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+## Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+## or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+## distributed with this work for additional information
+## regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+## to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+## "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+## with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+##
+##  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+##
+## Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+## software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+## "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+## KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+## specific language governing permissions and limitations
+## under the License.
+##
+
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+(the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+
+
+                        ${project.name}
+                            Version ${version}
+                           Release Notes
+
+
+INTRODUCTION:
+
+This document contains the release notes for the ${version} version of Apache Commons Lang.
+Commons Lang is a set of utility functions and reusable components that should be of use in any 
+Java environment.
+
+Lang 3.9 and onwards now targets Java 8, making use of features that arrived with Java 8.
+
+For the advice on upgrading from 2.x to 3.x, see the following page: 
+
+    https://commons.apache.org/lang/article3_0.html
+
+$introduction.replaceAll("(?<!\015)\012", "
+").replaceAll("(?m)^ +","")
+
+## N.B. the available variables are described here:
+## https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-changes-plugin/examples/using-a-custom-announcement-template.html
+##
+## Hack to improve layout: replace all pairs of spaces with a single new-line
+$release.description.replaceAll("  ", "
+")
+
+## set up indent sizes. Only change indent1
+#set($props=${project.properties})
+#set($jiralen=$props.get("commons.jira.id").length())
+## indent1 =   POOL-nnnn:
+#set($blanklen=$jiralen+6)## +6 for "-nnnn:"
+## must be at least as long as the longest JIRA id
+#set($blanks="                                  ")
+#set($indent1=$blanks.substring(0,$blanklen))
+## indent2 allows for issue wrapper
+#set($indent2="$indent1   ")
+##
+#macro ( processaction )
+## Use replaceAll to fix up LF-only line ends on Windows.
+#set($action=$actionItem.getAction().replaceAll("\n","
+"))
+## Fix up indentation for multi-line action descriptions
+#set($action=$action.replaceAll("(?m)^  +",$indent2))
+#if ($actionItem.getIssue())
+#set($issue="$actionItem.getIssue():")
+## Pad shorter issue numbers
+#if ($issue.length() < $indent1.length())#set ($issue="$issue ")#end
+#if ($issue.length() < $indent1.length())#set ($issue="$issue ")#end
+#if ($issue.length() < $indent1.length())#set ($issue="$issue ")#end
+#else
+#set($issue=$indent1)
+#end
+#if ($actionItem.getDueTo())
+#set($dueto=" Thanks to $actionItem.getDueTo().")
+#else
+#set($dueto="")
+#end
+o $issue ${action}$dueto
+#set($action="")
+#set($issue="")
+#set($dueto="")
+#end
+##
+#if ($release.getActions().size() == 0)
+No changes defined in this version.
+#else
+Changes in this version include:
+
+#if ($release.getActions('add').size() !=0)
+New features:
+#foreach($actionItem in $release.getActions('add'))
+#processaction()
+#end 
+#end
+
+#if ($release.getActions('fix').size() !=0)
+Fixed Bugs:
+#foreach($actionItem in $release.getActions('fix'))
+#processaction()
+#end
+#end
+
+#if ($release.getActions('update').size() !=0)
+Changes:
+#foreach($actionItem in $release.getActions('update'))
+#processaction()
+#end
+#end
+
+#if ($release.getActions('remove').size() !=0)
+Removed:
+#foreach($actionItem in $release.getActions('remove'))
+#processaction()
+#end
+#end
+## End of main loop
+#end
+
+Historical list of changes: ${project.url}changes-report.html
+
+For complete information on ${project.name}, including instructions on how to submit bug reports,
+patches, or suggestions for improvement, see the ${project.name} website:
+
+${project.url}
+
+Download page: ${project.url}download_lang.cgi
+
+Have fun!
+-Apache Commons Team