Software Update: Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7

Version 4.1.7 of OpenOffice has been released. This open source office suite started in 1984 as StarOffice. In 1999 it came into the hands of Sun Microsystems and then in 2010 it ended up with Oracle. 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 program for creating scientific notations (Formula). The release notes for version 4.1.7 look like this:

General Remarks

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7 is a Maintenance release incorporating important bug fixes and one new feature. All users of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.6 or earlier are advised to upgrade. You can download Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7 here.

Please review these Release Notes to learn what is new in this version as well as important remarks concerning known issues and their workarounds.

Only use the original website “/” to download. The installed software can be verified with the About box (see menu “Help – About OpenOffice) by comparing the numbers with the reference data on the download webpage (see the text in the light green box). For Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7 it has be to be “AOO417m1 | Build ID 9800 | Git hash 46059c9192”.

Improvements/Enhancements

• Adds support for AdoptOpenJDK as well as Oracle Java

Bug Fixes

• Possible crash in Freetype code
• Crash in Writer when linking frames on OS/2
• Apache OpenOffice TM in Splash screen has different background

For a complete overview of all resolved issues please see the see the list in Bugzilla.

Updated Dictionaries

• Asturian (ast)
• English (en-GB)