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  1. Changes from Ant 1.5.3 to current CVS version
  2. =============================================
  3. Changes that could break older environments:
  4. --------------------------------------------
  5. * This version of Ant can not be built with JDK 1.1 and requires at
  6. least Java 1.2 at runtime as well. Compiling for a 1.1 target is
  7. still supported.
  8. * Targets cannot have the empty string as their name any longer.
  9. * ant.jar's manifest does no longer include a Class-Path entry, so it
  10. is no longer possible to run Ant via "java -jar ant.jar" without
  11. manually altering the CLASSPATH. Instead of that a file
  12. ant-bootstrap.jar is included in the etc directory of the binary
  13. distribution, copy this to the lib directory and use
  14. "java -jar ant-bootstrap.jar" instead if you want to run Ant without
  15. the wrapper script (not recommended).
  16. * The <script> task now requires Apache BSF instead of the older IBM
  17. version. See <http://jakarta.apache.org/bsf/>
  18. * <xmlproperty> will no longer fail if the file to be loaded doesn't exist.
  19. * XML namespaces are now enabled in the XML parser, meaning XML namespace
  20. declarations no longer cause errors.
  21. * The <ftp> and <telnet> tasks now require Jakarta Commons Net instead
  22. of the older ORO Netcomponents version. See
  23. <http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/net/index.html>.
  24. * If the Visual Age tasks used to work for you, they may stop doing so
  25. now - and we'd like to know about it. The current set of tasks is
  26. supposed to work with any version of VAJ starting with 3.0.
  27. * <input> will no longer prompt the user and wait for input if the
  28. addproperty attribute is set to a property that has already been
  29. defined in the project. If you rely on the task waiting for input,
  30. don't use the addproperty attribute.
  31. Fixed bugs:
  32. -----------
  33. * Filter readers were not handling line endings properly. Bugzilla
  34. Report 18476.
  35. * Filtersets were also not handling line endings properly.
  36. * Expand tasks did not behave as expected with PatternSets.
  37. * <property environment=... /> now works on OS/400.
  38. * <cab> could hang listcab on large <fileset>s.
  39. * The starteam stcheckout, stcheckin tasks now correctly compute
  40. status of files against whatever local tree they are run against
  41. and, optionally, will not process a file if it is current.
  42. Previously you had to process everything unless you ran against the
  43. default folder which wasn't the normal use-case for ant-starteam.
  44. The stlist task now similarly displays that status correctly making
  45. it a more generally useful tool.
  46. * entity includes would cause exceptions if path names included spaces.
  47. * addConfiguredXXX would not work for TaskAdapter wrapped tasks
  48. * Fix <ilasm> outputfile testing so that the output file does not need
  49. to exist beforehand.
  50. * Ant will now exit with a return code of 1 if it encounters problems
  51. with the command line arguments.
  52. * ClassLoader creation changes to use a factory method in Project. A new
  53. class AntClassLoader2 implemented for 1.2+ specific features including
  54. Package information and addition of classes specified in the Class-Path
  55. element of a Jar's manifest.
  56. * It is now possible in <exec> to resolve the executable to a project
  57. basedir or execution dir relative executable. The resolveExecutable
  58. must be used to pick up such executables.
  59. * splash screen wouldn't disappear when build was finished.
  60. * <exec> output and error streams can now be redirected independently
  61. to either a property or a file (or both)
  62. * TarEntry's File-arg constructor would fail with a
  63. StringIndexOutOfBoundsException on all OSes where os.name is shorter
  64. than seven characters. Bugzilla Report 18105.
  65. * <copy> and <move>'s failonerror didn't apply to filesets pointing to
  66. non-existant directories. Bugzilla Report 18414.
  67. * The <stripjavacomments> filter sometimes removed parts of string
  68. constants. Bugzilla Report 17441.
  69. * <antlr> will now recompile your grammar if the supergrammar has
  70. changed. Bugzilla Report 12691.
  71. * <property env> will now work on Unices with /bin/env instead of
  72. /usr/bin/env. Bugzilla Report 17642.
  73. * <jar index="on"> could include multiple index lists. Bugzilla 10262.
  74. * The index created by <jar> didn't conform to the spec as it didn't
  75. include the top-level entries. Bugzilla Report 16972.
