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The Apache POI is pleased to announce the release of POI 3.8. The release is available for download at: | |||
http://poi.apache.org/download.html | |||
See the full release notes below for details about this release. | |||
Release Notes -- Apache POI -- Version 3.8 | |||
Introduction | |||
------------ | |||
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. See http://poi.apache.org/ for more details | |||
Apache POI 3.8 is an incremental feature release based on and | |||
compatible with earlier POI 3.8-beta* releases. POI 3.8 is considered stable and recommended for production use. | |||
Release highlights: | |||
* NPOIFS: NIO driven API to read OLE2 filesystems with low memory footprint. | |||
* SXSSF: a low-memory footprint API built on top of XSSF that can be used when very large spreadsheets have to be produced, and heap space is limited | |||
* poi-excelant: Ant tasks for running POI against a workbook | |||
* Supported evaluation of new Excel formulas: IRR,NPV,MROUND,VAR,VARP,CLEAN,CHAR,ADDRESS,HOUR,MINUTE,SECOND,RATE,WORKDAY,NETWORKDAYS,SUMIFS,RANK | |||
* XSLF usermodel API: POI's implementation of the PowerPoint 2007 OOXML (.xlsx) file format. XSLF provides a rich usermodel API and a PPTX2PNG utility to export slides to images. | |||
* WordToFO, WordToHtml and WordToText converters: utilities to export MS Word .doc files into XSL-FO, html and text files. Output from WordToFO can be used to convert .doc files to pdf using Apache FOP. | |||
Other notable changes: | |||
* Numerous improvements and refactorings in HWPF, Java API for MS Word .doc files: support for reading | |||
footnotes, endnotes and bookmarks, improved support for hadlings tables, paragraphs, text runs and much more... | |||
* Initial support for charts in XSSF | |||
* support for OOXML Agile Encryption | |||
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 | |||
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This release comes in two forms: | |||
- pre-built binaries containing compiled versions of all Apache POI components and documentation | |||
(poi-bin-3.8-20120326.zip or poi-bin-3.8-20120326.tar.gz) | |||
- source archive you can build POI from (poi-src-3.8-20120326.zip or poi-src-3.8-20120326.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 "3.8" | |||
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_8_FINAL/KEYS | |||
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<description>The Apache POI project Ant build.</description> | |||
<property name="version.id" value="3.8-beta6"/> | |||
<property name="version.id" value="3.8"/> | |||
<property environment="env"/> | |||
<!-- the repository to download jars from --> |
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</header> | |||
<body> | |||
<section><title>17 December 2011 - POI 3.8 beta 5 available</title> | |||
<p>The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of 3.8 beta 5. | |||
This includes a large number of bug fixes and enhancements. | |||
<section><title>26 March 2012 - POI 3.8-FINAL available</title> | |||
<p>The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of 3.8. This includes a large number of bug fixes and features. See the | |||
<link href="http://www.apache.org/dist/poi/release/bin/RELEASE_NOTES.txt">full release notes</link> for more details. | |||
</p> | |||
<p>A full list of changes is available in the <link href="changes.html">change log</link>. | |||
People interested should also follow the <link href="mailinglists.html">dev mailing list</link> to track further progress.</p> | |||
<p>A full list of changes is available in the <link href="changes.html">change log</link>. | |||
People interested should also follow the <link href="mailinglists.html">dev mailing list</link> to track further progress.</p> | |||
<p>See the <link href="download.html">downloads</link> page for more details.</p> | |||
</section> | |||
<section><title>28 August 2011 - The Apache POI project is celebrating its 10th anniversary</title> | |||
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The Apache POI project is celebrating its 10th anniversary. On the 28th of August 2001, the first 0.1 alpha version of POI was released. | |||
<link href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_announces14">Read more...</link></p> | |||
</section> | |||
<section><title>29 October 2010 - POI 3.7 available</title> | |||
<p>The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of 3.7. This includes a large number of bug fixes, and some | |||
enhancements (especially text extraction). See the | |||
<link href="http://www.apache.org/dist/poi/release/bin/RELEASE_NOTES.txt">full release notes</link> for more details. | |||
</p> | |||
<p>A full list of changes is available in the <link href="changes.html">change log</link>. | |||
People interested should also follow the <link href="mailinglists.html">dev mailing list</link> to track further progress.</p> | |||
<p>See the <link href="download.html">downloads</link> page for more details.</p> | |||
</section> | |||
<section><title>Mission Statement</title> | |||
<p> | |||
The Apache POI Project's mission is to create and maintain Java APIs for manipulating various file formats |
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<changes> | |||
<release version="3.8-beta6" date="2012-??-??"> | |||
<release version="3.8-FINAL" date="2012-03-26"> | |||
<action dev="poi-developers" type="add">52928 - DateFormatConverter: an utility to convert instances of java.text.DateFormat to Excel format patterns</action> | |||
<action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">52895 - show SSTIndex instead of XFIndex in LabelSSTRecord.toString()</action> | |||
<action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">52835 - Tolerate missing Count and UniqueCount attributes when parsing shared strings table in XSSF eventusermodel</action> |