NeoOffice 3.4.1 Release Notes

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Current Version

The latest version of NeoOffice is: 3.4.1.

NeoOffice 3.4.1 requires an Intel Macintosh running Mac OS X 10.6.8 through Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Some Aqua features will appear differently depending on your version of Mac OS X.

You can find the MD5 checksums for current NeoOffice downloads (main binary, language packs, and patches) on the NeoOffice MD5 Checksums page.

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.
  • Twitter users can also follow NeoOffice on Twitter for patch and release announcements.

Current Patch

3.4.1 Patch-17 is now available. The new changes included in this patch are listed below:

  • Added support for OS X's speak selected text feature
  • When editing a table in a Base database on Mac OS X 10.10 “Yosemite”, NeoOffice 3.4.1 no longer occasionally hangs.
  • When using a right-to-left (RTL) language such as Hebrew or Arabic, text is no longer drawn on top of the drop down button in comboboxes and popup buttons on Mac OS X 10.10 “Yosemite”.
  • When opening a new document while in full screen mode, the new document window no longer displays as a normal window instead of a full screen window
  • After closing a full screen document window, NeoOffice no longer makes all visible windows hidden
  • When in a Calc document, merged cells can now be selected using the Shift and arrow keys
  • When in a Calc document, editing a cell that has been scrolled off the edge of the document window no longer causes the cell's formula to be drawn in the wrong position
  • When in a Calc document, the NeoOffice > Services menu no longer uses text from the last selected combobox instead of the currently selected cell
  • When in a Writer document, the NeoOffice > Services menu no longer uses the last selected text even after unselecting all text

Note: 3.4.1 Patch-17 requires a full installation of NeoOffice 3.4.1 and will not install on any version of NeoOffice 3.3 or NeoOffice 3.4.1 Beta. Patch-17 includes all fixes and additions of previous patches.

Older Patches

3.4.1 Patch-10: The new changes included in this patch are listed below:

  • When editing a table in a Base database on Mac OS X 10.10 “Yosemite”, NeoOffice 3.4.1 no longer occasionally hangs.
  • When using a right-to-left (RTL) language such as Hebrew or Arabic, text is no longer drawn on top of the drop down button in comboboxes and popup buttons on Mac OS X 10.10 “Yosemite”.

3.4.1 Patch-9: The new changes included in this patch are listed below:

  • Saving an .odp document no longer causes all bullet characters would be hidden when the document is reopened in NeoOffice, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice.
  • Saving certain .odt documents no longer causes some pages to be hidden when the document is reopened in NeoOffice, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice.
  • NeoOffice will no longer crash after opening a document that contains a link to an unreadable or nonexistent .ods document and clicking on the linked .ods document.

3.4.1 Patch-8: The new changes included in this patch are listed below:

  • Added support for the new iCloud Drive feature in Mac OS X 10.10 “Yosemite”.
  • Fixed an issue where NeoOffice would randomly crash when checking if a document has been moved or renamed.
  • Fixed a problem where NeoOffice would only display the first image in many .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx documents.

3.4.1 Patch-7: The new changes included in this patch are listed below:

  • Improved compatibility with Mac OS X 10.10 “Yosemite” Beta:
    • NeoOffice no longer opens a warning page in your web browser upon launch when running on OS X Yosemite.
    • NeoOffice now uses the correct text and background colors for buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, and popup menus when running on OS X Yosemite.
  • Improved rendering of Calibri and Cambria fonts in Microsoft Office documents when Calibri and Cambria fonts are not installed.
  • Changed the order of document types in “Save As” dialogues to group Microsoft Office 2008/2011 document types with other Microsoft Office document types.

3.4.1 Patch-6: The new changes included in this patch are listed below:

  • NeoOffice will now automatically check for grammar errors in Writer documents using the Mac OS X grammar checker when spellchecking, and users no longer need to install an OpenOffice grammar checking extension. An overview of this new feature is available in this NeoWiki article.

3.4.1 Patch-5: The new changes included in this patch are listed below:

  • Saving a document is no longer several times slower than normal when saving immediately after trying to quit NeoOffice.
  • NeoOffice will no longer hang after selecting the File :: Browse All Versions menu when running on OS X 10.10 Yosemite.

3.4.1 Patch-4: The new changes included in this patch are listed below:

  • NeoOffice no longer uses obsolete Mac OS X functions to prevent computer sleep during a slideshow.

3.4.1 Patch-3: The new changes included in this patch are listed below:

  • Fixed a problem where playing videos in a document would sometimes cause NeoOffice to crash.
  • Fixed an issue where exporting as PDF would cause NeoOffice to display the wrong name in the document's titlebar.

3.4.1 Patch-2: The new changes included in this patch are listed below:

  • NeoOffice no longer sets the document name to "Untitled" in the document window's titlebar during autosaving.
  • Fixed an issue where NeoOffice would sometimes display an error dialog after saving when the user moved or renamed the document while it was open
  • NeoOffice will no longer insert an empty line or row after each line or row of data when pasting text that has Windows style line breaks.

3.4.1 Patch-1: The new changes included in this patch are listed below:

  • Fixed a bug that could cause scrolling to be slow when swiping on the trackpad.
  • Fixed the following potential crashes or hangs:
    • NeoOffice would occasionally hang when dragging an image within a particular Writer document.
    • NeoOffice would crash when pressing an arrow key in an empty field in Base's query design.
    • NeoOffice would crash when opening a particular Writer file with comments.
    • NeoOffice would crash when opening a particular .svg image file with gradients.
  • Fixed a problem where NeoOffice would create two duplicate versions instead of one version in the Mac OS X Versions browser each time a document was saved.
  • Fixed a bug where NeoOffice would display an uncloseable window if the document window was closed while in the Mac OS X Versions browser.
  • Fixed an issue where NeoOffice would sometimes display a blank popover window when clicking on the downward arrow icon next to the document name in a document window's titlebar while running on Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks.

NeoOffice 3.4.1 includes all of the fixes previously available in NeoOffice 3.4 but requires a new, full download.

Below is a list of the bugs in NeoOffice 3.4 that we fixed in NeoOffice 3.4.1:

  • Opening certain .docx and .pptx documents could cause NeoOffice to crash.
  • Changing any NeoOffice Writer Print Settings in the Options dialog would disable printing of word processing documents.
  • Zooming using the trackpad would cause the current document to zoom in and out too rapidly.

New Features in NeoOffice 3.4.1

NeoOffice 3.4.1 fixes several bugs found in NeoOffice 3.4.

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