NeoOffice/J 1.1 Release Candidate Release Notes

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1 Current Version
2 Patches
- 2.1 Current Patch
- 2.2 Older Patches
  - 2.2.1 Patches for NeoOffice/J 1.1 Release Candidate
  - 2.2.2 Patches for NeoOffice/J 1.1 Beta
3 New Features in NeoOffice/J 1.1

Current Version

The latest version of NeoOffice/J is: 1.1 Release Candidate.

Patches

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Current Patch

Release Candidate Patch-5 is now available.

The new changes included in this patch are listed below:

Closing the last Neo/J document will no longer display an empty window. With this patch, Neo/J will stay running with an empty menubar after closing the last document.

After closing the last document, you can open a document without having to relaunch Neo/J by opening a file from the Finder or by selecting one of the following localized menu items in the "NeoOffice/J" menu:
- Text Document
- Spreadsheet
- Presentation
- Drawing
- Formula
- From Template
- Open Document
10 bugs reported against Patch-4, including:
- Hyphenation between ligatures - When a word was hyphenated between the letters of a ligature, the ligature would be superimposed over the hyphen and a space would be left at the beginning of the next line. This bug has been fixed.
- Java 1.5 on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger - For some users, installation of Java 1.5 would cause Neo/J to not be able to load Java 1.3.1 and Neo/J would crash. This bug has been fixed.
- Crashes after displaying native print dialogs - In certain cases, Neo/J would crash after displaying the native "Print" or "Page Setup" dialog. This bug has been fixed.

Note: Release Candidate Patch-5 requires a full installation of NeoOffice/J 1.1 Release Candidate and will not install on NeoOffice/J 1.1 Alpha or Beta. Release Candidate Patch-5 includes all fixes and additions of previous patches.

Older Patches

Patches for NeoOffice/J 1.1 Release Candidate

Release Candidate Patch-4: The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:

Installation on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" - Some users have found that installing Tiger on their machine causes the "tar" command to be deleted. Without this command, both the Neo/J patch installer and Neo/J itself would not work correctly. This problem has been fixed by making Neo/J no longer use the tar command.

Document list in the "Window" menu - Under certain circumstances, selecting a document in the Window menu would not work properly. This bug has been fixed.

Transparent 3D images - When Neo/J's OpenGL support is turned on, transparent 3D images would not be drawn correctly. This bug has been fixed.

Spotlight Integration on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" - Also included in this patch is the NeoLight Spotlight plugin. NeoLight is a metadata importer for NeoOffice/J and OpenOffice.org 1.x formatted documents. It allows for searching and indexing of these documents based upon standard OpenOffice.org metadata and textual content, allowing for Neo/J and OpenOffice.org to be integrated directly with the Mac OS X 10.4 Spotlight environment. When you install "Patch-4" on Tiger, the NeoLight Spotlight plugin will automatically be installed and activated.

Release Candidate Patch-3: The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:

6 bugs reported against Patch-2, including:

- Right-to-left text - Neo/J did not handle intermixed right-to-left and left-to-right text. This bug has been fixed.
- Random crashing - A memory leak in Neo/J that was causing random crashing after using Neo/J for long periods. This bug has been fixed.

Release Candidate Patch-2: The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:

OpenOffice.org issued a fix for a security vulnerability that exists in all versions of OpenOffice.org. Since NeoOffice/J is based on OpenOffice.org, Release Candidate "Patch-2", which includes the fix for this vulnerability, was released.
Installation directory can be moved - Previously, moving your Neo/J installation could cause error messages when saving files. In this patch, Neo/J will update your user preferences if it detects that your Neo/J installation has been moved since the last time that you ran Neo/J.
OpenOffice 1.1.4 macro errors - OpenOffice 1.1.4 on Mac OS X has a bug that causes all occurrences of "Array()" in macros to cause an error. This patch fixes this OpenOffice.org bug.

