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Apache Commons Lang Release Notes

Release History

Version	Date	Description
3.17.0	2024-08-24	This is a feature and maintenance release. Java 8 or later is required.
3.16.0	2024-08-01	This is a feature and maintenance release. Java 8 or later is required.
3.15.0	2024-07-13	New features and bug fixes (Java 8 or above).
3.14.0	2023-11-18	New features and bug fixes (Java 8 or above).
3.13.0	2023-07-23	New features and bug fixes (Java 8 or above).
3.12.0	2021-02-26	New features and bug fixes (Java 8 or above).
3.11	2020-07-12	New features and bug fixes (Java 8 or above).
3.10	2020-03-22	New features and bug fixes. Requires Java 8 or above, supports Java 9, 10, 11.
3.9	2019-04-09	New features and bug fixes. Requires Java 8 or above, supports Java 9, 10, 11.
3.8.1	2018-09-19	This release is a bugfix for Restoring Bundle-SymbolicName in the MANIFEST.mf file.
3.8	2018-08-15	New features and bug fixes. Requires Java 7, supports Java 8, 9, 10.
3.7	2017-11-04	New features and bug fixes. Requires Java 7, supports Java 8, 9, 10.
3.6	2017-06-08	New features and bug fixes. Requires Java 7.
3.5	2016-10-13	New features including Java 9 detection
3.4	2014-04-06	Feature and bugfix release
3.3.2	2014-04-09	Bugfix for a bug in NumberUtils introduced in 3.3.1
3.3.1	2014-03-18	Bugfix release for 3.3
3.3	2014-03-04	Bug fixes and new features including: DifferenceBuilder, ClassPathUtils, RandomUtils and Jaro-Winkler String distance metric
3.2.1	2014-01-05	Bug fix for 3.2
3.2	2014-01-01	Bug fixes and new features, at least requires Java 6.0
3.1	2011-11-14	November release
3.0.1	2011-08-09	August release
3.0	2011-07-18	Backwards incompatible update of Commons Lang to Java 5
2.6	2011-01-16	Bug Fixes/Enhancements for the 2.6 release (requires minimum of Java 1.3)
2.5	2010-02-25
2.4	2008-03-18
2.3	2007-02-13
2.2	2006-10-04
2.1	2005-06-13
2.0	2003-09-02
1.0.1	2002-11-25	Quick bugfix to 1.0
1.0	2002-10-04	First release of Commons Lang

Release 3.17.0 – 2024-08-24

Type	Changes	By
	Using RandomStringUtils.insecure() still leads to using the secure() random. Fixes LANG-1760. Thanks to Marco Hoek, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate static RandomUtils.next*() methods in favor or .secure() and .insecure() versions. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate static RandomStringUtils.random*() methods in favor or .secure() and .insecure() versions. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	RandomUtils.secure() now uses SecureRandom() instead of SecureRandom.getInstanceStrong(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	RandomStringUtils.secure() now uses SecureRandom() instead of SecureRandom.getInstanceStrong(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Remove unused exception from deprecated StringUtils.toString(byte[], String). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Make RandomUtils.insecure() public. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add RandomUtils.secureStrong(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add RandomStringUtils.secureStrong(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add CalendarUtils.toLocalDateTime(Calendar). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add CalendarUtils.toLocalDateTime(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add CalendarUtils.toZonedDateTime(Calendar). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add CalendarUtils.toZonedDateTime(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add CalendarUtils.toOffsetDateTime(Calendar). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add CalendarUtils.toOffsetDateTime(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Bump org.hamcrest:hamcrest from 2.2 to 3.0 #1255. Thanks to Gary Gregory, Dependabot.	ggregory
	Bump org.easymock:easymock from 5.3.0 to 5.4.0 #1256. Thanks to Gary Gregory, Dependabot.	ggregory
	Bump org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin from 3.3.0 to 3.4.1 #1262, #1264. Thanks to Gary Gregory, Dependabot.	ggregory
	Bump org.apache.commons:commons-parent from 72 to 73 #1265. Thanks to Gary Gregory, Dependabot.	ggregory

Release 3.16.0 – 2024-08-01

Type	Changes	By
	Reimplement StopWatch internals to use java.time. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	RandomStringUtils.random() with a negative character index should throw IllegalArgumentException. Fixes LANG-1745. Thanks to Wang Hailong, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	LocaleUtils.toLocale(String) cannot parse four segments. Fixes LANG-1741. Thanks to Wang Hailong, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Use fewer intermediary strings in DefaultExceptionContext.getFormattedExceptionMessage(String). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Fix Javadoc in StringUtils.splitPreserveAllTokens() #1251. Thanks to Václav Haisman.	ggregory
	Deprecate ArraySort constructor for removal. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate CharEncoding constructor for removal. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate Conversion constructor for removal. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate Conversion constructor for removal. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate EntityArrays constructor for removal. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate ObjectToStringComparator constructor for removal. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate RuntimeEnvironment constructor for removal. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add StopWatch.getSplitDuration() and deprecate getSplitTime(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add StopWatch.getStartInstant() and deprecate getStartTime(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add StopWatch.getStopInstant() and deprecate getStopTime(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add StopWatch.getDuration() and deprecate getTime(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add Javadoc links from StopWatch to DurationUtils #1249. Thanks to Oliver B. Fischer, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add LangCollectors.collect(Collector, T...). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add RandomStringUtils.secure(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add RandomStringUtils.insecure(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Bump org.apache.commons:commons-parent from 71 to 72 #1253. Thanks to Gary Gregory, Dependabot.	ggregory

Release 3.15.0 – 2024-07-13

Type	Changes	By
	Customize text pattern in DiffResult#toString(). Fixes LANG-1724. Thanks to Gary Gregory, Dennis Baerten.	ggregory
	Add DiffBuilder.Builder. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add DiffBuilder.builder(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add ReflectionDiffBuilder.Builder. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add ReflectionDiffBuilder.builder(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add test in TypeUtilsTest #1151. Thanks to Elliotte Rusty Harold.	ggregory
	Add Streams.failableStream(T), non-varargs variant. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add Streams.nonNull(T), non-varargs variant. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add ArrayUtils.nullTo(T[], T[]). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add T ArrayUtils.arraycopy(T, int, T, int, int) fluent style. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add T ArrayUtils.arraycopy(T, int, int, int, Function) fluent style. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add SystemUtils.IS_JAVA_22. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add JavaVersion.JAVA_22. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add SystemProperties.getUserName(Supplier<String>). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add SystemProperties.getLineSeparator(Supplier<String>). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add SystemProperties.getJavaSpecificationVersion(Supplier<String>). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add SystemProperties constants and methods for system properties as of Java 22. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add MethodUtils.getMethodObject(Class, String, Class...). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add null-safe Consumers.accept() and Functions.apply() #1215. Fixes LANG-1733. Thanks to Jongjin Bae, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add SystemUtils.IS_OS_ANDROID. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add SystemUtils.IS_OS_MAC_OSX_SONOMA. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add RuntimeEnvironment.inContainer() #1241. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add AppendableJoiner and refactor string joining #1244. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Improve Javadoc in ExceptionUtils #1136. Thanks to Miklós Karakó, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Fixed two non-deterministic tests in EnumUtilsTest.java #1131. Thanks to Saiharshith Karuneegar Ramesh, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Fix wrong number check that cause StringIndexOutOfBoundsException #1140. Fixes LANG-1721. Thanks to Arthur Chan, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Rethrow NegativeArraySizeException as SerializationException in SerializationUtils.deserialize(InputStream) #1141. Fixes LANG-1722. Thanks to Arthur Chan.	ggregory
	Throw NumberFormatException instead of IndexOutOfBoundsException in NumberUtils.getMantissa(String, int) #1145. Fixes LANG-1723. Thanks to Arthur Chan, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Minor grammar fixes #1143. Thanks to Paranoïd User.	ggregory
	ArrayUtils will return null when adding two null arrays, but undocumented. Fixes LANG-1713. Thanks to John Hendrikx, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Let parent POM figure out commons.spdx.version. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Undeprecate ExceptionUtils.rethrow(Throwable). Fixes LANG-1726. Thanks to Václav Haisman, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Test the Conversion class #1155. Fixes LANG-1702. Thanks to Elliotte Rusty Harold.	ggregory
	Address minor redundancies after code inspection #1148. Thanks to ParanoidUser, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Allow EventListenerSupport to handle (and ignore) exception from listeners allowing invocation of all listeners #1167. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate AnnotationUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate ArchUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate ArrayUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate BooleanUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate CharSequenceUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate CharSetUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate CharUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate ClassLoaderUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate ClassPathUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate ClassUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate ConstructorUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate DateFormatUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate DateUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate Diff.getType(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate DiffBuilder.DiffBuilder(T, T, ToStringStyle). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate DiffBuilder.DiffBuilder(T, T, ToStringStyle, boolean). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate DurationFormatUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate DurationUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate EnumUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate EventUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate FieldUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate IEEE754rUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate InheritanceUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate IntStreams 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate LocaleUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate LockingVisitors 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate MemberUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate MethodUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate NumberUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate ObjectUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate RandomStringUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate RandomUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate ReflectionDiffBuilder.ReflectionDiffBuilder(T, T, ToStringStyle). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate RegExUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate SerializationUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate Streams 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate StringEscapeUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate StringUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate Suppliers 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate SystemProperties 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate ThreadUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate TypeUtils 0-argument constructor. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Make ArrayFill null-safe. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Make ArraySorter null-safe. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Make ArrayUtils.removeAll() null-safe. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Fix Java version in README.md #1170. Thanks to Philipp Trulson, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	StringUtils.stripAccents() should handle ligatures, UTF32 math blocks, etc. #1201. Thanks to Stephan Peters, Gary Gregory, Bernd.	ggregory
	TypeUtils.toString(Type) StackOverflowError for an inner class in the inner class parameterized enclosing class #657. Fixes LANG-1524. Thanks to kijong.youn, Aakash Gupta, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate SystemUtils.getUserName(String) in favor of SystemProperties.getUserName(Supplier). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Make LockVisitor.acceptReadLocked(FailableConsumer) null-safe. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Make LockVisitor.applyWriteLocked(FailableConsumer) null-safe. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Make ObjectUtils.getFirstNonNull(Supplier...) null-safe. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Make SystemProperties.getLineSeparator(Supplier). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	StringUtils.stripAccents(String) doesn't handle "\u0111" and "\u0110" (Vietnamese) #1216. Thanks to hunghhdev.	ggregory
	StringUtils.stripAccents(String) doesn't handle I with bar. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	StringUtils.stripAccents(String) doesn't handle U with bar. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	StringUtils.stripAccents(String) doesn't handle T with stroke. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Fix Javadoc for FluentBitSet.setInclusive(int, int) #1222. Fixes LANG-1735. Thanks to Tobias Kiecker.	ggregory
	Same Javadoc changes as [TEXT-234] #1223. Thanks to Tobias Kiecker.	ggregory
	Remove duplicate static data in SerializationUtils.ClassLoaderAwareObjectInputStream. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Reimplement RandomUtils and RandomStringUtils on top of SecureRandom#getInstanceStrong() #1235. Thanks to Gary Gregory, Henri Yandell, Fabrice Benhamouda.	ggregory
	DiffBuilder: Type constraint for method append(..., DiffResult) too strict #786. Fixes LANG-1657. Thanks to Matthias Welz, Andrew Thomas, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Bump commons-parent from 64 to 71 #1194, #1233. Thanks to Dependabot, Gary Gregory.	sebb
	Bump org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin from 3.1.1 to 3.3.0 #1175, #1224. Thanks to Dependabot.	ggregory
	Bump org.apache.commons:commons-text from 1.11.0 to 1.12.0 #1200. Thanks to Dependabot.	ggregory
	Bump org.easymock:easymock from 5.2.0 to 5.3.0 #1232. Thanks to Dependabot.	ggregory
	Bump org.codehaus.mojo:taglist-maven-plugin from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 #1242. Thanks to Dependabot.	ggregory
	Drop obsolete JDK 13 Maven profile #1142. Thanks to Paranoïd User.	ggregory

Release 3.14.0 – 2023-11-18

Type	Changes	By
	Rename variable names from 'clss' to 'clazz' #1087. Thanks to remeio.	ggregory
	[Javadoc] ComparableUtils'c1' to 'comparable1', 'c2' to ' Thanks to remeio.	ggregory
	[Javadoc] Remove 2.1 specific comment #1091. Thanks to Elliotte Rusty Harold.	ggregory
	ImmutablePair and ImmutableTriple implementation don't match final in Javadoc. Fixes LANG-1704. Thanks to Dan Ziemba, Gilles Sadowski, Alex Herbert, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	[Javadoc] Fix Incorrect Description in Processor isAarch64() #1093. Thanks to Sung Ho Yoon.	ggregory
	[Javadoc] Point to right getShortClassName flavor in Javadoc for relevant notes #1097. Thanks to ljacqu.	ggregory
	Improve performance of StringUtils.isMixedCase() #1096. Thanks to hduelme.	ggregory
	ThreadUtils find methods should not return null items #1098. Fixes LANG-1706. Thanks to Alberto Fernández.	ggregory
	ReflectionToStringBuilder changes in version 3.13.0 has broken the logic for overriding classes. Fixes LANG-1710. Thanks to Shashank Sharma, Gary Gregory, Oksana.	ggregory
	Return "null" instead of NPE in ClassLoaderUtils.toString(ClassLoader). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Return "null" instead of NPE in ClassLoaderUtils.toString(URLClassLoader). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Return ToStringStyle.nullText instead of NPE for ReflectionToStringBuilder.toString(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Fix ThresholdCircuitBreaker#checkState() #1100. Thanks to yichinzhu, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Use ConcurrentInitializer implementations without subclassing. #1123. Thanks to Benjamin Confino, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Update critical value for chi-square test #1125. Thanks to Alex Herbert.	ggregory
	Fix Javadoc syntax errors #1129. Thanks to Sung Ho Yoon.	ggregory
	Add Functions#function(Function). Thanks to Rob Spoor, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add FailableFunction#function(FailableFunction). Thanks to Rob Spoor, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add CalendarUtils.getInstance(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add syntax for optional tokens to DurationFormatUtils #1062. Thanks to Dan Watson.	aherbert
	Add ArrayFill. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add FastDateParser.TimeZoneStrategy.TzInfo.toString(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add LocaleUtils.isLanguageUndetermined(Locale). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add ObjectUtils.toString(Supplier<Object>, Supplier<String>). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add LazyInitializer.isInitialized(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add ConcurrentInitializer#isInitialized() #1120. Thanks to Benjamin Confino, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add Streams.failableStream(T...). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add FailableSupplier.nul(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add Suppliers.nul(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add ExceptionUtils.throwUnchecked(T) where T extends Throwable, and deprecate Object version. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add ExceptionUtils.rethrowRuntimeException(T), and deprecate rethrow(T). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	ConcurrentInitializer implementations can now be instantiated and configured with allocation and release lambdas. Fixes LANG-1716. Thanks to Benjamin Confino, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add support for RISC-V in ArchUtils #1128. Fixes LANG-1717. Thanks to Levi Zim, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Bump commons-parent from 58 to 64. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Bump org.easymock:easymock from 5.1.0 to 5.2.0 #1104. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Bump commons-text from 1.10.0 to 1.11.0. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Bump org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin from 3.1.0 to 3.1.1 #1135. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory

