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If you need to see them in your stack trace, - you must set filtertrace to false. - Bugzilla Report 22758 - -* The jikes compiler adapter now supports -bootclasspath, -extdirs and - -sourcepath and also uses the same logic for debug flags as javac. - This means, the jikes compiler adapter now requires Jikes 1.15 or later. - Bugzilla Reports 25868, 26404 and 32609. - -* Targets with identical name work in imported project. Bugzilla Report 34566. - -* The gcj compiler adapter used to include the Java runtime classes - even if includeJavaRuntime was set to false, unless the - bootclasspath has been specified as well. It will now always adhere - to includeJavaRuntime, you may need to set it to true explicitly now - if you relied on the old behavior. - -Other changes: --------------- - -* <javadoc> can now take an attribute 'executable'. Bugzilla report 30606. - -* New attribute ignorecontents for <different> selector - -* Javadoc fixes for Location, Project, and RuntimeConfigurable - Bugzilla 30160. - -* Enable to choose the regexp implementation without system property. - Bugzilla Report 15390. - -* Expose objects and methods in IntrospectionHelper. Bugzilla Report 30794. - -* Allow file attribute of <move> to rename a directory. - Bugzilla Report 22863. - -* Add xmlcatalog nested element to XmlProperty. Bugzilla report 27053. - -* New attribute alwayslog for <redirector> type. - -* Added <target> nested elements to <ant> and <antcall> to allow - specification of multiple sub-build targets, which are executed - with a single dependency analysis. - -* Refactored Target invocation into org.apache.tools.ant.Executor - implementations. Bugzilla Reports 21421, 29248. - -* <rmic> now also supports Kaffe's rmic version shipping with Kaffe - 1.1.2 and above. - -* added casesensitive attribute to <globmapper> and <regexpmapper> - Bugzilla report 16686 - -* added handledirsep attribute to <globmapper> and <regexpmapper> - Bugzilla report 32487 - -* added a new mapper <filtermapper> - -* When a BuildListener tried to access System.err or System.out, Ant - would have thrown an exception - this has been changed. Ant now - silently ignores the message. BuildListeners still should avoid - accessing either stream. - -* Added a comment attribute to the zip task. - Bugzilla report 22793. - -* Overloaded FileUtils.createNewFile with a boolean mkdirs attribute - to create nonexistent parent directories. - -* <apply> has a new "force" attribute that, when true, disables - checking of target files. - -* Made the dest attribute of the apply task optional; mapped target - filenames will be interpreted as absolute pathnames when dest is omitted. - -* Changed default tempdir for <javac> from user.dir to java.io.tmpdir. - -* Added searchpath attribute to <exec> for searching path variable(s) - when resolveexecutable = true. - -* Added revision and userid attributes to <pvcs> documentation. - -* Added support to the touch task for a mkdirs attribute to create - nonexistent parent directories before touching new files. - -* Added support to the touch task for a pattern attribute to allow - alternate datetime formats. - -* Added support to the touch task to map touched files using a nested - mapper element. - -* Added support to the touch task for a verbose attribute to suppress - logging of new file creation. - -* bad link in docs to the enhancement page in bugzilla. - Bugzilla report 33252. - -* Added length task to get strings' and files' lengths. - -* <native2ascii> and <javah> now also support Kaffe's versions. - -* Recursive token expansion in a filterset can now be disabled by - setting its recurse attribute to false. - -* Pathconvert no longer requires that one of (targetos|pathsep|dirsep) - be set; platform defaults are used when this is the case. - -* Added preservelastmodified attribute to fixcrlf task. Bugzilla 25770. - -* Added isfileselected condition. - -* Added verbose="true|false" attribute to <subant>. When verbose is enabled, - the directory name is logged on entry and exit of the sub-build. Bugzilla 33787. - -* Added -nouserlib option to allow running ant without automatically loading - up ${user.home}/.lib/ant. This is useful when compiling ant, and antlibs. - Modified the build.sh and build.bat to use the option. - -* Added -noclasspath option to allow running ant WITHOUT using CLASSPATH env - variable. Modified ant.bat to do this so that %CLASSPATH% is not looked at. - -* Add else attribute to the condition task, which specifies an - optional alternate value to set the property to if the nested - condition evaluates to false. Bugzilla report 33074. - -* Ant generated jar files should now be detected as jar files by - Solaris. Bugzilla Report 32649. - -* Added two tutorials - - beginner: introduction into Ant - - task developers: using path, fileset etc - -* <rpm> has new attributes failonerror and quiet. - -Fixed bugs: ------------ - -* Do not pass on ThreadDeath when halting <java fork="false">. Bugzilla - 32941. - -* Killing a thread running <java fork="true"> (e.g. from an IDE) would - not stop the forked process. Bugzilla 31928. - -* Programs run with <java fork="true"> can now accept standard input - from the Ant console. (Programs run with <java fork="false"> could - already do so.) Bugzilla 24918. - -* AbstractCvsTask prematurely closed its outputStream and errorStream. - Bugzilla 30097. - -* Impossible to use implicit classpath for <taskdef> - when Ant core loader != Java application loader and - Path.systemClassPath taken from ${java.class.path} Bugzilla 30161. - -* MacroInstance did not clean up nested elements correctly in the execute - method, causing multiple use of the same macro instance with nested - elements to fail. - -* checksum fileext property doc wrong. Bugzilla 30787. - -* FTP task, getTimeDiff method was returning wrong value. Bugzilla 30595. - -* Zip task was not zipping when only empty directories were found. - Bugzilla 30365. - -* Jar task was not including manifest files when duplicate="preserve" was - chosen. Bugzilla 32802. - -* Classpath was treated in the same way as -lib options. Bugzilla 28046. - -* Manual page for cvsversion contained incorrect attributes and did not - say since 1.6.1. Bugzilla 31408. - -* Typo in definition of <cvsversion> task causing it not to be defined. - Bugzilla 31403. - -* Execution of top level tasks in imported files get delayed by targets. - Bugzilla report 31487. - -* ExecTask executes checkConfiguration() even though os does not match. - Bugzilla report 31805. - -* Concat task instance could not be run twice. - Bugzilla report 31814. - -* NPE using XmlLogger and antlib. - Bugzilla report 31840. - -* Properties.propertyNames() should be used instead of .keys(). - Bugzilla report 27261. - -* Target location is not set for default target. - Bugzilla report 32267. - -* Incorrect classloader parent in junittask when using with - ant-junit.jar and junit.jar not in the project classloader. Bugzilla - report 28474. - -* getResources() on the classloader returned by ClasspathUtils would - see each resource twice - if the resource is in the project - classpath and if the classloader is requested with a null path. - -* XMLValidate used URL#getFile rather than the ant method FileUtils#fromURI - Bugzilla report 32508 - -* fixed Regexp-Mapper docs which gave outdated instructions (optional.jar) - Bugzilla report 28584 - -* <scp> using <fileset> didn't work with OpenSSH 3.9 and later. - Bugzilla report 31939 - -* <setproxy> failed to set user/password on some JDKs. - Bugzilla report 32667 - -* untar would go into infinite loop for some invalid tar files. - Bugzilla report 29877 - -* forked <javac> won't pass -source to a JDK 1.1 or 1.2 javac anymore. - Bugzilla report 32948 - -* propertyset references did not handle nested propertyset references. - -* oata.types.Description.getDescription(Project) would throw a - NullPointerException when the "ant.targets" reference was unset. - -* Wrapper scripts did not detect WINNT value of dynamic OS environment - variable when logged into workstations using Novell authentication. - Bugzilla Report 30366. - -* DependScanner.getResource() always returned nonexistent resources, - even when the resource actually existed. Bugzilla Report 30558. - -* <apply> was broken with classfilesets. Bugzilla Report 30567. - -* <available> returned false positives when checking a file - passed in with the current basedir leading twice: - e.g. ${basedir}${file.separator}${basedir}${file.separator}foo . - -* The first file open that took place when using input files with the - <exec>, <apply>, or <java> tasks was always logged to System.out - instead of to the managing Task. - -* <telnet> and <rexec> would try to disconnect from servers they never - connetced to, potentially leading to exceptions in commons-net. - Bugzilla Report 33618. - -* <zip> would drop files matched by defaultexcludes during updates. - Bugzilla Report 33412. - -* <zip> couldn't store files with size between 2GB and 4GB (the - upper limit set by the ZIP format itself). Bugzilla Report 33310. - -* NPE when when <presetdef> tries to configure a task that - cannot be instantiated. Bugzilla Report 33689. - -* <javac debug="false"> created an invalid command line when running - the Symantec Java compiler. - -* Get with usetimestamp did not work on Java 1.2. - -* Get with usetimestamp did not work when local timestamp roughly >= now. - -* The framed JUnit report now handles multiple reports for the same - testcase properly. Bugzilla Report 32745. - -* <cab> didn't work for files with spaces in their names on Windows. - Bugzilla Report 17182. - -* The VAJ tasks could fail if the project name contained characters - that need to get URL encoded. Bugzilla Report 23322. - -* The FTP task could crash with an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException - Bugzilla Report 28797 - -* Improved handling of paths on cygwin - Bugzilla Report 31245 - -* TarInputStream#read() wasn't implemented correctly. Bugzilla Report - 34097. - -* <xslt> failed to process file-hierarchies of more than one level if - scanincludeddirectories was true. Bugzilla Report 24866. - -* forkmode="perBatch" or "once" would ignore extension attributes that - had been specified for <formatter>s. Bugzilla Report 32973. - -* minor performance update of Locator.fromUri. Bugzilla Report 34529. - -* The refid attribute of the I/O redirector was not functional. - -* SQL task would try access result sets of statements that didn't - return any, causing problems with Informix IDS 9.2 and IBM DB2 8.1 - FixPak 6 (or later). Bugzilla Reports 27162 and 29954. - -* make sure that Zip and its derivates call the createEmptyZip method when - there are no resources to zip/jar/... - -* ant.bat was missing runAntNoClasspath label for goto. - Bugzilla 34510. - - -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. - -* <csc>'s extraoptions can now contain multiple arguments. - Bugzilla Report 23599. - -* <macrodef> with default values set by properties would be - seen as new definitions when called twice with different properties. - This was confusing so the definitions are now treated as similar. - Bugzilla Report 31215. - -* <javadoc> has a new attribute "includenosourcepackages" that can be - used to document packages that don't hold source files but a - package.html file. Bugzilla Report 25339. - -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 patternset#NameEntry. - 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 - -* AntClassLoader#getResource 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. - -* Target now supports a Location member. Bugzilla Report 28599. - -* 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>. - -* 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. - -Changes from Ant 1.6.0 to Ant 1.6.1 -============================================= - -Changes that could break older environments: --------------------------------------------- - -* License is now Apache Software License 2.0 - see http://www.apache.org/licenses/ for more information - -Fixed bugs: ------------ -* Remove a recursive template call in the junit xsls that could trigger a stack - overflow. It now uses Xalan extensions to call a Java class directly. - Bugzilla Report 19301 - -* Fix spurious infinite loop detection for filters (introduced in ant 1.6.0). - Bugzilla Report 23154. - -* Fix handling of default ant namespace for nested elements. - -* Fix jboss element of ejb task (introduced in ant 1.6.0). - -* <whichresource> failed to load classes correctly. - -* Ant could fail to start with a NullPointerException if - ANT_HOME/lib/ant-launcher.jar was part of the system CLASSPATH. - -* presetdef'ed types did not work with the ant-type attribute - -* fixed case handling of macrodef attributes and elements. Bugzilla - Reports 25687 and 26225. - -* <java> ignored the append attribute, Bugzilla Report 26137. - -* The gcj compiler adapter for <javac> failed if the destination - directory didn't exist. Bugzilla Report 25856. - -* Ant now fails with a more useful message if a new process will be - forked in a directory and that directory doesn't exist. - -* <splash> used to break the build on non-GUI environments. Bugzilla - report 11482. - -* Ant 1.6.0 cannot run build scripts in directories with non-ASCII names. - Bugzilla Report 26642. - -Other changes: --------------- -* Shipped XML parser is now Xerces-J 2.6.1 - -* Translate task logs a debug message specifying the number of files - that it processed. Bugzilla Report 13938. - -* <fixcrlf> has a new attribute - fixlast. Bugzilla Report 23262. - -* <p4submit> has 2 new attributes, needsresolveproperty and changeproperty. - Bugzilla Report 25711. - -* add description attributes to macrodef attributes and elements. - Bugzilla Report 24711. - -* Extending ClearCase Tasks : - - Added an extra option to 'failonerr' to each ClearCase task/command. - - Extended the functionality of cccheckout. It can check (notco) to see if - the desired element is already checked out to the current view. Thus it - won't attempt to check it out again. - - Added three new ClearCase commands: ccmkattr, ccmkdir, ccmkelem - Bugzilla Report 26253. - -* New condition <typefound> that can be used to probe for the declaration - and implementation of a task, type, preset, macro, scriptdef, whatever. - As it tests for the implementation, it can be used to check for optional - tasks being available. - -* added nested text support to <macrodef> - -* added initial support for Java 1.5. Java 1.5 is now correctly - detected by Ant and treated just like Java 1.4. You can now specify - source="1.5" in the <javac> task. - -* created new task <cvsversion> - -* added support for branch logging via the tag attribute in <cvschangelog> - Bugzilla Report 13510. - -* added support the groovy language in the script and scriptdef tasks - -Changes from Ant 1.5.4 to Ant 1.6.0 -=================================== - -Changes that could break older environments: --------------------------------------------- - -* This version of Ant can not be built with JDK 1.1 and requires at - least Java 1.2 at runtime as well. Compiling for a 1.1 target is - still supported. - -* Targets cannot have the empty string as their name any longer. - -* ant.jar's manifest does no longer include a Class-Path entry, so it - is no longer possible to run Ant via "java -jar ant.jar" without - manually altering the CLASSPATH. Instead of that a file - ant-bootstrap.jar is included in the etc directory of the binary - distribution, copy this to the lib directory and use - "java -jar ant-bootstrap.jar" instead if you want to run Ant without - the wrapper script (not recommended). - -* The <script> task now requires Apache BSF instead of the older IBM - version. See <http://jakarta.apache.org/bsf/> - -* <xmlproperty> will no longer fail if the file to be loaded doesn't exist. - -* XML namespaces are now enabled in the XML parser, meaning XML namespace - declarations no longer cause errors. However task names containing colons - will cause errors unless there is a corresponding namespace uri. - -* The <ftp> and <telnet> tasks now require Jakarta Commons Net instead - of the older ORO Netcomponents version. See - <http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/net/index.html>. - -* <input> will no longer prompt the user and wait for input if the - addproperty attribute is set to a property that has already been - defined in the project. If you rely on the task waiting for input, - don't use the addproperty attribute. - -* The Class-Path attribute in manifests will no longer merge the - entries of all manifests found, but will be treated like all other - manifest attributes - the most recent attribute(s) will be used. - -* New Launch mechanism implemented. This moves some functionality from - the batch files / shell scripts into Java. This removes environment - limitations, for command issues, directory depth issues on Windows. Also - allows a per-user library location to be used if the main Ant install - is locked down. - -* The Entry nested element of PropertyFile will not any more have its value - attribute (actually increment) overwritten with the new value of the entry - after execution. - -* Output stored from a <java> or <exec> task is now exactly as generated. No - conversion to platform end-of-line characters is performed. - -* <translate> will now preserve line endings. - -* <ftp> followsymlinks="false" in nested fileset definitions is explicitly - required in order to exclude remote symbolic links (when doing a get, chmod, - delete, rmdir). - -* The values of the Copy#fileCopyMap variable has changed from String to - String[]. (In java 1.5 terms it was Hashtable<String, String> and - is now Hashtable<String, String[]>). This will affect third party code - that extend Copy and override Copy#doFileOperations. - -* <loadproperties> didn't expand properties while <property file="..."/> - does, so they were not equivalent. This has been fixed, which means - that propetries may get expanded twice if you use an - <expandproperties> filterreader. Bugzilla Report 17782. - -* User defined tasks and typedefs are now handled internally in the - same way as predefined tasks and typedefs. Also tasks and typedefs - are resolved at a later stage. This causes some - differences especially for user defined task containers. - -* <checksum> log message "Calculating checksum ..." has been degraded - from INFO to VERBOSE. - -Fixed bugs: ------------ -* Filter readers were not handling line endings properly. Bugzilla - Report 18476. - -* Filtersets were also not handling line endings properly. - -* Expand tasks did not behave as expected with PatternSets. - -* <property environment=... /> now works on OS/400. - -* <cab> could hang listcab on large <fileset>s. - -* The starteam stcheckout, stcheckin tasks now correctly compute - status of files against whatever local tree they are run against - and, optionally, will not process a file if it is current. - Previously you had to process everything unless you ran against the - default folder which wasn't the normal use-case for ant-starteam. - The stlist task now similarly displays that status correctly making - it a more generally useful tool. - -* entity includes would cause exceptions if path names included spaces. - -* addConfiguredXXX would not work for TaskAdapter wrapped tasks - -* Fix <ilasm> outputfile testing so that the output file does not need - to exist beforehand. - -* Ant will now exit with a return code of 1 if it encounters problems - with the command line arguments. - -* ClassLoader creation changes to use a factory method in Project. A new - class AntClassLoader2 implemented for 1.2+ specific features including - Package information and addition of classes specified in the Class-Path - element of a Jar's manifest. - -* It is now possible in <exec> to resolve the executable to a project - basedir or execution dir relative executable. The resolveExecutable - must be used to pick up such executables. - -* splash screen wouldn't disappear when build was finished. - -* <exec> output and error streams can now be redirected independently - to either a property or a file (or both) - -* TarEntry's File-arg constructor would fail with a - StringIndexOutOfBoundsException on all OSes where os.name is shorter - than seven characters. Bugzilla Report 18105. - -* <copy> and <move>'s failonerror didn't apply to filesets pointing to - non-existant directories. Bugzilla Report 18414. - -* The <stripjavacomments> filter sometimes removed parts of string - constants. Bugzilla Report 17441. - -* <antlr> will now recompile your grammar if the supergrammar has - changed. Bugzilla Report 12691. - -* <property env> will now work on Unices with /bin/env instead of - /usr/bin/env. Bugzilla Report 17642. - -* <jar index="on"> could include multiple index lists. Bugzilla 10262. - -* The index created by <jar> didn't conform to the spec as it didn't - include the top-level entries. Bugzilla Report 16972. - -* <tar> and <zip> didn't honor the defaultexcludes attribute for the - implicit fileset. Bugzilla Report 18637. - -* The <replacetokens> filter would throw an exception if the token's - value was an empty string. Bugzilla Report 18625. - -* Perforce tasks relying on output from the server such as <p4change> - and <p4label> were hanging. Bugzilla Reports 18129 and 18956. - -* Improve exception and logging behavior of Perforce tasks. - Bugzilla report 18154. - -* build.sh install had a problem on cygwin (with REALANTHOME). - Bugzilla Report 17257 - -* <replaceregexp> didn't work for multi-byte encodings if byline was false. - Bugzilla Report 19187. - -* <replaceregexp> was altering unnecessarily the timestamp of the directories - containing the files to process - Bugzilla Report 22541. - -* file names that include spaces need to be quoted inside the @argfile - argument using forked <javac> and (all JDKS). Bugzilla Report 10499. - NB : a first correction was only introducing quotes for JDK 1.4 - It has been changed to quote for all external compilers when paths - contain spaces. - Also the backslashes need to be converted to forward slashes - Bugzilla Report 17683. - -* Setting filesonly to true in <zip> and related tasks would cause the - archives to be always recreated. Bugzilla Report 19449. - -* file names that include spaces need to be quoted inside the @argfile - argument using <javadoc> and JDK 1.4. Bugzilla Report 16871. - -* <junit> didn't work with custom formatters that were only available - on the user specified classpath when a timeout occured. Bugzilla - Report 19953. - -* <different> selector : make ignoreFileTimes effectively default to true - and fix a bug in the comparison of timestamps. Bugzilla Report 20205. - -* <different> selector can now be nested directly under a fileset - Bugzilla Report 20220. - -* <cvstagdiff> had a problem with "dd-MM-yy hh:mm:ss" formats - Bugzilla Report 15995. - -* <cvstagdiff> cvsroot and package attributes added to the root - element tagdiff of the xml output - Bugzilla Report 16081. - -* <cvstagdiff> had a problem with aliased modules and with requests for multiple modules - Bugzilla Reports 21373 and 22877. - -* <cvstagdiff> could not parse properly the revision number of new files with CVS 1.11.9 or higher - Bugzilla Report 24406. - -* <fixcrlf> make fixcrlf create its temporary files in the default directory - of FileUtils#createTempFile instead of the destination dir of fixcrlf. - Bugzilla Report 20870. - -* <ejbjar> implementation for Borland. - Prevent the task from being blocked by error messages coming from java2iiop. - Bugzilla Report 19385. - -* <unzip>'s and <untar>'s nested patternsets didn't work as documented - when the pattern ended in a slash or backslash. Bugzilla Report 20969. - -* <fixcrlf> will now create the parent directories for the destination - files if necessary. Bugzilla Report 20840. - -* <xmlproperty> now handles CDATA sections. BugZilla Report 17195 - -* <translate> now translate tokens that are placed close together. - Bugzilla Report 17297 - -* Nested websphere element for ejbjar does not support spaces in file name. - Bugzilla Report 21298 - -* Don't multiply Class-Path attributes when updating jars. Bugzilla - Report 21170. - -* Do not overwrite the value (increment) attribute of PropertyFile nested Entry element. - Bugzilla Report 21505. - -* Prevent sysproperties with no key or no value from being added in <junit>. - Bugzilla Report 21684. - -* Allow references to be properly inherited via antcall - Bugzilla Report 21724. - -* ftp chmod failed when the remote system was UNIX and local system Windows - Bugzilla Report 21865. - -* ftp put with chmod failed when the remote system was UNIX and local system Windows - Bugzilla Report 23143. - -* ftp did not set the ascii mode explicity, causing problems with ftp servers - having binary as default - -* ftp was not able to download files when they were pointed to by symbolic links - Bugzilla Report 14063. - -* ftp is able to download also directories pointed to by symbolic links. - -* replace would change \r\n into \r\r\n under Windows. - -* junitreport with frames did not display a link for classes without a package - or in the top package. - Bugzilla Report 21915. - -* Project.toBoolean(String) now handles null as argument and does not throw a - NullPointerException any more. - -* The socket condition will now close the socket created to test. - Bugzilla Report 23040. - -* <junit includeantruntime="true" fork="true"> replaced the CLASSPATH instead - of adding to it. Bugzilla Report 14971. - -* <splash> could fail on JVMs that use null to indicate the system classloader. - Bugzilla Report 23320. - -* <xmlcatalog>s only worked when defined inside of tasks. Bugzilla - Report 20965. - -* <csc> and siblings (<vbc> <jsharpc>) handle large filesets by -automatic use of response files. Bugzilla report #19630 - -Other changes: --------------- - -* Shipped XML parser is now Xerces 2.6.0 - -* All tasks can be used outside of <target>s. Note that some tasks - will not work at all outside of targets as they would cause infinite - loops (<antcall> as well as <ant> and <subant> if they invoke the - current build file). - -* Six new Clearcase tasks added. - -* A new filter reader namely tokenfilter has been added. Bugzilla - Report 18312. - -* A new attribute named skip is added to the TailFilter and - HeadFilter filter readers. - -* The filesetmanifest attribute of <jar> has been reenabled. - -* The start and end tokens for <translate> may now be longer than a - single character. - -* <setproxy> lets you set the username and password for proxies that - want authentication - -* <loadproperties> has a new encoding attribute. - -* <echoproperties> can now create XML output. - -* <echoproperties> has a new srcfile attribute that can make it read - properties files and output them instead of Ant's properties. - -* <filterset> will now resolve filters recursively. - -* <input> has a new attribute that allows you to specify a default value. - -* Added <image> task (requires JAI). - -* <image> task has now proportions attribute in the <scale/> nested element - instead of keepproportions (bringing in more functionality) - -* New condition <isreference> - -* <ftp> now has a preservelastmodified attribute to preserve the - timestamp of a downloaded file. - -* new rmdir action for <ftp> that removes directories from a fileset. - -* <ftp> has attributes timediffauto and timediffmillis to use together - with the newer attribute to tell ant to take into account a time difference - between client and remote side. - Bugzilla Report 19358. - -* <ftp> has been optimized to go directly to the include patterns. - This reduces scanning time under UNIX when followsymlinks="true" - and casesensitive="true" (the default) - Bugzilla Report 20103. - -* The SOS and VSS tasks will no longer unconditionally prepend a $ to - vsspath or projectpath. - -* OS/400 now gets detected by the os condition. - -* <arg> has a new attribute pathref that can be used to reference - previously defined paths. - -* <xmlproperty> has been improved, you can now expand ${properties}, - define ids or paths and use Ant's location magic for filename resolutions - in the XML file. - -* <xmlcatalog> will now support external catalogs according to the - OASIS "Open Catalog" standard - if resolver.jar (newer than version - 1.0) from Apache's xml-commons is in your CLASSPATH. - -* Starteam tasks now have support for revision labels and build labels. - Checkouts now have the option of using repository timestamps, instead - of current. - -* new task <symlink> that creates and maintains symbolic links. - -* new tasks <chown> and <chgrp> which are wrappers of the Unix commands. - -* new task <attrib> to change file attributes on Windows systems. - -* <style> has a new attribute reloadstylesheet to work around a - bug in widespread Xalan versions. - -* <tarfileset> has a new dirmode attribute to specify the permissions - for directories. - -* <fixcrlf>'s eol attribute now also understands "mac", "unix" and "dos". - -* <classfileset> now picks up dependencies of the form MyClass.class. This - works for the code generated by the Sun java compiler. It may not work for - all compilers. - -* a new attribute "globalopts" can be added to all Perforce tasks. - You can put in it all the strings described by p4 help usage. Refer to - the docs for more information. - -* new Perforce tasks <p4integrate> , <p4resolve>, and <p4labelsync> - -* <p4submit> will change the property p4.change if the Perforce server - renumbers the change list. - It will set the property p4.needsresolve if the submit fails, - and the message says that file(s) need to be resolved. - -* <replaceregexp> now has an optional encoding attribute to support - replacing in files that are in a different encoding than the - platform's default. - -* The <exec> task may now have its input redirected from either a file - or a string from the build file. The error output can be separated - to a different file when outut is redirected. standard error may be - logged to the Ant log when redirecting output to a file - -* The <java> task also supports the input redirection and separate - error streams introduced to the <exec> task. In addition, it is now - possible to save the output into a property for use within the build - file as was possible with <exec> in Ant 1.5 - -* The <javadoc> task <tag> subelement has been enhanced to allow files - with tag mappings to be used. - -* New tasks: <scp> supports file transfers, <sshexec> executes a - command over SSH. They require jsch, a BSD licensed SSH library that - can be found at http://www.jcraft.com/jsch/index.html - -* New filterreader <escapeunicode/>. - -* Support for HP's NonStop Kernel (Tandem) OS has been added. - -* <cab>'s basedir attribute is now optional if you specify nested - filesets. Bugzilla Report 18046. - -* New task <sync> that synchronizes two directory trees. - -* <apply> has new forwardslash attribute that can force filenames to - use forward slashes (/) as file separators even on platforms with a - different separator. This is useful if you want to run certain - ported Unix tools. - -* Copy has a new outputencoding attribute that can be used to change - the encoding while copying files. Bugzilla Report 18217. - -* The xml formatter for JUnit will now honor test case names set with - setName. Bugzilla Report 17040. - -* JUnit now has an attribute reloading, which, when set to false, - makes the task reuse the same class loader for a series of tests. - -* <concat> now supports filtering and can check timestamps before - overriding a file. Bugzilla Report 18166. - -* <junit> has a new attribute tempdir that controls the placement of - temporary files. Bugzilla Report 15454. - -* <jdepend> now supports a new nested element <classespath> which is - the same as <sourcespath> but point to compiled classes (the - prefered mode of operation for JDepend > 2.5). Additionally, nested - <exclude> elements can be used to exclude certain packages from - being parsed. Bugzilla Report 17134. - -* The JProbe tasks now also work with JProbe 4.x. Bugzilla Report 14849. - -* <javacc> and <jjtree> will now autodetect JavaCC 3.x and can use it. - -* <sql> has a new attribute to control escape processing. - -* <sql> is able to display properly several resultsets if you are - running a compound sql statement. Bugzilla Report 21594. - -* A new <containsregexp> selector has been added, that selects files - if their content matches a certain regular expression. - -* <antlr>'s debug attribute has been enabled. Bugzilla Report 19051. - -* <mail> has a new attribute charset. Bugzilla Report 15434. - -* <mail> has new attributes user and password for SMTP auth. - maillogger can also use this. - The implementation only works with JavaMail (encoding="MIME"). - Implementation with plain mail remains to do. - Bugzilla Report 5969. - -* <mail> and mailloger support SMTP over TLS/SSL - Bugzilla Report 19180. - -* <mail> the attributes from, replyto ,tolist, cclist, bcclist - can now contain email addresses of the form name <address@xyz.com> - or (name) address@xyz.com - Bugzilla Report 22474. - -* <mail> (version PlainMail) - prevent blank headers from being sent, - make the order of the headers of plain mail messages predictable - Bugzilla Report 22088. - -* <zipfileset> can now be defined in the main body of a project - and referred to with refid="xyz". Bugzilla Report 17007. - -* A wrapper script for OS/2 has been added. - -* <unzip> will now detect and successfully extract self-extracting - archives. Bugzilla Report 16213. - -* <stcheckout> has a new attribute "converteol" that can be used to - control the automatic line-end conversion performed on ASCII files. - Bugzilla Report 18884. - -* Users can now modify the list of default excludes using the new - defaultexcludes task. Bugzilla Report 12700. - -* There is a new data type <propertyset> that can be used to collect - properties. It is supported by <ant>, <antcall>, <subant>, <java>, - <echoproperties> and <junit>. - -* <concat> can now control the encoding of the output as well and optionally - add new-line characters at the end of files that get concatenated but - don't end in newlines. Bugzilla Report 12511. - -* <rpm> will detect the rpmbuild executable of RedHat 8.0 and newer - and use that if it is on your PATH. Bugzilla Report 14650. - -* A new task <rexec> has been added that requires commons-net to work. - Bugzilla Report 19541. - -* <javadoc> now supports a nested <arg> element