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LibreOffice 4.2 released

dskoll — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 19:07:16 +0000

I haven't had problems with writer under Linux, but calc is very crashy for me. The release notes say that the data structure for representing spreadsheets was completely overhauled; looks like it introduced some regressions. :(

Overall, I'm very happy with LibreOffice and thankful for it.

LibreOffice 4.2 released

morhippo — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 17:34:09 +0000

Checked the linux version - better results, but the rtf export is severely damaged if opened in wordviewer under wine.... Probably need to reinstall libreoffice under windows.

LibreOffice 4.2 released

morhippo — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 16:18:15 +0000

My experience is based on the Windows 7 version... Maybe the Linux version is better?

LibreOffice 4.2 released

hummassa — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 14:02:46 +0000

Funny you should mention that. The Linux version is normal (no crashes whatsoever, no perceptible difference in timing or whatever) but the MacOSX version "feels" far heavier than 4.1, sluggish even.

LibreOffice 4.2 released

morhippo — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 11:48:55 +0000

Seems to have become really unstable here since 4.1 - I use mostly writer. In my experience, LO crashes at least every 30 minutes when working with real documents. 4.2 now introduced corrupt export to DOC and DOCX - Word would not open either document (imported as DOCX or rtf from a word file, exported by LO). Maybe someone is sabotaging LO from the inside? IS there no quality control prior to release?

LibreOffice 4.2 released

njwhite — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 14:58:00 +0000

Thanks for the link, that's a very interesting writeup.

I'm delighted by the progress LibreOffice continues to make. Many thanks to all who were involved.

LibreOffice 4.2 released

mariuz — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 06:15:27 +0000

One of the preview feature in 4.2 contributed by Andrzej Hunt is Firebird SQL C++ backend for Base http://www.firebirdnews.org/?p=9109

LibreOffice 4.2 released

ledow — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:49:43 +0000

AD Group Policy!

Wow. Well done. Some of the largest OS projects in the world can go years without ever putting those out.

Yes, I'm looking at you FireFox.

LibreOffice 4.2 released

Zizzle — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:43:53 +0000

https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2014-01-30-under-t...

Looks like the team is just now approaching the size it was when Oracle were still involved.

This is subjective, but it seems like they are making far more progress between releases.

LibreOffice 4.2 released

bvanheu — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:34:00 +0000

I'm glad they updated the default document style, it was kinda horrible.

Way to go LibreOffice, can't wait to try it!