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Author: fanningpj
Date: Tue Nov  2 10:57:28 2021
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+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
+------------
+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
+----------------
+
+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
+-----------------------
+
+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



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