From f668e1a44bebb064099e3ba7109ab2b91e1d75b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yegor Kozlov Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:21:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] added release notes git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/tags/REL_3_6@890424 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- RELEASE-NOTES.txt | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 80 insertions(+) create mode 100755 RELEASE-NOTES.txt diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES.txt b/RELEASE-NOTES.txt new file mode 100755 index 0000000000..9b303ecc24 --- /dev/null +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES.txt @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +The Apache POI is pleased to announce the release of POI 3.6. Featured are significant performance improvements 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: + +* A "lite" version of ooxml-schemas-1.0.jar called poi-ooxml-schemas-3.6-20091214.jar is included in the binary distribution. +This jar replaces the big ooxml-schemas-1.0.jar in the binary distributions and Maven POMs. The poi-ooxml-schemas jar is 10 MB smaller! + +* Significant memory improvements in XSSF module. When generating data, new code consumes 200% less memory than POI-3.5. + +* Full support for cell comments in XSSF. + +* Formula performance and coverage. +Lazy evaluation of formulas has been implemented which provides for improvements of 700% in some cases. Your results may vary. + +* Examples are now included. + poi-examples-3.6-20091214.jar includes all of the examples from the poi, poi-scratchpad and poi-ooxml modules. + Users have requested this several times. These examples provide excellent templates for POI based applications. + Several convertors are included: XLSX2CSV, XLS2CSVmra, BigGridDemo, PPT2PNG, Word2Forrest, and msg2txt. + +* Maven distribution now includes sources. +Each individual JAR is accompanied by a -sources.jar. Two new maven modules were added poi-ooxml-schemas and poi-examples. + +* Program elements intended for POI internal use only are annotated @Internal. +These may be removed or access changed from 'public' to 'default' or less in future versions of POI. + +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-3.6-20091214.zip or poi-bin-3.6-20091214.tar.gz) + - source archive you can build POI from (poi-src-3.6-20091214.zip or poi-src-3.6-20091214.tar.gz) + Unpack the archive and use the following command to build all POI components with Apache Ant 1.6+ and JDK 1.5 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 "3.6" + +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_6/KEYS + +Contributors +------------ + +The following people have contributed to this release by submitting bug +reports or by participating in the issue resolution process (in strict alphabetical order). + +Bernhard Schwager Ian Beaumont Maxim Valyanskiy +Bob Stox Jeremy Michelson Paul Tomlin +Bruno Girin Jeff Lamb Petr Udalau +Chris Lott Joubert Nel Robert Longson +Dale Monti Karl Eilebrecht Robin Salkeld +Daniel Noll (Trejkaz) Leonhard Wimmer Thang Nguyen +David Agnew Mads Mohr Christensen Vinu Kumar +David Horwitz Markus Herven +Davor Cubranic Marcus Thiesen +Eric Smith Martin Poelman + +Thank you all very much! Contributions are always welcome, come join the project. + +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, Visio and +Word. Since POI 3.5, the new OOXML (Office Open XML) formats introduced in Office 2007 have been supported. +See http://poi.apache.org/ for more details + -- 2.39.5