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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 { remained { rather than being turned - into &#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 - - * <apply>'s srcfile and targetfile child elements can now have - optional prefix and suffix attributes. - Bugzilla Report 45625 - - * <jar> has a new attribute to enable indexing of META-INF - directories which is disabled for backwards compatibility reasons. - Bugzilla Report 47457 - - * <apt>'s executable attribute can be used to specify a different - executable. - Bugzilla Report 46230. - - * <rmic>'s new executable attribute can be used to specify a - different executable. - Bugzilla Report 42132. - - * <javac>, <rmic>, <javah> and <native2ascii> now provide a nested - element to specify a classpath that will be used when loading the - task's (compiler) adapter class. - Bugzilla Report 11143. - - * <javac>, <rmic>, <javah> and <native2ascii> now provide a nested - element to specify the task's (compiler) adapter as an instance of - a class that has been defined via typedef/componentdef. This - allows more control over the classpath and allows adapters to be - defined in Antlibs easily. - - * A new subclass org.apache.tools.ant.loader.AntClassLoader5 of - AntClassLoader has been added which overrides getResources - which became non-final in ClassLoader with Java5+ so - this method now behaves as expected. - The new subclass will be used by Ant internally if it is available - and Ant is running on Java5 or more recent. - Bugzilla Report 46752. - - * a new attributes can chose a different request method than GET for - the http condition. - Bugzilla Report 30244 - - * <splash> now supports a configurable display text and a regular - expression based way to determine progress based on logged messages. - Bugzilla Report 39957. - - * the number of retries on error in <get> is now configurable. <get> - can be told to not download files that already exist locally. - Bugzilla Report 40058. - - * Ant now builds against commons-net 2.0 as well. - Bugzilla Report 47669. - - * A new nested element connectionProperty of <sql> allows setting of - arbitrary JDBC connection properties. - Bugzilla Report 33452. - - * A new islastmodified condition can check the last modified date of - resources. - - * <rmic> has a new destDir attribute that allows generated files to - be written to a different location than the original classes. - Bugzilla Report 20699. - - * <rmic> has a new listfiles attribute similar to the existing one of - <javac>. - Bugzilla Report 24359. - - * It is now possible to suppress the "FAILED" lines sent to Ant's - logging system via <junit>'s new logFailedTests attribute. - Bugzilla Report 35073. - - * <propertyfile> now can delete entries. - - * The <resources> resource collection can now optionally cache its - contents. - - * A new <resourceexists> condition can check whether resources exists. - - * <sql> has two new attributes errorproperty and warningproperty that - can be set if an error/warning occurs. - Bugzilla Report 38807. - - * <sql> has a new attribute rowcountproperty that can be used to set - a property to the number of rows affected by a task execution. - Bugzilla Report 40923. - - * when Ant copies files without filtering, it will now use NIO - channels. - Bugzilla Report 30094. - - * <get> has a new attribute that can be used to disable caching on - HTTP connections at the HttpUrlConnection level. - Bugzilla Report 41891. - - * <tar> and <zip> (and tasks derived from <zip>) will now create the - parent directory of the destination archive if it doesn't exist. - Bugzilla Report 45377. - - * A new filterreader <sortfilter> that sorts input lines has been - added. - Bugzilla Report 40504. - - * A new token filter <uniqfilter> that suppresses tokens that match - their ancestor token has been added. - - * <rootfileset>s nested into <classfileset>s can now use a dir - attribute different from the <classfileset>. - Bugzilla Report 37763. - - * <path> can now optionally cache its contents. - - * <property> can now specify values as nested text. - Bugzilla Report 32917. - - * a new parentFirst attribute on <javaresource> allows resources to - be loaded from the specified classpath rather than the system - classloader. - Bugzilla Report 41369. - - * <property location="from" basedir="to" relative="true"/> can now - calculate relative paths. - - * The <name> selector supports a new handleDirSep attribute that - makes it ignore differences between / and \ separators. - Bugzilla Report 47858. - - * <get> now supports resource collections (as long as the resources - contained provide URLs) and can get multiple resources in a single - task. - - * <import> can now import non-File resources if they provide an URL - - as the <url> and <javaresource> resources do. - Bugzilla Report 29251 - - * <import> can now import multiple resources specified as resource - collections. - Bugzilla Report 22269. - - * a new <resourcelist> type is similar to <filelist> but can read the - list of resources from non-file resources and may return resources - that are not files. - - * a new filterreader appendtolines complements prefixlines. - - * a new top level element extension-point allows build files to be - extended with custom targets more easily. - -Changes from Ant 1.7.0 TO Ant 1.7.1 -============================================= - -Changes that could break older environments: -------------------------------------------- - -* String resources only have properties single expanded. If you relied on - <string> resources being expanded more than once, it no longer happens. - Bugzilla report 42277. - -* A String resource's encoding attribute was only taken into account when - set from the resource's OutputStream; the InputStream provided the String's - binary content according to the platform's default encoding. Behavior has - been modified to encode outgoing (InputStream) content as well as encoding - incoming (OutputStream) content. - -* <java> with fork now returns gives -1 instead of 0 as result when failonerror - is false and some exception (including timeout) occurs. Br 42377. - -* ant-type attribute has been marked as deprecated and a warning has been - issued if it is encountered in the build file. - -Fixed bugs: ------------ - -* The default logger was failing to print complete stack traces for exceptions - other than BuildException, thus omitting often important diagnostic - information. Bugzilla 43398. - -* Error in FTP task - Bugzilla report 41724 - -* Regression: Locator fails with URI encoding problem when spaces in path - Bugzilla report 42222 - -* Regression in Locator: running Ant off a network share does not work: - message "URI has authority component" appears - Bugzilla report 42275 - -* Improvements in AntClassLoader Speed. - Bugzilla report 42259 - -* Error in handling of some permissions, most notably the AllPermission on - jdk 1.5 - Bugzilla report 41776 - -* Replace task summary output incorrect. - Bugzilla report 41544 - -* Dependset crashes ant when timestamp on files change during Dependset - execution. - Bugzilla report 41284 - -* Bug in org.apache.tools.ant.types.resources.comparators.Date - Bugzilla report 41411 - -* <junit> in Ant 1.7.0 could throw NPE if no <classpath> was defined. - Bugzilla report 41422. - -* In Ant 1.7.0, <fileset> in <javadoc> does not by default include only - **/*.java as the documentation claims and earlier revisions did. - Bugzilla report 41264. - -* SPI support in jar was broken. - Bugzilla report 41201. - -* jsch-0.1.30 causes SCP task to hang - Bugzilla report 41090. - -* Target from imported file listed twice in projecthelp. - Bugzilla report 41226. - -* <sql> task double-expands properties if expandproperties is true, - and expands properties if expandproperties is false. - Bugzilla report 41204. - -* Rolling back Bugzilla 32927 (set a default description for a javadoc tag - if not set) as it caused a BC problem. - Bugzilla report 41268. - -* <apt> forks properly and so memory settings are picked up. - Bug report 41280. - -* Regression: NPE was thrown when using <pathconvert> against a - (third-party instantiated) fileset with null Project reference. - -* Strip out all -J arguments to non forking rmic adapters, specifically - the Sun and Weblogic compilers. - Bug report 41349 - -* Synchonization issues in PropertyHelper. Bugzilla 41353. - -* <concat binary="true" append="true"> did not append. Bugzilla 41399. - -* -autoproxy turns Java1.5+ automatic proxy support on. Bugzilla 41904 - -* Handle null result of system getProperty(). Bugzilla 42334. - -* Regression: concat fixlastline="true" should not have applied to - nested text, but did in Ant 1.7.0. Bugzilla 42369. - -* Regression: ant.version was not passed down in <ant>, <subant>. - This worked in Ant 1.6.5, but not in 1.7.0. - ant.core.lib (added in 1.7.0) was also not being propagated. - Bugzilla bug 42263 - -* Regression: bzip2 task created corrupted output files for some inputs. - Bugzilla bug 41596. - -* Regression: <available> with <filepath> did not work. - Bugzilla 42735. - -* ant script, cd may output to stdout. - Bugzilla 42739. - -* Modified selector doesn't update the cache if only one file has changed. - Bugzilla 42802. - -* Regression: Path subclasses that overrode list() stopped working in - resourceCollection contexts in Ant 1.7.0. Bugzilla 42967. - -* <property> supports loading from xml based property definition. - Bugzilla 42946 - -* <junit> supports collecting and rerunning failed test cases - (textXXX methods). Bugzilla 42984. - -* War task failed with "No WEB-INF/web.xml file was added" when called - a second time. Bugzilla 43121. - -* FilterMapper could throw an NPE. - Bugzilla 43292. - -* Regession nested macrodefs with elements could cause StackOverFlow. - Bugzilla 43324. - -* Some changes to <junit> broke third party tasks that extend it (like - Apache Cactus' Ant task). The changes have been modified so that - subclases should now work again - without any changes to the - subclass. - -Other changes: --------------- - -* Various small optimizations speed up common tasks such as <javac> on large - filesets, reducing both I/O and CPU usage. - -* Profiling logger has been added with basic profiling capabilities. - -* <script> now has basic support for JavaFX scripts - -* SSH task can now take a command parameter containing the commands to execute. - This allows you to connect to a server and execute a number of commands - without constantly reconnecting for each command. - -* Upgraded XML API to XML commons version 1.3.04. - -* Upgraded to Xerces 2.9.0 - -* <script> can now work with bsf.jar and js.jar in its <classpath>. - -* add errorProperty and updatedProperty to <javac> - Bugzilla 35637 and 28941. - -* add classpathref attribute to <whichresource> - Bugzilla 41158. - -* reduce logging noise of <apply skipemptyfilesets="true"> - Bugzilla 29154 - -* Show Previous Revision in the tagdiff.xsl stylesheet - Bugzilla 29143 - -* Allow <mapper refid> to refer directly to a FileNameMapper instance. - -* If you try and use a type in a namespace (or an antlib), and the type is not - recognized but there are other definitions in that namespace, Ant lists what - the known definitions are. This helps you find spelling errors. - -* Add a <last> resource collection, corresponding to <first>. - -* Add new <truncate> task. - -* <junitreport> xsl stylesheets allow setting the title used in <title> and <h1> tags by - using <report><param> element. Bugzilla 41742. - -* Add IgnoreDependenciesExecutor for weird cases when the user wants to run - only the targets explicitly specified. - -* Patternset allows nested inverted patternsets using <invert>. - -* <manifest> checks for validity of attribute names. - -* JUnitVersionHelper.getTestCaseClassName is now public. Bugzilla 42231 - -* <string> resource supports nested text. Bugzilla bug 42276 - -* <scriptdef> now sources scripts from nested resources/resource collections. This lets you - define scripts in JARs, remote URLs, or any other supported resource. Bugzilla report 41597. - -* <concat> is now usable as a single-element ResourceCollection. - -* It is now possible to provide the value of a <striplinecomments> filter's - <comment> nested element as nested text instead of using the 'value' - attribute. - -* A new logger, BigProjectLogger, lists the project name with every target - -* Default text added to macrodef. Bugzilla report 42301. - -* "rawblobs" attribute added to SQL task. - -* Add new retry task container. - -* <jar> has a new strict attribute that checks if the jar complies with - the jar packaging version specification. - -* <javac> has a new attribute - includeDestClasses. - Bugzilla 40776. - -* <fileset> has a new attribute - errorOnMissingDir. - Bugzilla 11270. - -* <javac> handles