Announcing OpenOffice.org 1.1 Beta

We are glad to announce that the next OpenOffice.org version

(OpenOffice.org 1.1) has reached an important milestone and is now

available for download as OpenOffice.org 1.1 Beta.

It represents a

significant advance in the application and incorporates the features and

changes introduced in the developer builds over the past year. The release

includes a massive amount of new and exciting functionality, features and

bugfixes, the highlights are:

* Many new import/export formats like PDF, Macromedia Flash,

DocBook, several PDA Office file formats, flat XML and XHTML

* Support for Complex Text Layout (CTL) and vertical writing

languages, such as Thai, Hindi, Arabic, Hebrew

* Enhanced integration with Java, with up to 10 times better performance

* Support for Accessibility throughout the entire suite

* Support for add-on components

* Initial support for recovering damaged OOo files

* Support for a new data source type – MySQL

* Improved online help

For a more complete list of features please see:

http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/1.1beta/features.html

The download page is located here:

http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/1.1beta/index.html

While OpenOffice.org 1.1 beta is ready for day-to-day use and we would

like as many people as possible to test it we must be stress that this is

still a beta version and thus contains more bugs than a final version

would. The QA project wants all bug-submitters to keep in mind that they

should rember to pick the right version number (“1.1 beta”) when

submitting bugs to IssueZilla (http://www.openoffice.org/project_issues.html).

Thanks for supporting the OpenOffice.org project.