release 5.5.1

doap_POI.rdf

@@ -35,6 +35,13 @@
     <programming-language>Java</programming-language>
     <category rdf:resource="https://projects.apache.org/category/content" />
     <category rdf:resource="https://projects.apache.org/category/library" />
+    <release>
+      <Version>
+        <name>Apache POI 5.5.1</name>
+        <created>2025-11-30</created>
+        <revision>5.5.1</revision>
+      </Version>
+    </release>
     <release>
       <Version>
         <name>Apache POI 5.5.0</name>

src/documentation/content/xdocs/changes.xml

@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
         </p>
     </section>
 
-    <release version="5.5.1" date="2025-12-??">
+    <release version="5.5.1" date="2025-11-30">
         <summary>
             <summary-item>Upgrade bouncycastle dependency to 1.83</summary-item>
             <summary-item>Upgrade commons-io dependency to 2.21.0</summary-item>

src/documentation/content/xdocs/components/hmef/index.xml

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
              TNEF file to extract, and the directory to place the extracted
              files into, eg:</p>
            <source>
-              java -classpath poi-5.5.0.jar:poi-scratchpad-5.5.0.jar org.apache.poi.hmef.extractor.HMEFContentsExtractor winmail.dat /tmp/extracted/
+              java -classpath poi-5.5.1.jar:poi-scratchpad-5.5.1.jar org.apache.poi.hmef.extractor.HMEFContentsExtractor winmail.dat /tmp/extracted/
            </source>
 
            <p>From Java, there are two method calls on the class, one to

src/documentation/content/xdocs/components/poi-jvm-languages.xml

@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
     # Add <a href="site:components">poi jars</a> onto the python classpath or add them at run time
     import sys
     for jar in ('poi', 'poi-ooxml', 'poi-ooxml-lite'):
-        sys.path.append('/path/to/%s-5.5.0.jar')
+        sys.path.append('/path/to/%s-5.5.1.jar')
 
     from java.io import File, FileOutputStream
     from contextlib import closing
@@ -150,9 +150,9 @@
       <source> <!-- lang="scala" -->
     // Add the POI core and OOXML support dependencies into your build.sbt
     libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
-      "org.apache.poi" % "poi" % "5.5.0",
+      "org.apache.poi" % "poi" % "5.5.1",
-      "org.apache.poi" % "poi-ooxml" % "5.5.0",
+      "org.apache.poi" % "poi-ooxml" % "5.5.1",
-      "org.apache.poi" % "poi-ooxml-lite" % "5.5.0"
+      "org.apache.poi" % "poi-ooxml-lite" % "5.5.1"
     )
       </source>
     </section>
@@ -211,8 +211,8 @@ repositories {
 }
 dependencies {
     runtime 'org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-all:2.5.15'
-    runtime 'org.apache.poi:poi:5.5.0'
+    runtime 'org.apache.poi:poi:5.5.1'
-    runtime 'org.apache.poi:poi-ooxml:5.5.0'
+    runtime 'org.apache.poi:poi-ooxml:5.5.1'
 }
       </source>
     </section>

src/documentation/content/xdocs/components/slideshow/ppt-wmf-emf-renderer.xml

@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
                     and for SVG/PDF the <a href="site:components/index/batikpdf">additional dependencies</a>.</p>
                 <p>Execute the java command (Unix-paths needs to be replaced for Windows - use "-charset" for non-western WMF/EMFs):</p>
                 <source>
-                    java -cp poi-5.5.0.jar:poi-ooxml-5.5.0.jar:poi-ooxml-lite-5.5.0.jar:poi-scratchpad-5.5.0.jar:lib/*:ooxml-lib/*:auxiliary/* org.apache.poi.xslf.util.PPTX2PNG -format png -fixside long -scale 1000 -charset GBK file.pptx
+                    java -cp poi-5.5.1.jar:poi-ooxml-5.5.1.jar:poi-ooxml-lite-5.5.1.jar:poi-scratchpad-5.5.1.jar:lib/*:ooxml-lib/*:auxiliary/* org.apache.poi.xslf.util.PPTX2PNG -format png -fixside long -scale 1000 -charset GBK file.pptx
                 </source>
                 <p>
                     If you want to use the renderer on the module path (JPMS) there a currently a few more steps necessary:
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
                 <ul>
                     <li>Create a build project using Maven, Gradle or your favorite build tool.</li>
                     <li>Alternatively, download the jars from https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/poi/</li>
-                    <li>Exclude poi-ooxml-full-5.5.0.jar,poi-javadoc-5.5.0.jar and auxiliary/xml-apis-1.4.01.jar (Java 11+) into new subdirectory "unused"</li>
+                    <li>Exclude poi-ooxml-full-5.5.1.jar,poi-javadoc-5.5.1.jar and auxiliary/xml-apis-1.4.01.jar (Java 11+) into new subdirectory "unused"</li>
                     <li>Move all other jars in current directory into a new subdirectory "poi"</li>
                     <li>Invoke PPTX2PNG:
                         <source>

