Commons Lang 2.1 Released

The Commons Lang team is pleased to announce the release of Commons Lang 2.1 from the Apache Software Foundation. This release contains several new features and fixes, including:

 - New package org.apache.commons.lang.mutable containing basic classes that hold an Object or primitive and provide both get and set methods;
 - New DurationFormatUtils providing various methods for formatting durations;
 - New CharEncoding containing definitions of constants for character encoding work;
 - New CharUtils containing utilities for working with characters;
 - Various new methods in ArrayUtils, BooleanUtils, ClassUtils, ObjectUtils, StringUtils, SystemUtils, Validate, WordUtils, EqualsBuilder, ExceptionUtils, NumberUtils, DateUtils, FastDateFormat, and StopWatch;
 - New short prefix style for ToStringBuilder;
 - More flags in ReflectionToStringBuilder to control the output with regards to statics;
 - Renaming of the enum package to enums for JDK1.5 compliance;
 - Various bug fixes and enhancements

For more details see http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/commons/lang/RELEASE-NOTES.txt.

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- The Commons Lang team