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New Features planned for OpenOffice.org

The items and dates listed here are under development and may change !

Planned Features for 2.3 Release (September 2007)

Planned Features for 2.4 Release

Planned Features for 3.0 Release


  • XForms Enhancements
  • Performance Improvements
    • Threading Framework
    • Drawing Engine
  • Impress
    • Office 12 Import Filter
    • Table support in Impress
  • Calc
    • Office 12 Import Filter
    • GETPIVOTDATA function
  • Writer
    • Office 12 import filter
    • Rectangle selection mode
    • Web-Html


  • Extensions:
  • Better VBA? [1]


  • Vista Enhancements:
    • new File Dialog
    • visualization of Meta data in Explorer

Latest Updates

Features for 2.1 Release (December 2006)

Notable Bug Fixes


Features for 2.0.4 Release (September 2006)

  • General
    • Automatic notification of updates
  • System Integration
    • KDE settings integration
    • Support CUPS for printing on OS X
    • Netbeans Integration enhancements
    • Use MacOSX installer for X11 builds
  • Application Updates
    • Export images directly out of Impress and Draw
    • PDF Security options on export
    • LaTeX export
    • Create reports from a native database query
  • Extension Updates
    • Extended Dialog Editor to support binding of UNO Objects
    • Library export in Basic IDE
    • Support for extensions dependencies
  • New locales
    • Fijian (fj_FJ)
    • Tigrigana (ti_ER)
    • Namibian (af_NA, en_NA)
    • Amharic Ethiopia (am_ET)
    • ...

Notable Bug Fixes

  • PDF Export fixes
  • Word Perfect import updates


Features for 2.2 Release (March 2007)

  • SoC: SQLite driver
  • Extensions can have online updates [2]
  • OXT (Extension) integration with Windows, KDE, and GNOME.
  • PDF Export update (eg. bookmarks in PDFs, default zoom) [3]
  • Autokerning enabled by default for new documents [4]

Notable Bug Fixes

  • Fix a large OSX crasher [5]
  • Fix some focus issues [6]
  • Fix importing some PivotTables [7]
  • Privacy enhancements for UUID generation [8]

Longer List

Planned Features for 2.2.1 Release (June 2007)

  • BugFix Release only, no features planned.
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