In my dependency 0.5 it still uses SimpleDateFormat with yyyy-MM-dd. I see that it has been improved at the current master branch: - https://github.com/rcarz/jira-client/blob/master/src/main/java/net/rcarz/jiraclient/Comment.java#L67 - https://github.com/rcarz/jira-client/blob/master/src/main/java/net/rcarz/jiraclient/Field.java#L259 - https://github.com/rcarz/jira-client/blob/master/src/main/java/net/rcarz/jiraclient/Field.java#L155 Why is there no maven release like 0.6?