The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of POI 3.10-FINAL. Featured are significant performance improvements 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 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. 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 "3.10-FINAL" Note, that POI-3.10 is the last release supporting JDK 1.5. All Releases after this will require JDK 1.6+. The Apache POI Team