Thanks Dominik.

I'll look into creating an RC in the next day or so.


On 2025/11/03 06:27:58 Dominik Stadler wrote:
> 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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