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This post is about the Log4j vulnerability recorded at
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.c ... 2021-45046

You should determine whether your application is using log4j, and if so, address the documented risk.

By way of background, in v3 of Nov 2013, docx4j switched from log4j to slf4j. This means that for docx4j 3.0 onwards, the choice of logging implementation has been up to you: you could choose to use log4j, or eg logback ...

docx4j 8.3.2 and 11.3.2 are now in Maven Central.

8.3.2 is a minor release (compared to 8.3.1); 11.3.2 is more significant (compared to the last 11.x release which was 11.2.9).

11.3.2 is a JPMS modularised release for Java 11 users, and brings the 11.x series to parity with 8.3.2.

Changes in Version 8.3.2

+ ChartEx (eg the newish statistical, hierarchy and combo charts) changes so Word can open output, fixes #481

+ When saving as ...

docx4j 8.3.1 is now in Maven Central.

This is a minor release, but fixes an issue in 8.3.0 affecting those using 8.3.x with docx4j-ImportXHTML.

Other changes in Version 8.3.1

+ Concurrency fix in NamespacePrefixMapper (most obvious with MOXy); fixes #464

+ PDF via FO: Output hyphenate, language and country attributes to support hyphenation in PDF output

+ Move legacy PDF converter out of docx4j-core (to new module docx4j-legacy-service), so -core no longer requires Apache HttpComponents ...

docx4j 8.3.0 is now in Maven Central.

The main change in this release is that the font discovery code, used in PDF via FO and borrowed from Apache FOP, is refreshed from recent FOP source code. This allows a number of fonts which previously couldn't be read to be read successfully.

Since this change introduces several new dependencies (fontbox and fop-events), we have started the 8.3 version series.

Notable changes in Version 8.3.0

- PDF ...

docx4j 11.2.9 is now in Maven Central.

This is a JPMS modularised release for Java 11 (or later) users. Java 11 users can use docx4j 8.2.9 if they wish; Java 8 users should use docx4j 8.2.9.

The driver for this release is to ensure the namespace corresponding to the w16sdtdh is declared when docx4j manipulates a docx containing that prefix (which will be the case for documents edited in Word following recent updates).

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We're pleased to announce the release of Docx4j-ImportXHTML 8.2.1.

The purpose of Docx4j-ImportXHTML is to convert XHTML (ie well formed HTML) to Word document (docx) content.

In 8.2.0, we migrated from FlyingSaucer to https://github.com/danfickle/openhtmltopdf which is actively maintained and uses pdfbox, not old iText.

8.2.1 bumps the openhtmltopdf dependency to 1.0.8.

Docx4j-ImportXHTML 8.2.1 is compiled for Java 8, and should work with any docx4j 8 to 8.2.x.

Docx4j-ImportXHTML 8.2.1 ...

docx4j 8.2.9 is now in Maven Central.

The driver for this release is to ensure the namespace corresponding to the w16sdtdh is declared when docx4j manipulates a docx containing that prefix (which will be the case for documents edited in Word following recent updates).

http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/wor ... dtdatahash is new in v15.0. Word (following recent updates) writes this namespace prefix to @mc:Ignorable in the MDP, for example, "w14 w15 ...

We're pleased to announce the release of Docx4j-ImportXHTML 8.2.0.

The purpose of Docx4j-ImportXHTML is to convert XHTML (ie well formed HTML) to Word document (docx) content.

The major change in this release is that we have migrated from FlyingSaucer to https://github.com/danfickle/openhtmltopdf which is actively maintained and uses pdfbox, not old iText.

Docx4j-ImportXHTML 8.2.0 is compiled for Java 8, and should work with any docx4j 8 to 8.2.x. Note:This release ...

docx4j 11.2.8 - compiled with Java 14, targeting Java 11 - is now available in Maven Central. If you are not using Java 11 or later, you should stick with docx4j 8.x (compiled for Java 8).

For downloads, go to https://www.docx4java.org/downloads.html

This is a cumulative update, bringing parity with 8.2.8:

- Microsoft Word: Dedicated part for template command group (wne:tcg), which contains customizations for keyboard shortcuts and toolbars

- ...

docx4j 8.2.8 is now in Maven Central.

This is a very minor release, only adding a dedicated part (KeyMapCustomizationsPart) for template command group (wne:tcg), which contains customizations for keyboard shortcuts and toolbars in Microsoft Word.

This is expected to be the last release in the 8.2 series. The next 8.x release will be 8.3.0, which will use the new "Jakarta" JAXB packaging.

To use 8.2.8 via Maven, just add one and only one of docx4j-JAXB-Internal ...