  76. * <tar> and <zip> didn't honor the defaultexcludes attribute for the
  77. implicit fileset. Bugzilla Report 18637.
  78. * The <replacetokens> filter would throw an exception if the token's
  79. value was an empty string. Bugzilla Report 18625.
  80. * Perforce tasks relying on output from the server such as <p4change>
  81. and <p4label> were hanging. Bugzilla Reports 18129 and 18956.
  82. * build.sh install had a problem on cygwin (with REALANTHOME).
  83. Bugzilla Report 17257
  84. * <replaceregexp> didn't work for multi-byte encodings if byline was false.
  85. Bugzilla Report 19187.
  86. * file names that include spaces need to be quoted inside the @argfile
  87. argument using forked <javac> and (all JDKS). Bugzilla Report 10499.
  88. NB : a first correction was only introducing quotes for JDK 1.4
  89. It has been changed to quote for all external compilers when paths
  90. contain spaces.
  91. Also the backslashes need to be converted to forward slashes
  92. Bugzilla Report 17683.
  93. * Setting filesonly to true in <zip> and related tasks would cause the
  94. archives to be always recreated. Bugzilla Report 19449.
  95. * The Visual Age for Java tasks didn't work (at least for versions 3.0
  96. and higher). Bugzilla Report 10016.
  97. * URL-encoding in <vaj*port> didn't work properly.
  98. * VAJRemoteUtil called getAbsolutePath instead of getPath
  99. causing problems when using a Windows VAJ server from a UNIX server.
  100. Bugzilla Report 20457.
  101. * file names that include spaces need to be quoted inside the @argfile
  102. argument using <javadoc> and JDK 1.4. Bugzilla Report 16871.
  103. * <junit> didn't work with custom formatters that were only available
  104. on the user specified classpath when a timeout occured. Bugzilla
  105. Report 19953.
  106. * <different> selector : make ignoreFileTimes effectively default to true
  107. and fix a bug in the comparison of timestamps. Bugzilla Report 20205.
  108. * <different> selector can now be nested directly under a fileset
  109. Bugzilla Report 20220.
  110. * <cvstagdiff> had a problem with "dd-MM-yy hh:mm:ss" formats
  111. Bugzilla Report 15995.
  112. * <cvstagdiff> cvsroot and package attributes added to the root
  113. element tagdiff of the xml output
  114. Bugzilla Report 16081.
  115. * <fixcrlf> make fixcrlf create its temporary files in the default directory
  116. of FileUtils#createTempFile instead of the destination dir of fixcrlf.
  117. Bugzilla Report 20870.
  118. * <ejbjar> implementation for Borland.
  119. Prevent the task from being blocked by error messages coming from java2iiop.
  120. Bugzilla Report 19385.
  121. * <unzip>'s and <untar>'s nested patternsets didn't work as documented
  122. when the pattern ended in a slash or backslash. Bugzilla Report 20969.
  123. * <fixcrlf> will now create the parent directories for the destination
  124. files if necessary. Bugzilla Report 20840.
  125. * <xmlproperty> now handles CDATA sections. BugZilla Report 17195
  126. * <translate> now translate tokens that are placed close together.
  127. Bugzilla Report 17297
  128. * Nested websphere element for ejbjar does not support spaces in file name.
  129. Bugzilla Report 21298
  130. Other changes:
  131. --------------
  132. * Six new Clearcase tasks added.
  133. * A new filter reader namely tokenfilter has been added. Bugzilla
  134. Report 18312.
  135. * A new attribute named skip is added to the TailFilter and
  136. HeadFilter filter readers.
  137. * Shipped XML parser is now Xerces 2.4.0
  138. * The filesetmanifest attribute of <jar> has been reenabled.
  139. * The start and end tokens for <translate> may now be longer than a
  140. single character.
  141. * <setproxy> lets you set the username and password for proxies that
  142. want authentication
  143. * <loadproperties> has a new encoding attribute.
  144. * <echoproperties> can now create XML output.
  145. * <echoproperties> has a new srcfile attribute that can make it read
  146. properties files and output them instead of Ant's properties.
  147. * <filterset> will now resolve filters recursively.
  148. * <input> has a new attribute that allows you to specify a default value.
  149. * All tasks can be used outside of <target>s
  150. * Added <image> task (requires JAI).
  151. * New condition <isreference>
  152. * <ftp> now has a preservelastmodified attribute to preserve the
  153. timestamp of a downloaded file.
