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