randomErr's Journal: Release Notes for the OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 Release

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Release Notes for the OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 Release

Last updated July 2002

OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 is the result of development on the cvs branch tagged "OOO_STABLE_1". Some builds have already been released from this branch, namely OpenOffice.org 1.0.0, and earlier the snapshots 641, 641C and 641D. Development was focussed on bug fixes. Thus, in these release notes, I dropped the 'features' section which used to be rather big in release notes of other (snapshot) releases with a 'bug fixes' section.

The work progress in 1.0.1 is also reflected in a changelog file.

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News and Issues
Bug Fixes
OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 test results

News and Issues

        * Mozilla
            We upgraded mozilla integration from 0.9.5 to 1.0
        * Installation
            The installation sets now contain a detailled installation guide in pdf format. After unpacking the installation tarball, you should find the file "installation_guide.pdf" with detailled instructions on how to create single user or network installations of OpenOffice.org 1.0.1. The french, german and italian communities have completed translations of this guide which you will find in the respective installation sets instead of the english ones. Translations to other languages are in preparation. They are collected at http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide/index.html.

        * Solaris/sparc patches
            The Solaris/sparc version needs the following patches:
                    o If you have Solaris 8 (sparc), patches 108434-01 and 108435-01
                    o If you have Solaris 7 (sparc), patches 106387-8
                    o The patches are available at sunsolve.sun.com.
                                + Instructions: Search for the appropriate patch numbers and download
                                + Uncompress the files
                                + cd to the directory containing the patches
                                + As root, execute the following:

prompt> patchadd [patchnumber]

                                + (repeat as needed for Solaris 8)

Bug Fixes

This is a brief description of bug fixes for 1.0.1. You can click on the corresponding IssueZilla number to find out more details.

        * Several file saving operations tended to crash OpenOffice.org due to unreadable characters in the filename path. This has been fixed. (IZ 4655)
        * Fontcache problems have been solved (IZ 4366)
        * Font server discovery has been improved. (IZ 1610)
        * Autopilot functions didn't work when OOo is network installed on read-only partitions. This is fixed now. (IZ 4735)
        * Fixes for Thesaurus (OOo used to crash when changing the language in spell checking) (IZ 4435)
        * Any hyphenation dictionary should work now under any locale. (IZ 4555) (IZ 4687)
        * OOo used to freeze when programs access /dev/dsp - for instance slide transitions in OpenImpress froze when they are accompanied with sound handled by the gnome sound daemon. This has been fixed now. (IZ 4353)
        * Certain fonts caused the installation not to work in certain setups. This has been fixed. (IZ 4468)
        * Fix compilation of MailDocumentConverter with optimisation (IZ 5523)
        * Many mismatches between memory allocation (array context) and de-allocation (not array-context) throughout the code have been fixed (IZ 5181)
        * Fixes for Costa Rica Spanish locale settings (IZ 2285)
        * Changed the default to convert Excel Ole objects to Calc. This caused trouble in opening a large PowerPoint document with embedded Excel Ole objects. (IZ 4131)
        * A locale problem when starting OOo has been fixed (IZ 5445)
        * Chinese input method 'miniChininput' fixed (IZ 5157)
        * Fix for currupted text in case the application windows is partially out of the screen (IZ 5954)
        * Spadmin did not check for ghostscript correctly (IZ 3763)

OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 Basic Functionality Test Results July 15 2002