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+====================================
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+
+* <tstamp>'s prefix attribute failed to apply to nested <format> elements.
+
+* <junitreport> created an empty junit-noframes.html if no format had
+ been specified.
+
+* <basename> would remove more than it should if the file name
+ contained more than one dot.
+
+* <filterset>s nested into <filterset>s didn't work.
+
+Other changes:
+--------------
+
+* Shipped XML parser is now Xerces 2.2.0
+
+* Filesets now support a 'file' attribute, allowing a single-file
+ fileset to be constructed without having to specify its parent
+ directory separately.
+
+* <junit> will now return the result of a call to getName instead of
+ "unknown" for Test implementations that don't extend TestCase but have
+ a public String getName() method.
+
+Changes from Ant 1.5 to 1.5.1Beta1
+==================================
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+* Date/time in CvsChangeLog was in local timezone and 12 hour format leading
+ to a problem when sorting by time. It is now UTC (GMT) and in 24-hour
+ format as per cvs 'specifications'.
+
+* CvsTagDiff now supports ampersand modules or modules that have a different
+ root directory than their name.
+
+* EjbJar threw NPEs for the Websphere element. The property 'websphere.home'
+ was not documented.
+
+* Mail example in the documentation was not correct.
+
+* Checksum was broken in the following scenario:
+ (using verifyproperty OR in a condition) AND using filesets
+ with multiple files.
+
+* The ExpandProperties filter threw NPEs when defined using
+ the <filterreader> format.
+
+* The sh wrapper script didn't work under Cygwin if ANT_HOME wasn't
+ set with a Unix style filename.
+
+* The sh wrapper script could fail if you started Ant from a directory
+ with whitespace in its name.
+
+* ant -diagnostics was not working properly when the task dependency
+ was missing and was just printing the missing dependency.
+
+* If a task got redefined via <taskdef>, it lost its child elements.
+
+* <property>'s classpathref attribute was broken.
+
+* <arg line="''" /> would result in no command line argument, will now
+ be a single empty argument. Use <arg value="''"/> if you need the
+ quotes literally.
+
+* <replaceregexp> could append a newline character at the end of the
+ file.
+
+Other changes:
+--------------
+
+* Appendix E of Java Development with Ant (Loughran/Hatcher) was
+ contributed to the docs.
+
+* <available> will only print deprecration warnings if it is actually
+ used to change the value of a property.
+
+Changes from Ant 1.5beta3 to Ant 1.5
+====================================
+
+Changes that could break older environments:
+--------------------------------------------
+
+* The filesetmanifest attribute added to <jar> after the 1.4.1
+ release has been removed for now. This change may affect only
+ the 1.5Beta/1.6Alpha users. An attempt will be made to add this
+ feature back into Ant 1.6.
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+
+* <zip> and friends would always update existing archive if you set
+ the update attribute to true.
+
+* To support backward compatibility with older versions, <pathconvert>
+ will once again set the property, even if the result is the empty
+ string, unless the new 'setonempty' attribute is set to false|no|off
+ (default is "true").
+
+* The manifest task would crash XmlLogger
+
+Other changes:
+--------------
+
+* added **/.svn and **/.svn/** to the default excludes
+
+Changes from Ant 1.5beta2 to Ant 1.5beta3
+=========================================
+
+Changes that could break older environments:
+--------------------------------------------
+
+* Project.getBuildListeners now returns a clone of the listener
+ list. Changes to the returned list will not affect the listeners
+ currently attached to the Project. It also means that it is safe to
+ iterate over the returned list if listeners are added or removed
+ during the traversal.
+
+* <pvcs> default filenameformat has been different from Ant 1.4.1.
+ Now it is different from 1.5beta1 and 1.5beta2.
+
+* Some messages that are printed during startup will not be
+ written to the logfile specified via -logfile as they might destroy
+ the format of the file for special BuildLoggers (like XmlLogger).
+
+* <pathconvert> won't set the property if the result is the empty string.
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+
+* <available> could fail to find files or directories that happen to
+ start with the name of the project's basedir but are not children of
+ the basedir.
+
+* Nested <property>'s inside <ant> can now be overriden by subsequent
+ <ant> and <antcall> tasks.
+
+* <xslt>'s outputtype attribute wouldn't do anything.
+
+* <linecontains> filterreader could swallow lines.
+
+* <sequential> used to configure the tasks (set their attributes)
+ before the first task has been executed. This means that properties
+ that have been set by nested task seemed to be unset for the other
+ tasks in the same <sequential> element.
+
+* <javac>'s sourcepath setting has been ignored by some compiler
+ implementations.
+
+* <javadoc>'s packagelist attribute didn't work.
+
+* the plain mailer would always use port 25 in <mail>.
+
+* Ant's default logger could swallow empty lines.
+
+* ejbjar's iPlanet nested element now can process multiple descriptors.
+
+* IPlanetEjbc was looking in the wrong place for four iiop files.
+
+* <javac> would pass the -source switch to JDK 1.3's javac, even
+ though it doesn't support it.
+
+Other changes:
+--------------
+
+* <checksum> now uses a buffer (of configurable size).
+
+* The "Trying to override task definition" warning has been degraded
+ to verbose level if the two task definitions only differ in the class
+ loader instance that has loaded the definition.
+
+* Add a jvmargs to the ejbjar's weblogic element to allow additional
+ arguments to be provided to the VM runnign ejbc. Document the
+ jvmdebuglevel attribute which can be used to avoid warnings about
+ interface classess being found on the classpath. Document the new
+ <sysproperty> element which allows JVM properties to be defined.
+ Added an outputdir attribute to allow the destination to be a
+ directory into which the exploded jar is written.