in addition to the - additionalparams attribute. - -* You can now determine the order of standard tags in <javadoc> via - <tag> elements - you must not use the description attribute for them. - Bugzilla Report 18912. - -* <javadoc> now supports the -noqualifier switch. Bugzilla Report 19288. - -* <javac>'s executable attribute can now also be used to specify the - executable for jikes, jvc, sj or gcj. Bugzilla Report 13814. - -* <javac> has a new attribute tempdir that can control the placement - of temporary files. Bugzilla Report 19765. - -* A new magic property build.compiler.jvc.extensions has been added - that can be used to turn of Microsoft extensions while using the jvc - compiler. Bugzilla Report 19826. - -* You can now limit the parallelism of <apply> and <chmod> by using the new - maxparallel attribute. - -* With the new addsourcefile attribute, you can make <apply> ommit the - source file names from the command line. Bugzilla Report 13654. - -* <apply> and <chmod> now support nested <filelist>s as well as <dirset>s. - Bugzilla Reports 15929 and 20687. - -* <apply> and <chmod> will display a summary if you set the new - verbose attribute to true. Bugzilla Report 19883. - -* <copy>/<move>'s failonerror attribute can now also be used to - continue the build if an I/O error caused a problem. Bugzilla - Report 12999. - -* new selector <type/> allowing to select only files or only directories. - Bugzilla Report 20222. - -* <java> and <junit> now support a nested <bootclasspath> element that - will be ignored if not forking a new VM. - -* <junit>'s nested <formatter> elements now support if/unless clauses. - -* <ejbjar> - cmpversion attribute added - jboss element will look for jbosscmp-jdbc.xml descriptor - if ejbjar has cmpversion="2.0" set - Bugzilla Reports 14707 and 14709. - -* <pvcs> config attribute added to set the location of a specific PVCS - .cfg file - Bugzilla Report 9752 - -* <mapper> has an "unpackage" mapper - Bugzilla Report 18908 - -* Added <scriptdef> task allowing tasks to be defined using any BSF-supported - scripting language. - -* <touch>'s datetime attribute can now accept time with a granularity - of seconds as well. Bugzilla Report 21014. - -* <checksum> has two new properties: totalproperty and todir. - -* FileUtils#createTempFile will now create temporary files in the - directory pointed to by the property java.io.tmpdir - -* <unzip> and friends now supports an optional encoding attribute to - enable it to expand archives created with filenames using an encoding - other than UTF8. Bugzilla Report 10504. - -* <patch> has a new attribute destfile that can be used to create a new - file instead of patching files in place. - -* OpenVMS is detected as a valid OS family. - -* DirectoryScanner has been optimized for cases where include patterns do not - start with wildcards. Bugzilla Report 20103. - -* DirectoryScanner begins to be optimized not to scan excluded directories. - Bugzilla Report 21941. - -* Added keep-going feature. Bugzilla Report 21144 - -* The archives generated by <zip> and friends will now contain CRC and - size information in the "local file header", thereby providing this - information to applications that read the archives using - java.util.ZipInputStream. Bugzilla Report 19195. - -* <copy> and <move> can now handle mappers that return multiple - mappings per source path. This behaviour is enabled by using - an enablemultiplemapping attribute. Bugzilla Report 21320. - -* <exec> will now work on OpenVMS (please read the notes in - <exec>'s manual page). Bugzilla Report 21877. - -* <exec> will now have a new attribute spawn (default false). - If set to true, the process will be spawned. Bugzilla Report 5907. - -* <java> will now have a new attribute spawn (default false). - If set to true, the process will be spawned. Bugzilla Report 5907. - -* <parallel> now supports a timeout which can be used to recover - from deadlocks, etc in the parallel threads. <parallel> also - now supports a <daemons> nested element. This can be used to - run tasks in daemon threads which the parallel task will not - wait for before completing. A new attribute failonany will cause - <parallel> to throw an exception if any thread fails without - waiting for all other threads to complete. - -* <zip> and friends will consume far less memory than they used to - when run with compress="false". Bugzilla Report 21899. - -* <if/> and <unless/> attributes added to <param/> element of <style> - Bugzilla Report 22044 - -* <zip> and friends have a new attribute "keepcompression" that can be - used to incrementally build an archive mixing compressed and uncompressed - entries. - -* <junit>'s XML formatter adds a new classname attribute to the <testcase> - elements. - -* new <permissions> type add permission handling to the code - this type can be nested in the <java> and <junit> tasks. - Bugzilla Report 22533. - -* additional shortcuts for ant options (-d --> -debug, -e --> -emacs, - -h --> -help, -p --> -projecthelp, -s --> -find). - -* new selector <modified>. "cache" was renamed to "modified". - Bugzilla Report 20474. - -* <stcheckout> and <stlist> have a new asofdate attribute that can be - used to checkout/list files based on a date instead of a label. - Bugzilla Report 20578. - -* New filter <concatfilter>. Adds the content of file at the beginning - or end of a file. Discussion started at - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&m=106366791228585&w=2 - -* New task <import> - -* New task <macrodef> - -* New task <presetdef> - -* Ant libraries that can make use of namespaces to avoid name - clashes of custom tasks - - -* <java> and <junit> now support <assertions>, which let you enable - and disable Java1.4 assertions on a package or class basis. These - only work when fork=true, currently. - -* .NET tasks expanded with VB support <vbc> and J#, via <jsharp>, - <importtypelib> and <ilasm>. <csc> supports nested <src> types, - <defines> for (potentially conditional) definitions, <reference> - filesets for references. The executable attribute lets you switch to - mono or other implementations -<csc> has been tested with Mono on - Linux and OSX. - - -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. - -Changes from Ant 1.5.2 to Ant 1.5.3 -=================================== - -Changes that could break older environments: --------------------------------------------- - -* The <zip> task and friends have again changed a method signature - (sorry, was necessary to fix bug 17780). The return type of - getResourcesToAdd has changed. - -Fixed bugs: ------------ - -* <zipfileset>'s filemode would get ignored and the dirmode was used - for the included files as well. As a side effect, WinZIP was unable - to extract or display the files, so they seemed to be missing from - the archive. Bugzilla Report 17648. - -* <ftp> could use the wrong path separator when trying to change the - remote working directory. Bugzilla Report 17735. - -* <jar update="true"> would loose all original files if you didn't - specify any nested <(zip)fileset>s and the manifest had changed. - Bugzilla Report 17780. - -* If you used a value starting with \ on Windows for the appxml - attribute of <ear> or the webxml attribute of <war>, it would be - ignored. Bugzilla Report 17871. - -* Ant will no longer implicitly add Sun's rt.jar in <javac> when you - use jvc and don't specify a bootclasspath. Bugzilla Report 18055. - -* The prefix attribute of <zipfileset> would not generate directory - entries for the prefix itself. Bugzilla Report 18403. - -* starteam checkout can now handle deleted labels. Bugzilla Report 17646. - -* The Unix wrapper script failed if you invoked it as a relative - symlink and ANT_HOME has not been set. Bugzilla Report 17721. - -Other Changes: --------------- -* Added ability to specify manifest encoding for the <jar> and - <manifest> tasks - -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 doos 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. - -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. - -Changes from Ant 1.5beta3 to Ant 1.5 -==================================== - -Changes that could break older environments: --------------------------------------------- - -* The filesetmanifest attribute added to <jar> after the 1.4.1 - release has been removed for now. This change may affect only - the 1.5Beta/1.6Alpha users. An attempt will be made to add this - feature back into Ant 1.6. - -Fixed bugs: ------------ - -* <zip> and friends would always update existing archive if you set - the update attribute to true. - -* To support backward compatibility with older versions, <pathconvert> - will once again set the property, even if the result is the empty - string, unless the new 'setonempty' attribute is set to false|no|off - (default is "true"). - -* The manifest task would crash XmlLogger - -Other changes: --------------- - -* added **/.svn and **/.svn/** to the default excludes - -Changes from Ant 1.5beta2 to Ant 1.5beta3 -========================================= - -Changes that could break older environments: --------------------------------------------- - -* <pvcs> default filenameformat has been different from Ant 1.4.1. - Now it is different from 1.5beta1 and 1.5beta2. - -* <pathconvert> won't set the property if the result is the empty string. - -Fixed bugs: ------------ - -* <available> could fail to find files or directories that happen to - start with the name of the project's basedir but are not children of - the basedir. - -* Nested <property>'s inside <ant> can now be overriden by subsequent - <ant> and <antcall> tasks. - -* <xslt>'s outputtype attribute wouldn't do anything. - -* <linecontains> filterreader could swallow lines. - -* <sequential> used to configure the tasks (set their attributes) - before the first task has been executed. This means that properties - that have been set by nested task seemed to be unset for the other - tasks in the same <sequential> element. - -* <javac>'s sourcepath setting has been ignored by some compiler - implementations. - -* <javadoc>'s packagelist attribute didn't work. - -* the plain mailer would always use port 25 in <mail>. - -* Ant's default logger could swallow empty lines. - -* ejbjar's iPlanet nested element now can process multiple descriptors. - -* IPlanetEjbc was looking in the wrong place for four iiop files. - -* <javac> would pass the -source switch to JDK 1.3's javac, even - though it doesn't support it. - -Other changes: --------------- - -* <checksum> now uses a buffer (of configurable size). - -* The "Trying to override task definition" warning has been degraded - to verbose level if the two task definitions only differ in the class - loader instance that has loaded the definition. - -* Add a jvmargs to the ejbjar's weblogic element to allow additional - arguments to be provided to the VM runnign ejbc. Document the - jvmdebuglevel attribute which can be used to avoid warnings about - interface classess being found on the classpath. Document the new - <sysproperty> element which allows JVM properties to be defined. - Added an outputdir attribute to allow the destination to be a - directory into which the exploded jar is written. - -* ejbjar now supports Borland Enterprise Server 5 and Jonas 2.5 - -Changes from Ant 1.5beta1 to Ant 1.5beta2 -========================================= - -Changes that could break older environments: --------------------------------------------- - -* Properties will now be expanded in mail message bodies. This means -that one $ sign will be