[ANNOUNCE] Apache POI 5.1.0 released

[PJ Fanning <fa...@apache.org>]

The Apache POI project is pleased to announce the release of POI 5.1.0.

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

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The most notable changes in this release are:


* upgrade dependencies: XmlBeans 5.0.2, XMLSec 2.2.3, Batik 1.14,
BouncyCastle 1.69, Commons-Compress 1.21, ...

* switching build to Gradle - Ant build is not supported anymore [#65206]

* XSLFTable::addRow functionality reverted to pre-5.0.0 [github-221]

* XSSFDrawing - import chart from other drawing [#63901]

* Support for Excel functions IFS, SWITCH, TEXTJOIN, IFNA, MAXIFS,
MINIFS, AVERAGEIFS, TDIST

* Fix SVG-related image rendering




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

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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-5.1.0-20211024.zip or poi-bin-5.1.0-20211024.tgz)

 - source archive you can build POI from (poi-src-5.1.0-20211024.zip
or poi-src-5.1.0-20211024.tgz)

  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 "5.1.0"


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_1_0/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 https://poi.apache.org/ for more details

Thanks to all our contributors for making this release possible.

On behalf of the Apache POI PMC,
PJ