Release 3.13.0 – 2023-07-23

Type	Changes	By
	NumberUtils.createNumber() to recognize hex integers prefixed with +. Fixes LANG-1645. Thanks to Alex Herbert.	aherbert
	NumberUtils.createNumber() to return requested floating point type for zero. Fixes LANG-1646. Thanks to Alex Herbert.	aherbert
	DMI: Random object created and used only once (DMI_RANDOM_USED_ONLY_ONCE); Better multi-threaded behavior. Thanks to SpotBugs, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Redundant Collection operation. Use Collections.emptyIterator() #738. Fixes LANG-1646. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	aherbert
	Make Streams.stream(Collection) null-safe. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Allow tests to access java.util classes such as ArrayList in Java 16 #788. Fixes LANG-1667. Thanks to Andrew Thomas.	ggregory
	OpenJDK 16 Day Period Parsing #791. Fixes LANG-1669. Thanks to Andrew Thomas.	ggregory
	Update documentation to list correct exception for null array parameters #785. Fixes LANG-1663. Thanks to Andrew Thomas.	ggregory
	Fixing reversed Javadoc descriptions in StopWatch #781. Thanks to Thunderforge.	ggregory
	Fix typos in JavaDoc #795. Fixes LANG-1670. Thanks to Igor Shuvalov.	ggregory
	Simplify assertions with equivalent but more simple. #792. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Avoid multiple equivalent occurrences of the same expression. #797. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Remove redundant initializers #800. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Fix ObjectUtils Javadocs #755. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Add test idea for RangeTest from PR #815 by Rushi98, but with a new comment. Thanks to Rushi98, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Make Range constructors more generic #810. Fixes LANG-1674. Thanks to singhbaljit, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Use final and Remove redundant String. #813, #816. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Use Set instead of List for checking the contains() method #734. Thanks to CiprianBodnarescu.	ggregory
	Javadoc for StringUtils.substringBefore(String str, int separator) doesn't mention that the separator is an int. Thanks to Roland Kreuzer.	kinow
	Fix NullPointerException in ThreadUtils.getSystemThreadGroup() when the current thread is stopped. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	ArrayUtils.toPrimitive(Boolean...) null array elements map to false, like Boolean.parseBoolean(null) and its callers return false. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	StrBuilder.StrBuilderReader.skip(long): Throw an exception when an implicit narrowing conversion in a compound assignment would result in information loss or a numeric error such as an overflows. Thanks to CodeQL, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate Validate#notNull(Object) in favor of using Objects#requireNonNull(Object, String). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Use TimeZone from calendar in DateFormatUtils. Fixes LANG-1462. Thanks to Lijun Liang, Arun Avanathan, Tai Dupree, Maria Buiakova, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Updating javadoc for NullPointerException when Validate.notNull() is called #870. Thanks to Diego Marcilio.	ggregory
	Fixing and adding DateUtils exception Javadocs #871. Thanks to Diego Marcilio.	ggregory
	Improve performance of StringUtils.unwrap(String, String) #844. Fixes LANG-1679. Thanks to clover.	ggregory
	Improve performance of StringUtils.join for primitives #812. Fixes LANG-1675. Thanks to clover.	ggregory
	Fixed NPE getting Stack Trace if Throwable is null #733. Fixes LANG-1675. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Make Validate.isAssignableFrom() check null inputs. Thanks to Gary Gregory, Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Fix Javadoc for Validate.isAssignableFrom(). Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Make final mappingFunction variable #876. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Remove unnecessary variable creations #882. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Minor changes #769. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	FastDateFormat does not support the 'L'-Pattern from SimpleDateFormat. Fixes LANG-1680. Thanks to Michael Krause, Steve Bosman, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Increase test coverage of ComparableUtils from 71% to 100% #898. Thanks to Steve Bosman, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Increase method test coverage of MultilineRecursiveToStringStyle #899. Thanks to Steve Bosman.	ggregory
	Fix unstable coverage of CharSequenceUtils tests noticed during merge of PRs 898 and 899 #901. Thanks to Steve Bosman.	ggregory
	Rewrite Conversion.binaryBeMsb0ToHexDigit to invert logic of binaryToHexDigit. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	aherbert
	Allow extension of previously final classes ImmutablePair and ImmutableTriple. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Update ClassUtils Javadoc with some missing throws NPE #912. Thanks to shalk, Bruno P. Kinoshita, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Javadoc: StringUtils.repeat("", "x", 3) = "xx"; #918. Thanks to guicaiyue.	ggregory
	Fix typos #920, #923. Thanks to Marc Wrobel.	ggregory
	Simplify condition #925. Thanks to Bhimantoro Suryo Admodjo.	ggregory
	StringUtils.join(Iterable, String) should only return null when the Iterable is null. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	StringUtils.join(Iterator, String) should only return null when the Iterator is null. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add tests to increase coverage #904. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Extends Object clauses are redundant #937. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Simplify conditional expression. #941. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Fix some Javadoc comments #938. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Deprecate getNanosOfMiili() method with typo and create proper getNanosOfMilli() #940. Thanks to Arturo Bernal, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Deprecate ThreadUtils code that defines custom function interfaces in favor of stock java.util.function.Predicate usage. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Fix links in Javadoc and documentation #926. Thanks to Marc Wrobel.	ggregory
	Deprecate RandomUtils in favor of Apache Commons RNG UniformRandomProvider #942. Fixes LANG-1604. Thanks to Gilles Sadowski, Maksym Bohachov, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Added docs regarding week year support #924. Fixes LANG-1638. Thanks to Shailendra Soni, Michael Osipov, Arun Avanathan, Andrew Thomas, Bruno P. Kinoshita, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	ClassUtils.getShortCanonicalName doesn't use the canonicalName #949. Fixes LANG-1691. Thanks to Thiyagarajan, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Validate: Get error messages without using String.format when varargs is empty. Thanks to Piotr Stawirej.	aherbert
	Simplify expression (length is never < 0) #962. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Fix simple broken javadoc. #981. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Fix typo #1001. Thanks to LeeJuHyun.	ggregory
	Use Objects.requireNonNull() directly #1022. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	MethodUtils.getMatchingMethod() fails with "Found multiple candidates" #1033. Fixes LANG-1694. Thanks to SeasonPan.	ggregory
	Construct ArrayList with better default size #1041. Fixes LANG-1643. Thanks to laurentschoelens.	ggregory
	ThreadUtilsTest#testThreadGroups will test failed when using Junit5 parallel test #1051. Thanks to remeio.	ggregory
	Swap the order of assertion args (first excepted then actual) #1054. Thanks to remeio.	ggregory
	Fix the comment of Failable, redundant "-" #1056. Thanks to remeio.	aherbert
	Fix the comment of ComparableUtils, using "smallest", not "largest" #1058. Thanks to remeio.	aherbert
	AnnotationUtilsTest and FormattableUtilsTest Only use static imports to import assert methods in tests #1052. Thanks to remeio.	ggregory
	[LANG-1681] Fix some FieldUtils Javadocs #1047. Thanks to laurentschoelens, Bruno P. Kinoshita, Diego Marcilio.	ggregory
	Remove unnecessary statement in DurationFormatUtils #965. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Corrected value of SystemUtils.JAVA_VENDOR #1066. Fixes LANG-1699. Thanks to Darren Coleman.	ggregory
	[StepSecurity] ci: Harden GitHub Actions #1067. Thanks to step-security-bot, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Update Javadoc for the insert methods in ArrayUtils #1078. Thanks to Dimitrios Efthymiou.	ggregory
	Deprecate ExceptionUtils.ExceptionUtils(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	TypeUtils.getRawType() throws a NullPointerException on Wildcard GenericArrayType. Fixes LANG-1697. Thanks to Jan Arne Sparka, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Throw IllegalArgumentException instead of InternalError in the builder package. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Avoid NPE in MutableObject#equals() for null content. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	SystemUtils fix and updates related to macOS #1085. Thanks to Ali Khaleqi Yekta, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	ThreadLocalRandom should be used in utility classes. Fixes LANG-1254. Thanks to John Mark, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add GitHub coverage.yml. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add EnumUtils.getEnumSystemProperty(...). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add TriConsumer. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add and use EnumUtils.getFirstEnumIgnoreCase(Class, String, Function, E). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add and use Suppliers. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add and use ArrayUtils.getComponentType(T[]). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add and use ClassUtils.getComponentType(Class>T[]>). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add and use ObjectUtils.getClass(T). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add and use ArrayUtils.newInstance(Class>T>, int). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add and use null-safe Streams.of(T...). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add ClassUtils.comparator(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add and use ThreadUtils.sleepQuietly(Duration). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add and use ArrayUtils.setAll(T[], IntFunction). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add and use ArrayUtils.setAll(T[], Supplier). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add BooleanConsumer. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add IntToCharFunction. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add IntStreams. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add UncheckedFuture. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add UncheckedException. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add UncheckedExecutionException. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add UncheckedTimeoutException. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add UncheckedInterruptedException. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add TimeZones.GMT. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add ObjectUtils.identityHashCodeHex(Object). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add ObjectUtils.hashCodeHex(Object). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add StringUtils.removeStart(String, char). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add null-safe ObjectUtils.isArray() #754. Fixes LANG-1659. Thanks to Arturo Bernal, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add ComparableUtils.max(A, A) and ComparableUtils.min(A, A). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add UncheckedReflectiveOperationException. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add and use ClassUtils.isPublic(Class). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add UncheckedIllegalAccessException. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add MethodInvokers. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add Streams.nullSafeStream(Collection). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add Streams.toStream(Collection). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add Streams.failableStream(Collection) and deprecate misnamed stream(Collection). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add Streams.failableStream(Stream) and deprecate misnamed stream(Stream). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add EnumUtils.getEnumMap(Class, Function). #730 Thanks to Maxwell Cody, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add FluentBitSet. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add Streams.instancesOf(Class, Collection). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add ImmutablePair.ofNonNull(L, R). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add ImmutableTriple.ofNonNull(L, M, R). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add MutablePair.ofNonNull(L, R). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add MutableTriple.ofNonNull(L, M, R). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add Pair.ofNonNull(L, R). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add Triple.ofNonNull(L, M, R). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add ArrayUtils.containsAny(Object[], Object...). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add Processor.Type.AARCH_64. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add Processor.isAarch64(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Update ArchUtils.getProcessor(String) for "aarch64". Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add JavaVersion.JAVA_18. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add JavaVersion.JAVA_19. Thanks to Emmanuel Bourg.	ebourg
	Add JavaVersion.JAVA_20. Thanks to Emmanuel Bourg.	ebourg
	Add JavaVersion.JAVA_21. Thanks to Emmanuel Bourg.	ebourg
	Add TimeZones.toTimeZone(TimeZone). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add FutureTasks. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add Memoizer(Function) and Memoizer(Function, boolean). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add Consumers. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add github/codeql-action. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add coverage.yml. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add DurationUtils.since(Temporal). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add DurationUtils.of(FailableConsumer\|FailableRunnbale). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add ExceptionUtils.forEach(Throwable, Consumer<Throwable>). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add ExceptionUtils.stream(Throwable). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add ExceptionUtils.getRootCauseStackTraceList(Throwable). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add SystemUtils.IS_OS_WINDOWS_11. Thanks to Will Herrmann, Gary Gregory, Roland Kreuzer.	ggregory
	Add SystemUtils.IS_JAVA_16. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add SystemUtils.IS_JAVA_17. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add SystemUtils.IS_JAVA_18. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add SystemUtils.IS_JAVA_19. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add SystemUtils.IS_JAVA_20. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add SystemUtils.IS_JAVA_21. Thanks to Emmanuel Bourg.	ebourg
	Add ArrayUtils.oneHot(). Fixes LANG-1627. Thanks to Alberto Scotto, Avijit Chakraborty, Steve Bosman, Bruno P. Kinoshita, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Let ReflectionToStringBuilder only reflect given field names #849. Fixes LANG-1662. Thanks to Daniel Augusto Veronezi Salvador, Gary Gregory, Bruno P. Kinoshita.	ggregory
	Add Streams.of(Enumeration<E>). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add Streams.of(Iterable<E>). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add Streams.of(Iterator<E>). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Simple support for Optional in ObjectUtils#isEmpty() #933. Fixes LANG-1689. Thanks to Joseph Hendrix, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add Processor.Type.getLabel(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add Processor.toString(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add HashCodeBuilder.equals(Object). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add BooleanUtils.values() and forEach(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add ClassPathUtils.packageToPath(String) and pathToPackage(String) Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add CalendarUtils#getDayOfYear() #968 Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Add NumberRange, DoubleRange, IntegerRange, LongRange. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add missing exception javadoc/tests for some null arguments #869. Thanks to Diego Marcilio, Bruno P. Kinoshita, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add ClassLoaderUtils.getSystemURLs() and getThreadURLs(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add RegExUtils.dotAll() and dotAllMatcher(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add Pair.accept(FailableBiConsumer). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add Pair.apply(FailableBiFunction). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add ReflectionDiffBuilder.setExcludeFieldNames(...) and DiffExclude a… #838. Fixes LANG-1677. Thanks to Dennis Baerten, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add and ExceptionUtils.isChecked() and isUnchecked() #1069. Fixes LANG-1647. Thanks to Arturo Bernal, Dimitrios Efthymiou, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add and use ExceptionUtils.throwUnchecked(throwable). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add LockingVisitors.create(O, ReadWriteLock). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Bump actions/cache from 2.1.4 to 3.0.10 #742, #752, #764, #833, #867, #959, #964. Thanks to Dependabot, XenoAmess, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Bump actions/checkout from 2 to 3.1.0 #819, #825, #859, #963. Thanks to Dependabot, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Bump actions/setup-java from v1.4.3 to 3.5.1 #879. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Bump spotbugs-maven-plugin from 4.2.0 to 4.7.3.0 #735, #808, #822, #834, #868, #895, #919, #927, #946, #989. Thanks to Dependabot, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Bump spotbugs from 4.2.2 to 4.7.3 #744, #917, #947, #973. Thanks to Dependabot, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Bump maven-checkstyle-plugin from 3.1.2 to 3.2.0 #943. Thanks to Dependabot, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Bump checkstyle from 8.41 to 9.3 #739, #768, #787, #811, #824, #843. Thanks to Dependabot, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Bump easymock from 4.2 to 5.1.0 #746, #972, #986, #1012. Thanks to Dependabot.	ggregory
	Bump commons.jacoco.version from 0.8.6 to 0.8.8. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Bump commons.japicmp.version from 0.15.2 to 0.16.0. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Bump junit-pioneer from 1.3.8 to 1.9.1 #749, #767, #832, #883, #988, #991, #995. Thanks to Dependabot, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Bump junit-bom from 5.7.1 to 5.9.1 #761, #805, #807, #836, #928, #955. Thanks to Dependabot.	ggregory
	Bump maven-javadoc-plugin from 3.2.0 to 3.4.1. Thanks to Dependabot, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Bump jmh.version from 1.27 to 1.36 #794, #842, #872, #990. Thanks to Dependabot.	ggregory
	Bump maven-pmd-plugin from 3.14.0 to 3.19.0 #802, #858, #909, #948. Thanks to Dependabot.	ggregory
	Bump pmd from 6.40.0 to 6.52.0 #837, #861, #873, #905, #915, #932, #944. Thanks to Dependabot.	ggregory
	Bump biz.aQute.bndlib from 5.3.0 to 6.3.1 #814, #835. Thanks to Dependabot, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Bump maven-bundle-plugin from 5.1.1 to 5.1.2. Thanks to Dependabot.	ggregory
	Bump animal-sniffer-maven-plugin from 1.19 to 1.21. Thanks to Dependabot.	ggregory
	Bump exec-maven-plugin from 1.6.0 to 3.1.0 #590, #922. Thanks to Dependabot.	ggregory
	Bump maven-surefire-plugin from 3.0.0-M5 to 3.0.0-M7 #880, #910. Thanks to Dependabot.	kinow
	Bump apache-rat from 0.13 to 0.14. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Bump commons-parent from 53 to 58 #954, #1000, #1011, #1061. Thanks to Dependabot, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Bump commons-text from 1.9 to 1.10.0 #957. Thanks to Dependabot.	ggregory
	Bump commons.pmd-impl.version from 6.49.0 to 6.51.0 #961. Thanks to Dependabot, Gary Gregory.	kinow

Release 3.12.0 – 2021-02-26

Type	Changes	By
	Correct implementation of RandomUtils.nextLong(long, long). Fixes LANG-1592. Thanks to Huang Pingcai, Alex Herbert.	aherbert
	Restore handling of collections for non-JSON ToStringStyle #610. Fixes LANG-1600. Thanks to Michael F.	ggregory
	ContextedException Javadoc add missing semicolon #581. Thanks to iamchao1129.	ggregory
	Resolve JUnit pioneer transitive dependencies using JUnit BOM. Fixes LANG-1608. Thanks to Edgar Asatryan.	aherbert
	NumberUtilsTest - incorrect types in min/max tests #634. Thanks to HubertWo, Gary Gregory.	aherbert
	Improve StringUtils.stripAccents conversion of remaining accents. Fixes LANG-1579. Thanks to XenoAmess.	aherbert
	StringUtils.countMatches - clarify Javadoc. Fixes LANG-1606. Thanks to Rustem Galiev.	sebb
	Remove redundant argument from substring call. Fixes LANG-1591. Thanks to bhawna94.	kinow
	BigDecimal is created when you pass it the min and max values, #642. Fixes LANG-1613. Thanks to Arturo Bernal, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	ArrayUtils.contains() and indexOf() fail to handle Double.NaN #647. Fixes LANG-1541. Thanks to Arturo Bernal, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	ArrayUtils contains() and indexOf() fail to handle Float.NaN # #561. Fixes LANG-1615. Thanks to Arturo Bernal, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Fix potential NPE in TypeUtils.isAssignable(Type, ParameterizedType, Map, Type>). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	TypeUtils.isAssignable returns wrong result for GenericArrayType and ParameterizedType, #643. Fixes LANG-1420. Thanks to Gordon Fraser, Rostislav Krasny, Arturo Bernal, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	testGetAllFields and testGetFieldsWithAnnotation sometimes fail. Fixes LANG-1612. Thanks to XinT, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Fix Javadoc for SystemUtils.isJavaVersionAtMost() #638. Thanks to John R. D'Orazio.	ggregory
	Fix StringUtils.unwrap throws StringIndexOutOfBoundsException #636. Fixes LANG-1610. Thanks to Tony Liang.	ggregory
	Fix formatting of isAnyBlank() and isAnyEmpty(). #513. Thanks to Isira Seneviratne.	ggregory
	TypeUtils. containsTypeVariables does not support GenericArrayType #661. Fixes LANG-1618. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Javadoc of some methods incorrectly refers to another method, #667, #668. #670. Fixes LANG-1622. Thanks to Kanak Sony, anomen-s.	ggregory
	Refine StringUtils.lastIndexOfIgnoreCase #664. Fixes LANG-1620. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Refine StringUtils.abbreviate #663. Fixes LANG-1619. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Refine StringUtils.isNumericSpace #573. Fixes LANG-1584. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Refine StringUtils.deleteWhitespace #569. Fixes LANG-1580. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Correction in Javadoc of some methods. #673. Fixes LANG-1626. Thanks to Kanak Sony.	ggregory
	Javadoc for RandomStringUtils.random() letters, numbers parameters is wrong. Fixes LANG-1628. Thanks to Jarkko Rantavuori.	kinow
	Correct markup in Javadoc for unbalanced braces #679. Thanks to Felix Schumacher.	ggregory
	MethodUtils.invokeMethod NullPointerException in case of null in args list #680. Fixes LANG-1544. Thanks to Peter Nagy, Michael Buck, Gary Gregory.	kinow
	Fix 2 digit week year formatting #688. Fixes LANG-1637. Thanks to Uri Gonen, Gary Gregory, Michael Osipov.	ggregory
	Fix broken Javadoc links to commons-text #712. Thanks to Chris Smowton.	ggregory
	Add and use ThreadUtils.sleep(Duration). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add and use ThreadUtils.join(Thread, Duration). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add ObjectUtils.wait(Duration). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add BooleanUtils.booleanValues(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add BooleanUtils.primitiveValues(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add StringUtils.containsAnyIgnoreCase(CharSequence, CharSequence...). Fixes LANG-1535. Thanks to Gary Gregory, Isira Seneviratne.	ggregory
	Add StopWatch.getStopTime(). Fixes LANG-1359. Thanks to Gary Gregory, Keegan Witt.	ggregory
	More test coverage for CharSequenceUtils. #631. Thanks to Edgar Asatryan.	ggregory
	ArrayUtils.toPrimitive(Object) does not support boolean and other types #607. Fixes LANG-1596. Thanks to Richard Eckart de Castilho.	aherbert
	Add fluent-style ArraySorter. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add and use LocaleUtils.toLocale(Locale) to avoid NPEs. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add FailableShortSupplier, handy for JDBC APIs. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add JavaVersion.JAVA_17. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add missing boolean[] join method #686. Fixes LANG-1636.	ggregory
	Add StringUtils.substringBefore(String, int). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add Range.INTEGER. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add DurationUtils. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Introduce the use of @Nonnull, and @Nullable, and the Objects class as a helper tool.	jochen
	Add and use true and false String constants #714. Thanks to Arturo Bernal, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add and use ObjectUtils.requireNonEmpty() #716. Thanks to Arturo Bernal, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Enable Dependabot #587. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Bump junit-jupiter from 5.6.2 to 5.7.0.	chtompki
	Bump spotbugs from 4.1.2 to 4.2.2, #627, #671, #708, #726. Thanks to chtompki, Dependabot.	chtompki
	Bump spotbugs-maven-plugin from 4.0.0 to 4.2.0, #593, #596, #609, #623, #632, #692. Thanks to Dependabot.	ggregory
	Bump biz.aQute.bndlib from 5.1.1 to 5.3.0 #592, #628, #715. Thanks to Dependabot.	ggregory
	Bump junit-pioneer from 0.6.0 to 1.1.0, #589, #597, #600, #624, #625, #662. Thanks to Dependabot.	ggregory
	Bump checkstyle from 8.34 to 8.41, #594, #614, #637, #665, #706, #722. Thanks to Dependabot.	ggregory
	Bump actions/checkout from v2.3.1 to v2.3.4 #601, #639. Thanks to Dependabot.	ggregory
	Bump actions/setup-java from v1.4.0 to v1.4.2 #612. Thanks to Dependabot.	ggregory
	Update commons.jacoco.version 0.8.5 to 0.8.6 (Fixes Java 15 builds). Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Update maven-surefire-plugin 2.22.2 -> 3.0.0-M5. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Bump maven-pmd-plugin from 3.13.0 to 3.14.0 #660. Thanks to Dependabot.	ggregory
	Bump jmh.version from 1.21 to 1.27 #674. Thanks to Dependabot.	kinow
	Update commons.japicmp.version 0.14.3 -> 0.15.2. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Processor.java: check enum equality with == instead of .equals() method #690. Thanks to Ali K. Nouri.	ggregory
	Bump junit-pioneer from 1.1.0 to 1.3.8, #702, #721. Thanks to Dependabot.	ggregory
	Bump maven-checkstyle-plugin from 3.1.1 to 3.1.2 #705. Thanks to Dependabot.	ggregory
	Bump actions/cache from v2 to v2.1.4 #710. Thanks to Dependabot.	ggregory
	Bump junit-bom from 5.7.0 to 5.7.1 #707. Thanks to Dependabot.	ggregory
	Minor Improvements #701. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Minor Improvement: Add final variable.try to make the code read-only #700. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Minor Improvement: Remove redundant initializer #699. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Use own validator ObjectUtils.anyNull to check null String input #718. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.	ggregory
	Bump commons-parent from 52 to 53 #885. Thanks to Dependabot.	kinow

