POI 2.0-pre1 released

The POI Team announces the immediate availability of Jakarta POI 
2.0-pre1.  This is the first milestone on the way to releasing the 2.0 
production release.


POI 2.0-pre1 includes many bugfixes the previous release.  The changelog 
for this release is as follows:

[add] Patch applied for deep cloning of worksheets was provided</action>
[add] Patch applied to allow sheet reordering</action>
[add] Added additional print area setting methods using row/column 
numbers</action>
[fix] HDF:  Negative Array size fix</action>
[update] Added argument pointers to support the IF formula</action>
[update] Formulas: Added special character support for string literals, 
specifically for SUMIF formula support and addresses a bug as well</action>
[fix] BlockingInputStream committed to help ensure reads</action>
[fix] Fixed problem with NaN values differing from the investigated value 
from file reads in FormulaRecords</action>
[fix] Patch for getColumnWidth in HSSF</action>
[add] Patch for dealing with mult-level numbered lists in HDF</action>
[fix] Due to named reference work, several named-ranged bugs were 
closed</action>
[fix] Patch applied to prevent sheet corruption after a template 
modification</action>
[update] Shared Formulas now Supported</action>
[update] Added GreaterEqual, LessEqual and NotEqual to Formula Parser</action>
[update] Added GreaterThan and LessThan functionality to formulas</action>
[fix] Patches for i10n</action>
[update] POI Build System Updated</action>
[fix] font names can now be null</action>


Downloads (source and binaries):
http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-poi/dev


Glen Stampoultzis