-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 The Apache POI project is pleased to announce the release of 3.14beta1. This is the first beta of 3.14 and includes a few new areas of functionality, including much work towards common SL, limited read-only support for the Visio OOXML format, and a lot of bug fixes.
Note that the addition of the Visio support has resulted in a rare release of the ooxml-schemas and ooxml-security JARs - versions 1.3 and 1.1 of those respectively are now available as part of this new POI release. You can download the beta from the usual place: http://poi.apache.org/download.html or via Maven Central with version 3.14-beta1. Note: The Apache Software Foundation uses an extensive mirroring network for distributing releases. It is possible that the mirror you are using may not have replicated the release yet. If that is the case, please try another mirror. This also goes for Maven access. The release notes for 3.14-beta1 are below. The Apache POI project is pleased to announce the release of POI 3.14-beta1. Featured are a handful of new areas of functionality, and numerous bug fixes. See the downloads page for binary and source distributions: http://poi.apache.org/download.html Release Notes Changes - ------------ The most notable changes in this release are: * Limited read-only support for the Visio OOXML format. ** This means this release is accompanied by updates to the ooxml-schemas and ooxml-security JARs of schemas. * Modified our use of XmlBeans so that ooxml-schemas no longer allows parsing raw data without safe limits. * Numerous bug-fixes and improvements to XSSF and SXSSF. * Substantial progress towards common SL interfaces. * Fixed some regressions in PPT support A full list of changes is available in the change log: http://poi.apache.org/changes.html. People interested should also follow the dev mailing list to track further progress. Release Contents - ---------------- This release comes in two forms: - - pre-built binaries containing compiled versions of all Apache POI components and documentation (poi-bin-3.14-beta1-20151223.zip or poi-bin-3.14-beta1-20151223.tar.gz) - - source archive you can build POI from (poi-src-3.14-beta1-20151223.zip or poi-src-3.14-beta1-20151223.tar.gz) Unpack the archive and use the following command to build all POI components with Apache Ant 1.6+ and JDK 1.6 or higher: ant jar Pre-built versions of all POI components are also available in the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version "3.14-beta1" All release artifacts are accompanied by MD5 checksums and a PGP signatures that you can use to verify the authenticity of your download. The public key used for the PGP signature can be found at http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/tags/REL_3_14_BETA1_RC2/KEYS About Apache POI - ----------------------- Apache POI is well-known in the Java field as a library for reading and writing Microsoft Office file formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, Publisher and Outlook. It supports both the older (OLE2) and new (OOXML - Office Open XML) formats. See http://poi.apache.org/ for more details Thanks to everyone who's contributed to POI this year, and a big thank you to the PMC for welcoming me aboard. Happy Christmas to all our users and developers, and I look forward to working with you in 2016. On behalf of the Apache POI PMC, David - -- David North - Committer and PMC Member, Apache POI https://home.apache.org/~dnorth/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWfBg/AAoJEFJ+uDP6Ot3CPpIP/iD8z04pjxIziB+mxnzN930L 3iLhX+qDokXPySUsQlldBGBYwYXz2IXKfxu2Gp6H9LuUq6Bdxxa658ZHRPtyAgyA KJ/G3pej8282sCWI+l2Punz+AUToiFZbNRvl/J3mfRGA0sRfMdMhiCZg/JOm2fjZ AHIhwZJ13IBf9vkRaHwvgNffs3C+AYwN0sO2JXA3aMUFYirLnBtbEvQt5F7dRWjo 5t8HkJ4PD+KszPgQ9buZ38+JwLcS+bN5eXfSNpsh5DG3wlEjz3yiDjivlMAoYnhE 932KgNYnfmUuvKwm3tXDjcWQ/A4Fon4LHhTb6eMTo42N9E4Bo8vaQ28xDdrLS+xW r+ZiNHI+QLO3Z6Hof9FQzTF1usyxBcEa9Epxp6YQTjdmaFjwNXxtUIKvk89pdUFP Vw5xqVLUrgT79/pi0Ifr0HEkopde9mKJmvly5d84v8BRREnuA+dMRn14aRKvoOAR OjYHWSzYE2WIRTQRPMJyg7754BWUaSjFHYH0JWSqBxrjNBDn/zrUilheY6VGN2Rv HdMa9uQ5O/yf+QrHNWXAvFwdIyt8m6d+n+E+yPkzb2jlzGZ/ah+uiR89kAn3kyNv urmV7jUd2XZMzSdbr9pf/mAxTEU1me/it3B5tsIB3CBJs/p3mlj8hPF+ux3d71mN 78qVTfEKDRdkWb3jLixJ =lKPZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
