Global announcements

For anyone having problems installing the Docx4j Helper AddIn since the code signing certificate expired, here is a freshly signed installer: https://www.docx4java.org/docx4j/Docx4j ... -2-1-1.exe

Lesson for next time: apply for a new code signing certificate well in advance of the expiration of the previous one!

Functionality wise, this is identical to the previous release, so no need to update if you have that installed already. The blurb below is ...

docx4j 8.2.2 and 8.2.3 are now in Maven Central.

8.2.2 notable changes:

- FieldUpdater support for docvars (docprops are already supported)

- Update OSGI stuff for current release. Confirmed working in karaf 4.2.6 with docx4j-JAXB-Internal on Java 8.

8.2.3 facilitates using Microsoft's cloud for docx to PDF conversion. This uses our new https://github.com/plutext/java-docx-to ... soft-Graph via a supporting module in https://github.com/plutext/docx4j/tree/ ... soft-graph ...

docx4j 8.2.1 is now in Maven Central.

Its just a minor release:

- OpenDoPE XHTML support: where docx4j Import XHTML is not on classpath, insert an altChunk (ie rely on Word to process the XHTML)

- Traverse into 2010/wordprocessingShape txbxContent

but with a fix for some remaining XXE edge cases: avoid StreamSource in various places

To use it via Maven, just add one and only one of docx4j-JAXB-Internal, docx4j-JAXB-MOXy,
or docx4j-JAXB-ReferenceImpl to your pom. ...

docx4j 8.2.0 was published in Maven Central on 2 June 2020.

To use it via Maven, just add one and only one of docx4j-JAXB-Internal, docx4j-JAXB-MOXy,
or docx4j-JAXB-ReferenceImpl to your pom. https://search.maven.org/search?q=g:org.docx4j

Otherwise, see https://www.docx4java.org/downloads.html

Minimum supported Java version is 8.0. Note that recent Java releases do not include JAXB, so for these new releases, you can't use docx4j-JAXB-Internal. Make sure it isn't on ...

docx4j 11.1.8 - for use with Java 11 or later - is now available in Maven Central.

11.1.8 is a JPMS modularised release, so the jars contain module-info.class entries.

11.1.8 is compiled with Java 14, targeting Java 11. If you are not using Java 11 or later, you should stick with docx4j 8.x.

Compared to 11.1.7, this release contains just a single enhancement/fix: in OpenDoPE image injection, the content control tag now supports a width=n|auto ...

docx4j 8.1.7 and 11.1.7 are each now in Maven Central.

The only real difference between the two is that the 11.1.7 jars include module-info.

For docx4j 11.1.x users, 11.1.7 is important; it rolls up the changes in 8.1.4 to 8.1.7

8.1.7 is just a minor release (if you are already using 8.1.5 or 8.1.6 which you should be, for docx or xlsx respectively).

- OpenDoPE: fix handling of count>0 when OpenDoPEHandler.ENABLE_XPATH_CACHE
- docx4j-export-fo: move to ...

docx4j 8.1.6 is now in Maven Central.

Its just a minor release:

- improve efficiency of package clone
- pptx4j: SaveSlides provides the ability to save selected slides only
- xlsx4j: handle revision namespaces written by recent Excel releases; support importing flat OPC XML representing a spreadsheet

To use it via Maven, just add one and only one of docx4j-JAXB-Internal, docx4j-JAXB-MOXy,
or docx4j-JAXB-ReferenceImpl to your pom. https://search.maven.org/search?q=g:org.docx4j

Otherwise, see ...

docx4j 8.1.5 is now in Maven Central. Thanks to those who contributed.

The driver for this release is to ensure the namespaces corresponding to prefixes w16 and w16cid are declared
when docx4j outputs a docx. Microsoft Word (following recent updates) has writes those prefixes to the mc:Ignorable attribute, and
it is unable to open a document if a prefix which appears in that attribute is not declared.

For further changes please see ...

docx4j 8.1.4 is now in Maven Central.

Its a minor release, most notably it enhances ArrayListWml (and the equivalent for xlsx) in several ways including making JAXBElements transparent when matching objects.

To use it via Maven, just add one and only one of docx4j-JAXB-Internal, docx4j-JAXB-MOXy,
or docx4j-JAXB-ReferenceImpl to your pom. https://search.maven.org/search?q=g:org.docx4j

Otherwise, see https://www.docx4java.org/downloads.html

Minimum supported Java version is 8.0

docx4j 8.1.3 and 11.1.3 are now both in Maven Central.

These are minor releases; see https://github.com/plutext/docx4j/blob/ ... ANGELOG.md

To get via Maven: https://search.maven.org/search?q=g:org.docx4j

Otherwise, see https://www.docx4java.org/downloads.html

docx4j 8.1.3

To use 8.1.3 via Maven, just add one and only one of docx4j-JAXB-Internal (assuming JAXB is shipped in your Java release), docx4j-JAXB-MOXy, or docx4j-JAXB-ReferenceImpl to your pom.

docx4j 11.1.3 ...