apache · vishnukribm · Nov 3, 2025 · Nov 4, 2025 · Nov 5, 2025 · Nov 5, 2025
diff --git a/agents-audit/core/pom.xml b/agents-audit/core/pom.xml
@@ -37,11 +37,7 @@
             <artifactId>hppc</artifactId>
             <version>${hppc.version}</version>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
-            <artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
-            <version>${commons.lang.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
+
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.airlift</groupId>
             <artifactId>aircompressor</artifactId>
@@ -63,6 +59,11 @@
             <artifactId>commons-configuration2</artifactId>
             <version>${commons.configuration.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
+            <version>${commons.lang3.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-text</artifactId>

diff --git a/agents-audit/core/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/audit/model/AuthzAuditEvent.java b/agents-audit/core/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/audit/model/AuthzAuditEvent.java
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.annotation.JsonSerialize;
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 
 import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.HashSet;

diff --git a/agents-audit/core/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/audit/provider/AuditWriterFactory.java b/agents-audit/core/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/audit/provider/AuditWriterFactory.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
  * under the License.
  */
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.ranger.audit.utils.RangerAuditWriter;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

diff --git a/agents-audit/core/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/audit/provider/MiscUtil.java b/agents-audit/core/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/audit/provider/MiscUtil.java
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
-import org.apache.commons.lang.ArrayUtils;
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation;
 import org.apache.hadoop.security.authentication.util.KerberosName;
 import org.apache.hadoop.security.authentication.util.KerberosUtil;

diff --git a/agents-audit/core/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/audit/utils/AbstractRangerAuditWriter.java b/agents-audit/core/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/audit/utils/AbstractRangerAuditWriter.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
  * under the License.
  */
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.CommonPathCapabilities;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream;

diff --git a/agents-audit/core/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/audit/utils/RollingTimeUtil.java b/agents-audit/core/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/audit/utils/RollingTimeUtil.java
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 package org.apache.ranger.audit.utils;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 
 import java.util.Calendar;
 import java.util.Date;

diff --git a/...h/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/audit/destination/AmazonCloudWatchAuditDestination.java b/...h/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/audit/destination/AmazonCloudWatchAuditDestination.java
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 import com.amazonaws.services.logs.model.PutLogEventsRequest;
 import com.amazonaws.services.logs.model.PutLogEventsResult;
 import com.amazonaws.services.logs.model.ResourceNotFoundException;
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.ranger.audit.model.AuditEventBase;
 import org.apache.ranger.audit.provider.MiscUtil;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;

diff --git a/...t-es/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/audit/destination/ElasticSearchAuditDestination.java b/...t-es/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/audit/destination/ElasticSearchAuditDestination.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 package org.apache.ranger.audit.destination;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.thirdparty.com.google.common.util.concurrent.ThreadFactoryBuilder;
 import org.apache.http.HttpHost;
 import org.apache.http.auth.AuthSchemeProvider;

diff --git a/...dit/dest-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/audit/provider/hdfs/HdfsLogDestination.java b/...dit/dest-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/audit/provider/hdfs/HdfsLogDestination.java
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
  */
 package org.apache.ranger.audit.provider.hdfs;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;

diff --git a/...dit/dest-solr/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/audit/destination/SolrAuditDestination.java b/...dit/dest-solr/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/audit/destination/SolrAuditDestination.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 package org.apache.ranger.audit.destination;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.ranger.audit.model.AuditEventBase;
 import org.apache.ranger.audit.model.AuthzAuditEvent;
 import org.apache.ranger.audit.provider.MiscUtil;

diff --git a/agents-common/pom.xml b/agents-common/pom.xml
@@ -78,11 +78,6 @@
                 </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
-            <artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
-            <version>${commons.lang.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>mysql</groupId>
             <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
@@ -107,6 +102,11 @@
             <artifactId>commons-configuration2</artifactId>
             <version>${commons.configuration.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
+            <version>${commons.lang3.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-text</artifactId>

diff --git a/...common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/authorization/hadoop/config/RangerAdminConfig.java b/...common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/authorization/hadoop/config/RangerAdminConfig.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 package org.apache.ranger.authorization.hadoop.config;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 

diff --git a/...rc/main/java/org/apache/ranger/authorization/hadoop/config/RangerChainedPluginConfig.java b/...rc/main/java/org/apache/ranger/authorization/hadoop/config/RangerChainedPluginConfig.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 package org.apache.ranger.authorization.hadoop.config;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 