+
+* ejbjar now supports Borland Enterprise Server 5 and Jonas 2.5
+
+Changes from Ant 1.5beta1 to Ant 1.5beta2
+=========================================
+
+Changes that could break older environments:
+--------------------------------------------
+
+* Properties will now be expanded in mail message bodies. This means
+that one $ sign will be stripped if your mail message contains the text
+$$.
+
+* org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Expand no longer extends MatchingTask.
+
+* Available#setFile now again uses a File argument as it did in 1.4,
+this may break environments that have been adapted to the String
+argument version present in 1.5beta1.
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+* When <move> attempts a rename, it deletes the destination file, if it
+ exists, before renaming the source file. However, <move> was not
+ checking if the destination file was actually a directory before
+ trying to delete it.
+
+* Make CVS Tasks to work under Cygwin.
+
+* Fix LineContains to handle huge files elegantly without causing
+Stack Overflows.
+
+* if you ask for the "classic" compiler on Java1.4, you get upgraded to
+"modern" because there is no classic compiler any more.
+
+* the <http> condition was viewing 404 'not found' exceptions as success. Now
+it defaults to viewing any response >=400 as an error, and has an errorsBeginAt
+attribute you can use if you want a higher or lower value.
+
+* <get> throws a build exception on an http authorization error, unless you
+have set ignoreerrors to true.
+
+* <wsdltodotnet> was spelt in Wintel case: <WsdlToDotnet>. It is now lower
+case, though the old spelling is retained for anyone who used it.
+
+* Merging of Manifests in jar now works as documented.
+
+* paths that have been separated by colons would be incorrectly parsed
+on NetWare.
+
+* runant.pl now supports NetWare.
+
+* <tempfile> and <setproxy> tasks were in beta1, but not defined by
+default; They now are. <tempfile> fills a property with the name of a
+temporary file; <setproxy> lets you set the JVM's http, ftp and socks proxy
+settings.
+
+* <available classname="foo" ignoresystemclasses="true"> failed for
+JDK 1.1 and 1.2, even if the class could be found on the
+user-specified classpath.
+
+* <property environment=... /> now works on z/OS.
+
+* forked <javac> failed for the wrong reason on JDK 1.1 - Ant would
+use a temporary file to hold the names of the files to compile under
+some conditons, but 1.1 doesn't support this feature. Ant will no
+longer try this, but you may run into problems with the length of the
+command line now.
+
+* the refid attribute for <property>s nested into <ant> or <param>s
+nested into <antcall> didn't work.
+
+* <replaceregexp> didn't work for nested <fileset>s.
+
+* <javadoc> dropped sourcepath entries if no "interesting" .java
+source files could be found below them. This has been backwards
+incompatible and caused problems with custom doclets like xdoclet.
+
+* Using the doclet, docletpath or docletpathref attributes of
+<javadoc> may have caused NullPointerExceptions.
+
+* nested <filesets> of <javadoc> would include too much.
+
+* <dependset> will no longer choke on <targetfileset>s that point to
+non-existing directories.
+
+* <patch> didn't work at all.
+
+* <replace> and <replaceregexp> now fail if the file they are working
+on is locked.
+
+* <javadoc> would pick up the wrong executable in the combination JDK
+1.2 and AIX.
+
+Other changes:
+--------------
+
+* z/OS now gets detected by the os condition.
+
+* <fileset> and <dirset> now have an optional followsymlink attribute
+that can prevent Ant from following symbolic links on some platforms.
+
+* BeanShell is now supported in the <script> task.
+
+* <ejbjar> under Weblogic attempts to use the ejbc20 compiler for 2.0 beans
+ based on the deployment descriptor's DTD reference. Under weblogic 7.00 Beta
+ this ejbc class has been deprecated. To avoid the deprecation warning use
+ ejbcclass="weblogic.ejbc".
+
+* <ejbjar> will add a manifest to the generated jar based on the naming
+ convention in use. This overrides the manifest specified in the
+ <ejbjar> attribute
+
+
+Changes from Ant 1.4.1 to 1.5beta1
+==================================
+
+Changes that could break older environments:
+--------------------------------------------
+
+* Important: Single $ signs are no longer silently stripped!
+ Before you panic that we have broken all your build files, we have kept
+ the old "$$" -> "$" behaviour. So only build files which accidentally had
+ a $ sign in a string that was being silently stripped may break.
+ We added this fix to stop newbie confusion; if you want to write a
+ build file which works on ant versions 1.4.1 or earlier, stay with
+ the double $$ sign rule.
+
+* Shipped XML parser is now Xerces 2.0.1 along with the XML Parser APIs.
+ XML Parser APIs is a separate jar that contains the necessary
+ JAXP/DOM/SAX classes.
+
+* <telnet> was fixed to expand properties inside nested <read> and
+ <write> elements; before this only happened when you assigned the text
+ to the string attribute. If you had $ signs in the string, they may
+ need escaping.
+
+* the RegexpMatcher interface has been extended to support case
+ insensitive matches and other options - custom implementations of
+ this interface won't work any longer. We recommend to use the new
+ Regexp interface that also supports substitution instead of the
+ RegexpMatcher interface in the future.
+
+* <gzip> will throw an exception if your src attribute points to a directory.
+
+* Unjar, Unzip and Unwar will throw an exception if the Src attribute
+ represents a directory. Support for nested filesets is provided
+ instead.
+
+* It is no longer possible to overwrite a property using tasks like
+ <condition>, <exec>, <pathconvert>, or <tstamp>. In some exceptional
+ cases it will generate a warning if you attempt to overwrite an
+ existing property.
+
+* Taskwriters please note: Whenever tasks had any overloaded set* methods,
+ Ant's introspection mechanism would select the last overloaded method
+ provided to it by the Java Runtime. A modification has now been made such
+ that when the Java Runtime provides a method with a String as its argument,
+ a check is made to see if there is another overloaded method that takes in
+ some other type of argument. If there is one such method, then the method
+ that takes in String as an argument is not selected by the Introspector.
