The Apache POI project is pleased to announce the release of POI
3.11-beta3. 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
Note: The Apache Software Foundation uses an extensive mirroring network
for distributing releases. It is possible that the mirror you are using
may not have replicated the release yet. If that is the case, please try
another mirror. This also goes for Maven access.
Release Notes
Changes
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The most notable changes in this release are:
* XML Signature support for XSSF, XWPF and XSLF (56836)
* HSSF and XSSF support for getting existing Data Validations for a Sheet
* HSSF and XSSF formula support for the PROPER function (57010)
* XSLF support for adding slide notes (55164)
* XMLBeans performance improved when using getXXXList() methods (56854)
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
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This release comes in two forms:
- pre-built binaries containing compiled versions of all Apache POI
components and documentation
(poi-bin-3.11-beta3-20141111.zip or poi-bin-3.11-beta3-20141111.tar.gz)
- source archive you can build POI from (poi-src-3.11-beta3-20141111.zip
or poi-src-3.11-beta3-20141111.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-beta3"
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_BETA3/KEYS
About Apache POI
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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
On behalf of the Apache POI PMC,
Nick
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