Features

New features planned for OpenOffice.org

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Intro

This page is a roadmap for the features planned in future OpenOffice.org releases. For older releases, see the archives.

Caution:
The items listed here are under continuous development and the dates are therefore subject to change!

OpenOffice.org product planning

• How Planning works in OpenOffice.org

Upcoming OpenOffice.org versions

Features planned for OOo 3.3 (Third quarter 2010)

release motto "Fit and Trim", please also see Feature_Freeze_Testing_3.3

• Overall
  • First Achievements of the Renaissance project
  • Printing restructuring works
  • Common ODF document icons
  • Thesaurus in right-click context menu

• Writer
  • Compare documents also compares tables
  • FindBar: Additional toolbar which provides basic search functions.

• Calc
  • Improve performance associated with row limit increase
  • Allow setting custom colors to sheet tabs in Calc.(cws calctabcolor)

• Impress
  • Step back slideshow animations

• Base

• Math
  • Baseline alignment of formulas in starmath module (?)

• Internal
  • switch to a distributed SCM
  • modularization of the build system

Features planned for OOo next

• Features and Enhancements QA tracked

• Overall
  • removal of old StarOffice binary filters (*.sdw, *.sdc, *.sdd)
  • SVG Import (cws ka102)

• Calc
  • New spreadsheet functions and parameters according to ODFF (cws calcishmakkica)
  • Initial implementation of xlsx export filter (cws ooxml07)

• Writer
  • Improve Writer's comparison feature (cws writercompare01)

• Base
  • Upgrade of hsqldb from version 1.8 to 2.0 (cws hsqldb19)

Features planned for OOo 3.x

• QA tracked

• Overall
  • XForms Enhancements
  • XHTML import filter (?)
• Writer
  • Possibility to rotate images in Writer

Roadmaps elsewhere

OpenOffice.org roadmap

http://development.openoffice.org/releases/ooo_roadmap.pdf

Project-Specific Wiki-Pages

Calc

See also the Calc Usability Activities page on this wiki.