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==Version history==
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|+ StarOffice release history
|-
! Version
! style=white-space:nowrap | Release date
! OOo version
! Description
|-
|I
|1985
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|Star-Writer<!-- this spelling! --> for [[CP/M]]
|-
|I 3.0<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=4659|title = Star-writer i v3.1 © star-division (1986)}}</ref><ref>ftp://ftp.cpcszene.de/pub/Computer/Amstrad_CPC/CPC-Literatur/Star_writer%20I.pdf{{Dead link|date=August 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
|1986
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|Star-Writer<!-- this spelling! --> for CP/M
|-
|I 3.1
|1986
|
|Star-Writer<!-- this spelling! --> for CP/M
|-
|1.0
|1986
|
|StarWriter for [[DOS]] 3.2.<ref name="briefhistory"/>
|-
|1.0
|1988
|
|StarWriter for [[Atari ST]]
|-
|2.0
|1994
|
|StarWriter, StarCalc and StarBase for [[Windows 3.1]].
|-
|3.0
|1995<ref name="ct199607"/>
|
|StarWriter, StarCalc, StarDraw, StarImage, StarChart. [[DOS]], [[Windows 3.1]], [[OS/2]], Solaris SPARC, [[Power Macintosh]].
|-
|3.1
|1996-07<ref name="ct199607">{{cite web|url=http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Vorsprung-284606.html|title=Vorsprung: StarOffice 3.1 für Windows und für OS/2|trans-title=Forward: StarOffice 3.1 for Windows and OS/2|language=de|date=July 1996|first=Dieter|last=Brors|work=c't Magazin|publisher=Heinz Heise|access-date=19 October 2013}}</ref>
|
|First to support Linux.
|-
|4.0
|1997<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Mac-StarOffice-4-0-zum-freien-Download-10767.html |title=Mac-StarOffice 4.0 zum freien Download {{!}} heise online<!-- Bot generated title --> |date=30 January 1998 |access-date=2013-10-19  |archive-date=2015-09-24  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924150430/http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Mac-StarOffice-4-0-zum-freien-Download-10767.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|
|
|-
|5.0
|1998-11
|
|
|-
|5.1
|1999-05-20
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|
|-
|5.2
|2000-06-20
|
|First Sun release.
|-
|6.0
|2002-05
|1.0
|
|-
|7.0
|2003-11-14
|1.1-2.4
|
|-
|8.0
|2005-09-27
|2.0-2.4
|
|-
|9.0
|2008-11-17
|3.0-3.2
|
|-
|Oracle Open Office 3.3
|2010-12-15
|3.3 beta
|Last release.
|}

=== StarOffice 2.0 ===
StarWriter was the first StarOffice, with the successor being StarOffice 2.0 which included StarWriter compact, StarBase 1.0, StarDraw 1.0.

Supported platforms included [[DOS]].

=== StarOffice 3 ===
StarOffice 3.0 included StarWriter 3.0, StarCalc 3.0, StarDraw 3.0, StarImage, StarChart.

Supported platforms included [[DOS]], [[Windows 3.1]], [[OS/2]], [[Oracle Solaris|Solaris]] on [[SPARC]]. [[Power Mac]] beta support was introduced in 1996.

==== 3.1 ====
Supported platforms included Windows 3.1/[[Windows 95|95]], OS/2 (16-bit), [[Linux]] [[i386]], Solaris Sparc/[[x86]], Mac OS 7.5&nbsp;– 8.0.

<!-- In 1996 or early 1997, -->[[Caldera, Inc.]] supported the Linux-port of StarOffice 3.1 with approximately 800,000&nbsp;DM in order to offer the product with their forthcoming [[OpenLinux]] distribution in 1997.<ref name="Brors_1997"/><ref name="CW_1997"/><ref name="Strobl_2003"/><ref name="Bantle_2017"/>

=== StarOffice 4.0 ===
Supported platforms included Windows 3.1/95, OS/2, Linux i386, Solaris Sparc/x86, [[Mac OS]] (beta).

=== StarOffice 5 ===
5.0 was released late November 1998.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Goudswaard |first1=Sander |title=Re: Java Redirect Bug - Netscpape 4.0[678] and 4.5 |url=https://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=91244712908785 |website=MARC |access-date=2022-11-13 |date=1998-11-30}}</ref> Supported platforms included Windows 95/[[windows NT|NT]] 3.51, OS/2, Linux i386, Solaris Sparc/x86.

