LibreOffice 3.4.4 Released With Numerous Bug Fixes

By , Published November 9, 2011

The Document Foundation have announced the release of LibreOffice 3.4.4 – an updated version of their popular open-source office suite.

LibreOffice 3.4.4 is a bug fix release addressing, amongst others, the following bugs:

  • Hang during slideshow in Impress fixed
  • Drawing of dotted and dashed border in Calc fixed
  • Fix for Writer PDF export memory leak
  • Calc range name lookup now faster

Full change-logs for LibreOffice 3.4.4 can be found here and here.

Download

LibreOffice 3.4.4 can be downloaded from libreoffice.org/download.

Ubuntu 11.10 users can upgrade to 3.4.4 by adding the following LibreOffice PPA to their Software Sources:

  • ppa:libreoffice/ppa

 

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  • http://twitter.com/shay_mazor Shay Mazor

    LibreOffice, Y U NO RELEASE SOMETHING EXCITING! 

    • Bart Willemsen

      THEY WILL DO UI REVAMP IN 3.5!!

      • David van der Zande

        They said they would do ui revamp in 3.5!

      • Anonymous

        Whens that aboit do you know?

        • Bart Willemsen

          February 2012 according to there roadmap. :P

      • http://hector-macias.blogspot.com Hector Macias Ayala

        I dont give a damn about UI, it cant even handle formats well, not even its own format.

        • Anonymous

          exactly they need to fix and polish the features it already has.

          for me the lo-menu-bar will be enough excitement for ui change (at least for a year or 2)

          • Anonymous

            meh I just installed the lo-globalmenu. No problems as of yet :)

        • Anonymous

          In fact they do it better than MS :)

          • Anonymous

            I think you missed an”Not!” after your sentence!

          • http://hector-macias.blogspot.com Hector Macias Ayala

            In fact MS Office repaired my footnotes which Libreoffice just couldnt handle nor let me change size/font, and that happened just by opening the file in MS Word, after it said there could be errors in the file.

            Indeed it was an error to use LibreOffice, only reason I cant fully switch to Ubuntu.

            And thats a personal experience, I didnt read that anywhere, like it seems you did.

      • http://nicholasferber.myopenid.com/ nicholas

        Awesome! i did not know about this!

    • http://twitter.com/toxicbits toxicbits

      CUZ ITS A MINOR RELEASE

    • Anonymous

      IT’S A MOTHARFUCKIN’ OFFICE SUIT, IT DOESN’T NEED TO BE EXCITING.

      • Clayton Walker

        You know what would be exciting? LibreOffice starting up fast. Oh, and x-axis error bars.

        • Anonymous

          LO starts pretty darned fast for me.  Make sure to go into options and change the memory from 20mb to 100mb.  You should see massive improvement.

          • http://twitter.com/fernandu00 Fernando Alves

            Man I did not know that memory thing! Thanx! Now it’s opening Way faster!

          • http://www.aaronhastings.ie Aaron Hastings

            Also install ‘preload’ from the repos. Helps a lot.

  • Subeh Sharma

    Has there been any improvement in its opening speed?

    • Anonymous

      No.

    • Olivier Zanchetta

      Again and again people complain of the opening speeds.

      Go to Options —> Memory —> it should have about 20mb by default. Now please “up” that to 100mb.

      This alone should make any document you open open like a flash.

      You can tweak further settings if you want it to be even faster.

      This works in Open Office too.

      Waht you should be asking is why they have 20 mb as a default

      • http://sal22.myopenid.com/ sal22

        WOW!!!!  That really improved startup time from 5 seconds to less than a second!!!  Why dont they have this as the default? (could be to limit impact on older machines)  But I’ve never seen a program launch so fast once I changed this to 75mb

        • Olivier Zanchetta

          Glad I could help. I suppose you are right, it is to limit impact on older machines.

          I used to have the quicklauncher option, but this is even better really

          • http://twitter.com/KyleClarkeNZ Kyle Clarke

            Can’t it just check to see how much ram is in the machine and devote a higher portion to bigger computers?

      • Anonymous

        Thank you! It opened my plenty heavy document at blistering speed!

      • http://twitter.com/tancrackers John C

        You can also have it startup with your computer, also under the memory tab.

      • http://twitter.com/marcusklaas MarcusKlaasDeVries

        +1 for this. Huge improvement in startup time. I wouldn’t say it’s instant quite yet, but it’s darn fast for sure.

      • Anonymous

        You might also want to reduce the number of undo steps from 100 to ~30. I don’t know who would mess up so badly that he would need to perform 100 undos.

        EDIT: Apart from breaking my Faenza icon hack for LibreOffice at each update, I also suspect it reverts settings each time it updates.

