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 >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >>>
