14 DAY TRIAL // After releasing NeoOffice 3.2 last week, a handful of users started reporting a crashing bug when clicking on the Mac OS X menubar or pressing certain Help buttons. To address the problem, NeoOffice developers have just rolled out Patch 1 for NeoOffice 3.2.
Available solely to generous donors, NeoOffice 3.2 was recently released with Lion compatibility, and polished features.
[admark=1]A crashing bug soon emerged on a small percentage of Macintosh computers.
According to the NeoOffice Team, users who’ve applied all system updates recently released by Apple remain unaffected.
Yet, the team has been “busily working on finding the cause and fixing this bug.”
“We are pleased to report that we found the cause and have fixed this bug,” the folks at NeoOffice.org are now proud to announce.
“To ensure that NeoOffice users have the most stable code available, we have released the fix for this crashing bug in NeoOffice 3.2 Patch 1.”
Since the NeoOffice 3.1.2 branch uses older, obsolete Apple functions that do not trigger this crashing bug, no new patch was released for the freely-downloadable build.
The team goes to explain, for those who are interested, that this bug was caused by Apple's Java releasing native menus in the Mac OS X menubar.
Triggered after NeoOffice's underlying OpenOffice.org code updated one or more menus in the menubar, the bug should not occur if the user has installed the latest Java Update from Apple.
Here it is, in case you want to update Java instead of patching NeoOffice, though we recommend installing both updates.
“…we fixed this bug to ensure compatibility with all recent versions of Apple's Java by limiting when the NeoOffice can safely update native menus in the menubar,” say Patrick, Fran, Ed, and Tim - the NeoOffice team.
NeoOffice 3.2 Patch 1 can be downloaded by all NeoOffice 3.2 users from the NeoOffice patch download page. Softpedia users can gain immediate access to the freely downloadable version (3.1.2) via the link below.