Features
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New features planned for OpenOffice.org
Contents
Intro
This page is a roadmap for the features planned in future OpenOffice.org releases.
Roadmaps elsewhere
OpenOffice.org roadmap
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/ooo_roadmap.pdf
OpenOffice.org 3.1: detailed schedule
For older releases, see the archives.
Caution: The items listed here are under continuous development and the dates are therefore subject to change!
Project-Specific Wiki-Pages
Calc
See also the Calc Usability Activities page on this wiki.
Current Release
Features planned for OOo 3.1 (not before Wednesday 7th May 2009 )
- Arabic / RTL UI
- High Document Fidelity (AntiAliasing of Drawing Object and optimized graphic primitives)
- Improved packaging, package pools
- New template dialog and template repository
- user data/feedback extention
- trackpad gestures for Mac OS X
Writer
- overline text
- transparent selection
- reply to existing notes
- search inside notes
- RichText Import/Export of notes for MS Word files
- Bibliographic - New field type to support formatted text
- Bibliographic - meta data support for text objects in Writer in 3.1
Base
- SQL syntax highlighting
- MySQL integration
Impress
- Zoomslider for Draw and Impress
- [Integrated in DEV300_m35] Apple Remote support (Mac OS X only)
Articles
- Features in OpenOffice.org 3.1 highlights of new features with screenshots
Features planned for OOo 3.2 (November 2009)
- Performance improvements
- Overall
- First Achievements of the Renaissance project
- Text rendering based on Cairo
- Implementation of ODF 1.2 Metadata
- Begin of support for opentype and Graphite Smart fonts
- XHTML export filter update / XHTML import filter (?)
- Support for Quicklook on OS X
- Writer
- Possibility to rotate images in Writer
- Stemming and morphological capabilities for Thesaurus
- Better OOXML import / begin of .docx export
- Notes for a range of text
- Calc
- Bubble chart implementation for charting module
- Improvements in Autofilter, DataPilot, Conditional formatting, ODFFormula
- Impress
- 3D Slideshow transitions for Linux and MacOS X, OpenGL transitions in Impress (Mac OS X)
- Animations in SWF export
- Highlighting in presentation mode
- Base
- Search and replace capabilities to SQL-Editor
- Math'
- Baseline alignment of formulas in starmath module
Features planned for OOo 3.x
- XForms Enhancements