PHP Excel Extension 0.8.6
The 0.8.6 version of the Excel extension was released and is now available for download. This version was updated to contain LibXL 3.0 support which introduces Excel 2007/2010 read/write support, which means that this extension can now read and generate any Excel file. Support for XSLX (2007/2010) format can be enabled by passing "true" as the 3rd parameter to the ExcelBook() construtor.
GitHub:
http://github.com/iliaal/php_excel/
Source:
http://github.com/downloads/iliaal/php_excel/php-excel-0.8.6.tar.bz2