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+ <head><title>Release Notes of Apache Ant 1.10.0</title>
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+Changes from Ant 1.9.7 TO Ant 1.10.0
+====================================
+
+Changes that could break older environments:
+-------------------------------------------
+
+ * Ant 1.10.x requires Java8 or newer at compile or build time.
+ The 1.9.x series wil stay compatible with Java5.
+
+ * The <apt> task has been removed since apt itself has been removed
+ with Java8.
+
+ * <fileset>/<zipfileset>/<tarfileset> exhibited undefined
+ behavior when both the dir and file attribute have been used on the
+ same instance. This will now cause the build to fail.
+ Bugzilla Report 59402
+
+ * <native2ascii> will default to the builtin implementation on Java8
+ as well (sun isn't available for Java9+ anyway).
+
+ * The ant.java.version property will now hold the value "9" rather
+ than "1.9" if running on Java 9.
+
+ * <rmic> will no longer allow the -Xnew option (or xmic compiler) to
+ be used when running on Java 9 since this option has been removed.
+ Bugzilla Report 59906
+
+ * <javah> will default to the "forking" implementation on Java8
+ as well.
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+
+ * setDynamicAttribute on MacroInstance now lower-cases the attribute
+ name in order to allow users of the API to use the attributes names
+ they have specified.
+ Bugzilla Report 59339
+
+ * <get>'s quiet attribute was broken, it didn't suppress any messages.
+ Bugzilla Report 59379
+
+ * <zip>'s check whether an archive is already up-to-date failed on
+ NTFS filesystems and re-created archives more often than necessary.
+ Bugzilla Report 59562
+
+ * AntClassLoader didn't delegate to the parent loader for classes in
+ the "jdk" package or one of its subpackages. This hierarchy has
+ been introduced with Java 7.
+ Bugzilla Report 59556
+
+ * The ant wrapper script used on Unix-like operating systems only
+ worked on OSes where sed is GNU sed.
+ Bugzilla Report 59898
+
+ * <touch>'s default pattern as well as the default patterns used by
+ the <date> (resource) selectors depended on the JDK being used - or
+ rather the locale provider being used and the default locale
+ provider changed with Java 9.
+ They are now fixed and the documentation has been updated to
+ reflect the real patterns used rather than a non-formal description
+ of the expected format.
+ Bugzilla Report 59909
+
+ * Clarified the documentation of <get>'s retries attribute.
+ Bugzilla Report 59930
+
+ * The ant wrapper script failed if backticks were passed on the
+ command line.
+ Bugzilla Report 60150, 59445
+
+ * The report generated by <junitreport> could contain duplicate
+ characters in stack traces.
+ Bugzilla Report 58661
+
+Other changes:
+--------------
+
+ * New file selectors <executable>, <symlink> and <ownedBy>.
+
+ * New task <setpermissions> that provides the ability to set POSIX
+ compatible permssions via NIO's PosixFilePermission
+
+ * <junit> now initializes the cause of the AssertionFailedError when
+ converting from AssertionError.
+ Bugzilla Report 58982
+
+ * <scp> now supports compression via the optional compressed attribute.
+ Bugzilla Report 47552
+
+ * <junit> now supports JDK9 modules
+ Github Pull Request #18
+
+ * a new implementation "builtin" has been added to <native2ascii> and
+ is the default when running on JDK9+ since the tool itself has been
+ removed from the JDK.
+ Bugzilla Report 59855
+
+ * added a new <native2asciifilter> filter that can perform non-ASCII
+ to Unicode-escape conversions.
+
+ * <rmic> defaults to the "forking" compiler on JDK 9+ as the
+ implementation class of rmic is not exported by its containing
+ module and thus not accessible to Ant without applying -XaddExports
+ magic.
+ Bugzilla Report 59860
+
+ * a new implementation "forking" has been added to <javah> and is
+ used as default when running on JDK9.
+
+ * support for javac's -h switch has been added with the
+ nativeheaderdir attribute.
+ Bugzilla Report 59905
+
+ * it is now possible to set features of the TraX factory used by <xslt>
+ and <junitreport>.
+
+ * it is now possible to use references to Ant types and classloaders
+ built around Ant <path>s as values for TraX factory attributes.
+
+ * AntClassLoader and its subclasses register themselves as parallel
+ capable.
+
+ * <junitreport> now enables the feature
+ http://www.oracle.com/xml/jaxp/properties/enableExtensionFunctions
+ when run on Java 9 so the redirect extension function can be used
+ if when a SecurityManager is active.
+ Bugzilla Report 60060
+
+ * support for javac's --release switch introduced with Java9 has been
+ added.
+ Bugzilla Report 60172
+
+Changes from Ant 1.9.6 TO Ant 1.9.7
+===================================
+
+Changes that could break older environments:
+-------------------------------------------
+
+ * <exec> and <apply> used to ignore the dir attribute if it was the
+ same as the current working directory. They now no longer do,
+ which changes the behavior for vmlauncher="false" which would have
+ used the project's basedir rather than the current working
+ directory in that case.
+ Bugzilla Report 58555
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+
+ * ZipOutputStream could cause an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when
+ adding entries with comments. This never happens when using Ant as
+ a build tool but may affect users using Ant's zip package as a
+ library.
+
+ * <gunzip> and <bunzip2> didn't work for non-filesystem resources.
+
+ * <jar> ignored the zip64Mode attribute when creating manifest-only
+ jars. This resulted in jar files that couldn't be read by Java5.
+ Bugzilla Report 58428
+
+ * <untar> will now detect GNU tar longname/link records even if they
+ don't use the names used by GNU tar itself. star is known to
+ create archives of that kind.
+ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-324
+
+ * <script> could fail to find javax.script on JDK9 with Jigsaw.
+ Bugzilla Report 58271
+
+ * <import> sometimes failed to normalize file names which could lead
+ to files getting imported twice which in turn could lead to targets
+ getting executed twice.
+ Bugzilla Report 58886
+
+ * TarInputStream now properly extraxt directory entries with a
+ non-zero size.
+
+ * <union> would drop file resources pointing to the same file but
+ using different names.
+ Bugzilla Report 57965
+
+ * <replace>'s result was undefined when using the replacefilterfile
+ attribute and some keys inside the properties files have been
+ substrings of other keys. Keys are now sorted by descending size.
+ Bugzilla Report 58997
+
+ * Ant fails to run when arguments contain double-quote character.
+ Bugzilla Report 58898
+
+ * Ant fails to run if ANT_HOME contains a double-quote character.
+ Bugzilla Report 58874
+
+ * Definer's way to parse URLs from classloader breaks with
+ recent Java 9 builds (b108).
+ Bugzilla Report 59130
+
+ * <ant> and <antcall> now preserve the ext status set by an <exit>
+ task.
+ Bugzilla Report 59228
+
+Other changes:
+--------------
+
+ * <scp> now supports (filesystem-only) resource collections in
+ addition to filesets.
+ Bugzilla Report 50769
+
+ * The <http> condition has a new optional attribute followRedirects.
+ Bugzilla Report 58840
+
+ * <java> now supports Java9 modules.
+ https://github.com/apache/ant/pull/15
+
+ * <javac> now supports Java9 modules.
+ https://github.com/apache/ant/pull/16
+
+ * <sshexec> and <scp> have two new attributes serverAliveInterval and
+ serverAliveCountMax that can be used to keep a intermediaries from
+ closing idle connections.
+ Bugzilla Report 59162
+
+Changes from Ant 1.9.5 TO Ant 1.9.6
+===================================
+
+Changes that could break older environments:
+-------------------------------------------
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+
+ * ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when ZIP extra fields are read and
+ the entry contains an UnparseableExtraField.
+ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-317
+
+Other changes:
+--------------
+
+* Hidden <javaconstant> resource is published now. It reads the
+ value of a specified java constant.
+
+
+Changes from Ant 1.9.4 TO Ant 1.9.5
+===================================
+
+Changes that could break older environments:
+-------------------------------------------
+
+ * The ReplaceTokens filter can now use token-separators longer than
+ one character. This means it can be used to replace mustache-style
+ {{patterns}} and similar templates. This is going to break code
+ that invokes the setters on ReplaceTokens via the Java API as their
+ parameters have been changed from char to String. It may also
+ break build files that specified multi character tokens and relied
+ on Ant silently ignoring all but the first character.
+ Bugzilla Report 56584
+
+ * The changes that added <get>'s support for gzip encoding
+ automatically uncompressed content that would not have been touched
+ before - like when downloading .tar.gz files. A new flag has been
+ added to control the behavior and its default will make <get> work
+ as it did in 1.9.3. I.e. if you want it to work like 1.9.4
+ you have to explicitly set tryGzipEncoding to true.
+ Bugzilla Report 57048
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+
+ * TarArchiveInputStream failed to read archives with empty gid/uid
+ fields.
+ Bugzilla Report 56641
+
+ * TarArchiveInputStream could throw IOException when reading PAX
+ headers from a "slow" InputStream.
+
+ * XMLJunitResultFormatter could throw NullPointerException if Java
+ cannot determine the local hostname.
+ Bugzilla Report 56593
+
+ * URLResource#getLastModified tried to access the connection to the
+ URL without making sure it was established, potentially leading to
+ a NullPointerException when using FTP.
+ Bugzilla Report 56873
+
+ * Long-Name and -link or PAX-header entries in TAR archives
+ always had the current time as last modfication time, creating
+ archives that are different at the byte level each time an
+ archive was built.
+
+ * runant.py should now work as well when the path of the Java executable
+ contains spaces.
+ github pull request #1
+
+ * <junitreport> now supports nested <classpath> and <factory> elements.
+ Bugzilla Report 47002
+
+ * complete-ant-cmd.pl now also knows about the -file option.
+ Bugzilla Report 57371
+
+ * the br-replace template inside the XSLT stylesheets used by
+ <junitreport> could cause stack overflows or out-of-memory errors
+ when applied to big outputs.
+ Bugzilla Report 57341
+
+ * removed spurious warning about unclosed ZipFiles when reading the
+ archive failed.
+ Port of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-297
+
+ * FileUtils.rename which is used by several tasks can throw a
+ NullPointerException if the "normal" renameTo operation fails and
+ an exception occurs while rename falls back to copying and deleting
+ the file.
+ Bugzilla Report 57533
+
+ * complete-ant-cmd.pl would incorrectly suggest words from the build
+ file description.
+ Bugzilla Report 51931
+
+ * complete-ant-cmd.pl now also completes tasks without a description.
+ Bugzilla Report 57542
+
+ * LocalPropertyStack could run into ConcurrentModificationException
+ when tasks spawned new child threads that accessed the properties.
