The Apache Commons community is happy to announce the availability of Apache Commons Lang 3.8.1.
Apache Commons Lang provides helper utilities for the java.lang API, notably String manipulation methods, basic numerical methods, object reflection, concurrency, creation and serialization and System properties. Additionally it contains basic enhancements to java.util.Date and a series of utilities dedicated to help with building methods, such as hashCode, toString and equals. For more details see the release notes at: http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/lang/RELEASE-NOTES.txt <http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/lang/RELEASE-NOTES.txt> More specifically, version 3.8.1 is a bug-fix release for the purpose of resolving “LANG-1419 Restore BundleSymbolicName / regression in version 3.8.0” (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1419 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1419>). Distribution packages can be downloaded from: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/download_lang.cgi <https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/download_lang.cgi> When downloading, please verify signatures using the KEYS file available at: http://www.apache.org/dist/commons <http://www.apache.org/dist/commons> Maven artifacts are also available in the central Maven repository: <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId> <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId> <version>3.8.1</version> </dependency> Best regards, Rob Tompkins on behalf of the Apache Commons community
