The Apache POI Team has announced the immediate availability of Apache POI 3.0.1 (formerly known as Apache Jakarta POI). This is the first release since the TLP (Top Level Project) graduation from Apache Jakarta. 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. Besides a number of bug fixes, this release offers a range of new features including:

* Improvements to date cell detection, via isADateFormat
* "missing record aware" HSSF event model
* Lots of HSLF (PowerPoint) updates
* HDGF - basic, read only support for Visio Files


A full changelog is available at: http://poi.apache.org/changes.html.

Apache POI 3.0.1 is downloadable from the apache website and mirrored sites.

http://poi.apache.org/