package-info.java files, there were repeatedly compiled. - Bugzilla 43114. - -* SecureInputHandler added to use Java 6 System.console().readPassword() - when available. - -Changes from Ant 1.6.5 to Ant 1.7.0 -=================================== - -Changes that could break older environments: -------------------------------------------- - -* Initial support for JDK 6 (JSR 223) scripting. - <*script*> tasks will now use javax.scripting if BSF is - not available, or if explicitly requested by using - a "manager" attribute. - -* Removed launcher classes from nodeps jar. - -* <classconstants> filter reader uses ISO-8859-1 encoding to read - the java class file. Bugzilla report 33604. - -* Defer reference process. Bugzilla 36955, 34458, 37688. - This may break build files in which a reference was set in a target which was - never executed. Historically, Ant would set the reference early on, during parse - time, so the datatype would be defined. Now it requires the reference to have - been in a bit of the build file which was actually executed. If you get - an error about an undefined reference, locate the reference and move it somewhere - where it is used, or fix the depends attribute of the target in question to - depend on the target which defines the reference/datatype. - As a result of testing on real live build scripts, a fall-back mechanism - was put it place to allow references that are out-of-band to be resolved. If - this happens a big warning message is logged. This fall-back mechanism will - be removed in Ant 1.8.0. - -* <script> and <scriptdef> now set the current thread context. - -* Unrestrict the dbvendor names in the websphere element of the ejbjar task. - Bugzilla Report 40475. - -* <env> nested element in <java>, <exec> and others is now case-insensitive - for windows OS. Bugzilla Report 28874. - -* Removed support for xalan1 completely. Users of Xalan1 for Ant builds will - have to stay at ant 1.6.5 or upgrade to xalan2. - -* Use org.apache.log4j.Logger instead of org.apache.log4j.Category. - Category has been deprecated for ~2 years and has been removed from - the log4j code. Logger was introduced in log4j 1.2 so users of - log4j 1.1 and log4j 1.0 need to upgrade to a newer version of log4j. - Bugzilla Report 31951. - -* build.sysclasspath now also affects the bootclasspath handling of - spawned Java VMs. If you set build.sysclasspath to anything other - than "ignore" (or leave it unset, since "ignore" is the default when - it comes to bootclasspath handling), then the bootclasspath of the - VM running Ant will be added to the bootclasspath you've specified. - -* The <java fork="false"> now as per default installs a security manager - using the default permissions. This is now independent of the - failonerror attribute. Bugzilla report 33361. - -* <signjar> now notices when the jar and signedjar are equal, and switches - to the same dependency logic as when signedjar is omitted. This may break - something that depended upon signing in this situation. However, since - invoking the JDK jarsigner program with -signedjar set to the source jar - actually crashes the JVM on our (Java1.5) systems, we don't think any - build files which actually worked will be affected by the change. - -* <signjar> used to ignore a nested fileset when a jar was also provided as an - attribute, printing a warning message; now it signs files in the fileset. - -* An improved method of handling timestamp granularity differences between - client and server was added to the <ftp> task. FTP servers typically - have HH:mm timestamps whereas local filesystems have HH:mm:ss timestamps. - Previously, this required tweaking with the timediffmillis attribute - which also was used to handle timezone differences. Now, there is a new - timestampgranularity attribute. The default value for get operations is 0 - since the user has the more powerful preservelastmodified attribute to work - with. Since this is not available on put operations the default value - adds a minute to the server timestamp in order to account for this, - Scripts which previously used timediffmillis to do this compensation may - need to be rewritten. timediffmillis has now been deprecated. - -* Support for the XSL:P XML parser has been removed. - Bugzilla Report 23455. - -* Visual Age for Java optional tasks removed as the required library is no - longer available. - -* Testlet (test) optional task removed as the required library is no - longer available. - -* IContract optional task removed as the required library is no - longer available. - -* Metamata (maudit, mmetrics, and mparse tasks) removed as the required - library is no longer available. - -* Sitraka (jpcoverage, jpcovmerge, jpcovreport) tasks suppressed as the - required library is no longer available. - -* <fixcrlf> used \r (Mac) line endings on OS X, whose proper line separator - is \n (Unix). Bugzilla report 39585. - -* <scp> now optionally supports the sftp protocol, you may need a - newer jsch.jar. Bugzilla Report 39373. - -* Ant launcher program prints errors to stderr, and exits with a 2 exit code - value if, for any reason, it cannot actually start Ant proper. This will only - affect programs/scripts that called the launcher and which did not want to - receive an error if Ant itself would not start - -* All .NET tasks are now deprecated in favor of the new .NET Antlib: - http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/dotnet/index.html - -Fixed bugs: ------------ -* Directory deletion did not work properly. - Bugzilla 40972. - -* docletpath attribute of javadoc was ignored. - Bugzilla 40900. - -* Fixed incorrect recursion in DOMUtil.listChildNodes(). - Bugzilla 40918. - -* CompressedResource.compareTo() did not - take comparison with another CompressedResource into account. - Bugzilla 40949. - -* Avoid possible NPE in Jar.java. - Bugzilla 40847. - -* regression in attribute prefix (+ others) for refid in zipfileset and tarfileset. - Bugzilla 41004, 30498. - -* dependset failed if the basedir of a target fileset did not exist. - Bugzilla 40916. - -* Recursive filtering encountered NullPointerExceptions under certain - circumstances. Bugzilla 41086. - -* XmlProperty overrides previously set property value when handling duplicate - elements. Bugzilla 41080. - -* Having many tasks causes OOM. Bugzilla 41049. - -* Regression: <path> was evaluating nested content only once, so that it could - not e.g. pick up files that didn't exist the first time through. - Bugzilla 41151. - -* OOM caused by IH holding on to classes and thus their classloaders. - Bugzilla 28283 and 33061. - -* <delete> doesn't delete when defaultexcludes="false" and no includes is set - fixed. Bugzilla 40313. - -* Behavior change of DirectoryScanner/AbstractFileset when conditional include - patterns are used. Bugzilla 40722. - -* <javac> fails with NPE when compiling with eclipse ecj 3.1.x. - Bugzilla 40839. - -* JUnitTestRunner had a NPE when unable to create parser, the exception - containing the error did not get reported. Bugzilla 36733. - -* <checksum> with file and todir option failed. Bugzilla report 37386. - -* <path location="loc"> was broken (Regression from beta1). - Bugzilla report 40547. - -* Nested fileset in <cab> did not work. Bugzilla report 39439. - -* The ant wrapper script should now correctly locate the java - executable in more recent IBM JDKs for AIX as well. - -* URLResource did not close jar files, and also did not disconnect HTTPConnection (s). - -* Error calling junitreport. Bugzilla 40595. - -* <junittask/> created junitvmwatcher*.properties files but did not close and delete them. - -* <xmlproperty> did not create properties for empty leaf elements. - Bugzilla report 26286. - -* UnknownElement.maybeConfigure always configured. - Bugzilla report 40641. - -* No check for refid when prefix attribute is set in zipfileset. - Bugzilla report 30498. - -* Fix for junit4 issue introduced since beta2. - Bugzilla report 40682. - -* Error in duplicate project name with <import> and <antcall>. - Bugzilla report 39920. - -* junit4 did not work with fork=no and junit4 in $ANT_HOME/lib. - Bugzilla report 40697. - -* PathConvert on Windows should process forward and back slashes equivalently. - Bugzilla report 32884. - -* ant.bat now looks in %USERPROFILE% and %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% in addition to - %HOME% for pre/post batch files. Bugzilla report 39298. - -* The inheritance hierarchy of the legacy <path> type was changed; code built - against Ant 1.7 would therefore no longer execute on older versions of Ant. - Since <path> is historically heavily used this was undesirable, and since it - is also avoidable, the change to <path>'s taxonomy was reverted. - -* <zip filesonly="true"> included empty directories. Bugzilla report 40258. - -* Invalid hash code of Target causes XmlLogger to fail. - Bugzilla report 40207. - -* Macro element did not include top level Text. Bugzilla report 36803. - -* AntClassLoader did not isolate resources when isolate was set. Bugzilla report 38747. - -* Diagnostics broken when using java 1.4. Bugzilla report 40395. - -* Exception reporting in <copy> was broken. Bugzilla report 40300. - -* Handling of corrupt tar files, TarInputStream.read() never returns EOF. - Bugzilla report 39924. - -* Some bugs in ReaderInputStream. Bugzilla report 39635. - -* <antlr> did not recognise whether the target is up-to-date for html option. - Bugzilla report 38451. - -* Documented minimal version of jsch now 0.1.29. - Bugzilla report 40333. - -* <available> searched parent directories for files. - Bugzilla report 37148. - -* The build could be halted if a file path contained more ".." components than - the actual depth of the preceding path. Now such paths are left - alone (meaning they will likely be treated as nonexistent - files). Bugzilla Report 40281. - -* Converting a <dirset> to a string was broken. Bugzilla Report 39683. - -* Manifests have improved line length handling, taking care of encoding. - Bug reports 37548 / 34425. - -* <manifest> now closes the inputstream explicitly. Bug report 39628. - -* <rpm> now also correctly searches the first element of the path. - Bug report 39345. - -* ant.bat now handles classpath set to "". Bug report 38914. - -* <junit> now supports JUnit 4. Bugzilla Report 38811. - -* <junit> can now work with junit.jar in its <classpath>. Bugzilla - Report 38799. - -* Some potential NullPointerExceptions, Bugzilla Reports 37765 and 38056. - -* Problem when adding multiple filter files, Bugzilla Report 37341. - -* Problem referencing jars specified by Class-Path attribute in manifest - of a ant task jar file, when this ant task jar file is located in - a directory with space, Bugzilla Report 37085. - -* Backward incompatible change in ZipFileSet, Bugzilla Report 35824. - -* Wrong replacement of file separator chars prevens junitbatchtest - from running correctly on files from a zipfileset. Bugzilla Report 35499. - -* Calling close twice on ReaderInputStream gave a nullpointer exception. - Bugzilla Report 35544. - -* Memory leak from IntrospectionHelper.getHelper(Class) in embedded - environments. Bugzilla Report 30162. - -* Translate task does not remove tokens when a key is not found. - It logs a verbose message. Bugzilla Report 13936. - -* Incorrect task name with invalid "javac" task after a "presetdef". - Bugzilla reports 31389 and 29499. - -* <manifest> was not printing warnings about invalid manifest elements. - Bugzilla report 32190. - -* <replace> got out of memory on large files (part of report 32566). - <replace> can now handle files as long as there is enough disk space - available. - -* Commandline.describeCommand() methods would attempt to describe - arguments even when none, other than the executable name, were present. - -* Create signjar's helper ExecTask instance directly rather than by - typedef discovery mechanisms. Bugzilla report 33433. - -* FileUtils.resolveFile() promised to return absolute files but - did not always do so. - -* <ftp> failed to retrieve a file when the path towards the file contained - an element starting with . Bugzilla report 33770. - -* "<rmic> always compiles on Java1.5" bugzilla report=33862. Fixed default - stub version to always be "compat", even on Java1.5+. - -* The .NET compilation tasks failed if filenames given as references - contained spaces. Bugzilla Report 27170. - -* SQL task would try access result sets of statements that didn't - return any, causing problems with Informix IDS 9.2 and IBM DB2 8.1 - FixPak 6 (or later). Bugzilla Reports 27162 and 29954. - -* Task.init() was called twice for most tasks. Bugzilla Report 34411. - -* JavaTest testcases sometimes fail on windows. Bugzilla Report 34502. - -* Targets with identical name work in imported project. Bugzilla Report 34566. - -* DemuxOutputStream now uses a WeakHashMap to store the thread-stream