The Apache Commons community is happy to announce the availability of Apache Commons Lang 3.6. Apache Commons Lang provides helper utilities for the java.lang API, notably String manipulation methods, basic numerical methods, object reflection, concurrency, creation and serialization and System properties. Additionally it contains basic enhancements to java.util.Date and a series of utilities dedicated to help with building methods, such as hashCode, toString and equals. The most important changes in this release are: - deprecation of a lot of string/text related methods and classes in favor of Commons Text (see http://commons.apache.org/text). - Addition of the Automatic-Module-Name MANIFEST entry for compatibility with the Java 9 module system. For more details see the release notes at: http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/lang/RELEASE-NOTES.txt Distribution packages can be downloaded from: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/download_lang.cgi When downloading, please verify signatures using the KEYS file available at: http://www.apache.org/dist/commons Maven artifacts are also available in the central Maven repository: <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId> <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId> <version>3.6</version> </dependency> Have fun, Benedikt, on behalf of the Apache Commons Community