[Announce] Apache Jakarta POI 3.0

[Nick Burch <ni...@apache.org>]

The Apache Jakarta POI Team are pleased to announce the immediate 
availability of Apache Jakarta POI 3.0. This long-awaited release has been 
a long time coming, and we are thankful to all those who have helped us.

Apache Jakarta POI is well-known in the Java field as a library for 
reading and writing OLE2 office file formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint 
and Word.

Besides a number of bug fixes, this release offers a range of new features 
including:
* Partial support for PowerPoint through hslf, which offers support
    for reading and editing many of the core fields
* Support for evaluating Excel formulas in hssf
* Support for editing document properties through hpsf
* Improved support for editing images through hssf

A changelog is available at:
 	http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/changes.html

Apache Jakarta POI 3.0 is downloadable from the jakarta website
http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/


For the Apache Jakarta POI Team
 	Nick Burch