This is release 1.2 of Ant. It is available in both binary and source distributions. The binary distribution doesn't contain the optional tasks - compiled versions of those are distributed in a separate file: optional.jar. Placing this file in the $ANT_HOME/lib directory will make those tasks available. To build ant from the source distribution, please use the bootstrap scripts provided. It is not possible to use Ant 1.1 to build from the source distribution. The changes from Release 1.1 to this release are detailed below. This information is included in the distributions in the file WHATSNEW Thank you for using Ant. The Apache Jakarta Project Changes from Ant 1.1 to Ant 1.2 ================================== Changes that could break older environments: -------------------------------------------- * Semantics of has changed again in the hope to be more intuitive. ${} expansion now happens at runtime and 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