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Posted to announce@apache.org by Andreas Beeker <ki...@apache.org> on 2018/12/03 23:59:48 UTC

[ANNOUNCE] Apache POI 4.0.1 released

The Apache POI project is pleased to announce the release of POI 4.0.1.
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:

- dependency updates to XMLBeans 3.0.2 / Bouncycastle 1.60
- XSSF: import chart on drawing
- XDDF: Define XDDF user model for text body, its paragraphs and text runs
- OPC: fixes on the newly introduced commons compress usage

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-4.0.1-20181203.zip or poi-bin-4.0.1-20181203.tar.gz)
  - source archive you can build POI from (poi-src-4.0.1-20181203.zip or poi-src-4.0.1-20181203.tar.gz)
   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 "4.0.1"

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_4_0_1/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


Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible.

On behalf of the Apache POI PMC,
Andi