On Unix, getUserDownloadDir() now returns the result of xdg-user-dir DOWNLOAD. If executing the command failed, it then returns the content of XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR environment variable as a fallback. #145

It does not affect end-user environments (I think), but it could affect some environments like automated testing on a docker, etc..
On GitHub Actions, for example, I had to run xdg-user-dirs-update before executing the tests (see 0b0eace ).

Full Changelog: appdirs-1.4.0...appdirs-1.5.0

• AppDirsFactory#getInstance() now returns the same instance for repeated invocations. #117

Maintenance release. No new feature or bug fixes.
Version 1.3.x requires Java 8.

• New method getUserDownloadsDir() #80

• Removed SLF4J/Logback from dependencies to avoid issues like #4 or #40 .

• On macOS, getUserConfigDir() and getSiteConfigDir() now return /Users/xxx/Library/Preferences and /Library/Preferences respectively. #34

• On Windows, it is now possible to get a path that does not include 'appAuthor' part. #28
• Added a new method getSharedDir(). On macOS, this method returns /Users/Shared/Library/Application Support/ which could be useful as it can be writable to multiple users. #31

UnixAppDirs should search environment variables instead of system properties. #6

Avoid deprecated Windows function. #5

Changed the scope of jna-platform dependency to compile. #2