diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 1efd23438..1771d11a5 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Changes that could break older environments:
Other changes:
--------------
-* New tasks: ear, p4counter, recorder
+* New tasks: ear, p4counter, record
* Ant now uses JAXP 1.1
diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/recorder.html b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/recorder.html
index 32b5e3e35..0c45ef235 100644
--- a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/recorder.html
+++ b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/recorder.html
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
-
+
Description
A recorder is a listener to the current build process that records the
output to a file.
@@ -70,21 +70,21 @@ to record just the <javac> task:
...
<compile >
- <recorder name="log.txt" action="start" />
+ <record name="log.txt" action="start" />
<javac ...
- <recorder name="log.txt" action="stop" />
+ <record name="log.txt" action="stop" />
<compile/>
...
-The following two calls to <recorder> set up two
+
The following two calls to <record> set up two
recorders: one to file "records-simple.log" at logging level info
(the default) and one to file "ISO.log" using logging level of
verbose.
...
- <recorder name="records-simple.log" />
- <recorder name="ISO.log" loglevel="verbose" />
+ <record name="records-simple.log" />
+ <record name="ISO.log" loglevel="verbose" />
...
diff --git a/docs/manual/coretasklist.html b/docs/manual/coretasklist.html
index 6a6031906..72776941c 100644
--- a/docs/manual/coretasklist.html
+++ b/docs/manual/coretasklist.html
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
Move
Patch
Property
-Recorder
+Record
Rename
Replace
Rmic
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/defaults.properties b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/defaults.properties
index 5ba9cd0e5..3b6970467 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/defaults.properties
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/defaults.properties
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ fail=org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Exit
war=org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.War
uptodate=org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.UpToDate
apply=org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Transform
-recorder=org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Recorder
+record=org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Recorder
# optional tasks
script=org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.Script