Added: dev/poi/3.11-beta1-RC1/RELEASE-NOTES.txt ============================================================================== --- dev/poi/3.11-beta1-RC1/RELEASE-NOTES.txt (added) +++ dev/poi/3.11-beta1-RC1/RELEASE-NOTES.txt Fri Aug 1 02:51:56 2014 @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +The Apache POI project is pleased to announce the release of POI 3.11-beta1. +Featured are a handful of new areas of functionality, and numerous bug fixes. + +See the downloads page for binary and source distributions: http://poi.apache.org/download.html + +Release Notes + +Changes +------------ +The most notable changes in this release are: + +XSSF support for evaluating formula references to other Workbooks (56737) +HSSF and XSSF support for evaluating formulas with multi-sheet references, + for functions that support that (55906) +HSSF and XSSF Workbooks are now CLoseable, so you can call close() to + explicitly free the file based resources when you're done (56537) +NPOIFS now fully supports writing, including streaming write, and in-place + updating of existing entries. NPOIFSFileSystem now surpasses the old + POIFSFileSystem in all cases. +XSSF Text Extraction support for Headers, Footers and Comments (56022, 56023) +SXSSF Shared Strings optional support (53130) +XWPF Change Tracking support (56075) +HWPF password hash function (56077) +XWPF document protection with password support (56076) +SXSSF support for a system-wide setting of where Temp files get created, via + TempFile / TempFileCreationStrategy (56735) + +Backwards Incompatible changes: + +The interface org.apache.poi.xssf.eventusermodel.XSSFSheetXMLHandler.SheetContentsHandler +has had two method signature changes: + endRow() -> endRow(int) + cell(String,String) -> cell(String,String,Comment) + +The minimum Java version has been increased to Java 1.6 + + +A full list of changes is available in the change log: http://poi.apache.org/changes.html. +People interested should also follow the dev mailing list to track further progress. + +Release Contents +---------------- + +This release comes in two forms: + - pre-built binaries containing compiled versions of all Apache POI components and documentation + (poi-bin-3.11-beta1-20140804.zip or poi-bin-3.11-beta1-20140804.tar.gz) + - source archive you can build POI from (poi-src-3.11-beta1-20140804.zip or poi-src-3.11-beta1-20140804.tar.gz) + Unpack the archive and use the following command to build all POI components with Apache Ant 1.6+ and JDK 1.6 or higher: + + ant jar + + Pre-built versions of all POI components are also available in the central Maven repository + under Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version "3.11-beta1" + +All release artifacts are accompanied by MD5 checksums and a PGP signatures +that you can use to verify the authenticity of your download. +The public key used for the PGP signature can be found at +http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/tags/REL_3_11_BETA1/KEYS + +About Apache POI +----------------------- + +Apache POI is well-known in the Java field as a library for reading and +writing Microsoft Office file formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint, Word, +Visio, Publisher and Outlook. It supports both the older (OLE2) and +new (OOXML - Office Open XML) formats. + +See http://poi.apache.org/ for more details
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