[ANN] POI 2.0-RC1

[Glen Stampoultzis <gs...@iinet.net.au>]

ANNOUNCEMENT:


The POI Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the Jakarta 
POI 2.0-RC1 release.  This is a release candidate for the 2.0 production 
release and includes a ton of bug fixes.


WHAT IS POI?


The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats 
based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java. In 
short, you can read and write MS Excel files using Java.  Reading property 
information is also supported.  Work continues on reading and writing the 
MS Word format.


CHANGE LOG:


The change log for this release is as follows:

12561 	HSSFWorkbook throws Exceptions
12730 	values dont get copied to another sheet.
13224 	Exception thrown when cell has =Names call
13796 	Error Reading Formula Record (optimized if, external link)
13921 	Sheet name cannot exceed 31 characters and cannot contain :
14330 	Error reading FormulaRecord
14460 	Name in Formula - ArrayOutOfBoundsException
15228 	[Urgent] ArrayIndexoutofbounds Exception. POI - Version 1.8
16488 	Unable to open written spreadsheet in Excel, but can in Open
16559 	testCustomPalette.xls crashes Excel 97
16560 	testBoolErr.xls crashes Excel '97
17374 	HSSFFont - BOLDWEIGHT_NORMAL
18800 	The sheet made by HSSFWorkbook#cloneSheet() doesn't work cor
18846 	[PATCH][RFE]Refactor the transformation between byte array a
19599 	java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
19961 	[PATCH] Sheet.getColumnWidth() returns wrong value
21066 	Can not modify a blank spreadsheet
21444 	[PATCH] Macro functions
21447 	[RFE]String Formula Cells
21674 	[PATCH] Documentation changes for @(Greater|Less|Not)EqualPt
21863 	[PATCH] build.xml fixes
22195 	[RFE] [PATCH] Support for Storage Class ID
22742 	Failed to create HSSFWorkbook!
22922 	HSSFSheet.shiftRows() throws java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsExcep
22963 	org.apache.poi.hpsf.SummaryInformation.getEditTime() should
24149 	Error passing inputstream to POIFSFileSystem
21722 	[PATCH] Add a ProtectRecord to Sheets and give control over
9576 	[PATCH] DBCELL, INDEX EXTSST (was Acess 97 import)
13478 	[PATCH] [RFE] POIFS, RawDataBlock: Missing workaround for lo
14824 	Unable to modify empty sheets
12843 	[PATCH] Make POI handle chinese better
15353 	[RFE] creating a cell with a hyperlink
15375 	Post 1.5.1 POI causes spreadsheet to become unopenable.

A web page of these issues can be found at:

   http://tinyurl.com/tbtn


DOWNLOADS (source and binaries):


http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/jakarta/poi/



Regards,


The Jakarta POI Team.


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