diff --git a/...mmon/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/authorization/hadoop/config/RangerConfiguration.java b/...mmon/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/authorization/hadoop/config/RangerConfiguration.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 package org.apache.ranger.authorization.hadoop.config;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

diff --git a/...ommon/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/authorization/hadoop/config/RangerPluginConfig.java b/...ommon/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/authorization/hadoop/config/RangerPluginConfig.java
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 package org.apache.ranger.authorization.hadoop.config;
 
 import org.apache.commons.collections.CollectionUtils;
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.ranger.authorization.utils.StringUtil;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.policyengine.RangerPolicyEngineOptions;

diff --git a/agents-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/authorization/utils/JsonUtils.java b/agents-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/authorization/utils/JsonUtils.java
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import org.apache.commons.collections.CollectionUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.collections.MapUtils;
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.model.AuditFilter;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.model.RangerGds.RangerGdsMaskInfo;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.model.RangerPolicy.RangerPolicyResource;

diff --git a/agents-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/authorization/utils/StringUtil.java b/agents-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/authorization/utils/StringUtil.java
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 import org.apache.commons.collections.CollectionUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.collections.MapUtils;
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.model.RangerPolicy.RangerPolicyResource;
 
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;

diff --git a/agents-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/audit/RangerDefaultAuditHandler.java b/agents-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/audit/RangerDefaultAuditHandler.java
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 package org.apache.ranger.plugin.audit;
 
 import org.apache.commons.collections.CollectionUtils;
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.ranger.audit.model.AuthzAuditEvent;
 import org.apache.ranger.audit.provider.AuditHandler;

diff --git a/agents-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/client/BaseClient.java b/agents-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/client/BaseClient.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 package org.apache.ranger.plugin.client;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.security.SecureClientLogin;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.util.PasswordUtils;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;

diff --git a/agents-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/client/HadoopConfigHolder.java b/agents-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/client/HadoopConfigHolder.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 package org.apache.ranger.plugin.client;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.security.SecureClientLogin;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

diff --git a/agents-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/client/HadoopException.java b/agents-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/client/HadoopException.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 package org.apache.ranger.plugin.client;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.HashMap;

diff --git a/...apache/ranger/plugin/conditionevaluator/RangerHiveResourcesAccessedTogetherCondition.java b/...apache/ranger/plugin/conditionevaluator/RangerHiveResourcesAccessedTogetherCondition.java
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 package org.apache.ranger.plugin.conditionevaluator;
 
 import org.apache.commons.collections.CollectionUtils;
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.model.RangerPolicy;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.policyengine.RangerAccessRequest;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.policyresourcematcher.RangerDefaultPolicyResourceMatcher;

diff --git a/...che/ranger/plugin/conditionevaluator/RangerHiveResourcesNotAccessedTogetherCondition.java b/...che/ranger/plugin/conditionevaluator/RangerHiveResourcesNotAccessedTogetherCondition.java
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 package org.apache.ranger.plugin.conditionevaluator;
 
 import org.apache.commons.collections.CollectionUtils;
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.model.RangerPolicy;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.policyengine.RangerAccessRequest;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.policyresourcematcher.RangerDefaultPolicyResourceMatcher;

diff --git a/...main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/conditionevaluator/RangerScriptConditionEvaluator.java b/...main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/conditionevaluator/RangerScriptConditionEvaluator.java
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 import org.apache.commons.collections.CollectionUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.collections.MapUtils;
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.policyengine.RangerAccessRequest;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.policyengine.RangerRequestScriptEvaluator;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.util.ScriptEngineUtil;

diff --git a/...a/org/apache/ranger/plugin/conditionevaluator/RangerScriptTemplateConditionEvaluator.java b/...a/org/apache/ranger/plugin/conditionevaluator/RangerScriptTemplateConditionEvaluator.java
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 import org.apache.commons.collections.CollectionUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.collections.MapUtils;
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.policyengine.RangerAccessRequest;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

diff --git a/...mon/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/conditionevaluator/RangerTimeOfDayMatcher.java b/...mon/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/conditionevaluator/RangerTimeOfDayMatcher.java
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 package org.apache.ranger.plugin.conditionevaluator;
 
 import org.apache.commons.collections.CollectionUtils;
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.policyengine.RangerAccessRequest;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

diff --git a/...src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/contextenricher/RangerAbstractContextEnricher.java b/...src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/contextenricher/RangerAbstractContextEnricher.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 package org.apache.ranger.plugin.contextenricher;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.ranger.authorization.hadoop.config.RangerPluginConfig;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.model.RangerServiceDef;