mapping, - to avoid holding on to thread references after they terminate. - -* <xmlvalidate> and <schemavalidate> create a new parser for every file in a - fileset, and so validate multiple files properly. Bugzilla Report 32791. - -* <tar> / <untar> now accepts files upto 8GB, <tar> gives an error if larger - files are to be included. This is the POSIX size limit. - -* <junitreport> removed line-breaks from stack-traces. Bugzilla - Report 34963. - -* Off-by-one error in environment setup for execution under OpenVMS fixed. - -* Bugzilla report 36171: -noclasspath crashes ant if no system - classpath is set. - -* <pvcs> used wrong switch for retrieving revisions by label. - Bugzilla Report 36359. - -* <sshexec> closed System.out, disabling output on second and subsequent - invocations. Bugzilla report 36302. - -* <cvschangelog> was crashing with CVS versions >= 1.12.x due to change in - the date format. Bugzilla report 30962. - -* The same IntrospectionHelper instance was continuously added as a listener - to project. Bugzilla report 37184. - -* FileUtils.toURI() was not encoding non-ASCII characters to ASCII, - causing impossibility to process XML entities referenced by XML - documents in non ASCII paths. Bugzilla report 37348. - -* > 1 ssh invocations to a given host would fail. Bugzilla report 36207. - -* EmailTask was eating SMTP error messages. Bugzilla report 37547. - -* PropertySet API setMapper(...) didn't properly set up the Mapper. - Bugzilla report 37760. - -* Proper return code for ant.bat. Bugzilla report 13655. - -* Project not set on ChainReaderHelpers used by the Redirector. - Bugzilla report 37958. - -* Copy task would fail on locked (or otherwise uncopyable) files even if - failonerror set to false. Bugzilla report 38175. - -* <junit> task did not print all the Test names when using forkmode='once'. - Bugzilla report 37426. - -* <available> could leak resources, Bugzilla Report 38260. - -* Redirector called Thread.sleep in a synchronized block. Bugzilla - report 37767. - -* CCUnlock's objselect attribute could exhibit unpredictable behavior; - standardized improperly included objselect and objsel property accessors to - delegate to the inherited objSelect property accessor. Bugzilla report 37766. - -* <unzip> and <untar> now correctly merge multiple nested patternsets. - Bugzilla Report 38973. - -* On case-insensitive filesystems, a <move> to change filename case - erroneously deleted the "destination" file before attempting to rename - the source file. Bugzilla 37701. - -* <scp> can now handle uris with @s other than the final one denoting the - domain. Bugzilla 38082. - -* If the class invoked by the <java> task threw a ClassNotFoundException, - this was misinterpreted as the specified class itself not being found. - -* <echoproperties> setPrefix javadoc claimed null or empty prefix would be - ignored; instead an error was thrown. Bugzilla report 39954. - -* <get> would fetch files that were up to date, because it used > in a - remote/local timestamp comparison, not >=. Bugzilla 35607. - -* <xslt> passes the current file (name + directory) to the - stylesheet/transformation. xsl-parameter name is configurable. - Bugzilla report 21042. - -* The <zip> API allowed creation of directories in file-only archives; a - habitual offender was the subclassed <jar>, which included META-INF/ in - the destination file regardless of whether filesonly was set to true. - -* <rmic> has a new adapter, xnew, to use the -XNew back end on java1.5+. - By forking rmic, this works on java1.6+. Bugzilla report 38732. - -* Copy of UnknownElement in macroinstance was not recursive. - Bugzilla report 40238. - -* Mixing of add and addConfigured methods in Mapper/ChainedMapper - causes incorrect chaining. Bugzilla report 40228. - -Other changes: --------------- - -* Warn user when a reference in the form "${refid}" cannot be resolved as this - is a sign they probably meant "refid" (misuse of property expansion syntax). - -* Add dtd to javadoc for junit. - Bugzilla 40754. - -* Add quiet attribute to loadfile/resource. - Bugzilla 38249. - -* Make Locator#fromURI also append the drive letter when running under Windows - with JDK 1.3 or 1.2. - -* Do not uppercase the drive letters systematically in FileUtils#normalize. - -* Java 5 enumerations may now be used as values in XML attributes in place of - EnumeratedAttribute. Bugzilla 41058. - -* Create a pom file for ant-testutil and add ant-testutil.jar to the ant - distribution. Bugzilla 40980. - -* Roll back automatic proxy enabling on Java 1.5. It broke things like - Oracle JDBC drivers, and Ant itself on IBM's JVM on AIX, and didn't - seem to work to well the rest of the time. - To enable the feature, use the -autoproxy command line option. - -* Upgraded XML API and parser to Xerces 2.8.1 - -* A code review of some threaded logic has tightened up the synchronization - of Watchdog, ExecuteWatchdog and ExecuteJava, which could reduce the occurrence - of race conditions here, especially on Java1.5+. - -* Allow broken reference build files. The defer reference processing would - break too many files - so allow them with a warning. - -* Removed dependency on sun.misc.UUEncoder for UUMailer. - -* Added regex attribute to the echoproperties task. - Bugzilla 40019. - -* <war> task now allows you to omit the web.xml file. as this is optional - in the servlet 2.5 and Java EE 5 APIs. set needxmlfile="false" to - avoid a missing web.xml file from halting the build. - -* Diagnostics catches and logs security exceptions when accessing system properties. - -* <javadoc> useexternalfile now applies to all command line arguments - of javadoc. Bugzilla report 40852. - -* javadoc/tag@description is now set to the name if description is - not specified. Bugzill report 32927. - -* Some performance improvements, including Bugzilla report 25778. - -* Add <matches> condition. Bugzilla report 28883. - -* Extending JAR-Task for SPI. Bugzilla report 31520. - -* Added <tokens> resource collection for convenient creation of string - resources from other resources' content. Inspired by Bugzilla 40504. - -* Added <compare> resource selector to select resources based on the - results of their comparison to other resources. - -* Added outputtoformatters attribute to <junit> to allow suppression - of noisey tests. Bugzilla report 12817. - -* Log level of message 'Overriding previous definition of reference to' - set to Verbose. Bugzilla report 17240. - -* Added setbeans attribute to <script> to allow <script>'s to be - run without referencing all references. - Bugzilla report 37688. - -* Added classpath attribute and nested element to <script> to allow - the language jars to be specified in the build script. - Bugzilla report 29676. - -* Trim the driver attribute on the <sql> task. Bugzilla report 21228. - -* Allow (jar) files as well as directories to be given to jdepend. - Bugzilla report 28865. - -* Convert SplashTask to use NOT sun internal classes. - Bugzilla report 35619. - -* Made PatternSet#hasPatterns public to allow custom filesets access. - Bugzilla report 36772. - -* Added searchparents attribute to <available>. Bugzilla report 39549. - -* Tasks that don't extend Ant's Task class will now get the build file - location reflected into a method of the signature void setLocation(Location) - - if such a method exists. - -* Remove needless synchronization in DirectoryScanner. - Bugzilla report 40237. - -* Improved recursion detection for lines with multiple matches of same token - on a single line. Bugzilla report 38456. - -* Task will now log correctly even if no project is set. - Bugzilla report 38458. - -* Use alternative names for the command line arguments in javac. Bugzilla - Report 37546. - -* The Reference class now has a project field that will get - used (if set) in preference to the passed in project, when - dereferencing the reference. Bugzilla Report 25777. - -* On DOS and Netware, filenames beginning with a drive letter - and followed by a colon but with no directory separator following - the colon are no longer (incorrectly) accepted as absolute pathnames - by FileUtils.normalize() and FileUtils.isAbsolutePath(). Netware - volumes can still be specified without an intervening separator. - UNC pathnames on Windows must include a server and share name, i.e. - "\\a\b" to be considered valid absolute paths. - -* A bug in SQLExec would prevent the execution of trailing, - non-semicolon-delimited statements. Bugzilla Report 37764. - -* InputHandler implementations may now call InputRequest.getDefaultValue() - if they wish. The default handler uses this also. Bugzilla report 28621. - -* Took in bugzilla report 39320, "Simple code cleanups" - -* Improve compatibility with GNU Classpath and java versions prior to - 1.5. Bugzilla 39027. - -* ${ant.core.lib} may now be used to refer to the library containing the - Ant classes, for instance useful when compiling tasks. - -* Minor performance improvements Bugzilla report 37777 - -* New task <manifestclasspath> converts a path into a property - suitable as the value for a manifest's Class-Path attribute. - -* Fixed references to obsoleted CVS web site. Bugzilla Report 36854. - -* Log fine-grained events at verbose level from JUnit. Bugzilla report 31885. - -* <WsdlToDotnet> and <style> are now deprecated in favor of <wsdltodotnet> and - <xslt>, respectively. Bugzilla report 25832. - -* <echoproperties> now (alphanumerically) sorts the property list - before echoing. Bugzilla report 18976. - -* A new base class DispatchTask has been added to facilitate elegant - creation of tasks with multiple actions. - -* Major revision of <wsdltodotnet>. Supports mono wsdl and the microsoft - wsdl run on mono, as well as most of the .NET WSE2.0 options. Extra - schemas (files or urls) can be named in the <schema> element. - Compilers can be selected using the compiler attribute, which defaults - to "microsoft" on windows, and "mono" on everything else. - -* It is now possible to specify the pattern created/parsed by <checksum>. - Bugzilla Report 16539. - -* Added a new "failall" value for the onerror attribute of <typedef>. - Bugzilla report 31685. - -* unzip/unwar/unjar/untar now supports a nested mapper, which lets you unzip - in useful ways. - -* Junit task -- display suite first. - Bugzilla report 31962. - -* Added isSigned condition and signedselector selector - Bugzilla report 32126. - -* Added preserveLastModified attribute to signjar task. - Bugzilla report 30987. - -* Added <scriptcondition> condition, for inline scripted conditions - -* Added <xor> condition for exclusive-or combining of nested conditions. - -* Added <scriptselector> selector for scripted file selection - -* ant -diagnostics lists contents of ${user.home}/.ant/lib , and - checks that the java.io.tmpdir directory exists and is writeable. - -* mail task accepts nested header element. Bugzilla report 24713. - -* zip/jar/war/ear supports level attribute for deflate compression level. - Bugzilla report 25513. - -* Added loginputstring attribute to the redirector type. - -* Tighten security by sending storepass and keypass to signjar - via the input stream of the forked process. - -* New task <schemavalidate> extends <xmlvalidate> with extra support - for XML Schema (XSD) files. - -* <fixcrlf> supports a file attribute for easy fixup of a single file. - -* New condition <parsersupports> which can look for XML parser feature or - property support in the parser Ant is using. - -* fixcrlf can be used in a filterchain. - -* <sync> has a new nested element <preserveInTarget> that can be used - to protect extra-content in the target directory. Bugzilla Report - 21832. - -* <signjar> now supports: - -nested filesets at the same time as the jar attribute - -a destDir attribute with the appropriate dependency logic, which - can be used with the jar attribute or nested filesets - -a mapper to permit filename remapping on signing - -tsaurl and tsacert attributes for timestamped JAR signing - -nested <sysproperty> elements, which can be used for proxy setup - and the like - -* The linecontains and linecontainsregexp filterreaders now support a - negate attribute to select lines -not- containing specified text. - Bugzilla Report 34374. - -* <os> condition adds "winnt" as a family which can be tested. This is - all windows platforms other than the Win9x line or Windows CE. - -* <exec> (and hence, <apply> and any other derived classes) have an OsFamily - attribute, which can restrict execution to a single OS family. - -* Added "backtrace" attribute to macrodef. Bugzilla report 27219. - -* Ant main provides some diagnostics if it ever sees a -cp or -lib option, - as this is indicative of a script mismatch. Bugzilla report 34860 - -* <junitreport> prints a special message if supplied an empty XML File. This - can be caused by the test JVM exiting during a test, either via a - System.exit() call or a JVM crash. - -* Project name is now used for *all* targets so one can write consistent import - build files. Bugzilla report 28444. - -* New condition <typefound> that can be used to probe for the declaration - and implementation of a task, type, preset, macro, scriptdef, whatever. - As it tests for the implementation, it can be used to check for optional - tasks being available. - -* Check for 1.5.