+ Bugzilla Report 55074
+
+ * TarEntry's constructor with a File and a String arg didn't
+ normalize the name.
+
+ * Between 1.8.4 and 1.9.0 TarInputStream started to parse file
+ names using the platform's default encoding rather than as ASCII.
+ This has been a breaking change that has never been marked as such
+ (in fact it went unnoticed). In order to allow <untar> and
+ <tarfileset> to work on platforms who's encoding doesn't match the
+ encoding of file names inside the archive, both now support
+ encoding attributes.
+ The attribute has also been added to <tar> for symmetry.
+ Bugzilla Report 57822
+
+Other changes:
+--------------
+
+ * it is now possible to provide proxy configuration to signjar
+ when using the timestamped authority.
+ Bugzilla Report 56678
+
+ * complete-ant-cmd.pl now also analyzes the ANT_ARGS environment
+ variable.
+ Bugzilla Report 57371
+
+ * ported some of the write-optimization of Commons Compress 1.10 to
+ the ZIP package
+
+ * adapted unit tests to Java9 and added "javac1.9" as valid option
+ for javac's compiler attribute.
+
+ * performance improvements for <intersect>
+ Bugzilla Report 57588
+
+ * MailLogger can now add CC and BCC addresses.
+ Bugzilla Report 57789.
+
+ * <scp>'s buffer size has been increased from 1k to 100k to match
+ <ftp> and <get>.
+ github pull requests #8 and #9
+
+ * The tar package can now deal with group and user ids bigger than
+ 0x80000000.
+ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-314
+ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-315
+
+ * <scp> has new attributes fileMode and dirMode that control the
+ permissions on the remote side when sending data via SSH.
+ Bugzilla Report 43271.
+
+ * New <allbutlast> and <allbutfirst> resource collections can be used
+ to select all but a given subset of a resource collection.
+ Bugzilla Report 57834.
+
+Changes from Ant 1.9.3 TO Ant 1.9.4
+===================================
+
+Changes that could break older environments:
+-------------------------------------------
+
+ * the prefixValues attribute of <property> didn't work as expected
+ when set to false (the default).
+ It is quite likely existing build files relied on the wrong
+ behavior and expect Ant to resolve the value side against the
+ properties defined in the property file itself - these build files
+ must now explicitly set the prefixValues attribute to true.
+ Bugzilla Report 54769
+
+ * when matching an entry of a zip/tarfileset against a pattern a
+ leading slash will be stripped from the entry name. Most archives
+ don't contain paths with leading slashes anyway.
+ This may cause include/exclude patterns that start with a / to stop
+ matching anything. Such patterns only used to work by accident and
+ only on platforms with multiple file system roots.
+ Bugzilla Report 53949
+
+ * DirectoryScanner and thus fileset/dirset will now silently drop all
+ filesystem objects that are neither files nor directories according
+ to java.io.File. This prevents Ant from reading named pipes which
+ might lead to blocking or other undefined behavior.
+ Bugzilla Report 56149
+
+ * BuildFileTest and BaseSelectorTest have both been deprecated in
+ favour of BuildFileRule and BaseSelectorRule respectively, and the
+ tests that previously extended these base tests have been converted to
+ JUnit 4 tests using the new "rule"s. Any external test that sub-classed
+ a test in the Ant workspace, rather than BuildFileTest, will need
+ changed to either use JUnit4's annotations, or be modified to
+ extend BuildFileTest directly. This will not affect any tests that are
+ being executed by Ant's junit or batchtest tasks that are not specifically
+ testing Ant's code.
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+
+ * <import>/<include> failed when the importing file was loaded from an
+ URI or a jar and it imported a file from the local file system via
+ an absolute path.
+ Bugzilla Report 50953
+
+ * <import> could import the same resource twice when imported via
+ different resource types.
+ Bugzilla Report 55097
+
+ * several calls to File#mkdirs could fall victim to a race condition
+ where another thread already created the same directory.
+ Bugzilla Report 55290
+
+ * <manifestclasspath> created '/' rather than './' for the parent
+ directory of the given jarfile.
+ Bugzilla Report 55049
+
+ * <concat>'s fixlastline="true" didn't work when using certain filter
+ readers.
+ Bugzilla Report 54672
+
+ * several places where resources are read from jars will now
+ explicitly disable caching to avoid problems with reloading jars.
+ Bugzilla Report 54473
+
+ * AntClassloader will now ignore files that are part of the classpath
+ but not zip files when scanning for resources. It used to throw an
+ exception.
+ Bugzilla Report 53964
+
+ * <javadoc> caused a NullPointerException when no destdir was set.
+ Bugzilla Report 55949
+
+ * <jar filesetmanifest="mergewithoutmain"> would still include the
+ Main section of the fileset manifests if there was no nested
+ manifest or manifest attribute.
+ Bugzilla Report 54171
+
+ * reading of compiler args has become more defensive
+ Bugzilla Report 53754
+
+ * <copy> without force="true" would not only fail to overwrite a
+ read-only file as expected but also remove the existing file.
+ Bugzilla Report 53095
+
+ * <delete removeNotFollowedSymlinks="true"> would remove symbolic
+ links to not-included files. It will still delete symlinks to
+ directories that would have been followed even if they are not
+ explicitly included. exclude-Patterns can still be used to
+ preserve symbolic links.
+ Bugzilla Report 53959
+
+ * Sometimes copy-operations using NIO FileChannels fail. Ant will
+ now try to use a Stream based copy operation as fallback when the
+ Channel based copy fails.
+ Bugzilla Reports 53102 and 54397
+
+ * Javadoc.postProcessGeneratedJavadocs() fails for Classes that
+ extend Javadoc
+ Bugzilla Report 56047
+
+ * TarInputStream will now read archives created by tar
+ implementations that encode big numbers by not adding a trailing
+ NUL.
+
+ * the isExists() method of URLResource returned false positives for
+ HTTP and FTP URLs.
+
+Other changes:
+--------------
+
+ * initial support for Java 1.9
+
+ * <sshexec> can optionally pass System.in to the remote process
+ Bugzilla Report 55393
+
+ * <sshexec> now supports capturing error output of the executed
+ process and setting a property from the return code.
+ Bugzilla Report 48478
+
+ * <javadoc> now has an option to fail if javadoc issues warnings.
+ Bugzilla Report 55015
+
+ * <sql> has a new outputencoding attribute.
+ Bugzilla Report 39541
+
+ * changes to JUnitTestRunner and PlainJUnitResultFormatter to make
+ OutOfMemoryErrors less likely.
+ Bugzilla Report 45536
+
+ * changes to DOMElementWriter to make OutOfMemoryErrors less likely.
+ Bugzilla Report 54147
+
+ * <redirector> has a new attribute binaryOutput that prevents Ant
+ from splitting the output into lines. This prevents binary output
+ from being corrupted but may lead to error and normal output being
+ mixed up.
+ Bugzilla Report 55667
+ Bugzilla Report 56156
+
+ * the nested <message> elements of <mail> now have an optional
+ inputEncoding attribute that can be used to specify the encoding of
+ files read that don't use the platform's default encoding.
+ Bugzilla Report 56258
+
+ * The <get> task now explicitly accepts and supports the gzip content encoding.
+ Bugzilla Report 49453
+
+ * A new resourcecollection type <multirootfileset> acts like a union
+ of <fileset>s and <dirset>s that share the same configuration but
+ have different base directories.
+ Bugzilla Report 48621
+
+ * <get> has a quiet attribute that makes the task log errors only
+ when enabled.
+ GitHub Pull Request #1
+
+* <junit> has now a threads attribute allowing to run the tests in several threads.
+ Bugzilla Report 55925
+
+* addition of a new ProcessUtil class providing the process id of the current process
+
+* changes to allow to run the JUnit testcases of Ant in parallel,
+ by making them use unique temporary directories
+
+Changes from Ant 1.9.2 TO Ant 1.9.3
+===================================
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+
+ * <parallel> swallowed the status code of nested <fail> tasks.
+ Bugzilla Report 55539.
+
+ * a race condition could make <fixcrlf> tasks of parallel builds to
+ interfere with each other.
+ Bugzilla Report 54393.
+
+ * <mail>'s mailport still didn't work properly when using smtps.
+ Bugzilla Report 49267.
+
+ * using attributes belonging to the if and unless namespaces
+ made macrodef fail.
+ Bugzilla Report 55885.
+
+ * Ant 1.8 exec task changes have slowed exec to a crawl
+ Bugzilla Report 54128.
+
+ * Apt is not available under JDK 1.8
+ Bugzilla Report 55922.
+
+
+Other changes:
+--------------
+
+ * Documentation fix for if/unless attributes. PR 55359.
+
+ * tar entries with long link names are now handled the same way as
+ entries with long names.
+
+ * Addition of 'skipNonTests' attribute to <junit> and <batchtest>
+ tasks to allow the tasks to skip classes that don't contain tests.
+
+ * <filterset> now supports a nested <propertyset> to specify filters.
+ Bugzilla Report 55794.
+
+ * <xslt>'s params can now be typed.
+ Bugzilla Report 21525.
+
+ * build of Mac OS X pkg installer
+ Bugzilla Report 55899.
+
+Changes from Ant 1.9.1 TO Ant 1.9.2
+===================================
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+
+ * Parsing of zip64 extra fields has become more lenient in order to
+ be able to read archives created by DotNetZip and maybe other
+ archivers as well.
+
+ * TarInputStream should now properly read GNU longlink entries' names.
+ Bugzilla Report 55040.
+
+ * <java> and <exec> used to be too restrictive when evaluating
+ whether a given set of options is compatible with spawning the new
+ process.
+ Bugzilla Report 55112.
+
+Other changes:
+--------------
+
+ * <javadoc> will now post-process the generated in order to mitigate
+ the frame injection attack possible in javadocs generated by Oracle
+ JDKs prior to Java7 Update 25. The vulnerability is known as
+ CVE-2013-1571.
+ There is an option to turn off the post-processing but it is only
+ recommended you do so if all your builds use a JDK that's not
+ vulnerable.
+ Bugzilla Report 55132.
+
+Changes from Ant 1.9.0 TO Ant 1.9.1
+===================================
+
+Changes that could break older environments:
+-------------------------------------------
+
+ * Users who have their own ProjectHelper implementation will need to change it because the import and include tasks
+ will now default the targetPrefix to ProjectHelper.USE_PROJECT_NAME_AS_TARGET_PREFIX.
+ Users using the default ProjectHelper2 with ant need not worry about this change done to fix Bugzilla Report 54940.
+
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+
+ * Corrected XSLTC error in <junitreport>.
