The Apache POI project is pleased to announce the release of Apache XMLBeans 3.1.0. This is the 4th release since the POI team took over the ownership of XMLBeans. Featured are a handful of memory, stability, coverage, and security fixes. The release package organization has also been updated to align better with POI and other Apache project deliverables. See the downloads page for binary and source distributions: https://xmlbeans.apache.org/download Note: The Apache Software Foundation uses an extensive mirroring network for distributing releases. It is possible that the mirror you are using may not have replicated the release yet. If that is the case, please try another mirror. This also goes for Maven access. Release Notes Changes ------------ The most notable changes in this release are: * update build and deployment artifacts to standardize naming and remove unused items * XMLBEANS-502: Allow to clear all ThreadLocals from the current thread * XMLBEANS-503: Allow to specify -nowarn in the Ant task * XMLBEANS-537: Add missing StscState.end() to avoid memory leaks * XMLBEANS-532: Streamline build.xml and update tests to Junit4 * XMLBEANS-531: Fix schema gen of attributes * XMLBEANS-530: Allow namespaces of XmlOptions to be passed to the XQuery engine * XMLBEANS-529: Format xmlobjects to the correct string representation on XPath access * XMLBEANS-528: Allow document locator to be set after initialization * XMLBEANS-527: Rename shell script directory, to align on typical directory layout * XMLBEANS-526: Fix issue with loading META-INF/services files * XMLBEANS-538: fix issue with parsing DOM with DTD A full list of changes is available in the change log: https://xmlbeans.apache.org/status.html People interested should also follow the *POI* dev mailing list to track further progress. Release Contents ---------------- This release comes in two forms: - pre-built binaries containing compiled versions of all Apache XMLBeans components and documentation (xmlbeans-bin-3.1.0.zip or xmlbeans-bin-3.1.0.tgz) - source archive you can build XMLBeans from (xmlbeans-src-3.1.0.zip or xmlbeans-src-3.1.0.tgz) Unpack the archive and use the following command to build all XMLBeans components with Apache Ant 1.8+ and JDK 1.6 or higher: ant deploy Pre-built versions of all XMLBeans components are also available in the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.xmlbeans" and Version "3.1.0" All release artifacts are accompanied by SHA checksums and 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 https://www.apache.org/dist/poi/KEYS About Apache XMLBeans ----------------------- XMLBeans is a tool that allows access to the full power of XML in a Java friendly way. The idea is to take advantage of the richness and features of XML and XML Schema and have these features mapped as naturally as possible to the equivalent Java language and typing constructs. See https://xmlbeans.apache.org for more details 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, Word, Visio, Publisher and Outlook. It supports both the older (OLE2) and new (OOXML - Office Open XML) formats. See https://poi.apache.org/ for more details On behalf of the Apache POI PMC, PJ