src/documentation/content/xdocs/download.xml

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
             </p>
             <ul>
                 <li>
-                    <a href="#POI-5.5.0">The latest stable release is Apache POI 5.5.0</a>
+                    <a href="#POI-5.5.1">The latest stable release is Apache POI 5.5.1</a>
                 </li>
                 <li>
                     <a href="#archive">Archives of all prior releases</a>
@@ -53,11 +53,11 @@
 
         <!-- latest final release -->
 
-        <section id="POI-5.5.0"><title>15 November 2025 - POI 5.5.0 available</title>
+        <section id="POI-5.5.1"><title>30 November 2025 - POI 5.5.1 available</title>
-            <p>The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of 5.5.0.
+            <p>The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of 5.5.1.
                 Featured are a handful of new areas of functionality and numerous bug fixes.</p>
             <p>A summary of changes is available in the
-                <a href="https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/poi/dev/RELEASE-NOTES-5.5.0.txt">Release Notes</a>.
+                <a href="https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/poi/dev/RELEASE-NOTES-5.5.1.txt">Release Notes</a>.
                 A full list of changes is available in the <a href="site:changes">change log</a>.
                 People interested should also follow the <a href="site:mailinglists">dev list</a>
                 to track progress.</p>
@@ -65,19 +65,14 @@
                 The POI source release is listed below.
                 Pre-built versions of all <a href="site:components">POI components</a>
                 are available in the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version
-                "5.5.0".
+                "5.5.1".
             </p>
-            <section id="POI-5.5.0-src"><title>Source Distribution</title>
+            <section id="POI-5.5.1-src"><title>Source Distribution</title>
                 <ul>
                     <li>
-                        <a href="https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/poi/release/src/apache-poi-src-5.5.0-20251106.tgz">apache-poi-src-5.5.0-20251106.tgz</a>
+                        <a href="https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/poi/release/src/apache-poi-src-5.5.1-20251130.tgz">apache-poi-src-5.5.1-20251130.tgz</a>
-                        (116 MB, <a href="https://downloads.apache.org/poi/release/src/apache-poi-src-5.5.0-20251106.tgz.asc">signature (.asc)</a>,
+                        (117 MB, <a href="https://downloads.apache.org/poi/release/src/apache-poi-src-5.5.1-20251130.tgz.asc">signature (.asc)</a>,
-                        checksum: <a href="https://downloads.apache.org/poi/release/src/apache-poi-src-5.5.0-20251106.tgz.sha512">SHA-512</a>)
+                        checksum: <a href="https://downloads.apache.org/poi/release/src/apache-poi-src-5.5.1-20251130.tgz.sha512">SHA-512</a>)
-                    </li>
-                    <li>
-                        <a href="https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/poi/release/src/apache-poi-src-5.5.0-20251106.zip">apache-poi-src-5.5.0-20251106.zip</a>
-                        (120 MB, <a href="https://downloads.apache.org/poi/release/src/apache-poi-src-5.5.0-20251106.zip.asc">signature (.asc)</a>,
-                        checksum: <a href="https://downloads.apache.org/poi/release/src/apache-poi-src-5.5.0-20251106.zip.sha512">SHA-512</a>)
                     </li>
                 </ul>
             </section>

src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml

@@ -28,14 +28,14 @@
     <section><title>Project News</title>
 
       <!-- latest final release -->
-      <section><title>15 November 2025 - POI 5.5.0 available</title>
+      <section><title>30 November 2025 - POI 5.5.1 available</title>
-        <p>The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of 5.5.0.
+        <p>The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of 5.5.1.
           Several dependencies were updated to their latest versions to pick up security fixes and other improvements.</p>
         <p>A summary of changes is available in the
           <a href="https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/poi/release/RELEASE-NOTES.txt">Release Notes</a>.
-          A full list of changes is available in the <a href="changes.html#5.5.0">change log</a>.
+          A full list of changes is available in the <a href="changes.html#5.5.1">change log</a>.
           People interested should also follow the <a href="site:mailinglists">dev list</a> to track progress.</p>
-        <p>See the <a href="download.html#POI-5.5.0">downloads</a> page for more details.</p>
+        <p>See the <a href="download.html#POI-5.5.1">downloads</a> page for more details.</p>
         <p>POI requires Java 8 or newer since version 4.0.1.</p>
       </section>