Could you please upgrade Fedora Core Openoffice 2.0.2 to 2.0.3 to fix identified upstream bugfixes. Openoffice.org team are calling for all customers to upgrade and customers who are getting their oo.org through a distributor such as redhat to get their vendor's update. I particularly want this release because I run a number of Terminal server environments with 30 or so desktop users, and 2.0.3 is reported to have better compatability converting Microsoft proprietry word document forward (importing). release notes.... http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.0.3.html security bulletin http://www.openoffice.org/security/bulletin-20060629.html From the openoffice.org website.. OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 is recommended for all. Enhancements include: * performance improvements: for example, a 23 percent improvement in certain Calc benchmarks * further improvements to file format compatibility with Microsoft Office files * new email integration features for users wanting to send emails in Microsoft file formats * more control over how exported PDF documents will display when opened in a PDF reader * support for more languages and improvements in hyphenation and thesaurus * support for Intel architecture for Mac OS X plus improved Mac OS X System integration * built-in check for updated versions We also recommend OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 because it includes important security fixes. These have not been exploited but all users of any prior version of OpenOffice.org are urged to download 2.0.3. A standalone patch will be available soon.
2.0.2 for FC-5 has been updated to include the security fixes which were included into 2.0.3 to address the security issues. It's generally not policy for fedora to upgrade a package to a new release to address security issues, but to backport the fix to the older package. FC-5 2.0.2 is secure against the security flaws in the original 2.0.2. FC-6 will include 2.0.3, which will have been tested somewhat in the FC-6 testing period to flush out any gotcha-s which moving FC-5 directly to 2.0.3 without a long burn in period could throw up. (and there isn't that much difference from 2.0.2 to 2.0.3's word compatibility, except for a few numbering fixes IIRC)
I have been comparing versions, and there is a lot more fixed in 2.0.3 than you seem to realise. And example when doing a find replace, looking for email addresses delimited by semi-colon's then replacing with commas ie Find ";" replace with "," 2.0.2 stuffs up and selects half the email address string. In 2.0.3 I have tested this working fine. Working with tables crashes 2.0.2 doing the same thing in 2.0.3 does not. This is very important to me as we are running FC5 as a linux terminal server and have 30 users, they are all grumpy, and want to go back to win32. The issue with this is we will become one of those failure reference sites. Which is bad for redhat commercially and bad for the movement.