The constructor org.apache.commons.beanutils2.PropertyUtils is now

private (the class only contains static methods)

Author: garydgregory

src/changes/changes.xml

@@ -31,9 +31,10 @@
       <!-- FIX -->
       <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Javadoc is missing its Overview page.</action>
       <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Remove -nouses directive from maven-bundle-plugin. OSGi package imports now state 'uses' definitions for package imports, this doesn't affect JPMS (from org.apache.commons:commons-parent:80).</action>
-      <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">The class org.apache.commons.beanutils2.PropertyUtils is now final (it only contains static methods).</action>
-      <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">The class org.apache.commons.beanutils2.locale.LocaleConvertUtils is now final (it only contains static methods).</action>
-      <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">The class org.apache.commons.beanutils2.locale.LocaleBeanUtils is now final (it only contains static methods).</action>
+      <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">The class org.apache.commons.beanutils2.PropertyUtils is now final (the class only contains static methods).</action>
+      <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">The constructor org.apache.commons.beanutils2.PropertyUtils is now private (the class only contains static methods).</action>
+      <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">The class org.apache.commons.beanutils2.locale.LocaleConvertUtils is now final (the class only contains static methods).</action>
+      <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">The class org.apache.commons.beanutils2.locale.LocaleBeanUtils is now final (the class only contains static methods).</action>
       <!-- ADD -->
       <!-- UPDATE -->
       <action type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Bump org.apache.commons:commons-parent from 78 to 81.</action>

src/main/java/org/apache/commons/beanutils2/PropertyUtils.java

@@ -653,4 +653,7 @@ public static void setSimpleProperty(final Object bean, final String name, final
         PropertyUtilsBean.getInstance().setSimpleProperty(bean, name, value);
     }
 
+    private PropertyUtils() {
+        // empty
+    }
 }