stripped if your mail message contains the text -$$. - -* org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Expand no longer extends MatchingTask. - -* Available#setFile now again uses a File argument as it did in 1.4, -this may break environments that have been adapted to the String -argument version present in 1.5beta1. - -Fixed bugs: ------------ -* When <move> attempts a rename, it deletes the destination file, if it - exists, before renaming the source file. However, <move> was not - checking if the destination file was actually a directory before - trying to delete it. - -* Make CVS Tasks to work under Cygwin. - -* Fix LineContains to handle huge files elegantly without causing -Stack Overflows. - -* if you ask for the "classic" compiler on Java1.4, you get upgraded to -"modern" because there is no classic compiler any more. - -* the <http> condition was viewing 404 'not found' exceptions as success. Now -it defaults to viewing any response >=400 as an error, and has an errorsBeginAt -attribute you can use if you want a higher or lower value. - -* <get> throws a build exception on an http authorization error, unless you -have set ignoreerrors to true. - -* <wsdltodotnet> was spelt in Wintel case: <WsdlToDotnet>. It is now lower -case, though the old spelling is retained for anyone who used it. - -* Merging of Manifests in jar now works as documented. - -* paths that have been separated by colons would be incorrectly parsed -on NetWare. - -* runant.pl now supports NetWare. - -* <tempfile> and <setproxy> tasks were in beta1, but not defined by -default; They now are. <tempfile> fills a property with the name of a -temporary file; <setproxy> lets you set the JVM's http, ftp and socks proxy -settings. - -* <available classname="foo" ignoresystemclasses="true"> failed for -JDK 1.1 and 1.2, even if the class could be found on the -user-specified classpath. - -* <property environment=... /> now works on z/OS. - -* forked <javac> failed for the wrong reason on JDK 1.1 - Ant would -use a temporary file to hold the names of the files to compile under -some conditons, but 1.1 doesn't support this feature. Ant will no -longer try this, but you may run into problems with the length of the -command line now. - -* the refid attribute for <property>s nested into <ant> or <param>s -nested into <antcall> didn't work. - -* <replaceregexp> didn't work for nested <fileset>s. - -* <javadoc> dropped sourcepath entries if no "interesting" .java -source files could be found below them. This has been backwards -incompatible and caused problems with custom doclets like xdoclet. - -* Using the doclet, docletpath or docletpathref attributes of -<javadoc> may have caused NullPointerExceptions. - -* nested <filesets> of <javadoc> would include too much. - -* <dependset> will no longer choke on <targetfileset>s that point to -non-existing directories. - -* <patch> didn't work at all. - -* <replace> and <replaceregexp> now fail if the file they are working -on is locked. - -* <javadoc> would pick up the wrong executable in the combination JDK -1.2 and AIX. - -Other changes: --------------- - -* z/OS now gets detected by the os condition. - -* <fileset> and <dirset> now have an optional followsymlink attribute -that can prevent Ant from following symbolic links on some platforms. - -* BeanShell is now supported in the <script> task. - -* <ejbjar> under Weblogic attempts to use the ejbc20 compiler for 2.0 beans - based on the deployment descriptor's DTD reference. Under weblogic 7.00 Beta - this ejbc class has been deprecated. To avoid the deprecation warning use - ejbcclass="weblogic.ejbc". - -* <ejbjar> will add a manifest to the generated jar based on the naming - convention in use. This overrides the manifest specified in the - <ejbjar> attribute - - -Changes from Ant 1.4.1 to 1.5beta1 -================================== - -Changes that could break older environments: --------------------------------------------- - -* Important: Single $ signs are no longer silently stripped! - Before you panic that we have broken all your build files, we have kept - the old "$$" -> "$" behaviour. So only build files which accidentally had - a $ sign in a string that was being silently stripped may break. - We added this fix to stop newbie confusion; if you want to write a - build file which works on ant versions 1.4.1 or earlier, stay with - the double $$ sign rule. - -* Project.getBuildListeners now returns a clone of the listener - list. Changes to the returned list will not affect the listeners - currently attached to the Project. It also means that it is safe to - iterate over the returned list if listeners are added or removed - during the traversal. - -* <pvcs> default filenameformat has been different from Ant 1.4.1. - -* Some messages that are printed during startup will not be - written to the logfile specified via -logfile as they might destroy - the format of the file for special BuildLoggers (like XmlLogger). - -* The filesetmanifest attribute added to <jar> after the 1.4.1 - release has been removed for now. This change may affect only - the 1.5Beta/1.6Alpha users. An attempt will be made to add this - feature back into Ant 1.6. -* Shipped XML parser is now Xerces 2.0.1 along with the XML Parser APIs. - XML Parser APIs is a separate jar that contains the necessary - JAXP/DOM/SAX classes. - -* <telnet> was fixed to expand properties inside nested <read> and - <write> elements; before this only happened when you assigned the text - to the string attribute. If you had $ signs in the string, they may - need escaping. - -* the RegexpMatcher interface has been extended to support case - insensitive matches and other options - custom implementations of - this interface won't work any longer. We recommend to use the new - Regexp interface that also supports substitution instead of the - RegexpMatcher interface in the future. - -* <gzip> will throw an exception if your src attribute points to a directory. - -* Unjar, Unzip and Unwar will throw an exception if the Src attribute - represents a directory. Support for nested filesets is provided - instead. - -* It is no longer possible to overwrite a property using tasks like - <condition>, <exec>, <pathconvert>, or <tstamp>. In some exceptional - cases it will generate a warning if you attempt to overwrite an - existing property. - -* Taskwriters please note: Whenever tasks had any overloaded set* methods, - Ant's introspection mechanism would select the last overloaded method - provided to it by the Java Runtime. A modification has now been made such - that when the Java Runtime provides a method with a String as its argument, - a check is made to see if there is another overloaded method that takes in - some other type of argument. If there is one such method, then the method - that takes in String as an argument is not selected by the Introspector. - -* The pattern definition **/._* has been included into the Default - Excludes list. - -* <propertyfile>'s <entry> element was modified to remove "never" as a value - as its behavior was undocumented and flakey. - -* The -projecthelp flag now only prints out targets that include the - 'description' attribute, unless the -verbose or -debug flag is included - on the Ant command line. - -* Ant's testcases now require JUnit 3.7 or above, as they now use the new - assertTrue method instead of assert. - -* If the 'output' attribute of <ant> is set to a simple filename or a - relative path, the file is created relative to ${basedir}, not ${user.dir}. - -* The default value for build.compiler is now javac1.x with x - depending on the JDK that is running Ant instead of classic/modern. - -Fixed bugs: ------------ - -* <available> could fail to find files or directories that happen to - start with the name of the project's basedir but are not children of - the basedir. - -* Nested <property>'s inside <ant> can now be overriden by subsequent - <ant> and <antcall> tasks. - -* <xslt>'s outputtype attribute wouldn't do anything. - -* <linecontains> filterreader could swallow lines. - -* <sequential> used to configure the tasks (set their attributes) - before the first task has been executed. This means that properties - that have been set by nested task seemed to be unset for the other - tasks in the same <sequential> element. - -* <javac>'s sourcepath setting has been ignored by some compiler - implementations. - -* <javadoc>'s packagelist attribute didn't work. - -* the plain mailer would always use port 25 in <mail>. - -* Ant's default logger could swallow empty lines. - -* ejbjar's iPlanet nested element now can process multiple descriptors. - -* IPlanetEjbc was looking in the wrong place for four iiop files. - -* <javac> would pass the -source switch to JDK 1.3's javac, even - though it doesn't support it. - -* <zip> and friends would always update existing archive if you set - the update attribute to true. - -* To support backward compatibility with older versions, <pathconvert> - will once again set the property, even if the result is the empty - string, unless the new 'setonempty' attribute is set to false|no|off - (default is "true"). - -* The manifest task would crash XmlLogger - -* A bug existed that prevented generated log files from being deleted as - part of the build process itself. This has now been fixed. - -* Fixed bug where <move> ignored <filterset>s. - -* Ant works properly with the combination of Java1.4/WindowsXP. - -* Fixed bug where <java> used to sometimes invoke class constructors twice. - -* Fixed bug with 4NT shell support. - -* Fixed bug where ant would not perform ftp without remotedir being - specified even though this was not mandatory. - -* Fixed bug where ant would not copy system properties into new Project - in ant/antcall tasks when inheritall="false" is set. - -* <propertyfile> would not close the original property file. - -* <ant> will no longer override a subbuild's basedir with inheritall="true". - -* Fixed problem with the built-in <junit> formatters which assumed - that only one test could be running at the same time - this is not - necessarily true, see junit.extensions.ActiveTestSuite. - -* <jar>'s whenEmpty attribute is useless as JARs are never empty, they - contain at least a manifest file, therefore it will now print a - warning and do nothing. - -* <typedef> hasn't been all that useful as it couldn't be used outside - of targets (it can now) and nested "unknown" elements have always - been considered to be tasks (changed as well). - -* <fixcrlf> would fail for files that contained lines longer than 8kB. - -* Some junit formatters incorrectly assumed that all testcases would - inherit from junit.framework.TestCase. - -* <fixcrlf> dropped the first characters from Mac files. - -Other changes: --------------- - -* <checksum> now uses a buffer (of configurable size). - -* The "Trying to override task definition" warning has been degraded - to verbose level if the two task definitions only differ in the class - loader instance that has loaded the definition. - -* Add a jvmargs to the ejbjar's weblogic element to allow additional - arguments to be provided to the VM runnign ejbc. Document the - jvmdebuglevel attribute which can be used to avoid warnings about - interface classess being found on the classpath. Document the new - <sysproperty> element which allows JVM properties to be defined. - Added an outputdir attribute to allow the destination to be a - directory into which the exploded jar is written. - -* ejbjar now supports Borland Enterprise Server 5 and Jonas 2.5 - -* added **/.svn and **/.svn/** to the default excludes -* Selector Elements now provide a way to create filesets based on - sophisticated selection criteria. - -* Gzip and Bzip2 files can now be constructed in the fly when using - the tar task without having to create the intermediate tar file on - disk. The Untar task can also untar GZip and BZip2 files on the fly - without creating the intermediate tar file. - -* New optional type, <classfileset> added. - -* <ejbjar> now allows control over which additional classes and interfaces - are added to the generated EJB jars. A new attribute "dependency" can be - defined which controls what classes are added. The addition of classes now uses - the Jakarta-BCEL library rather than reflection, meaning bean classes are - no longer loaded into Ant's JVM. The default dependency analyzer is known as - the ancestor analyzer. It provides the same behaviour as the 1.4.1 version of - <ejbjar>. If the BCEL library is not present, a warning will be issued stating - the ancestor analyzer is not available. In this case <ejbjar> will continue - to function but will not add super classes to the jar. - -* <available> has a new attribute named ignoreSystemClasses. - -* New task <cvschangelog/> generates an XML report of changes that occur - on CVS repository. - -* New filter readers: ClassConstants, ExpandProperties, HeadFilter, - LineContains, LineContainsRegExp, PrefixLines, ReplaceTokens, - StripJavaComments, StripLineBreaks, StripLineComments, TabsToSpaces, - TailFilter. - -* <copy>, <loadfile>, <loadproperties>, <move> support FilterChains - of FilterReaders. - -* New task <loadproperties> to load contents of file as Ant properties, - with nested <filterchain> elements. - -* New task <loadfile> to load a whole file into a property. - -* New task <echoproperties> to list your current properties to the screen - or a file. - -* New tasks <bzip2> and <bunzip2> to pack and unpack files using the - BZip2 alogrithm. - -* New tasks <replaceregexp>, <checksum>, <translate>, <waitfor>, - <manifest>, <vsscp>, <vssadd>, <vsscreate>, <splash>, <basename>, <dirname>, - <concat>, <sourceoffsite>, <jarlib-available>, <jarlib-display>, - <jarlib-manifest>, <jarlib-resolve>. - -* A new combined <mail> task, which replaces the old <mail> and - <mimemail> tasks, has been added. The <mimemail> task, and - old SendEmail and MimeMail classes have been deprecated. - -* Mail task allows specification of port number. - -* Users can control what <zip> and <jar> must do when duplicate files - are found. A new element <zipgroupfileset> allows for multiple zip - files to be merged into the archive. In addition, <jar> also has - another new attribute: filesetmanifest. The existing manifest - attribute of <jar> now also accepts the name of a jar added through - a fileset. - -* gzip now checks that the zipfile is older than the source file - before rebuilding the zipfile. - -* TarFileset takes in three new attributes - fullpath, prefix - and preserveLeadingSlashes. - -* <move> attempts to rename the directory, if everything inside it is - included, before performing file-by-file moves. This attempt will - be done only if filtering is off and if mappers are not used. This - is a performance improvement and there is no change otherwise in - the funtionality of this task. - -* Exec task has extra attribute "resultproperty" to get the return code - into a property. - -* Exec task prints a message when a timed-out process is killed. - -* Added optional attributes - name, arch and version to the <os> task. - -* Unjar, Untar, Unwar and Unzip now support patternsets to - select files from an archive for extraction. Filesets may be - used to select archived files for unarchival. - -* Javac task allows debug levels to be specified. Debug levels - will have an effect only when the modern compiler or the - classic compiler (version 1.2 and higher) is used and debugging - is enabled. - -* Added support for specifying CVS_RSH in the <cvs/> task - -* The attributes zipfile, jarfile, warfile and earfile (from the Zip, - Jar, War and Ear tasks) have been deprecated and superseded by a - new attribute "destfile". - -* Added new conditions <isset>, <checksum>, <http>, <socket>, <contains>, - <filesmatch>. - -* <taskdef> and <typedef> will now emit a warning if a task/type of - the given name already exists. - -* A new revision of VAJ tasks: The most important new feature - is the ability to execute VAJ tasks from the command line by - exploiting the Remote Tool Access feature of VAJ. - -* Improved support for Novell NetWare. - -* Added an optional encoding attribute to <fixcrlf>. - -* <apply> has a new attribute relative that allows users to pass the - filenames as relative instead of absolute paths on the command line. - -* References can now be copied into the child build by <ant> and - <antcall> using nested <reference> elements or the new inheritRefs - attribute. - -* <fail> now supports builds to fail based on conditions via if and - unless attributes. - -* Ant now comes with two new BuildLogger implementations - one that - can send emails containing a log of the build process (MailLogger), - and one that colorizes the output based on message levels, using - ANSI color code escape sequences (AnsiColorLogger). - -* A "package" mapper type has been added to allow package directory - names replaced with the dotted form. - -* You can now specify environment variables in the <java> and <junit> tasks - if the fork attribute has been set to true. - -* -propertyfile command-line option has been added to load an entire - property file just as -D properties are declared (as user properties). - -D properties take precedence over -propertyfile specified ones. - -* You can now set an ANT_ARGS environment variable to hold arguments you - always want passed to the 'ant' command -- for example, if you always - want to use a different logger or the -find flag. - -* <tstamp> now supports a new "prefix" attribute to prefix properties set. - -* You can now specify the -sourcepath for <javac> explicitly. - -* <javac> now supports a new "listfiles" attribute to list the source - files it's handing off to the compiler. - -* The compiler implementation for <javac> can now be chosen on a task by - task basis. The new "compiler" attribute of <javac> can be used to override - the value of the build.compiler property, if set. - -* <javac> has a new nested element, <compilerarg>, which allows you - to specify additional args for the specific compiler you're using. - -* <javac>'s "source" attribute is now enabled for jikes as well. - -* <propertyfile>'s <entry> now has a 'unit' attribute to specify the - increment/decrement unit on date operations. - -* <property> now supports a 'prefix' attribute when loading from a file - or resource. - -* In Ant 1.4, a feature has been added to the <junit> task that would - add ant.jar, optional.jar and junit.jar implicitly to the classpath - - this feature can now be disabled by setting the new includeantruntime - attribute to false. - -* <style> behaves differently from any other directory-based task, as it - processes all files that it finds in included directories in - addition to the files matched by your patterns. There is now a new - attribute, 'scanincludeddirectories', to suppress this behavior. - -* <javadoc> now supports a <tag> nested element to provide the -tag option - to the standard Java 1.4 doclet. The element is ignored when not running - on Java 1.4. - -* <ftp> can now chmod files on a remote server that supports - "site chmod", as well as set the umask before transferring files, if - the server supports "site umask". - -* New <serverdeploy> "optional" task. - -* <patternset> now supports nested patternsets. - -* Perforce tasks now support a "failonerror" attribute (defaults to "true"). - -* Open Source application server JOnAS support: - EJB hot deploy and deploy with <serverdeploy> and <ejbjar> - -* Added new DirSet (<dirset>) datatype. - -* <path> now supports nested <dirset> and <filelist> elements. - -* <pathconvert> now supports nested <dirset> and <filelist> elements. - -* <pathconvert>'s "dirsep" and "pathsep" attributes now accept - multi-character values. - -* <copy> task now has a 'failonerror' attribute to allow keep-going - behaviour when the file to be copied is not found (defaults to "true"). - -* <uptodate> now has a 'srcfile' attribute to allow specifying a - full-path filename. - -* <exec>, <sql> and <java> now support append attributes to allow - appending the output to an existing file. - -* <java> now supports a timeout attribute analog to <exec> - it is - highly recommended to only use it together with fork="true". - -* <javadoc> now supports a source attribute to enable javadoc to - handle assertions present in JDK 1.4 source code. - -* <replace> supports a new replacefilterfile attribute that - automatically turns all properties of a given file into - replacefilters. - -* An alias of <xslt> has been added to refer to the <style> task. - -* The compiler implementation for <rmic> can now be chosen on a task by - task basis. The new "compiler" attribute of <rmic> can be used to override - the value of the build.rmic property, if set. - -* <rmic> has a new nested element, <compilerarg>, which allows you - to specify additional args for the specific compiler you're using. - -* org.apache.tools.ant.XmlLogger now is a BuildLogger, rather than just - a BuildListener. It can operate in either mode successfully. - -* <junit> has a new attribute "showoutput". If set to true, output - generated by tests will be sent to Ant's logging system as well as - to the formatters (instead of sending it to the formatters - exclusively). - -* Ant has now a pluggable way to prompt users for input, which is used - by the new <input> task. IDE integrators can provide an - implementation of the InputHandler interface to decouple Ant's input - from the console. An implementation that gets its input from a file - for unattended builds is part of Ant's distribution. - - For more details see docs/manual/inputhandler.html. - -* <patch> has a new attribute that selects the directory in which to - run the command. - -* <javadoc> now supports two new nested elements, <fileset> and <packageset>. - - -Changes from Ant 1.4 to Ant 1.4.1 -=========================================== - -Fixed bugs: ------------ - -* <ant>'s antfile attribute will now also be considered an absolute path on - Windows systems, if it starts with a \ and no drive specifier. - -* The fullpath attribute of <zipfileset> has been ignored if you used - the src attribute at the same time. - -* The manifest file is now always placed as the second entry (after /META-INF) - in generated jars. This allows the manifest to be read by JarInputStreams - -* Fixed bug in depend task which would fail with a NullPointerException if no - dependency cache was specified. - -* sql task now handles REM statements correctly so that lines starying with rem - but which are not comments are actually processed. - -* XMLLogger now uses the task's name rather than the classname - -* <mapper>s will now work as expected if the to pattern expands to an - absolute pathname. - -* <javac> didn't ignore memory settings in non-fork mode - -* <cab> didn't split the options attribute into several command line - arguments correctly. - -Other changes: --------------- - -* New source attribute for <javac> to enable assertion in JDK 1.4 - -* XmlLogger and <antstructure> now add an encoding declaration to the - XML files they generate. - -* <fileset> has