The Apache Commons Team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Commons CLI 1.3.
The Apache Commons CLI library provides an API for parsing command line options passed to programs. It's also able to print help messages detailing the options available for a command line tool. 1.3 is binary compatible to the last release 1.2. The highlight of this release is the introduction of a new API for defining Options for the parser. More information about this, as well as the full details of all the changes in 3.4 see the release notes: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/commons/cli/RELEASE-NOTES.txt The minimum required JDK version for this release is 1.5. Source and binary distributions are available for download from the Apache Commons download site: http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-cli/download_cli.cgi When downloading, please verify signatures using the KEYS file available at the above location. Alternatively the release can be pulled via maven: <dependency> <groupId>commons-cli</groupId> <artifactId>commons-cli</artifactId> <version>1.3</version> </dependency> For complete information on Commons CLI, including instructions on how to submit bug reports, patches, or suggestions for improvement, see the Apache Commons CLI website: http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-cli/ Benedikt Ritter, on behalf of the Apache Commons Community -- http://people.apache.org/~britter/ http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter http://github.com/britter
