NeoOffice 3.0 Early Access 2 Release Notes

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==== Current Patch ==== ==== Current Patch ====

Revision as of 03:47, 27 March 2009

These are the Release Notes for NeoOffice 3.3 Beta 2, currently available through the NeoOffice Early Access Program (or via a personal build from the source). Release Notes for NeoOffice 2.2.5, the current freely-available version, can be found here.

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Current Early Access Version

The latest Early Access version of NeoOffice is: 3.0.

NeoOffice 3.0 Early Access 2 requires a PPC or Intel Macintosh running Mac OS X 10.4.11 or higher. Some Aqua features will appear differently depending on your version of Mac OS X.

Patches

If you want to receive announcements whenever a patch or new release of NeoOffice is available, there are several options available:

  • NeoOffice has built-in update checking, which by default checks for updates once a week.
  • Trinity users can sign up for email notifications of any release or patch announcements posted in this topic by clicking on this link.
  • If you prefer feeds to email, you can subscribe to our patch and release announcements RSS feed by clicking on this RSS feed using your web browser or feed aggregator.

Current Patch

Patch-1 is now available.

The new changes included in this patch are listed below:

  • Fixed a bug that caused the warning dialog not to appear when quitting while a document is minimized
  • Fixed a crash when the Help window is displayed from Find and Replace dialog
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when pasting a table copied from Microsoft Word
  • Fixed a problem with IF/COUNTIF formulas in Calc
  • Fixed a bug that caused .docx files to be saved as .odt files
  • Fixed an issue where the Page Zoom indicator could be partially obscured by window resize widget
  • Fixed a bug where tables would be corrupted when saving as .doc file
  • Fixed a problem where file system ACLs were ignored
  • Removed an invalid entry in NeoOffice's Info.plist file
  • Fixed a bug where displaying the Printer Settings dialog would break brochure printing
  • Fixed a bug that caused the grammar checker to fail on some files when invoked using the "Entire Document" menu item

Note: Patch-1 requires a full installation of NeoOffice 3.0 Early Access or NeoOffice 3.0 Early Access 2 and will not install on any version of NeoOffice 2.x. Patch-1 includes all fixes and additions of previous patches.

Older Patches

3.0 Early Access 2 Patch-0: The new changes included in this patch are listed below:

  • Restored missing English and French thesaurus files
  • Fixed a bug that caused font preview not to work
  • Fixed a problem where the "copy and insert" key combination did not work in Calc
  • Fixed a bug where the patch installer would follow infinite softlink loops
  • Fixed a problem where form controls within documents would flicker neurotically in Calc and Writer
  • Fixed a conflict between NeoOffice and Typinator
  • Fixed a bug where gridlines would not appear on colored backgrounds
  • Fixed a bug that prevented Thunderbird’s address book from being chosen as a data source
  • Fixed a bug where automatic update check would cause NeoOffice to hang
  • Re-enabled Opt-arrow keys for pixel movement in Draw
  • Reverted OpenOffice.org changes that caused selection color in Calc to be too light to see clearly
  • Added an option to turn off support for Mac OS X Services

New Features in NeoOffice 3.0

If you have not downloaded a release of NeoOffice since version 2.2.5, there are dozens of new features in NeoOffice 3.0. Some of the most significant include:

  • Based on OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 codebase
  • Requires Mac OS X 10.4.11 or higher
  • Improved performance
  • Support for the Mac OS X Services menu within NeoOffice (read-only)
  • Experimental support for developer seeds of Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard"

Archived Release Notes

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