Download Apache OpenOffice 4.1.14

Version 4.1.14 of OpenOffice has been released. This open source office package started in 1984 as StarOffice. In 1999 it came into the hands of Sun Microsystems and then ended up with Oracle in 2010. After a large 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:

Improvements/Enhancements

• Writer: Dialog “Frame” in Writer / automatic size / changing shortcut keys (German)
• Calc: Protect Table – Dialog too narrow for German heading string
• Base: Dialog text in “Datenbank austauschen” (exchange database) dialogue is cut (German)
• Calc: Use the existing icon for “Remove Filter” in toolbar and menu
• Calc: Text in cell comments is more readable
• Calc: Added support for Excel 2010s DateTime type cells.

Improvements/Enhancements

• Calc: Rich text cells imported from XLSX files have their contents duplicated
• Several fixes for importing OOXML documents
  • All applications: Import fails when the Relationship “Target” attribute in _rels/.rels has superfluous slashes
  • Calc: XLSX with omitted cell references opens with empty cells
  • Calc: no text imported from XSLX when xl/sharedStrings.xml has wrong case
• Several fixes for importing MS Excel 2003 SpreadsheetML files
  • Calc: ss:DateTime cell value is loaded as either only a date or a time
  • Calc: fractional seconds are silently ignored during import
  • Calc: cell with ss:MergeAcross=”0″ gets an extra empty cell to the right
  • Calc: import corrupts references to columns that are multiples of 26 (eg. Z)
• Writer: Importing apostrophes from HTML fails
• Calc: Cut-and-paste between spreadsheets causes incorrect cell reference changes
• Writer: Awkward Chinese (ZH-TW) numbering suffix when importing RTF document
• Calc: Last CSV line is silently lost on import if last field is quoted and end-of-file is reached before closing quote

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