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The Apache POI is pleased to announce the release of POI 3.7.
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See the downloads page for binary and source distributions: http://poi.apache.org/download.html
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Release Notes -- Apache POI -- Version 3.7
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Apache POI is an open source Java library for working with Microsoft Office documents.
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POI 3.7 is an incremental feature release based on the earlier 3.6 release.
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The most notable changes since POI 3.6 are:
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OOXML
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* support for reading aes-encrypted/write-protected ooxml files
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* support Java 1.5 in auto-generated xmlbeans for ooxml schemas
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Spreadsheet (Excel)
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* initial support for autofilters
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* support for data validation for ooxml format
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* initial support for themes for ooxml format
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* added implementation for new functions: RANDBETWEEN, POISSON, SUBTOTAL, TEXT, TRUNC
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* support evaluation of indirect defined names in INDIRECT
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* numerous fixes and performance optimizations in the Formula Evaluation module
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* ability to add, modify and remove series from HSSF Charts
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* numerous improvements in the cell data formatter (handling more formatting rules, better color detection, allow overriding of default locale)
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* more examples including a rich "spreadsheet to HTML" converter
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Document (Word)
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* initial support for the HWPF revision marks authors list
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* support for border codes in HWPF
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* support for processing of symbols in HWPF
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* support sections in Word 6 and Word 95 files
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* improved reading of auto-saved ("complex") documents in HWPF
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* improved support for manipulation of tables and paragraphs in XWPF
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SlideShow (PowerPoint)
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* allow editing workbooks embedded into HSLF slide shows
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Text Extraction
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* support for text extraction from XSLF tables
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* add PublisherTextExtractor support to extractorfactory
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* support attachments as embedded documents within the new OutlookTextExtactor
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* new event based XSSF text extractor (XSSFEventBasedExcelExtractor)
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* make it easier to tell which content types each POIXMLTextExtractor handles
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* paragraph level as well as whole-file text extraction for word 6/95 files
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* ...and much much more: code cleanup, many bug fixes and performance improvements
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Contributors
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The following people have contributed to this release by submitting bug
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reports or by participating in the issue resolution process (in strict alphabetical order).
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Alexey Butchik Jeff Lavezzo Philippe Laflamme
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Andrew Shirley Jens Gatze Raiko Eckstein
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Andrzej Bialecki Jerry Soung Rainer Schwarze
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Antoni Mylka Jonathan Holloway Ranvijay Singh
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Antony Bowesman Josh Micich Rick Cameron
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Antti Koskimaki Jukka Zitting Robert Kish
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Attila Kiraily Kai Zimmermann Robin Salkeld
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Bob Smith Kalpesh Parmar Ryan Lauck
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Brendan Nolan Kamil Soltys Ryan Skow
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Charlie Chang Karl Eilebrecht Samuel Yung
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Chris Barlock Ken Arnold Simon Kelly
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Chris Lott Liu Yan Stefan Stern
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Christiaan Fluit Lon Binder Steve Wolke
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Dave Fisher Martin Studer TK Gospodinov
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Dave Syer Martin W. Kirst Tao Jiang
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David Agnew Maxim Valyanskiy Ted Schrader
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David Lewis Michael Vilensky Thomas Herre
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Dmitry Sviridov Michel Boudinot Tomas Prochazka
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Domenico Napoletano Nick Burch Tony Harvey
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Ed Beaty Paul Spencer Trejkaz (pen name)
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Fabio Ebner Payam Hekmat Tsutomu YANO
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Fred Ross Peter Kutak Viveck Shastri
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Grzegorz Bloch Petr Udalau Vladimir Korenev
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Henry Huang Phil Dunlea William J. Coleda
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Immad Naseer Phil Varner Yegor Kozlov
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Jan Stette Philipp Epp Zhang Zhang
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Thank you all very much! Contributions are always welcome, come join the project.
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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-3.7-20101029.zip or poi-bin-3.7-20101029.tar.gz)
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- source archive you can build POI from (poi-src-3.7-20101029.zip or poi-src-3.7-20101029.tar.gz)
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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 "3.7"
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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_7/KEYS
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About Apache POI
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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. Since POI 3.5, the new OOXML (Office Open XML) formats introduced in Office 2007 have been supported.
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For more information, visit http://poi.apache.org/
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For the Apache POI Team
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Yegor Kozlov
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