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