The Apache POI project is pleased to announce the release of POI 3.14. Featured are a handful of new areas of functionality, 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: Common: New version of ooxml-schema and ooxml-security jars which are linked to custom safe type loader Common: OPC relation fix for multiple same named ids (#54916) Common: Update third-party dependencies: commons-logging, commons-codec, xmlsec, bouncycastle Excel: Allow to set multiple cell style properties at once (#58633) Excel: Add API for inserting ignored warnings into XSSF sheets. This can be used e.g. to suppress 'number stored as text' warnings. (#56892) Powerpoint: unify hyperlink handling HSLF: various fixes for parsing and rendering WMF: new API for WMF parsing and rendering (for Powerpoint) XWPF: various fixes for handling paragraphs and tables 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-3.14.zip or poi-bin-3.14.tar.gz) - source archive you can build POI from (poi-src-3.14.zip or poi-src-3.14.tar.gz) Unpack the archive and use the following command to build all POI components with Apache Ant 1.6+ and JDK 1.6 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 "3.14" 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_14_FINAL/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, Word, Visio, Publisher and Outlook. It supports both the older (OLE2) and new (OOXML - Office Open XML) formats. See http://poi.apache.org/ for more details On behalf of the Apache POI PMC, Andi