The release of of OpenOffice.org 3.0, the free and open source equivalent to Microsoft Office, in October 2008 caused much excitement in the open source world with over 3 million downloads in the first week alone. The landmark release contained many new features and improved Microsoft Office document support including support for viewing .docx and .xlsx the new Microsoft Office 2007 Formats. Saying this it is not surprising that some people may have stayed away from using the .0 release, instead preferring to upgrade when any initial bugs foibles have been ironed out. OpenOffice.org have now released 3.01 which contains fixes and enhancements which should make this of the most stable and reliable versions ever.
Full release details from Openoffice.org:
This release fixes a number of minor issues reported with OpenOffice.org 3.0, released on October 13th last
year. Although minor releases normally do not include new features, there are two points of interest: enhanced support for grammar checkers, and an increase in the number of words held in personal word lists to 30,000.
A full list of all the issues fixed may be found in the developers’
release notes at http://development.openoffice.org/releases/3.0.1.html
OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 is available now from http://download.openoffice.org
in over 90 languages and for all major platforms. For the availability of further languages and platforms please check http://download.openoffice.org/other.html
The next release of OpenOffice.org to contain significant new user
features will be OpenOffice.org 3.1, scheduled for general availability at the end of March.
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