Sorry, wrong PR [1] link: https://github.com/apache/commons-lang/pull/445/ On Sunday, 25 August 2019, 11:51:47 am NZST, Bruno P. Kinoshita <ki...@apache.org> wrote: Hi, In LANG-1478, a contributor provided a PR for ClassUtils.getAbbreviatedName. If you have a class name with 10 characters (e.g. "ab.de.Ghij"), and calls the method getAbbreviatedName passing the length argument of 10, you get a 9 characters long string back "a.de.Ghij". The Javadoc for the length parameter states:
"len the desired length of the abbreviated name" In my opinion it confirms the bug. I have tested the code from the GitHub PR p1[ and it solves the bug, but given that it will be a backward incompatible change (not binary, but behavior), I wonder if it needs a major release then? (i.e. 4.x instead of 3.10). CheersBruno [1] https://github.com/apache/commons-lang/pull/446
