On behalf of the Apache Commons Lang contributors, I would like to announce that we have released a 3.0-beta of Commons Lang.
Lang is now Java 5 based. We've generified the API, moved certain APIs to support varargs and thrown out any features that are now supported by Java itself. We've removed the deprecated parts of the API and have also removed some features that were deemed weak or unnecessary. All of this means that Lang 3.0 is not backwards compatible with the 2.x versions. To that end we have changed the package name, allowing Lang 3.0 to sit side-by-side with your previous version of Lang without any bad side effects. The new package name is the exciting and original 'org.apache.commons.lang3'. In general migrating should be a simple search and replace. There are also, as you'd expect, many new features, enhancements and bugfixes. You can find out more on the Commons Lang website, where you can download the beta or browse the Javadoc: # http://commons.apache.org/lang/upgradeto3_0.html # http://commons.apache.org/lang/download_lang.cgi # http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-3.0-beta/index.html We encourage you to give the new version a try and send us your feedback, ideas or suggestions. Feel free to subscribe to either the user or developer mailing lists, or to create issues in the issue tracker: # http://commons.apache.org/lang/mail-lists.html # http://commons.apache.org/lang/issue-tracking.html Lastly - a hearty thank you to the many Java developers who have contributed to Commons Lang over the last 8 years. It is very much a community built project. Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org