differences between 2 JUnit Assert classes

Question

The JUnit framework contains 2 Assert classes (in different packages, obviously) and the methods on each appear to be very similar. Can anybody explain why this

Answer 1

I did a rough source code compare and there are no serious changes. A lot of comments were added in org.junit.Assert and some refactorings are done. The only change is the comparison with Arrays. There are some code cleanups, but there's (imho) no functional change.