Hi all,
Am 05.01.2026 um 12:30 schrieb Rony G. Flatscher (Apache):
Having read the feedback, I would emphasize a release of 4.2 as well,
followed by a Win 64 release version this year.
Background ad 64-bit Windows: being a University professor who teaches
among other things newbies programming from scratch in a four hour
class in a semester (four months) [1, 2], and teach among other things
scripting OpenOffice using its scripting framework (i.e., AOO's Java
APIs). The scripting engine for ooRexx (an easy to learn, yet powerful
scripting language) works for LibreOffice as well.
Observing each semester (twice a year) students (and currently as an
experiment for teaching pupils in the age range of 14 through 19 with
the same concepts) who for the first time try to install OpenOffice on
Windows, I have been witnessing them to get effectively lost in the
installation challenge, where they also need to find and install a
matching 32-bit Java (and install the 32-bit version of ooRexx,
despite everyone else - Apple and Linux users - is on 64-bit) in order
to get the infrastructure up and running on Windows. Unfortunately,
the latest Java 25 LTS does not support building of 32-bit versions of
Java anymore as announced in [3]!
So most of the new students are not able anymore to successfully
install AOO on Windows with the necessary 32-bit Java in an acceptable
effort!
One solution they take is to install LibreOffice for Windows, which is
available in 64-bit which makes everything doable and simple by
comparison, including installing the latest 64-bit Java. Once they
installed and used LibreOffice they usually see no reason to uninstall
it and go through all the hazzle to install 32-bit AOO (and getting
some 32-bit Java from somewhere) for Windows.
---rony
Good points. I would not add Windows 64 to the 4.2 release, but we could
define a 4.3 release version for win64.
It could be also a good idea to bump all the none blockers to the 4.3,
and only solve the blocker issues now. Maybe we can then Release 4.2 in
Q1, and target 4.3 for the end of the year.
@Damjan, do you think it is feasible to make the transition for win64
this year?
[1] English: Rony G. Flatscher, Workshop "Business Programming" -
Critical Factors from Zero to Portable GUI Programming in Four Hours,
see links section at the bottom:
<https://wi.wu.ac.at/rgf/conf/csee2023/CSEE2023_BusinessProgrammingWorkshop.html>,
latest related information and slides at the bottom of [2] below
[2] German: Rony G. Flatscher, Till Winkler, Workshop Workshop "EAPROG
- Erfolgsbedingungen für Anfänger zum Erlernen der Programmierung
portabler GUIs in einem Semester" :
<https://wi.wu.ac.at/rgf/conf/se25/SE2025WS_BP_ProgrammingWorkshop.html>
[3] JEP 503, Remove the 32-bit x86 Port <openjdk.org/jeps/503>
On 02.01.2026 15:26, [email protected] wrote:
Happy New Year @all,
A new year is in the house and I thought we try something this year.
A roadmap.
This is open for discussion, and I thought this are the topics we
should try to tackle this year. What is your opinion?
Apache OpenOffice:
- 4.2
-- Get an actual translation import
-- fix remaining blockers
- 4.3 Test Version
-- Win 64 Version
-- Mac Silicon build (deadline fall 2027)
Infrastructure
- Translation service
-- Manual driven ci/cd process
-- test Version for weblate
-- migration away from the server to a docker setup
-- prod migration from Pootle to weblate
- Wiki update
-- build a test instance for development, with the ability to refresh
from prod
-- update test with latest mwiki version.
-- prod update
- Extension Website
-- create concept
-- create a PoC
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