URE 1.3 Release Notes

The Uno Runtime Environment (URE) is the well-known UNO component model of OpenOffice.org, packaged up as an individual product. It offers you a flexible, low-overhead component model that is most ideal for (but not limited to) combining in one application components written in different computer languages, and developed by different parties. You can use it to create any kind of application, in whatever application domain you can imagine. The URE is made available under the LGPL.

URE 1.3 (release at the same time as OpenOffice.org 2.3) comes as a platform-native installation set. See the included README file for further information.

Changes in URE 1.3:

- Binary UNO threading model, Issue 73376

- Java UNO class loading improvements, Issue 51803

- Base library (sal, salhelper, cppu, cppuhelper) fixes,
Issues 62080 , 64835 , 68624 , 72741 , 73423 , 77687 , 79180 , 80111 , 80284 ,  80288

- New rtl::OUString functionality,
Issues 73909 , 76106 , 76869

- CLI--UNO and MS Visual Studio 2005 Express, Issue 69457

- cppumaker fixes, Issue 76838

- climaker fixes, Issue 79029

If you want to program for the URE, you additionally need the OpenOffice.org Software Development Kit (SDK), available at download.openoffice.org. Tests and examples accompanying the URE are available as uretest.zip in any OpenOffice.org build (common.pro/bin/uretest.zip) or for easy download at the udk.openoffice.org Documents & files section at http://udk.openoffice.org/files/documents/23/2909/uretest.zip.

Have fun!