The Apache POI is pleased to announce the release of POI 3.7. See the downloads page for binary and source distributions: http://poi.apache.org/download.html Release Notes -- Apache POI -- Version 3.7 Apache POI is an open source Java library for working with Microsoft Office documents. POI 3.7 is an incremental feature release based on the earlier 3.6 release. The most notable changes since POI 3.6 are: ------------------------------------------- OOXML * support for reading aes-encrypted/write-protected ooxml files * support Java 1.5 in auto-generated xmlbeans for ooxml schemas Spreadsheet (Excel) * initial support for autofilters * support for data validation for ooxml format * initial support for themes for ooxml format * added implementation for new functions: RANDBETWEEN, POISSON, SUBTOTAL, TEXT, TRUNC * support evaluation of indirect defined names in INDIRECT * numerous fixes and performance optimizations in the Formula Evaluation module * ability to add, modify and remove series from HSSF Charts * numerous improvements in the cell data formatter (handling more formatting rules, better color detection, allow overriding of default locale) * more examples including a rich "spreadsheet to HTML" converter Document (Word) * initial support for the HWPF revision marks authors list * support for border codes in HWPF * support for processing of symbols in HWPF * support sections in Word 6 and Word 95 files * improved reading of auto-saved ("complex") documents in HWPF * improved support for manipulation of tables and paragraphs in XWPF SlideShow (PowerPoint) * allow editing workbooks embedded into HSLF slide shows Text Extraction * support for text extraction from XSLF tables * add PublisherTextExtractor support to extractorfactory * support attachments as embedded documents within the new OutlookTextExtactor * new event based XSSF text extractor (XSSFEventBasedExcelExtractor) * make it easier to tell which content types each POIXMLTextExtractor handles * paragraph level as well as whole-file text extraction for word 6/95 files * ...and much much more: code cleanup, many bug fixes and performance improvements 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). Alexey Butchik Jeff Lavezzo Philippe Laflamme Andrew Shirley Jens Gatze Raiko Eckstein Andrzej Bialecki Jerry Soung Rainer Schwarze Antoni Mylka Jonathan Holloway Ranvijay Singh Antony Bowesman Josh Micich Rick Cameron Antti Koskimaki Jukka Zitting Robert Kish Attila Kiraily Kai Zimmermann Robin Salkeld Bob Smith Kalpesh Parmar Ryan Lauck Brendan Nolan Kamil Soltys Ryan Skow Charlie Chang Karl Eilebrecht Samuel Yung Chris Barlock Ken Arnold Simon Kelly Chris Lott Liu Yan Stefan Stern Christiaan Fluit Lon Binder Steve Wolke Dave Fisher Martin Studer TK Gospodinov Dave Syer Martin W. Kirst Tao Jiang David Agnew Maxim Valyanskiy Ted Schrader David Lewis Michael Vilensky Thomas Herre Dmitry Sviridov Michel Boudinot Tomas Prochazka Domenico Napoletano Nick Burch Tony Harvey Ed Beaty Paul Spencer Trejkaz (pen name) Fabio Ebner Payam Hekmat Tsutomu YANO Fred Ross Peter Kutak Viveck Shastri Grzegorz Bloch Petr Udalau Vladimir Korenev Henry Huang Phil Dunlea William J. Coleda Immad Naseer Phil Varner Yegor Kozlov Jan Stette Philipp Epp Zhang Zhang Thank you all very much! Contributions are always welcome, come join the project. Release Contents ---------------- This release comes in two forms: - pre-built binaries containing compiled versions of all Apache POI components and documentation (poi-bin-3.7-20101029.zip or poi-bin-3.7-20101029.tar.gz) - source archive you can build POI from (poi-src-3.7-20101029.zip or poi-src-3.7-20101029.tar.gz) Pre-built versions of all POI components are also available in the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version "3.7" 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/REL_3_7/KEYS 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. For more information, visit http://poi.apache.org/ For the Apache POI Team Yegor Kozlov