Ant 1.5.4

This is the 1.5.4 version of Ant. It is available in both binary and source distributions.

JDK 1.1 Users:

Please note that the next major release of Ant, Ant 1.6, will require JDK 1.2 or later. This release, Ant 1.5.4, will be the last Ant release from the Ant 1.5 codebase, barring any major bugs. As such, it is likely to be the last release of Ant that will be JDK 1.1 compatible. Ant 1.6, of course, retains the ability to generate 1.1 compatible code.

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 1.5.3 to this release are detailed below. Please refer to the WHATSNEW file for more information.

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Many of the distribution kits have been digitally signed (using PGP). If so, there will be an accompanying distribution.asc file in the same directory as the distribution. The PGP keys can be found in the distribution directory at <http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/KEYS>.

Always test available signatures, e.g.,
> pgpk -a KEYS
> pgpv apache-ant-1.5.4-bin.tar.gz.asc
or,
> pgp -ka KEYS
> pgp apache-ant-1.5.4-bin.tar.gz.asc
or,
> gpg --import KEYS
> gpg --verify apache-ant-1.5.4-bin.tar.gz.asc

Changes from Ant 1.5.3 to Ant 1.5.4

Changes that could break older environments:

• If the Visual Age tasks used to work for you, they may stop doing so now - and we'd like to know about it. The current set of tasks is supposed to work with any version of VAJ starting with 3.0.

Fixed bugs:

• The Visual Age for Java tasks didn't work (at least for versions 3.0 and higher). Bugzilla Report 10016.
• URL-encoding in <vaj*port> didn't work properly.
• VAJRemoteUtil called getAbsolutePath instead of getPath causing problems when using a Windows VAJ server from a UNIX server. Bugzilla Report 20457.
• VAJImport task failed with NullPointerException when using DirectoryScanner. Bugzilla Report 22080.

Other Changes:

• Shipped XML parser is now Xerces 2.5.0
• <javah> will invoke oldjavah on JDK 1.4.2. Bugzilla Report 18667.
• The VAJ tasks now support a haltonfailure attribute to conditionally keep building even if they fail.
• It is now possible to use the latest (versioned or unversioned) edition in <vajload> by using special wildcard characters. Also fixes Bugzilla Report 2236.