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01 July 2008 - Apache POI 3.1-Final Releaesd

The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the availability of Apache POI 3.1-FINAL.

Apache POI is well-known in the Java field as a library for reading and
writing OLE2 office file formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and
Word. See http://poi.apache.org

Release Highlights:

POI-HSSF - Java API To Access Microsoft Excel Format Files
* Major improvements in formula evaluation
* Support for conditional formatting
* Support for Excel hyperlinks
* Handling of embedded OLE2 documents
* Support for getting excel cell comments when extracting text
* Support for specifying a policy to HSSF on missing / blank cells when fetching

POI-HSLF - Java API To Access Microsoft PowerPoint Format Files
* Support for getting embedded sounds
* Support for getting embedded OLE objects
* Support for Tables
* Improved text extraction
* Export PowerPoint slides into image
* Java2D Graphics driver

POI-HWPF - Java API To Access Microsoft Word Format Files
* Handling of embedded OLE2 documents
* Support for extracting Escher images from HWPF files
* Improved Range.replaceText()

About 100 other fixes and improvements. A full list of changes is available in the change log:
http://poi.apache.org/changes.html

The source and binaries can be downloaded from your local mirror:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/release/

The release is also available from the central Maven repository under
Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version "3.1-FINAL".

Apache POI Team