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Another secure development best practice for your Java builds: xdev.software/en/news/detail…

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The Apache Commons DBCP team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Commons DBCP 2.13.0. This is a minor release, including bug fixes and enhancements. Changes: commons.apache.org/proper/commons… Site: commons.apache.org/proper/commons… Download: commons.apache.org/proper/commons…

The Apache Commons team is happy to announce Apache Commons 1.13.0. - Changes: commons.apache.org/proper/commons… - Site: commons.apache.org/proper/commons… - Repo github.com/apache/commons…

The Apache Commons team announces Commons Codec 1.17.2 for #Java Codec contains encoders and decoders for formats such as Base16, Base32, Base64, digest, and Hexadecimal. The codec package also maintains a collection of phonetic encoding utilities. See commons.apache.org/proper/commons…

The Apache Commons Pool team announces the release of Apache Commons Pool 2.12.1. Commons Pool provides an object-pooling API and several object-pool implementations, with robust instance tracking and pool monitoring. commons.apache.org/proper/commons…

The Apache Commons Codec team announces the release of Apache Commons Codec 1.18.0. Commons Codec contains encodes and decodes Base16, Base32, Base64, digest, and Hexadecimal. The codec package also maintains a collection of phonetic encoding utilities. commons.apache.org/proper/commons…

The Apache Commons team is pleased to announce Apache Commons Logging 1.3.5. Commons Logging is a thin adapter allowing configurable bridging to other, well-known logging systems. Historical list of changes: commons.apache.org/proper/commons… Website: commons.apache.org/proper/commons…

The Apache Commons BeanUtils team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Commons BeanUtils 1.10.1. This is our old-school Java Bean utility library available at commons.apache.org/proper/commons… #theASF #ApacheCommons

The Apache Commons VFS Project team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Commons VFS Project 2.10.0. Apache Commons VFS is a Virtual File System library for Java 8 or later. commons.apache.org/proper/commons… #theASF #ApacheCommons

I am pleased to announce Apache Commons CSV 1.14.0. Commons CSV reads and writes files in Comma Separated Value (CSV) format variations. See commons.apache.org/proper/commons…

Over at Apache Commons VFS, we published two CVEs: - CVE-2025-27553: Apache Commons VFS: Possible path traversal issue when using NameScope.DESCENDENT - CVE-2025-30474: Apache Commons VFS: Failing to find an FTP file can reveal the URI's password in an error message

Here are the latest Apache Commons releases: - JXPATH-1.4.0: 2025-04-18 - JEXL-3.5.0: 2025-04-16 - IO-2.19.0: 2025-04-12 - TEXT-1.13.1: 2025-04-10 Come see us: commons.apache.org

Apache Commons Collections 4.5.0 is now available from the download CDN and Maven Central. Visit us at commons.apache.org/proper/commons…

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Heads up CVE watchers! We just published CVE-2025-48976: Apache Commons FileUpload: DoS via part headers. Pick up version 1.6.0 or 2.0.0-M4 lists.apache.org/thread/fbs3wrr… #cve #apache #security