I pushed two small changes to make some of the failing documents parse
again. One NullPointerException and keep fallback handling for enum-parsing.

Dominik.


On Mon, Nov 3, 2025 at 7:06 AM Dominik Stadler <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> 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
>>>
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