Ant 1.5.1

This is the 1.5.1 version 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

Changes

The changes from Release 1.5 to this release are detailed below. Please refer to the WHATSNEW file for more information.

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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.