  154. * new rmdir action for <ftp> that removes directories from a fileset.
  155. * The SOS and VSS tasks will no longer unconditionally prepend a $ to
  156. vsspath or projectpath.
  157. * OS/400 now gets detected by the os condition.
  158. * <arg> has a new attribute pathref that can be used to reference
  159. previously defined paths.
  160. * <xmlproperty> has been improved, you can now expand ${properties},
  161. define ids or paths and use Ant's location magic for filename resolutions
  162. in the XML file.
  163. * <xmlcatalog> will now support external catalogs according to the
  164. OASIS "Open Catalog" standard - if resolver.jar (newer than version
  165. 1.0) from Apache's xml-commons is in your CLASSPATH.
  166. * Starteam tasks now have support for revision labels and build labels.
  167. Checkouts now have the option of using repository timestamps, instead
  168. of current.
  169. * new task <symlink> that creates and maintains symbolic links.
  170. * new tasks <chown> and <chgrp> which are wrappers of the Unix commands.
  171. * new task <attrib> to change file attributes on Windows systems.
  172. * <style> has a new attribute reloadstylesheet to work around a
  173. bug in widespread Xalan versions.
  174. * <tarfileset> has a new dirmode attribute to specify the permissions
  175. for directories.
  176. * <fixcrlf>'s eol attribute now also understands "mac", "unix" and "dos".
  177. * <classfileset> now picks up dependencies of the form MyClass.class. This
  178. works for the code generated by the Sun java compiler. It may not work for
  179. all compilers.
  180. * a new attribute "globalopts" can be added to all Perforce tasks.
  181. You can put in it all the strings described by p4 help usage. Refer to
  182. the docs for more information.
  183. * new Perforce tasks <p4integrate> , <p4resolve>, and <p4labelsync>
  184. * <p4submit> will change the property p4.change if the Perforce server
  185. renumbers the change list.
  186. It will set the property p4.needsresolve if the submit fails,
  187. and the message says that file(s) need to be resolved.
  188. * <replaceregexp> now has an optional encoding attribute to support
  189. replacing in files that are in a different encoding than the
  190. platform's default.
  191. * The <exec> task may now have its input redirected from either a file
  192. or a string from the build file. The error output can be separated
  193. to a different file when outut is redirected. standard error may be
  194. logged to the Ant log when redirecting output to a file
  195. * The <java> task also supports the input redirection and separate
  196. error streams introduced to the <exec> task. In addition, it is now
  197. possible to save the output into a property for use within the build
  198. file as was possible with <exec> in Ant 1.5
  199. * The <javadoc> task <tag> subelement has been enhanced to allow files
  200. with tag mappings to be used.
  201. * New tasks: <scp> supports file transfers, <sshexec> executes a
  202. command over SSH. They require jsch, a BSD licensed SSH library that
  203. can be found at http://www.jcraft.com/jsch/index.html
  204. * New filterreader <escapeunicode/>.
  205. * Support for HP's NonStop Kernel (Tandem) OS has been added.
  206. * <cab>'s basedir attribute is now optional if you specify nested
  207. filesets. Bugzilla Report 18046.
  208. * New task <sync> that synchronizes two directory trees.
  209. * <apply> has new forwardslash attribute that can force filenames to
  210. use forward slashes (/) as file separators even on platforms with a
  211. different separator. This is useful if you want to run certain
  212. ported Unix tools.
  213. * Copy has a new outputencoding attribute that can be used to change
  214. the encoding while copying files. Bugzilla Report 18217.
  215. * The xml formatter for JUnit will now honor test case names set with
  216. setName. Bugzilla Report 17040.
  217. * JUnit now has an attribute reloading, which, when set to false,
  218. makes the task reuse the same class loader for a series of tests.
  219. * <concat> now supports filtering and can check timestamps before
  220. overriding a file. Bugzilla Report 18166.
  221. * <junit> has a new attribute tempdir that controls the placement of
  222. temporary files. Bugzilla Report 15454.
  223. * <jdepend> now supports a new nested element <classespath> which is
  224. the same as <sourcespath> but point to compiled classes (the
  225. prefered mode of operation for JDepend > 2.5). Additionally, nested
  226. <exclude> elements can be used to exclude certain packages from
  227. being parsed. Bugzilla Report 17134.
