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
> 
> 
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