==== 5.1 ====
5.1 was released 20 May 1999.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/1999052002305PR |title=''Linux Today''{{spaced ndash}}"StarOffice 5.1 Released"<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2013-09-19  |archive-date=2013-09-21  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921054058/http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/1999052002305PR |url-status=dead }} ''Linux Today''{{spaced ndash}}"StarOffice 5.1 Released"<!-- Bot generated title --></ref> Supported platforms included Windows 95, OS/2, Linux i386, Solaris Sparc/x86.

==== 5.2 ====
5.2 was released 20 June 2000.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://betanews.com/2000/06/20/staroffice-5-2-released/ |title=StarOffice 5.2 Released<!-- Bot generated title --> |date=20 June 2000 |access-date=2013-09-19  |archive-date=2014-01-11  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111004134/http://betanews.com/2000/06/20/staroffice-5-2-released/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Sun offered StarOffice 5.2 as a free download for personal use, and soon went through an exercise similar to [[Netscape]]'s relicensing of [[Mozilla]], by releasing most of the StarOffice source code under a [[free-software license|free]]/[[open source license]]. The resultant free/open source software codebase fork continued development as [[OpenOffice.org|older discontinued components]], with contributions from both Sun and the wider OpenOffice.org community. Sun then took "snapshots" of the OpenOffice.org code base, integrated proprietary and third-party code modules, and marketed the package commercially.

StarOffice 5.2 was the last version to contain the programs listed under [[#Older_discontinued_components|older discontinued components]]. It was also the last version to support multiple virtual desktops, previously available from within the Suite.

Supported platforms included: MS Windows 95/98/NT/[[Windows 2000|2000]], Linux i386, Solaris Sparc/x86.

=== StarOffice 6 ===
A beta version of 6.0 (based on OpenOffice.org 638c) was released in October 2001;<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/staroffice-shaping-up-as-true-office-alternative-5000296788/ |title=StarOffice shaping up as true Office alternative<!-- Bot generated title --> |website=[[ZDNet]] |access-date=2013-09-19  |archive-date=2014-01-11  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111002216/http://www.zdnet.com/news/staroffice-shaping-up-as-true-office-alternative/296788 |url-status=live }}</ref> the final 6.0 (based on OpenOffice.org 1.0) was released in May 2002.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/1839362/firms-reject-microsoft-licence-plan |title=Firms reject Microsoft licence plan{{spaced ndash}}17 May 2002{{spaced ndash}}''Computing News''<!-- Bot generated title --> |date=17 May 2002 |access-date=2013-09-19  |archive-date=2015-09-23  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923210012/http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/1839362/firms-reject-microsoft-licence-plan |url-status=live }}</ref>

Support for OpenOffice.org XML file format.

Supported platforms included Windows 95, Linux i386, Solaris Sparc/x86. OpenOffice.org version also supported Windows ME/2000 for Asian/CJK versions, generic Linux 2.2.13 with {{Not a typo|glibc2}} 2.1.3, Solaris 7 SPARC (8 for Asian version).

=== StarOffice 7 ===
Based on OpenOffice.org 1.1. Released 14 November 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://reviews.cnet.com/office-suites/sun-staroffice-7-0/4505-3524_7-30583588.html |title=Sun StarOffice 7.0 Review{{spaced ndash}}Office suites{{spaced ndash}}CNET Reviews<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2013-09-19  |archive-date=2013-09-21  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921061237/http://reviews.cnet.com/office-suites/sun-staroffice-7-0/4505-3524_7-30583588.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Supported platforms included [[Windows 98]], Linux i386, [[Solaris 8]] Sparc/x86. OpenOffice.org version also supports generic Linux with [[Glibc]] 2.2.0, [[Mac OS X 10.2]] for [[PowerPC]] with [[X Window System|X11]] in OOO 1.1.2.

Product Update 5 added Windows NT 4.0 as a supported platform and incorporated support for the OpenDocument file-format.

Product Updates 6-8 are based on OpenOffice.org 2.1. The OOO version added support for [[Mac OS X 10.3]] for PowerPC, and for [[Mac OS X 10.4]] for x86.

Product Updates 9-11 built on OpenOffice.org 2.2. New features included enhanced [[Windows Vista]] integration, PDF export.

Product Update 12 was based on OpenOffice.org 2.4. The OOO version added support for Linux x86-64, Linux [[MIPS architecture|MIPS]], Linux S390, [[Mac OS X]] x86/PowerPC above 10.4. New features included improved input and sorting in Calc, block markings in text documents, new import filtering, improved security, access to [[WebDAV]] servers via [[HTTPS]], and PDF export for long-term archiving.