* Ant main class. (weblogic.jar in classpath reports) - -* New condition <isfailure> that tests the return-code of an executable. This - contains platform-specific logic and is better than comparing the result with - "0". - -* Added initial support for Resource Collections, including the - resourcecount task. - -* property attribute of pathconvert is now optional. If omitted the - result will be written to the log. - -* New mapper, <scriptmapper>, supports scripted mapping of source files/strings - to destination strings. - -* Add the echoxml task. This will echo nested XML to a file, with - the normal <?xml ?> processor instruction. UTF-8 encoding only; no-namespace - support. - -* Try to make subprojects of custom Project subclasses instances of the - same type. Bugzilla report 17901. - -* <ssh> and <scp> support keyboard-interactive authentication now. - -* <javadoc> now supports -breakiterator for custom doclets if Ant is - running on JSE 5.0 or higher. Bugzilla Report: 34580. - -* New logger, TimestampedLogger, that prints the wall time that a build - finished/failed. Use with - -logger org.apache.tools.ant.listener.TimestampedLogger - -* <junitreport> now generates pages alltests-errors.html and - alltests-fails.html, that list only the errors and failures, respectively. - Bugzilla Report: 36226 - -* New task <makeurl> that can turn a file reference into an absolute file:// - url; and nested filesets/paths into a (space, comma, whatever) separated - list of URLs. Useful for RMI classpath setup, amongst other things. - -* <xslt> now accepts nested FileNameMappers e.g. <globmapper>. - Bugzilla report 37604. - -* New task <loadresource> that accompanies <loadfile> for non file resources. - -* <echo> now supports an encoding when saving to a file. - -* New GreedyInputHandler added. - -* Add textfile attribute to the <filesmatch> condition. When true, the text - contents of the two files are compared, ignoring line ending differences. - -* New <resourcesmatch> condition. - -* Added the onmissingfiltersfile attribute to filterset. Bugzilla report 19845. - -* Added the inline handler element to the input task. - -* <sql> supports property expansion if you set the expandProperties - attribute. By default it does not expand properties, something we - dare not change for fear of breaking complex SQL operations in - existing files. - -* <javadoc>'s packagenames attribute is now optional and defaults to "*". - -* <javac>'s source and target attributes as well as <javadoc>'s source - attribute will read default values from the properties - ant.build.javac.source and ant.build.javac.target. - -* Handling of ' ', '#' in CLASSPATH and '#' in -lib (cannot use ' ' - in -lib on UNIX at the moment). Bugzilla Report 39295. - -* <scp> now optionally supports the sftp protocol. Bugzilla Report 39373. - -* Resources can now be used to indicate the location of the stylesheet to use - in <xslt>. Bugzilla Report 39407. - -* New <antversion> condition. Bugzilla report 32804. - -* ReplaceTokens should allow properties files. Bugzilla report 39688. - -* FTP Account could not be specified in ant FTP task. Bugzilla report 39720. - -* Minor performance updates. Bugzilla report 39565. - -* New deleteonexit attribute for the <tempfile> task. Bugzilla report 39842. - Remember that the exit of the JVM can be a long time coming, - especially under an IDE. Don't rely on this being called. - -* <scriptdef>-created scripts have support for nested text. All text - passed to a scripted task can be accessed via self.text. - -* <fixcrlf> now supports an outputencoding attribute. Bugzilla report 39697. - -* <junitreport> now supports nested XSL parameters. Bugzilla report 39708. - -* <javacc> has a jdkversion attribute to pass the desired JDK version - down to javacc. Bugzilla report 38715. - -* <cvs> prints passfile info at -verbose level instead of -info. Bugzilla - report 35268 - -* When <javac> can't find the compiler class, it prints out java.home for - immediate diagnostics - -* Ant launcher now supports a -main attribute so that you can specify - an extension class to the built in org.apache.tools.ant.Main - class. This class must implement the interface AntMain - -Changes from Ant 1.6.4 to Ant 1.6.5 -=================================== - -Changes that could break older environments: --------------------------------------------- - -Fixed bugs: ------------ - -* <move> was unable to replace existing files or write into - existing directories. Bugzilla report 34962. - -* <macrodef> with redefined default values was incorrect. (Fix for - 31215 had a bug). Bugzilla report 35109. - -* <javadoc> will convert backslashes to forwardslashes when generating file - list by useexternalfile. Bugzilla report 27814. - -Changes from Ant 1.6.3 to Ant 1.6.4 -=================================== - -Changes that could break older environments: --------------------------------------------- -* <ftp> task has had a number of changes. Uptodate calculation previously - did not call a file uptodate if the source timestamp and the destination - timestamp were equal. Bugzilla report 34941. Any script that attempted - to compensate for this by using the timediffmillis attribute might need - to be tweaked. - - -Fixed bugs: ------------ - -* Sun javah failed with java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError. - Bugzilla report 34681. - -* DirectoryScanner.slowScan() was broken. Bugzilla report 34722. - -* DirectoryScanner.scan() could throw a NullPointerException on - case-insensitive filesystems (read Windows or MacOS X). - -* Get w/authentication failed with ArrayOutOfBoundsExceptions. - Bugzilla report 34734. - -* Granularity attribute for <sync> task was undocumented. - Bugzilla report 34871. - -* <unzip> and <untar> could leave file handles open on invalid - archives. Bugzilla report 34893. - -* propertyset threw NPE with nested, mapped propertysets. - -Other changes: --------------- - -* AntXMLContext.setCurrentTargets() is now public. Bugzilla report 34680. - -Changes from Ant 1.6.2 to Ant 1.6.3 -=================================== - -Changes that could break older environments: --------------------------------------------- - -* The subant task used the canonical version of a file path. This - has been changed to use the absolute path. Bugzilla 30438. - -* Tar now writes two EOF blocks rather than one. - Bugzilla report 28776 - -* The Reference object now has a project field which it uses in preference - to the project passed in. This allows composite references to be - handled to nested projects. - Bugzilla report 25777 - -* <junit> with filtertrace="true" will now also swallow lines for the - sun.reflect package. If you need to see them in your stack trace, - you must set filtertrace to false. - Bugzilla Report 22758 - -* The jikes compiler adapter now supports -bootclasspath, -extdirs and - -sourcepath and also uses the same logic for debug flags as javac. - This means, the jikes compiler adapter now requires Jikes 1.15 or later. - Bugzilla Reports 25868, 26404 and 32609. - -* The gcj compiler adapter used to include the Java runtime classes - even if includeJavaRuntime was set to false, unless the - bootclasspath has been specified as well. It will now always adhere - to includeJavaRuntime, you may need to set it to true explicitly now - if you relied on the old behavior. - -Other changes: --------------- - -* <javadoc> can now take an attribute 'executable'. Bugzilla report 30606. - -* New attribute ignorecontents for <different> selector - -* Javadoc fixes for Location, Project, and RuntimeConfigurable - Bugzilla 30160. - -* Enable to choose the regexp implementation without system property. - Bugzilla Report 15390. - -* Expose objects and methods in IntrospectionHelper. Bugzilla Report 30794. - -* Allow file attribute of <move> to rename a directory. - Bugzilla Report 22863. - -* Add xmlcatalog nested element to XmlProperty. Bugzilla report 27053. - -* New attribute alwayslog for <redirector> type. - -* Added <target> nested elements to <ant> and <antcall> to allow - specification of multiple sub-build targets, which are executed - with a single dependency analysis. - -* Refactored Target invocation into org.apache.tools.ant.Executor - implementations. Bugzilla Reports 21421, 29248. - -* <rmic> now also supports Kaffe's rmic version shipping with Kaffe - 1.1.2 and above. - -* added casesensitive attribute to <globmapper> and <regexpmapper> - Bugzilla report 16686 - -* added handledirsep attribute to <globmapper> and <regexpmapper> - Bugzilla report 32487 - -* added a new mapper <filtermapper> - -* When a BuildListener tried to access System.err or System.out, Ant - would have thrown an exception - this has been changed. Ant now - silently ignores the message. BuildListeners still should avoid - accessing either stream. - -* Added a comment attribute to the zip task. - Bugzilla report 22793. - -* Overloaded FileUtils.createNewFile with a boolean mkdirs attribute - to create nonexistent parent directories. - -* <apply> has a new "force" attribute that, when true, disables - checking of target files. - -* Made the dest attribute of the apply task optional; mapped target - filenames will be interpreted as absolute pathnames when dest is omitted. - -* Changed default tempdir for <javac> from user.dir to java.io.tmpdir. - -* Added searchpath attribute to <exec> for searching path variable(s) - when resolveexecutable = true. - -* Added revision and userid attributes to <pvcs> documentation. - -* Added support to the touch task for a mkdirs attribute to create - nonexistent parent directories before touching new files. - -* Added support to the touch task for a pattern attribute to allow - alternate datetime formats. - -* Added support to the touch task to map touched files using a nested - mapper element. - -* Added support to the touch task for a verbose attribute to suppress - logging of new file creation. - -* bad link in docs to the enhancement page in bugzilla. - Bugzilla report 33252. - -* Added length task to get strings' and files' lengths. - -* <native2ascii> and <javah> now also support Kaffe's versions. - -* Recursive token expansion in a filterset can now be disabled by - setting its recurse attribute to false. - -* Pathconvert no longer requires that one of (targetos|pathsep|dirsep) - be set; platform defaults are used when this is the case. - -* Added preservelastmodified attribute to fixcrlf task. Bugzilla 25770. - -* Added isfileselected condition. - -* Added verbose="true|false" attribute to <subant>. When verbose is enabled, - the directory name is logged on entry and exit of the sub-build. - Bugzilla 33787. - -* Added -nouserlib option to allow running ant without automatically loading - up ${user.home}/.lib/ant. This is useful when compiling ant, and antlibs. - Modified the build.sh and build.bat to use the option. - -* Added -noclasspath option to allow running ant WITHOUT using CLASSPATH env - variable. Modified ant.bat to do this so that %CLASSPATH% is not looked at. - -* Add else attribute to the condition task, which specifies an - optional alternate value to set the property to if the nested - condition evaluates to false. Bugzilla report 33074. - -* Ant generated jar files should now be detected as jar files by - Solaris. Bugzilla Report 32649. - -* <rexec> with a single command should now work with unusal login - dialogs without special read/write pairs. Bugzilla Report 26632. - -* <csc>'s extraoptions can now contain multiple arguments. - Bugzilla Report 23599. - -* <macrodef> with default values set by properties would be - seen as new definitions when called twice with different properties. - This was confusing so the definitions are now treated as similar. - Bugzilla Report 31215. - -* <javadoc> has a new attribute "includenosourcepackages" that can be - used to document packages that don't hold source files but a - package.html file. Bugzilla Report 25339. - -* <rpm> has new attributes failonerror and quiet. - -* Added two tutorials - - beginner: introduction into Ant - - task developers: using path, fileset etc - -* a number of new attributes that allow the user to handle non-standard - server listing formats and time zone differences have been added in - the <ftp> task. - - -Fixed bugs: ------------ - -* Do not pass on ThreadDeath when halting <java fork="false">. Bugzilla - 32941. - -* Killing a thread running <java fork="true"> (e.g. from an