The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of 3.11, our next stable release. Featured are a several new areas of functionality, and numerous bug fixes. The Apache POI Project's mission is to create and maintain Java APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon the Office Open XML standards (OOXML) and Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format (OLE2), such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Word. For more information on Apache POI, visit the project home page: http://poi.apache.org/ A summary of the key changes is available in the release notes: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/release/RELEASE-NOTES.txt A full list of changes is available in the change log: http://poi.apache.org/changes.html. See the downloads page for binary and source distributions: http://poi.apache.org/download.html Pre-built versions of all POI components are also available in the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version "3.11". Note that 3.11 now required JDK 1.6+. The Apache POI Team