Hi, Mass-regression-testing has finished. Out of 3561336 documents, only 15 documents fail compared to 5.4.1, out of those 8 fail because of more testing, the others because fixes to Slide-drawing enable more code-paths for some documents and parsing enum XSSFBuiltinTableStyle now triggers an exception on invalid data.
So overall I'd say we are fine to release, as the "breaking" changes only affect a very low number of documents, aprox. 7 out of 3mio! Regards... Dominik. On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM Dominik Stadler <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks PJ, for starting the discussion. Also works for me, I can run the > mass-regression-tests next weekend. > > Dominik. > > On Wed, 22 Oct 2025, 23:01 PJ Fanning, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> I think that we have enough changes to justify a 5.5.0 release. >> >> https://github.com/apache/poi/compare/REL_5_4_1...HEAD >> >> https://github.com/apache/poi/blob/trunk/src/documentation/content/xdocs/changes.xml >> >> The changes.xml file is incomplete and needs to be updated to add some >> changes. >> >> After we get that maybe we can discuss working towards a 6.0.0 release >> where we drop Java 8 support and maybe also look at getting rid of >> poi-ooxml-lite to simplify the build. >> >> I can act as release manager but if someone else wants to give it a >> go, please get in touch. >> >> Thanks, >> PJ >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >>