  228. * The JProbe tasks now also work with JProbe 4.x. Bugzilla Report 14849.
  229. * <javacc> and <jjtree> will now autodetect JavaCC 3.x and can use it.
  230. * <sql> has a new attribute to control escape processing.
  231. * <javah> will invoke oldjavah on JDK 1.4.2. Bugzilla Report 18667.
  232. * A new <containsregexp> selector has been added, that selects files
  233. if their content matches a certain regular expression.
  234. * <antlr>'s debug attribute has been enabled. Bugzilla Report 19051.
  235. * <mail> has a new attribute encoding. Bugzilla Report 15434.
  236. * <mail> has new attributes user and password for SMTP auth.
  237. maillogger can also use this.
  238. The implementation only works with JavaMail (encoding="MIME").
  239. Implementation with plain mail remains to do.
  240. Bugzilla Report 5969.
  241. * <mail> and mailloger support SMTP over TLS/SSL
  242. Bugzilla Report 19180.
  243. * <zipfileset> can now be defined in the main body of a project
  244. and referred to with refid="xyz". Bugzilla Report 17007.
  245. * A wrapper script for OS/2 has been added.
  246. * <unzip> will now detect and successfully extract self-extracting
  247. archives. Bugzilla Report 16213.
  248. * <stcheckout> has a new attribute "converteol" that can be used to
  249. control the automatic line-end conversion performed on ASCII files.
  250. Bugzilla Report 18884.
  251. * The VAJ tasks now support a haltonfailure attribute to conditionally
  252. keep building even if they fail.
  253. * It is now possible to use the latest (versioned or unversioned) edition
  254. in <vajload> by using special wildcard characters. Also fixes
  255. Bugzilla Report 2236.
  256. * Users can now modify the list of default excludes using the new
  257. defaultexcludes task. Bugzilla Report 12700.
  258. * There is a new data type <propertyset> that can be used to collect
  259. properties. It is supported by <ant>, <antcall>, <subant>, <java>,
  260. <echoproperties> and <junit>.
  261. * <concat> can now control the encoding of the output as well and optionally
  262. add new-line characters at the end of files that get concatenated but
  263. don't end in newlines. Bugzilla Report 12511.
  264. * <rpm> will detect the rpmbuild executable of RedHat 8.0 and newer
  265. and use that if it is on your PATH. Bugzilla Report 14650.
  266. * A new task <rexec> has been added that requires commons-net to work.
  267. Bugzilla Report 19541.
  268. * <javadoc> now supports a nested <arg> element in addition to the
  269. additionalparams attribute.
  270. * You can now determine the order of standard tags in <javadoc> via
  271. <tag> elements - you must not use the description attribute for them.
  272. Bugzilla Report 18912.
  273. * <javadoc> now supports the -noqualifier switch. Bugzilla Report 19288.
  274. * <javac>'s executable attribute can now also be used to specify the
  275. executable for jikes, jvc, sj or gcj. Bugzilla Report 13814.
  276. * <javac> has a new attribute tempdir that can control the placement
  277. of temporary files. Bugzilla Report 19765.
  278. * A new magic property build.compiler.jvc.extensions has been added
  279. that can be used to turn of Microsoft extensions while using the jvc
  280. compiler. Bugzilla Report 19826.
  281. * You can now limit the parallelism of <apply> and <chmod> by using the new
  282. maxparallel attribute.
  283. * With the new addsourcefile attribute, you can make <apply> ommit the
  284. source file names from the command line. Bugzilla Report 13654.
  285. * <apply> and <chmod> now support nested <filelist>s as well as <dirset>s.
  286. Bugzilla Reports 15929 and 20687.
  287. * <apply> and <chmod> will display a summary if you set the new
  288. verbose attribute to true. Bugzilla Report 19883.
  289. * <copy>/<move>'s failonerror attribute can now also be used to
  290. continue the build if an I/O error caused a problem. Bugzilla
  291. Report 12999.
  292. * new selector <type/> allowing to select only files or only directories.
  293. Bugzilla Report 20222.
  294. * <java> and <junit> now support a nested <bootclasspath> element that
  295. will be ignored if not forking a new VM.
  296. * <junit>'s nested <formatter> elements now support if/unless clauses.