Release 3.11 – 2020-07-12

Type	Changes	By
	Refine test output for FastDateParserTest Thanks to Jin Xu.	chtompki
	CharSequenceUtils.lastIndexOf : remake it. Fixes LANG-1549. Thanks to Jin Xu.	chtompki
	remove encoding and docEncoding and use inherited values from commons-parent Thanks to XenoAmess.	kinow
	Fix Javadoc for StringUtils.appendIfMissingIgnoreCase() #507. Thanks to contextshuffling.	kinow
	Simplify null checks in Pair.hashCode() using Objects.hashCode(). #517. Thanks to Isira Seneviratne, Bruno P. Kinoshita.	ggregory
	Simplify null checks in Triple.hashCode() using Objects.hashCode(). #516. Thanks to Isira Seneviratne, Bruno P. Kinoshita.	ggregory
	Simplify some if statements in StringUtils. #521. Thanks to Isira Seneviratne, Bruno P. Kinoshita.	ggregory
	Simplify a null check in the private replaceEach() method of StringUtils. #514. Fixes LANG-1537. Thanks to Isira Seneviratne, Bruno P. Kinoshita.	ggregory
	Replace some usages of the ternary operator with calls to Math.max() and Math.min() #512. Fixes LANG-1534. Thanks to Isira Seneviratne, Bruno P. Kinoshita.	ggregory
	(Javadoc) Fix return tag for throwableOf*() methods #518. Thanks to Arend v. Reinersdorff, Bruno P. Kinoshita.	ggregory
	Add ArrayUtils.isSameLength() to compare more array types #430. Thanks to XenoAmess, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	CharSequenceUtils.regionMatches is wrong dealing with Georgian. Fixes LANG-1545. Thanks to XenoAmess, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Added the Locks class as a convenient possibility to deal with locked objects.	jochen
	Add to Functions: FailableBooleanSupplier, FailableIntSupplier, FailableLongSupplier, FailableDoubleSupplier, and so on. Fixes LANG-1568.	ggregory
	Add ArrayUtils.get(T[], index, T) to provide an out-of-bounds default value. Fixes LANG-1569.	ggregory
	Optimize ArrayUtils::isArrayIndexValid method. #551. Fixes LANG-1550. Thanks to Edgar Asatryan.	ggregory
	Use List.sort instead of Collection.sort #546. Fixes LANG-1561. Thanks to XenoAmess.	ggregory
	Use StandardCharsets.UTF_8 #548. Fixes LANG-1563. Thanks to XenoAmess.	ggregory
	Use Collections.singletonList insteadof Arrays.asList when there be only one element. #549. Fixes LANG-1564. Thanks to XenoAmess.	ggregory
	Refine Javadoc #545. Fixes LANG-1560. Thanks to XenoAmess.	ggregory
	Change array style from `int a[]` to `int[] a` #537. Fixes LANG-1553. Thanks to XenoAmess.	ggregory
	Change from addAll to constructors for some List #536. Fixes LANG-1552. Thanks to XenoAmess.	ggregory
	Fix typos #539. Fixes LANG-1554. Thanks to XenoAmess.	ggregory
	Ignored exception `ignored`, should not be called so #540. Fixes LANG-1555. Thanks to XenoAmess.	ggregory
	Simplify if as some conditions are covered by others #543. Fixes LANG-1558. Thanks to XenoAmess.	ggregory
	StringUtils.replaceEachRepeatedly gives IllegalStateException #505. Fixes LANG-1528. Thanks to Edwin Delgado H.	ggregory
	Add JavaVersion enum constants for Java 14 and 15. #553. Fixes LANG-1570. Thanks to Edgar Asatryan.	ggregory
	Add JavaVersion enum constants for Java 16. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Use Java 8 lambdas and Map operations. Fixes LANG-1556. Thanks to XenoAmess.	ggregory
	Change removeLastFieldSeparator to use endsWith #550. Fixes LANG-1565. Thanks to XenoAmess.	ggregory
	Change a Pattern to a static final field, for not letting it compile each time the function invoked. #542. Fixes LANG-1557. Thanks to XenoAmess, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add ImmutablePair factory methods left() and right().	ggregory
	Add ObjectUtils.toString(Object, Supplier<String>).	ggregory
	Fixed Javadocs for setTestRecursive() #556. Fixes LANG-1567. Thanks to Miguel Muñoz, Bruno P. Kinoshita, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	ToStringBuilder.reflectionToString - Wrong JSON format when object has a List of Enum. Fixes LANG-1542. Thanks to Trần Ngọc Khoa, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	[JSON string for maps] ToStringBuilder.reflectionToString doesn't render nested maps correctly. Fixes LANG-1543. Thanks to Swaraj Pal, Wander Costa, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Make org.apache.commons.lang3.CharSequenceUtils.toCharArray(CharSequence) public.	ggregory
	Add org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.substringAfter(String, int).	ggregory
	Add org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.substringAfterLast(String, int).	ggregory
	Correct Javadocs of methods that use Validate.notNull() and replace some uses of Validate.isTrue() with Validate.notNull(). #525. Thanks to Isira Seneviratne.	ggregory
	Add allNull() and anyNull() methods to ObjectUtils. #522. Fixes LANG-1539. Thanks to Isira Seneviratne.	ggregory
	org.apache.commons:commons-parent 50 -> 51.	ggregory
	org.junit-pioneer:junit-pioneer 0.5.4 -> 0.6.0.	ggregory
	org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter 5.6.0 -> 5.6.2.	ggregory
	com.github.spotbugs:spotbugs 4.0.0 -> 4.0.6.	ggregory
	com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle 8.29 -> 8.34.	ggregory
	commons.surefire.version 3.0.0-M4 -> 3.0.0-M5..	ggregory

Release 3.10 – 2020-03-22

Type	Changes	By
	Make test more stable by wrapping assertions in hashset. Fixes LANG-1514. Thanks to contextshuffling.	kinow
	Generate Javadoc jar on build. Fixes LANG-1450.	chtompki
	Add ExceptionUtils.throwableOfType(Throwable, Class) and friends. Fixes LANG-1457.	ggregory
	Add EMPTY_ARRAY constants to classes in org.apache.commons.lang3.tuple. Fixes LANG-1458.	ggregory
	Add null-safe StringUtils APIs to wrap String#getBytes([Charset\|String]). Fixes LANG-1461.	ggregory
	Add zero arg constructor for org.apache.commons.lang3.NotImplementedException. Fixes LANG-1467.	ggregory
	Add ArrayUtils.addFirst() methods. Fixes LANG-1470.	ggregory
	Remove redundant if statements in join methods #411. Fixes LANG-1437. Thanks to Andrei Troie.	ggregory
	Trivial: year of release for 3.9 says 2018, should be 2019. Fixes LANG-1460. Thanks to Larry West.	kinow
	Use synchronize on a set created with Collections.synchronizedSet before iterating. Fixes LANG-1476. Thanks to emopers.	kinow
	Add Range.fit(T) to fit a value into a range. Fixes LANG-1479.	ggregory
	commons.japicmp.version 0.13.1 -> 0.14.1.	ggregory
	junit-jupiter 5.5.0 -> 5.5.1.	ggregory
	Added Functions.as*, and tests thereof, as suggested by Peter Verhas. Fixes LANG-1477.	jochen
	StringUtils.unwrap incorrect throw StringIndexOutOfBoundsException. Fixes LANG-1475. Thanks to stzx.	kinow
	Add getters for lhs and rhs objects in DiffResult #451. Fixes LANG-1485. Thanks to nicolasbd.	ggregory
	Generify builder classes Diffable, DiffBuilder, and DiffResult #452. Fixes LANG-1486. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add ClassLoaderUtils with toString() implementations #453. Fixes LANG-1487. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add null-safe APIs as StringUtils.toRootLowerCase(String) and StringUtils.toRootUpperCase(String) #456. Fixes LANG-1489. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in StringUtils.replaceIgnoreCase #423. Fixes LANG-1406. Thanks to geratorres.	ggregory
	StringUtils.removeIgnoreCase("İa", "a") throws IndexOutOfBoundsException #423. Fixes LANG-1453. Thanks to geratorres.	ggregory
	junit-jupiter 5.5.1 -> 5.5.2.	ggregory
	Corrected usage examples in Javadocs #458. Fixes LANG-1426. Thanks to Brower, Mikko Maunu, Suraj Gautam.	ggregory
	Improve Javadoc based on the discussion of the GitHub PR #459. Thanks to Jonathan Leitschuh, Bruno P. Kinoshita, Rob Tompkins, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	maven-checkstyle-plugin 3.0.0 -> 3.1.0.	ggregory
	Update documentation related to the issue LANG-696 #449. Fixes LANG-696. Thanks to Peter Verhas.	ggregory
	AnnotationUtils little cleanup #467. Thanks to Peter Verhas.	ggregory
	Add org.apache.commons.lang3.time.Calendars. Fixes LANG-1494. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add EnumUtils getEnum() methods with default values #475. Fixes LANG-1495. Thanks to Cheong Voon Leong.	ggregory
	Added indexesOf methods and simplified removeAllOccurences #471. Fixes LANG-1177. Thanks to Liel Fridman.	ggregory
	Add support of lambda value evaluation for defaulting methods #416. Fixes LANG-1498. Thanks to Lysergid, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	StringUtils abbreviate returns String of length greater than maxWidth #477. Fixes LANG-1463. Thanks to bbeckercscc, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Test may fail due to a different order of fields returned by reflection api #480. Fixes LANG-1500. Thanks to contextshuffling.	ggregory
	Update test dependency: org.easymock:easymock 4.0.2 -> 4.1. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Update test dependency: org.hamcrest:hamcrest 2.1 -> 2.2. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Update test dependency: org.junit-pioneer:junit-pioneer 0.3.0 -> 0.4.2. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Update build dependency: com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle 8.18 -> 8.27. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Sort fields in ReflectionToStringBuilder for deterministic order #481. Fixes LANG-1501. Thanks to contextshuffling.	ggregory
	Update POM parent: org.apache.commons:commons-parent 48 -> 50. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	BooleanUtils Javadoc #469. Thanks to Peter Verhas.	ggregory
	Functions Javadoc #466. Thanks to Peter Verhas.	ggregory
	Add factory methods to Pair classes with Map.Entry input. #454. Fixes LANG-1503. Thanks to XenoAmess, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add StopWatch convenience APIs to format times and create a simple instance. Fixes LANG-1505. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Allow a StopWatch to carry an optional message. Fixes LANG-1506. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add ComparableUtils #398. Fixes LANG-1507. Thanks to Sam Kruglov, Mark Dacek, Marc Magon, Pascal Schumacher, Rob Tompkins, Bruno P. Kinoshita, Amey Jadiye, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add org.apache.commons.lang3.SystemUtils.getUserName(). Fixes LANG-1508. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add ObjectToStringComparator. #483. Fixes LANG-1509. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add org.apache.commons.lang3.arch.Processor.Arch.getLabel(). Fixes LANG-1510. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add IS_JAVA_14 and IS_JAVA_15 to org.apache.commons.lang3.SystemUtils. Fixes LANG-1512. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	ObjectUtils: Get first non-null supplier value. Fixes LANG-1513. Thanks to Bernhard Bonigl, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Added the Streams class, and Functions.stream() as an accessor thereof.	jochen
	org.easymock:easymock 4.1 -> 4.2. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	org.junit-pioneer:junit-pioneer 0.4.2 -> 0.5.4. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter 5.5.2 -> 5.6.0. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Use Javadoc {@code} instead of pre tags. #490. Thanks to Peter Verhas.	ggregory
	ExceptionUtilsTest to 100% #486. Thanks to Peter Verhas.	ggregory
	MethodUtils will throw a NPE if invokeMethod() is called for a var-args method #407. Fixes LANG-1433. Thanks to Christian Franzen.	ggregory
	Reuse own code in Functions.java #493. Thanks to Peter Verhas.	ggregory
	MethodUtils.getAnnotation() with searchSupers = true does not work if super is generic #494. Fixes LANG-1518. Thanks to Michele Preti, Bruno P. Kinoshita, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Avoid unnecessary allocation in StringUtils.wrapIfMissing. #496. Fixes LANG-1523. Thanks to Edgar Asatryan, Bruno P. Kinoshita, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Internally use Validate.notNull(foo, ...) instead of Validate.isTrue(foo != null, ...). Fixes LANG-1525. Thanks to Edgar Asatryan, Bruno P. Kinoshita, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add 1 and 0 in toBooleanObject(final String str) #502. Fixes LANG-1526. Thanks to Dominik Schramm.	ggregory
	Remove a redundant argument check in NumberUtils #504. Fixes LANG-1527. Thanks to Pengyu Nie.	ggregory
	Deprecate org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils.removeAllOccurences() for org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils.removeAllOccurrences(). Fixes LANG-1529. Thanks to Gary Gregory, BillCindy, Bruno P. Kinoshita.	ggregory

Release 3.9 – 2019-04-09

Type	Changes	By
	FieldUtils.removeFinalModifier(Field, boolean), in java 12 throw exception because the final modifier is no longer mutable. Fixes LANG-1447.	chtompki
	Switch coverage from cobertura to jacoco. Fixes LANG-1446.	chtompki
	Javadoc pointing to Commons RNG. Fixes LANG-1442.	chtompki
	Add more SystemUtils.IS_JAVA_XX variants. Fixes LANG-1416.	britter
	Adding the Functions class.	jochen
	Update to JUnit 5. Fixes LANG-1416.	britter
	Add @FunctionalInterface to ThreadPredicate and ThreadGroupPredicate. Fixes LANG-1417.	britter
	Update Java Language requirement to 1.8. Fixes LANG-1415.	britter
	Add isEmpty method to ObjectUtils. Fixes LANG-1411. Thanks to Alexander Tsvetkov.	britter
	Add null-safe StringUtils.valueOf(char[]) to delegate to String.valueOf(char[]). Fixes LANG-1422.	ggregory
	Add API org.apache.commons.lang3.SystemUtils.isJavaVersionAtMost(JavaVersion). Fixes LANG-1427.	ggregory
	Consolidate the StringUtils equals and equalsIgnoreCase Javadoc and implementation. Fixes LANG-1436.	aherbert
	(doc) Fix javadoc for 'startIndex' parameter of StringUtils.join() methods. GitHub PR #412. Thanks to Andrei Troie aft90.	ggregory

