14 DAY TRIAL // Not long after Patch 3 was available for NeoOffice 2.2.5 users, a fourth patch was released for Mac Intel and PPC machines, although NeoOffice.org still shows Patch 3 as being the latest update available. Despite the fact that the new release did not come with its contents information available, a little digging up revealed the motives of its launch.
Upon releasing NeoOffice 2.2.5 Patch 3, the code-savvy folks behind the free office suite of apps added Mac OS X Services support, as well as experimental support for Apple's upcoming Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Security fixes also made their way into this patch, specifically targeting manipulated WMF and EMF files that could lead to heap overflows and arbitrary code execution.
“Recently, Apple has released developer seed of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard,” says the team of developers. “Due to changes in Snow Leopard, starting with NeoOffice 2.2.5 Patch 3, NeoOffice will now run on the latest Snow Leopard developer seed. We expect that users will find bugs in NeoOffice when running on Snow Leopard that do not exist in early versions of Mac OS X, so users should consider our Snow Leopard support to be very experimental.”
With the fourth patch available for download, and with no other observable changes, we began searching the web for the contents of the package. Naturally, the last place where we thought to look for the valuable information was actually neowiki, the Wiki for NeoOffice. And here's what it says.
Current Patch
2.2.5 Patch-4 is now available.
The new changes included in this patch are listed below:
Fixed a bug that prevented compatible Services from working in some circumstances on Mac OS X 10.5.
Mystery unravelled!
Note that NeoOffice 2.2.5 Patch 4 requires a full installation of NeoOffice 2.2.5, and will not install on any version of NeoOffice (2.2.4 or lower). Furthermore, it includes all fixes and additions of previous patches. Use the link below to get the latest patch for the NeoOffice suite of apps.