It was a bit quiet, since most of the media attention has been given to IBM's It was a bit quiet, since most of the media attention has been given to IBM's Symphony and IBM joining OpenOffice development.

One of the key features for me is the inclusion of Extensions which is a central plugin repo like Firefox to add additional extensions and templates easily.

This at least makes it easy to add extensions like SVG import now, instead of waiting for it be available as part of OpenOffice.org itself. There other nice things like Sun Report Builder (free) and free templates. Basic templates are important for end-users, especially SMEs to get the job done without having to spend time learning how to create simple documents like quotations and simple reports.

Get it here http://download.openoffice.org/2.3.0/index.html

For Linux users, you will get it soon when your distribution includes the update by default.