Release Candidiate Patch-1a: The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:

Indic text (e.g. Devanagari and Gujurati) is now supported - This patch adds support for character reordering which is required to properly render Indic text.
System colors are used - Previously, hard-coded background, text, and highlight colors were used. With this patch, Neo/J now uses the colors set in the System Preferences application.
12 other bugs reported against NeoOffice/J 1.1 Beta or Release Candidate
A scrolling bug/crash in Release Candidate Patch-1 (Release Candidate Patch-1 was pulled shortly after it was discovered)

Patches for NeoOffice/J 1.1 Beta

Patch-11: The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:

A crashing bug was found in "Patch-10". "Patch-11" fixes that bug.

Patch-10: The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:

Inter-application drag-and-drop support
Fixes for 13 bugs, including:
- Improved text drawing speed - The text kerning improvements added in "Patch-8" caused some slowdown in text drawing speed. This patch restores text drawing speed to pre-"Patch-8" levels.
- Autocomplete feature now works with accented characters - This bug, which caused word autocompletion to overwrite accented characters, has been fixed.

Patch-9: The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:

Fixes for regressions that appeared in "Patch-8" such as the "compressed text" bug (i.e. bug 580).

Patch-8: The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:

Neo/J now behaves more like other Mac applications and will not quit when you press the red "close window" button on the last document window.
Text copy and paste bug - The previous patch had a bug that caused Neo/J to only copy half the highlighed characters text. This bug has been fixed.
Better text kerning - The text layout code in Neo/J has been improved to display text to more closely match the kerning in other Mac OS X applications.
Floating windows always stay on top - In previous patches, floating windows would sometimes fall behind the document window. Neo/J now detects this and will automatically bring floating windows to the front.

Patch-7: The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:

Overlapping characters - When using some custom fonts, certain character sequences would be combined into a single character. This bug has been fixed.
Long paragraphs - Sometimes characters at the end of long paragraphs (e.g. more than 1000 words) would kern incorrectly. This bug has been fixed.
Waking from sleep - On some machines, Neo/J would prevent a sleeping machine from waking. This bug has been fixed.

Patch-6: The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:

Upgrade to the latest libwpd and writerperfect releases
"About NeoOffice/J" and "Preferences" now present in the "NeoOffice/J" menu
Performance enhancements and 36 bugs reported since Patch-5; the most important bugs are listed below:
- Infinite scrolling - Some users reported that, in some cases, scrolling could enter an infinite loop. This bug has been fixed.
- Smoother text input - Text input for languages that use input methods (e.g. Japanese, Chinese, etc.) now more accurately display committed and uncommitted text. Also, moving the cursor within uncommitted text is now supported.
- Faster text drawing - Several users discovered that ATSUI was restricting Neo/J performance. To enhance performance, this patch caches recently drawn text so that the time spent in Mac OS X's time consuming text layout functions is kept to a minimum.
- New crashing bugs - After Mac OS X 10.3.8 was released, several users began experiencing crashing bugs that we had not seen in earlier Mac OS X updates. These new crashing bugs have been fixed.

Patch-5: The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:

Help>Registration now points to http://trinity.neooffice.org
55 bugs reported since Patch-4; the most important bugs are listed below:
- The "silent crashing" bug has been fixed. This bug, which is a bug in Java 1.3.1 on Panther, would unpredictably terminate Neo/J. This bug, which has existed since Panther was first released, was most likely to occur for users editing large presentation files.
- Several Unicode font kerning problems have been fixed.
- Various Aqua menu bugs that were causing some menus to disappear have been fixed.
- A bug that was causing modal dialog windows and presentation windows to sometimes get stuck behind a document window has been fixed.

Patch-4: The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:

bug 319
bug 322

Patch-3: The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:

Pressing the Command key while dragging the mouse will copy text instead of moving it.
Menu memory leaks in OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 and Neo/J have been eliminated.
Minimized windows will be expanded when the Neo/J Dock icon is clicked like other Mac OS X applications.
Neo/J's patch update check will now only occur once a week instead of every time Neo/J is started.

