The problem could let attackers craft denial-of-service attacks and execute arbitrary code. In July, OpenOffice issued an advisory about a security vulnerability that had no fix. LibreOffice got 14 version updates in 2015 alone.įurther Reading LibreOffice adoption soaring, but OpenOffice still open source king That was the only OpenOffice release in 2015, and there were only two updates in all of 2014.
While LibreOffice issues frequent updates, OpenOffice's most recent version update was 4.1.2 in October 2015. Many developers have abandoned OpenOffice to work on LibreOffice, a fork that got its first release in January 2011. No decisions have been made yet, but Hamilton noted that "retirement of the project is a serious possibility," as the Apache board " wants to know what the project's considerations are with respect to retirement." Few updates and a lingering security hole "It is my considered opinion that there is no ready supply of developers who have the capacity, capability, and will to supplement the roughly half-dozen volunteers holding the project together," Hamilton wrote. Project leaders are particularly worried about their ability to fix security problems.Īn e-mail thread titled, " What would OpenOffice retirement involve?" was started yesterday by Dennis Hamilton, vice president of Apache OpenOffice, a volunteer position that reports to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) board. OpenOffice, once the premier open source alternative to Microsoft Office, could be shut down because there aren't enough developers to update the office suite.
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