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September 21st, 2019 17:00

Updates 9/21/19 - OpenOffice

Announcing Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7

 

21 September 2019 - Apache OpenOffice, the leading Open Source office document productivity suite, announced today Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7, as usual available in 41 languages for Windows, macOS and Linux.

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7 is a maintenance release aimed at correcting some regressions and delivering the latest English dictionary. All users of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.6 or earlier are advised to upgrade.

Main improvements include:

* Adds support for AdoptOpenJDK as well as Oracle Java
* Possible crash in Freetype code
* Crash in Writer when linking frames on OS/2
* Apache OpenOffice TM in Splash screen has different background

 

The complete overview is available as list in Bugzilla.

Details of this release are described in the Release Notes.

For a complete list of available languages and language packs see the download webpage.

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September 23rd, 2019 07:00

Oracle Java and Adobe Flash are a dead end and should not be used.

Microsoft has a project, codenamed “Anaheim”, that is currently slated to replace Microsoft Edge for Windows 10. Instead of continuing to use the company’s EdgeHTML engine, Anaheim will reportedly be built upon Chromium’s open source Blink engine.

Even firefox has dropped support for NPAPI as well as Java and Flash.

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/10/08/npapi-plugins-in-firefox/

What about Silverlight or Java plugins?

Websites and publishers which currently use plugins such as Silverlight or Java should accelerate their transition to HTML5.

Adobe is constantly updating flash due to security holes.

https://helpx.adobe.com/security.html#flashplayer

https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/

Adobe Kills flash in 2020.

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