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The Apache Commons team is pleased to announce the release of version 2.4 of Commons Lang.

Lang provides a host of helper utilities for the java.lang API, notably String manipulation methods, basic numerical methods, object reflection, creation and serialization, System properties and a series of utilities dedicated to help with building methods, such as hashCode, toString and equals.

There are a few new classes, and a lot of new methods in Lang 2.4. Of course there are also a bunch of bugfixes too. We've written a short article to cover all of these:

http://commons.apache.org/lang/article2_4.html

Source and binary distributions are available for download from the Apache Commons download site:

http://commons.apache.org/lang/download_lang.cgi

When downloading, please verify signatures using the KEYS file available at the above location when downloading the release.

Release notes are available at:

http://commons.apache.org/lang/upgradeto2_4.html

For more information on Apache Commons Lang, visit the Commons Lang home page:

http://commons.apache.org/lang/

Feedback, suggestions for improvement and contributions are always welcome via the Apache Commons mailing lists and issue tracker:

http://commons.apache.org/lang/mail-lists.html http://commons.apache.org/lang/issue-tracking.html

Good luck with 2.4,