+
+* The pattern definition **/._* has been included into the Default
+ Excludes list.
+
+* <propertyfile>'s <entry> element was modified to remove "never" as a value
+ as its behavior was undocumented and flakey.
+
+* The -projecthelp flag now only prints out targets that include the
+ 'description' attribute, unless the -verbose or -debug flag is included
+ on the Ant command line.
+
+* Ant's testcases now require JUnit 3.7 or above, as they now use the new
+ assertTrue method instead of assert.
+
+* If the 'output' attribute of <ant> is set to a simple filename or a
+ relative path, the file is created relative to ${basedir}, not ${user.dir}.
+
+* The default value for build.compiler is now javac1.x with x
+ depending on the JDK that is running Ant instead of classic/modern.
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+* A bug existed that prevented generated log files from being deleted as
+ part of the build process itself. This has now been fixed.
+
+* Fixed bug where <move> ignored <filterset>s.
+
+* Ant works properly with the combination of Java1.4/WindowsXP.
+
+* Fixed bug where <java> used to sometimes invoke class constructors twice.
+
+* Fixed bug with 4NT shell support.
+
+* Fixed bug where ant would not perform ftp without remotedir being
+ specified even though this was not mandatory.
+
+* Fixed bug where ant would not copy system properties into new Project
+ in ant/antcall tasks when inheritall="false" is set.
+
+* <propertyfile> would not close the original property file.
+
+* <ant> will no longer override a subbuild's basedir with inheritall="true".
+
+* Fixed problem with the built-in <junit> formatters which assumed
+ that only one test could be running at the same time - this is not
+ necessarily true, see junit.extensions.ActiveTestSuite.
+
+* <jar>'s whenEmpty attribute is useless as JARs are never empty, they
+ contain at least a manifest file, therefore it will now print a
+ warning and do nothing.
+
+* <typedef> hasn't been all that useful as it couldn't be used outside
+ of targets (it can now) and nested "unknown" elements have always
+ been considered to be tasks (changed as well).
+
+* <fixcrlf> would fail for files that contained lines longer than 8kB.
+
+* Some junit formatters incorrectly assumed that all testcases would
+ inherit from junit.framework.TestCase.
+
+* <fixcrlf> dropped the first characters from Mac files.
+
+Other changes:
+--------------
+* Selector Elements now provide a way to create filesets based on
+ sophisticated selection criteria.
+
+* Gzip and Bzip2 files can now be constructed in the fly when using
+ the tar task without having to create the intermediate tar file on
+ disk. The Untar task can also untar GZip and BZip2 files on the fly
+ without creating the intermediate tar file.
+
+* New optional type, <classfileset> added.
+
+* <ejbjar> now allows control over which additional classes and interfaces
+ are added to the generated EJB jars. A new attribute "dependency" can be
+ defined which controls what classes are added. The addition of classes now uses
+ the Jakarta-BCEL library rather than reflection, meaning bean classes are
+ no longer loaded into Ant's JVM. The default dependency analyzer is known as
+ the ancestor analyzer. It provides the same behaviour as the 1.4.1 version of
+ <ejbjar>. If the BCEL library is not present, a warning will be issued stating
+ the ancestor analyzer is not available. In this case <ejbjar> will continue
+ to function but will not add super classes to the jar.
+
+* <available> has a new attribute named ignoreSystemClasses.
+
+* New task <cvschangelog/> generates an XML report of changes that occur
+ on CVS repository.
+
+* New filter readers: ClassConstants, ExpandProperties, HeadFilter,
+ LineContains, LineContainsRegExp, PrefixLines, ReplaceTokens,
+ StripJavaComments, StripLineBreaks, StripLineComments, TabsToSpaces,
+ TailFilter.
+
+* <copy>, <loadfile>, <loadproperties>, <move> support FilterChains
+ of FilterReaders.
+
+* New task <loadproperties> to load contents of file as Ant properties,
+ with nested <filterchain> elements.
+
+* New task <loadfile> to load a whole file into a property.
+
+* New task <echoproperties> to list your current properties to the screen
+ or a file.
+
+* New tasks <bzip2> and <bunzip2> to pack and unpack files using the
+ BZip2 alogrithm.
+
+* New tasks <replaceregexp>, <checksum>, <translate>, <waitfor>,
+ <manifest>, <vsscp>, <vssadd>, <vsscreate>, <splash>, <basename>, <dirname>,
+ <concat>, <sourceoffsite>, <jarlib-available>, <jarlib-display>,
+ <jarlib-manifest>, <jarlib-resolve>.
+
+* A new combined <mail> task, which replaces the old <mail> and
+ <mimemail> tasks, has been added. The <mimemail> task, and
+ old SendEmail and MimeMail classes have been deprecated.
+
+* Mail task allows specification of port number.
+
+* Users can control what <zip> and <jar> must do when duplicate files
+ are found. A new element <zipgroupfileset> allows for multiple zip
+ files to be merged into the archive. In addition, <jar> also has
+ another new attribute: filesetmanifest. The existing manifest
+ attribute of <jar> now also accepts the name of a jar added through
+ a fileset.
+
+* gzip now checks that the zipfile is older than the source file
+ before rebuilding the zipfile.
+
+* TarFileset takes in three new attributes - fullpath, prefix
+ and preserveLeadingSlashes.
+
+* <move> attempts to rename the directory, if everything inside it is
+ included, before performing file-by-file moves. This attempt will
+ be done only if filtering is off and if mappers are not used. This
+ is a performance improvement and there is no change otherwise in
+ the funtionality of this task.
+
+* Exec task has extra attribute "resultproperty" to get the return code
+ into a property.
+
+* Exec task prints a message when a timed-out process is killed.
+
+* Added optional attributes - name, arch and version to the <os> task.