  297. * <ejbjar>
  298. cmpversion attribute added
  299. jboss element will look for jbosscmp-jdbc.xml descriptor
  300. if ejbjar has cmpversion="2.0" set
  301. Bugzilla Reports 14707 and 14709.
  302. * <pvcs> config attribute added to set the location of a specific PVCS
  303. .cfg file
  304. Bugzilla Report 9752
  305. * <mapper> has an "unpackage" mapper
  306. Bugzilla Report 18908
  307. * Added <scriptdef> task allowing tasks to be defined using any BSF-supported
  308. scripting language.
  309. * <touch>'s datetime attribute can now accept time with a granularity
  310. of seconds as well. Bugzilla Report 21014.
  311. * <checksum> has two new properties: totalproperty and todir.
  312. * FileUtils#createTempFile will now create temporary files in the
  313. directory pointed to by the property java.io.tmpdir
  314. * <unzip> and friends now supports an optional encoding attribute to
  315. enable it to expand archives created with filenames using an encoding
  316. other than UTF8. Bugzilla Report 10504.
  317. Changes from Ant 1.5.2 to Ant 1.5.3
  318. ===================================
  319. Changes that could break older environments:
  320. --------------------------------------------
  321. * The <zip> task and friends have again changed a method signature
  322. (sorry, was necessary to fix bug 17780). The return type of
  323. getResourcesToAdd has changed.
  324. Fixed bugs:
  325. -----------
  326. * <zipfileset>'s filemode would get ignored and the dirmode was used
  327. for the included files as well. As a side effect, WinZIP was unable
  328. to extract or display the files, so they seemed to be missing from
  329. the archive. Bugzilla Report 17648.
  330. * <ftp> could use the wrong path separator when trying to change the
  331. remote working directory. Bugzilla Report 17735.
  332. * <jar update="true"> would loose all original files if you didn't
  333. specify any nested <(zip)fileset>s and the manifest had changed.
  334. Bugzilla Report 17780.
  335. * If you used a value starting with \ on Windows for the appxml
  336. attribute of <ear> or the webxml attribute of <war>, it would be
  337. ignored. Bugzilla Report 17871.
  338. * Ant will no longer implicitly add Sun's rt.jar in <javac> when you
  339. use jvc and don't specify a bootclasspath. Bugzilla Report 18055.
  340. * The prefix attribute of <zipfileset> would not generate directory
  341. entries for the prefix itself. Bugzilla Report 18403.
  342. * starteam checkout can now handle deleted labels. Bugzilla Report 17646.
  343. * The Unix wrapper script failed if you invoked it as a relative
  344. symlink and ANT_HOME has not been set. Bugzilla Report 17721.
  345. Other Changes:
  346. --------------
  347. * Added ability to specify manifest encoding for the <jar> and
  348. <manifest> tasks
  349. Changes from Ant 1.5.1 to Ant 1.5.2
  350. =============================================
  351. Changes that could break older environments:
  352. --------------------------------------------
  353. * ANT_OPTS environment variable is now applied at the start of the
  354. Java command line, allowing position specific parameters of some
  355. JVMs, such as -classic to be specified.
  356. * ZipScanner#getIncludedFiles will now return the names of the ZipEntries
  357. that have been matched instead of the name of the archive.
  358. * The <zip> task and friends have been heavily modified, almost every
  359. method signature of the Zip class has changed. If you have subclassed
  360. Zip (or one of its subclasses), your class will most likely not
  361. compile against the current code base. If it still compiles, it will
  362. probably not work as in Ant 1.5.1.
  363. Fixed bugs:
  364. -----------
  365. * <translate> was not ignoring comment lines.
  366. * <manifest> wouldn't update an existing manifest if only an attribute
  367. of an existing section changed.
  368. * ant.bat now supports the ANT_ARGS and JAVACMD environment variables
  369. again (like Ant 1.5 did).
  370. * The "plain" <junit> <formatter> could throw a NullPointerException
  371. if an error occured in setUp.
  372. * <junit> will now produce output when a test times out as well.
  373. * <replace> would count some internal character replacements when
  374. reporting the number of replaced tokens.
  375. * <concat> would cause an exception if a <filelist> pointed to files
  376. that do not exist.
  377. * <javadoc> will now pass -source to custom doclets as well.
  378. * <cvstagdiff> would throw a NullPointException if there had been no
  379. differences.
  380. * <cvschangelog> could miss today's changes.
