OpenOffice is used by more than 200 million users across the globe companies, homes, and research centers with almost 41 languages. The help that is now required to get to finalize the new release is with Q&A testing and other development tasks such as translation of release notes and press releases. Details of how to volunteer are provided in the blog post.Apache OpenOffice is a most popular and open-source application suite for Linux, Windows & Mac, which is used for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, database, formula, and much more. For developers, OpenOffice 4.1.2 is designed to be easier to build on modern systems and on non-mainstream systems, thus respecting the Apache OpenOffice mission of providing a solid codebase that people can adapt and customize.For users, improvements are expected in stability (fixes in all modules: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base), Microsoft interoperability (Sharepoint) and documents import.Referring to what can be expected in the new version the post lists: Born as a simple bugfix release, it became an occasion for some deep restructuring in the project: several processes have now been streamlined (and some are still in the works), new people are on board and infrastructure has been improved.ĭozens of new and old developers contributed in recent weeks.
While not mentioning it specifically, this blog post appears to be a response in that it opens with the statement:Ī new OpenOffice update, version 4.1.2, has been in preparation for a while.
LibreOffice has made so much progress since the split (it has reached version 4.4.5 on its Still branch and 5.0.2 on the Fresh branch, both of which are stable) that a recent open letter to the Apache OpenOffice team argued that the project should bow out and redirect potential users to LibreOffice instead - see Should OpenOffice Be Closed? The blog post about the fact that Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 is coming soon, dated Sunday coincided with the 5th anniversary of the fork of the that led to LibreOffice. A new version of Apache OpenOffice is in its final stages of preparation and the project has requested help for tasks associated with its release.
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