The Apache POI project is pleased to announce the release of Apache XMLBeans 5.2.2.
The POI team took over the ownership of XMLBeans since version 3.0.0.

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


Release Notes

Changes
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The most notable changes in this release are:

* XMLBEANS-651: remove xml-apis dependency
* XMLBEANS-652: Code Generation hardcodes ISO-8859-1 as the char encoding
* Upgrade dependencies (javaparser-core 3.26.2, Saxon-HE 12.5, log4j-api 2.24.1, maven plugins)


A full list of changes is available in the change log:
https://xmlbeans.apache.org/status.html
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10436&version=12354762

People interested should also follow the *POI* 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 XMLBeans components and documentation
   (apache-xmlbeans-bin-5.2.2-20241030.zip or apache-xmlbeans-bin-5.2.2-20241030.tgz)
 - source archive you can build XMLBeans from (apache-xmlbeans-src-5.2.2-20241030.zip or apache-xmlbeans-src-5.2.2-20241030.tgz)
  Unpack the archive and use the following command to build all XMLBeans components with Apache Gradle 8.x and JDK 1.8 or higher:

  gradle jar

 Pre-built versions of all XMLBeans components are also available in the central Maven repository
 under Group ID "org.apache.xmlbeans" and Version "5.2.2"

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
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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
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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 https://poi.apache.org/ for more details