+ Bugzilla Report 54641.
+
+ * Provide more control over Zip64 extensions created by <zip> and
+ related tasks. In particular no Zip64 extensions will be used at
+ all by the <jar> task family by default - this is required for jars
+ to be readably by Java5.
+ Bugzilla Report 54762.
+
+ * Fixed loading of external dependencies in JUnit task.
+ Bugzilla Report 54835.
+
+ * Target rewriting for nested "include" only works when "as" is specified.
+ See also "Changes that could break older environments"
+ Bugzilla Report 54940.
+
+
+Other changes:
+--------------
+
+ * strict attribute added to <signjar>.
+ Bugzilla Report 54889.
+
+ * simplifying Execute.getEnvironmentVariables since we are only running on Java 1.5 or higher now
+
+ * Added conditional attributes.
+ Bugzilla Report 43362
+
+ * Recommending to upgrade jsch to 0.1.50, particularly if you are using Java 1.7.
+ jsch is the library behind the sshexec and scp Ant tasks.
+ Versions of jsch older than 0.1.50 fail randomly under Java 1.7 with an error message "verify: false"
+
+Changes from Ant 1.8.4 TO Ant 1.9.0
+===================================
+
+Changes that could break older environments:
+-------------------------------------------
+
+ * Ant now requires at least Java 1.5 to compile and to run
+
+ * FixCRLF used to treat the EOL value ASIS to convert to the system property
+ line.separator. Specified was that ASIS would leave the EOL characters alone,
+ the task now really leaves the EOL characters alone. This also implies that
+ EOL ASIS will not insert a newline even if fixlast is set to true.
+ Bugzilla report 53036
+
+ * The CommandLauncher hierarchy that used to be a set of inner
+ classes of Execute has been extracted to the
+ org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.launcher package.
+
+ * Any FileResource whose represented File has a parent also has a basedir.
+
+ * Removing the Perforce Ant tasks replaced by tasks supplied by Perforce Inc.
+
+ * Setting the default encoding of StringResource to UTF-8 instead of null
+
+ * Upgrade JUnit 4 to JUnit 4.11
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+
+ * Made VectorSet faster.
+ Bugzilla Report 53622.
+
+ * Incorrect URLs in Ant child POMs.
+ Bugzilla Report 53617.
+
+ * Subclasses of JUnitTask did not correctly find junit.jar.
+ Bugzilla Report 53571.
+
+ * External XML catalog resolver failed to use project basedir when given an
+ unmentioned relative path like the internal resolver does.
+ Bugzilla Report 52754.
+
+ * Fixed some potential stream leaks.
+ Bugzilla Reports 52738, 52740, 52742, 52743.
+
+ * Updated documentation to fix spelling errors / broken links.
+ Bugzilla Reports 53215, 53291, 53202
+
+ * Unable to override system properties. It was not possible not to override
+ system properties from the command line (or from a property file).
+ Bugzilla Report 51792
+
+ * <javac> by default fails when run on JDK 8.
+ Bugzilla Report 53347.
+
+ * ExtensionPoint doesn't work with nested import/include
+ Bugzilla Report 53405.
+
+ * <packagemapper> failed to strip the non-matched parts with
+ handledirsep="true".
+ Bugzilla Report 53399.
+
+ * <expandproperties> filter caused a NullPointerException when input
+ was empty.
+ Bugzilla Report 53626.
+
+ * <get> now supports HTTP redirects using status code 307.
+ Bugzilla Report 54374.
+
+ * ssh tasks prompt for kerberos username/password under Java 7
+ Bugzilla Report 53437.
+
+ * Zip task on <mappedresources> that excludes certain files by way of the mapper resulted in a NullPointerException
+ Bugzilla Report 54026
+
+ * The ant launcher script should properly detect JAVA_HOME on
+ MacOS X 10.7
+ Bugzilla Report 52632
+
+ * Depend task does not handle invokeDynamic constant pool entries - java.lang.ClassFormatError: Invalid Constant Pool entry Type 18
+ Bugzilla Report 54090
+
+ * Base64Converter not properly handling bytes with MSB set (not masking byte to int conversion)
+ Bugzilla Report 54460
+
+ * The size resource comparator would return wrong results if file
+ sizes differed by more than 2 GB.
+ Bugzilla Report 54623
+
+ * Unable to encode properly into UTF-8 when the system property file.encoding is
+ set to ANSI_X3.4-1968.
+ Bugzilla Report 54606
+
+ * JUnit4 tests marked @Ignore do not appear in XML output
+ Bugzilla Report 43969
+
+Other changes:
+--------------
+
+ * merged the ZIP package from Commons Compress, it can now read
+ archives using Zip64 extensions (files and archives bigger that 4GB
+ and with more that 64k entries).
+
+ * a new task <commandlauncher> can be used to configure the
+ CommandLauncher used by Ant when forking external programs or new
+ Java VMs.
+ Bugzilla Report 52706.
+
+ * merged the TAR package from Commons Compress, it can now read
+ archives using POSIX extension headers and STAR extensions.
+
+ * merged the BZIP2 package from Commons Compress, it can now
+ optionally read files that contain multiple streams properly.
+
+ * <bunzip2> will now properly expand files created by pbzip2 and
+ similar tools that create files with multiple bzip2 streams.
+
+ * <tar> now supports a new "posix" option for longfile-mode which
+ will make it create PAX extension headers for long file names. PAX
+ extension headers are supported by all modern implementations of
+ tar including GNU tar.
+ This option should now be used in preference to "warn" or "gnu" as
+ it is more portable. For backwards compatibility reasons "warn"
+ will still create "gnu" extensions rather than "posix" extensions.
+
+ * The ProjectHelper class now exposes a method to be used by third party
+ implementations to properly resolve the binding between target extensions
+ and extension points.
+ Bugzilla Report 53549.
+
+ * Make extension point bindable to imported prefixed targets
+ Bugzilla Report 53550.
+
+ * Add the possibility to register a custom command line argument processor.
+ See org.apache.tools.ant.ArgumentProcessor and manual/argumentprocessor.html
+
+ * add the possibility to suppress stdout in the sshexec task.
+ Bugzilla Report 50270.
+
+ * add an encoding attribute to the contains selector.
+ This will be useful to use the contains selector if the encoding of the VM is different from the encoding
+ of the files being selected.
+
+ * support for GNU Classpath.
+ Bugzilla report 54760.
+
+Changes from Ant 1.8.3 TO Ant 1.8.4
+===================================
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+
+ * Ported libbzip2's fallback sort algorithm to CBZip2OutputStream to
+ speed up compression in certain edge cases. Merge from Commons
+ Compress.
+
+ Using specially crafted inputs this can be used as a denial of
+ service attack.
+ See http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2098
+
+Changes from Ant 1.8.2 TO Ant 1.8.3
+===================================
+
+Changes that could break older environments:
+-------------------------------------------
+
+ * The Enumeration returned by AntClassLoader#getResources used to
+ return null in nextElement after hasNextElement would return false.
+ It has been changed to throw a NoSuchElementException instead so
+ that it now adheres to the contract of java.util.Enumeration.
+ Bugzilla Report 51579.
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+
+ * Removed buggy duplicate JAR list in RPM mode.
+ Bugzilla Report 52556.
+
+ * Launcher fixed to pass the right class loader parent.
+ Bugzilla Report 48633.
+
+ * <junitreport> mishandled ${line.separator}.
+ Bugzilla Report 51049.
+
+ * <junitreport> did not work in embedded environments on JDK 7.
+ Nor did <xslt> when using Xalan redirects.
+ Bugzilla Report 51668, 52382.
+
+ * Encoding of unicode escape sequences by the property file task
+ Bugzilla Report 50515.
+
+ * The code that implicitly sets the -source switch if only -target
+ has been specified in <javac> was broken for Java 5 and 6.
+ Bugzilla Report 50578.
+
+ * MailLogger ignore the Maillogger.starttls.enable property.
+ Bugzilla Report 50668.
+
+ * Delete task example does not work
+ Bugzilla Report 50816.
+
+ * <splash>'s proxy handling has been delegated to <setproxy>
+ internally so the two tasks are consistent. <splash>'s way of not
+ setting a proxy caused problems with other Java libraries.
+ Bugzilla Report 50888.
+
+ * Include task breaks dependencies or extension-points for multiple
+ files.
+ Bugzilla Report 50866.
+
+ * Read on System.in hangs for forked java task.
+ Bugzilla Report 50960.
+
+ * FileResource specified using basedir/name attributes was non-functional.
+
+ * Resource collection implementation of mapped PropertySet returned
+ unusable resources.
+
+ * The hasmethod condition failed with a NullPointerException when
+ ignoresystemclasses is true and Ant tried to load a "restricted
+ class" - i.e. a class that the Java VM will only accept when loaded
+ via the bootclassloader (a java.* class).
+ It will now fail with a more useful error message.
+ Bugzilla Report 51035.
+
+ * Exec task may mix the stderr and stdout output while logging it
+ Bugzilla Report 50507.
+
+ * Missing space between "finished" and timestamp in task/target
+ finish message from ProfileLogger.
+ Bugzilla Report 51109.
+
+ * Redirecting the output of a java, exec or apply task could print in the
+ error output stream some "Pipe broken" errors.
+ Bugzilla Report 48789.
+
+ * ZipFile failed to clean up some resources which could lead to
+ OutOfMemoryException while unzipping large archives.
+ A similar problem in ZipArchiveOutputStream has been fixed as well.
+ Bugzilla Report 42696.
+
+ * quiet attribute added to the copy and move tasks, to be used together
+ with failonerror=false, so warnings won't get logged
+ Bugzilla Report 48789.
+
+ * System.in was closed and not readable anymore by the DefaultInputHandler
+ when Ant is used via its Java API.
+ Bugzilla Report 51161
+
+ * <sync> only supported a single non-fileset resource collection even
+ though the manual said it could be multiple.
+
+ * <sync> didn't work properly when working on resource collections.
+ Bugzilla Report 51462.
+
+ * <augment> cause a NullPointerException if it was used in a target
+ that was invoked by multiple targets from the command line.
+ Bugzilla Report 50894.
+
+ * The ZipFile class could read past the start of the file if the
+ given file is not a ZIP archive and it is smaller than the size of
+ a ZIP "end of central directory record".
+
+ * <javac> would create the empty package-info.class file in the wrong
+ directory if no destdir was specified. Note it may still pick the
+ wrong directory if you specify more than one source directory but
+ no destDir. It is highly recommended that you always explicitly
+ specify the destDir attribute.
+ Bugzilla Report 51947.
+
+ * packagemapper now honors the handleDirSep attribute.
