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What's up in OOo 3.0 Beta?

Some weeks ago we reached the due date for Feature Freeze and now we are close to Code Freeze for OOo 3.0 Beta. It is planned to have all new features for OOo 3.0 in the Beta. Perhaps some of them needs some more polishing, but in general all new features should work well.

The Beta is very important for feedback on many of the general changes in OOo. One of the main changes is the 3 layer model. Beside this restructuring of the OOo installation you will find other new features in the applications. I want to highlight only some of them here.

a new cropping in Impress and Drawing ( issue 83933 )
complete redesign of notes in Writer ( issue 6193)
multiple page view in Writer ( issue 1598) or blog entry by Frank Meies
a general solver for Calc ( issue 8808)
ODFF support in Calc
a start-center for OOo ( issue 85963)

A list of more features and enhancements can be found here : http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Feature_Freeze_Testing_3.0
This list is more technical orientated and includes all information about specifications, test case specifications, CWS names etc. You can use this list for checking or testing the new features. I was asked sometime if these lists should be the release notes. No, the release notes are based on such lists, but they are more polished by the marketing team and are more end user orientated.

The current developer snapshot (DEV300m5) is released and the next milestones will be released in a more regular time frame. Feel free to use these version to give us feedback before or after the Beta is released. Every feedback is welcome on qa@dev.openoffice.org or show-stopper issues can be discussed also on releases@openoffice.org.

The release map for OOo 3.0 can be found here http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoRelease30. It is planned to release the Beta end of April.

tags: features ooo qa quality release

Posted by Thorsten Ziehm on 10 Apr 2008 | PermaLink |

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New: OOo-Dev 3.0 Developer snapshot (build DEV300_m5) available

Joost Andrae

OOo-Dev3.0 Developer Snapshot (build DEV300_m5) which installs as OOo-Dev 3.0 has been uploaded to the mirror network.

The rename of the product name to OOo-Dev allows the installation of the OpenOffice.org snapshot parallel to an OpenOffice.org 'final' (released) version. For this version some language packs have been uploaded and they should install into the OOo-Dev installation.

If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.

Please use the following link
http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html

If the Bouncer links that I've placed into the download page do not work for you then you might want to use the 'non JavaScript' page
http://download.openoffice.org/680/index-nojs.html

Or you may take one of the mirror servers listed at http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/
and take the files from the ../developer/DEV300_m5 directory.

MD5SUMS:
http://download.openoffice.org/680/md5sums.html

tags: openoffice.org qa release snapshot

Posted by Joost Andrae on 10 Apr 2008 | PermaLink |

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