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+The Apache POI project is pleased to announce the release of POI 3.11-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
+
+Release Notes 
+
+Changes
+------------
+The most notable changes in this release are:
+
+XSSF support for evaluating formula references to other Workbooks (56737)
+HSSF and XSSF support for evaluating formulas with multi-sheet references,
+ for functions that support that (55906)
+HSSF and XSSF Workbooks are now CLoseable, so you can call close() to 
+ explicitly free the file based resources when you're done (56537)
+NPOIFS now fully supports writing, including streaming write, and in-place 
+ updating of existing entries. NPOIFSFileSystem now surpasses the old 
+ POIFSFileSystem in all cases. 
+XSSF Text Extraction support for Headers, Footers and Comments (56022, 56023)
+SXSSF Shared Strings optional support (53130)
+XWPF Change Tracking support (56075)
+HWPF password hash function (56077)
+XWPF document protection with password support (56076)
+SXSSF support for a system-wide setting of where Temp files get created, via
+ TempFile / TempFileCreationStrategy (56735)
+
+Backwards Incompatible changes:
+
+The interface org.apache.poi.xssf.eventusermodel.XSSFSheetXMLHandler.SheetContentsHandler
+has had two method signature changes:
+ endRow() -> endRow(int)
+ cell(String,String) -> cell(String,String,Comment)
+
+The minimum Java version has been increased to Java 1.6
+
+
+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
+----------------
+
+This release comes in two forms:
+ - pre-built binaries containing compiled versions of all Apache POI components and documentation 
+   (poi-bin-3.11-beta1-20140804.zip or poi-bin-3.11-beta1-20140804.tar.gz)
+ - source archive you can build POI from (poi-src-3.11-beta1-20140804.zip or poi-src-3.11-beta1-20140804.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 "3.11-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_11_BETA1/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 http://poi.apache.org/ for more details



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