+ Bugzilla Report 51086.
+
+ * the attributes of macrodef tasks had their values run through
+ property expansion twice. Still true by default, but can be disabled.
+ Bugzilla Report 42046.
+
+ * jvc doesn't like it if source file names in argument files are
+ quoted.
+ Bugzilla Report 31667.
+
+ * ZipFile didn't work properly for archives using unicode extra
+ fields rather than UTF-8 filenames and the EFS-Flag.
+
+ * Access to DirectoryScanner's default excludes wasn't synchronized.
+ Bugzilla Report 52188.
+
+ * When a Project instance was created by a custom tasks its
+ createTask method didn't work.
+ Bugzilla Report 50788.
+
+Other changes:
+--------------
+
+ * -f/-file/-buildfile accepts a directory containing build.xml.
+
+ * The <javacc>, <jjtree> and <jjdoc> now support a new maxmemory
+ attribute.
+ Bugzilla Report 50513.
+
+ * the documented inputstring attribute of sshexec has been
+ implemented and the actually existing attribute inputproperty
+ documented.
+ Bugzilla Report 50576.
+
+ * The concat task now permits the name of its exposed resource
+ by means of its 'resourcename' attribute.
+
+ * The expandproperties filter now accepts a nested propertyset
+ which, if specified, provides the properties for expansion.
+ Bugzilla Report 51044.
+
+ * <junit filtertrace="true"/> will no longer filter out the very
+ first line of the stacktrace containing the original exception
+ message even if it matches one of the filter expressions.
+
+ * Upgraded to Apache AntUnit 1.2
+
+ * Provide read access to Mkdir.dir. Bugzilla Report 51684.
+
+ * <delete> and <move> have a new attribute performGCOnFailedDelete
+ that may - when set to true - help resolve some problems with
+ deleting empty directories on NFS shares.
+ Bugzilla Report 45786.
+
+ * <loadfile> and <loadresource> used to log at level INFO to signal a
+ property hasn't been set when the resource was empty even if the
+ quiet attribute was set to true. They will now use VERBOSE
+ instead.
+ Bugzilla Report 52107.
+
+ * <javac> has a new attribute createMissingPackageInfoClass that can
+ be set to false to prevent Ant from creating empty dummy classes
+ used for up-to-date-ness checks.
+ Bugzilla Report 52096.
+
+ * URLResources#isExists has become less noisy.
+ Bugzilla Report 51829.
+
+ * The <retry> task has a new optional attribute retryDelay that can
+ be used to make the task sleep between retry attempts.
+ Bugzilla Report 52076.
+
+ * <signjar> has new attributes that control the signature and digest
+ algorithms.
+ Bugzilla Report 52344.
+
+ * Initial support for Java 8.
+
+ * <sshexec> can optionally create a pseudo terminal (like ssh -t)
+ Bugzilla Report 52554.
+
+Changes from Ant 1.8.1 TO Ant 1.8.2
+===================================
+
+Changes that could break older environments:
+-------------------------------------------
+
+ * Prior to Ant 1.8.0 the <copy> task and several other tasks would
+ overwrite read-only destination files. Starting with 1.8.0 they
+ would only do so under special circumstances. Ant 1.8.2 now
+ consistently won't replace a read-only file by default. The same is
+ true for a number of other tasks.
+ The <copy>, <move> and <echo> tasks now have a new force attribute
+ and <concat> has a new forceReadonly attribute that can be used to
+ make the task overwrite read-only destinations.
+ Bugzilla Report 49261.
+
+ * Removed ant-nodeps.jar; it is now merged into ant.jar.
+
+ * DOMElementWriter#encode used to employ special code before encoding
+ ampersands so that &#123; remained &#123; rather than being turned
+ into &amp;#123;. This is no longer the case, ampersands will now
+ be encoded unconditionally.
+ Also DOMElementWriter#encodeData will treat CDATA sections containing a
+ literal "]]>" sequence different now - it will split the CDATA
+ section between the second "]" and ">" and create two sections.
+ This affects <echoxml> task as well as the XML logger or JUnit
+ formatter where ampersands will now always get encoded.
+ In addition DOMElementWriter will now replace the characters \t, \r
+ and \n in attribute values by entity references.
+ Bugzilla Report 49404.
+
+ * The list elements returned by ProjectHelper#getExtensionStack are
+ now String arrays of length 3 rather than 2 in order to support the
+ onMissingExtensionPoint attribute.
+ Bugzilla Report 49473.
+
+ * When using <property file="..." prefix="..."/> properties defined
+ inside the same file will only get used in expansions if the ${}
+ reference uses the same prefix. This is different from Ant 1.8.1
+ but is the same behavior Ant 1.8.0 and earlier exhibited.
+ A new attribute prefixValues can be used to re-enable the behavior
+ of Ant 1.8.1.
+ Bugzilla Report 49373.
+
+ * The files and directories used by Git, Mercurial and Bazaar to
+ store their information are now excluded by the defaultexcludes.
+ Bugzilla Report 49624.
+
+ * The <junit> task no longer generates TestListener events - which
+ have been introduced in ant 1.7.0 - by default. The task has a new
+ attribute enableTestListenerEvents and a new "magic" property
+ ant.junit.enabletestlistenerevents has been added that can be used
+ to reinstate the old behavior.
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+
+ * hostinfo now prefers addresses with a hostname over addresses without
+ a hostname, provided the addresses have the same scope.
+ For local lookup, no IP address will be put in NAME / DOMAIN anymore.
+ For remote lookup, if a host name was provided and only an IP address is
+ found, the IP address will no longer overwrite the host name provided to the
+ task.
+ Bugzilla Report 49513
+
+ * mmap-based file copy problems under JDK 1.4 on Linux.
+ Bugzilla Report 49430.
+
+ * The Sun JVM tries to mmap the entire file during a copy.
+ For large files this is not feasible.
+ We now explicitly request to copy at most 16 MiB per request.
+ Bugzilla Report 49326.
+
+ * DemuxInputStream.read() should return unsigned values
+ Bugzilla Report 49279.
+
+ * The MIME mailer ignored the port parameter when using SSL.
+ Bugzilla Report 49267.
+
+ * <xslt> ignored the classpath when using the default TraX processor.
+ Bugzilla Report 49271.
+
+ * <checksum>'s totalproperty only worked reliably if the same file
+ name didn't occur inside more than one directory.
+ Bugzilla Report 36748.
+
+ * <ftp> could fail to download files from remote subdirectories under
+ certain circumstances.
+ Bugzilla Report 49296.
+
+ * <junit> will now produce better diagnostics when it fails to delete
+ a temporary file.
+ Bugzilla Report 49419.
+
+ * Ant would often scan directories even though there were known to
+ only hold excluded files when evaluating filesets. This never
+ resulted in wrong results but degraded performance of the scan
+ itself.
+ Bugzilla Report 49420.
+
+ * <javac> failed for long command lines on OS/2.
+ Bugzilla Report 49425.
+
+ * <junitreport> did not handle encodings well for stdout/stderr.
+ Bugzilla Report 49418.
+
+ * <junit> could issue a warning about multiple versions of Ant on the
+ CLASSPATH if two CLASSPATH entries differed in case on a
+ case-insensitive file system.
+ Bugzilla Report 49041.
+
+ * The <restrict> resource collection was checking every resource even if
+ we actually just want the first one, like in the example of use of
+ resourcelist in the documentation (getting the first available resource
+ from a mirror list).
+
+ * A race condition could lead to build failures if multiple <mkdir>
+ tasks were trying to create the same directory.
+ Bugzilla Report 49572.
+
+ * the toString() method of the Resources class - and thus any
+ ${toString:} expansion of a reference to a <resources> element -
+ didn't iterate over its nested elements if it hadn't done so prior
+ to the toString invocation already.
+ Bugzilla Report 49588.
+
+ * <apply> in parallel mode didn't work together with a nested
+ <redirector> if maxparallel was <= 0 (the default) or no source
+ files matched.
+ Bugzilla Report 49594.
+
+ * <jar filesetmanifest="merge"> didn't work for manifests added via
+ <zipfileset>s that used the prefix or fullpath attributes.
+ Bugzilla Report 49605.
+
+ * <tempfile createfile="true"> would cause an error unless the prefix
+ attribute has been specified.
+ Bugzilla Report 49755.
+
+ * If forked, after finished <java> was still reading the input stream
+ for a bunch of characters, then stealing them from a following <input>.
+ Bugzilla Report 49119.
+
+ * Ant could be leaking threads for each forked process (started by
+ <exec>, <apply>, <java> or similar tasks) that didn't receive input
+ from a resource or string explicitly.
+ Bugzilla Report 49587.
+
+ * Project#setDefault threw an exception when null was passed in as
+ argument, even though the Javadoc says null is a valid value.
+ Bugzilla Report 49803.
+
+ * runant.py would swallow the first argument if CLASSPATH wasn't set.
+ Bugzilla Report 49963.
+
+ * <taskdef> failed to load resources from jar files contained in a
+ directory that has a "!" in its name.
+ Bugzilla Report 50007.
+
+ * ant.bat exit strategy improvements and issues
+ make the exit codes work in environments where 4NT or MKS are installed
+ Bugzilla Report 41039.
+
+ * <signjar> would fail if used via its Java API and the File passed
+ into the setJar method was not "normalized" (i.e. contained ".."
+ segments).
+ Bugzilla Report 50081.
+
+ * <delete> ignored <fileset>'s errorOnMissingDir attribute
+ Bugzilla Report 50124.
+
+ * <symlink> failed to close files when reading a list of symbolic
+ links from a properties file.
+ Bugzilla Report 50136.
+
+ * <parallel> could allow tasks to start executing even if a task
+ scheduled to run before them timed out.
+ Bugzilla Report 49527.
+
+ * If a <junit> batch with multiple tests times out Ant logs a message
+ about a test named Batch-With-Multiple-Tests since 1.8.0 but the
+ logic that determined the Java package of this pseudo-test has been
+ wrong.
+ Bugzilla Report 45227.
+
+ * <propertyfile> didn't preserve the original linefeed style when
+ updating a file.
+ Bugzilla Report 50049.
+
+ * <zip>'s whenEmpty behavior never consulted the non-fileset
+ resources so the task could fail even though resources have been
+ provided using non-fileset resource collections.
+ Bugzilla Issue 50115.
+
+* ftp chmod could throw a NPE.
+ Bugzilla report 50217.
+
+* The project help (-p option in the command line) will now print
+ the dependencies of the targets in debug mode (-d on the command
+ line)
+
+Other changes:
+--------------
+
+ * <concat>'s force attribute has been deprecated in favor of a new
+ overwrite attribute that is consistent with <copy>'s attribute
+ names.