Release 3.8.1 – 2018-09-19

Type	Changes	By
	Restore BundleSymbolicName for OSGi. Fixes LANG-1419.	chtompki

Release 3.8 – 2018-08-15

Type	Changes	By
	FastDateParser too strict on abbreviated short month symbols. Fixes LANG-1380. Thanks to Markus Jelsma.	chas
	JsonToStringStyle does not escape string names. Fixes LANG-1396.	sebb
	JsonToStringStyle does not escape double quote in a string value. Fixes LANG-1395. Thanks to Jim Gan.	sebb
	New Java version ("11") must be handled. Fixes LANG-1384. Thanks to Ian Young.	erans
	ExceptionUtils#getRootCause(Throwable t) should return t if no lower level cause exists. Fixes LANG-1364. Thanks to Zheng Xie.	pschumacher
	NumberUtils.isNumber assumes number starting with Zero. Fixes LANG-1060. Thanks to Piotr Kosmala.	pschumacher
	defaultString(final String str) in StringUtils to reuse defaultString(final String str, final String defaultStr). Fixes LANG-1375. Thanks to Jerry Zhao.	kinow
	Parsing Json Array failed. Fixes LANG-1374. Thanks to Jaswanth Bala.	kinow
	Fix TypeUtils#parameterize to work correctly with narrower-typed array. Fixes LANG-1371. Thanks to Dmitry Ovchinnikov.	pschumacher
	Fix EventCountCircuitBreaker increment batch. Fixes LANG-1370. Thanks to Andre Dieb.	kinow
	NumberUtils.createNumber() throws StringIndexOutOfBoundsException instead of NumberFormatException. Fixes LANG-1385. Thanks to Rohan Padhye.	ggregory
	WordUtils.wrap throws StringIndexOutOfBoundsException when wrapLength is Integer.MAX_VALUE. Fixes LANG-1397. Thanks to Takanobu Asanuma.	ggregory
	Typo in JavaDoc for lastIndexOf. Fixes LANG-1401. Thanks to Roman Golyshev, Alex Mamedov.	pschumacher
	ObjectUtils.identityToString(Object) and friends should allocate builders and buffers with a size. Fixes LANG-1367. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	EnumUtils.getEnumIgnoreCase and isValidEnumIgnoreCase methods added. Fixes LANG-1352. Thanks to Ruslan Sibgatullin.	pschumacher
	Add ToStringSummary annotation. Fixes LANG-1372. Thanks to Sérgio Ozaki.	pschumacher
	Add bypass option for classes to recursive and reflective EqualsBuilder. Fixes LANG-1356. Thanks to Yathos UG.	pschumacher
	Improve Javadoc for StringUtils.isAnyEmpty(null). Fixes LANG-1391. Thanks to Sauro Matulli, Oleg Chubaryov.	ggregory
	Add API SystemUtils.String getEnvironmentVariable(final String name, final String defaultValue). Fixes LANG-1393. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	org.apache.commons.lang3.SystemUtils should not write to System.err. Fixes LANG-1394. Thanks to Sebb, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Add RegexUtils class instead of overloading methods in StringUtils that take a regex to take precompiled Pattern. Fixes LANG-1238. Thanks to Christopher Cordeiro, Gary Gregory, Bruno P. Kinoshita, Oleg Chubaryov.	ggregory
	StringUtils.join() with support for List<?> with configurable start/end indices. Fixes LANG-1390. Thanks to Jochen Schalanda.	ggregory
	Methods for getting first non-empty or non-blank value. Fixes LANG-1392. Thanks to Jeff Nelson.	pschumacher
	Remove checks for java versions below the minimum supported one. Fixes LANG-1405. Thanks to Lars Grefer.	ggregory
	Null/index safe get methods for ArrayUtils. Fixes LANG-1402. Thanks to Mark Dacek.	chtompki
	Rounding utilities for converting to BigDecimal. Fixes LANG-1408.	chtompki

Release 3.7 – 2017-11-04

Type	Changes	By
	Fix tests DateUtilsTest for Java 9 with en_GB locale. Fixes LANG-1362. Thanks to Stephen Colebourne.	ggregory
	Fix NullPointerException in isJavaVersionAtLeast on Java 10, add SystemUtils.IS_JAVA_10, add JavaVersion.JAVA_10. Fixes LANG-1365. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	StackOverflowError on TypeUtils.toString(...) for a generic return type of Enum.valueOf. Fixes LANG-1348. Thanks to mbusso.	pschumacher
	ConstructorUtils.invokeConstructor(Class, Object...) regression. Fixes LANG-1350. Thanks to Brett Kail.	ggregory
	EqualsBuilder#isRegistered: swappedPair construction bug. Fixes LANG-1349. Thanks to Naman Nigam.	pschumacher
	org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateParser should use toUpperCase(Locale). Fixes LANG-1357. Thanks to BruceKuiLiu.	ggregory
	Improve StringUtils#replace throughput. Fixes LANG-1358. Thanks to Stephane Landelle.	pschumacher
	Remove deprecation from RandomStringUtils. Fixes LANG-1346.	pschumacher
	ExceptionUtils.getThrowableList() is using deprecated ExceptionUtils.getCause(). Fixes LANG-1361. Thanks to Ana.	ggregory
	TimeZone.getTimeZone() in FastDateParser causes resource contention (PR #296.). Fixes LANG-1355. Thanks to Chas Honton.	ggregory
	Add methods to ObjectUtils to get various forms of class names in a null-safe manner. Fixes LANG-1360. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory

Release 3.6 – 2017-06-08

Type	Changes	By
	Add Automatic-Module-Name MANIFEST entry for Java 9 compatibility. Fixes LANG-1338.	britter
	Add NUL Byte To CharUtils. Fixes LANG-1336. Thanks to Beluga Behr.	britter
	Fix test failures in IBM JDK 8 for ToStringBuilderTest. Fixes LANG-1337.	kinow
	Add method in StringUtils to determine if string contains both mixed cased characters. Fixes LANG-1304. Thanks to Andy Klimczak.	pschumacher
	Deprecate CharEncoding in favour of java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets. Fixes LANG-1334.	djones
	MultilineRecursiveToStringStyle StackOverflowError when object is an array. Fixes LANG-1319.	djones
	Increase test coverage of ToStringBuilder class to 100%. Fixes LANG-1325. Thanks to Arshad Basha.	kinow
	Add a method in StringUtils to extract only digits out of input string. Fixes LANG-1307. Thanks to Arshad Basha.	pschumacher
	Implement HashSetvBitSetTest using JMH. Fixes LANG-1110. Thanks to Bruno P. Kinoshita.	pschumacher
	Add JMH maven dependencies. Fixes LANG-1256. Thanks to C0rWin.	pschumacher
	Add null filter to ReflectionToStringBuilder. Fixes LANG-1167. Thanks to Mark Dacek.	chtompki
	LocaleUtils#toLocale does not support language followed by UN M.49 numeric-3 area code followed by variant. Fixes LANG-1320.	britter
	Clarify or improve behavior of int-based indexOf methods in StringUtils. Fixes LANG-1300. Thanks to Mark Dacek.	chtompki
	Add method for converting string to an array of code points. Fixes LANG-1299.	djones
	RandomStringUtils random method can overflow and return characters outside the specified range. Fixes LANG-1286.	djones
	Add methods to insert arrays into arrays at an index. Fixes LANG-660.	djones
	WordUtils.wrap throws StringIndexOutOfBoundsException. Fixes LANG-1292.	djones
	RandomStringUtils#random can enter infinite loop if end parameter is to small. Fixes LANG-1287. Thanks to Ivan Morozov.	pschumacher
	NullPointerException in FastDateParser$TimeZoneStrategy. Fixes LANG-1285. Thanks to Francesco Chicchiriccò.	pschumacher
	Javadoc of StringUtils.ordinalIndexOf is contradictory. Fixes LANG-1281. Thanks to Andreas Lundblad.	pschumacher
	StringUtils#join(T...): warning: [unchecked] Possible heap pollution from parameterized vararg type T. Fixes LANG-1188.	pschumacher
	Multiple calls of org.apache.commons.lang3.concurrent.LazyInitializer.initialize() are possible. Fixes LANG-1144. Thanks to Waldemar Maier, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	StrBuilder#replaceAll ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException. Fixes LANG-1276. Thanks to Andy Klimczak.	pschumacher
	BooleanUtils javadoc issues. Fixes LANG-1278. Thanks to Duke Yin.	pschumacher
	ArrayUtils#add confusing example in javadoc. Fixes LANG-1070. Thanks to Paul Pogonyshev.	pschumacher
	StringUtils#isAnyEmpty and #isAnyBlank should return false for an empty array. Fixes LANG-1271. Thanks to Pierre Templier.	pschumacher
	Add StringUtils#unwrap. Fixes LANG-1155. Thanks to Saif Asif, Thiago Andrade.	pschumacher
	Add support for recursive comparison to EqualsBuilder#reflectionEquals. Fixes LANG-1034. Thanks to Yathos UG.	pschumacher
	Add a reflection-based variant of DiffBuilder. Fixes LANG-1067.	pschumacher
	Implementation of a Memoizer. Fixes LANG-740. Thanks to James Sawle.	pschumacher
	Add ArrayUtils#toStringArray method. Fixes LANG-1258. Thanks to IG, Grzegorz Rożniecki.	pschumacher
	StringUtils#abbreviate should support 'custom ellipses' parameter. Fixes LANG-1160.	kinow
	Add StringUtils#isAllEmpty and #isAllBlank methods. Fixes LANG-1293. Thanks to Pierre Templier, Martin Tarjanyi.	pschumacher
	Increase test coverage of org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils. Fixes LANG-1290. Thanks to Andrii Abramov.	pschumacher
	StrSubstitutor should state its thread safety. Fixes LANG-1274.	pschumacher
	StringUtils#getLevenshteinDistance reduce memory consumption. Fixes LANG-1277. Thanks to yufcuy.	pschumacher
	Update Java requirement from Java 6 to 7. Fixes LANG-1279.	ggregory
	StringUtils should use toXxxxCase(int) rather than toXxxxCase(char). Fixes LANG-1143. Thanks to sebb.	pschumacher
	Add SystemUtils.getHostName() API. Fixes LANG-1297.	ggregory
	Moving apache-rat-plugin configuration into pluginManagement. Fixes LANG-1301. Thanks to Karl Heinz Marbaise.	pschumacher
	TypeUtils.toString() doesn't handle primitive and Object arrays correctly. Fixes LANG-1311. Thanks to Aaron Digulla.	pschumacher
	LocaleUtils#toLocale does not support language followed by UN M.49 numeric-3 area code. Fixes LANG-1312.	pschumacher
	Build failures when building with Java 9 EA. Fixes LANG-1265.	pschumacher
	javadoc creation broken with Java 8. Fixes LANG-1314. Thanks to Allon Murienik.	pschumacher
	Deprecate classes/methods moved to commons-text. Fixes LANG-1316.	pschumacher
	MethodUtils.invokeMethod throws ArrayStoreException if using varargs arguments and smaller types than the method defines. Fixes LANG-1310. Thanks to Don Jeba.	pschumacher
	Add ArchUtils - An utility class for the "os.arch" system property. Fixes LANG-1313. Thanks to Tomschi.	pschumacher
	Add shuffle methods to ArrayUtils. Fixes LANG-1272.	ebourg
	Add MethodUtils#findAnnotation and extend MethodUtils#getMethodsWithAnnotation for non-public, super-class and interface methods. Fixes LANG-1317. Thanks to Yasser Zamani.	pschumacher
	Add ImmutablePair.nullPair(). Fixes LANG-1331.	ggregory
	Add ImmutableTriple.nullTriple(). Fixes LANG-1332.	ggregory

