<property name="mavendist.poi.dir" location="build/maven-dist/poi"/>
<property name="mavendist.oap.dir" location="build/maven-dist/org.apache.poi"/>
<property name="jar.name" value="poi"/>
- <property name="version.id" value="3.1-beta1"/>
+ <property name="version.id" value="3.1-beta2"/>
<property name="halt.on.test.failure" value="true"/>
<property name="jdk.version.source" value="1.3"
description="JDK version of source code"/>
</header>
<body>
+ <section><title>POI 3.1-BETA1 Released (2008-04028)</title>
+ <p>
+ The POI team is pleased to announce the release of 3.1 BETA1 which is one of the final steps before 3.1 FINAL.
+ The status of this release is a beta, meaning that we encourage users to try it out.
+ If you find any bugs, please report them to the POI <link href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=POI">bug database</link> or to
+ the <link href="./mailinglists.html">POI Developer List</link>.
+ </p><p> A full list of changes is available in
+ <link href="./changes.html">the changelog</link>, and
+ <link href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/dev/">download</link>
+ the source and binaries from your
+ <link href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/dev/">local mirror</link>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The release is also available from the central Maven repository
+ under Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version "3.1-beta1".
+ </p>
+ </section>
<section><title>POI 3.0.2 Released</title>
<p>The POI team is pleased to announce POI 3.0.2, the latest release of Apache POI.
There have been many important bug fixes since the 3.0.1 release and a lot of new features. A full list of changes is available in