Congratulations and a big Thank You! This is a big and important release for us and we do appreciate your work!
Thank you again and cheers! Andreas On Tue, 2021-01-19 at 20:52 +0100, Andreas Beeker wrote: > The Apache POI project is pleased to announce the release of POI > 5.0.0. > Featured are a handful of new areas of functionality, and numerous > bug fixes. > > See the downloads page for binary and source distributions: > https://poi.apache.org/download.html > > Release Notes > > Changes > ------------ > The most notable changes in this release are: > > * Upgrade to ECMA-376 5th edition (transitional) schemas - expect API > breaks when using XmlBeans directly > some smaller changes are necessary when code is using the low- > level CT... classes > * Change artifact names of poi-/ooxml-schemas to poi-ooxml-lite/full > * ooxml-security is part of poi-ooxml-full (known as ooxml-schemas) > now and won't be provided separately > * updated dependencies to XMLSec 2.2.1, Bouncycastle 1.68, Commons- > Codec 1.15, Commons-Compress 1.20 > * XWPF - improvements in table and paragraph > * XSLF - improvements for paragraph > * provide JigSaw modules - some classes moved between packages for > the JDK 9+ support, e.g. > ExtractorFactory, so imports need to be adjusted > * removed dependencies to jaxb > * removed deprecated code > * new experimental DeferredSXSSFWorkbook which avoids temp files by > lazily generating rows (see DeferredGeneration in poi-examples) > * Some known issues with the new XDDFChart interfaces, e.g. > https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65016 > > > Known issues > ----------------- > * A regression with creating XSLFTables will be fixed soon in POI > 5.0.1 > > > A full list of changes is available in the change log: > https://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-5.0.0-20210120.zip or poi-bin-5.0.0-20210120.tar.gz) > - source archive you can build POI from (poi-src-5.0.0-20210120.zip > or poi-src-5.0.0-20210120.tar.gz) > Unpack the archive and use the following command to build all POI > components with Apache Ant 1.8+ and JDK 1.8 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 "5.0.0" > > All release artifacts are accompanied by MD5 checksums and 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 > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/tags/REL_5_0_0/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 https://poi.apache.org/ for more details > > On behalf of the Apache POI PMC, > Andi > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >
