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Subject: svn commit: r6158 - /dev/poi/3.10.1-RC1/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:14:45 -0000
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From: uschindler@apache.org
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Author: uschindler
Date: Wed Aug 13 16:14:45 2014
New Revision: 6158

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+The Apache POI project is pleased to announce the release of POI 3.10.1-20140818. 
+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:
+
+This release is a bugfix release to fix two security issues with OOXML:
+ - TODO: to be included by RM on the day of release
+ - Shipped version of xmlbeans.jar dependency updated to v2.6
+
+Please note: You should use xmlbeans-2.6.jar (as shipped with this release)
+instead of the xmlbeans-2.3.jar version from the 3.10-FINAL release.
+
+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-3.10.1-20140818.zip or poi-bin-3.10.1-20140818.tar.gz)
+ - source archive you can build POI from (poi-src-3.10.1-20140818.zip or poi-src-3.10.1-20140818.tar.gz)
+  Unpack the archive and use  the following command to build all POI components with Apache Ant 1.6+ and JDK 1.5 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 "3.10.1-20140818"
+
+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_10_1/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, Visio and
+Word. Since POI 3.5, the new OOXML (Office Open XML) formats introduced in Office 2007 have been supported.
+See http://poi.apache.org/ for more details
+

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