+
+* Unjar, Untar, Unwar and Unzip now support patternsets to
+ select files from an archive for extraction. Filesets may be
+ used to select archived files for unarchival.
+
+* Javac task allows debug levels to be specified. Debug levels
+ will have an effect only when the modern compiler or the
+ classic compiler (version 1.2 and higher) is used and debugging
+ is enabled.
+
+* Added support for specifying CVS_RSH in the <cvs/> task
+
+* The attributes zipfile, jarfile, warfile and earfile (from the Zip,
+ Jar, War and Ear tasks) have been deprecated and superseded by a
+ new attribute "destfile".
+
+* Added new conditions <isset>, <checksum>, <http>, <socket>, <contains>,
+ <filesmatch>.
+
+* <taskdef> and <typedef> will now emit a warning if a task/type of
+ the given name already exists.
+
+* A new revision of VAJ tasks: The most important new feature
+ is the ability to execute VAJ tasks from the command line by
+ exploiting the Remote Tool Access feature of VAJ.
+
+* Improved support for Novell NetWare.
+
+* Added an optional encoding attribute to <fixcrlf>.
+
+* <apply> has a new attribute relative that allows users to pass the
+ filenames as relative instead of absolute paths on the command line.
+
+* References can now be copied into the child build by <ant> and
+ <antcall> using nested <reference> elements or the new inheritRefs
+ attribute.
+
+* <fail> now supports builds to fail based on conditions via if and
+ unless attributes.
+
+* Ant now comes with two new BuildLogger implementations - one that
+ can send emails containing a log of the build process (MailLogger),
+ and one that colorizes the output based on message levels, using
+ ANSI color code escape sequences (AnsiColorLogger).
+
+* A "package" mapper type has been added to allow package directory
+ names replaced with the dotted form.
+
+* You can now specify environment variables in the <java> and <junit> tasks
+ if the fork attribute has been set to true.
+
+* -propertyfile command-line option has been added to load an entire
+ property file just as -D properties are declared (as user properties).
+ -D properties take precedence over -propertyfile specified ones.
+
+* You can now set an ANT_ARGS environment variable to hold arguments you
+ always want passed to the 'ant' command -- for example, if you always
+ want to use a different logger or the -find flag.
+
+* <tstamp> now supports a new "prefix" attribute to prefix properties set.
+
+* You can now specify the -sourcepath for <javac> explicitly.
+
+* <javac> now supports a new "listfiles" attribute to list the source
+ files it's handing off to the compiler.
+
+* The compiler implementation for <javac> can now be chosen on a task by
+ task basis. The new "compiler" attribute of <javac> can be used to override
+ the value of the build.compiler property, if set.
+
+* <javac> has a new nested element, <compilerarg>, which allows you
+ to specify additional args for the specific compiler you're using.
+
+* <javac>'s "source" attribute is now enabled for jikes as well.
+
+* <propertyfile>'s <entry> now has a 'unit' attribute to specify the
+ increment/decrement unit on date operations.
+
+* <property> now supports a 'prefix' attribute when loading from a file
+ or resource.
+
+* In Ant 1.4, a feature has been added to the <junit> task that would
+ add ant.jar, optional.jar and junit.jar implicitly to the classpath -
+ this feature can now be disabled by setting the new includeantruntime
+ attribute to false.
+
+* <style> behaves differently from any other directory-based task, as it
+ processes all files that it finds in included directories in
+ addition to the files matched by your patterns. There is now a new
+ attribute, 'scanincludeddirectories', to suppress this behavior.
+
+* <javadoc> now supports a <tag> nested element to provide the -tag option
+ to the standard Java 1.4 doclet. The element is ignored when not running
+ on Java 1.4.
+
+* <ftp> can now chmod files on a remote server that supports
+ "site chmod", as well as set the umask before transferring files, if
+ the server supports "site umask".
+
+* New <serverdeploy> "optional" task.
+
+* <patternset> now supports nested patternsets.
+
+* Perforce tasks now support a "failonerror" attribute (defaults to "true").
+
+* Open Source application server JOnAS support:
+ EJB hot deploy and deploy with <serverdeploy> and <ejbjar>
+
+* Added new DirSet (<dirset>) datatype.
+
+* <path> now supports nested <dirset> and <filelist> elements.
+
+* <pathconvert> now supports nested <dirset> and <filelist> elements.
+
+* <pathconvert>'s "dirsep" and "pathsep" attributes now accept
+ multi-character values.
+
+* <copy> task now has a 'failonerror' attribute to allow keep-going
+ behaviour when the file to be copied is not found (defaults to "true").
+
+* <uptodate> now has a 'srcfile' attribute to allow specifying a
+ full-path filename.
+
+* <exec>, <sql> and <java> now support append attributes to allow
+ appending the output to an existing file.
+
+* <java> now supports a timeout attribute analog to <exec> - it is
+ highly recommended to only use it together with fork="true".
+
+* <javadoc> now supports a source attribute to enable javadoc to
+ handle assertions present in JDK 1.4 source code.
+
+* <replace> supports a new replacefilterfile attribute that
+ automatically turns all properties of a given file into
+ replacefilters.
+
+* An alias of <xslt> has been added to refer to the <style> task.
+
+* The compiler implementation for <rmic> can now be chosen on a task by
+ task basis. The new "compiler" attribute of <rmic> can be used to override
+ the value of the build.rmic property, if set.
+
+* <rmic> has a new nested element, <compilerarg>, which allows you
+ to specify additional args for the specific compiler you're using.
+
+* org.apache.tools.ant.XmlLogger now is a BuildLogger, rather than just
+ a BuildListener. It can operate in either mode successfully.
+
+* <junit> has a new attribute "showoutput". If set to true, output
+ generated by tests will be sent to Ant's logging system as well as
+ to the formatters (instead of sending it to the formatters
+ exclusively).
