The Apache POI project is pleased to announce the release of POI @VERSION@. 
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
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The most notable changes in this release are:

@List changes here@

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
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This release comes in two forms:
 - pre-built binaries containing compiled versions of all Apache POI components and documentation 
   (poi-bin-@VERSION@-@DSTAMP@.zip or poi-bin-@VERSION@-@DSTAMP@.tar.gz)
 - source archive you can build POI from (poi-src-@VERSION@-@DSTAMP@.zip or poi-src-@VERSION@-@DSTAMP@.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 "@VERSION@"

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/@RELEASE_TAG@/KEYS

About Apache POI
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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
