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Revision as of 17:23, 17 August 2007

New Features planned for OpenOffice.org

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

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Calc

See also the Calc Usability Activities page on this wiki.

Planned Features for 2.3 Release (September 2007)

• New Chart2 Module
• Java GUI installation wizard
• Report Designer

Planned Features for 2.4 Release

• new Notes2 module

Planned Features for 3.0 Release

• OpenDocument:
  • ODF 1.2 Specification
  • ODF formula specification
  • ODF Toolkit: installation set, aka ODF_Toolkit/Efforts/Packaging_Modularization
  • ODF Toolkit: Java tools for odf

• Basic API & UNO support for bibliographic enhancements
  • New field type to support formatted text

• Bibliographic enhancements Stage 2

• Performance Improvements
  • Threading Framework, see Effort/Revise_OOo_Multi-Threading
  • Drawing Engine

• Impress
  • Office 12 Import Filter
  • Table support in Impress
  • Presenter Screen Extension

• Calc
  • Office 12 Import Filter
  • Compliance with ODF formula specification
  • GETPIVOTDATA function

• Writer
  • Office 12 import filter
  • Rectangle selection mode
  • Web-Html
  • ODF documents' metadata editor
  • Preview of hyperlinks inside the document
  • MediaWiki Extension

• Extensions:
  • API enhancements
  • GUI enhancements
  • Option page

• Better VBA? [1]

• MacOSX Aqua Port

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

• Web services
  • Web Services wizard?

• OpenOffice.org Repackaging
  • Repackaging step one [2]

Planned Features for 3.x Release

• XForms Enhancements

Latest Updates

Features for 2.2.1 Release (June 2007)

• BugFix Release only, no features planned.

Features for 2.2 Release (March 2007)

• SoC: SQLite driver
• Extensions can have online updates [3]
• OXT (Extension) integration with Windows, KDE, and GNOME.
• PDF Export update (eg. bookmarks in PDFs, default zoom) [4]
• Autokerning enabled by default for new documents [5]

Notable Bug Fixes

• Fix a large OSX crasher [6]
• Fix some focus issues [7]
• Fix importing some PivotTables [8]
• Privacy enhancements for UUID generation [9]

Longer List

Features for 2.1 Release (December 2006)

• Application updates
  • Multiple monitor support for Impress
  • Improved Calc HTML export
  • Enhanced Microsoft Access support for Base
• Versioning of Extensions in the Extension Manager
• Translation and localization improvements
  • Added Gascon (gsc_FR) locale
  • Improved other localizations: Chinese, Czech, Slovenian
• Speed improvements
  • Writer Layout rendering
  • JPEG handling improvements
  • Importing of huge documents

Notable Bug Fixes

• Accessibility improvements
• Gtk Quickstarter 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