+
+* Ant has now a pluggable way to prompt users for input, which is used
+ by the new <input> task. IDE integrators can provide an
+ implementation of the InputHandler interface to decouple Ant's input
+ from the console. An implementation that gets its input from a file
+ for unattended builds is part of Ant's distribution.
+
+ For more details see docs/manual/inputhandler.html.
+
+* <patch> has a new attribute that selects the directory in which to
+ run the command.
+
+* <javadoc> now supports two new nested elements, <fileset> and <packageset>.
+
+Changes from Ant 1.4 to Ant 1.4.1
+===========================================
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+
+* <ant>'s antfile attribute will now also be considered an absolute path on
+ Windows systems, if it starts with a \ and no drive specifier.
+
+* The fullpath attribute of <zipfileset> has been ignored if you used
+ the src attribute at the same time.
+
+* The manifest file is now always placed as the second entry (after /META-INF)
+ in generated jars. This allows the manifest to be read by JarInputStreams
+
+* Fixed bug in depend task which would fail with a NullPointerException if no
+ dependency cache was specified.
+
+* sql task now handles REM statements correctly so that lines starying with rem
+ but which are not comments are actually processed.
+
+* XMLLogger now uses the task's name rather than the classname
+
+* <mapper>s will now work as expected if the to pattern expands to an
+ absolute pathname.
+
+* <javac> didn't ignore memory settings in non-fork mode
+
+* <cab> didn't split the options attribute into several command line
+ arguments correctly.
+
+Other changes:
+--------------
+
+* New source attribute for <javac> to enable assertion in JDK 1.4
+
+* XmlLogger and <antstructure> now add an encoding declaration to the
+ XML files they generate.
+
+* <fileset> has a new attribute "casesensitive" to make it match
+ filenames in a case insensitive way (if you set it to false) - by
+ default filesets remain case sensitive.
+
+Changes from Ant 1.3 to Ant 1.4
+===========================================
+
+Changes that could break older environments:
+--------------------------------------------
+* JUnitReport now uses the xalan redirect extension for multi-output.
+ With Xalan 1.2.2 it forces the use of bsf.jar in the classpath.
+ (Available in the xalan distribution). It is recommended to switch
+ to Xalan 2.x that do not need it.
+
+* Zip.setWhenempty() has changed its signature.
+
+* <rmic> is now implemented using a factory. This makes extending
+ rmic to use a new compiler a lot easier but may break custom
+ versions of this task that rely on the old implementation.
+
+* several Zip methods have changed their signature as we now use a Zip
+ package of our own that handles Unix permissions for directories.
+ Furthermore <zip> will now use the platform's default character
+ encoding for filenames - this is consistent with the command line
+ ZIP tools, but causes problems if you try to open them from within
+ Java and your filenames contain non US-ASCII characters. Use the new
+ encoding attribute of the task and set it to UTF8 to get the old
+ behavior.
+
+* The <pvcs> task has been moved to a package of its own.
+
+* JUnitResultFormater has two additional methods that must be
+ implemented by custom formatters.
+
+* Ant will no longer use the canonical version of a path internally -
+ this may yield different results on filesystems that support
+ symbolic links.
+
+* The output generated by the xml formatter for <junit> has changed
+ again, it doesn't format the numeric value in the time attribute anymore.
+
+* Pattern matching rules have changes slightly, the pattern foo*
+ doesn't match files contained in a directory named foo - use foo/*
+ instead.
+
+* <fixcrlf> will not remove trailing whitespace at the end of lines anymore.
+
+* The Classloader usage has been changed for the taskdef, property, available
+ and sql tasks so that it delegates to the parent classloader. This may cause
+ ClassNotFoundExceptions to be thrown if a system class attempts to load a
+ class in the taskdef's classpath (typically factory objects).
+
+* Ant now allows multithreading of tasks and the containment of tasks within
+ other tasks. This can break customer listeners which do not expect messages
+ from a task before the previous task has finished.
+
+* Ant now installs its own ouput stream into System.out to route output to the
+ task currently executing on the current thread. This also means that all
+ output is now routed as Ant message events. Customer listeners and loggers
+ should not call System.out at any time. This has always been true but such
+ usage now will cause problems due to possible recursion.
+
+* Invalid manifest files will now cause build failures in the <jar> task.
+
+* Ant Introspection now looks for methods with method names starting with
+ addConfigured. When called these methods are passed an argument after it has
+ been configured from the build file. Custom tasks supporting nested elements
+ starting with the name configured will no longer function.
+
+* The environment variable JAVACMD that can be used to specify the
+ java executable to Ant's wrapper scripts must not contain additional
+ command line parameters any longer - please use the environment
+ variable ANT_OPTS for such parameters now.
+
+* Ant's wrapper scripts now quote the CLASSPATH environment variable, thus
+ supporting classpaths which refer to directories containing spaces. This means
+ that the CLASSPATH environment variable cannot have quotes. Any quotes should
+ be removed. This will not affect the operation of the CLASSPATH environment
+ variable in other contexts.
+
+* A delete task like
+ <delete includeEmptyFilesets="true">
+ <fileset dir="somedir" />
+ </delete>
+ will now remove "somedir" as well, unless there are still files left
+ in it (matched by the default excludes).
+
+* The copy task will now fail if the file to be copied is not found.
+
+* Ant properties defined in properties files now behave the same way as
+ properties defined in the build file. In particular the $ character needs
+ to be escaped in property values by doubling it to $$. So, to define a
+ property with the value $hello, you need to define it in a properties file
+ as
+ test.prop=$$hello
+ This was not the case in Ant 1.3
+
+Other changes:
+--------------
+
+* New tasks: ear, p4counter, record, cvspass, vsscheckin, vsscheckout,
+ typedef, sleep, mimemail, set of tasks for Continuus/Synergy, dependset,
+ condition, maudit, mmetrics, jpcoverage, jpcovreport, jpcovmerge
+
+* Ant now uses JAXP 1.1
+
+* rmic now supports Kaffe's and Weblogic's version of rmic.
