What might be of interest for POI is that PDFBox 4 will switch to using Log4J, so it uses the same logging framework as POI. Apart from that I don’t know too much about what will change. I contributed some patches that reduce memory consumption and other improvements but I cannot tell about the other features.
Sorry that I have almost been absent from POI development for such a long time. I might use POI for MS word documents in the future and likely will contribute more again once I run into issues. I also try to get a fully JPMS compatible version of sparsebitset and might look into contributing to commons-math so that we will see a JPMS compatible release of that library too. If it gets done, POI will be finally be fully JPMS compatible too. Cheers, Axel > Am 06.01.2024 um 17:50 schrieb Axel Howind <a...@dua3.com>: > > Ah sorry, I wrote to the wrong list here. Was supposed to go to the PDFBox > list. Just typed in "dev“ and sent the message. No, everything is alright > with POI. > > >> Am 06.01.2024 um 17:43 schrieb PJ Fanning <fannin...@yahoo.com.INVALID>: >> >> PDF support in POI is limited to 1 or 2 small areas. I don't think it is a >> good idea to have PDFBox drive our release schedules. >> >> Is there anything in PDFBox 4 that we need? We recently upgrade to PDFBox 3 >> and my understanding is that PDFBox 3 and 4 are pretty similar. PDFBox 3 >> still has Java 8 support. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Saturday 6 January 2024 at 17:29:39 GMT+1, Axel Howind <a...@dua3.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> Happy New Year everybody! >> >> I want to ask about the roadmap to PDFBox 4.0, specifically: >> >> - Java version: currently PDFBox 4.0 is on Java 11. In the meantime, we have >> two newer LTS versions (17 and 21). Many important projects have decided to >> bump minimum requirements to Java 17 in the meantime like Spring and Spring >> BOOT, JOOQ, and others. What are your thoughts? Personally, I think staying >> on Java 11 is alright, I just wanted to ask. >> - How far along have we come towards 4.0? Maybe a first alpha could be >> released to get more people trying out the new version - and yes, I’d >> probably just jump to a 4.0 alpha release with my own personal project ;-) >> - If there’s anything blocking a release, let me know where I can contribute >> (I will probably have less time now than during the last months because I >> have a new budget from my main customer for my day job so will be more busy >> than in december). >> >> Cheers, >> Axel >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org