a new attribute "casesensitive" to make it match - filenames in a case insensitive way (if you set it to false) - by - default filesets remain case sensitive. - -Changes from Ant 1.3 to Ant 1.4 -=========================================== - -Changes that could break older environments: --------------------------------------------- -* JUnitReport now uses the xalan redirect extension for multi-output. - With Xalan 1.2.2 it forces the use of bsf.jar in the classpath. - (Available in the xalan distribution). It is recommended to switch - to Xalan 2.x that do not need it. - -* Zip.setWhenempty() has changed its signature. - -* <rmic> is now implemented using a factory. This makes extending - rmic to use a new compiler a lot easier but may break custom - versions of this task that rely on the old implementation. - -* several Zip methods have changed their signature as we now use a Zip - package of our own that handles Unix permissions for directories. - Furthermore <zip> will now use the platform's default character - encoding for filenames - this is consistent with the command line - ZIP tools, but causes problems if you try to open them from within - Java and your filenames contain non US-ASCII characters. Use the new - encoding attribute of the task and set it to UTF8 to get the old - behavior. - -* The <pvcs> task has been moved to a package of its own. - -* JUnitResultFormater has two additional methods that must be - implemented by custom formatters. - -* Ant will no longer use the canonical version of a path internally - - this may yield different results on filesystems that support - symbolic links. - -* The output generated by the xml formatter for <junit> has changed - again, it doesn't format the numeric value in the time attribute anymore. - -* Pattern matching rules have changes slightly, the pattern foo* - doesn't match files contained in a directory named foo - use foo/* - instead. - -* <fixcrlf> will not remove trailing whitespace at the end of lines anymore. - -* The Classloader usage has been changed for the taskdef, property, available - and sql tasks so that it delegates to the parent classloader. This may cause - ClassNotFoundExceptions to be thrown if a system class attempts to load a - class in the taskdef's classpath (typically factory objects). - -* Ant now allows multithreading of tasks and the containment of tasks within - other tasks. This can break customer listeners which do not expect messages - from a task before the previous task has finished. - -* Ant now installs its own ouput stream into System.out to route output to the - task currently executing on the current thread. This also means that all - output is now routed as Ant message events. Customer listeners and loggers - should not call System.out at any time. This has always been true but such - usage now will cause problems due to possible recursion. - -* Invalid manifest files will now cause build failures in the <jar> task. - -* Ant Introspection now looks for methods with method names starting with - addConfigured. When called these methods are passed an argument after it has - been configured from the build file. Custom tasks supporting nested elements - starting with the name configured will no longer function. - -* The environment variable JAVACMD that can be used to specify the - java executable to Ant's wrapper scripts must not contain additional - command line parameters any longer - please use the environment - variable ANT_OPTS for such parameters now. - -* Ant's wrapper scripts now quote the CLASSPATH environment variable, thus - supporting classpaths which refer to directories containing spaces. This means - that the CLASSPATH environment variable cannot have quotes. Any quotes should - be removed. This will not affect the operation of the CLASSPATH environment - variable in other contexts. - -* A delete task like - <delete includeEmptyFilesets="true"> - <fileset dir="somedir" /> - </delete> - will now remove "somedir" as well, unless there are still files left - in it (matched by the default excludes). - -* The copy task will now fail if the file to be copied is not found. - -* Ant properties defined in properties files now behave the same way as - properties defined in the build file. In particular the $ character needs - to be escaped in property values by doubling it to $$. So, to define a - property with the value $hello, you need to define it in a properties file - as - test.prop=$$hello - This was not the case in Ant 1.3 - -Other changes: --------------- - -* New tasks: ear, p4counter, record, cvspass, vsscheckin, vsscheckout, - typedef, sleep, mimemail, set of tasks for Continuus/Synergy, dependset, - condition, maudit, mmetrics, jpcoverage, jpcovreport, jpcovmerge - -* Ant now uses JAXP 1.1 - -* rmic now supports Kaffe's and Weblogic's version of rmic. - -* new magic property build.rmic to chose the rmic implementation - -* <tar> will now add empty directories as well - -* you can now specify a description for <p4change> - -* <touch> can now work on <fileset>s - -* <uptodate> now supports a value attribute - -* <fail> supports nested text - -* <fixcrlf> won't override files that are already in the correct - format. - -* <sql> now supports REM comments as well as // and -- - -* <jar> now has a nested <metainf> element following the same idea as - <war>'s <webinf>. - -* <pvcs> can now handle multiple projects. - -* <available> now has a "type" attribute you can use in conjunction - with the "file" attribute to specify whether the "file" you're - looking for is a file or a directory. - -* New <junit> formatter named "brief" - -* <ejbjar> changes - * Add support for Borland Application Server to the <ejbjar> task using - a <borland> nested element. - * Add support for iPlanet Application Server to the <ejbjar> task. Also - includes some iPlanet utility tasks - * Add support for JBoss Application Server to the <ejbjar> task. - * Add a naming attribute to control the naming scheme that - ejbjar uses to name the generated EJB jars. - * Weblogic element now sets the compiler class for EJB 2.0 beans - * <dtd> elements can be specified at the <ejbjar> level for building generic - beans - * <dtd> elements can now be URLs - * Allow the manifest to be specified for the generated jars - * The weblogic element now supprts an attribte noEJBC to skip the processing - of the jar by ejbc. The ejbc step will then occur at deployment - * weblogic will tell ejbc to use Jikes compiler if build.compiler is set to - jikes. It can be restored to the default, javac, operation if desired. - -* Allow the <sql> Delimiter to be set in the so that Oracle stored procs may be - entered - -* <execon> and <apply> can now optionally skip empty filesets. - -* <javadoc> has a new useexternalfile attribute that makes it use a - temporary file for sourcefile and package names - helps to defeat - command line length limitations. - -* Data types like <path> can now be defined inside of <target>s - -* you can now specify a classpath for <style> - the XSLZ processor - will be loaded from this path - -* added a force attribute to <style> to support dependencies that the - task cannot determine itself (dependency on parameters, not file - modification times for example) - -* added vmlauncher attribute to exec tasks. This defaults to true. If - it is set to false, the VM's ability to launch commands in bypassed - and the OS shell, either directly or through the auxillary antRun - scripts is used. - -* regexp mapper now supports the java.util.regex package of JDK 1.4. - -* New filesonly attribute for <zip> and friends to suppress directory - entries. - -* New update attribute for <zip> and friends - update an existing - archive instead of creating a new one. - -* <apply> and <execon> have been merged into a single task. - -* added vssver.scc to the default excludes - -* <available> has a new filepath attribute/nested element that allows - you top search for a file in a given path. - -* <junit> can now optionally set a property on test failure. - -* <taskdef> can now define several tasks at once, reading the - name/classname pairs from a property file or resource. - -* <unzip/unjar/unwar> and <untar> now have an overwrite attribute that - defaults to true. If set to false, files that are newer than the - files in the archive will not be replaced. - -* <patternset> and <fileset> now support nested <in/excludesfile> - elements - using these you can have more than one in/excludes file - per <patternset>. - -* Three new supported compilers for javac: kjc for kopi, gcj for the - gcc frontend and sj for Symantec's compiler. - In addition extJavac or the new fork attribute can be - used to run the JDK's javac in a JVM separate from Ant. - -* <fixrlf> can now with CR only line-ends and can use an arbitraty - between 2 and 80. - -* The .NET tasks have been adapted to the beta2 release of the framework. - -* <move> will now try to rename() files before copying them byte by - byte - only if filtering is of, of course. - -* <ant> and <antcall> tasks now support a new attribute inheritAll. When set to - false, only user properties are passed through to the target Ant instance. - This includes properties set on the command line and properties explicitly - passed - -* <javadoc> now skips off line links if the package list cannot be found. - -* <wlrun> now allows the security policy file to exist outside the weblogic - directory. - -* <java> task will set the Thread contextClassLoader under JDKs 1.2+ to the - classloader for the class being executed. - -* Introduce the concept of a TaskContainer - a task or element which can contain - Ant Tasks. - -* Add new tasks implementing the TaskContainer interface <parallel> and - <sequential> which allow parallel execution of tasks to be specified. - -* <depend> task will now take into account dependencies on jar files and class - files from a given classpath. - -* <jar> manifest entries may now be specified in the build file either - completely or to be merged with a manifest file. - -* <tstamp> task custom formats now support locales. - -* Added a listner which will forward events to Log4J. The log4j configuration - file should be in the directory from which Ant is run or passed as a system - property using a JVM argument. - -* Introduced the concept of <filtersets> to allow for more control in which - filters get applied in a <copy> or <move> operation. - -* Added nowarn attribute to javac and deprecated the Jikes-magic property - build.compiler.warnings. - -* The <depend> task cache format has changed and all dependency information is - now stored in a single file. - -Fixed bugs: ------------ - -* Testcases have been made independent of current working directory. - -* Input ZIP-Files will be closed when using a <zipfileset>. - -* p4 tasks now don't fail if user, port or client have been omitted - (and this is acceptable for the context of the command). - -* <javah>'s outputfile attribute will be resolved as relative to the - projects basedir. - -* <antstructure> should create a valid DTD for propertyfile.operation.entry - and omit tasks it fails to load. - -* won't try to pass a -bootclasspath flag to javac 1.1 anymore - -* <style>'s style attribute no handles absolute paths correctly. - -* <delete includeemptydirs="true"> now deletes more than just the leaf - directories. - -* You can now specify a <fileset> for a directory that doesn't exist at - declaration time but will created before the fileset gets used for the - first time. - -* If the quiet attribute has been set, <delete> will