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The Apache POI project is pleased to announce the release of POI 3.16-beta1. 
Featured are a handful of new areas of functionality, and numerous bug fixes.

See the downloads page for binary and source distributions: https://poi.apache.org/download.html

Release Notes 

Changes
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The most notable changes in this release are:

* Initial work on adding a Gradle build, the Ant based build is currently still the official buildsystem, but there are plans to replace this with Gradle in the future.
* Add support for mixed-length cipher/hashes in password protected files typically used by Office for Mac
* Improve support for reading VBA macros
* Examples to encrypt temp files in SXSSF

A full list of changes is available in the change log: https://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-3.16-beta1-20161120.zip or poi-bin-3.16-beta1-20161120.tar.gz)
 - source archive you can build POI from (poi-src-3.16-beta1-20161120.zip or poi-src-3.16-beta1-20161120.tar.gz)
  Unpack the archive and use the following command to build all POI components with Apache Ant 1.8+ and JDK 1.6 or higher:

  ant jar