diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1b82d3a0e..b15adb641 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -451,9 +451,24 @@
     <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
     <maven.compile.source>1.5</maven.compile.source>
     <maven.compile.target>1.5</maven.compile.target>
+    <!--
+       This is also  used to generate download_xxx file name.
+       To override this when generating the download page:
+       
+       mvn commons:download-page -Dcommons.componentid=lang
+       
+       The above seems to change the download page name but not any other
+       properties that depend on the componentid.
+    -->
     <commons.componentid>lang3</commons.componentid>
+    <!-- Current 3.x release series -->
     <commons.release.version>3.1</commons.release.version>
     <commons.release.desc>(Java 5.0+)</commons.release.desc>
+    <!-- Previous 2.x release series -->
+    <commons.release.2.version>2.6</commons.release.2.version>
+    <commons.release.2.desc>(Requires Java 1.2 or later)</commons.release.2.desc>
+    <!-- Override generated name -->
+    <commons.release.2.name>commons-lang-${commons.release.2.version}</commons.release.2.name>
     <commons.jira.id>LANG</commons.jira.id>
     <commons.jira.pid>12310481</commons.jira.pid>
   </properties>
diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/download_lang.xml b/src/site/xdoc/download_lang.xml
index d3512a676..4d087950d 100644
--- a/src/site/xdoc/download_lang.xml
+++ b/src/site/xdoc/download_lang.xml
@@ -125,6 +125,36 @@ limitations under the License.
         </table>
       </subsection>
     </section>
+    <section name="Commons Lang 2.6 (Requires Java 1.2 or later)">
+      <subsection name="Binaries">
+        <table>
+          <tr>
+              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/lang/binaries/commons-lang-2.6-bin.tar.gz">commons-lang-2.6-bin.tar.gz</a></td>
+              <td><a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/lang/binaries/commons-lang-2.6-bin.tar.gz.md5">md5</a></td>
+              <td><a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/lang/binaries/commons-lang-2.6-bin.tar.gz.asc">pgp</a></td>
+          </tr>
+          <tr>
+              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/lang/binaries/commons-lang-2.6-bin.zip">commons-lang-2.6-bin.zip</a></td>
+              <td><a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/lang/binaries/commons-lang-2.6-bin.zip.md5">md5</a></td>
+              <td><a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/lang/binaries/commons-lang-2.6-bin.zip.asc">pgp</a></td>
+          </tr>
+        </table>
+      </subsection>
+      <subsection name="Source">
+        <table>
+          <tr>
+              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/lang/source/commons-lang-2.6-src.tar.gz">commons-lang-2.6-src.tar.gz</a></td>
+              <td><a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/lang/source/commons-lang-2.6-src.tar.gz.md5">md5</a></td>
+              <td><a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/lang/source/commons-lang-2.6-src.tar.gz.asc">pgp</a></td>
+          </tr>
+          <tr>
+              <td><a href="[preferred]/commons/lang/source/commons-lang-2.6-src.zip">commons-lang-2.6-src.zip</a></td>
+              <td><a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/lang/source/commons-lang-2.6-src.zip.md5">md5</a></td>
+              <td><a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/lang/source/commons-lang-2.6-src.zip.asc">pgp</a></td>
+          </tr>
+        </table>
+      </subsection>
+    </section>
     <section name="Archives">
         <p>
           Older releases can be obtained from the archives.