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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.

Roadmaps elsewhere

OpenOffice.org roadmap

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

OpenOffice.org 3.1: detailed schedule

OOoRelease31

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

• Arabic / RTL UI

• High Document Fidelity (AntiAliasing of Drawing Object and optimized graphic primitives)

• Improved packaging, package pools

• New template dialog and template repository

• WebDAV compatibility for users of Mac OS X

• 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

• Japanese Reconversion

• 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)

• QA tracked

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

• Overall
  • First Achievements of the Renaissance project
  • Implementation of ODF 1.2 Metadata
  • Support for Opentype/CFF fonts
  • Begin of support for 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
  • 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.x

• QA tracked

• XForms Enhancements