    • Bart Willemsen

      You can try to disable the use of the JRE runtime. Should improve performance a bit.

  • http://kyoushuu.users.sourceforge.net Arnel A. Borja

    I can’t install all the updated packages from the PPA:
    “The following packages have been kept back:
      libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-calc libreoffice-core libreoffice-draw
      libreoffice-gnome libreoffice-gtk libreoffice-help-en-gb
      libreoffice-help-en-us libreoffice-impress libreoffice-l10n-en-gb
      libreoffice-l10n-en-za libreoffice-math libreoffice-writer python-uno”

    • http://twitter.com/SaKeLiNo SaKeL SaK

      i have the same problem :(

    • Anonymous

      You should probably try upgrading again in an hour or so. Sometimes the uploads are still incomplete after such a short time.

    • Anonymous

      I have this same problem for the last two weeks……anyone has the solution to this?

    • http://kyoushuu.users.sourceforge.net Arnel A. Borja

      Seems like the package “ure” is the one at fault:
      “libreoffice-base-core:
        Depends: ure (>=3.4.4) but 3.4.4~rc1-0ubuntu1~ppa1 is to be installed

      libreoffice-calc:
        Depends: libreoffice-base-core (=1:3.4.4~rc1-0ubuntu1~ppa1) but 1:3.4.3-3ubuntu2 is to be installed
        Depends: ure (>=3.4.4) but 3.4.4~rc1-0ubuntu1~ppa1 is to be installed

      libreoffice-emailmerge:

      libreoffice-help-en-gb:
       Depends: libreoffice-writer but it is not going to be installed or
           language-support-translations-en  but it is not installable

      libreoffice-help-en-us:
       Depends: libreoffice-writer but it is not going to be installed or
           language-support-translations-en  but it is not installable

      libreoffice-writer:
        Depends: libreoffice-base-core (=1:3.4.4~rc1-0ubuntu1~ppa1) but 1:3.4.3-3ubuntu2 is to be installed
        Depends: ure (>=3.4.4) but 3.4.4~rc1-0ubuntu1~ppa1 is to be installed”

  • Carlos Felipe Pessoa de Araújo

    The same interface from office 2003…

    • http://twitter.com/marioaieie Mario Bonamigo

      The same comment since 2003…

      • Waldir Leôncio

        No it’s not. Back in 2003 OpenOffice.org was still publicly on version 1, which looked like Office 97 at best.

  • Anonymous

    What about they put some effort into the spell and grammar check. Attempted to use it the other day (non-english) and the result was so bad I had to run it through MS Office instead. Not just did it highlight tons of properly spelled words, most of the suggested replacements were in fact wrongly spelled!

    • http://www.facebook.com/hein.hanssen Hein Hanssen

      Heavily depends on the language. Dutch is very well supported: even better spell check than MS Office. Join your language team at libreoffice I would suggest.

    • Anonymous

      The Norwegian Bokmål spell checker is ludicrously inaccurate. Considering how much effort many schools in Norway put into trying to make openoffice.org the standard application for students, I’m surprised the government didn’t devote some resources towards a solid dictionary for the spell checker. As a dyslectic I am very much reliant on a good spell checker and so libreoffice is useless for my uni work. It’s not like I can personally help out much either. A dyslectic working on the libreoffice dictionary probably wouldn’t go that well :p.

      It’s a shame as this is the only reason I still dual boot on my computer.

      • Matt Sturgeon

        MS Office 2007 (and likely other versions) installs perfectly with PlayOnLinux, a duel boot is totally unnecessary.

        Also LibreOffice isn’t the only office suit or word processor available on Ubuntu, perhaps others have better spellchecking? And there’s online options, Google Docs for example…

        Duel booting for a single office suite seems a bit extreme considering the above

        • Anonymous

          1. AGH! IT’S “DUAL” BOOT!!! NOT “DUEL” BOOT!!!
          2. The super annoying grammar issue aside, the point is that he doesn’t want Office anyway, so why would he want to install ’07 Office? Also, does Google Docs have multi-language support (I think it does, just never toyed around with it). Also, Google Docs has a major downside – what if you have no reliable internet access? What then?

          There’s a reason why many people still use desktop suites versus online editors.

  • Luis Manuel Ramos Da Costa

    Why in Ubuntu 11.10 we have to install the ppa ? It is only an update not a full modification :S…

    • Anonymous

      Guess there are no security fixes, so Ubuntu MOTU’s likely won’t push it. (Do the MOTU’s push out those updates, anyway?)

  • Anonymous

    added the ppa, and it’s a mess. the core won’t upgrade it’s broken.
    what the hell is going on?

