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Hi ksc


ksc wrote
I've installed 4.1.4 on the new computer and it works.  Any idea why  
this would occur?
Makes no sense that an immediately newer version would be so fundamentally
corrupted.
The main reason is that the Calc spreadsheet had a major code rewrite which
enabled several enhancements including GPU calculations (when activated and
when the GPU is compatible)

LibreOffice 4.2.0.4 (notice the zero after 4.2) is the first release in a
new branch (the 4.2 branch). For Windows users usually a 4.2 version is
always better than a 4.1...

However LibreOffice is a multi-platform software and since most developers
are on Linux it follows a Linux logic
(https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan). Therefore an x.x.0
release (and in fact any release before x.x.4) is considered potentially
buggy and not ready for production.

Therefore even if LO 4.2 is announced everywhere on the LO site, in fact it
is not recommended for general use or in other words "is targeted for early
adopters and private power users" (as stated in the not so evident Release
Notes page http://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/)

Bottomline: stick with the trusted 4.1 branch (4.1.5 should be out within
the next days) or keep 4.2 if you can live with the bugs (and report them at
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=LibreOffice ) so that
they are eventually fixed.

Hope this helps...



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