Comment 1 for bug 138493

No, it does not. In Ubuntu ooo is using system-libfreetype (upstream is able to do so, too, but at least it had troubles with freetype >=2.2).

It is rather related to the fact that upstream-ooo is ignoring fontconfig-rendering-settings, e.g. if your system-libfreetype has enabled bytecode-interpreter, it will always use it, no matter what setting you are using.

Ubuntu, Fedora and Debian (maybe some more distros), are including patches to get extended fontconfig-support, which is not complete, though. The problem is, that the best hinting style you will be able to get at the moment is grayscale-hinting, maybe some future upstream-release will fix this.