News in OpenOffice.org 2.3

It won't be long now. In a few weeks you can expect to see OpenOffice.org 2.3 on the street. But witch new features can you expect to find when you get your hands on it ?

This version is what's called a major release. Several new features is revealed here. Lets see now...

First of all, you will find a brand new way of creating charts. You can create very comprehensive charts from a various of data types.

You can find more information about the new charts here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Chart2/Features2.3

The next thing you will find, is the report builder in Base. From now on, it's very easy to create nice reports from your data tables in Base. Read more about the report builder here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SUN_Report_Builder

A very small, but useful new feature is the ability to export a text document as MediaWiki text. If you are writing Wiki text from time to time, I think you will find this little feature very useful.

Extensions are now capable of creating additional settings in OpenOffice.org.

When ?
Well, the release is planned for medio September. Lets hope that the plans hold.

Still translating

We are still working on the Danish translation of OpenOffice.org 2.3. Right now we have 545 strings that needs translation or approval. The bad thing is, that a lot of these strings are still english text, that needs to be translated into Danish. This takes a lot of time.

However, I have just installed the latest snapshot on my computer, and it was nice to see some of the new screens with Danish text.

OpenOffice.org 2.2.1 has been approved

The QA team has approved the current release candidate as ready to go. So we can expect the software to be released tomorrow Tuesday June 12th.

This is a version with bugfixes alone. You will not find any improved functionality or new features here. Next release is planed for September 4th and will be numbered 2.3. New features (among many others) will be implementing of a new chart in Calc spreadsheet and a new reporting tool in Base.

Congratulations to all teams.

Solveig Haugland on the new Chart module

Solveig has made a brief introduction to the upcoming new chart module in Clac spreadsheet. Look at this blogpost. Remember to see the reference she made on this occation.

New chart integrated in OpenOffice.org 2.3

The new chart module is now being integrated into OpenOffice.org 2.3. You can find a developer snapshot here: http://ftp.linux.cz/pub/localization/OpenOffice.org/devel/680/SRC680_m213/Build-1/

Rather interesting to see the the new charting system as a part of the new version.