+
+ * You can now specify a list of methods to run in a JUnit test case.
+ Bugzilla Report 34748.
+
+ * properties in files read because of the -propertyfile command line
+ option will now get resolved against other properties that are
+ defined before the project starts executing (those from the same or
+ earlier -propertfiles or defined via the -D option).
+ Bugzilla Report 18732.
+
+ * <pathelement>s can now contain wildcards in order to use wildcard
+ CLASSPATH entries introduced with Java6.
+ The wildcards are not expanded or even evaluated by Ant and will be
+ used literally. The resulting path may be unusable as a CLASSPATH
+ for Java versions prior to Java6 and likely doesn't mean anything
+ when used in any other way than a CLASSPATH for a forked Java VM.
+ Bugzilla Report 46842.
+
+ * A new attribute allows targets to deal with nonexistent extension
+ points, i.e. they can extend an extension-point if it has been
+ defined or silently work as plain targets if it hasn't. This is
+ useful for targets that get included/imported in different
+ scenarios where a given extension-point may or may not exist.
+ Bugzilla Report 49473.
+
+ * Ant now logs a warning message if it fails to change the file
+ modification time in for example when using <touch> or preserving
+ timestamps in various tasks.
+ Bugzilla Report 49485.
+
+ * ProjectHelpers can now be installed dynamically via the <projecthelper>
+ Ant task.
+
+ * <import> is now able to switch to the proper ProjectHelper to parse
+ the imported resource. This means that several kinds of different build
+ files can import each other.
+
+ * <copy tofile=""> now also works for non-filesystem resources.
+ Bugzilla Report 49756.
+
+ * The <linecontainsregexp> filter now supports a casesensitive
+ attribute.
+
+ * The <containsregexp> selector now supports casesensitive, multiline
+ and singleline attributes.
+ Bugzilla Report 49764.
+
+ * A new <cutdirsmapper> can be used like wget's --cut-dirs option to
+ strip leading directories from file names.
+
+ * <javah> now supports the GNU project's gcjh compiler.
+ Bugzilla Report 50149.
+
+ * <checksum> supports additional views of a file's path as elements
+ for a custom pattern.
+ Bugzilla Report 50114.
+
+ * JUnit XMLResultAggregator logs the stack trace of caught IO exceptions
+ in verbose runs.
+ Bugzilla Report 48836.
+
+ * StringUtils.parseHumanSizes() should turn parse failures into
+ BuildExceptions.
+ Bugzilla Report 48835.
+
+ * New task <bindtargets> to make a list of targets bound to some
+ specified extension point.
+
+ * Initial support for OpenJDK7 has been added.
+
+ * Ant now uses java.net.CookieStore rather than
+ java.util.ServiceLocator to detect whether the environment is a
+ Java 1.6 system. This means releases of gcj/gij at the time of
+ this release of Ant are detected as Java 1.5 and not 1.6.
+ Bugzilla Report 50256.
+
+ * It is now possible to write a compiler adapter for <javac> that
+ compiles sources with extensions other than .java (but that still
+ compile to .class files).
+ Bugzilla Report 48829.
+
+ * The performance of VectorSet#add(Object) has been improved which
+ should also benefit any operation that scans directories in Ant.
+ Bugzilla Report 50200.
+
+Changes from Ant 1.8.0 TO Ant 1.8.1
+===================================
+
+Changes that could break older environments:
+-------------------------------------------
+
+ * ant-trax.jar is no longer produced since TrAX is included in JDK 1.4+.
+
+ * Ant no longer ships with Apache Xerces-J or the XML APIs but relies
+ on the Java runtime to provide a parser and matching API versions.
+
+ * The stylebook ant task and the ant-stylebook.jar are removed.
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+
+ * Tasks that iterate over task or type definitions, references or
+ targets now iterate over copies instead of the live maps to avoid
+ ConcurrentModificationExceptions if another thread changes the
+ maps.
+ Bugzilla Report 48310.
+
+ * The filesmatch condition threw a NullPointerException when
+ comparing text files and the second file contained fewer lines than
+ the first one.
+ Bugzilla Report 48715.
+
+ * Regression: The <ear> task would allow multiple
+ META-INF/application.xml files to be added.
+ Bugzilla Report 6836.
+
+ * VectorSet#remove(Object) would fail if the size of the vector
+ equaled its capacity.
+
+ * Regression : ant -diagnostics was returning with exit code 1
+ Bugzilla Report 48782
+
+ * Fix for exec task sometimes inserts extraneous newlines
+ Bugzilla Report 48746
+
+ * SymlinkTest#testSymbolicLinkUtilsMethods failing on MacOS
+ Bugzilla Report 48785.
+
+ * If <concat>'s first resourcecollection child is a <resources>,
+ any subsequently added child resourcecollection joins the first.
+ Bugzilla Report 48816.
+
+ * <get> with an invalid URL could trigger an NPE in some JVMs.
+ Bugzilla Report 48833
+
+ * Broken Pipe issue under Ubuntu Linux
+ Bugzilla Report 48789
+
+ * Properties wrongly read from file or not update during read
+ Bugzilla Report 48768
+
+ * AntClassLoader in Ant 1.8.0 has been considerably slower than in
+ 1.7.1
+ Bugzilla Report 48853
+
+ * ANT_CMD_LINE_ARGS are rippling through lower level Ant usage
+ Bugzilla Report 48876
+
+ * email : IO error sending mail with plain mimetype
+ Bugzilla Report 48932
+
+ * the complete-ant-cmd.pl script failed to create a proper cache of
+ target if "ant -p" failed.
+ Bugzilla Report 48980
+
+ * <rmic>'s sourcebase attribute was broken.
+ Bugzilla Report 48970
+
+ * <copy>'s failonerror didn't work as expected when copying a single
+ element resource collection to a file.
+ Bugzilla Report 49070
+
+ * <get> no longer followed redirects if the redirect URL was relative
+ and not an absolute URL.
+ Bugzilla Report 48972
+
+ * fixed a performance degradation in the code that expands property
+ references.
+ Bugzilla Reports 48961 and 49079
+
+ * <jar filesetmanifest="merge"> was broken on Windows.
+ Bugzilla Report 49090
+
+ * <symlink> delete failed if the link attribute was a relative path
+ to a link inside the current directory without a leading ".".
+ Bugzilla Report 49137
+
+ * <telnet> and <rexec> failed to find the expected strings when
+ waiting for responses and thus always failed.
+ Bugzilla Report 49173
+
+Other changes:
+--------------
+
+ * Project provides new get methods that return copies instead of the
+ live maps of task and type definitions, references and targets.
+
+ * Ant is now more lenient with ZIP extra fields and will be able to
+ read archives that it failed to read in earlier versions.
+ Bugzilla Report 48781.
+
+ * The <zip> family of tasks has been sped up for bigger archives.
+ Bugzilla Report 48755.
+
+ * Add removeKeepExtension option to NetRexxC task.
+ Bugzilla Report 48788.
+
+ * Add prefix attribute to loadproperties task.
+
+ * Add resource attribute to length task.
+
+ * PropertyResource will effectively proxy another Resource if ${name}
+ evaluates to a Resource object.
+
+ * Added forcestring attribute to equals condition to force evaluation
+ of Object args as strings; previously only API-level usage of the
+ equals condition allowed Object args, but Ant 1.8.x+ property
+ evaluation may yield values of any type.
+
+ * BuildFileTest.assertPropertyUnset() fails with a slightly more
+ meaningful error message
+ Bugzilla Report 48834
+
+ * <junit> will now throw an exception if a test name is empty. This
+ used to manifest itself in unrelated errors like
+ Bugzilla Report 43586.
+
+ * A change that made <exec> more reliable on Windows (Bugzilla Report
+ 5003) strongly impacts the performance for commands that execute
+ quickly, like attrib. Basically no single execution of a command
+ could take less than a second on Windows.
+ A few timeouts have been tweaked to allow these commands to finish
+ more quickly but still they will take longer than they did with Ant
+ 1.7.1.
+ Bugzilla Report 48734.
+
+ * Added SimpleBigProjectLogger, intermediate between NoBannerLogger and
+ BigProjectLogger.
+
+ * <mappedresources> supports new attributes enablemultiplemappings
+ and cache.
+
+ * Added the augment task to manipulate existing references via Ant's basic
+ introspection mechanisms.
+
+Changes from Ant 1.8.0RC1 TO Ant 1.8.0
+======================================
+
+Changes that could break older environments:
+-------------------------------------------
+
+ * the appendtolines filter has been renamed to suffixlines.
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+
+ * stack traces were not reported at all by <junit/>
+ when filtertrace="on", which is the default.
+
+ * ant.bat can now also process the -noclasspath switch when it is
+ the first switch on a command line.
+ Bugzilla Report 48186.
+
+ * <fixcrlf> now tries to delete the created temporary files earlier.
+ Bugzilla Report 48506.
+
+ * the implementation of <zip> had been changed in a way that broke
+ the jarjar links task and protentially other third-party subclasses
+ as well.
+ Bugzilla Report 48541.
+
+ * <scp> task didn't report build file location when a remote operation failed
+ Bugzilla Report 48578.
+
+ * <propertyfile> would add the same comment and a date line each time
+ it updated an existing property file.
+ Bugzilla Report 48558.
+
+ * <sound> didn't work properly in recent Java VMs.
+ Bugzilla Report 48637.
+
+Other changes:
+--------------
+
+Changes from Ant 1.7.1 TO Ant 1.8.0RC1
+======================================
+
+Changes that could break older environments:
+-------------------------------------------
+
+ * if and unless attributes (on <target> as well as various tasks and other
+ elements) have long permitted ${property} interpolation. Now, if the result
+ evaluates to "true" or "false" (or "yes", "no", "on", "off"), that boolean
+ value will be used; otherwise the traditional behavior of treating the value
+ as a property name (defined ~ true, undefined ~ false) is used. Existing
+ scripts could be broken if they perversely defined a property named "false"
+ and expected if="false" to be true, or used if="true" expecting this to be
+ triggered only if a property named "true" were defined.
+
+ * Ant now requires Java 1.4 or later.
+
+ * Improved handling of InterruptException (lets suppose someone/thing
+ is trying to kill the thread when we receive an
+ InterruptException), when an InterruptException is received, we do
+ not wait anymore in a while loop till the end time has been
+ reached.
+ Bugzilla Report 42924.
+
+ * Refactor PropertyHelper and introspection APIs to make extension
+ more granular and support setting task/type attribute values to
+ objects decoded by custom PropertyEvaluator delegates. Also add
+ <propertyhelper> task for registering delegates and/or replacing
+ the registered PropertyHelper instance.