Release 3.5 – 2016-10-13

Type	Changes	By
	Added a tryAcquire() method to TimedSemaphore. Fixes LANG-1275.	oheger
	Added a new property IS_OS_MAC_OSX_EL_CAPITAN in SystemUtils. Fixes LANG-1273. Thanks to Jake Wang.	ebourg
	Add DateUtils.toCalendar(Date, TimeZone). Fixes LANG-1255. Thanks to Kaiyuan Wang.	britter
	Add WordUtils.wrap overload with customizable breakable character. Fixes LANG-1023. Thanks to Marko Bekhta.	britter
	Add method removeIgnoreCase(String, String) to StringUtils. Fixes LANG-787. Thanks to Gokul Nanthakumar C.	pschumacher
	ArrayUtils.contains returns false for instances of subtypes. Fixes LANG-1261.	pschumacher
	Prepare Java 9 detection. Fixes LANG-1197.	pschumacher
	Rename NumberUtils.isNumber, isCreatable to better reflect createNumber. Also, accommodated for "+" symbol as prefix in isCreatable and isNumber. Fixes LANG-1252. Thanks to Rob Tompkins.	chtompki
	CompareToBuilder.append(Object, Object, Comparator) method is too big to be inlined. Fixes LANG-1262. Thanks to Ruslan Cheremin.	pschumacher
	Remove unnecessary synchronization from registry lookup in EqualsBuilder and HashCodeBuilder. Fixes LANG-1230. Thanks to Philippe Marschall.	pschumacher
	Extend RandomStringUtils with methods that generate strings between a min and max length. Fixes LANG-1224. Thanks to Caleb Cushing.	pschumacher
	Handle "void" in ClassUtils.getClass(). Fixes LANG-1214. Thanks to Henry Tung.	pschumacher
	SerializationUtils#deserialize has unnecessary code and a comment for that. Fixes LANG-1250. Thanks to Glease Wang.	pschumacher
	Javadoc for ArrayUtils.isNotEmpty() is slightly misleading. Fixes LANG-1259. Thanks to Dominik Stadler.	britter
	Add APIs StringUtils.wrapIfMissing(String, char\|String). Fixes LANG-1257. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	TypeUtils.isAssignable throws NullPointerException when fromType has type variables and toType generic superclass specifies type variable. Fixes LANG-1190. Thanks to pschumacher.	pschumacher
	StringUtils#normalizeSpace does not trim the string anymore. Fixes LANG-1226. Thanks to pschumacher.	pschumacher
	SerializationUtils.ClassLoaderAwareObjectInputStream should use static initializer to initialize primitiveTypes map. Fixes LANG-1251. Thanks to Takuya Ueshin.	pschumacher
	[GitHub issue #170] Add RandomUtils#nextBoolean() method. Fixes LANG-1253. Thanks to adilek.	ggregory
	FastDatePrinter Memory allocation regression. Fixes LANG-1248. Thanks to Benoit Wiart.	chas
	FastDatePrinter generates extra Date objects. Fixes LANG-1247. Thanks to Benoit Wiart.	chas
	Fix precision loss on NumberUtils.createNumber(String). Fixes LANG-1018. Thanks to Nick Manley.	pschumacher
	HashCodeBuilder.append(Object,Object) is too big to be inlined, which prevents whole builder to be scalarized. Fixes LANG-1229. Thanks to Ruslan Cheremin.	pschumacher
	Add a circuit breaker implementation. Fixes LANG-1085. Thanks to oheger / kinow.	oheger
	Add StringUtils.truncate(). Fixes LANG-1013. Thanks to Thiago Andrade.	pschumacher
	Enhance MethodUtils to allow invocation of private methods. Fixes LANG-1195. Thanks to Derek C. Ashmore.	pschumacher
	Fix implementation of StringUtils.getJaroWinklerDistance(). Fixes LANG-1199. Thanks to M. Steiger.	pschumacher
	Fix dead links in StringUtils.getLevenshteinDistance() javadoc. Fixes LANG-1244. Thanks to jjbankert.	pschumacher
	"\u2284":"nsub" mapping missing from EntityArrays#HTML40_EXTENDED_ESCAPE. Fixes LANG-1242. Thanks to Neal Stewart.	pschumacher
	Simplify ArrayUtils removeElements by using new decrementAndGet() method. Fixes LANG-1243.	sebb
	Add getAndIncrement/getAndDecrement/getAndAdd/incrementAndGet/decrementAndGet/addAndGet in Mutable* classes. Fixes LANG-1189. Thanks to haiyang li / Matthew Bartenschlag.	sebb
	Optimize BitField constructor implementation. Fixes LANG-1240. Thanks to zhanhb.	pschumacher
	Improve CharSetUtils.squeeze() performance. Fixes LANG-1206. Thanks to Mohammed Alfallaj.	pschumacher
	Add RandomStringUtils#randomGraph and #randomPrint which match corresponding regular expression class. Fixes LANG-1225. Thanks to Caleb Cushing.	pschumacher
	StringUtils#startsWithAny/endsWithAny is case-sensitive - documented as case insensitive. Fixes LANG-901. Thanks to Matthew Bartenschlag.	pschumacher
	Add StopWatch#getTime(TimeUnit). Fixes LANG-1223. Thanks to Nick Manley.	pschumacher
	Add methods to ObjectUtils class to check for null elements in the array. Fixes LANG-781. Thanks to Krzysztof Wolny.	pschumacher
	Prefer Throwable.getCause() in ExceptionUtils.getCause(). Fixes LANG-1228. Thanks to Brad Hess.	pschumacher
	DiffBuilder add method to allow appending from a DiffResult. Fixes LANG-1233. Thanks to Nick Manley.	pschumacher
	Improve ArrayUtils removeElements time complexity to O(n). Fixes LANG-1176. Thanks to Jeffery Yuan.	pschumacher
	getLevenshteinDistance with a threshold: optimize implementation if the strings lengths differ more than the threshold. Fixes LANG-1234. Thanks to Jonatan Jönsson.	pschumacher
	Add SystemUtils.IS_OS_WINDOWS_10 property. Fixes LANG-1168. Thanks to pschumacher.	pschumacher
	DiffBuilder: Add null check on fieldName when appending Object or Object[]. Fixes LANG-1232. Thanks to Nick Manley.	pschumacher
	ArrayUtils.removeAll(Object array, int... indices) should do the clone, not its callers. Fixes LANG-1178. Thanks to Henri Yandell.	pschumacher
	Performance improvements for NumberUtils.isParsable. Fixes LANG-1151. Thanks to Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez.	pschumacher
	StringUtils.stripAccents should remove accents from "Ł" and "ł". Fixes LANG-1120. Thanks to kaching88.	pschumacher
	EqualsBuilder.append(Object,Object) is too big to be inlined, which prevents whole builder to be scalarized. Fixes LANG-1218. Thanks to Ruslan Cheremin.	ggregory
	NumberUtils.createNumber() behaves inconsistently with NumberUtils.isNumber(). Fixes LANG-1205. Thanks to pbrose.	chas
	Add support for varargs in ConstructorUtils, MemberUtils, and MethodUtils. Fixes LANG-1115. Thanks to Jim Lloyd, Joe Ferner.	chas
	Add methods to check numbers against NaN and infinite to Validate. Fixes LANG-1134. Thanks to Alan Smithee.	chas
	Fix for incorrect comment on StringUtils.containsIgnoreCase method. Fixes LANG-1222. Thanks to Adam J..	ggregory
	Fix typo on appendIfMissing javadoc. Fixes LANG-1221. Thanks to Pierre Templier.	ggregory
	Add tests for missed branches in DateUtils. Fixes LANG-1220. Thanks to Casey Scarborough.	kinow
	parseDateStrictly doesn't pass specified locale. Fixes LANG-1202. Thanks to Markus Jelsma.	chas
	FastDateFormat doesn't respect summer daylight in some localized strings. Fixes LANG-1219. Thanks to Jarek.	chas
	z/OS identification in SystemUtils. Fixes LANG-1146. Thanks to Gabor Liptak.	ggregory
	StringUtils#startsWithAny has error in Javadoc. Fixes LANG-1210. Thanks to Matthias Niehoff.	ggregory
	StrSubstitutor can preserve escapes. Fixes LANG-1208. Thanks to Samuel Karp.	bayard
	Remove Ant-based build. Fixes LANG-1175. Thanks to Benedikt Ritter.	wikier
	FastDateFormat support of the week-year component (uppercase 'Y'). Fixes LANG-1192. Thanks to Dominik Stadler.	chas
	Limit max heap memory for consistent Travis CI build. Fixes LANG-1194.	chas
	Fix NullPointerException in FastDateParser$TimeZoneStrategy. Fixes LANG-1186. Thanks to NickManley.	chas
	ordinalIndexOf("abc", "ab", 1) gives incorrect answer of -1 (correct answer should be 0); revert fix for LANG-1077. Fixes LANG-1193. Thanks to Qin Li.	sebb
	Clarify Javadoc of StringUtils.containsAny(). Fixes LANG-1182. Thanks to Larry West, Pascal Schumacher.	britter
	Add StringUtils methods to compare a string to multiple strings. Fixes LANG-1169. Thanks to Rafal Glowinski, Robert Parr, Arman Sharif.	lguibert
	Add remove by regular expression methods in StringUtils. Fixes LANG-1185.	lguibert
	Making replacePattern/removePattern methods null safe in StringUtils. Fixes LANG-1183.	lguibert
	Add replace by regular expression methods in StringUtils. Fixes LANG-1139.	lguibert
	Add compare methods in StringUtils. Fixes LANG-1171.	lguibert
	Add sugar to RandomUtils. Fixes LANG-1174. Thanks to Punkratz312.	britter
	Replace StringBuilder with String concatenation for better optimization. Fixes LANG-1057. Thanks to Otávio Santana.	chas
	Deprecate SystemUtils.FILE_SEPARATOR and SystemUtils.PATH_SEPARATOR. Fixes LANG-1075.	chas
	FastDateFormat APIs that use a StringBuilder. Fixes LANG-1154. Thanks to Gary Gregory.	chas
	Ability to throw checked exceptions without declaring them. Fixes LANG-1149. Thanks to Gregory Zak.	chas
	Several predefined ISO FastDateFormats in DateFormatUtils are incorrect. Fixes LANG-1002. Thanks to Michael Osipov.	chas
	StringIndexOutOfBoundsException or field over-write for large year fields in FastDateParser. Fixes LANG-1152. Thanks to Pas Filip.	chas
	Implement ParsePosition api for FastDateParser. Fixes LANG-1153.	chas
	StrLookup.systemPropertiesLookup() no longer reacts on changes on system properties. Fixes LANG-1141.	oheger
	EnumUtils *BitVector issue with more than 32 values Enum. Fixes LANG-1147. Thanks to Loic Guibert.	sebb
	Capitalize javadoc is incorrect. Fixes LANG-1059. Thanks to Colin Casey.	sebb
	Add check for duplicate event listener in EventListenerSupport. Fixes LANG-1137. Thanks to Matthew Aguirre.	britter
	FastDateParser_TimeZoneStrategyTest#testTimeZoneStrategyPattern fails on Windows with German Locale. Fixes LANG-1133. Thanks to Pascal Schumacher.	chas
	Add method containsAllWords to WordUtils. Fixes LANG-1135. Thanks to Eduardo Martins.	britter
	ReflectionToStringBuilder doesn't throw IllegalArgumentException when the constructor's object param is null. Fixes LANG-1132. Thanks to Jack Tan.	britter
	Inconsistent behavior of swap for malformed inputs. Fixes LANG-1122. Thanks to Adrian Ber.	britter
	StringUtils join with var args. Fixes LANG-701. Thanks to James Sawle.	britter
	Fix critical issues reported by SonarQube. Fixes LANG-1130.	britter
	StrBuilder.equals(StrBuilder) doesn't check for null inputs. Fixes LANG-1131.	britter
	Add ThreadUtils - A utility class which provides helper methods related to java.lang.Thread. Fixes LANG-1105. Thanks to Hendrik Saly.	britter
	Add annotations to exclude fields from ReflectionEqualsBuilder, ReflectionToStringBuilder and ReflectionHashCodeBuilder. Fixes LANG-1031. Thanks to Felipe Adorno.	britter
	Use JUnit rules to set and reset the default Locale and TimeZone. Fixes LANG-1127.	chas, britter
	JsonToStringStyle doesn't handle chars and objects correctly. Fixes LANG-1128. Thanks to Jack Tan.	britter
	DateFormatUtilsTest.testSMTP depends on the default Locale. Fixes LANG-1126.	britter
	Unit test FastDatePrinterTimeZonesTest needs a timezone set. Fixes LANG-1123. Thanks to Christian P. Momon.	chas
	CLONE - DateFormatUtils.format does not correctly change Calendar TimeZone in certain situations. Fixes LANG-916. Thanks to Christian P. Momon.	chas
	DateUtilsTest.testLang530 fails for some timezones. Fixes LANG-1116. Thanks to Aaron Sheldon.	chas
	TypeUtils.ParameterizedType#equals doesn't work with wildcard types. Fixes LANG-1114. Thanks to Andy Coates.	britter
	Add rotate(string, int) method to StringUtils. Fixes LANG-1119. Thanks to Loic Guibert.	britter
	StringUtils.repeat('z', -1) throws NegativeArraySizeException. Fixes LANG-1118. Thanks to Loic Guibert.	britter
	Add swap and shift operations for arrays to ArrayUtils. Fixes LANG-1099. Thanks to Adrian Ber.	britter
	TypeUtils.parameterizeWithOwner - wrong format descriptor for "invalid number of type parameters". Fixes LANG-979. Thanks to Bruno P. Kinoshita.	britter
	MultilineRecursiveToStringStyle largely unusable due to being package-private. Fixes LANG-1112.	britter
	StringUtils.uncapitalize performance improvement. Fixes LANG-1058. Thanks to Leo Wang.	djones
	CharSet.getInstance documentation does not clearly explain how to include negation character in set. Fixes LANG-1069. Thanks to Arno Noordover.	djones
	Change nullToEmpty methods to generics. Fixes LANG-1050. Thanks to James Sawle.	djones
	Fix FindBugs warnings in DurationFormatUtils. Fixes LANG-1111.	chas
	Add a method to ArrayUtils for removing all occurrences of a given element. Fixes LANG-1074. Thanks to Haiyang Li.	djones
	Fix parsing edge cases in FastDateParser. Fixes LANG-1107.	chas
	StringUtils#equals fails with Index OOBE on non-Strings with identical leading prefix. Fixes LANG-1162.	sebb
	There are no tests for CharSequenceUtils.regionMatches. Fixes LANG-1163.	sebb
	StringUtils.ordinalIndexOf: Add missing right parenthesis in Javadoc example. Fixes LANG-1200. Thanks to BarkZhang.	ggregory
	Incorrect Javadoc StringUtils.containsAny(CharSequence, CharSequence...). Fixes LANG-1191. Thanks to qed, Brent Worden, Gary Gregory.	ggregory
	Added new property IS_OS_MAC_OSX_EL_CAPITAN in SystemUtils Thanks to Jake Wang.	ebourg

Release 3.4 – 2014-04-06

Type	Changes	By
	Support OS X versions in SystemUtils. Fixes LANG-821. Thanks to Timo Kockert.	britter
	SystemUtils.IS_OS_WINDOWS_2008, VISTA are incorrect. Fixes LANG-794. Thanks to Timo Kockert.	britter
	Parse test fails for TimeZone America/Sao_Paulo. Fixes LANG-1104.	chas
	Add SystemUtils.IS_JAVA_1_9. Fixes LANG-1103.	britter
	Make logic for comparing OS versions in SystemUtils smarter. Fixes LANG-1102.	britter
	Shutdown thread pools in test cases. Fixes LANG-1091. Thanks to Fabian Lange.	britter
	FastDateParser and FastDatePrinter support 'X' format. Fixes LANG-1101.	chas
	Avoid memory allocation when using date formatting to StringBuffer. Fixes LANG-1100. Thanks to mbracher.	chas
	Possible performance improvement on string escape functions. Fixes LANG-935. Thanks to Fabian Lange, Thomas Neidhart.	britter
	Exception while using ExtendedMessageFormat and escaping braces. Fixes LANG-948. Thanks to Andrey Khobnya.	britter
	Avoid String allocation in StrBuilder.append(CharSequence). Fixes LANG-1098. Thanks to Mikhail Mazurskiy, Fabian Lange.	britter
	Update maven-checkstyle-plugin to 2.14. Fixes LANG-1098. Thanks to Michał Kordas.	britter
	Update org.easymock:easymock to 3.3.1. Fixes LANG-1097. Thanks to Michał Kordas.	britter
	Update maven-pmd-plugin to 3.4. Fixes LANG-1096. Thanks to Michał Kordas.	britter
	Update maven-antrun-plugin to 1.8. Fixes LANG-1095. Thanks to Michał Kordas.	britter
	Wrong formatting of time zones with daylight saving time in FastDatePrinter. Fixes LANG-1092.	britter
	Performance improvements for StringEscapeUtils. Fixes LANG-877. Thanks to Fabian Lange.	britter
	Add ClassUtils.getAbbreviatedName(). Fixes LANG-1093. Thanks to Fabian Lange.	britter
	FastDateParser does not set error indication in ParsePosition. Fixes LANG-1090.	sebb
	FastDateParser does not handle excess hours as per SimpleDateFormat. Fixes LANG-1089.	sebb
	FastDateParser error - timezones not handled correctly. Fixes LANG-1061. Thanks to dmeneses.	sebb
	NumberUtils#createNumber() returns positive BigDecimal when negative Float is expected. Fixes LANG-1087. Thanks to Renat Zhilkibaev.	britter
	DiffBuilder.append(String, Object left, Object right) does not do a left.equals(right) check. Fixes LANG-1081. Thanks to Jonathan Baker.	britter
	StrSubstitutor.replaceSystemProperties does not work consistently. Fixes LANG-1055. Thanks to Jonathan Baker.	britter
	Add option to disable the "objectsTriviallyEqual" test in DiffBuilder. Fixes LANG-1082. Thanks to Jonathan Baker.	britter
	Add (T) casts to get unit tests to pass in old JDK. Fixes LANG-1083. Thanks to Jonathan Baker.	britter
	Add JsonToStringStyle implementation to ToStringStyle. Fixes LANG-1015. Thanks to Thiago Andrade.	britter
	Add NoClassNameToStringStyle implementation of ToStringStyle. Fixes LANG-1080. Thanks to Innokenty Shuvalov.	britter
	Fix wrong examples in Javadoc of StringUtils.replaceEachRepeatedly(...), StringUtils.replaceEach(...). Fixes LANG-1071. Thanks to Arno Noordover.	britter
	Add StringUtils.containsAny(CharSequence, CharSequence...) method. Fixes LANG-883. Thanks to Daniel Stewart.	britter
	Read wrong component type of array in add in ArrayUtils. Fixes LANG-1073. Thanks to haiyang li.	kinow
	StringUtils.ordinalIndexOf("aaaaaa", "aa", 2) != 3 in StringUtils. Fixes LANG-1077. Thanks to haiyang li.	kinow
	Duplicated "0x" check in createBigInteger in NumberUtils. Fixes LANG-1072. Thanks to haiyang li.	sebb
	StringUtils.abbreviate description doesn't agree with the examples. Fixes LANG-1064. Thanks to B.J. Herbison.	djones
	Multiline recursive to string style. Fixes LANG-1052. Thanks to Jan Matèrne.	britter
	Add isSorted() to ArrayUtils. Fixes LANG-536. Thanks to James Sawle.	djones
	Fix MethodUtilsTest so it does not depend on JDK method ordering. Fixes LANG-1041. Thanks to Alexandre Bartel.	britter
	CompareToBuilder's doc doesn't specify precedence of fields it uses in performing comparisons. Fixes LANG-827.	djones
	ParseException when trying to parse UTC dates with Z as zone designator using DateFormatUtils.ISO_DATETIME_TIME_ZONE_FORMAT. Fixes LANG-1000.	djones
	Javadoc for EqualsBuilder.reflectionEquals() is unclear. Fixes LANG-1035.	djones
	Improve performance of normalize space. Fixes LANG-1020. Thanks to Libor Ondrusek.	britter
	Add StringUtils.countMatches(CharSequence, char). Fixes LANG-1033.	ggregory
	org.apache.commons.lang3.SystemUtils#isJavaVersionAtLeast should return true by default. Fixes LANG-1027.	rmannibucau
	Provide methods to retrieve all fields/methods annotated with a specific type. Fixes LANG-1021. Thanks to Alexander Müller.	britter
	Bring static method references in StringUtils to consistent style. Fixes LANG-1026. Thanks to Alex Yursha.	britter
	NumberUtils#isParsable method(s). Fixes LANG-1016. Thanks to Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez.	britter
	Use non-ASCII digits in Javadoc examples for StringUtils.isNumeric. Fixes LANG-1017. Thanks to Christoph Schneegans.	britter
	Change min/max methods in NumberUtils/IEEE754rUtils from array input parameters to varargs. Fixes LANG-1008. Thanks to Thiago Andrade.	britter
	Add fuzzy String matching logic to StringUtils. Fixes LANG-999. Thanks to Ben Ripkens.	britter
	Add wrap (with String or char) to StringUtils. Fixes LANG-1006. Thanks to Thiago Andrade.	britter
	Extend DurationFormatUtils#formatDurationISO default pattern to match #formatDurationHMS. Fixes LANG-1005. Thanks to Michael Osipov.	britter
	Fixing NumberUtils JAVADoc comments for max methods. Fixes LANG-1007. Thanks to Thiago Andrade.	britter
	Better Javadoc for BitField class. Fixes LANG-731.	djones
	DurationFormatUtils#formatDurationHMS implementation does not correspond to Javadoc and vice versa. Fixes LANG-1004. Thanks to Michael Osipov.	britter
	DurationFormatUtils are not able to handle negative durations/periods. Fixes LANG-1003.	britter
	ISO 8601 misspelled throughout the Javadocs. Fixes LANG-1001. Thanks to Michael Osipov.	ggregory
	Add zero copy read method to StrBuilder. Fixes LANG-994. Thanks to Mikhail Mazursky.	britter
	Add zero copy write method to StrBuilder. Fixes LANG-993. Thanks to Mikhail Mazursky.	britter
	Javadoc is not clear on preferred pattern to instantiate FastDateParser / FastDatePrinter. Fixes LANG-998.	chas
	FastDateParser should be case insensitive. Fixes LANG-1088.	chas
	Fix bug with stripping spaces on last line in WordUtils.wrap(). Fixes LANG-995. Thanks to Andrey Khobnya.	britter
	Add method org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.MethodUtils.invokeExactMethod(Object, String). Fixes LANG-1044.	ggregory
	Add method org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.MethodUtils.invokeMethod(Object, String). Fixes LANG-1045.	ggregory

Release 3.3.2 – 2014-04-09

Type	Changes	By
	NumberUtils#isNumber() returns false for "0.0", "0.4790", et al. Fixes LANG-992.	niallp
	Add org.apache.commons.lang3.SystemUtils.IS_JAVA_1_8. Fixes LANG-989.	ggregory

Release 3.3.1 – 2014-03-18

Type	Changes	By
	DateUtils.getFragmentInDays(Date, Calendar.MONTH) returns wrong days. Fixes LANG-987.	djones
	DurationFormatUtils does not describe format string fully. Fixes LANG-983.	sebb
	DurationFormatUtils#lexx does not detect unmatched quote char. Fixes LANG-981.	sebb
	DurationFormatUtils does not handle large durations correctly. Fixes LANG-984.	sebb
	DurationFormatUtils.formatDuration(61999, "s.SSSS") - ms field size should be 4 digits. Fixes LANG-982.	sebb
	Failing tests with Java 8 b128. Fixes LANG-978.	sebb

