You can have both Lang2 and Lang3 in your classpath. Due to incompatibility of Lang2 and Lang3, the package is intentionally changed from org.apache.commons.lang to org.apache.commons.lang3 so that you can have both version in classpath without conflict

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Google Groups
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Apache commons lang and lang3
Note that Lang 3.0 (and subsequent versions) use a different package (org.apache.commons.lang3) than the previous versions (org.apache.commons.lang), allowing it to be used at the same time as an earlier version.
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GitHub
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Upgrade to Apache commons-lang3 instead of commons-lang · Issue #51 · feedzai/pdb
February 23, 2017 - Apache commons-lang3 was designed to be able to live side-by-side with commons-lang, but it is extra bloat and mostly redundant to have both, and, having commons-lang alone I assume is more limited. I think most teams moving forward woul...
Published   Feb 23, 2017
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Maven Repository
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Maven Repository: org.apache.commons » commons-lang3
November 12, 2025 - Apache Commons is an Apache project focused on all aspects of reusable Java components. ... Apache Commons Lang, a package of Java utility classes for the classes that are in java.lang's hierarchy, or are considered to be so standard as to justify existence in java.lang.
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Apache Commons
commons.apache.org › proper › commons-lang › article3_0.html
What's new in Commons Lang 3.0? – Apache Commons Lang
Commons Lang 3.0 is out, and the obvious question is: "So what? What's changed?" · Lang is now Java 5 based. We've generified the API, moved certain APIs to support varargs and thrown out any features that are now supported by Java itself. We've removed the deprecated parts of the API and ...
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DZone
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Apache Commons Lang StringUtils
May 5, 2012 - There are not really any significant differences between the two. lang3.StringUtils requires Java 5.0 and is probably the version you'll want to use. Thought I'd start with one of the most straight forward methods. equals.
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Reddit
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r/java on Reddit: Look how they massacred my boy (Apache Commons Lang)
August 21, 2025 -

Seriously, what madness drove the commons lang contributors to deprecate StringUtils.equals()?

I'm gonna rant for a bit here. It's been a long day.

I spend all morning in an incident call, finally get time to do some coding in the afternoon.

I make progress on a bug fix, clean up some dead code like a good boy scout, and I’m feeling like I actually accomplished something today.

Oh, this service is getting flagged for CVE-2025-48924? Let me take care of that.

And then, confusion. Anger.

Deprecated method? StringUtils.equals()? That can't be.

Sure as shit, they deprecated it. Let's see what has been replaced with.

Strings.CS.equals()? Is that character sequence? No, it's case sensitive. Fucking hell. I harp on juniors for their silly acronyms. Did not expect to see them in a library like this. Just unnecessary. If Java developers had a problem with verbosity, well, they wouldn't be Java developers.

I'll admit I've been an open-source leech, contributing nothing to the community, but this one has lit a fire in me.

If this issue isn't resolved, are there any volunteers to help with a fork? I feel like common-sense-lang3 would be an appropriate name for an alternative.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/LANG/issues/LANG-1777?filter=allopenissues

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GitHub
github.com › eclipse › smarthome › issues › 3522
Upgrading commons.lang to commons.lang3 · Issue #3522 · ...
February 4, 2017 - Is there a reason we choose for commons.lang 2.6, it is the newest version not being commons-lang3 but dates back to january 2011. Commons lang broke backwards compatibility (by switching package structure) to include support for Java 5...
Published   May 26, 2017
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Baeldung
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An Introduction to Apache Commons Lang 3 | Baeldung
January 8, 2024 - Sometimes, we need to obtain some dynamic information about different properties and variables of the underlying Java platform or the operating system. Apache Commons Lang 3 provides the SystemUtils class for accomplishing this in a painless way.
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Rssing
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Apache Commons Lang 2 vs 3 - Stack Overflow
Due to incompatibility of Lang2 and Lang3, the package is intentionally changed from com.apache.commons.lang to com.apache.commons.lang3 so that you... View Article ... In my application I'm using apache commons Lang v.3. A requried library give my a java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils Is there a build translation between...
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Blogger
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Tom's Programming Blog: Apache Commons Lang StringUtils
There are not really any significant differences between the two. lang3.StringUtils requires Java 5.0 and is probably the version you'll want to use. Thought I'd start with one of the most straight forward methods. equals. This does exactly what you'd expect, it takes two Strings and returns ...
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OpenRewrite
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Migrates to Apache Commons Lang 3.x | OpenRewrite Docs
This recipe modifies application's ... lang - commons recipeList: - org.openrewrite.java.dependencies.ChangeDependency: oldGroupId: commons-lang oldArtifactId: commons-lang newGroupId: org.apache.commons newArtifactId: commons-lang3 newVersion: 3.x - org.openrewrite.apache.comm...
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Apache Commons
commons.apache.org › lang
Home – Apache Commons Lang
The standard Java libraries fail to provide enough methods for manipulation of its core classes. Apache Commons Lang provides these extra methods · Apache Commons Lang provides a host of helper utilities for the java.lang API, notably String manipulation methods, basic numerical methods, object ...
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Javadoc.io
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commons-lang3 3.20.0 javadoc (org.apache.commons)
Bookmarks · Latest version of org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 · https://javadoc.io/doc/org.apache.commons/commons-lang3 · Current version 3.20.0 · https://javadoc.io/doc/org.apache.commons/commons-lang3/3.20.0 · package-list path (used for javadoc generation -link option) · ...
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Scijava
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Apache Commons Lang 3.12.0 API
JavaScript is disabled on your browser · Frame Alert · This document is designed to be viewed using the frames feature. If you see this message, you are using a non-frame-capable web client. Link to Non-frame version
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Javadoc.io
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org.apache.commons.lang3 (Apache Commons Lang 3.5 API)
Provides highly reusable static utility methods, chiefly concerned with adding value to the java.lang classes. Most of these classes are immutable and thus thread-safe. However CharSet is not currently guaranteed thread-safe under all circumstances. The top level package contains various Utils classes, whilst there are various subpackages including org.apache.commons.lang3.math, org.apache.commons.lang3.concurrent and org.apache.commons.lang3.builder.
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XWiki
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How to deal with commons-lang3 recent upgrade? - Development - XWiki Forum
July 15, 2025 - Hi everyone, a new version of Apache Commons Lang3 have been released recently which brings breaking changes for XWiki and so we need to decide how to deal with them. Quite a few StringUtils APIs have been deprecated in favor of using a new Strings.CI or Strings.CS (CI for Case Insensitive and respectively CS for Case Sensitive) singleton instance with those methods.