+
+* new magic property build.rmic to chose the rmic implementation
+
+* <tar> will now add empty directories as well
+
+* you can now specify a description for <p4change>
+
+* <touch> can now work on <fileset>s
+
+* <uptodate> now supports a value attribute
+
+* <fail> supports nested text
+
+* <fixcrlf> won't override files that are already in the correct
+ format.
+
+* <sql> now supports REM comments as well as // and --
+
+* <jar> now has a nested <metainf> element following the same idea as
+ <war>'s <webinf>.
+
+* <pvcs> can now handle multiple projects.
+
+* <available> now has a "type" attribute you can use in conjunction
+ with the "file" attribute to specify whether the "file" you're
+ looking for is a file or a directory.
+
+* New <junit> formatter named "brief"
+
+* <ejbjar> changes
+ * Add support for Borland Application Server to the <ejbjar> task using
+ a <borland> nested element.
+ * Add support for iPlanet Application Server to the <ejbjar> task. Also
+ includes some iPlanet utility tasks
+ * Add support for JBoss Application Server to the <ejbjar> task.
+ * Add a naming attribute to control the naming scheme that
+ ejbjar uses to name the generated EJB jars.
+ * Weblogic element now sets the compiler class for EJB 2.0 beans
+ * <dtd> elements can be specified at the <ejbjar> level for building generic
+ beans
+ * <dtd> elements can now be URLs
+ * Allow the manifest to be specified for the generated jars
+ * The weblogic element now supprts an attribte noEJBC to skip the processing
+ of the jar by ejbc. The ejbc step will then occur at deployment
+ * weblogic will tell ejbc to use Jikes compiler if build.compiler is set to
+ jikes. It can be restored to the default, javac, operation if desired.
+
+* Allow the <sql> Delimiter to be set in the so that Oracle stored procs may be
+ entered
+
+* <execon> and <apply> can now optionally skip empty filesets.
+
+* <javadoc> has a new useexternalfile attribute that makes it use a
+ temporary file for sourcefile and package names - helps to defeat
+ command line length limitations.
+
+* Data types like <path> can now be defined inside of <target>s
+
+* you can now specify a classpath for <style> - the XSLZ processor
+ will be loaded from this path
+
+* added a force attribute to <style> to support dependencies that the
+ task cannot determine itself (dependency on parameters, not file
+ modification times for example)
+
+* added vmlauncher attribute to exec tasks. This defaults to true. If
+ it is set to false, the VM's ability to launch commands in bypassed
+ and the OS shell, either directly or through the auxillary antRun
+ scripts is used.
+
+* regexp mapper now supports the java.util.regex package of JDK 1.4.
+
+* New filesonly attribute for <zip> and friends to suppress directory
+ entries.
+
+* New update attribute for <zip> and friends - update an existing
+ archive instead of creating a new one.
+
+* <apply> and <execon> have been merged into a single task.
+
+* added vssver.scc to the default excludes
+
+* <available> has a new filepath attribute/nested element that allows
+ you top search for a file in a given path.
+
+* <junit> can now optionally set a property on test failure.
+
+* <taskdef> can now define several tasks at once, reading the
+ name/classname pairs from a property file or resource.
+
+* <unzip/unjar/unwar> and <untar> now have an overwrite attribute that
+ defaults to true. If set to false, files that are newer than the
+ files in the archive will not be replaced.
+
+* <patternset> and <fileset> now support nested <in/excludesfile>
+ elements - using these you can have more than one in/excludes file
+ per <patternset>.
+
+* Three new supported compilers for javac: kjc for kopi, gcj for the
+ gcc frontend and sj for Symantec's compiler.
+ In addition extJavac or the new fork attribute can be
+ used to run the JDK's javac in a JVM separate from Ant.
+
+* <fixrlf> can now with CR only line-ends and can use an arbitraty
+ between 2 and 80.
+
+* The .NET tasks have been adapted to the beta2 release of the framework.
+
+* <move> will now try to rename() files before copying them byte by
+ byte - only if filtering is of, of course.
+
+* <ant> and <antcall> tasks now support a new attribute inheritAll. When set to
+ false, only user properties are passed through to the target Ant instance.
+ This includes properties set on the command line and properties explicitly
+ passed
+
+* <javadoc> now skips off line links if the package list cannot be found.
+
+* <wlrun> now allows the security policy file to exist outside the weblogic
+ directory.
+
+* <java> task will set the Thread contextClassLoader under JDKs 1.2+ to the
+ classloader for the class being executed.
+
+* Introduce the concept of a TaskContainer - a task or element which can contain
+ Ant Tasks.
+
+* Add new tasks implementing the TaskContainer interface <parallel> and
+ <sequential> which allow parallel execution of tasks to be specified.
+
+* <depend> task will now take into account dependencies on jar files and class
+ files from a given classpath.
+
+* <jar> manifest entries may now be specified in the build file either
+ completely or to be merged with a manifest file.
+
+* <tstamp> task custom formats now support locales.
+
+* Added a listner which will forward events to Log4J. The log4j configuration
+ file should be in the directory from which Ant is run or passed as a system
+ property using a JVM argument.
+
+* Introduced the concept of <filtersets> to allow for more control in which
+ filters get applied in a <copy> or <move> operation.
+
+* Added nowarn attribute to javac and deprecated the Jikes-magic property
+ build.compiler.warnings.
+
+* The <depend> task cache format has changed and all dependency information is
+ now stored in a single file.
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+
+* Testcases have been made independent of current working directory.
