Version 4.1.11 of OpenOffice has been released. This open source office suite started in 1984 as StarOffice. It passed into the hands of Sun Microsystems in 1999 and then joined Oracle in 2010. After a number of developers switched to LibreOffice out of dissatisfaction with how Oracle managed this project, the source code was eventually donated to the Apache Software Foundation. OpenOffice comes with a word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet program (Calc), a presentation program (Impress), a drawing program (Draw), a database program (Base), and a scientific notation program (Formula). The changelog for this release looks like this:
Security
- CVE-2021-33035 – Buffer overflow from a crafted DBF file
- CVE-2021-40439 – Billion Laughs
- CVE-2021-28129 – DEB packaging for Apache OpenOffice 4.1.8 installed with a non-root userid and groupid
- CVE-2021-41830 – Double Certificate Attack
- CVE-2021-41831 – Timestamp Manipulation with Signature Wrapping
- CVE-2021-41832 – Content Manipulation with Certificate Validation Attack
Improvements/Enhancements
- Help text font size is small (hard to read) and not adjustable persistently
- Add Fontwork to Insert menu
- PDF export icon missing in File menu
Bug Fixes
- New security warning introduce with AOO 4.1.10 blocks useful functions
- The Windows installation file has missing properties and lacks a code signature
- Windows installation: Lost adapted texts after switch to NSIS 3.x
- Chart lost when saving in .ODS format
For a complete overview of all resolved issues, please see the list in Bugzilla†
Updated Dictionaries
- English (en-GB)
| Version number | 4.1.11 |
| Release status | Final |
| Operating systems | Windows 7, Linux, macOS, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11 |
| Website | Apache |
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| License type | Conditions (GNU/BSD/etc.) |