=== StarOffice 8 ===
Sun released StarOffice 8 (based on the code of OpenOffice.org 2.0) on 27 September 2005,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20051013102702/http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-09/sunflash.20050927.1.html 09/27/05{{spaced ndash}}Sun Introduces New Version of StarOffice Software<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> adding support for the OpenDocument standard and a number of improvements.<ref>{{cite press release |title=Sun Introduces New Version of StarOffice Software |publisher=[[Sun Microsystems|Sun Microsystems, Inc.]] |date=2005-09-27 |url=http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-09/sunflash.20050927.1.xml |access-date=2007-09-20 |archive-date=2006-04-05  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060405032904/http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-09/sunflash.20050927.1.xml |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Supported platforms include Windows 98/[[Windows 2000|2000]] (Service Pack 2 or higher), Linux i386, Solaris 8 Sparc/x86.

Product Updates 2–5 are based on OpenOffice.org 2.1.

Product Updates 6–7 are based on OpenOffice.org 2.2. New features include enhanced [[Windows Vista]] integration, PDF export.

Product Updates 8–9 are based on OpenOffice.org 2.3. New features include bookmark support for PDF export, [[MediaWiki]] export in Writer.

Product Updates 10–11 are based on OpenOffice.org 2.4. New features include improved input and sorting in Calc, block markings in text documents, new import filter, improved security, access to [[WebDAV]] servers via [[HTTPS]], PDF export for long-term archiving.

=== StarOffice 9 ===
[[File:StarOffice 9 Icon.png|right|100px]]
[[File:StarOffice 9.1.0 Start Center.png|thumb|250px|right|StarOffice 9.1.0 running on [[windows 7]]]]
StarOffice 9, released 17 November 2008,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/154005/article.html |title=Sun Releases StarOffice 9 {{!}} PCWorld<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2013-09-19  |archive-date=2013-09-21  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921060411/http://www.pcworld.com/article/154005/article.html |url-status=live }}</ref> added support for version 1.2 of the OpenDocument standard and Microsoft Office 2007 files and a number of other improvements.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Cohen |first=Peter |title=Sun offers Mac-native StarOffice 9 suite |magazine=[[Macworld]] |url= http://www.macworld.com/article/136869/2008/11/staroffice.html |date=2008-11-17 |access-date=2008-11-17}}</ref>

It is based on OpenOffice.org 3.0.

Supported platforms include Windows 2000 (Service Pack 2 or higher), [[Mac OS X 10.4]] (Intel version), Linux 2.4 i386 with {{Not a typo|glibc2}} version 2.3.2 or higher, [[GTK]] version 2.2.0 or higher, Solaris 10 for Sparc/x86. OOO version supports Mac OS X PowerPC, generic Linux platforms.

Product Update 1 is based on OpenOffice.org 3.0.1, which adds improved extension manager, but requires extensions in the new format

Product Update 2 is based on OpenOffice.org 3.1.0.

Product Update 3 is based on OpenOffice.org 3.1.1.

Product Update 4 is based on OpenOffice.org 3.2.

=== Oracle Open Office ===
[[Sun acquisition by Oracle|Oracle bought Sun]] in January 2010 and quickly renamed StarOffice as Oracle Open Office.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newformat.se/documents/oracle/oracle-open-office-features-overview-060550.pdf|title=Oracle Open Office: Features Overview: An Oracle White Paper|date=January 2010|publisher=[[Oracle Corporation]]|access-date=20 September 2013}}</ref>

On 15 December 2010, Oracle released Oracle Open Office 3.3, based on OpenOffice.org 3.3 beta, and a web-based version called ''Oracle Cloud Office''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/195766|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101217212955/http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/195766|archive-date=17 December 2010|title=Oracle Announces Oracle Cloud Office and Oracle Open Office 3.3: Industry's First Complete, Open Standards-Based Office Productivity Suites for Desktop, Web and Mobile Users|publisher=[[Oracle Corporation]]}}</ref><ref name="golem">{{cite web|url=http://www.golem.de/1012/80148.html|language=de|access-date=2012-05-07|title=Kostenpflichtiges Oracle Open Office 3.3 veröffentlicht|publisher=[[Golem.de]]|date=2010-12-15|first1=Jens|last1=Ihlenfeld|first2= Ingo|last2=Pakalski<!--listed on page 2 at the bottom-->}}</ref> The suite was released in two versions, sold at {{euro|39}} and {{euro|49.95}}.<ref name="golem" />