+
+* Input ZIP-Files will be closed when using a <zipfileset>.
+
+* p4 tasks now don't fail if user, port or client have been omitted
+ (and this is acceptable for the context of the command).
+
+* <javah>'s outputfile attribute will be resolved as relative to the
+ projects basedir.
+
+* <antstructure> should create a valid DTD for propertyfile.operation.entry
+ and omit tasks it fails to load.
+
+* won't try to pass a -bootclasspath flag to javac 1.1 anymore
+
+* <style>'s style attribute no handles absolute paths correctly.
+
+* <delete includeemptydirs="true"> now deletes more than just the leaf
+ directories.
+
+* You can now specify a <fileset> for a directory that doesn't exist at
+ declaration time but will created before the fileset gets used for the
+ first time.
+
+* If the quiet attribute has been set, <delete> will handle <fileset>s
+ with non-existing directories gracefully.
+
+* Output written by testcases will now be captured by the <junit> task
+ and passed to the formatters.
+
+* Quote the -group parameter to Javadoc as per the specification
+
+* Initialise classes when loaded through the AntClassLoader - that is, run
+ static initializers
+
+* Implement getResource() and getResources() in AntClassLoader
+
+* Create the <ejbjar> weblogic command line as a set of arguments rather than
+ as a single line. Avoids problems with paths which contain spaces.
+
+* <ejbjar> now fails when the weblogic ejbc compiler reports an error.
+
+* Make the AntClassLoader load resources in the same order as it currently
+ loads classes.
+
+* Handle classpaths with spaces
+
+* Make sure XSLT processors close their output files in <style>.
+
+* perform proper uptodate check in <rmic> when compiling for IIOP.
+
+* <jjtree>'s uptodate test works even if outputdirectory is not the
+ parent dir of target
+
+* <copy> will remove target file (if it exists) before writing to it -
+ this avoids problems with links on filesystems that support them.
+
+* <ftp> now properly recurses remote directories.
+
+* <ftp> closes remote connection when it's done.
+
+* <junit> tries to include all necessary classes for the task itself
+ to the classpath when running in fork mode - doesn't work for JDK 1.1
+
+* <apply> and <execon> do now execute the command only once, if you
+ specify the parallel attribute - instead of once per fileset.
+
+* directory based tasks and fileset could miss some included files in
+ directories that have been excluded
+
+* <fixcrlf> failed for large files.
+
+* <move> removed files you tried to move to themselves.
+
+* <sql> task will not trty to print the result set unless the query succeeded.
+
+* Ant classloader will now ignore paths which are invalid relative to the
+ project base
+
+* <ejbjar> weblogic elements check for jar file changes has been fixed.
+ Previously some changes would not be included.
+
+* properties loaded from properties files are now resolved internally. This
+ removes the spurious warnings about usage of properties which have not been
+ set.
+
+* <jar> task and friends now process the JAR manifest to ensure it is valid.
+
+* The task finished event now includes any exception thrown by the task.
+
+* <java> task now supports a jvmVersion attribute so that if another JVM is
+ being used, Ant can determine which options to use for features such as the
+ VM memory limits
+
+
+Changes from Ant 1.2 to Ant 1.3
+===========================================
+
+Changes that could break older environments:
+--------------------------------------------
+
+* Ant doesn't search for the buildfile anymore, unless you use the new
+ -find argument.
+
+* <perforce> has been replaced by a number of new tasks.
+
+* <javac> is now implemented using a factory. This makes extending
+ javac to use a new compiler a lot easier but may break custom
+ versions of this task that rely on the old implementation.
+
+* The output generated by the xml formatter for <junit> has changed a
+ little, it doesn't append " sec" in the time attribute anymore.
+
+Other changes:
+--------------
+
+* A GUI Frontend: Antidote. This is currently in development. At this
+ time, this is not part of the Ant release, although the source is
+ included if you are interested.
+
+* New tasks: stylebook, propertyfile, depend, antlr, telnet, csc,
+ ilasm, apply, javah, several clearcase tasks, junitreport, sound
+
+* Added output attribute to <java>.
+
+* Added nested zipfileset element to <zip>
+
+* Changed <sql> so that printing is at the task level rather than
+ the statement level.
+
+* javadoc task will pass -d flag to any doclet if the destDir attribute is
+ given. If the doclet does not accept the -d flag then omit the destdir
+ attribute.
+
+* <cab> can work on non-Windows platforms with the help of libcabinet.
+ See http://trill.cis.fordham.edu/~barbacha/cabinet_library/.
+
+* <ftp> now supports passive mode.
+
+* New <mapper> data type that can be used to get influence on the
+ target files for some tasks like <copy> or enable new types of tasks
+ like <apply>.
+
+* <execon> provides more control over the command line now, the names
+ of the source files are no longer required to be at the end of the
+ command.
+
+* Style tasks will now support TraX compliant XSL processors if one is present
+ in your classpath.
+
+* Added a failonerror to the javac task. If set to false, the build will
+ continue even if there are compilation errors.
+
+* Added nested format elements to the tstamp task allowing additional time
+ formats to be defined for arbitrary properties.
+
+* Added classpath attribute and nested classpath element to <property>
+ to make the resource attribute more powerful.
+
+* ${} property expansion will now be performed on the patterns read
+ from files specified as includesfile or excludesfile attributes.
+
+* The <tar> and <untar> tasks now support GNU format for handling paths
+ which are greater than 100 characters in length. In addition the <tar>
+ task now supports nested filesets through which the file permissions
+ may be controlled.
+
+* wlrun, wlstop and ejbjar now support Weblogic 6.0
+
+* The MPasre task has been updated to work with MParse 2.0
+
+* The documentation has been significantly updated.
+
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+
+* <signjar> doesn't use deprectated methods anymore.