Patch-2: The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:

244 - cmd-c (copy) causes Neo to stall
297 - Wrong spacing around ligatures
301 - Beta 1.1 + first patch crashing

New Features in NeoOffice/J 1.1

If you have not downloaded a release of NeoOffice/J since version 0.8.4, there are dozens of new features in 1.1 Release Candidate. Some of the most significant include:

Based on OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 codebase
Right-to-left and complex text layout (e.g., Arabic, Hebrew, Thai)
Faster program startup
Native Aqua menus
New professional-quality splash screen, application and document Finder icons, and other artwork
Localized user interfaces for 40 languages
Mouse wheel support
Text drag-and-drop support
Improved PDF export
Import of WordPerfect documents
Support for Macintosh file aliases in open and save dialogues
Automatic notification of new patches and versions
Patches available as standard Mac OS X installer packages
Drag-and-drop between NeoOffice/J and other applications
Does not quit when clicking the red "close" widget on the last document window
Support for Eudora, Entourage, and Mail as external mailer applications

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 '''[http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/patch.php Release Candidate Patch-5] is now available'''.
-The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:
+The new changes included in this patch are listed below:
 * Closing the last Neo/J document will no longer display an empty window. With this patch, Neo/J will stay running with an empty menubar after closing the last document.
 ** From Template
 ** Open Document
-* Hyphenation between ligatures - When a word was hyphenated between the letters of a ligature, the ligature would be superimposed over the hyphen and a space would be left at the beginning of the next line. This bug has been fixed.
+* 10 bugs reported against Patch-4, including:
-* Java 1.5 on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger - For some users, installation of Java 1.5 would cause Neo/J to not be able to load Java 1.3.1 and Neo/J would crash. This bug has been fixed.
+** Hyphenation between ligatures - When a word was hyphenated between the letters of a ligature, the ligature would be superimposed over the hyphen and a space would be left at the beginning of the next line. This bug has been fixed.
-* Crashes after displaying native print dialogs - In certain cases, Neo/J would crash after displaying the native "Print" or "Page Setup" dialog. This bug has been fixed.
+** Java 1.5 on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger - For some users, installation of Java 1.5 would cause Neo/J to not be able to load Java 1.3.1 and Neo/J would crash. This bug has been fixed.
+** Crashes after displaying native print dialogs - In certain cases, Neo/J would crash after displaying the native "Print" or "Page Setup" dialog. This bug has been fixed.
 '''Note: Release Candidate Patch-5 requires a full installation of NeoOffice/J 1.1 Release Candidate and will not install on NeoOffice/J 1.1 Alpha or Beta.  Release Candidate Patch-5 includes all fixes and additions of previous patches.'''
 * 6 bugs reported against Patch-2, including:
-* Right-to-left text - Neo/J did not handle intermixed right-to-left and left-to-right text. This bug has been fixed.
+** Right-to-left text - Neo/J did not handle intermixed right-to-left and left-to-right text. This bug has been fixed.
-* Random crashing - A memory leak in Neo/J that was causing random crashing after using Neo/J for long periods. This bug has been fixed.
+** Random crashing - A memory leak in Neo/J that was causing random crashing after using Neo/J for long periods. This bug has been fixed.
 Release Candidate Patch-2:  The bugs fixed by this patch are listed below:
 If you have not downloaded a release of NeoOffice/J since version 0.8.4, there are dozens of new features in 1.1 Release Candidate.  Some of the most significant include:
+<!-- * Spotlight integrgation via [[NeoLight]]
+* Quickstart service: no longer needs a window to keep the app open
+-->
 * Based on OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 codebase
 * Right-to-left and complex text layout (e.g., Arabic, Hebrew, Thai)

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