Release 3.3 – 2014-03-04

Type	Changes	By
	ReflectionToStringBuilder.toString does not debug 3rd party object fields within 3rd party object. Fixes LANG-621. Thanks to Philip Hodges, Thomas Neidhart.	kinow
	Add methods for removing all invalid characters according to XML 1.0 and XML 1.1 in an input string to StringEscapeUtils. Fixes LANG-955. Thanks to Adam Hooper.	britter
	NumericEntityEscaper incorrectly encodes supplementary characters. Fixes LANG-977. Thanks to Chris Karcher.	britter
	Make some private fields final. Fixes LANG-973.	sebb
	NumberUtils#isNumber(String) fails to reject invalid Octal numbers. Fixes LANG-971.	sebb
	NumberUtils#isNumber does not allow for hex 0XABCD. Fixes LANG-972.	sebb
	StringUtils.toEncodedString(byte[], Charset) needlessly throws UnsupportedEncodingException. Fixes LANG-969. Thanks to Matt Bishop.	ggregory
	Add APIs MutableBoolean setTrue() and setFalse(). Fixes LANG-970.	ggregory
	ConstantInitializerTest fails when building with IBM JDK 7. Fixes LANG-946.	britter
	Add SerializationUtils.roundtrip(T extends Serializable) to serialize then deserialize. Fixes LANG-962.	ggregory
	org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.FieldUtils.removeFinalModifier(Field) does not clean up after itself. Fixes LANG-961.	ggregory
	FastDateParser javadoc incorrectly states that SimpleDateFormat is used internally. Fixes LANG-958.	chas
	There should be a DifferenceBuilder with a ReflectionDifferenceBuilder implementation. Fixes LANG-637.	djones
	uncaught PatternSyntaxException in FastDateFormat on Android. Fixes LANG-954. Thanks to Michael Keppler.	sebb
	Improve Javadoc of WordUtils.wrap methods. Fixes LANG-956.	britter
	Add the Jaro-Winkler string distance algorithm to StringUtils. Fixes LANG-944. Thanks to Rekha Joshi.	britter
	StringUtils.getLevenshteinDistance with too big of a threshold returns wrong result. Fixes LANG-936. Thanks to Yaniv Kunda, Eli Lindsey.	bayard
	Test DurationFormatUtilsTest.testEdgeDuration fails in JDK 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8, BRST time zone. Fixes LANG-943.	kinow
	ConstructorUtils.getAccessibleConstructor() Does Not Check the Accessibility of Enclosing Classes. Fixes LANG-613.	mbenson
	Fragments are wrong by 1 day when using fragment YEAR or MONTH. Fixes LANG-951. Thanks to Sebastian Götz.	britter
	New class ClassPathUtils with methods for turning FQN into resource path. Fixes LANG-417.	britter
	Move Documentation from user guide to package-info files. Fixes LANG-939.	britter
	Convert package.html files to package-info.java files. Fixes LANG-953.	britter
	FastDateParser does not handle two digit year parsing like SimpleDateFormat. Fixes LANG-950.	chas
	FastDateParserTest.testParses does not test FastDateParser. Fixes LANG-949.	chas
	Fix deprecation warnings. Fixes LANG-940.	britter
	EnumUtils.generateBitVector needs a "? extends". Fixes LANG-819.	mbenson
	Validate: add inclusiveBetween and exclusiveBetween overloads for primitive types. Fixes LANG-834.	britter
	New RandomUtils class. Fixes LANG-900. Thanks to Duncan Jones.	britter
	Wrong locale handling in LocaleUtils.toLocale(). Fixes LANG-915. Thanks to Sergio Fernández.	britter
	Add IBM OS/400 detection. Fixes LANG-966.	ggregory

Release 3.2.1 – 2014-01-05

Type	Changes	By
	Fix missing Hamcrest dependency in Ant Build. Fixes LANG-937.	britter
	Test failure in LocaleUtilsTest when building with JDK 8. Fixes LANG-941.	britter
	Test failure in FastDateParserTest and FastDateFormat_ParserTest when building with JDK8. Fixes LANG-942. Thanks to Bruno P. Kinoshita, Henri Yandell.	britter
	Build fails with test failures when building with JDK 8. Fixes LANG-938.

Release 3.2 – 2014-01-01

Type	Changes	By
	Add removeFinalModifier to FieldUtils. Fixes LANG-934.	mcucchiara
	Method returns number of inheritance hops between parent and subclass. Fixes LANG-863. Thanks to Daneel S. Yaitskov.	sebb
	Spelling fixes. Fixes LANG-932. Thanks to Ville Skyttä.	sebb
	Misleading Javadoc comment in StrBuilderReader class. Fixes LANG-931. Thanks to Christoph Schneegans.	britter
	OctalUnescaper tried to parse all of \279. Fixes LANG-929.
	OctalUnescaper had bugs when parsing octals starting with a zero. Fixes LANG-928.
	EqualsBuilder returned true when comparing arrays, even when the elements are different. Fixes LANG-905.
	Added isStarted, isSuspended and isStopped to StopWatch. Fixes LANG-774. Thanks to Erhan Bagdemir.
	Fixed exception when combining custom and choice format in ExtendedMessageFormat. Fixes LANG-917. Thanks to Arne Burmeister.
	Added StringUtils.isBlank/isEmpty CharSequence... methods. Fixes LANG-848. Thanks to Alexander Muthmann.
	Added ArrayUtils.reverse(array, from, to) methods. Fixes LANG-926.	ggregory
	StringUtils.toString(byte[], String) deprecated in favour of a new StringUtils.toString(byte[], CharSet). Fixes LANG-795. Thanks to Aaron Digulla.
	RandomStringUtils.random javadoc was incorrectly promising letters and numbers would, as opposed to may, appear. Fixes LANG-902. Thanks to Andrzej Winnicki.
	BooleanUtils.xor(boolean...) produces wrong results. Fixes LANG-921.	britter
	StringUtils.normalizeSpace now handles non-breaking spaces (Unicode 00A0). Fixes LANG-910. Thanks to Timur Yarosh.
	Redundant check for zero in HashCodeBuilder ctor. Fixes LANG-804. Thanks to Allon Mureinik.	britter
	StrSubstitutor now supports default values for variables. Fixes LANG-893. Thanks to Woonsan Ko.	oheger
	Adding .gitignore to commons-lang. Fixes LANG-913. Thanks to Allon Mureinik.	britter
	Add ObjectUtils.toIdentityString methods that support StringBuilder, StrBuilder, and Appendable. Fixes LANG-837.
	BooleanUtils.toBoolean(String str) javadoc is not updated. Fixes LANG-896. Thanks to Mark Bryan Yu.
	LocaleUtils test fails with new Locale "ja_JP_JP_#u-ca-japanese" of JDK7. Fixes LANG-879.
	StrSubstitutor does not support StringBuilder or CharSequence. Fixes LANG-836. Thanks to Arnaud Brunet.
	Method createNumber from NumberUtils doesn't work for floating point numbers other than Float. Fixes LANG-693. Thanks to Calvin Echols.
	FastDateFormat does not use the locale specific cache correctly. Fixes LANG-887.
	Simplify FastDateFormat; eliminate boxing. Fixes LANG-884.
	LookupTranslator now works with implementations of CharSequence other than String. Fixes LANG-882.
	ClassUtils.getShortName(String) will now only do a reverse lookup for array types. Fixes LANG-754.
	Added CharSetUtils.containsAny(String, String). Fixes LANG-886.
	Provide CharSequenceUtils.regionMatches with a proper green implementation instead of inefficiently converting to Strings. Fixes LANG-846.
	Added escape/unescapeJson to StringEscapeUtils. Fixes LANG-797.
	Added appendIfMissing and prependIfMissing methods to StringUtils. Fixes LANG-875.
	NumberUtils.createNumber() Javadoc says it does not work for octal numbers. Fixes LANG-881.
	Fixed URLs in javadoc to point to new oracle.com pages
	Add StringUtils.LF and StringUtils.CR values. Fixes LANG-870.
	Add FieldUtils getAllFields() to return all the fields defined in the given class and super classes. Fixes LANG-873.
	LocaleUtils.toLocale does not parse strings starting with an underscore. Fixes LANG-865.
	StrBuilder should support StringBuilder as an input parameter. Fixes LANG-835.
	StringEscapeUtils.escapeJava() and escapeEcmaScript() do not output the escaped surrogate pairs that are Java parsable. Fixes LANG-858.
	StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in CharSequenceTranslator. Fixes LANG-857.
	Code refactoring in NumberUtils. Fixes LANG-856.
	NumberUtils#createBigInteger does not allow for hex and octal numbers. Fixes LANG-855.
	NumberUtils#createNumber - does not allow for hex numbers to be larger than Long. Fixes LANG-854.
	StringUtils join APIs for primitives. Fixes LANG-853.
	FastDateFormat and FastDatePrinter generates Date objects wastefully. Fixes LANG-849.
	Spelling fixes. Fixes LANG-845.
	Fix examples contained in javadoc of StringUtils.center methods. Fixes LANG-844.
	Add StringUtils API to call String.replaceAll in DOTALL a.k.a. single-line mode. Fixes LANG-841.
	ArrayUtils removeElements methods use unnecessary HashSet. Fixes LANG-839.
	ArrayUtils removeElements methods clone temporary index arrays unnecessarily. Fixes LANG-838.
	FastDateParser does not handle unterminated quotes correctly. Fixes LANG-832.
	FastDateParser does not handle white-space properly. Fixes LANG-831.
	FastDateParser could use \Q \E to quote regexes. Fixes LANG-830.
	FastDateParser does not handle non-Gregorian calendars properly. Fixes LANG-828.
	FastDateParser does not handle non-ASCII digits correctly. Fixes LANG-826.
	Create StrBuilder APIs similar to String.format(String, Object...). Fixes LANG-825.
	NumberUtils#createNumber - bad behavior for leading "--". Fixes LANG-822.
	FastDateFormat's "z" pattern does not respect timezone of Calendar instances passed to format(). Fixes LANG-818.
	Add org.apache.commons.lang3.SystemUtils.IS_OS_WINDOWS_8. Fixes LANG-817.
	StringUtils.equalsIgnoreCase doesn't check string reference equality. Fixes LANG-813.
	StringUtils.join() endIndex, bugged for loop. Fixes LANG-810.
	RandomStringUtils throws confusing IAE when end <= start. Fixes LANG-807.
	RandomStringUtils.random(count, 0, 0, false, false, universe, random) always throws java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException. Fixes LANG-805.
	LocaleUtils - unnecessary recursive call in SyncAvoid class. Fixes LANG-802.
	Javadoc bug in DateUtils#ceiling for Calendar and Object versions. Fixes LANG-800.
	DateUtils#parseDate uses default locale; add Locale support. Fixes LANG-799.
	Use generics in SerializationUtils. Fixes LANG-798.
	SerializationUtils throws ClassNotFoundException when cloning primitive classes. Fixes LANG-788.
	StringUtils equals() relies on undefined behavior. Fixes LANG-786.
	Documentation bug: StringUtils.split. Fixes LANG-783.
	jar contains velocity template of release notes. Fixes LANG-777.
	TypeUtilsTest contains incorrect type assignability assertion. Fixes LANG-776.
	TypeUtils.getTypeArguments() misses type arguments for partially-assigned classes. Fixes LANG-775.
	ImmutablePair doc contains nonsense text. Fixes LANG-773.
	ClassUtils.PACKAGE_SEPARATOR Javadoc contains garbage text. Fixes LANG-772.
	EventListenerSupport.ProxyInvocationHandler no longer defines serialVersionUID. Fixes LANG-765.
	StrBuilder is now serializable. Fixes LANG-764.
	Fix Javadoc Ant warnings. Fixes LANG-761.
	NumberUtils does not handle Long Hex numbers. Fixes LANG-747.
	Javadoc bug in static inner class DateIterator. Fixes LANG-743.
	Add Triple class (ternary version of Pair). Fixes LANG-675.
	FastDateFormat supports parse methods. Fixes LANG-462.

Release 3.1 – 2011-11-14

Type	Changes	By
	Add API StringUtils.toString(byte[] input, String charsetName). Fixes LANG-760.
	Add an example with whitespace in StringUtils.defaultIfEmpty. Fixes LANG-758.
	Add APIs ClassUtils.isPrimitiveWrapper(Class<?>) and isPrimitiveOrWrapper(Class<?>). Fixes LANG-756.
	Fix createLong() so it behaves like createInteger(). Fixes LANG-752.
	Include the actual type in the Validate.isInstance and isAssignableFrom exception messages. Fixes LANG-751.
	Incorrect Bundle-SymbolicName in Manifest. Fixes LANG-749.
	Deprecating chomp(String, String). Fixes LANG-748.
	NumberUtils does not handle upper-case hex: 0X and -0X. Fixes LANG-746.
	StringUtils throws java.security.AccessControlException on Google App Engine. Fixes LANG-744.
	Ant build has wrong component.name. Fixes LANG-741.
	CharUtils static final array CHAR_STRING is not needed to compute CHAR_STRING_ARRAY. Fixes LANG-736.
	Document that the Mutable numbers don't work as expected with String.format. Fixes LANG-698.
	SystemUtils.IS_OS_UNIX doesn't recognize FreeBSD as a Unix system. Fixes LANG-695.

Release 3.0.1 – 2011-08-09

Type	Changes	By
	SerializationUtils.clone: Fallback to context classloader if class not found in current classloader. Fixes LANG-626.
	ToStringBuilderTest.testReflectionHierarchyArrayList fails with IBM JDK 6. Fixes LANG-727.
	StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml(input) wrong when input contains characters in Supplementary Planes. Fixes LANG-720.
	StringEscapeUtils.escapeEcmaScript from lang3 cuts off long unicode string. Fixes LANG-708.
	Improve exception message when StringUtils.replaceEachRepeatedly detects recursion. Fixes LANG-686.
	Specify source encoding for Ant build. Fixes LANG-717.
	Complement ArrayUtils.addAll() variants with by-index and by-value removal methods. Fixes LANG-721.
	Add Range<T> Range<T>.intersectionWith(Range<T>). Fixes LANG-726.
	Add mode and median Comparable... methods to ObjectUtils. Fixes LANG-723.
	Add BooleanUtils.and + or varargs methods. Fixes LANG-722.
	EnumSet -> bit vector. Fixes LANG-730.
	The CHAR_ARRAY cache in CharUtils duplicates the cache in java.lang.Character. Fixes LANG-734.
	Deprecate CharUtils.toCharacterObject(char) in favor of java.lang.Character.valueOf(char). Fixes LANG-735.
	Missing method getRawMessage for ContextedException and ContextedRuntimeException. Fixes LANG-737.
	Use internal Java's Number caches instead creating new objects. Fixes LANG-738.

