From 94b22e266aba93fbbbd1f44b44a7d42abc5bbd3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yegor Kozlov Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:28:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] added a template of RELEASE-NOTES git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk@890685 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- src/documentation/RELEASE-NOTES.txt | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/documentation/RELEASE-NOTES.txt diff --git a/src/documentation/RELEASE-NOTES.txt b/src/documentation/RELEASE-NOTES.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..68e98416a --- /dev/null +++ b/src/documentation/RELEASE-NOTES.txt @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +The Apache POI is pleased to announce the release of POI @VERSION@. Featured are significant performance improvements 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: + +@List changes here@ + +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-@VERSION@.zip or poi-bin-@VERSION@.tar.gz) + - source archive you can build POI from (poi-src-@VERSION@.zip or poi-src-@VERSION@.tar.gz) + Unpack the archive and use the following command to build all POI components with Apache Ant 1.6+ and JDK 1.5 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 "@VERSION@" + +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/@RELEASE_TAG@/KEYS + +Contributors +------------ + +The following people have contributed to this release by submitting bug +reports or by participating in the issue resolution process (in strict alphabetical order). + +@List contributors here@ + +Thank you all very much! Contributions are always welcome, come join the project. + +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, Visio and +Word. Since POI 3.5, the new OOXML (Office Open XML) formats introduced in Office 2007 have been supported. +See http://poi.apache.org/ for more details +