+
+* javadoc's failonerror attribute works again
+
+* javadoc's additionalparam attribute will now be split into separate
+ parameters (on spaces) to allow for more than one parameter.
+
+* Changed <sql> task so that printing result sets works on Oracle
+
+* Changes to ddcreator and ejbc helper to respect the descriptor hierarchy
+ keppgenerated in ejbc can now be turned off
+
+* ejbjar now correctly ignores <ejb-ref> elements in the deployment descriptor.
+ CMP files are included by parsing the weblogic deployment descriptor rather
+ than relying on the naming convention used in ant 1.2
+
+* ejbjar includes super classes and super interfaces into the generated ejb
+ jar files. The <support> nested element allows support classes to be
+ included in the EJB jar. The toplink element should now correctly locate
+ the toplink descriptor.
+
+* <vssget> now correctly deals with spaces in arguments
+
+* <jar> fails early if a given manifest file doesn't exist
+
+* <rmic> doesn't search for the _Skel file anymore when stubversion is
+ set to 1.2.
+
+* <rmic> uses the the same classpath to verify a class can be rmic'd
+ as it passes to the compiler.
+
+* org.apache.tools.mail.MailMessage (and therefore <mail>) can now
+ handle SMTP servers sending multi line responses.
+
+* nested <classpath> elements of <taskdef> now work for <taskdef>s not
+ nested into <target> as well.
+
+* <property> and <available> will search for the resource "foo" instead
+ of "/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/foo" when given a relative resource
+ name foo.
+
+* Handle build files in directories whose name contained a "#" character
+
+* <junit> can now log to files whose name contains a comma as well.
+
+* The AntClassLoader now refers to the loader which loaded it, any
+ requests it does not handle itself. Previously these went to the
+ primordial loader.
+
+Changes from Ant 1.1 to Ant 1.2
+===============================
+
+Changes that could break older environments:
+--------------------------------------------
+
+* Semantics of <property> has changed again in the hope to be more
+intuitive. ${} expansion now happens at runtime and <property> tags
+living inside of targets only take effect if they are visited at
+runtime.
+
+As a side effect of this change, task's attributes get set at runtime
+not at parser time as well, which might change the results of
+<script>s or other custom tasks that reference other tasks by their id
+attribute.
+
+* copying of support files in <javac> has been removed - as well as
+the filtering attribute.
+
+* the <expand> and <keysubst> tasks have been removed.
+
+* the ignore and items attributes of directory based tasks have been removed.
+
+* the command line switches _not_ starting with - have been removed.
+
+* Path and EnumeratedAttribute have been moved from
+org.apache.tools.ant to org.apache.tools.ant.types.
+
+* the class attributes of <available>, <java>, <rmic> and <taskdef>
+have been removed.
+
+* the src attribute of <chmod> has been removed.
+
+* <patch> and <javadoc> have lost some of their attributes.
+
+* <java> and <cvs> have lost some undocumented attributes.
+
+* the Unix antRun script would search for command.sh in the directory
+it changed to and invoke this instead of command if present. This
+behavior has been dropped.
+
+* <ejbjar> task syntax has been changed significantly
+
+* <exec> is no longer implemented by org.apache.tool.ant.taskdefs.Exec.
+Custom tasks that rely on Project.createTask("exec") to return an
+instance of this class are going to fail.
+
+* nested <include> and <exclude> elements expect the value of their
+name attribute to be a single pattern, they don't accept multiple
+patterns anymore. Split them into multiple elements of the same type.
+
+* <delete dir="somedir" /> will now delete the directory itself as
+well as all included files. If you just want to clean out the
+directory and keep the empty one, use a nested fileset.
+
+Other changes:
+--------------
+
+* New tasks: antstructure, cab, execon, fail, ftp, genkey, jlink,
+junit, sql, javacc, jjtree, starteam, war, unwar, uptodate,
+native2ascii, copy, move, mparse.
+
+* copydir, copyfile, deltree and rename are now deprecated. They
+should be replaced with the new copy, delete and move tasks.
+
+* <java> uses a ClassLoader of its own in no-fork mode if a classpath is
+specified.
+
+* <style> will create the necessary target directories and reprocess
+all files if the stylesheet changes.
+
+* New data types fileset and patternset - expected to get a broader use.
+They, as well as PATH like structures, can now be defined on a global
+level and later be referenced by their id attribute.
+
+* You can specify environment variables to <exec>.
+
+* <get> can check whether a remote file is actually newer than a local
+copy before it starts a download (HTTP only).
+
+* Added a -logger option to allow the class which performs logging to be
+specified on the command line.
+
+* Added a -emacs option to tell the logger to leave out taskname adornments
+on log output.
+
+* <chmod> works on all files in parallel and supports multiple filesets.
+
+* <replace> can now use tokens and/or values that cross line boundaries.
+
+* build.compiler supports now jvc as well.
+
+* project specific help can now be obtained with the -projecthelp option.
+
+* Added a -debug option to make -verbose less verbose (and more useful)
+
+* Ant will now search for a file named build.xml in the parent directory
+and above (towards the root of the filesystem) if you didn't specify
+-buildfile and there is no build.xml in the current directory.
+
+* <echo> can now write to a file and accepts nested text.
+
+Fixed bugs:
+-----------
+
+* <chmod> didn't work when used as a directory based task.
+
+* Path, Available, Property didn't resolve relative filenames with
+respect to the Project's basedir.
+
+* Project didn't interpret the basedir attribute correctly in all
+cases.
+
+* Nested <src> in <javac> caused NullPointerException.
+
+* Corrupt Zip- and Jar-files ar now deleted if the task fails.
+
+* many more fixes we've forgotten to document here ...
+
+* The packagelistloc attribute of <javadoc>'s <link> child will be
+ resolved as a file (i.e. it is either absolute or relative to
+ basedir).
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