+ Bugzilla Report 42736.
+
+ * Added a restricted form of typedef called <componentdef>. This
+ allows definition of elements that can only be within tasks or
+ types. This method is now used to define conditions, selectors,
+ comparators and filterreaders. This means that tasks may now have
+ nested conditions just by implementing the Condition interface,
+ rather than extending ConditionBase. It also means that the use of
+ namespaces for some of the selectors introduced in Ant 1.7.0 is no
+ longer necessary. Implementing this means that the DynamicElement
+ work-around introduced in Ant 1.7.0 has been removed.
+ Bugzilla Report 40511.
+
+ * In the <touch> task when a <mapper> is used, the millis and
+ datetime attributes now override the time of the source resource if
+ provisioned.
+ Bugzilla Report 43235.
+
+ * Remove fall-back mechanism for references that are not resolved
+ during normal runtime execution.
+
+ * FileUtils.createTempFile now actually creates the file.
+ The TempFile task still does not create the file by default, can be
+ instructed to do so however using a new parameter.
+ Bugzilla Report 33969.
+
+ * A lock in Project ensured that a BuildListener's messageLogged
+ method was only ever executed by a single thread at a time, while
+ all other methods could be invoked by multiple threads
+ simultaniously (while within <parallel>, for example). This lock
+ is no longer in place, messageLogged should be made thread-safe
+ now.
+
+ * <sql>'s onError="stop" no longer fails the build if an error
+ occurs, this is the main difference between stop and error and
+ matches what the documentation implied.
+ Bugzilla Report 24668.
+
+ * Ant's configuration introspection mechanisms have been modified to prefer
+ Resource and FileProvider attributes to plain java.io.File attributes;
+ however the configuration-from-String behavior remains equivalent, rendering
+ a FileResource.
+
+ * CBZip2InputStream will now throw an IOException if
+ passed in a null or empty InputStream to read from.
+ Bugzilla Reports 32200.
+
+ * <unzip> will now fail when trying to extract certain broken
+ archives that would have been silently ignored in earlier version.
+ Bugzilla Report 35000.
+
+ * Ant's <zip> family of tasks tries to preserve the existing Unix
+ permissions when updating archives or copying entries from one
+ archive to another.
+ Since not all archiving tools support storing Unix permissions in
+ the same way that is used by Ant, sometimes the permissions read by
+ Ant seem to be 0, which means nobody is allowed to do anything to
+ the file or directory.
+ If Ant now encounters a permission set of 0 it will assume that
+ this is not the intended value and instead apply its own default
+ values. Ant used to create entries with 0 permissions itself.
+ The <zip> family of tasks has a new attribute preserve0permissions
+ that can be set to restore the old behavior.
+ Bugzilla Report 42122.
+
+ * If a batch containing multiple JUnit tests running inside a forked
+ Java VM caused the VM to crash (or caused a timeout), the
+ formatters would receive an error message for the last test in the
+ batch.
+ Ant will now pass in a test with the name "Batch-With-Multiple-Tests"
+ instead - this is supposed to show more clearly that the last test
+ may not have started at all.
+ Bugzilla Report 45227.
+
+ * If the number of minutes a build takes is bigger then 1000 Ant will
+ no longer print a thousands separator in the "elapsed time"
+ message. It used to be the thousands separator of the current
+ locale.
+ Bugzilla Report 44659.
+
+ * <symlink action="delete"> used to fail if the link was broken (i.e.
+ pointing to a file or directory that no longer existed). It will now
+ silently try to remove the link.
+ Bugzilla Report 41285.
+
+ * <delete file="..."> used to log a warning and not delete broken
+ symbolic links. <delete dir="..."/> didn't even log a warning.
+ The task will now try to delete them in both cases.
+ Bugzilla Report 41285.
+
+ * if the dir attribute of a <fileset> points to a symbolic link and
+ followsymlinks is set to false, the fileset will no longer be
+ scanned and always seem empty.
+ Bugzilla Report 45741.
+
+ * the .NET tasks that have been deprecated since Ant 1.7.0 have been
+ removed, please use the stand-alone Antlib you can find at
+ http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/dotnet/index.html
+ instead.
+
+ * the logic of closing streams connected to forked processes (read
+ the input and output of <exec> and friends) has been changed to
+ deal with cases where child processes of the forked processes live
+ longer than their parents and keep Ant from exiting.
+ It is unlikely but possible that the changed logic breaks stream
+ handling on certain Java VMs.
+ Bugzilla issue 5003.
+
+ * <checksum>'s totalproperty was platform dependent because it relied
+ on java.io.File#compareTo. It has now been made platform
+ independent, which means that totalPropery values obtained on
+ Windows (and other systems where the sort order of File is not case
+ sensitive) can be different from the values obtained with earlier
+ versions of Ant.
+ Bugzilla Report 36748.
+
+ * globmapper didn't work properly if the "to" or "from" patterns
+ didn't contain a "*". In particular it implicitly added a * to the
+ end of the pattern(s). This is no longer the case. If you relied
+ on this behavior you will now need to explicitly specify the
+ trailing "*".
+ Bugzilla Report 46506.
+
+ * <copy> silently ignored missing resources even with
+ failOnError="true". If your build tries to copy non-existent
+ resources and you relied on this behavior you must now explicitly
+ set failOnError to false.
+ Bugzilla Report 47362.
+
+ * Ant now prefers the java.runtime.version system property over
+ java.vm.version for the Created-By Manifest attribute.
+ Bugzilla Report 47632.
+
+ * The <image> task now supports a nested mapper. In order to
+ implement this, the Java API of the task had to change so any
+ custom subclass overriding the processFile method will need to
+ adapt (by overriding the new two-arg processFile method).
+ Bugzilla Report 23243.
+
+ * A new property syntax can be used to set attributes from
+ references: ${ant.ref:some-reference}
+
+ In most cases this will yield the exact same result as
+ ${toString:some-reference} - only when an attribute setter method
+ accepts an object type other than string and the project's
+ reference is an Object of matching type the new syntax will pass in
+ that object.
+
+ If your build file already contains properties whose name starts
+ with "ant.ref:" there is a potential for collision. If your
+ property has been set, normal property expansion will take
+ precedence over the new syntax. If the property has not been set
+ and a reference with the postfix of your property name exists
+ (i.e. in a very unlikely event) then the new syntax would yield a
+ different result (an expanded property) than Ant 1.7.1 did.
+
+ * A ProjectHelper implementation can now provide the default build file
+ name it is expecting, and can specify if they can support a specific build
+ file. So Ant is now capable of supporting several ProjectHelper
+ implementations, deciding on which to use depending of the input build file.
+
+ * Mapper-aware selectors (depends, different, present) now accept typedef'd
+ FileNameMappers.
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+
+ * The default logger was failing to print complete stack traces for
+ exceptions other than BuildException when inside <ant> or
+ <antcall>, thus omitting often important diagnostic
+ information.
+ Bugzilla 43398 (continued).
+
+ * Better handling of package-info.class.
+ Bugzilla Report 43114.
+
+ * RPM task needed an inserted space between the define and the value.
+ Bugzilla Report 46659.
+
+ * Got rid of deadlock between in, out and err in the Redirector.
+ Bugzilla Report 44544.
+
+ * Caused by AssertionError no longer filtered.
+ Bugzilla Report 45631.
+
+ * <zip> would sometimes recreate JARs unnecessarily.
+ Bugzilla Report 45902.
+
+ * <symlink> task couldn't overwrite existing symlinks that pointed to
+ nonexistent files
+ Bugzilla Report 38199.
+
+ * <symlink> task couldn't overwrite files that were in the way of the symlink.
+ Bugzilla Report 43426.
+
+ * <symlink> task failonerror="false" does not stop build from failing
+ when 'ln' command returns non-zero.
+ Bugzilla Report 43624
+
+ * <touch> task couldn't differentiate between "no resources
+ specified" and "no resources matched."
+ Bugzilla Report 43799.
+
+ * ManifestClassPath failed when a relative path would traverse the
+ file system root.
+ Bugzilla Report 44499.
+
+ * <globmapper> had an indexoutofbounds when the prefix and postfix
+ overlapped.
+ Bugzilla Report 44731.
+
+ * <typedef> and <taskdef> failed to accept file names with #
+ characters in them.
+ Bugzilla Report 45190
+
+ * A deadlock could occur if a BuildListener tried to access an Ant property
+ within messageLogged while a different thread also accessed one.
+ Bugzilla Report 45194
+
+ * Handle null result of system getProperty() in CommandlineJava.
+ Similar to Bugzilla Report 42334.
+
+ * Length task did not process nonexistent Resources even though these might
+ conceivably still carry file length information.
+ Bugzilla Report 45271.
+
+ * <javac>'s includeJavaRuntime="false" should work for gcj now. Note
+ that you may need to set includeAntRuntime to false in order to
+ have full control.
+ Bugzilla Report 34638.
+
+ * <sql> would fail if the executed statement didn't return a result
+ set with some JDBC driver that dissalow Statement.getResultSet to
+ be called in such a situation.
+ Bugzilla Report 36265
+
+ * if the executed statement in <sql> returned a result set and an
+ update count, the count would be lost.
+
+ * if an executed statement in <sql> mixes update count and result set
+ parts, some result sets wouldn't get printed.
+ Bugzilla Report 32168.
+
+ * XmlLogger could lose messages if <parallel> is used.
+ Bugzilla Report 25734.
+
+ * <scp> creates remoteToDir if it doesn't exist.
+ Bugzilla Report 42781
+
+ * CBZip2OutputStream threw an exception if it was closed prior to
+ writing anything.
+ Bugzilla Reports 32200, 45836
+
+ * The IPlanetDeploymentTool didn't use the configured DTD locations.
+ Bugzilla Report 31876.
+
+ * The ant shell script printed a warning under Cygwin if JAVA_HOME
+ was not set.
+ Bugzilla Report 45245.
+
+ * <filterset> sometimes incorrectly flagged infinite recursions of
+ filter tokens
+ Bugzilla Report 44226.
+
+ * failures were treated as errors in forked JUnit tests when JUnit 4
+ was used.
+ Bugzilla Report 43892.
+
+ * <jar> and <manifest> disallowed manifest attributes whose name
+ contained the character '8'.
+ Bugzilla Report 45675.
+
+ * BigProjectLogger would set the project's basedir to the current
+ working directory.
+ Bugzilla Report 45607.
+
+ * only <formatter>s that logged to a file were notified if forked VM
+ crashed or a timeout occurred in <junit>.
