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LibreOffice

LibreOffice 3.3.2 has been released today, bringing further improves and stability. This is a bugfix release and is identical to LibreOffice 3.3.2 RC2 (so if you've already installed LibreOffice 3.3.2, you basically have the latest stable version).

Here's the LibreOffice 3.3.2 changelog:
  • translation and dictionary updates
  • en-US fallback strings for incomplete translations
  • calc: Properly invalidate cached sheet XML streams during reference update.
  • Make sure these values are positive; we use them to resize arrays.
  • Fixed incorrect cursor navigation.
  • Go through all tokens to look for a volatile one.
  • Enable import of macros for docxm
  • ensure a valid mediatype is set up for the ooxml
  • ensure node outlives xpath
  • prevent null pointer access when no ffdata available
  • remove Online Update and Improvement program
  • occasional blank first slide in presentation
  • some pythonsamples not visible on Mac OS X
  • work around IM problems with KDE4 integration
  • Writer looses information in tick boxes
  • Fix for non-working VBA container controls
  • updated de_CH and de_AT dictionaries
  • fix mis-paint of right Impress pane headers
  • Fix to prefer gcc __sync functions over pthread on arm


The next major LibreOffice version - 3.4 -, is expected sometime in mid May.


I for one really appreciate the "Enable import of macros for docxm" feature as I have to work with such files at work, but I'll be waiting for the PPA to be updated (the Ubuntu LibreOffice PPA currently holds version 3.3.1 for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and 10.10 Maverick Meerkat and as usual, it will take a while until the latest version will be uploaded, but it'll get there eventually) and won't manually install the .debs because the Ubuntu packaging usually comes with some Ubuntu-specific fixes/tweaks.