Why was org.apache.common.lang3 StringEscapeUtils deprecated?
The class was moved from package org.apache.commons.lang3 to org.apache.commons.text You can replace the deprecated library easily: In your build.gradle: implementation ‘org.apache.commons:commons-text:1.9’ And in your class using StringEscapeUtils make sure you import the correct class: import org.apache.commons.text.StringEscapeUtils; 1.9 is currently the newest version (last checked February 24th 2021) but you can check the versions at maven: … Read more