+ Bugzilla Report 37312.
+
+ * ant -v -version would print the version information twice.
+ Bugzilla Report 45695.
+
+ * when nested into builds that have been invoked by <ant> tasks
+ <subant> might set the wrong basedir on the called projects.
+ Bugzilla Report 30569.
+
+ * If the message of the failed assertion of a forked JUnit test
+ contained line feeds some excess output ended up in Ant's log.
+ Bugzilla Report 45411.
+
+ * <symlink action="delete"> failed to delete a link that pointed to
+ a parent directory.
+ Bugzilla Report 45743.
+
+ * <symlink action="delete"> failed if ant lacked permission to rename
+ the link's target.
+ Bugzilla Report 41525.
+
+ * when checking whether a jar is signed, <signjar> ignored the
+ sigfile attribute.
+ Bugzilla Report 44805.
+
+ * When using JavaMail all <mail> tasks used the same mail host
+ regardless of their configuration.
+ Bugzilla Report 37970.
+
+ * <signjar> and <issigned> didn't handle aliases with characters other
+ than numbers, letters, hyphen or underscore properly.
+ Bugzilla Report 45820.
+
+ * <filterset> could miss multi-character begin tokens in some cases.
+ Bugzilla Report 45094.
+
+ * <depend> didn't close JARs that were part of the classpath.
+ Bugzilla Report 45955.
+
+ * in some cases <depend> would delete class files even if it didn't
+ find the corresponding source files.
+ Bugzilla Report 45916.
+
+ * <javadoc> failed if the nested <bottom> or <head> contained line
+ breaks.
+ Bugzilla Report 43342.
+
+ * encoding="auto" has been broken in <mail> since Ant 1.7.0 and only
+ worked if JavaMail was available.
+ Bugzilla Report 42389.
+
+ * MailLogger could cause a NullPointerException.
+ Bugzilla Report 44009.
+
+ * <junit> didn't recognize failed assertions as failures if they
+ caused subclasses of AssertionError to be thrown (like
+ org.junit.ComparisonFailure that is thrown when assertEquals
+ fails).
+ Bugzilla Report 45028.
+
+ * the Unix "ant" wrapper script failed to protect wildcards in
+ command line arguments in some cases.
+ Bugzilla Report 31601.
+
+ * <cvstagdiff> crippled file names and could miss some entries if
+ multiple modules have been specified.
+ Bugzilla Report 35301.
+
+ * Tasks with a "public void add(SomeType)" method failed to work as
+ TaskContainers at the same time.
+ Bugzilla Report 41647.
+
+ * Tasks that implementes DynamicElemen or DynamicElementNS failed to
+ work as TaskContainers at the same time.
+ Bugzilla Report 41647.
+
+ * combining SSL and authentication in <mail> and MailLogger failed in
+ some setups.
+ Bugzilla Report 46063.
+
+ * if an error occurs while logging the buildFinished event, the
+ original error is now logged to System.err.
+ Bugzilla Report 25086.
+
+ * <copy> failed with a NullPointerException when copying a resource
+ without a name. It will now fail with a meaningful error message.
+ Bugzilla Report 39960.
+
+ * <xslt> now uses the configured classpath to load the factory (when
+ using TraX) before falling back to Ant's own classpath.
+ Bugzilla Report 46172.
+
+ * <dependset> complained about files being modified in the future if
+ they had been just very recently (within Ant's assumed granularity
+ of the file system).
+ Bugzilla Report 43665.
+
+ * <sshexec> didn't store the output in outputproperty if the remote
+ command failed.
+ Bugzilla Report 46340.
+
+ * DirectoryScanner's slow-scanning algorithm that is used when you
+ ask for excluded or not-included files and/or directories could
+ miss some files and directories in the presence of recursive
+ exclude patterns.
+
+ * <sort> resource collection kept only one of entries deemed equal by
+ the chosen Comparator.
+ Bugzilla Report 46527.
+
+ * the ZipFile class used by <unzip> and others could leave the
+ archive open (making it undeletable on Windows as long as the java
+ VM was running) for files with an unexpected internal structure.
+ Bugzilla Report 46559.
+
+ * The zip package now supports the extra fields invented by InfoZIP
+ in order to store Unicode file names and comments.
+
+ * The zip package detects the encoding bit set by more modern
+ archivers when they write UTF-8 filenames and optionally sets it
+ when writing zips or jars.
+ Bugzilla Report 45548
+
+ * <sync> could run into a NullPointerException when faced with broken
+ symbolic links.
+ Bugzilla Report 46747.
+
+ * The ant shell script should now support MSYS/MinGW as well.
+ Bugzilla Report 46936.
+
+ * <signjar> has a new force attribute that allows re-signing of jars
+ that are already signed.
+ Bugzilla Report 46891.
+
+ * <sshexec> now again honors failonerror in the face of connection
+ errors.
+ Bugzilla Report 46829.
+
+ * The <replacetokens> filter threw an exception if the stream to
+ filter ended with a begin token.
+ Bugzilla Report 47306.
+
+ * <scriptmapper>, <scriptfilter> and <scriptcondition> didn't support
+ the setbeans attribute.
+ Bugzilla Report 47336.
+
+ * <loadproperties>' encoding attribute didn't work.
+ Bugzilla Report 47382.
+
+ * Ant created tar archives could contain random bytes at the end
+ which confused some untar implementations.
+ Bugzilla Report 47421.
+
+ * various places where unchecked PrintWriters could hide exceptions
+ have been revisited to now check the error status or not use a
+ PrintWriter at all.
+ Bugzilla Report 43537.
+
+ * filesetmanifest="mergewithoutmain" in <jar> didn't treat inline
+ manifests as expected.
+ Bugzilla Report 29731.
+
+ * <record> didn't work properly with nested builds.
+ Bugzilla Report 41368.
+
+ * <jar> with filesetmanifest different from skip didn't work if the
+ update attribute has been set to true.
+ Bugzilla Report 30751.
+
+ * The default stylesheets for <junitreport> failed to properly escape
+ XML content in exception stack traces.
+ Bugzilla Report 39492.
+
+ * AntClassLoader didn't set the proper CodeSource for loaded classes.
+ Bugzilla Report 20174.
+
+ * AntClassLoader.getResourceAsStream would return streams to
+ resources it didn't return with getResource and to classes it
+ failed to load.
+ Bugzilla Report 44103.
+
+ * Logging exceptions without a message would cause a
+ NullPointerException.
+ Bugzilla Report 47623.
+
+ * WeblogicDeploymentTool could fail on platforms with a file
+ separator other than "/".
+ Bugzilla Report 35649.
+
+ * The update attribute of the modified selector was ignored.
+ Bugzilla Report 32597.
+
+ * <manifest> and <jar> can now merge Class-Path attributes from
+ multiple sources and optionally flatten them into a single
+ attribute.
+ The default behaviour still is to keep multiple Class-Path
+ attributes if they have been specified and to only include the
+ attributes of the last merged manifest.
+ Bugzilla Report 39655.
+
+ * <delete> didn't work correctly with a <modified> selector because
+ it was scanning the same filesets more than once.
+ Bugzilla Report 43574.
+
+ * when using custom filterreaders with the <filterreader classname="">
+ syntax Ant could leak memory.
+ The problem didn't occur when using <typedef> or <componentdef> to
+ define the filterreader which is the recommended approach.
+ Bugzilla Report 45439.
+
+ * Ant didn't set the proper "magic" value for tar entries containing
+ long file names in GNU longfile mode.
+ Bugzilla Report 47653.
+
+ * The tar task failed to recognize that the archive had to be
+ (re-)created in some cases where the sources are filesystem based
+ resources but not filesets.
+ Bugzilla Report 48035.
+
+ * <sshexec>'s outputproperty was prefixed by the executed command
+ when the command attribute has been used, breaking backwards
+ compatibility to Ant 1.7.0.
+ Bugzilla Report 48040.
+
+ * different task instances of the same <scriptdef>ed tasks could
+ overwrite each others attributes/nested elements.
+ Bugzilla Report 41602.
+
+ * The Hashvalue algortihm implementation of the modified task could
+ fail to read the file(s) completely.
+ Bugzilla Report 48313.
+
+Other changes:
+--------------
+
+ * The get task now also follows redirects from http to https
+ Bugzilla Report 47433
+
+ * A HostInfo task was added performing information on hosts, including info on
+ the host ant is running on.
+ Bugzilla Reports 45861 and 31164.
+
+ * There is now a FileProvider interface for resources that act as a source
+ of filenames. This should be used by tasks that require resources
+ to provide filenames, rather than require that all resources
+ are instances or subclasses of FileResource.
+ Bugzilla Report 43348
+
+ * There is now a URLProvider interface for resources that act as a
+ source of URLs. This should be used by tasks that require resources
+ to provide URLs, rather than require that all resources are
+ instances or subclasses of URLResource.
+
+ * Fixcrlf now gives better error messages on bad directory attributes.
+ Bugzilla Report 43936
+
+ * a new property ant.project.default-target holds the value of the
+ current <project>'s default attribute.
+
+ * a new property ant.project.invoked-targets holds a comma separated
+ list of the targets that have been specified on the command line
+ (the IDE, an <ant> task ...) when invoking the current project.
+
+ * The <type> resource selector has had an "any" type added for better
+ configurability.
+
+ * Ant should detect the OS as both a Mac and a Unix system when
+ running on OpenJDK.
+ Bugzilla Report 44889.
+
+ * new protected getConnection and getStatement methods allow
+ subclasses of SQLExec more control - or access to the cached
+ instances when overriding other methods like runStatements.
+ Bugzilla Report 27178.
+
+ * <sql> has a new failOnConnectionError attribute that can be used to
+ keep a build going even if the task failed to connect to the
+ database.
+ Bugzilla Report 36712.
+
+ * A new attribute strictDelimiterMatching can be used to ignore case
+ or whitespace differences when <sql> searches for delimiters.
+ This is useful if you execute a SQL script that has contains "GO"
+ and "go" as delimiters.
+ Bugzilla Report 26459.
+
+ * A new showWarnings attribute of <sql> allows warnings to be logged.
+ Bugzilla Report 41836.
+
+ * A new treatWarningsAsErrors attribute of <sql> can be used to fail
+ a build if a warning occurs.
+ Bugzilla Report 41836.
+
+ * Ant now supports scoped properties (see Local task).
+ Bugzilla Report 23942.
+
+ * <sql>'s CSV output can be controlled via the new attributes
+ csvColumnSeparator and csvQuoteCharacter.
+ Bugzilla Report 35627.
+
+ * <ftp>'s logging has been improved.
