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Author: kiwiwings
Date: Sat Jul  7 19:10:14 2018
New Revision: 27977

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+The Apache POI project is pleased to announce the unretirement and release of Apache XMLBeans 3.0.0.
+The POI team is now maintaining and taking over the ownership of XMLBeans.
+
+Featured are a handful of security and unicode related fixes.
+
+See the downloads page for binary and source distributions:
+https://xmlbeans.apache.org/download
+
+Note: The Apache Software Foundation uses an extensive mirroring network for
+distributing releases. It is possible that the mirror you are using may not
+have replicated the release yet. If that is the case, please try another mirror.
+This also goes for Maven access.
+
+
+
+Release Notes
+
+Changes
+------------
+The most notable changes in this release are:
+
+* XMLBEANS-517: use safe XML parsers
+* XMLBEANS-515: remove piccolo support
+* XMLBEANS-514: make Java 6 the lowest supported runtime
+* Fix for XMLBEANS-332: XMLBeans changes surrogate pair bytes to question marks
+
+
+A full list of changes is available in the change log:
+https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xmlbeans/trunk/CHANGES.txt?view=markup&pathrev=1833767
+
+... and the JIRA ticket:
+https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XMLBEANS-517?jql=project%20%3D%20XMLBEANS%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%20%22Version%203.0.0%22
+
+People interested should also follow the *POI* dev mailing list to track further progress.
+
+
+
+Release Contents
+----------------
+
+This release comes in two forms:
+ - pre-built binaries containing compiled versions of all Apache XMLBeans components and documentation
+   (xmlbeans-bin-3.0.0-20180629.zip or xmlbeans-bin-3.0.0-20180629.tgz)
+ - source archive you can build XMLBeans from (xmlbeans-src-3.0.0-20180629.zip or xmlbeans-src-3.0.0-20180629.tgz)
+  Unpack the archive and use the following command to build all XMLBeans components with Apache Ant 1.8+ and JDK 1.6 or higher:
+
+  ant deploy
+
+ Pre-built versions of all XMLBeans components are also available in the central Maven repository
+ under Group ID "org.apache.xmlbeans" and Version "3.0.0"
+
+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/trunk/KEYS
+
+
+About Apache XMLBeans
+-----------------------
+
+XMLBeans is a tool that allows access to the full power of XML in a Java friendly way.
+The idea is to take advantage of the richness and features of XML and XML Schema
+and have these features mapped as naturally as possible to the equivalent Java
+language and typing constructs.
+
+See https://xmlbeans.apache.org for more details
+
+
+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,
+Andi
+
+



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