handle <fileset>s - with non-existing directories gracefully. - -* Output written by testcases will now be captured by the <junit> task - and passed to the formatters. - -* Quote the -group parameter to Javadoc as per the specification - -* Initialise classes when loaded through the AntClassLoader - that is, run - static initializers - -* Implement getResource() and getResources() in AntClassLoader - -* Create the <ejbjar> weblogic command line as a set of arguments rather than - as a single line. Avoids problems with paths which contain spaces. - -* <ejbjar> now fails when the weblogic ejbc compiler reports an error. - -* Make the AntClassLoader load resources in the same order as it currently - loads classes. - -* Handle classpaths with spaces - -* Make sure XSLT processors close their output files in <style>. - -* perform proper uptodate check in <rmic> when compiling for IIOP. - -* <jjtree>'s uptodate test works even if outputdirectory is not the - parent dir of target - -* <copy> will remove target file (if it exists) before writing to it - - this avoids problems with links on filesystems that support them. - -* <ftp> now properly recurses remote directories. - -* <ftp> closes remote connection when it's done. - -* <junit> tries to include all necessary classes for the task itself - to the classpath when running in fork mode - doesn't work for JDK 1.1 - -* <apply> and <execon> do now execute the command only once, if you - specify the parallel attribute - instead of once per fileset. - -* directory based tasks and fileset could miss some included files in - directories that have been excluded - -* <fixcrlf> failed for large files. - -* <move> removed files you tried to move to themselves. - -* <sql> task will not trty to print the result set unless the query succeeded. - -* Ant classloader will now ignore paths which are invalid relative to the - project base - -* <ejbjar> weblogic elements check for jar file changes has been fixed. - Previously some changes would not be included. - -* properties loaded from properties files are now resolved internally. This - removes the spurious warnings about usage of properties which have not been - set. - -* <jar> task and friends now process the JAR manifest to ensure it is valid. - -* The task finished event now includes any exception thrown by the task. - -* <java> task now supports a jvmVersion attribute so that if another JVM is - being used, Ant can determine which options to use for features such as the - VM memory limits - - -Changes from Ant 1.2 to Ant 1.3 -=========================================== - -Changes that could break older environments: --------------------------------------------- - -* Ant doesn't search for the buildfile anymore, unless you use the new - -find argument. - -* <perforce> has been replaced by a number of new tasks. - -* <javac> is now implemented using a factory. This makes extending - javac to use a new compiler a lot easier but may break custom - versions of this task that rely on the old implementation. - -* The output generated by the xml formatter for <junit> has changed a - little, it doesn't append " sec" in the time attribute anymore. - -Other changes: --------------- - -* A GUI Frontend: Antidote. This is currently in development. At this - time, this is not part of the Ant release, although the source is - included if you are interested. - -* New tasks: stylebook, propertyfile, depend, antlr, telnet, csc, - ilasm, apply, javah, several clearcase tasks, junitreport, sound - -* Added output attribute to <java>. - -* Added nested zipfileset element to <zip> - -* Changed <sql> so that printing is at the task level rather than - the statement level. - -* javadoc task will pass -d flag to any doclet if the destDir attribute is - given. If the doclet does not accept the -d flag then omit the destdir - attribute. - -* <cab> can work on non-Windows platforms with the help of libcabinet. - See http://trill.cis.fordham.edu/~barbacha/cabinet_library/. - -* <ftp> now supports passive mode. - -* New <mapper> data type that can be used to get influence on the - target files for some tasks like <copy> or enable new types of tasks - like <apply>. - -* <execon> provides more control over the command line now, the names - of the source files are no longer required to be at the end of the - command. - -* Style tasks will now support TraX compliant XSL processors if one is present - in your classpath. - -* Added a failonerror to the javac task. If set to false, the build will - continue even if there are compilation errors. - -* Added nested format elements to the tstamp task allowing additional time - formats to be defined for arbitrary properties. - -* Added classpath attribute and nested classpath element to <property> - to make the resource attribute more powerful. - -* ${} property expansion will now be performed on the patterns read - from files specified as includesfile or excludesfile attributes. - -* The <tar> and <untar> tasks now support GNU format for handling paths - which are greater than 100 characters in length. In addition the <tar> - task now supports nested filesets through which the file permissions - may be controlled. - -* wlrun, wlstop and ejbjar now support Weblogic 6.0 - -* The MPasre task has been updated to work with MParse 2.0 - -* The documentation has been significantly updated. - - -Fixed bugs: ------------ - -* <signjar> doesn't use deprectated methods anymore. - -* javadoc's failonerror attribute works again - -* javadoc's additionalparam attribute will now be split into separate - parameters (on spaces) to allow for more than one parameter. - -* Changed <sql> task so that printing result sets works on Oracle - -* Changes to ddcreator and ejbc helper to respect the descriptor hierarchy - keppgenerated in ejbc can now be turned off - -* ejbjar now correctly ignores <ejb-ref> elements in the deployment descriptor. - CMP files are included by parsing the weblogic deployment descriptor rather - than relying on the naming convention used in ant 1.2 - -* ejbjar includes super classes and super interfaces into the generated ejb - jar files. The <support> nested element allows support classes to be - included in the EJB jar. The toplink element should now correctly locate - the toplink descriptor. - -* <vssget> now correctly deals with spaces in arguments - -* <jar> fails early if a given manifest file doesn't exist - -* <rmic> doesn't search for the _Skel file anymore when stubversion is - set to 1.2. - -* <rmic> uses the the same classpath to verify a class can be rmic'd - as it passes to the compiler. - -* org.apache.tools.mail.MailMessage (and therefore <mail>) can now - handle SMTP servers sending multi line responses. - -* nested <classpath> elements of <taskdef> now work for <taskdef>s not - nested into <target> as well. - -* <property> and <available> will search for the resource "foo" instead - of "/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/foo" when given a relative resource - name foo. - -* Handle build files in directories whose name contained a "#" character - -* <junit> can now log to files whose name contains a comma as well. - -* The AntClassLoader now refers to the loader which loaded it, any - requests it does not handle itself. Previously these went to the - primordial loader. - -Changes from Ant 1.1 to Ant 1.2 -=============================== - -Changes that could break older environments: --------------------------------------------- - -* Semantics of <property> has changed again in the hope to be more -intuitive. ${} expansion now happens at runtime and <property> 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 -<script>s or other custom tasks that reference other tasks by their id -attribute. - -* copying of support files in <javac> has been removed - as well as -the filtering attribute. - -* the <expand> and <keysubst> tasks have been removed. - -* the ignore and items attributes of directory based tasks have been removed. - -* the command line switches _not_ starting with - have been removed. - -* Path and EnumeratedAttribute have been moved from -org.apache.tools.ant to org.apache.tools.ant.types. - -* the class attributes of <available>, <java>, <rmic> and <taskdef> -have been removed. - -* the src attribute of <chmod> has been removed. - -* <patch> and <javadoc> have lost some of their attributes. - -* <java> and <cvs> have lost some undocumented attributes. - -* the Unix antRun script would search for command.sh in the directory -it changed to and invoke this instead of command if present. This -behavior has been dropped. - -* <ejbjar> task syntax has been changed significantly - -* <exec> is no longer implemented by org.apache.tool.ant.taskdefs.Exec. -Custom tasks that rely on Project.createTask("exec") to return an -instance of this class are going to fail. - -* nested <include> and <exclude> elements expect the value of their -name attribute to be a single pattern, they don't accept multiple -patterns anymore. Split them into multiple elements of the same type. - -* <delete dir="somedir" /> will now delete the directory itself as -well as all included files. If you just want to clean out the -directory and keep the empty one, use a nested fileset. - -Other changes: --------------- - -* New tasks: antstructure, cab, execon, fail, ftp, genkey, jlink, -junit, sql, javacc, jjtree, starteam, war, unwar, uptodate, -native2ascii, copy, move, mparse. - -* copydir, copyfile, deltree and rename are now deprecated. They -should be replaced with the new copy, delete and move tasks. - -* <java> uses a ClassLoader of its own in no-fork mode if a classpath is -specified. - -* <style> will create the necessary target directories and reprocess -all files if the stylesheet changes. - -* New data types fileset and patternset - expected to get a broader use. -They, as well as PATH like structures, can now be defined on a global -level and later be referenced by their id attribute. - -* You can specify environment variables to <exec>. - -* <get> can check whether a remote file is actually newer than a local -copy before it starts a download (HTTP only). - -* Added a -logger option to allow the class which performs logging to be -specified on the command line. - -* Added a -emacs option to tell the logger to leave out taskname adornments -on log output. - -* <chmod> works on all files in parallel and supports multiple filesets. - -* <replace> can now use tokens and/or values that cross line boundaries. - -* build.compiler supports now jvc as well. - -* project specific help can now be obtained with the -projecthelp option. - -* Added a -debug option to make -verbose less verbose (and more useful) - -* Ant will now search for a file named build.xml in the parent directory -and above (towards the root of the filesystem) if you didn't specify --buildfile and there is no build.xml in the current directory. - -* <echo> can now write to a file and accepts nested text. - -Fixed bugs: ------------ - -* <chmod> didn't work when used as a directory based task. - -* Path, Available, Property didn't resolve relative filenames with -respect to the Project's basedir. - -* Project didn't interpret the basedir attribute correctly in all -cases. - -* Nested <src> in <javac> caused NullPointerException. - -* Corrupt Zip- and Jar-files ar now deleted if the task fails. - -* many more fixes we've forgotten to document here ... - -* The packagelistloc attribute of <javadoc>'s <link> child will be - resolved as a file (i.e. it is either absolute or relative to - basedir). |