| OpenOffice 2.0.3 available for download |
Jun. 30, 2006
OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 is now ready for download, three months after the release of 2.0.2, community manager Louis Suarez-Potts said June 29. This latest release of the popular open source office suite contains a mixture of new features, bug fixes, and security patches, according to Suarez-Potts.
The security patches fix vulnerabilities that have been found in internal security audits, Suarez-Potts said.
"Although there are currently no known exploits, we urge all users of 2.x to upgrade to the new version or install their vendor's patches accordingly," he added.
Patches for users of OpenOffice.org 1.1.5 will be available shortly. For details of the security issues fixed, see Security Bulletin 2006-06-29.
Key features of the new release, as listed by the project team:- performance improvements: for example, a 23 percent improvement in certain Calc benchmarks
- further improvements to file format compatibility with Microsoft Office files
- new email integration features for users wanting to send emails in Microsoft file formats
- more control over how exported PDF documents will display when opened in a PDF reader
- support for more languages and improvements in hyphenation and thesaurus
- support for Intel architecture for Mac OS X plus improved Mac OS X System integration
- built-in check for updated versions
You can download OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 now from the community's volunteer servers here. Not all
languages may be ready, so check with your favorite native language project here.
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