IDE) would - not stop the forked process. Bugzilla 31928. - -* Programs run with <java fork="true"> can now accept standard input - from the Ant console. (Programs run with <java fork="false"> could - already do so.) Bugzilla 24918. - -* AbstractCvsTask prematurely closed its outputStream and errorStream. - Bugzilla 30097. - -* Impossible to use implicit classpath for <taskdef> - when Ant core loader != Java application loader and - Path.systemClassPath taken from ${java.class.path} Bugzilla 30161. - -* MacroInstance did not clean up nested elements correctly in the execute - method, causing multiple use of the same macro instance with nested - elements to fail. - -* checksum fileext property doc wrong. Bugzilla 30787. - -* FTP task, getTimeDiff method was returning wrong value. Bugzilla 30595. - -* make sure that Zip and its derivatives call the createEmptyZip method when - there are no resources to zip/jar/... - -* Zip task was not zipping when only empty directories were found. - Bugzilla 30365. - -* Jar task was not including manifest files when duplicate="preserve" was - chosen. Bugzilla 32802. - -* ant.bat was missing runAntNoClasspath label for goto. - Bugzilla 34510. - -* Classpath was treated in the same way as -lib options. Bugzilla 28046. - -* Manual page for cvsversion contained incorrect attributes and did not - say since 1.6.1. Bugzilla 31408. - -* Typo in definition of <cvsversion> task causing it not to be defined. - Bugzilla 31403. - -* Execution of top level tasks in imported files get delayed by targets. - Bugzilla report 31487. - -* ExecTask executes checkConfiguration() even though os does not match. - Bugzilla report 31805. - -* Concat task instance could not be run twice. - Bugzilla report 31814. - -* NPE using XmlLogger and antlib. - Bugzilla report 31840. - -* Properties.propertyNames() should be used instead of .keys(). - Bugzilla report 27261. - -* Target location is not set for default target. - Bugzilla report 32267. - -* Incorrect classloader parent in junittask when using with - ant-junit.jar and junit.jar not in the project classloader. Bugzilla - report 28474. - -* getResources() on the classloader returned by ClasspathUtils would - see each resource twice - if the resource is in the project - classpath and if the classloader is requested with a null path. - -* XMLValidate used URL#getFile rather than the ant method FileUtils#fromURI - Bugzilla report 32508 - -* fixed Regexp-Mapper docs which gave outdated instructions (optional.jar) - Bugzilla report 28584 - -* <scp> using <fileset> didn't work with OpenSSH 3.9 and later. - Bugzilla report 31939 - -* <setproxy> failed to set user/password on some JDKs. - Bugzilla report 32667 - -* untar would go into infinite loop for some invalid tar files. - Bugzilla report 29877 - -* forked <javac> won't pass -source to a JDK 1.1 or 1.2 javac anymore. - Bugzilla report 32948 - -* propertyset references did not handle nested propertyset references. - -* oata.types.Description.getDescription(Project) would throw a - NullPointerException when the "ant.targets" reference was unset. - -* Wrapper scripts did not detect WINNT value of dynamic OS environment - variable when logged into workstations using Novell authentication. - Bugzilla Report 30366. - -* DependScanner.getResource() always returned nonexistent resources, - even when the resource actually existed. Bugzilla Report 30558. - -* <apply> was broken with classfilesets. Bugzilla Report 30567. - -* <available> returned false positives when checking a file - passed in with the current basedir leading twice: - e.g. ${basedir}${file.separator}${basedir}${file.separator}foo . - -* The first file open that took place when using input files with the - <exec>, <apply>, or <java> tasks was always logged to System.out - instead of to the managing Task. - -* <telnet> and <rexec> would try to disconnect from servers they never - connetced to, potentially leading to exceptions in commons-net. - Bugzilla Report 33618. - -* <zip> would drop files matched by defaultexcludes during updates. - Bugzilla Report 33412. - -* <zip> couldn't store files with size between 2GB and 4GB (the - upper limit set by the ZIP format itself). Bugzilla Report 33310. - -* NPE when when <presetdef> tries to configure a task that - cannot be instantiated. Bugzilla Report 33689. - -* <javac debug="false"> created an invalid command line when running - the Symantec Java compiler. - -* Get with usetimestamp did not work on Java 1.2. - -* Get with usetimestamp did not work when local timestamp roughly >= now. - -* The framed JUnit report now handles multiple reports for the same - testcase properly. Bugzilla Report 32745. - -* <cab> didn't work for files with spaces in their names on Windows. - Bugzilla Report 17182. - -* The VAJ tasks could fail if the project name contained characters - that need to get URL encoded. Bugzilla Report 23322. - -* TarInputStream#read() wasn't implemented correctly. Bugzilla Report - 34097. - -* <xslt> failed to process file-hierarchies of more than one level if - scanincludeddirectories was true. Bugzilla Report 24866. - -* forkmode="perBatch" or "once" would ignore extension attributes that - had been specified for <formatter>s. Bugzilla Report 32973. - -* The refid attribute of the I/O redirector was not functional. - -Changes from Ant 1.6.1 to Ant 1.6.2 -=================================== - -Changes that could break older environments: --------------------------------------------- - -* The import task used the canonical version of a file path. This - has been changed to use the absolute path. Bugzilla 28505. - -* ant-xalan2.jar has been removed since the only class contained in it - didn't depend on Xalan-J 2 at all. Its sole dependency has always - been TraX and so it has been merged into ant-trax.jar. - -* All exceptions thrown by tasks are now wrapped in a buildexception - giving the location in the buildfile of the task. - -* Nested elements for namespaced tasks and types may belong to the - Ant default namespace as well as the task's or type's namespace. - -* <junitreport> will very likely no longer work with Xalan-J 1. - - Note that Xalan-J 1 has been deprecated for a very long time and we - highly recommend that you upgrade. - - If you really need to continue using Xalan-J 1, please copy the - junit-frames-xalan1.xsl from the distribution's etc directory as - junit-frames.xsl into a new directory and use the task's styledir - attribute to point to. This is the last version of the XSLT - stylesheet that is expected to be compatible with Xalan-J 1. - -Fixed bugs: ------------ - -* eliminate memory leak in AntClassLoader. Bugzilla Report 8689. - -* subant haltonfailure=false did not catch all failures. Bugzilla Report 27007. - -* macrodef @@ escaping was broken. Bugzilla Report 27069. - -* MacroDef did not allow attributes named 'description'. Bugzilla Report 27175. - -* Throw build exception if name attribute missing from patternset#NameEntry. - Bugzilla Report 25982. - -* Throw build exception if target repeated in build file, but allow targets - to be repeated in imported files. - -* <apply> didn't compare timestamps of source and targetfiles when - using a nested <filelist>. Bugzilla Report 26985. - -* tagdiff.xml was broken in ant 1.6.1. Bugzilla Report 27057. - -* if the basedir contained .. or . dirs, and the build file name contained - .. or ., the basedir was set incorrectly. Bugzilla Report 26765. - -* regression from ant 1.5, exec task outputted two redundant trailing newlines. - Bugzilla Report 27546. - -* NPE when running commons listener. Bugzilla Report 27373. - -* <java> swallowed the stack trace of exceptions thrown by the - executed program if run in the same VM. - -* -projecthelp swallowed (configuration) errors silently. - Bugzilla report 27732. - -* filterset used by filtertask doesn't respect loglevel. Bugzilla Report 27568. - -* wrong compare used in ProjectComponent for logging. Bugzilla Report 28070. - -* failOnAny attribute for <parallel> was broken. Bugzilla Report 28122. - -* If <javac> uses gcj and any of the nested <compilerarg>s implies - compilation to native code (like -o or --main), Ant will not pass - the -C switch to gcj. This means you can now compile to native code - with gcj which has been impossible in Ant < 1.6.2. - -* <import optional="false"> and <import optional="true"> - behaved identically. - -* <xslt> now sets the context classloader if you've specified a nested - <classpath>. Bugzilla Report 24802. - -* <zip> and friends would delete the original file when trying to update - a read-only archive. Bugzilla Report 28419. - -* <junit> and <assertions> are working together. Bugzilla report 27218 - -* AntClassLoader#getResource could return invalid URLs. Bugzilla - Report 28060. - -* Ant failed to locate tools.jar if the jre directory name wasn't all - lowercase. Bugzilla Report 25798. - -* Redirector exhibited inconsistent behavior with regard to split - output. When sent to file only, files would be created in all - cases; when split file-property, files were only created if - writes were performed. - -* fixed case handling of scriptdef attributes and elements. - -* UNC pathnames did not work for ANT_HOME or -lib locations on Windows. - Bugzilla report 27922. - -* replacestring tokenfilter only replaced the first occurrence. - -* AntLikeTasksAtTopLevelTest failed on cygwin. - -* I/O-intensive processes hung when executed via <exec spawn="true">. - Bugzilla reports 23893/26852. - -* JDependTask did not close an output file. Bugzilla Report 28557. - -* Using <macrodef> could break XmlLogger. Bugzilla Report 28993. - -* <genkey> no longer requires keytool to be in your PATH. Bugzilla - Report 29382. - -* <symlink> could create cyclic links. Bugzilla Report 25181. - -* <zip whenempty="skip"> didn't work in a common situation. Bugzilla - Report 22865. - -* <scp> now properly handles remote files and directories with spaces - in their names. Bugzilla Report 26097. - -* <scp> now has (local|remote)tofile attributes to rename files on the - fly. Bugzilla Report 26758. - -* <telnet> and <rexec> didn't close the session. Bugzilla Report 25935. - -* <subant> and XmlLogger didn't play nicley together. - -Other changes: --------------- -* doc fix concerning the dependencies of the ftp task - Bugzilla Report 29334. - -* <xmlvalidate> has now a property nested element, - allowing to set string properties for the parser - Bugzilla Report 23395. - -* Docs fixes for xmlvalidate.html, javadoc.html, starteam. - Bugzilla Reports 27092, 27284, 27554. - -* <pathconvert> now accepts nested <mapper>s. Bugzilla Report 26364. - -* Shipped XML parser is now Xerces-J 2.6.2. - -* Added nested file element to filelist. - -* spelling fixes, occurred. Bugzilla Report 27282. - -* add uid and gid to tarfileset. Bugzilla Report 19120. - -* <scp> has a verbose attribute to get some feedback during the - transfer and new [local|remote][File|Todir] alternatives to file and - todir that explicitly state the direction of the transfer. - -* The OS/2 wrapper scripts have been adapted to use the new launcher. - Bugzilla Report 28226. - -* <sshexec> now also captures stderr output. Bugzilla Report 28349. - -* <xslt> now supports a nested <mapper>. Bugzilla Report 11249. - -* <touch> has filelist support. - -* <nice> task lets you set the priority of the current thread; non-forking - <java> code will inherit this priority in their main thread. - -* New attribute "negate" on <propertyset> to invert selection criteria. - -* Target now supports a Location member. Bugzilla Report 28599. - -* New "pattern" attribute for <date> selector. - -* <junit> has a new forkmode attribute that controls the number of - Java VMs that get created when forking tests. This allows you to - run all tests in a single forked JVM reducing the overhead of VM - creation a lot. Bugzilla Report 24697. - -* <jar> can now optionally create an index for jars different than the - one it currently builds as well. See the new <indexjars> element - for details. Bugzilla Report 14255. - -* Permit building under JDK 1.5. Bugzilla Report 28996. - -* minor Javadoc changes. Bugzilla Report 28998. - -* Misc. corrections in SignJar.java. Bugzilla Report 28999. - -* Remove redundant <hr> from javah.html. Bugzilla Report 28995. - -* Ignore built distributions. Bugzilla Report 28997. - -* A new roundup attribute on <zip> and related task can be used to - control whether the file modification times inside the archive will - be rounded up or down (since zips only store modification times with - a granularity of two seconds). The default remains to round up. - Bugzilla Report 17934. - -* A binary option has been added to <concat>. Bugzilla Report 26312. - -* Added DynamicConfiguratorNS, an namespace aware version of - DynamicConfigurator. Bugzilla Report 28436. - -* Add implicit nested element to <macrodef>. Bugzilla Report 25633. - -* Add deleteonexit attribute to <delete>. - -* Added Target.getIf/Unless(). Bugzilla Report 29320. - -* <fail> has a status attribute that can be used to pass an exit - status back to the command line. - -* <fail> accepts a nested <condition>. - -* <loadproperties> supports loading from a resource. - Bugzilla Report 28340. - -* Nested file mappers and a container mapper implementation have been - introduced. Additionally, the <mapper> element now accepts "defined" - nested FileNameMapper implementations directly, allowing a usage - comparable to those of <condition>, <filter>, and <selector>. - -* New <redirector> type introduced to provide extreme I/O flexibility. - Initial support for <exec>, <apply>, and <java> tasks. - -* <apply> has a new ignoremissing attribute (default true for BC) - which will allow nonexistent files specified via <filelist>s to - be passed to the executable. Bugzilla Report 29585. - -* <junitreport> now also works with Xalan XSLTC and/or JDK 1.5. - Bugzilla Report 27541. - -* <jspc> doesn't work properly with Tomcat 5.x. We've implemented a - work-around but don't intend to support future changes in Tomcat - 5.x. Please use the jspc task that ships with Tomcat instead of - Ant's. - -Changes from Ant 1.6.0 to Ant 1.6.1 -============================================= - -Changes that could break older environments: --------------------------------------------- - -* License is now Apache License 2.0 - see http://www.apache.org/licenses/ for more information - -Fixed bugs: ------------ -* Remove a recursive template call in the junit xsls that could trigger a stack - overflow. It now uses Xalan extensions to call a Java class directly. - Bugzilla Report 19301 - -* Fix spurious infinite loop detection for filters (introduced in ant 1.6.0). - Bugzilla Report 23154. - -* Fix handling of default ant namespace for nested elements. - -* Fix jboss element of ejb task (introduced in ant 1.6.0). - -* <whichresource> failed to load classes correctly. - -* Ant could fail to start with a NullPointerException if - ANT_HOME/lib/ant-launcher.jar was part of the system CLASSPATH. - -* presetdef'ed types did not work with the ant-type attribute - -* fixed case handling of macrodef attributes and elements. Bugzilla - Reports 25687 and 26225. - -* <java> ignored the append attribute, Bugzilla Report 26137. - -* The gcj compiler adapter for <javac> failed if the destination - directory didn't exist. Bugzilla Report 25856. - -* Ant now fails with a more useful message if a new process will be - forked in a directory and that directory doesn't exist. - -* <splash> used to break the build on non-GUI environments. Bugzilla - report 11482. - -* Ant 1.6.0 cannot run build scripts in directories with non-ASCII names. - Bugzilla Report 26642. - -Other changes: --------------- -* Shipped XML parser is now Xerces-J 2.6.1 - -* Translate task logs a debug message specifying the number of files - that it processed. Bugzilla Report 13938. - -* <fixcrlf> has a new attribute - fixlast. Bugzilla Report 23262. - -* <p4submit> has 2 new attributes, needsresolveproperty and changeproperty. - Bugzilla Report 25711. - -* add description attributes to macrodef attributes and elements. - Bugzilla Report 24711. - -* Extending ClearCase Tasks : - - Added an extra option to 'failonerr' to each ClearCase task/command. - - Extended the functionality of cccheckout. It can check (notco) to see if - the desired element is already checked out to the current view. Thus it - won't attempt to check it out again. - - Added three new ClearCase commands: ccmkattr, ccmkdir, ccmkelem - Bugzilla Report 26253. - -* added nested text support to <macrodef> - -* added initial support for Java 1.5. Java 1.5 is now correctly - detected by Ant and treated just like Java 1.4. You can now specify - source="1.5" in the <javac> task. - -* created new task <cvsversion> - -* added support for branch logging via the tag attribute in <cvschangelog> - Bugzilla Report 13510. - -* added support the groovy language in the script and scriptdef tasks - -Changes from Ant 1.5.4 to Ant 1.6.0 -=================================== - -Changes that could break older environments: --------------------------------------------- - -* This version of Ant can not be built with JDK 1.1 and requires at - least Java 1.2 at runtime as well. Compiling for a 1.1 target is - still supported. - -* Targets cannot have the empty string as their name any longer. - -* ant.jar's manifest does no longer include a Class-Path entry, so it - is no longer possible to run Ant via "java -jar ant.jar" without - manually altering the CLASSPATH. Instead of that a file - ant-bootstrap.jar is included in the etc directory of the binary - distribution, copy this to the lib directory and use - "java -jar ant-bootstrap.jar" instead if you want to run Ant without - the wrapper script (not recommended). - -* The <script> task now requires Apache BSF instead of the older IBM - version. See <http://jakarta.apache.org/bsf/> - -* <xmlproperty> will no longer fail if the file to be loaded doesn't exist. - -* XML namespaces are now enabled in the XML parser, meaning XML namespace - declarations no longer cause errors. However task names containing colons - will cause errors unless there is a corresponding namespace uri. - -* The <ftp> and <telnet> tasks now require Jakarta Commons Net instead - of the older ORO Netcomponents version. See - <http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/net/index.html>. - -* <input> will no longer prompt the user and wait for input if the - addproperty attribute is set to a property that has already been - defined in the project. If you rely on the task waiting for input, - don't use the addproperty attribute. - -* The Class-Path attribute in manifests will no longer merge the - entries of all manifests found, but will be treated like all other - manifest attributes - the most recent attribute(s) will be used. - -* New Launch mechanism implemented. This moves some functionality from - the batch files / shell scripts into Java. This removes environment - limitations, for command issues, directory depth issues on Windows. Also - allows a per-user library location to be used if the main Ant install - is locked down. - -* The Entry nested element of PropertyFile will not any more have its value - attribute (actually increment) overwritten with the new value of the entry - after execution. - -* Output stored from a <java> or <exec> task is now exactly as generated. No - conversion to platform end-of-line characters is performed. - -* <translate> will now preserve line endings. - -* <ftp> followsymlinks="false" in nested fileset definitions is explicitly - required in order to exclude remote symbolic links (when doing a get, chmod, - delete, rmdir). - -* The values of the Copy#fileCopyMap variable has changed from String to - String[]. (In java 1.5 terms it was Hashtable<String, String> and - is now Hashtable<String, String[]>). This will affect third party code - that extend Copy and override Copy#doFileOperations. - -* <loadproperties> didn't expand properties while <property file="..."/> - does, so they were not equivalent. This has been fixed, which means - that propetries may get expanded twice if you use an - <expandproperties> filterreader. Bugzilla Report 17782. - -* User defined tasks and typedefs are now handled internally in the - same way as predefined tasks and typedefs. Also tasks and typedefs - are resolved at a later stage. This causes some - differences especially for user defined task containers. - -* <checksum> log message "Calculating checksum ..." has been degraded - from INFO to VERBOSE. - -Fixed bugs: ------------ -* Filter readers were not handling line endings properly. Bugzilla - Report 18476. - -* Filtersets were also not handling line endings properly. - -* Expand tasks did not behave as expected with PatternSets. - -* <property environment=... /> now works on OS/400. - -* <cab> could hang listcab on large <fileset>s. - -* The starteam stcheckout, stcheckin tasks now correctly compute - status of files against whatever local tree they are run against - and, optionally, will not process a file if it is current. - Previously you had to process everything unless you ran against the - default folder which wasn't the normal use-case for ant-starteam. - The stlist task now similarly displays that status correctly making - it a more generally useful tool. - -* entity includes would cause exceptions if path names included spaces. - -* addConfiguredXXX would not work for TaskAdapter wrapped tasks - -* Fix <ilasm> outputfile testing so that the output file does not need - to exist beforehand. - -* Ant will now exit with a return code of 1 if it encounters problems - with the command line arguments. - -* ClassLoader creation changes to use a factory method in Project. A new - class AntClassLoader2 implemented for 1.2+ specific features including - Package information and addition of classes specified in the Class-Path - element of a Jar's manifest. - -* It is now possible in <exec> to resolve the executable to a project - basedir or execution dir relative executable. The resolveExecutable - must be used to pick up such executables. - -* splash screen wouldn't disappear when build was finished. - -* <exec> output and error streams can now be redirected independently - to either a property or a file (or both) - -* TarEntry's File-arg constructor would fail with a - StringIndexOutOfBoundsException on all OSes where os.name is shorter - than seven characters. Bugzilla Report 18105. - -* <copy> and <move>'s failonerror didn't apply to filesets pointing to - non-existent directories. Bugzilla Report 18414. - -* The <stripjavacomments> filter sometimes removed parts of string - constants. Bugzilla Report 17441. - -* <antlr> will now recompile your grammar if the supergrammar has - changed. Bugzilla Report 12691. - -* <property env> will now work on Unices with /bin/env instead of - /usr/bin/env. Bugzilla Report 17642. - -* <jar index="on"> could include multiple index lists. Bugzilla 10262. - -* The index created by <jar> didn't conform to the spec as it didn't - include the top-level entries. Bugzilla Report 16972. - -* <tar> and <zip> didn't honor the defaultexcludes attribute for the - implicit fileset. Bugzilla Report 18637. - -* The <replacetokens> filter would throw an exception if the token's - value was an empty string. Bugzilla Report 18625. - -* Perforce tasks relying on output from the server such as <p4change> - and <p4label> were hanging. Bugzilla Reports 18129 and 18956. - -* Improve exception and logging behavior of Perforce tasks. - Bugzilla report 18154. - -* build.sh install had a problem on cygwin (with REALANTHOME). - Bugzilla Report 17257 - -* <replaceregexp> didn't work for multi-byte encodings if byline was false. - Bugzilla Report 19187. - -* <replaceregexp> was altering unnecessarily the timestamp of the directories - containing the files to process - Bugzilla Report 22541. - -* file names that include spaces need to be quoted inside the @argfile - argument using forked <javac> and (all JDKS). Bugzilla Report 10499. - NB : a first correction was only introducing quotes for JDK 1.4 - It has been changed to quote for all external compilers when paths - contain spaces. - Also the backslashes need to be converted to forward slashes - Bugzilla Report 17683. - -* Setting filesonly to true in <zip> and related tasks would cause the - archives to be always recreated. Bugzilla Report 19449. - -* file names that include spaces need to be quoted inside the @argfile - argument using <javadoc> and JDK 1.4. Bugzilla Report 16871. - -* <junit> didn't work with custom formatters that were only available - on the user specified classpath when a timeout occurred. Bugzilla - Report 19953. - -* <different> selector : make ignoreFileTimes effectively default to true - and fix a bug in the comparison of timestamps. Bugzilla Report 20205. - -* <different> selector can now be nested directly under a fileset - Bugzilla Report 20220. - -* <cvstagdiff> had a problem with "dd-MM-yy hh:mm:ss" formats - Bugzilla Report 15995. - -* <cvstagdiff> cvsroot and package attributes added to the root - element tagdiff of the xml output - Bugzilla Report 16081. - -* <cvstagdiff> had a problem with aliased modules and with requests for - multiple modules. Bugzilla Reports 21373 and 22877. - -* <cvstagdiff> could not parse properly the revision number of new files with - CVS 1.11.9 or higher. Bugzilla Report 24406. - -* <fixcrlf> make fixcrlf create its temporary files in the default directory - of FileUtils#createTempFile instead of the destination dir of fixcrlf. - Bugzilla Report 20870. - -* <ejbjar> implementation for Borland. - Prevent the task from being blocked by error messages coming from java2iiop. - Bugzilla