1.3 came out in 2015, 6 years after 1.2. It was few bug fixes and new features.
These are few good/important ones: - HelpFormatter now prints command-line options in the same order as they have been added. Fixes CLI-212. - Standard help text now shows mandatory arguments also for the first option. Fixes CLI-186. - A new parser is available: DefaultParser. It combines the features of the GnuParser and the PosixParser. It also provides additional features like partial matching for the long options, and long options without separator (i.e like the JVM memory settings: -Xmx512m). This new parser deprecates the previous ones. Fixes CLI-161,CLI-167,CLI-181. For full list of changes: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-cli/changes-report.html#a1.3 If there are no objections, i'll update it in few days. Regards, -- Appy