diff --git a/...main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/contextenricher/RangerAbstractGeolocationProvider.java b/...main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/contextenricher/RangerAbstractGeolocationProvider.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 package org.apache.ranger.plugin.contextenricher;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.geo.RangerGeolocationData;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.geo.RangerGeolocationDatabase;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.policyengine.RangerAccessRequest;

diff --git a/...n/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/contextenricher/RangerAdminGdsInfoRetriever.java b/...n/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/contextenricher/RangerAdminGdsInfoRetriever.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 package org.apache.ranger.plugin.contextenricher;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.ranger.admin.client.RangerAdminClient;
 import org.apache.ranger.authorization.hadoop.config.RangerPluginConfig;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.policyengine.RangerPluginContext;

diff --git a/...ommon/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/contextenricher/RangerAdminTagRetriever.java b/...ommon/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/contextenricher/RangerAdminTagRetriever.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 package org.apache.ranger.plugin.contextenricher;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.ranger.admin.client.RangerAdminClient;
 import org.apache.ranger.authorization.hadoop.config.RangerPluginConfig;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.policyengine.RangerPluginContext;

diff --git a/...src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/contextenricher/RangerAdminUserStoreRetriever.java b/...src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/contextenricher/RangerAdminUserStoreRetriever.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 package org.apache.ranger.plugin.contextenricher;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.ranger.admin.client.RangerAdminClient;
 import org.apache.ranger.authorization.hadoop.config.RangerPluginConfig;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.policyengine.RangerPluginContext;

diff --git a/...n/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/contextenricher/RangerFileBasedTagRetriever.java b/...n/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/contextenricher/RangerFileBasedTagRetriever.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 package org.apache.ranger.plugin.contextenricher;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.ranger.authorization.utils.JsonUtils;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.util.ServiceTags;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;

diff --git a/agents-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/contextenricher/RangerGdsEnricher.java b/agents-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/contextenricher/RangerGdsEnricher.java
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ ServiceGdsInfo loadFromCache() {
             LOG.debug("==> RangerGdsInfoRefresher(serviceName={}).loadFromCache()", getServiceName());
 
             ServiceGdsInfo ret       = null;
-            File           cacheFile = org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils.isEmpty(this.cacheFile) ? null : new File(this.cacheFile);
+            File           cacheFile = org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.isEmpty(this.cacheFile) ? null : new File(this.cacheFile);
 
             if (cacheFile != null && cacheFile.isFile() && cacheFile.canRead()) {
                 try (Reader reader = new FileReader(cacheFile)) {

diff --git a/.../src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/contextenricher/RangerServiceResourceMatcher.java b/.../src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/contextenricher/RangerServiceResourceMatcher.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 package org.apache.ranger.plugin.contextenricher;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.model.RangerPolicy;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.model.RangerServiceDef.RangerResourceDef;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.model.RangerServiceResource;

diff --git a/agents-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/contextenricher/RangerTagEnricher.java b/agents-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/contextenricher/RangerTagEnricher.java
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 import org.apache.commons.collections.CollectionUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.collections.MapUtils;
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.ranger.authorization.hadoop.config.RangerPluginConfig;
 import org.apache.ranger.authorization.utils.JsonUtils;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.model.RangerPolicy;

diff --git a/...ommon/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/contextenricher/RangerUserStoreEnricher.java b/...ommon/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/contextenricher/RangerUserStoreEnricher.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 package org.apache.ranger.plugin.contextenricher;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.policyengine.RangerAccessRequest;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.service.RangerAuthContext;
 import org.apache.ranger.plugin.util.DownloadTrigger;

diff --git a/...mmon/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/contextenricher/RangerUserStoreRefresher.java b/...mmon/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/contextenricher/RangerUserStoreRefresher.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 package org.apache.ranger.plugin.contextenricher;
 
 import com.sun.jersey.api.client.ClientResponse;
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation;
 import org.apache.ranger.admin.client.datatype.RESTResponse;
 import org.apache.ranger.audit.provider.MiscUtil;

diff --git a/agents-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/geo/GeolocationMetadata.java b/agents-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/geo/GeolocationMetadata.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 package org.apache.ranger.plugin.geo;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 

diff --git a/agents-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/geo/RangerGeolocationData.java b/agents-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/geo/RangerGeolocationData.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 package org.apache.ranger.plugin.geo;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 

diff --git a/agents-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/geo/RangerGeolocationDatabase.java b/agents-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/geo/RangerGeolocationDatabase.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 package org.apache.ranger.plugin.geo;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;