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
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
Look how they massacred my boy (Apache Commons Lang)
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August 21, 2025How to deal with commons-lang3 recent upgrade?
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 ... More on forum.xwiki.org
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July 15, 2025Critical: commons-lang2.6 to commons-lang3 Migration - Dependency Conflict with SmartClient Framework - SmartClient Forums
We are currently using SmartClient Version: v12.0p_2020-08-08/PowerEdition. Background: As part of our ongoing security enhancement initiatives, we have recently completed a comprehensive migration of our application dependencies from commons-lang version 2.6 to commons-lang3. This migration ... More on forums.smartclient.com
Upgrading commons.lang to commons.lang3
Sometimes developer of bindings tend to bring along commons-lang3 for which I cannot completely blame them. Is there a reason we choose for commons.lang 2.6, it is the newest version not being comm... More on github.com
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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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What's new in Commons Lang 3.0? – Apache Commons Lang
November 12, 2025 - Apache Commons, Apache Commons Lang, Apache, the Apache logo, and the Apache Commons project logos are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation.
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Migrates to Apache Commons Lang 3.x | OpenRewrite Docs
This recipe modifies application's ...ite.java.dependencies.ChangeDependency: oldGroupId: commons-lang oldArtifactId: commons-lang newGroupId: org.apache.commons newArtifactId: commons-lang3 newVersion: 3.x - org.openrewrite.apache.commons.lang.WordUtilsToCommonsText - ...
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Maven Repository
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Maven Repository: org.apache.commons » commons-lang3
November 12, 2025 - 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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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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I despise anything that obfuscates the meaning of code from the reader, as too many tenured "geniuses" are actually using bad code to limit the productivity of their coworkers. 'hist' for history/histogram, 'perf' for performance, etc. I used an electronic typewriter once, things are better now and we 'totes' don't need 'abbrevs'. Seems like it would have been better to leave it as Strings.equals() and add a new method for Strings.equalsIgnoreCase() - because the latter would come up in your autocomplete immediately after the former and it would become immediately obvious which method does which.
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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.
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.
SmartClient Forums
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Critical: commons-lang2.6 to commons-lang3 Migration - Dependency Conflict with SmartClient Framework - SmartClient Forums
July 28, 2025 - SmartClient 12.0 requires commons-lang2.6 and is not vulnerable to any of the CVEs related to commons-lang. So the remedy is to put the .jar back - you weren't vulnerable in the first place. SmartClient 15.0, not due out for a while, does use commons-lang3.
GitHub
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Upgrading commons.lang to commons.lang3 · Issue #3522 · eclipse-archived/smarthome
April 13, 2017 - Commons lang broke backwards compatibility (by switching package structure) to include support for Java 5... 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 ...
Published May 26, 2017
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An Introduction to Apache Commons Lang 3 | Baeldung
January 8, 2024 - The Apache Commons Lang 3 library is a popular, full-featured package of utility classes, aimed at extending the functionality of the Java API.
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String Processing with Apache Commons Lang 3 | Baeldung
January 8, 2024 - The Apache Commons Lang 3 library provides support for manipulation of core classes of the Java APIs.
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DevGenius
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How to fix Commons Lang “Package Does Not Exist” Error | by Tremaine Eto | Dev Genius
December 12, 2021 - Basically, Commons Lang 3.x brought in this new package naming with the 3 in lang3.
Abi-laboratory
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Source compatibility report for Commons Lang: 3.3.2 vs 3.4
Tracker / Commons Lang / 3.3.2 vs 3.4 / commons-lang3 · commons-lang3-3.4.jar, ArrayUtils.class package org.apache.commons.lang3 ArrayUtils.isSorted ( boolean[ ] array ) [static] : boolean · org/apache/commons/lang3/ArrayUtils.isSorted:([Z)Z ArrayUtils.isSorted ( byte[ ] array ) [static] : boolean ·
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Apache Commons Lang 2 vs 3 - Stack Overflow
June 11, 2014 - Title: Apache Commons Lang 2 vs 3 - Stack Overflow ... You can have both Lang2 and Lang3 in your classpath. 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...