-tg (subscriber, #89231) [Link]

This was a very droll comment... definitely with the link it made me chuckle

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 released

Posted Nov 1, 2016 3:41 UTC (Tue) by toyotabedzrock (guest, #88005) [Link]

Upgrade to LibreOffice before your documents end up on Wikileaks.