Ant 1.4.1

This is release 1.4.1 of Ant. It is available in both binary and source distributions.

Note: The tar files in the distribution use GNU tar extensions and must be untarred with a GNU compatible version of tar. The version of tar on Solaris and Mac OS X will not work with these files

Optional Tasks

Ant's optional tasks are not part of the core distribution but are available in a separate file: jakarta-ant-1.4.1-optional.jar.. To use the optional tasks you will need to place this file in the $ANT_HOME/lib directory and have the necessary supporting jars available on your classpath. Please refer to the documentation for more information.

Changes

This is a bug fix release for version 1.4. It corrects the following problems in Ant 1.4. Please refer to the WHATSNEW file for more information.

Thank you for using Ant.

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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.