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OpenOffice has been discontinued some time ago, because of various issues.
Most devs have moved to LibreOffice, which is also bundled in linux distributions
OpenOffice has been discontinued some time ago, because of various issues.
Most devs have moved to LibreOffice, which is also bundled in linux distributions
What is true is that development slowed dramatically after the fork of LibreOffice, but apparently development has picked up pace again.
https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/...ject_announcesApache OpenOffice Project said:
According to Wikepedia the last release was version 3.3 on 25*January 2011.In 2011 Oracle Corporation, the then-owner of Sun, announced that it would no longer offer a commercial version of the suite[12] and soon after donated the project to the Apache Foundation.[13][14]
Apache renamed the software Apache OpenOffice.[15] Other active successor projects include LibreOffice (the most actively developed[16][17][18]) and NeoOffice (commercial, only for macOS).
That is the Wikipedia entry for OpenOffice.org who did indeed cease development.
This is Wikipedia's entry for Apache.org who took up the development....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice
...resulting in:
The Apache OpenOffice Project Announces Apache® OpenOffice™ v4.1.3
I would say, that is just their wishful thinking, I still consider it as abandonware. It takes them months, even years just to fix security vulnerabilities, hardly trustworthy. 4.1.4 is nowhere to be found.
Apache OpenOffice: Not dead yet, you'll just have to wait until mid-May for mystery security fixes