Download AbiWord 2.4.5

AbiWord is a word processor whose greatest strength is its compatibility with the most diverse formats of text files. In addition, the program runs on many different operating systems. The developers of AbiSource have released version 2.4.5 which fixes a lot of minor bugs. These improvements are a direct result of the Google Summer of Code program, which rewards a student for his programming skills. The announcement looks like this:

We know it’s way overdue, but still the AbiWord team is happy to announce the availability of AbiWord v2.4.5. This release a bugfix release only, but this time the amount of bugfixes is rather huge. Especially the import and export filters have received a lot of attention due to the Google Summer of Code program, which is funding these developments.

The changes from v2.4.4 to v2.4.5 include, amongst others:

• Almost completely rewrote the DocBook export filter, gaining substantial more functionality in the process
• Fixed a security bug pointed out to us by Joxean Koret (thanks!)
• Fixed a massive amount of bugs in the OpenDocument import and export filters
• Fixed the instability on x86_64 architectures

The full Changelog can be found here.

Needless to say, all users are advised to upgrade

Packages for Windows and Linux are available for download from our site. A Mac OSX installer should be available for download soon.

Note to Mac OSX users: please aware that the font rendering is still a work-in-progress. Depending on the fonts used the quality of the rendering may be sub-optimal. We hope to address this issue as soon as possible, but since AbiWord is a 100% volunteer effort, we don’t give any timeframe. Help is always appreciated though.