diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f9612ef5f..0dd5975fd 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@
     <commons.surefire-report.version>3.0.0-M5</commons.surefire-report.version>
     <commons.surefire.version>3.0.0-M5</commons.surefire.version>
     <commons.felix.version>5.1.2</commons.felix.version>
-    <biz.aQute.bndlib.version>5.3.0</biz.aQute.bndlib.version>
+    <biz.aQute.bndlib.version>6.0.0</biz.aQute.bndlib.version>
     <spotbugs.plugin.version>4.4.2.1</spotbugs.plugin.version>
     <spotbugs.impl.version>4.4.2</spotbugs.impl.version>
     <commons.animal-sniffer.version>1.20</commons.animal-sniffer.version>
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 799eb910b..d7d56a72c 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@
       <action type="add" dev="ggregory" due-to="Alex Nordlund" issue="CLI-282">
         TypeHandler should throw ParseException for an unsupported class.
       </action>
+      <action type="add" dev="ggregory" due-to="waso, Gary Gregory">
+        Added setter for Builder.option #33.
+      </action>
       <!-- UPDATE -->
       <action type="update" dev="ggregory" issue="CLI-294">
         Update Java from version 5 to 7.
@@ -104,7 +107,7 @@
        Bump maven-bundle-plugin 5.1.1 -> 5.1.2.
      </action>
      <action type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">
-       Bump biz.aQute.bndlib.version 5.1.2 -> 5.3.0.
+       Bump biz.aQute.bndlib.version 5.1.2 -> 6.0.0.
      </action>
      <action type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Dependabot">
        Bump spotbugs from 4.4.1 to 4.4.2 #70.
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/cli/Option.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/cli/Option.java
index 4a8590782..7db03723e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/cli/Option.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/cli/Option.java
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ public class Option implements Cloneable, Serializable {
     public static final class Builder {
 
         /** The name of the option */
-        private final String option;
+        private String option;
 
         /** description of the option */
         private String description;
@@ -175,6 +175,19 @@ public Builder numberOfArgs(final int numberOfArgs) {
             return this;
         }
 
+        /**
+         * Sets the name of the Option.
+         *
+         * @param option the name of the Option
+         * @return this builder, to allow method chaining
+         * @throws IllegalArgumentException if there are any non valid Option characters in {@code opt}
+         * @since 1.5
+         */
+        public Builder option(String option) throws IllegalArgumentException {
+            this.option = OptionValidator.validate(option);
+            return this;
+        }
+
         /**
          * Sets whether the Option can have an optional argument.
          *
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/cli/Parser.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/cli/Parser.java
index b43c50f6e..a28d47aba 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/cli/Parser.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/cli/Parser.java
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
  */
 @Deprecated
 public abstract class Parser implements CommandLineParser {
-    /** commandline instance */
+    /** CommandLine instance */
     protected CommandLine cmd;
 
     /** current Options */
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/cli/DefaultParserTest.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/cli/DefaultParserTest.java
index afba65184..0fd835a16 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/cli/DefaultParserTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/cli/DefaultParserTest.java
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ public void setUp() {
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void testBuilder() throws Exception {
+    public void testBuilder() {
         parser = DefaultParser.builder()
                 .setStripLeadingAndTrailingQuotes(false)
                 .setAllowPartialMatching(false)
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/cli/OptionTest.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/cli/OptionTest.java
index 286aa3aaf..643cbd9e5 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/cli/OptionTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/cli/OptionTest.java
@@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ public void testBuilderMethods() {
             String.class);
         checkOption(Option.builder("a").desc("desc").type(Integer.class).build(), "a", "desc", null, Option.UNINITIALIZED, null, false, false, defaultSeparator,
             Integer.class);
+        checkOption(Option.builder().option("a").desc("desc").type(Integer.class).build(), "a", "desc", null, Option.UNINITIALIZED, null, false, false,
+                defaultSeparator, Integer.class);
     }
 
     @Test