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

New features in OOo 3.2

release motto "Performance"

• 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
• Base
  • Search and replace capabilities to SQL-Editor

Upcoming OpenOffice.org versions

Features planned for OOo 3.3 (Third quarter 2010)

release motto "Fit and Trim"

• Overall
  • First Achievements of the Renaissance project
  • SVG Import, CWS svg201   (?)
  • Printing restructuring works
  • Common ODF document icons
  • Thesaurus in right-click context menu
  • Begin of Office 2007 export filters

• 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
  • 3D Slideshow transitions for Linux and MacOS X, OpenGL transitions in Impress (Mac OS X)
  • Highlighting in presentation mode

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

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

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

Features planned for OOo 3.4 (early 2011)

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

• Impress
  • Animations in SWF export

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.