The long awaited v1.0.1 of PHP-excel extension is finally out, lots of changes in this one. You can download the source code at: https://github.com/iliaal/php_excel/archive/1.0.1final.tar.gz the Github repo is available at: https://github.com/iliaal/php_excel

Full ChangeLog is Below:

• Added methods
  • ExcelBook::sheetType()
  • ExcelSheet::colHidden()
  • ExcelSheet::rowHidden()
  • ExcelSheet::setColHidden()
  • ExcelSheet::setRowHidden()
  • ExcelSheet::isLicensed()

• Added new methods (requires LibXL 3.6.0)
  • ExcelSheet::hyperlinkSize()
  • ExcelSheet::hyperlink()
  • ExcelSheet::delHyperlink()
  • ExcelSheet::addHyperlink()
  • ExcelSheet::mergeSize()
  • ExcelSheet::merge()
  • ExcelSheet::delMergeByIndex()
  • ExcelSheet::splitInfo()
• Added data type argument for ExcelSheet::writeCol() (see issue #29)
• Fixed bug in ExcelSheet::read() (see issue #86)
• Fixed bug in ExcelBook::setDefaultFont() (see issue #66)
• Added autofit support for ExcelBook::setColWidth()
• Added implicit formula recognition on ExcelSheet::write() operations (prefix formula with '=')
• Added multibyte support for license name and license key (see issue #60 and README)
• Added default date format when writing dates
• Added ExcelSheet::__construct(ExcelBook $book, $name) for customized ExcelSheets
• Added warnings on read/write errors
• Removed final keyword for ExcelFormat::__construct(ExcelBook $book)
• Removed invalid PAPER_* constants in ExcelSheet
• Removed invalid COLOR_* constants in ExcelFormat
• Updated documentation and README
• Changed php.ini variable name: excel.ini_skip_empty --> excel.skip_emtpy