Release 3.0 – 2011-07-18

Type	Changes	By
	StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml(input) outputs wrong results when an input contains characters in Supplementary Planes. Fixes LANG-720.
	build.xml Java 1.5+ updates. Fixes LANG-718.
	swapCase and *capitalize speedups. Fixes LANG-716.
	CharSetUtils.squeeze() speedup. Fixes LANG-715.
	StringUtils doc/comment spelling fixes. Fixes LANG-714.
	Increase test coverage of FieldUtils read methods and tweak Javadoc. Fixes LANG-713.
	Add includeantruntime=false to javac targets to quell warnings in ant 1.8.1 and better (and modest performance gain). Fixes LANG-711.
	StringIndexOutOfBoundsException when calling unescapeHtml4(""). Fixes LANG-710.
	StringEscapeUtils.escapeEcmaScript from lang3 cuts off long Unicode string. Fixes LANG-708.
	StringUtils.join throws NPE when toString returns null for one of objects in collection. Fixes LANG-703.
	Add FormattableUtils class. Fixes LANG-697.
	Add ClassUtils.getSimpleName() methods.
	Add hashCodeMulti varargs method. Fixes LANG-692.
	Removed DateUtils.UTC_TIME_ZONE. Fixes LANG-691.
	Convert more of the StringUtils API to take CharSequence. Fixes LANG-687.
	EqualsBuilder synchronizes on HashCodeBuilder. Fixes LANG-685.
	StringUtils.isAlpha, isAlphanumeric and isNumeric now return false for "". Fixes LANG-428.
	Add support for ConcurrentMap.putIfAbsent(). Fixes LANG-678.
	Documented potential NPE if auto-boxing occurs for some BooleanUtils methods. Fixes LANG-676.
	DateUtils.isSameLocalTime compares using 12-hour clock and not 24-hour. Fixes LANG-677.
	Extend exception handling in ConcurrentUtils to runtime exceptions. Fixes LANG-610.
	SystemUtils.getJavaVersionAsFloat throws StringIndexOutOfBoundsException on Android runtime/Dalvik VM. Fixes LANG-624.
	WordUtils.abbreviate() removed. Fixes LANG-673.
	Doc bug in DateUtils#ceiling. Fixes LANG-672.
	StringEscapeUtils.unescapeJava doesn't handle octal escapes and Unicode with extra u. Fixes LANG-646.
	org.apache.commons.lang3.math.Fraction does not reduce (Integer.MIN_VALUE, 2^k). Fixes LANG-662.
	org.apache.commons.lang3.math.Fraction does not always succeed in multiplyBy and divideBy. Fixes LANG-663.
	Change ObjectUtils min() & max() functions to use varargs rather than just two parameters. Fixes LANG-668.
	Add a Null-safe compare() method to ObjectUtils. Fixes LANG-667.
	NumberUtils.isNumber(String) is not right when the String is "1.1L". Fixes LANG-664.
	EntityArrays typo: {"\u2122", "−"}, // minus sign, U+2212 ISOtech. Fixes LANG-659.
	Some entities like Ö are not matched properly against its ISO8859-1 representation. Fixes LANG-658.
	Example StringUtils.indexOfAnyBut("zzabyycdxx", '') = 0 incorrect. Fixes LANG-656.
	Add StringUtils.defaultIfBlank(). Fixes LANG-655.
	Provide a very basic ConcurrentInitializer implementation. Fixes LANG-653.
	Support lazy initialization using atomic variables. Fixes LANG-609.
	Enhance StrSubstitutor to support nested ${var-${subvr}} expansion. Fixes LANG-482.
	Provide documentation about the new concurrent package. Fixes LANG-644.
	Charset may not be threadsafe, because the HashSet is not synch. Fixes LANG-629.
	StringEscapeUtils.escapeXML() can't process UTF-16 supplementary characters. Fixes LANG-617.
	StringUtils.endsWithAny method. Fixes LANG-614.
	Add AnnotationUtils. Fixes LANG-651.
	BooleanUtils.toBooleanObject to support single character input. Fixes LANG-649.
	FastDateFormat.format() outputs incorrect week of year because locale isn't respected. Fixes LANG-645.
	StrSubstitutor should also handle the default properties of a java.util.Properties class. Fixes LANG-596.
	Javadoc StringUtils.left() claims to throw on negative len, but doesn't. Fixes LANG-643.
	Add normalizeSpace to StringUtils. Fixes LANG-640.
	NumberUtils createNumber throws a StringIndexOutOfBoundsException when argument containing "e" and "E" is passed in. Fixes LANG-638.
	NOTE: The below were included in the Commons Lang 3.0-beta release.
	Convert StringUtils API to take CharSequence. Fixes LANG-510.
	Push down WordUtils to "text" sub-package.
	Extend exception handling in ConcurrentUtils to runtime exceptions. Fixes LANG-610.
	Some StringUtils methods should take an int character instead of char to use String API features. Fixes LANG-608.
	EqualsBuilder causes StackOverflowException. Fixes LANG-606.
	DefaultExceptionContext overwrites values in recursive situations. Fixes LANG-605.
	ContextedRuntimeException no longer an 'unchecked' exception. Fixes LANG-602.
	Add Builder Interface / Update Builders to Implement It. Fixes LANG-601.
	Javadoc is incorrect for public static int lastIndexOf(String str, String searchStr). Fixes LANG-600.
	ClassUtils.getClass(): Allow Dots as Inner Class Separators. Fixes LANG-599.
	DateUtils equal & compare functions up to most significant field. Fixes LANG-594.
	Remove JDK 1.2/1.3 bug handling in StringUtils.indexOf(String, String, int). Fixes LANG-590.
	Create a basic Pair<L, R> class. Fixes LANG-588.
	exception.DefaultExceptionContext.getFormattedExceptionMessage catches Throwable. Fixes LANG-585.
	Provide an implementation of the ThreadFactory interface. Fixes LANG-582.
	Add new Validate methods. Fixes LANG-579.
	ArrayUtils.add(T[] array, T element) can create unexpected ClassCastException. Fixes LANG-571.
	Do the test cases really still require main() and suite() methods?. Fixes LANG-570.
	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked") is used too generally. Fixes LANG-568.
	Improve StrLookup API documentation. Fixes LANG-564.
	Change Java package name. Fixes LANG-563.
	Change Maven groupId. Fixes LANG-562.
	New TimedSemaphore class. Fixes LANG-560.
	Added validState validation method. Fixes LANG-559.
	Added isAssignableFrom and isInstanceOf validation methods. Fixes LANG-559.
	Add TypeUtils class to provide utility code for working with generic types. Fixes LANG-553.
	Replace Range classes with generic version. Fixes LANG-551.
	Use Iterable on API instead of Collection. Fixes LANG-548.
	Add methods to Validate to check whether the index is valid for the array/list/string. Fixes LANG-546.
	Add ability to create a Future for a constant. Fixes LANG-545.
	Replace StringBuffer with StringBuilder. Fixes LANG-541.
	Make NumericEntityEscaper immutable. Fixes LANG-540.
	Compile commons.lang for CDC 1.1/Foundation 1.1. Fixes LANG-539.
	Add ArrayUtils.toArray to create generic arrays. Fixes LANG-537.
	Validate: support for validating blank strings. Fixes LANG-533.
	Add a concurrent package. Fixes LANG-529.
	Mutable classes should implement an appropriately typed Mutable interface. Fixes LANG-528.
	Better EnumUtils. Fixes LANG-513.
	StringEscapeUtils.unescapeJava should support \u+ notation. Fixes LANG-507.
	Rewrite StringEscapeUtils. Fixes LANG-505.
	bring ArrayUtils.isEmpty to the generics world. Fixes LANG-504.
	Add support for background initialization. Fixes LANG-501.
	Add support for the handling of ExecutionExceptions. Fixes LANG-499.
	Add StringEscapeUtils.escapeText() methods. Fixes LANG-498.
	Addition of ContextedException and ContextedRuntimeException. Fixes LANG-497.
	A generic implementation of the Lazy initialization pattern. Fixes LANG-496.
	Remove code that does not hold enough value to remain. Fixes LANG-493.
	Remove code handled now by the JDK. Fixes LANG-492.
	StrSubstitutor now supports substitution in variable names. Fixes LANG-482.
	Possible race-conditions in hashCode of the range classes. Fixes LANG-481.
	StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml incorrectly converts Unicode characters above U+00FFFF into 2 characters. Fixes LANG-480.
	Document where in SVN trunk is. Fixes LANG-479.
	StopWatch does not resist to system time changes. Fixes LANG-478.
	Fixes for thread safety. Fixes LANG-474.
	Refactor Validate.java to eliminate code redundancy. Fixes LANG-458.
	Lower Ascii Characters don't get encoded by Entities.java. Fixes LANG-448.
	StringUtils.emptyToNull. Fixes LANG-444.
	StringEscapeUtils.escapeHTML() does not escape chars (0x00-0x20). Fixes LANG-439.
	Remove @deprecateds. Fixes LANG-438.
	Add ClassUtils.isAssignable() variants with autoboxing. Fixes LANG-435.
	Improve Javadoc for StringUtils class. Fixes LANG-424.
	Javadoc incorrect for StringUtils.endsWithIgnoreCase. Fixes LANG-418.
	Investigate for vararg usages. Fixes LANG-396.
	JDK 1.5 build/runtime failure on LANG-393 (EqualsBuilder). Fixes LANG-468.
	LeftOf/RightOfNumber in Range convenience methods necessary. Fixes LANG-386.
	ExceptionUtils not thread-safe. Fixes LANG-369.
	ObjectUtils.coalesce. Fixes LANG-358.
	StrBuilder should implement CharSequence and Appendable. Fixes LANG-355.
	StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml() escapes multibyte characters like Chinese, Japanese, etc. Fixes LANG-339.
	Finally start using generics. Fixes LANG-336.
	StrBuilder does not implement clone(). Fixes LANG-302.
	EnumUtils for JDK 5.0. Fixes LANG-290.
	Wish : method unaccent. Fixes LANG-285.
	MutableBigDecimal and MutableBigInteger. Fixes LANG-276.
	StringEscaper.escapeXml() escapes characters > 0x7f. Fixes LANG-66.
	Depend on JDK 1.5+. Fixes LANG-11.

Release 2.6 – 2011-01-16

Type	Changes	By
	BooleanUtils: use same optimization in toBooleanObject(String) as in toBoolean(String). Fixes LANG-633.
	ClassUtils: allow Dots as Inner Class Separators in getClass(). Fixes LANG-599.
	DateUtils: equal and compare functions up to most significant field. Fixes LANG-594.
	DateUtils: provide a Date to Calendar convenience method. Fixes LANG-632.
	ObjectUtils: add clone methods to ObjectUtils. Fixes LANG-576.
	ObjectUtils: add a Null-safe compare() method. Fixes LANG-667.
	ObjectUtils: add notEqual() method. Fixes LANG-670.
	StrBuilder: implement clone() method. Fixes LANG-302.
	StringUtils: add a normalizeSpace() method. Fixes LANG-640.
	StringUtils: add endsWithAny() method. Fixes LANG-614.
	StringUtils: add defaultIfBlank() method. Fixes LANG-655.
	StrSubstitutor: add a replace(String, Properties) variant. Fixes LANG-596.
	StrSubstitutor: support substitution in variable names. Fixes LANG-482.
	Use StrBuilder instead of StringBuffer to improve performance where sync. is not an issue. Fixes LANG-669.
	CharSet: make the underlying set synchronized. Fixes LANG-629.
	CompareToBuilder: fix passing along compareTransients to the reflectionCompare method. Fixes LANG-635.
	ExtendedMessageFormat doesn't override equals(Object). Fixes LANG-636.
	FastDateFormat: fix to properly include the locale when formatting a Date. Fixes LANG-645.
	NumberUtils: createNumber() throws a StringIndexOutOfBoundsException when argument containing "e" and "E" is passed in. Fixes LANG-638.
	StringUtils methods do not handle Unicode 2.0+ supplementary characters correctly. Fixes LANG-607.
	SystemUtils: getJavaVersionAsFloat throws StringIndexOutOfBoundsException on Android runtime/Dalvik VM. Fixes LANG-624.
	MemberUtils: getMatchingAccessibleMethod does not correctly handle inheritance and method overloading. Fixes BEANUTILS-381.
	Javadoc is incorrect for lastIndexOf() method. Fixes LANG-600.
	Javadoc for HashCodeBuilder.append(boolean) does not match implementation. Fixes LANG-628.
	Javadoc StringUtils.left() claims to throw an exception on negative length, but doesn't. Fixes LANG-643.
	Javadoc - document thread safety. Fixes LANG-370.
	Test for StringUtils replaceChars() icelandic characters. Fixes LANG-623.

Release 2.5 – 2010-02-25

Type	Changes	By
	ArrayUtils - add isNotEmpty() methods. Fixes LANG-583.
	ArrayUtils - add nullToEmpty() methods. Fixes LANG-534.
	CharRange - provide an iterator that lets you walk the chars in the range. Fixes LANG-454.
	CharRange - add more readable static builder methods. Fixes LANG-514.
	ClassUtils - new isAssignable() methods with autoboxing.
	ClassUtils - add support to getShortClassName and getPackageName for arrays. Fixes LANG-535.
	DateUtils - add ceiling() method. Fixes LANG-434.
	DateUtils - add parseDateStrictly() method. Fixes LANG-486.
	EqualsBuilder - add reset() method. Fixes LANG-466.
	NumberUtils - add toByte() and toShort() methods. Fixes LANG-461.
	Mutable numbers - add string constructors. Fixes LANG-522.
	MutableBoolean - add toBoolean(), isTrue() and isFalse() methods.
	StrBuilder - add appendSeparator() methods with an alternative default separator if the StrBuilder is currently empty. Fixes LANG-422.
	SystemUtils - add IS_OS_WINDOWS_7 constant. Fixes LANG-555.
	SystemUtils - add IS_JAVA_1_7 constant for JDK 1.7. Fixes LANG-554.
	StringUtils - add abbreviateMiddle() method. Fixes LANG-405.
	StringUtils - add indexOfIgnoreCase() and lastIndexOfIgnoreCase() methods. Fixes LANG-569.
	StringUtils - add isAllUpperCase() and isAllLowerCase() methods. Fixes LANG-471.
	StringUtils - add lastOrdinalIndexOf() method to complement the existing ordinalIndexOf() method. Fixes LANG-469.
	StringUtils - add repeat() method. Fixes LANG-348.
	StringUtils - add startsWithAny() method. Fixes LANG-445.
	StringUtils - add upperCase(String, Locale) and lowerCase(String, Locale) methods. Fixes LANG-430.
	New Reflection package containing ConstructorUtils, FieldUtils, MemberUtils and MethodUtils. Fixes LANG-416.
	ArrayUtils - addAll() does not handle mixed types very well. Fixes LANG-567.
	CharSet - Synchronizing the COMMON Map so that getInstance doesn't miss a put from a subclass in another thread. Fixes LANG-494.
	ClassUtils - improving performance of getAllInterfaces. Fixes LANG-500.
	ClassUtils - toClass() throws NullPointerException on null array element. Fixes LANG-587.
	DateUtils - Fix parseDate() cannot parse ISO8601 dates produced by FastDateFormat. Fixes LANG-530.
	DateUtils - round() doesn't work correct for Calendar.AM_PM. Fixes LANG-440.
	DateUtils - improve tests. Fixes LANG-443.
	Entities - multithreaded initialization. Fixes LANG-204.
	Entities - missing final modifiers; thread-safety issues. Fixes LANG-506.
	EnumUtils - getEnum() doesn't work well in 1.5+. Fixes LANG-76.
	ExceptionUtils - use immutable lock target. Fixes LANG-584.
	ExtendedMessageFormat - OutOfMemory with a pattern containing single quotes. Fixes LANG-477.
	FastDateFormat - call getTime() on a calendar to ensure timezone is in the right state. Fixes LANG-538.
	FastDateFormat - Remove unused field. Fixes LANG-547.
	LocaleUtils - Initialization of available locales in LocaleUtils can be deferred. Fixes LANG-511.
	NumberUtils - createNumber() throws a StringIndexOutOfBoundsException when only an "l" is passed in. Fixes LANG-457.
	NumberUtils - isNumber(String) and createNumber(String) both modified to support '2.'. Fixes LANG-521.
	StringUtils - improve handling of case-insensitive Strings. Fixes LANG-432.
	StringUtils - replaceEach() no longer NPEs when null appears in the last String[]. Fixes LANG-552.
	StringUtils - correct Javadoc for startsWith() and startsWithIgnoreCase(). Fixes LANG-460.
	StringEscapeUtils - escapeJava() escapes '/' characters. Fixes LANG-421.
	StringEscapeUtils - change escapeJavaStyleString() to throw UnhandledException instead swallowing IOException and returning null. Fixes LANG-450.
	WordUtils - fix StringIndexOutOfBoundsException when lower is greater than the String length. Fixes LANG-419.
	StrBuilder - Performance improvement by doubling the size of the String in ensureCapacity. Fixes LANG-523.
	Compare, Equals and HashCode builders - use ArrayUtils to avoid creating a temporary List. Fixes LANG-575.
	EqualsBuilder - removing the special handling of BigDecimal (LANG-393) to use compareTo instead of equals because it creates an inequality with HashCodeBuilder. Fixes LANG-467.
	HashCodeBuilder - Performance improvement: check for isArray to short-circuit the 9 instanceof checks. Fixes LANG-574.
	HashCodeBuilder - Changing the hashCode() method to return toHashCode(). Fixes LANG-520.
	HashCodeBuilder - reflectionHashCode() can generate incorrect hashcodes. Fixes LANG-459.
	HashCodeBuilder and ToStringStyle - use of ThreadLocal causes memory leaks in container environments. Fixes LANG-586.
	ToStringBuilder - make default style thread-safe. Fixes LANG-487.
	RandomUtils - nextLong() always produces even numbers. Fixes LANG-472.
	RandomUtils - RandomUtils tests are failing frequently. Fixes LANG-592.

Release 2.4 – 2008-03-18

Type	Changes	By
	ClassUtils.getShortClassName(String) inefficient. Fixes LANG-322.
	Shouldn't Commons Lang's StringUtils have a "common" string method?. Fixes LANG-269.
	FastDateFormat getDateInstance() and getDateTimeInstance() assume Locale.getDefault() won't change. Fixes LANG-368.
	OSGi-ify Lang. Fixes LANG-402.
	StrBuilder appendFixedWidth does not handle nulls. Fixes LANG-412.
	infinite loop in Fraction.reduce when numerator == 0. Fixes LANG-380.
	FastDateFormat thread safety. Fixes LANG-367.
	ClassUtils.getShortClassName and ClassUtils.getPackageName and class of array. Fixes LANG-298.
	LocaleUtils.toLocale() rejects strings with only language+variant. Fixes LANG-328.
	Enum is not thread-safe. Fixes LANG-334.
	BooleanUtils.toBoolean() - invalid drop-thru in case statement causes StringIndexOutOfBoundsException. Fixes LANG-365.
	ArrayUtils.toClass. Fixes LANG-333.
	Why does appendIdentityToString return null?. Fixes LANG-360.
	NumberUtils.min(floatArray) returns wrong value if floatArray[0] happens to be Float.NaN. Fixes LANG-381.
	Dates.round() behaves incorrectly for minutes and seconds. Fixes LANG-346.
	StringUtils.length(String) returns null-safe length. Fixes LANG-407.
	adding a StringUtils.replace method that takes an array or List of replacement strings. Fixes LANG-180.
	Adding functionality to DateUtils to allow direct setting of various fields. Fixes LANG-383.
	Add escaping for CSV columns to StringEscapeUtils. Fixes LANG-374.
	StringUtils: startsWith / endsWith / startsWithIgnoreCase / endsWithIgnoreCase / removeStartIgnoreCase / removeEndIgnoreCase methods. Fixes LANG-326.
	Extension to ClassUtils: Obtain the primitive class from a wrapper. Fixes LANG-351.
	Javadoc bugs - cannot find object. Fixes LANG-399.
	Optimize HashCodeBuilder.append(Object). Fixes LANG-345.
	https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/developerguide.html "Building" section is incorrect and incomplete. Fixes LANG-385.
	Ambiguous / confusing names in StringUtils replace* methods. Fixes LANG-410.
	Add new splitByWholeSeparatorPreserveAllTokens() methods to StringUtils. Fixes LANG-257.
	Add getStartTime to StopWatch. Fixes LANG-356.
	Perhaps add containsAny() methods?. Fixes LANG-377.
	Javadoc Example for EqualsBuilder is questionable. Fixes LANG-353.
	EqualsBuilder don't compare BigDecimals correctly. Fixes LANG-393.
	Split camel case strings. Fixes LANG-192.
	Add Calendar flavour format methods to DateFormatUtils. Fixes LANG-404.
	Calculating A date fragment in any time-unit. Fixes LANG-379.
	Memory usage improvement for StringUtils#getLevenshteinDistance(). Fixes LANG-413.
	Add ExtendedMessageFormat to org.apache.commons.lang.text. Fixes LANG-362.
	StringEscapeUtils.escapeJavaScript() method did not escape '/' into '\/', it will make IE render page incorrectly. Fixes LANG-363.
	Add toArray() method to IntRange and LongRange classes. Fixes LANG-321.
	add SystemUtils.IS_OS_WINDOWS_VISTA field. Fixes LANG-375.
	Pointless synchronized in ThreadLocal.initialValue should be removed. Fixes LANG-329.
	ToStringStyle Javadoc should show examples of styles. Fixes LANG-371.
	Documentation bug for ignoreEmptyTokens accessors in StrTokenizer. Fixes LANG-364.
	BooleanUtils toBooleanObject Javadoc does not match implementation. Fixes LANG-361.
	truncateNicely method which avoids truncating in the middle of a word. Fixes LANG-338.