Report 19385. - -* <unzip>'s and <untar>'s nested patternsets didn't work as documented - when the pattern ended in a slash or backslash. Bugzilla Report 20969. - -* <fixcrlf> will now create the parent directories for the destination - files if necessary. Bugzilla Report 20840. - -* <xmlproperty> now handles CDATA sections. BugZilla Report 17195 - -* <translate> now translate tokens that are placed close together. - Bugzilla Report 17297 - -* Nested websphere element for ejbjar does not support spaces in file name. - Bugzilla Report 21298 - -* Don't multiply Class-Path attributes when updating jars. Bugzilla - Report 21170. - -* Do not overwrite the value (increment) attribute of PropertyFile nested - Entry element. Bugzilla Report 21505. - -* Prevent sysproperties with no key or no value from being added in <junit>. - Bugzilla Report 21684. - -* Allow references to be properly inherited via antcall - Bugzilla Report 21724. - -* ftp chmod failed when the remote system was UNIX and local system Windows - Bugzilla Report 21865. - -* ftp put with chmod failed when the remote system was UNIX and local system - Windows. Bugzilla Report 23143. - -* ftp did not set the ascii mode explicitly, causing problems with ftp servers - having binary as default - -* ftp was not able to download files when they were pointed to by symbolic - links. Bugzilla Report 14063. - -* ftp is able to download also directories pointed to by symbolic links. - -* replace would change \r\n into \r\r\n under Windows. - -* junitreport with frames did not display a link for classes without a package - or in the top package. - Bugzilla Report 21915. - -* Project.toBoolean(String) now handles null as argument and does not throw a - NullPointerException any more. - -* The socket condition will now close the socket created to test. - Bugzilla Report 23040. - -* <junit includeantruntime="true" fork="true"> replaced the CLASSPATH instead - of adding to it. Bugzilla Report 14971. - -* <splash> could fail on JVMs that use null to indicate the system classloader. - Bugzilla Report 23320. - -* <xmlcatalog>s only worked when defined inside of tasks. Bugzilla - Report 20965. - -* <csc> and siblings (<vbc> <jsharpc>) handle large filesets by -automatic use of response files. Bugzilla report #19630 - -Other changes: --------------- - -* Shipped XML parser is now Xerces 2.6.0 - -* All tasks can be used outside of <target>s. Note that some tasks - will not work at all outside of targets as they would cause infinite - loops (<antcall> as well as <ant> and <subant> if they invoke the - current build file). - -* Six new Clearcase tasks added. - -* A new filter reader namely tokenfilter has been added. Bugzilla - Report 18312. - -* A new attribute named skip is added to the TailFilter and - HeadFilter filter readers. - -* The filesetmanifest attribute of <jar> has been reenabled. - -* The start and end tokens for <translate> may now be longer than a - single character. - -* <setproxy> lets you set the username and password for proxies that - want authentication - -* <loadproperties> has a new encoding attribute. - -* <echoproperties> can now create XML output. - -* <echoproperties> has a new srcfile attribute that can make it read - properties files and output them instead of Ant's properties. - -* <filterset> will now resolve filters recursively. - -* <input> has a new attribute that allows you to specify a default value. - -* Added <image> task (requires JAI). - -* <image> task has now proportions attribute in the <scale/> nested element - instead of keepproportions (bringing in more functionality) - -* New condition <isreference> - -* <ftp> now has a preservelastmodified attribute to preserve the - timestamp of a downloaded file. - -* new rmdir action for <ftp> that removes directories from a fileset. - -* <ftp> has attributes timediffauto and timediffmillis to use together - with the newer attribute to tell ant to take into account a time difference - between client and remote side. - Bugzilla Report 19358. - -* <ftp> has been optimized to go directly to the include patterns. - This reduces scanning time under UNIX when followsymlinks="true" - and casesensitive="true" (the default) - Bugzilla Report 20103. - -* The SOS and VSS tasks will no longer unconditionally prepend a $ to - vsspath or projectpath. - -* OS/400 now gets detected by the os condition. - -* <arg> has a new attribute pathref that can be used to reference - previously defined paths. - -* <xmlproperty> has been improved, you can now expand ${properties}, - define ids or paths and use Ant's location magic for filename resolutions - in the XML file. - -* <xmlcatalog> will now support external catalogs according to the - OASIS "Open Catalog" standard - if resolver.jar (newer than version - 1.0) from Apache's xml-commons is in your CLASSPATH. - -* Starteam tasks now have support for revision labels and build labels. - Checkouts now have the option of using repository timestamps, instead - of current. - -* new task <symlink> that creates and maintains symbolic links. - -* new tasks <chown> and <chgrp> which are wrappers of the Unix commands. - -* new task <attrib> to change file attributes on Windows systems. - -* <style> has a new attribute reloadstylesheet to work around a - bug in widespread Xalan versions. - -* <tarfileset> has a new dirmode attribute to specify the permissions - for directories. - -* <fixcrlf>'s eol attribute now also understands "mac", "unix" and "dos". - -* <classfileset> now picks up dependencies of the form MyClass.class. This - works for the code generated by the Sun java compiler. It may not work for - all compilers. - -* a new attribute "globalopts" can be added to all Perforce tasks. - You can put in it all the strings described by p4 help usage. Refer to - the docs for more information. - -* new Perforce tasks <p4integrate> , <p4resolve>, and <p4labelsync> - -* <p4submit> will change the property p4.change if the Perforce server - renumbers the change list. - It will set the property p4.needsresolve if the submit fails, - and the message says that file(s) need to be resolved. - -* <replaceregexp> now has an optional encoding attribute to support - replacing in files that are in a different encoding than the - platform's default. - -* The <exec> task may now have its input redirected from either a file - or a string from the build file. The error output can be separated - to a different file when outut is redirected. standard error may be - logged to the Ant log when redirecting output to a file - -* The <java> task also supports the input redirection and separate - error streams introduced to the <exec> task. In addition, it is now - possible to save the output into a property for use within the build - file as was possible with <exec> in Ant 1.5 - -* The <javadoc> task <tag> subelement has been enhanced to allow files - with tag mappings to be used. - -* New tasks: <scp> supports file transfers, <sshexec> executes a - command over SSH. They require jsch, a BSD licensed SSH library that - can be found at http://www.jcraft.com/jsch/index.html - -* New filterreader <escapeunicode/>. - -* Support for HP's NonStop Kernel (Tandem) OS has been added. - -* <cab>'s basedir attribute is now optional if you specify nested - filesets. Bugzilla Report 18046. - -* New task <sync> that synchronizes two directory trees. - -* <apply> has new forwardslash attribute that can force filenames to - use forward slashes (/) as file separators even on platforms with a - different separator. This is useful if you want to run certain - ported Unix tools. - -* Copy has a new outputencoding attribute that can be used to change - the encoding while copying files. Bugzilla Report 18217. - -* The xml formatter for JUnit will now honor test case names set with - setName. Bugzilla Report 17040. - -* JUnit now has an attribute reloading, which, when set to false, - makes the task reuse the same class loader for a series of tests. - -* <concat> now supports filtering and can check timestamps before - overriding a file. Bugzilla Report 18166. - -* <junit> has a new attribute tempdir that controls the placement of - temporary files. Bugzilla Report 15454. - -* <jdepend> now supports a new nested element <classespath> which is - the same as <sourcespath> but point to compiled classes (the - preferred mode of operation for JDepend > 2.5). Additionally, nested - <exclude> elements can be used to exclude certain packages from - being parsed. Bugzilla Report 17134. - -* The JProbe tasks now also work with JProbe 4.x. Bugzilla Report 14849. - -* <javacc> and <jjtree> will now autodetect JavaCC 3.x and can use it. - -* <sql> has a new attribute to control escape processing. - -* <sql> is able to display properly several resultsets if you are - running a compound sql statement. Bugzilla Report 21594. - -* A new <containsregexp> selector has been added, that selects files - if their content matches a certain regular expression. - -* <antlr>'s debug attribute has been enabled. Bugzilla Report 19051. - -* <mail> has a new attribute charset. Bugzilla Report 15434. - -* <mail> has new attributes user and password for SMTP auth. - maillogger can also use this. - The implementation only works with JavaMail (encoding="MIME"). - Implementation with plain mail remains to do. - Bugzilla Report 5969. - -* <mail> and mailloger support SMTP over TLS/SSL - Bugzilla Report 19180. - -* <mail> the attributes from, replyto ,tolist, cclist, bcclist - can now contain email addresses of the form name <address@xyz.com> - or (name) address@xyz.com - Bugzilla Report 22474. - -* <mail> (version PlainMail) - prevent blank headers from being sent, - make the order of the headers of plain mail messages predictable - Bugzilla Report 22088. - -* <zipfileset> can now be defined in the main body of a project - and referred to with refid="xyz". Bugzilla Report 17007. - -* A wrapper script for OS/2 has been added. - -* <unzip> will now detect and successfully extract self-extracting - archives. Bugzilla Report 16213. - -* <stcheckout> has a new attribute "converteol" that can be used to - control the automatic line-end conversion performed on ASCII files. - Bugzilla Report 18884. - -* Users can now modify the list of default excludes using the new - defaultexcludes task. Bugzilla Report 12700. - -* There is a new data type <propertyset> that can be used to collect - properties. It is supported by <ant>, <antcall>, <subant>, <java>, - <echoproperties> and <junit>. - -* <concat> can now control the encoding of the output as well and optionally - add new-line characters at the end of files that get concatenated but - don't end in newlines. Bugzilla Report 12511. - -* <rpm> will detect the rpmbuild executable of RedHat 8.0 and newer - and use that if it is on your PATH. Bugzilla Report 14650. - -* A new task <rexec> has been added that requires commons-net to work. - Bugzilla Report 19541. - -* <javadoc> now supports a nested <arg> element in addition to the - additionalparams attribute. - -* You can now determine the order of standard tags in <javadoc> via - <tag> elements - you must not use the description attribute for them. - Bugzilla Report 18912. - -* <javadoc> now supports the -noqualifier switch. Bugzilla Report 19288. - -* <javac>'s executable attribute can now also be used to specify the - executable for jikes, jvc, sj or gcj. Bugzilla Report 13814. - -* <javac> has a new attribute tempdir that can control the placement - of temporary files. Bugzilla Report 19765. - -* A new magic property build.compiler.jvc.extensions has been added - that can be used to turn of Microsoft extensions while using the jvc - compiler. Bugzilla Report 19826. - -* You can now limit the parallelism of <apply> and <chmod> by using the new - maxparallel attribute. - -* With the new addsourcefile attribute, you can make <apply> ommit the - source file names from the command line. Bugzilla Report 13654. - -* <apply> and <chmod> now support nested <filelist>s as well as <dirset>s. - Bugzilla Reports 15929 and 20687. - -* <apply> and <chmod> will display a summary if you set the new - verbose attribute to true. Bugzilla Report 19883. - -* <copy>/<move>'s failonerror attribute can now also be used to - continue the build if an I/O error caused a problem. Bugzilla - Report 12999. - -* new selector <type/> allowing to select only files or only directories. - Bugzilla Report 20222. - -* <java> and <junit> now support a nested <bootclasspath> element that - will be ignored if not forking a new VM. - -* <junit>'s nested <formatter> elements now support if/unless clauses. - -* <ejbjar> - cmpversion attribute added - jboss element will look for jbosscmp-jdbc.xml descriptor - if ejbjar has cmpversion="2.0" set - Bugzilla Reports 14707 and 14709. - -* <pvcs> config attribute added to set the location of a specific PVCS - .cfg