    • Anonymous

      it was maybe the ppa not ready for the full update.
      now it is ok for me

  • Anonymous

    “Hang during slideshow in Impress fixed”. Nothing can be more embarassing than a bug like this during a presentation. Good that I’m using latex-beamer!

  • Waldir Leôncio

    Am I going to live to see LibreOffice 4?

    • José Antonio

      yes!… but you will be very old…

    • Anonymous

      Relax! It’s not Firefox! LOL!

  • Craig Esterhuizen

    If I open a document from an email with Libre Office in Ubuntu 11.10, I cannot Alt-tab to it to see the doc.  I believe that this is due to lack of integration with Unity.  If so this kinda makes it unusable so what are the alternatives?

  • http://openid-provider.appspot.com/TheMerkinman Merk

    I just checked the version on my Windows 7 work computer and it’s 3.4.2. There’s no update mechanism for LibreOffice like there is for most (Windows) programs nowadays? I need to go to the site and redownload and install the latest version?

    • Anonymous

      ppa’s and repositories are *nix only.  However, LO in Windows should have an auto-updater built in.  When it is ready for your platform, it will let you know. (I think you can also force check for updates under the Help menu)

      • http://openid-provider.appspot.com/TheMerkinman Merk

        Yes, I know ppa and repositories are *nix only.
        LibreOffice (for Windows/Mac(?)) doesn’t seem to have an auto-updater built in, nor does the Help menu have Check for Updates (even though the online documentation says it does)

  • http://profiles.google.com/lilianftp Moraru Lilian

    Just yesterday report a compatibility bug for LibreOffice Writer, I almost got a negative mark for my semester work because of it… Math Formulas made in Writer and than saved the file to .doc/.docx were not visible in Microsoft Office 2010… Good that they have the “Save to PDF” feature which saved me…
    P.S: My teacher told me that it is recommended to write the work in LaTeX but I didn’t listened to him…

    • Sander Deryckere

      Math works should always be typed in LaTeX.

      LaTeXilla is a great GTK editor, and Kile is a great KDE editor for LaTeX.

      • Markx

        Maybe I should try latex… Libreoffice is not good enough for me, compared with MS office.

        • Anonymous

          yeah, LibreOffice isn’t that good for .doc support for formulae (formulas?), etc.

          • Markx

            But people around me all use MS office, thus, LaTeX won’t work for me, either.

    • Markx

      Until  finishing reading the message, I thought your teacher will told you to use MS office… And I’m curious about the office software used in your place. Could u please tell me more about that?

  • http://profiles.google.com/erick.bergamini Erick Bergamini

    I use Lotus Symphony so….

    • Olivier Zanchetta

      Their One Window to rule them all approach is great. I love having spreadsheets sitting alongside word processors.

  • https://launchpad.net/~carbeck Carsten

    I want my OpenType, Graphite being better than it or no, it’s the effing standard :(

  • https://launchpad.net/~igadget iGadget

    I wonder if the presenter console works properly in this version. It’s been broken on 11.04 and it’s broken on the version shipping with 11.10.

    See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/824466 if you have no idea what I’m talking about.

  • Anonymous

    I can’t wait for the ‘I’m not ugly anymore’ bug-fix. I mean, at least get rid of the gradients on those expander arrows. If that’s the only thing they fix I’ll be a lot happier.

  • daas88

    I hope it fixed the annoying bug that made LO writer crash every time I tried to see a Print preview

    • https://launchpad.net/~igadget iGadget

      AFAIK that’s related to lo-menubar being installed. Try removing it if you have it installed and this problem should be gone.

      • daas88

        Thanks, I’ll try that.

  • Anonymous

    1. Open Powerpoint in Windows.
    2. Create presentation (.ppt or .pptx) with embedded videos.
    3. Transfer presentation and video files to Ubuntu.
    4. Start presentation.
    5. Gawp as the embedded videos don’t play (and can’t be re-embedded either).

    I hate Impress so much. This is the reason my father wants to shift back to Windows (he loves the speed and ease of use of Ubuntu, but this is a dealbreaker as he works a lot with presentations).

  • http://twitter.com/Andreas_Ek Andreas Ek

    I might be slightly thick on this one, but I only get “unauthenticated” problems and it will not install. Any ideas?

  • Anonymous

    I’d really appreciate if as many people as possible could check and confirm this please:
    https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42810

    Nasty bug in handling of pictures (including things like header and
    footer logos) saving in microsoft file formats (binary and XML) in 3.4.x, not
    fixed in 3.4.4.

    This is causing everyone i know major problems exchanging documents with MS Office users!

    Have reported it but not getting any attention so far..

    Have had to roll back to 3.3x (wasted a day or so) as breaking Office compat. is a showstopper for us.

    Ironically this is the first “enterprise” edition of LO?

 
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