OpenOffice.org 2.4 released

by Brad Linder Mar 26th 2008

OpenOffice.org 2.4 final is now available for download. Just not from the official OpenOffice.org web page, which is still offering a choice between version 2.3. 1 and release candidate 6 for OpenOffice.org 2.4. But you can find a download link for the latest version from Filehippo.

There are no release notes available for version 2.4 yet, but you can check out a list of features that are probably included by looking at the feature freeze testing page on the OpenOffice.org wiki. Honestly, most of the improvements seem pretty minor, unless you get really excited about things like:

Display both in the data point label: value and percentage
Reduce complexity: Remove unnecessary display options
Remove GUI option "Automatic file name extension" from File-Save dialog (Office Dlg)

If you want to see where OpenOffice.org is headed, check out our preview of Openoffice.org 3.0.
[via CyberNet]

Tags: openoffice, openoffice.org, openoffice.org-2.4

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

agntyellow said 9:16PM on 3-26-2008

HA! already running 3.0 on 2 outa 3 of my systems

Patrick Ryan said 7:06AM on 3-27-2008

The torrent is available on the official site.

Bufsabre said 3:26PM on 3-27-2008

i cant do the 3.0 on my active machine, just my production beta stigma, but i may install it on my other computer. but for right now on my main machine it opens a good 10 seconds faster than 2.3, although that maybe cause i got rid of alot of the configuration files i didnt really need

Tony C said 9:22AM on 3-29-2008

It should be noted that Filehippo only carries the Windows version of OpenOffice 2.4.

And while 2.4 says it can be downloaded from the OpenOffice.org site now, the OS X Intel version was nowhere to be found. "The download you have chosen is not available."

Brad Linder said 9:23AM on 3-29-2008

There is no OS X Intel version of OpenOffice.org 2.4. If you want a native OS X version you'll have to download OOo 3.0 beta.

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