The last release of Lang was in March 2008 and there have been quite a few bug fixes and enhancements since then. Many of the changes in the current trunk which are compatible have been backported to the Lang 2.x branch to create this release.
[ ] +1 Yes go ahead an release based on RC1 [ ] -1 No, because... Lang 2.5 RC1 is available for review here: http://people.apache.org/~niallp/lang-2.5-rc1/ Maven artifacts are here: http://people.apache.org/~niallp/lang-2.5-rc1/maven/commons-lang/ Details of changes since 2.4 are in the release notes: http://people.apache.org/~niallp/lang-2.5-rc1/RELEASE-NOTES.txt http://people.apache.org/~niallp/lang-2.5-rc1/site/changes-report.html I have tested this with JDK 1.3 & 1.4 using ant and JDK 1.5 & 1.6 using maven2. (note JVMRandom tests failed for JDK 1.3 & 1.4 - but I re-ran a couple of times and both passed) The tag is here: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/lang/tags/LANG_2_5_RC1/ Site: http://people.apache.org/~niallp/lang-2.5-rc1/site/ (note some *relative* links are broken and the 2.5 directories are not yet created - these will be OK once the site is deployed) Clirr Report (compared to 2.4): http://people.apache.org/~niallp/lang-2.5-rc1/site/clirr-report.html RAT Report: http://people.apache.org/~niallp/lang-2.5-rc1/site/rat-report.html tia Niall --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org