Ant 1.5.2

This is the 1.5.2 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 1.5.1 to this release are detailed below. Please refer to the WHATSNEW file for more information.

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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 occured 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 does 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.