It notes that in addition to English, builds for Czech, Danish, French, German, Japanese and Slovak are immediately available, with other localisations following shortly.

The organisation says that this release, yet again, demonstrates the resolve of the OpenOffice.org community to continuously improve and expand the functionality of the suite - arriving less than three months after version 1.1.1.

OpenOffice.org 1.1.2, the organisation says, introduces the FontOOo Autopilot, which downloads and installs fonts from various sources. In addition, it says, this release provides improved support for dBase database files, additional language support, and improved XML export facilities.

The suite, according to the terms of its Open Source licences (LGPL & SISSL), is free for all to use, improve, modify, and to redistribute to anyone, the organisation adds.

The organisation notes that the suite and its source code can be downloaded from http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.2/index.html or obtained from one of the CD-ROM distributors listed at http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/.

Free end-user support for OpenOffice.org, says the organisation, is provided by the community through mailing lists, forums and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels. It says commercial support is also provided by Sun Microsystems and other organisations.

The organisation further notes that the annual OpenOffice.org conference will be held at Humboldt University, Berlin, from 22 to 24 September. It adds that premium sponsors of this year's event currently include Software AG and Sun Microsystems.