diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES.txt b/RELEASE-NOTES.txt new file mode 100755 index 0000000000..41523924a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES.txt @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ + +The Apache POI is pleased to announce the release of POI 3.8. The release is available for download at: + +http://poi.apache.org/download.html + +See the full release notes below for details about this release. + +Release Notes -- Apache POI -- Version 3.8 + +Introduction +------------ + +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. See http://poi.apache.org/ for more details + +Apache POI 3.8 is an incremental feature release based on and +compatible with earlier POI 3.8-beta* releases. POI 3.8 is considered stable and recommended for production use. + +Release highlights: + +* NPOIFS: NIO driven API to read OLE2 filesystems with low memory footprint. +* 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 +* poi-excelant: Ant tasks for running POI against a workbook +* Supported evaluation of new Excel formulas: IRR,NPV,MROUND,VAR,VARP,CLEAN,CHAR,ADDRESS,HOUR,MINUTE,SECOND,RATE,WORKDAY,NETWORKDAYS,SUMIFS,RANK +* 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. +* 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. + +Other notable changes: +* Numerous improvements and refactorings in HWPF, Java API for MS Word .doc files: support for reading + footnotes, endnotes and bookmarks, improved support for hadlings tables, paragraphs, text runs and much more... +* Initial support for charts in XSSF +* support for OOXML Agile Encryption + +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-3.8-20120326.zip or poi-bin-3.8-20120326.tar.gz) + - source archive you can build POI from (poi-src-3.8-20120326.zip or poi-src-3.8-20120326.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 "3.8" + +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_8_FINAL/KEYS + + diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml index acf559dd4f..f40309746d 100644 --- a/build.xml +++ b/build.xml @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ under the License. The Apache POI project Ant build. - + diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml index 425f0bdf0a..d3f6f7b697 100644 --- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml +++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml @@ -32,12 +32,12 @@ -
17 December 2011 - POI 3.8 beta 5 available -

The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of 3.8 beta 5. - This includes a large number of bug fixes and enhancements. +

26 March 2012 - POI 3.8-FINAL available +

The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of 3.8. This includes a large number of bug fixes and features. See the + full release notes for more details.

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A full list of changes is available in the change log. - People interested should also follow the dev mailing list to track further progress.

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A full list of changes is available in the change log. + People interested should also follow the dev mailing list to track further progress.

See the downloads page for more details.

28 August 2011 - The Apache POI project is celebrating its 10th anniversary @@ -45,15 +45,6 @@ The Apache POI project is celebrating its 10th anniversary. On the 28th of August 2001, the first 0.1 alpha version of POI was released. Read more...

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29 October 2010 - POI 3.7 available -

The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of 3.7. This includes a large number of bug fixes, and some - enhancements (especially text extraction). See the - full release notes for more details. -

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A full list of changes is available in the change log. - People interested should also follow the dev mailing list to track further progress.

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See the downloads page for more details.

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Mission Statement

The Apache POI Project's mission is to create and maintain Java APIs for manipulating various file formats diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml index ef6a7f8a23..bdcd709698 100644 --- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml +++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ - + 52928 - DateFormatConverter: an utility to convert instances of java.text.DateFormat to Excel format patterns 52895 - show SSTIndex instead of XFIndex in LabelSSTRecord.toString() 52835 - Tolerate missing Count and UniqueCount attributes when parsing shared strings table in XSSF eventusermodel