[ANNOUNCE] Apache POI 5.2.2 released

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

The Apache POI project is pleased to announce the release of POI 5.2.2.
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
------------
The most notable changes in this release are:

* upgrade dependencies: log4j-api 2.17.2, graphics2d 0.35 ...
* Support rich text strings in SXSSFWorkbook (only when shared string
table is used) [#65943]
* POIXMLPropertiesTextExtractor returns duplicate key for Core
properties [#65946]
* Fix issue where Boolean functions (AND, OR) do not work properly in
array context [#65915]
* Add XSLF APIs to remove paragraphs and text runs [#65934,#65935]
* POI 5.2.1 can allocate byte arrays that are too big [#65950]
* Fix stackoverflow issue when removing formulas with circular
references [#65939]


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-5.2.2-20220312.zip or poi-bin-5.2.2-20220312.tgz)
 - source archive you can build POI from (poi-src-5.2.2-20220312.zip
or poi-src-5.2.2-20220312.tgz)
  Unpack the archive and use the following command to build all POI
components with JDK 1.8 or higher:

  gradlew jar

 Pre-built versions of all POI components are also available in the
central Maven repository
 under Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version "5.2.2"

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_2_2/KEYS

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, 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

On behalf of the Apache POI PMC,
PJ

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache POI 5.2.2 released

[Andreas Reichel <an...@manticore-projects.com>]

Thank you and kudos to all of you, great job as always.

Cheers
Andreas