[CodeWeavers-Announce]Announcing CrossOver Office Server Edition, Version 3.0.1
Andrew Bogott
info@codeweavers.com
Fri, 16 Jul 2004 08:28:47 -0500
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Greetings!
A new version of CrossOver Office Server Edition is now available at
www.codeweavers.com.
In addition to many improvements in Windows compatibility, this release
provides much better support for a wide variety of new Linux
distributions, including modern RedHat and Fedora versions.
Server Edition customers with current support contracts can download
this upgrade for free. To download, visit www.codeweavers.com, enter
the email you used to purchase CrossOver with (or that you have on file
with us), and then look for 'My Downloads' on the left hand side. (If
you've already logged in, you can get there by clicking 'My Account' on
the upper right hand part of the web site).
Upgrading an existing install of Server Edition 2.1 may produce
inconsistencies with user settings located in $HOME/.cxoffice. The most
common symptom of this problem is that Office applications will display
a message saying "This application must be installed to run" on
startup. This problem may be solved by clearing user settings via the
'Manage Users' tab in CrossOver Setup or by removing $Home/.cxoffice
directories.
This is the first new release of Server Edition since version 2.1, and
it contains a very wide range of improvements, most of them cumulative
from previous releases of CrossOver Office. A list of many of these
changes is attached at the end of this email.
Please report any problems with this release at:
http://www.codeweavers.com
Thanks for your ongoing interest and support.
-Andrew
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* CrossOver Office Server 3.0.1 - 2004/06/02
Major Fedora Core 2 Bug fixes:
* Properly quote the PRELINK_OPTS in /etc/sysconfig/prelink
which should ensure that exec shield remains disabled
* Set the personality to PER_LINUX32 to work around the 4G address space
* Fix cases where an upgrade on Fedora could result
in duplicate links.
Fix the proxy password dialog, should allow proxy installations to work.
Fix for Framemaker dialog crashing issues
Minor fixes to gradient printing.
Bug fix where right clicking in the file dialog can cause crashes.
Fix issues where deleted printers don't go away in managed multiuser mode.
Process TEMP and TMP a bit better when invoking Unix programs, should make
calling Unix programs from Windows ones work a bit better.
Tweak to the system tray window so that it's resizable
Minor tweaks to sound support
Fix rare bug with strange names in installed plugins
Minor bug fixes for managed multi user mode
Minor bug fixes for rpms built with buildrpm
Enable Photoshop to work properly in managed multi user mode.
Support Gnome's change to '~/Desktop'
Minor tweaks to creating icons so things like Acrobat Reader
now makes desktop icons
Fix for Notes failing to open HTML attachments
Fix the problem with IE crashing each time a bookmark was added
* CrossOver Office 3.0.0 - 2004/05/11
Support for Lotus Notes 6.5.1.
Support for Microsoft Project 2000.
Support for Microsoft Outlook XP.
Made Remedy usable.
CrossOver now detects ExecShield and Prelink systems and offers to
disable ExecShield since it interfers with Windows Applications.
This should be especially useful for Fedora and RedHat
Enterprise Linux users.
The Standard and Pro editions now include support for the Netscape
plugins which was previously only present in CrossOver
Plugin. Now a single CrossOver installation can handle
all your needs!
Improved localization: now all of the application interface,
including the desktop menus and scripts can be localized.
A complete translation to French is provided.
Improved internationalization support: CrossOver Setup should
now correctly list applications that use non-ascii characters.
The application menus should also be created with the right
character encoding.
Made it possible to switch from the demo to the full version
without reinstalling.
Added a tool to capture the system configuration. This should
help us better diagnose issues.
Systematically log a trace of the Windows application
installations to help diagnosis in case of a problem. The size
of this log is capped so it cannot fill the disk.
General bug fixes:
Sound should now work on i810-based soundcards, provided that
you configure CrossOver to use the winealsa sound driver.
The cxuninstall script now offers to clean up the CrossOver
environment when run by a non-root user in private or managed
multi-user mode. It will also remind you of all the steps to
take to fully uninstall CrossOver in these modes.
The cxuninstall script now also works for RPM and Debian
installations.
The old Loki uninstaller does not work on new Linux distributions.
We now upgrade it to make sure the uninstallation proceeds
smoothly.
Fixed the Netscape plugin removal when uninstalling.
Fixed many bugs in cxwinassoc. Associating file types with Unix
applications should now be more reliable.
Fix the Windows drive setup when there are many floppy or
CD-ROM drives.
CrossOver Setup:
CrossOver Setup should start faster and be more responsive.
Better detect whether an application installed successfully or
not.
Made it possible to install all the fonts in one go.
Fix the handling of bad paths in the 'My Documents' field.
The menu tab has been improved and a new fonts tab added.
Fixed an issue where a bad symbolic link to the CrossOver
configuration file would cause an infinite loop in CrossOver
Setup.
Desktop integration:
Added support for the Ximian Desktop 2 desktop menus. Fixed an
issue where uninstalling CrossOver would remove the 'Office'
Ximian menu.
The desktop menus should no longer have a tendency to disappear
on SuSE 8.x systems configured to use the SuSE-specific
menus.
Uninstalling CrossOver Office should no longer delete the
CrossOver Plugin menus on VFolder systems.
Many other menu issues have been fixed.
Fixed the association ceration on Mandrake.
Managed multi-user support (a Pro and Server Edition feature):
In the Pro Edition, it is now possible to choose between the
private and managed multi-user modes at install time.
Made it possible to make a copy the managed multi-user
environment in a non-root account.
Made it possible to disable the 'running as root' warning.
In the Server Edition a new users tab lets you manage the
CrossOver user accounts.
Fixed many bugs in buildrpm. The RPMs it generates can now be
upgraded.
Made it possible to use hard-links when creating the per-user
environment to limit the inode usage.
Application-specific fixes:
Fixed the toolbar flicker, occasional freezes when opening a
new window and many other issues in Internet Explorer.
Associating a file type, like PDF files, with a Unix application,
like Acrobat Reader, now works in Internet Explorer too.
In some cases installing Office XP would not create the desktop
menus. This should now be fixed.
Word XP should no longer systematically prompt to save
'normal.dot' when exiting.
Fixed the font list dropdown in Word.
Most movies should now play correctly in PowerPoint.
Fixed the entries in the 'Windows' menu in Visio.
Fixed drawing issues in Visio.
It is now possible to sort the files by date or other criteria
in Excel 97's open file dialog.
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