  381. * <concat> could append newline characters between concatenated files.
  382. * <xmlvalidate> ignored the specified encoding of the files to
  383. validate.
  384. * the errorsbeginat attribute of the <http> condition didn't work.
  385. * Ant will try to force loading of certain packages like com.sun.*
  386. from the system classloader. The packages are determined by the
  387. version of the JVM running Ant.
  388. * Ant didn't find the runtime libraries on IBM's JDK 1.4 for Linux.
  389. * random component of temporary files is now always a positive integer.
  390. * Ant could incorrectly try to use the 1.4 regexp implementation even
  391. if it isn't available if you run the JVM with -Xverify:none.
  392. * Ant would die with an exception if you used nested <reference>
  393. elements in Ant and the refid attribute didn't point to an existing
  394. project reference.
  395. * The <get> task can now be compiled (and Ant thus bootstrapped) using
  396. Kaffee.
  397. * build.sysclasspath will now be honored by more tasks.
  398. * The signjar keystore attribute has been reverted to a String allowing
  399. it to once again accept URLs. This should not affect current File based usage
  400. unless you are extending the Signjar task.
  401. * <jar update="true"> would remove the original manifest.
  402. * fix up folder creation in PVCS task
  403. * <tar>'s up-to-date check didn't work for nested <(tar)fileset>s.
  404. * Corrected a problem in XMLLogger where it would not associated
  405. messages with a taskdef'd task
  406. * <uptodate> now works when using attributes (i.e. not filesets) and pointing
  407. to the same file
  408. * Java task (and output system) now stores output which doos not end
  409. with a line feed.
  410. * splash screen wouldn't disappear when build was finished.
  411. * <exec> now supports OS/2.
  412. * <zip> and friends would only update/recreate existing archives if
  413. the files to add/update have been newer than the archive.
  414. * <javadoc>'s <link> element could fail for offline="true" on some JDKs.
  415. Other changes:
  416. --------------
  417. * MailLogger now sets the Date header correctly.
  418. * Shipped XML parser is now Xerces 2.3.0
  419. * signjar now accepts a maxmemory attribute to allow the memory allocated to the
  420. jarsigner tool to be specified. The jarsigner from the JDK's JAVA_HOME bin
  421. dir is now used rather than the first jarsigner on the path.
  422. * **/.DS_Store has been added to the list of default pattern excludes.
  423. * The Created-By header in the default manifest now contains the JVM
  424. vendor and version according to the jar specification. A new header,
  425. Ant-Version provides the Ant version used to create the jar.
  426. * <zip> can now store Unix permissions in a way that can be
  427. reconstructed by Info-Zip's unzip command.
  428. Changes from Ant 1.5.1Beta1 to 1.5.1
  429. ====================================
  430. Fixed bugs:
  431. -----------
  432. * <tstamp>'s prefix attribute failed to apply to nested <format> elements.
  433. * <junitreport> created an empty junit-noframes.html if no format had
  434. been specified.
  435. * <basename> would remove more than it should if the file name
  436. contained more than one dot.
  437. * <filterset>s nested into <filterset>s didn't work.
  438. Other changes:
  439. --------------
  440. * Shipped XML parser is now Xerces 2.2.0
  441. * Filesets now support a 'file' attribute, allowing a single-file
  442. fileset to be constructed without having to specify its parent
  443. directory separately.
  444. * <junit> will now return the result of a call to getName instead of
  445. "unknown" for Test implementations that don't extend TestCase but have
  446. a public String getName() method.
  447. Changes from Ant 1.5 to 1.5.1Beta1
  448. ==================================
  449. Fixed bugs:
  450. -----------
  451. * Date/time in CvsChangeLog was in local timezone and 12 hour format leading
  452. to a problem when sorting by time. It is now UTC (GMT) and in 24-hour
  453. format as per cvs 'specifications'.
  454. * CvsTagDiff now supports ampersand modules or modules that have a different
  455. root directory than their name.
  456. * EjbJar threw NPEs for the Websphere element. The property 'websphere.home'
  457. was not documented.
  458. * Mail example in the documentation was not correct.
  459. * Checksum was broken in the following scenario:
  460. (using verifyproperty OR in a condition) AND using filesets
  461. with multiple files.
  462. * The ExpandProperties filter threw NPEs when defined using
  463. the <filterreader> format.
