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The Apache POI is pleased to announce the release of POI 3.8. The release is available for download at:
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http://poi.apache.org/download.html
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See the full release notes below for details about this release.
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Release Notes -- Apache POI -- Version 3.8
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Introduction
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Apache POI is well-known in the Java field as a library for reading and
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writing Microsoft Office file formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and
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Word. See http://poi.apache.org/ for more details
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Apache POI 3.8 is an incremental feature release based on and
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compatible with earlier POI 3.8-beta* releases. POI 3.8 is considered stable and recommended for production use.
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Release highlights:
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* NPOIFS: NIO driven API to read OLE2 filesystems with low memory footprint.
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* SXSSF: a low-memory footprint API built on top of XSSF that can be used when very large spreadsheets have to be produced, and heap space is limited
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* poi-excelant: Ant tasks for running POI against a workbook
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* Supported evaluation of new Excel formulas: IRR,NPV,MROUND,VAR,VARP,CLEAN,CHAR,ADDRESS,HOUR,MINUTE,SECOND,RATE,WORKDAY,NETWORKDAYS,SUMIFS,RANK
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* XSLF usermodel API: POI's implementation of the PowerPoint 2007 OOXML (.xlsx) file format. XSLF provides a rich usermodel API and a PPTX2PNG utility to export slides to images.
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* WordToFO, WordToHtml and WordToText converters: utilities to export MS Word .doc files into XSL-FO, html and text files. Output from WordToFO can be used to convert .doc files to pdf using Apache FOP.
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Other notable changes:
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* Numerous improvements and refactorings in HWPF, Java API for MS Word .doc files: support for reading
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footnotes, endnotes and bookmarks, improved support for hadlings tables, paragraphs, text runs and much more...
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* Initial support for charts in XSSF
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* support for OOXML Agile Encryption
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A full list of changes is available in the change log: http://poi.apache.org/changes.html.
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People interested should also follow the dev mailing list to track further progress.
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Release Contents
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This release comes in two forms:
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- pre-built binaries containing compiled versions of all Apache POI components and documentation
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(poi-bin-3.8-20120326.zip or poi-bin-3.8-20120326.tar.gz)
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- source archive you can build POI from (poi-src-3.8-20120326.zip or poi-src-3.8-20120326.tar.gz)
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Unpack the archive and use the following command to build all POI components with Apache Ant 1.6+ and JDK 1.5 or higher:
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ant jar
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Pre-built versions of all POI components are also available in the central Maven repository
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under Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version "3.8"
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All release artifacts are accompanied by MD5 checksums and a PGP signatures
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that you can use to verify the authenticity of your download.
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The public key used for the PGP signature can be found at
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http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/tags/REL_3_8_FINAL/KEYS
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