Release 2.3 – 2007-02-13

Type	Changes	By
	Use of enum prevents a classloader from being garbage collected resulting in out of memory exceptions. Fixes LANG-262.
	NumberUtils.max(byte[]) and NumberUtils.min(byte[]) are missing. Fixes LANG-289.
	Null-safe comparison methods for finding the most recent / least recent dates. Fixes LANG-291.
	StopWatch: suspend() acts as split(), if followed by stop(). Fixes LANG-315.
	StrBuilder.replaceAll and StrBuilder.deleteAll can throw ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException. Fixes LANG-294.
	Bug in method appendFixedWidthPadRight of class StrBuilder causes an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException. Fixes LANG-299.
	ToStringBuilder throws StackOverflowError when an Object cycle exists. Fixes LANG-69.
	Create more tests to test out the +=31 replacement code in DurationFormatUtils. Fixes LANG-282.
	StrBuilder contains usages of thisBuf.length when they should use size. Fixes LANG-295.
	Enum Javadoc: 1) outline 5.0 native Enum migration 2) warn not to use the switch() , 3) point out approaches for persistence and gui. Fixes LANG-258.
	Wrong behavior of Entities.unescape. Fixes LANG-313.
	NumberUtils.createNumber throws NumberFormatException for one digit long. Fixes LANG-300.
	NullPointerException in isAvailableLocale(Locale). Fixes LANG-304.
	FastDateFormat.mRules is not transient or serializable. Fixes LANG-303.
	StringUtils.join should allow you to pass a range for it (so it only joins a part of the array). Fixes LANG-268.
	Refactor Entities methods. Fixes LANG-102.
	Tests fail to pass when building with Maven 2. Fixes LANG-314.
	DurationFormatUtils returns wrong result. Fixes LANG-281.
	unescapeXml("&12345678;") should be "&12345678;". Fixes LANG-292.
	Optimize StringEscapeUtils.unescapeXml(String). Fixes LANG-287.
	BooleanUtils isNotTrue/isNotFalse. Fixes LANG-310.
	Extra StrBuilder methods. Fixes LANG-306.
	Add a pair of StringUtils.substringsBetween;String[] methods. Fixes LANG-275.
	HashCodeBuilder throws java.lang.StackOverflowError when an object contains a cycle. Fixes LANG-279.
	Wish for StringUtils.join(Collection, *). Fixes LANG-266.

Release 2.2 – 2006-10-04

Type	Changes	By
	StrBuilderTest#testReplaceStringString fails. Fixes LANG-45.
	EqualsBuilder.append(Object[], Object[]) crashes with a NullPointerException if an element of the first array is null. Fixes LANG-42.
	Serialization - not backwards compatible. Fixes LANG-286.
	Replace Clover with Cobertura. Fixes LANG-50.
	ValuedEnum.compareTo(Object other) not typesafe - it easily could be... Fixes LANG-259.
	LocaleUtils test fails under Mustang. Fixes LANG-271.
	Javadoc example for StringUtils.splitByWholeSeparator incorrect. Fixes LANG-2.
	PADDING array in StringUtils overflows on '\uffff'. Fixes LANG-3.
	ClassUtils.primitiveToWrapper and Void. Fixes LANG-10.
	unit test for org.apache.commons.lang.text.StrBuilder. Fixes LANG-37.
	DateUtils.truncate method is buggy when dealing with DST switching hours. Fixes LANG-59.
	RandomStringUtils.random() family of methods create invalid Unicode sequences. Fixes LANG-100.
	StringUtils#getLevenshteinDistance() performance is sub-optimal. Fixes LANG-106.
	Wrong length check in StrTokenizer.StringMatcher. Fixes LANG-112.
	ExceptionUtils goes into infinite loop in getThrowables is throwable.getCause() == throwable. Fixes LANG-105.
	FastDateFormat: wrong format for date "01.01.1000". Fixes LANG-117.
	Unclear Javadoc for DateUtils.iterator(). Fixes LANG-123.
	Memory "leak" in StringUtils. Fixes LANG-130.
	StringEscapeUtils should expose escape*() methods taking Writer argument. Fixes LANG-260.
	Fraction.toProperString() returns -1/1 for -1. Fixes LANG-141.
	DurationFormatUtils.formatDurationWords "11 <unit>s" gets converted to "11 <unit>". Fixes LANG-152.
	Performance modifications on StringUtils.replace. Fixes LANG-148.
	StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml skips first entity after standalone ampersand. Fixes LANG-150.
	DurationFormatUtils.formatPeriod() returns the wrong result. Fixes LANG-140.
	Request for MutableBoolean implementation. Fixes LANG-186.
	New method for EqualsBuilder. Fixes LANG-198.
	New ExceptionUtils method setCause(). Fixes LANG-212.
	Add Mutable<Type> to<Type>() methods. Fixes LANG-217.
	Provides a Class.getPublicMethod which returns public invocable Method. Fixes LANG-216.
	Using ReflectionToStringBuilder and excluding secure fields. Fixes LANG-226.
	add generic add method to DateUtils. Fixes LANG-194.
	Tokenizer Enhancements: reset input string, static CSV/TSV factories. Fixes LANG-220.
	Trivial cleanup of Javadoc in various files. Fixes LANG-242.
	CompositeFormat. Fixes LANG-246.
	Performance boost for RandomStringUtils. Fixes LANG-250.
	Enhanced Class.forName version. Fixes LANG-254.
	Add StringUtils.containsIgnoreCase(...). Fixes LANG-263.
	Support char array converters on ArrayUtils. Fixes LANG-267.
	DurationFormatUtils.formatDurationISO() Javadoc is missing T in duration string between date and time part. Fixes LANG-25.
	Minor build and checkstyle changes. Fixes LANG-272.
	Javadoc errors on StringUtils.splitPreserveAllTokens(String, char). Fixes LANG-277.
	EscapeUtil.escapeHtml() should clarify that it does not escape ' chars to '. Fixes LANG-122.
	Add methods and tests to StrBuilder. Fixes LANG-161.
	replace() length calculation improvement. Fixes LANG-162.
	New interpolation features. Fixes LANG-166.
	Implementation of escape/unescapeHtml methods with Writer. Fixes LANG-169.
	CompareToBuilder excludeFields for reflection method. Fixes LANG-176.
	Add WordUtils.getInitials(String). Fixes LANG-159.
	Error in an example in the Javadoc of the StringUtils.splitPreserveAllTokens() method. Fixes LANG-261.
	ToStringBuilder/HashCodeBuilder Javadoc code examples. Fixes LANG-264.
	Cannot build tests from latest SVN. Fixes LANG-265.
	minor Javadoc improvements for StringUtils.stripXxx() methods. Fixes LANG-270.
	Javadoc for StringUtils.removeEnd is incorrect. Fixes LANG-278.
	Minor tweak to fix of bug # 26616. Fixes LANG-127.

Release 2.1 – 2005-06-13

Type	Changes	By
	make optional parameters in FastDateFormat really optional. Fixes LANG-103.
	Nestable.indexOfThrowable(Class) uses Class.equals() to match. Fixes LANG-149.
	buffer under/overrun on Strings.strip, stripStart & stripEnd. Fixes LANG-30.
	ToStringStyle.setArrayEnd(String) doesn't replace null with empty string. Fixes LANG-19.
	New class proposal: CharacterEncoding. Fixes LANG-80.
	SystemUtils fails init on HP-UX. Fixes LANG-43.
	Javadoc - 'four basic XML entities' should be 5 (apos is missing). Fixes LANG-134.
	o.a.c.lang.enum.ValuedEnum: 'enum' is a keyword in JDK 1.5.0. Fixes LANG-156.
	StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml() doesn't handle an empty entity. Fixes LANG-131.
	EqualsBuilder.append(Object[], Object[]) incorrectly checks that rhs[i] is instance of lhs[i]'s class. Fixes LANG-6.
	Method enums.Enum.equals(Object o) doesn't work correctly. Fixes LANG-33.
	ExceptionUtils.addCauseMethodName(String) does not check for duplicates. Fixes LANG-31.
	Make StopWatch validate state transitions. Fixes LANG-136.
	enum package is not compatible with 1.5 jdk. Fixes LANG-124.
	WordUtils capitalizeFully() throws a null pointer exception. Fixes LANG-128.
	ValuedEnum. Fixes LANG-138.
	parseDate class from HttpClient's DateParser class. Fixes LANG-133.
	ArrayUtils.isEquals() throws ClassCastException when array1 and array2 are different dimension. Fixes LANG-62.
	ClassCastException in Enum.equals(Object). Fixes LANG-57.
	FastDateFormat year bug. Fixes LANG-107.
	unbalanced ReflectionToStringBuilder. Fixes LANG-77.
	FastDateFormat.getDateInstance(int, Locale) always uses the pattern from the first invocation. Fixes LANG-86.
	ReflectionToStringBuilder.toString(null) throws exception by design. Fixes LANG-79.
	Make ClassUtils methods null-safe and not throw an IAE. Fixes LANG-126.
	StringUtils.split ignores empty items. Fixes LANG-5.
	EqualsBuilder.append(Object[], Object[]) throws NPE. Fixes LANG-144.
	ArrayUtils.addAll doesn't always return new array. Fixes LANG-74.
	Enum.equals does not handle different class loaders. Fixes LANG-81.
	Add SystemUtils.AWT_TOOLKIT and others. Fixes LANG-27.
	Throwable cause for NotImplementedException. Fixes LANG-14.
	ClassUtils.primitivesToWrappers method. Fixes LANG-28.
	public static boolean DateUtils.equals(Date dt1, Date dt2) ?. Fixes LANG-120.
	Documentation error in StringUtils.replace. Fixes LANG-7.
	DateUtils constants should be long. Fixes LANG-125.
	DateUtils.truncate() is off by one hour when using a date in DST switch 'zone'. Fixes LANG-13.
	StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml() doesn't handle hex entities. Fixes LANG-118.
	new StringUtils.replaceChars behaves differently from old CharSetUtils.translate. Fixes LANG-99.
	last substring returned by StringUtils.split( String, String, int ) is too long. Fixes LANG-41.
	Can't subclass EqualsBuilder because isEquals is private. Fixes LANG-119.
	new StringUtils.split methods that split on the whole separator string. Fixes LANG-158.
	New method for converting a primitive Class to its corresponding wrapper Class. Fixes LANG-172.
	Add convenience format(long) methods to FastDateFormat. Fixes LANG-222.
	Enum's outer class may not be loaded for EnumUtils. Fixes LANG-116.
	WordUtils.capitalizeFully(String str) should take a delimiter. Fixes LANG-219.
	Make Javadoc cross-linking configurable. Fixes LANG-183.
	Minor Javadoc fixes for StringUtils.contains(String, String). Fixes LANG-82.
	Error in Javadoc for StringUtils.chomp(String, String). Fixes LANG-32.
	StringUtils.defaultString: Documentation error. Fixes LANG-95.
	Add hashCode-support to class ObjectUtils. Fixes LANG-233.
	add another "known method" to ExceptionUtils. Fixes LANG-202.
	Enhancement of ExceptionUtils.CAUSE_METHOD_NAMES. Fixes LANG-235.
	DateUtils.truncate oddity at the far end of the Date spectrum. Fixes LANG-24.
	add getLength() method to ArrayUtils. Fixes LANG-232.
	Validate.java: fixes comment skew, removes unused loop counter. Fixes LANG-171.
	StringUtils.isAsciiPrintable(). Fixes LANG-179.
	ExceptionUtils: new getCause() methodname (for tomcat-exception). Fixes LANG-167.
	fixes 75 typos. Fixes LANG-85.
	mutable numbers. Fixes LANG-230.
	Javadoc fixes for ClassUtils. Fixes LANG-191.
	Add StringUtils.nIndexOf?. Fixes LANG-184.
	Javadoc fixes for CharSetUtils. Fixes LANG-135.
	Remove redundant check for null separator in StringUtils#join. Fixes LANG-154.
	Class and Package Comparators for ClassUtils. Fixes LANG-247.
	add remove methods to ArrayUtils. Fixes LANG-256.
	WordUtils capitalize improvement. Fixes LANG-185.
	add isEmpty method to ArrayUtils. Fixes LANG-173.
	lang.math.Fraction class deficiencies. Fixes LANG-168.
	Add methods to ArrayUtils: add at end and insert-like ops. Fixes LANG-207.
	Add SystemUtils methods for directory properties. Fixes LANG-239.
	Add method that validates Collection elements are a certain type. Fixes LANG-189.
	elapsed time formatting utility method. Fixes LANG-224.

Release 2.0 – 2003-09-02

Type	Changes	By
	Infinite loop in ToStringBuilder.reflectionToString for inner classes. Fixes LANG-20.
	NumberUtils.createBigDecimal("") NPE in Sun 1.3.1_08. Fixes LANG-75.
	Rationalize StringUtils slice functions. Fixes LANG-38.
	SystemUtils.IS_OS_OS2 Javadoc is wrong. Fixes LANG-53.
	A small, but important Javadoc fix for Fraction proper whole and numerator. Fixes LANG-142.
	Adding tolerance to double[] search methods in ArrayUtils. Fixes LANG-70.
	lang.builder classes Javadoc edits (mostly typo fixes). Fixes LANG-9.
	StringUtils Javadoc and test enhancements. Fixes LANG-63.
	SystemUtils.IS_OS_, IS_JAVA_ are always false. Fixes LANG-132.
	Improve util.Validate tests. Fixes LANG-143.
	maven-beta10 checkstyle problem. Fixes LANG-155.
	StringUtils.chopNewLine - StringIndexOutOfBoundsException. Fixes LANG-147.
	ToStringBuilder doesn't work well in subclasses. Fixes LANG-73.
	static option for reversing the stacktrace. Fixes LANG-48.
	NullPointerException in CompareToBuilder. Fixes LANG-87.
	RandomStringUtils.randomAlpha methods omit 'z'. Fixes LANG-84.
	test.time fails in Japanese (non-us) locale. Fixes LANG-129.
	NumberUtils.isNumber allows illegal trailing characters. Fixes LANG-94.
	Improve Javadoc and overflow behavior of Fraction. Fixes LANG-137.
	RandomStringUtils infinite loop with length > 1. Fixes LANG-55.
	test.lang fails if compiled with non iso-8859-1 locales. Fixes LANG-47.
	SystemUtils does not play nice in an Applet. Fixes LANG-113.
	time unit tests fail on Sundays. Fixes LANG-111.
	java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError thrown by JVMRandom constructor. Fixes LANG-90.
	StringUtils.chomp does not match Perl. Fixes LANG-78.
	patch and test case fixing problem with RandomStringUtils.random(). Fixes LANG-36.
	General case: infinite loop: ToStringBuilder.reflectionToString. Fixes LANG-151.
	Should ToStringBuilder.reflectionToString handle arrays?. Fixes LANG-35.
	EnumUtils nit: The import java.io.Serializable is never used. Fixes LANG-83.
	Example in Javadoc for ToStringBuilder wrong for append. Fixes LANG-12.
	Added class hierarchy support to HashCodeBuilder.reflectionHashCode(). Fixes LANG-110.
	ExceptionUtils new methods. Fixes LANG-71.
	Infinite loop in StringUtils.replace(text, repl, with) + FIX. Fixes LANG-15.
	StackOverflow due to ToStringBuilder. Fixes LANG-93.
	No Javadoc for NestableDelegate. Fixes LANG-39.
	Specify initial size for Enum's HashMap. Fixes LANG-49.
	Enum does not support inner sub-classes. Fixes LANG-146.
	Removed compile warning in ObjectUtils. Fixes LANG-157.
	SystemUtils.IS_JAVA_1_5 Javadoc is wrong. Fixes LANG-96.
	NumberRange inaccurate for Long, etc. Fixes LANG-16.
	Hierarchy support in ToStringBuilder.reflectionToString(). Fixes LANG-4.
	StringUtils.countMatches loops forever if substring empty. Fixes LANG-56.
	Javadoc fixes (remove @links to non-public identifiers). Fixes LANG-209.
	Add Javadoc examples and tests for StringUtils. Fixes LANG-210.
	Make NumberUtils null handling consistent. Fixes LANG-170.
	Unused field 'startFinal' in DateIterator. Fixes LANG-145.
	reduce object creation in ToStringBuilder. Fixes LANG-214.
	Improved tests, Javadoc for CharSetUtils, StringEscapeUtils. Fixes LANG-228.
	NumberUtils min/max, BooleanUtils.xor, and ArrayUtils toPrimitive and toObject. Fixes LANG-252.
	Javadoc, tests improvements for CharSet, CharSetUtils. Fixes LANG-208.
	StringUtil enhancement. Fixes LANG-205.
	Javadoc nit. Fixes LANG-164.
	Additional Lang Method Suggestions. Fixes LANG-206.
	Make NestableDelegate methods public instead of package private. Fixes LANG-178.
	Missing @since tags. Fixes LANG-174.
	Refactored reflection feature of ToStringBuilder into new ReflectionToStringBuilder. Fixes LANG-245.
	Typo in documentation. Fixes LANG-51.
	Patch for Javadoc. Fixes LANG-1.
	Add join(..., char c) to StringUtils (and some performance fixes). Even contains tests!. Fixes LANG-244.
	Resurrect the WordWrapUtils from commons-sandbox/utils. Fixes LANG-231.
	EnumTest fails on Linux Sun JDK 1.3.0. Fixes LANG-139.
	What to do with FastDateFormat unused private constructors. Fixes LANG-234.
	Added class hierarchy support to CompareToBuilder.reflectionCompare(). Fixes LANG-240.
	Removed compile warning in FastDateFormat. Fixes LANG-190.
	typo in the Javadoc example code. Fixes LANG-97.
	MethodUtils: Removed unused code/unused local vars. Fixes LANG-249.
	Hierarchy support in EqualsBuilder.reflectionEquals(). Fixes LANG-237.
	Javadoc Errata. Fixes LANG-91.
	ArrayUtils.contains(). Fixes LANG-215.
	More flexibility for getRootCause in ExceptionUtils. Fixes LANG-221.

Release 1.0.1 – 2002-11-25

Type	Changes	By
	NumberRange.getMaximum returns minimum.
	Enum constructor validations.
	NestableException/Delegate is not serializable.
	split using null and max less than actual token count adds "null".
	ExceptionUtils cannot handle J2EE-Exception in a default way.

Release 1.0 – 2002-10-04

No changes in this release.