file - Bugzilla Report 9752 - -* <mapper> has an "unpackage" mapper - Bugzilla Report 18908 - -* Added <scriptdef> task allowing tasks to be defined using any BSF-supported - scripting language. - -* <touch>'s datetime attribute can now accept time with a granularity - of seconds as well. Bugzilla Report 21014. - -* <checksum> has two new properties: totalproperty and todir. - -* FileUtils#createTempFile will now create temporary files in the - directory pointed to by the property java.io.tmpdir - -* <unzip> and friends now supports an optional encoding attribute to - enable it to expand archives created with filenames using an encoding - other than UTF8. Bugzilla Report 10504. - -* <patch> has a new attribute destfile that can be used to create a new - file instead of patching files in place. - -* OpenVMS is detected as a valid OS family. - -* DirectoryScanner has been optimized for cases where include patterns do not - start with wildcards. Bugzilla Report 20103. - -* DirectoryScanner begins to be optimized not to scan excluded directories. - Bugzilla Report 21941. - -* Added keep-going feature. Bugzilla Report 21144 - -* The archives generated by <zip> and friends will now contain CRC and - size information in the "local file header", thereby providing this - information to applications that read the archives using - java.util.ZipInputStream. Bugzilla Report 19195. - -* <copy> and <move> can now handle mappers that return multiple - mappings per source path. This behaviour is enabled by using - an enablemultiplemapping attribute. Bugzilla Report 21320. - -* <exec> will now work on OpenVMS (please read the notes in - <exec>'s manual page). Bugzilla Report 21877. - -* <exec> will now have a new attribute spawn (default false). - If set to true, the process will be spawned. Bugzilla Report 5907. - -* <java> will now have a new attribute spawn (default false). - If set to true, the process will be spawned. Bugzilla Report 5907. - -* <parallel> now supports a timeout which can be used to recover - from deadlocks, etc in the parallel threads. <parallel> also - now supports a <daemons> nested element. This can be used to - run tasks in daemon threads which the parallel task will not - wait for before completing. A new attribute failonany will cause - <parallel> to throw an exception if any thread fails without - waiting for all other threads to complete. - -* <zip> and friends will consume far less memory than they used to - when run with compress="false". Bugzilla Report 21899. - -* <if/> and <unless/> attributes added to <param/> element of <style> - Bugzilla Report 22044 - -* <zip> and friends have a new attribute "keepcompression" that can be - used to incrementally build an archive mixing compressed and uncompressed - entries. - -* <junit>'s XML formatter adds a new classname attribute to the <testcase> - elements. - -* new <permissions> type add permission handling to the code - this type can be nested in the <java> and <junit> tasks. - Bugzilla Report 22533. - -* additional shortcuts for ant options (-d --> -debug, -e --> -emacs, - -h --> -help, -p --> -projecthelp, -s --> -find). - -* new selector <modified>. "cache" was renamed to "modified". - Bugzilla Report 20474. - -* <stcheckout> and <stlist> have a new asofdate attribute that can be - used to checkout/list files based on a date instead of a label. - Bugzilla Report 20578. - -* New filter <concatfilter>. Adds the content of file at the beginning - or end of a file. Discussion started at - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&m=106366791228585&w=2 - -* New task <import> - -* New task <macrodef> - -* New task <presetdef> - -* Ant libraries that can make use of namespaces to avoid name - clashes of custom tasks - -* <java> and <junit> now support <assertions>, which let you enable - and disable Java1.4 assertions on a package or class basis. These - only work when fork=true, currently. - -* .NET tasks expanded with VB support <vbc> and J#, via <jsharp>, - <importtypelib> and <ilasm>. <csc> supports nested <src> types, - <defines> for (potentially conditional) definitions, <reference> - filesets for references. The executable attribute lets you switch to - mono or other implementations -<csc> has been tested with Mono on - Linux and OSX. - - -Changes from Ant 1.5.3 to Ant 1.5.4 -=================================== - -Changes that could break older environments: --------------------------------------------- - -* If the Visual Age tasks used to work for you, they may stop doing so - now - and we'd like to know about it. The current set of tasks is - supposed to work with any version of VAJ starting with 3.0. - -Fixed bugs: ------------ - -* The Visual Age for Java tasks didn't work (at least for versions 3.0 - and higher). Bugzilla Report 10016. - -* URL-encoding in <vaj*port> didn't work properly. - -* VAJRemoteUtil called getAbsolutePath instead of getPath - causing problems when using a Windows VAJ server from a UNIX server. - Bugzilla Report 20457. - -* VAJImport task failed with NullPointerException when using DirectoryScanner. - Bugzilla Report 22080. - -Other changes: --------------- - -* Shipped XML parser is now Xerces 2.5.0 - -* <javah> will invoke oldjavah on JDK 1.4.2. Bugzilla Report 18667. - -* The VAJ tasks now support a haltonfailure attribute to conditionally - keep building even if they fail. - -* It is now possible to use the latest (versioned or unversioned) edition - in <vajload> by using special wildcard characters. Also fixes - Bugzilla Report 2236. - -Changes from Ant 1.5.2 to Ant 1.5.3 -=================================== - -Changes that could break older environments: --------------------------------------------- - -* The <zip> task and friends have again changed a method signature - (sorry, was necessary to fix bug 17780). The return type of - getResourcesToAdd has changed. - -Fixed bugs: ------------ - -* <zipfileset>'s filemode would get ignored and the dirmode was used - for the included files as well. As a side effect, WinZIP was unable - to extract or display the files, so they seemed to be missing from - the archive. Bugzilla Report 17648. - -* <ftp> could use the wrong path separator when trying to change the - remote working directory. Bugzilla Report 17735. - -* <jar update="true"> would loose all original files if you didn't - specify any nested <(zip)fileset>s and the manifest had changed. - Bugzilla Report 17780. - -* If you used a value starting with \ on Windows for the appxml - attribute of <ear> or the webxml attribute of <war>, it would be - ignored. Bugzilla Report 17871. - -* Ant will no longer implicitly add Sun's rt.jar in <javac> when you - use jvc and don't specify a bootclasspath. Bugzilla Report 18055. - -* The prefix attribute of <zipfileset> would not generate directory - entries for the prefix itself. Bugzilla Report 18403. - -* starteam checkout can now handle deleted labels. Bugzilla Report 17646. - -* The Unix wrapper script failed if you invoked it as a relative - symlink and ANT_HOME has not been set. Bugzilla Report 17721. - -Other Changes: --------------- -* Added ability to specify manifest encoding for the <jar> and - <manifest> tasks - -Changes from Ant 1.5.1 to Ant 1.5.2 -============================================= - -Changes that could break older environments: --------------------------------------------- -* ANT_OPTS environment variable is now applied at the start of the - Java command line, allowing position specific parameters of some - JVMs, such as -classic to be specified. - -* ZipScanner#getIncludedFiles will now return the names of the ZipEntries - that have been matched instead of the name of the archive. - -* The <zip> task and friends have been heavily modified, almost every - method signature of the Zip class has changed. If you have subclassed - Zip (or one of its subclasses), your class will most likely not - compile against the current code base. If it still compiles, it will - probably not work as in Ant 1.5.1. - -Fixed bugs: ------------ -* <translate> was not ignoring comment lines. - -* <manifest> wouldn't update an existing manifest if only an attribute - of an existing section changed. - -* ant.bat now supports the ANT_ARGS and JAVACMD environment variables - again (like Ant 1.5 did). - -* The "plain" <junit> <formatter> could throw a NullPointerException - if an error occurred in setUp. - -* <junit> will now produce output when a test times out as well. - -* <replace> would count some internal character replacements when - reporting the number of replaced tokens. - -* <concat> would cause an exception if a <filelist> pointed to files - that do not exist. - -* <javadoc> will now pass -source to custom doclets as well. - -* <cvstagdiff> would throw a NullPointException if there had been no - differences. - -* <cvschangelog> could miss today's changes. - -* <concat> could append newline characters between concatenated files. - -* <xmlvalidate> ignored the specified encoding of the files to - validate. - -* the errorsbeginat attribute of the <http> condition didn't work. - -* Ant will try to force loading of certain packages like com.sun.* - from the system classloader. The packages are determined by the - version of the JVM running Ant. - -* Ant didn't find the runtime libraries on IBM's JDK 1.4 for Linux. - -* random component of temporary files is now always a positive integer. - -* Ant could incorrectly try to use the 1.4 regexp implementation even - if it isn't available if you run the JVM with -Xverify:none. - -* Ant would die with an exception if you used nested <reference> - elements in Ant and the refid attribute didn't point to an existing - project reference. - -* The <get> task can now be compiled (and Ant thus bootstrapped) using - Kaffee. - -* build.sysclasspath will now be honored by more tasks. - -* The signjar keystore attribute has been reverted to a String allowing - it to once again accept URLs. This should not affect current File based usage - unless you are extending the Signjar task. - -* <jar update="true"> would remove the original manifest. - -* fix up folder creation in PVCS task - -* <tar>'s up-to-date check didn't work for nested <(tar)fileset>s. - -* Corrected a problem in XMLLogger where it would not associated - messages with a taskdef'd task - -* <uptodate> now works when using attributes (i.e. not filesets) and pointing - to the same file - -* Java task (and output system) now stores output which doos not end - with a line feed. - -* splash screen wouldn't disappear when build was finished. - -* <exec> now supports OS/2. - -* <zip> and friends would only update/recreate existing archives if - the files to add/update have been newer than the archive. - -* <javadoc>'s <link> element could fail for offline="true" on some JDKs. - -Other changes: --------------- - -* MailLogger now sets the Date header correctly. - -* Shipped XML parser is now Xerces 2.3.0 - -* signjar now accepts a maxmemory attribute to allow the memory allocated to the - jarsigner tool to be specified. The jarsigner from the JDK's JAVA_HOME bin - dir is now used rather than the first jarsigner on the path. - -* **/.DS_Store has been added to the list of default pattern excludes. - -* The Created-By header in the default manifest now contains the JVM - vendor and version according to the jar specification. A new header, - Ant-Version provides the Ant version used to create the jar. - -* <zip> can now store Unix permissions in a way that can be - reconstructed by Info-Zip's unzip command. - -Changes from Ant 1.5.1Beta1 to 1.5.1 -==================================== - -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: --------------------------------------------- - -* <pvcs> default filenameformat has been different from Ant 1.4.1. - Now it is different from 1.5beta1 and 1.5beta2. - -* <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. - -* 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. - -* 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). - -* 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. -* 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: ------------ - -* <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. - -* <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 - -* 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: --------------- - -* <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 - -* added **/.svn and **/.svn/** to the default excludes. - -* 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 algorithm. - -* 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 functionality 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 output 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 auxiliary 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> no longer uses deprecated methods. - -* 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). |