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The OpenOffice project has announced a first public beta of version 3.0 of the suite.

The most interesting among the list of new features from my standpoint? Easily the powerful new metadata support that will accompany the move to ODF 1.2. I spent a pretty difficult year helping move this pretty ambitious new functionality through the ODF TC at OASIS, so it’s nice to see not only that it is making it into the spec, but ODF’s most high-profile implementation.

I don’t believe the new RDF API is in this beta version, but we ought to see it soon enough I imagine. For those that might be curious, the API will just be a wrapper for Redland.