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New features planned for OpenOffice.org

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!

Features planned for OOo 3.2 (November 2009)

• QA tracked

• Performance improvements
  • OpenOffice.org startup performance improvements
  • OpenOffice.org ODF load/save performance improvements

• Overall
  • accessibility improvements
  • Implementation of ODF 1.2 Metadata
  • Support for Opentype/CFF fonts
  • Begin of support for Graphite Smart fonts
  • XHTML export filter update
  • Support for Quicklook on OS X
• Writer
  • Stemming and morphological capabilities for Thesaurus
  • Better OOXML import / begin of .docx export
• Calc
  • Bubble chart implementation for charting module
  • Improvements in Autofilter, DataPilot, Conditional formatting, ODFFormula
  • Allow to insert/delete into/from the middle of merged cells
• 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 3.3 (May 2010)

• Overall
  • First Achievements of the Renaissance project
  • SVG Import

Features planned for OOo 3.4 (November 2010)

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

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.