+ Bugzilla Reports 30932, 31743.
+
+ * It is now possible to disable <ftp>'s remote verification.
+ Bugzilla Report 35471.
+
+ * <sshexec> now supports input in a way similar to <exec>
+ Bugzilla Report 39197.
+
+ * <scp> can now preserve the file modification time when downloading
+ files.
+ Bugzilla Report 33939.
+
+ * the new task sshsession can run multiple tasks in the presence of
+ an SSH session providing (local and remote) tunnels.
+ Bugzilla Report 43083.
+
+ * ZipOutputStream has been sped up for certain usage scenarios that
+ are not used by Ant's family of zip tasks.
+ Bugzilla Report 45396.
+
+ * <echo> supports an "output" Resource attribute as an alternative to "file".
+
+ * <sql> "output" attribute now supports any Resource in addition to a file.
+
+ * <scp> no longer requires a passphrase when using key based
+ authentication.
+ Bugzilla Report 33718.
+
+ * a new failOnEmptyArchive attribute on <unzip> and <untar> can now
+ make the task fail the build if it tries to extract an empty
+ archive.
+
+ * <unzip> and <untar> have a new attribute stripAbsolutePathSpec.
+ When set to true, Ant will remove any leading path separator from
+ the archived entry's name before extracting it (making the name a
+ relative file name).
+ Bugzilla Report 28911.
+
+ * <unzip> will now detect that it was asked to extract a file that is
+ not an archive earlier if the file is big.
+ Bugzilla Report 45463.
+
+ * New file and resource selectors <readable/> and <writable/> have
+ been added that select file which the current process can read or
+ write.
+ Bugzilla Report 45081.
+
+ * The filename file selector has a new attribute regex that allows
+ files to be selected by matching their names against a regular
+ expression.
+ Bugzilla Report 45284
+
+ * The name resource selector has a new attribute regex that allows
+ resources to be selected by matching their names against a regular
+ expression.
+ Bugzilla Report 45284
+
+ * Enhanced performance of Project.fireMessageLoggedEvent and DirectoryScanner
+ Bugzilla Reports 45651 and 45665
+
+ * The package list location for offline links can now be specified as
+ an URL.
+ Bugzilla Report 28881
+
+ * <echoxml> now supports XML namespaces.
+ Bugzilla Report 36804.
+
+ * A new listener for <junit> has been added that tries to invoke the
+ tearDown method of a TestCase if that TestCase was run in a forked
+ VM and the VM crashed or a timeout occurred. See the <junit> task's
+ manual page for details.
+ Bugzilla Report 37241.
+
+ * The Jar task now supports the addition of a jar index file in update mode.
+ Previously the absence of the index was not enough to trigger the rebuild;
+ some other update was necessary.
+ Bugzilla report 45098.
+
+ * <ant> has a new attribute "useNativeBasedir" that makes the child
+ build use the same basedir it would have used if invoked from the
+ command line. No matter what other attributes/properties have been
+ set.
+ Bugzilla Report 45711.
+
+ * <patch> has a new optional failOnError attribute.
+ Bugzilla Report 44772.
+
+ * Antlib descriptors will now be parsed by the configured
+ ProjectHelper if the implementation overrides the new
+ canParseAntlibDescriptor and parseAntlibDescriptor methods. If the
+ configured helper doesn't override the methods, a new instance of
+ ProjectHelper2 will be used just like in Ant 1.7.1.
+ Bugzilla Report 42208.
+
+ * It is now possible to explicitly set the executable used by
+ <signjar>.
+ Bugzilla Report 39189.
+
+ * <compositemapper>'s order of results is now predictable.
+ Bugzilla Report 44873
+
+ * a new <firstmatchmapper> has been added, which works similar to
+ <compositemapper> but only returns the results of the first nested
+ mapper that matches.
+ Bugzilla Report 44873
+
+ * <get> has a new maxtime attribute that terminates downloads that
+ are taking too long.
+ Bugzilla Report 45181.
+
+ * <ftp> now supports selectors for remote directories as well.
+ Bugzilla Report 44726.
+
+ * In some cases Ant fails to rename files if the source or target
+ file has just recently been closed on Windows. It will now try to
+ delete the offending file once again after giving the Java VM time
+ to really close the file.
+ Bugzilla Report 45960.
+
+ * two new properties can be used to set the MIME-Type and charset
+ used by MailLogger.
+ Bugzilla Report 27211.
+
+ * a new attribute of <mail> allows the task to succeed if it can
+ reach at least one given recipient.
+ Bugzilla Report 36446.
+
+ * two new properties allow MailLogger to send a fixed text instead of
+ the log file.
+ Bugzilla Report 38029.
+
+ * <cvsversion> is supposed to support CVSNT now.
+ Bugzilla Report 31409.
+
+ * <cvs>' port attribute should now work for all clients that use the
+ environment variable CVS_PSERVER_PORT instead of the "official"
+ CVS_CLIENT_PORT.
+ Bugzilla Report 30124.
+
+ * <cvsversion> now works for local repositories as well.
+
+ * <cvstagdiff> has an option to ignore removed files now.
+ Bugzilla Report 26257.
+
+ * <cvs> and friends now support modules with spaces in their names
+ via nested <module> elements.
+
+ * A new attribute "ignoreEmpty" controls how <concat> deals when
+ there are no resources to concatenate. If it is set to false, the
+ destination file will be created regardless, which reinstates the
+ behavior of Ant 1.7.0.
+ Bugzilla Report 46010.
+
+ * If the new remote attribute is set to true, <cvschangelog> can now
+ work against a remote repository without any working copy.
+ Bugzilla Report 27419.
+
+ * start and end tags can now be used instead of dates in
+ <cvschangelog>.
+ Bugzilla Report 27419.
+
+ * MailLogger and <mail> can now optionally enable support for
+ STARTTLS.
+ Bugzilla Report 46063.
+
+ * <import> has new attributes "as" and "prefixSeparator" that can be
+ used to control the prefix prepended to the imported targets'
+ names.
+
+ * a new task <include> provides an alternative to <import> that
+ should be preferred when you don't want to override any targets.
+
+ * delete has a new attribute removeNotFollowedSymlink. If set to
+ true, symbolic links not followed (because followSymlinks was false
+ or the number of symlinks was too big) will be removed.
+ Bugzilla Report 36658.
+
+ * the os and osfamily attributes of <chown>, <chgrp>, <chmod> and
+ <attrib> can now be used to run the commands on operating systems
+ other than their "native" environment, i.e. non-Unix or non-Windows
+ operating systems respectively.
+ Bugzilla Report 7624.
+
+ * a new resource collection <mappedresources> generalizes the prefix
+ and fullpath attributes of <zipfileset> to arbitrary mappers that
+ can be applied to arbitrary resource collections.
+ Bugzilla Report 4240.
+
+ * <tarfileset> and <zipfileset> have a new attribute
+ errorOnMissingArchive that allows "optional" filesets that don't
+ break the build if the archive doesn't exist.
+ Bugzilla Report 46091.
+
+ * <javadoc> has new attributes that correspond to the
+ -docfilessubdirs and -excludedocfilessubdir command line arguments.
+ Bugzilla Report 34455.
+
+ * <xslt> now fails early if a specified stylesheet doesn't exist.
+ Bugzilla Report 34525.
+
+ * <xslt> now has an option to suppress transformer warnings. This
+ option only has an effect for processors that support this feature;
+ the "trax" processor included with Ant does support it.
+ Bugzilla Report 18897.
+
+ * <xslt> has two new attributes failOnError and
+ failOnTransformationError that can be used to not make the build
+ process proceed if an error occurs.
+ Bugzilla Report 36260.
+
+ * <xslt> has a new attribute failOnNoResources that can be used to
+ make the build fail/continue if the collection of resources to
+ transform is empty.
+ Bugzilla Report 46274.
+
+ * It is now possible to define system properties that should be set
+ during xslt's transformation. This can be used to enable XInclude
+ processing in Xerces, for example.
+ Bugzilla Report 36653.
+
+ * a new resource collection <archives> can be used to specify
+ collections of ZIP and TAR archives as sources. It extracts them on
+ the fly. This is a generalization of the <zipgroupfileset> found
+ as nested element of <zip> and friends.
+ Bugzilla Report 46257.
+
+ * <dependset> has a new verbose attribute that makes the task list
+ all deleted targets and give a hint as to why it deleted them.
+ Bugzilla Report 13681.
+
+ * <replaceregexp> now supports arbitrary filesystem based resource
+ collections.
+ Bugzilla Report 46341.
+
+ * <replace> now supports arbitrary filesystem based resource
+ collections.
+ Bugzilla Report 24062.
+
+ * token and value of <replace>'s nested <replacefilter> can now also
+ be specified as nested elements to allow multiline content more
+ easily.
+ Bugzilla Report 39568.
+
+ * <replace> and <replaceregexp> can now optionally preserve the file
+ timestamp even if the file is modified.
+ Bugzilla Report 39002.
+
+ * The <replace> child-elements <replacetoken> and <replacevalue> have
+ a new attribute that controls whether properties in nested text get
+ expanded.
+ Bugzilla Report 11585.
+
+ * <replace> has a new attribute failOnNoReplacements that makes the
+ build fail if the task didn't do anything.
+ Bugzilla Report 21064.
+
+ * <sync>'s <preserveInTarget> has a new attribute that controls
+ whether empty directories should be kept.
+ Bugzilla Report 43159.
+
+ * ant -diagnostics now checks that it can read as much from the
+ temporary directory as it has written. This may help detecting a
+ full filesystem.
+ Bugzilla Report 32676.
+
+ * <pathconvert> has a new preserveduplicates attribute--historically
+ these were eliminated in the interest of behaving in the manner
+ of a "path."
+
+ * <javac>'s source and target attributes are no longer ignored when
+ using gcj.
+ Bugzilla Issue 46617.
+
+ * ant -diagnostics now outputs information about the default XSLT
+ processor.
+ Bugzilla Issue 46612.
+
+ * the ZIP library will now ignore ZIP extra fields that don't specify
+ a size.
+ Bugzilla Report 42940.
+
+ * CBZip2OutputStream now has a finish method separate from close.
+ Bugzilla Report 42713.
+
+ * the <zip> and <unzip> family of tasks has new options to deal with
+ file name and comment encoding. Please see the zip tasks'
+ documentation for details.
+
+ * <input ...><handler type="secure" /></input> now uses previously
+ undocumented SecureInputHandler shipped with Ant 1.7.1.
+
+ * Command line arguments for <exec> and similar tasks can now have
+ optional prefix and suffix attributes.
+ Bugzilla Report 47365
+
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