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.
• SQL task did not work with Informix IDS 9.2. Bugzilla Report 27162.
• MacroDef did not allow attributes named 'description'. Bugzilla Report 27175.
• Throw build exception if name attribute missing from patternsetNameEntry. 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
• AntClassLoadergetResource 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.
• 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>.
• Target now supports a Location member. Bugzilla Report 28599.
• 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.