[ANNOUNCE] Apache POI 3.12-beta1 released

[Andreas Beeker <ki...@apache.org>]

The Apache POI project is pleased to announce the release of POI 3.12-beta1.
Featured are a handful of new areas of functionality, and numerous bug fixes.

See the downloads page for binary and source distributions:
http://poi.apache.org/download.html

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Release Notes


Changes
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The most notable changes in this release are:

 * Mapping of symbol characters to unicode equivalent (49541)
 * Add methods to set margins in sections of HWPF documents (53453)
 * Add support for cropped images (54541)
 * Add implementations of DMIN and DGET functions (57007)
 * XSSF custom column label names for pivot tables (57063)
 * Support for Office Binary Document and RC4 CryptoAPI Encryption for HSLF (57195)

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-3.12-beta1-20150228.zip or poi-bin-3.12-beta1-20150228.tar.gz)
 - source archive you can build POI from
   (poi-src-3.12-beta1-20150228.zip or poi-src-3.12-beta1-20150228.tar.gz)

Unpack the archive and use the following command to build all POI components
with Apache Ant 1.6+ and JDK 1.6 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 "3.12-beta1"

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_12_BETA1/KEYS

About Apache POI
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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 http://poi.apache.org/ for more details

On behalf of the Apache POI PMC,
Andi

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