Excelize is a library written in pure Go providing a set of functions that allow you to write to and read from XLAM / XLSM / XLSX / XLTM / XLTX files. Supports reading and writing spreadsheet documents generated by Microsoft Excel™ 2007 and later. Supports complex components by high compatibility, and provided streaming API for generating or reading data from a worksheet with huge amounts of data.

GitHub: github.com/xuri/excelize

We are pleased to announce the release of version 2.8.0. Featured are a handful of new areas of functionality and numerous bug fixes.

A summary of changes is available in the Release Notes. A full list of changes is available in the changelog.

Release Notes

The most notable changes in this release are:

Breaking Change

• Rename exported variable ErrTableNameLength to ErrNameLength

• Rename exported type PaneOptions to Selection

• Rename the Runs field to Paragraph in the exported Comment data type

• Remove the Lang field in the Style data type

• Removed exported ChartTitle data type, and using the RichTextRun data type instead of it

• Changed the data type for the DecimalPlaces to pointer of integer

• Change the default point to pixels conversion factor, resolve issues #279 and #1536

• Change the AddShape function signature: func (f *File) AddShape(sheet, cell string, opts *Shape) error to func (f *File) AddShape(sheet string, opts *Shape) error

Notable Features

• Add new exported error variables ErrExistsTableName and ErrorFormControlValue

• Add new options ShortDatePattern, LongDatePattern, LongTimePattern and CultureInfo in the Options data type, related issue #1199

• Add new exported data type CultureName enumeration for country code

• New functions GetTables and DeleteTablesupport to get and remove tables, related issues #674 and #1454

• New function GetStyle support to get style definitions, related issues #314, #1520 and #1521

• Support applying cell value with placeholder, padding, rounds numbers, currency, accounting and switches argument number format, and support applying date and time number format for 812 language tags, related issue #660

• New support 10 formula functions: ARRAYTOTEXT, FORECAST, FORECAST.LINEAR, FREQUENCY, INTERCEPT, ODDFYIELD, ODDLPRICE, ODDLYIELD, PROB, VALUETOTEXT

• Add file path length limitation details in the error message

• New function GetPanes support to get sheet panes and view selection

• New functions AddFormControl, GetFormControls and DeleteFormControl support to form controls, related issues #301 and #1169

• The AddChart function support set primary titles, related issue #1553

• The AddChart function support creating chart with a secondary series axis, related issue #518

• The AddChart function support formatting and setting rich text titles for the chart, related issue #1588

• Add check for shape type for the AddShape function, an error will be returned if no shape type is specified

• Support read cell values formatted by the Japanese calendar number format, related issue #1590

• The GetPictures function support read one cell anchor pictures, related issue #1585

• The NewConditionalStyle function support to create a conditional format with number format and protection, related issue #1610

Improve the Compatibility

• Support checking cell value length with multi-bytes characters, related issue #1517

• Prevent create duplicate tables and defined name with the same name

• Improve the cell comment box shape size compatibility with KingSoft WPS

• Support fallback to default column width in sheet format property, related issue #1536

• Made case in-sensitive for internal worksheet XML path to improve compatibility, related issue #1591

Bug Fixes

• Escape XML characters after checking cell value length, fix stream writer generated file corrupted, resolve issues #1518, #1519 and #1530

• Fix incorrect comment box size for multi-line plain text comments

• Preventing format text cell value as a numeric, resolve issues #1523, #1528 and #1533

• Fix race conditions for concurrency safety functions

• Fix incorrect round millisecond for the date time

• Fix incorrect number formatted result for date and time with 12 hours at AM

• Fix incorrect formula functions SUMIFS and AVERAGEIFS result, resolve issue #1564

• Fix basic arithmetic operator priority issues in the calculating engine, resolve issue #1599

• Fix across worksheet reference issue for the formula calculation engine

• Fix adjust table issue when after removing rows, resolve issue #1539

• Support to get multiple images in one cell, resolve issue #1548

• Fix the added picture position was incorrect in some cases, resolve issue #1560

• Support adjusting the formula when inserting columns and rows, fix the workbook corruption caused by inserting columns or rows caused, resolve issue #1565

• Formula function CONCAT, CONCATENATE support concatenation of multiple cell values, resolve issue #1569

• Fix incorrect formula calculate results on a nested argument function which returns a numeric result, resolve issue #1582

• Fix internal graphic object counter issues caused added picture was duplicated, resolve issue #1584

• Fix read date time cell result was incorrectly caused by hours rounding issue, resolve issue #1587

• Fix panic on getting merged cells with the same start and end axis

Performance

• Optimizing regexp calls to improve performance, related issue #1532

• This avoid unnecessary byte/string conversion, related issue #1541

Miscellaneous

• The dependencies module has been updated

• Simplify variable declaration and error return statements

• Remove the built-in language number format code mapping with Unicode values

• Remove the internal xlsxTabColor data type, using the xlsxColor data type instead of xlsxTabColor

• Unit tests and godoc updated

• Documentation website with multilingual: Arabic, German, Spanish, English, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, which has been updated

Thank you

Thanks for all the contributors to Excelize. Below is a list of contributors that have code contributions in this version:

• IAkumaI (Valery Ozarnichuk)

• sillydong (Chen Zhidong)

• fudali113 (fudali)

• Juneezee (Eng Zer Jun)

• joehan109

• yicixin (壹次心)

• vb6iscool

• chengcxy (chengxinyao)

• lidp20

• JDavidVR (David)

• fsfsx

• cnmlgbgithub