I’m happy to announce that OpenOffice.org 3.1 beta2 packages are available in the Build Service OpenOffice:org:UNSTABLE project. They include many upstream and Go-oo fixes.

The packages are beta versions and might include even serious bugs. Therefore they are not intended for data-critical usage. A good practice is to archive any important data before an use, …

We kindly ask any interested beta testers to try the package and report bugs. We are especially interested into the testing of SMB access and file locking.

Please,  look for more details about the openSUSE OOo build on the wiki page.

Other information and plans:

I would like to provide beta3 build the following week. The integration of the OOXML export filters is a bit delayed and should be in beta4 (two weeks from now). It might delay the OOo-3.1 release by two or three weeks.  Well, the upstream release is delayed as well.

I wanted to make these announces better readable and moved the general information to the wiki page. I hope that it was a good step. I am interesting into your voting and comments 😉