$Id: RELEASE-NOTES.txt 1199820 2011-11-09 16:14:52Z bayard $

                        Commons Lang Package
                            Version 3.1
                           Release Notes


INTRODUCTION:

This document contains the release notes for the 3.1 version of Apache Commons Lang.
Commons Lang is a set of utility functions and reusable components that should be of use in any 
Java environment.

Lang 3.0 and onwards now targets Java 5.0, making use of features that arrived with Java 5.0 such as generics, 
variable arguments, autoboxing, concurrency and formatted output.

For the advice on upgrading from 2.x to 3.x, see the following page: 

    http://commons.apache.org/lang/article3_0.html

CHANGES IN 3.1
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    [LANG-760] Add API StringUtils.toString(byte[] intput, String charsetName)
    [LANG-756] Add APIs ClassUtils.isPrimitiveWrapper(Class<?>) and isPrimitiveOrWrapper(Class<?>)
    [LANG-758] Add an example with whitespace in StringUtils.defaultIfEmpty
    [LANG-752] Fix createLong() so it behaves like createInteger()
    [LANG-751] Include the actual type in the Validate.isInstance and isAssignableFrom exception messages
    [LANG-748] Deprecating chomp(String, String)
    [LANG-736] CharUtils static final array CHAR_STRING is not needed to compute CHAR_STRING_ARRAY
    [LANG-695] SystemUtils.IS_OS_UNIX doesn't recognize FreeBSD as a Unix system

BUG FIXES IN 3.1
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    [LANG-749] Incorrect Bundle-SymbolicName in Manifest
    [LANG-746] NumberUtils does not handle upper-case hex: 0X and -0X
    [LANG-744] StringUtils throws java.security.AccessControlException on Google App Engine
    [LANG-741] Ant build has wrong component.name
    [LANG-698] Document that the Mutable numbers don't work as expected with String.format