  464. * The sh wrapper script didn't work under Cygwin if ANT_HOME wasn't
  465. set with a Unix style filename.
  466. * The sh wrapper script could fail if you started Ant from a directory
  467. with whitespace in its name.
  468. * ant -diagnostics was not working properly when the task dependency
  469. was missing and was just printing the missing dependency.
  470. * If a task got redefined via <taskdef>, it lost its child elements.
  471. * <property>'s classpathref attribute was broken.
  472. * <arg line="''" /> would result in no command line argument, will now
  473. be a single empty argument. Use <arg value="''"/> if you need the
  474. quotes literally.
  475. * <replaceregexp> could append a newline character at the end of the
  476. file.
  477. Other changes:
  478. --------------
  479. * Appendix E of Java Development with Ant (Loughran/Hatcher) was
  480. contributed to the docs.
  481. * <available> will only print deprecration warnings if it is actually
  482. used to change the value of a property.
  483. Changes from Ant 1.5beta3 to Ant 1.5
  484. ====================================
  485. Changes that could break older environments:
  486. --------------------------------------------
  487. * The filesetmanifest attribute added to <jar> after the 1.4.1
  488. release has been removed for now. This change may affect only
  489. the 1.5Beta/1.6Alpha users. An attempt will be made to add this
  490. feature back into Ant 1.6.
  491. Fixed bugs:
  492. -----------
  493. * <zip> and friends would always update existing archive if you set
  494. the update attribute to true.
  495. * To support backward compatibility with older versions, <pathconvert>
  496. will once again set the property, even if the result is the empty
  497. string, unless the new 'setonempty' attribute is set to false|no|off
  498. (default is "true").
  499. * The manifest task would crash XmlLogger
  500. Other changes:
  501. --------------
  502. * added **/.svn and **/.svn/** to the default excludes
  503. Changes from Ant 1.5beta2 to Ant 1.5beta3
  504. =========================================
  505. Changes that could break older environments:
  506. --------------------------------------------
  507. * Project.getBuildListeners now returns a clone of the listener
  508. list. Changes to the returned list will not affect the listeners
  509. currently attached to the Project. It also means that it is safe to
  510. iterate over the returned list if listeners are added or removed
  511. during the traversal.
  512. * <pvcs> default filenameformat has been different from Ant 1.4.1.
  513. Now it is different from 1.5beta1 and 1.5beta2.
  514. * Some messages that are printed during startup will not be
  515. written to the logfile specified via -logfile as they might destroy
  516. the format of the file for special BuildLoggers (like XmlLogger).
  517. * <pathconvert> won't set the property if the result is the empty string.
  518. Fixed bugs:
  519. -----------
  520. * <available> could fail to find files or directories that happen to
  521. start with the name of the project's basedir but are not children of
  522. the basedir.
  523. * Nested <property>'s inside <ant> can now be overriden by subsequent
  524. <ant> and <antcall> tasks.
  525. * <xslt>'s outputtype attribute wouldn't do anything.
  526. * <linecontains> filterreader could swallow lines.
  527. * <sequential> used to configure the tasks (set their attributes)
  528. before the first task has been executed. This means that properties
  529. that have been set by nested task seemed to be unset for the other
  530. tasks in the same <sequential> element.
  531. * <javac>'s sourcepath setting has been ignored by some compiler
  532. implementations.
  533. * <javadoc>'s packagelist attribute didn't work.
  534. * the plain mailer would always use port 25 in <mail>.
  535. * Ant's default logger could swallow empty lines.
  536. * ejbjar's iPlanet nested element now can process multiple descriptors.
  537. * IPlanetEjbc was looking in the wrong place for four iiop files.
  538. * <javac> would pass the -source switch to JDK 1.3's javac, even
  539. though it doesn't support it.
  540. Other changes:
  541. --------------
  542. * <checksum> now uses a buffer (of configurable size).
  543. * The "Trying to override task definition" warning has been degraded
  544. to verbose level if the two task definitions only differ in the class
  545. loader instance that has loaded the definition.
  546. * Add a jvmargs to the ejbjar's weblogic element to allow additional
  547. arguments to be provided to the VM runnign ejbc. Document the
  548. jvmdebuglevel attribute which can be used to avoid warnings about
  549. interface classess being found on the classpath. Document the new
  550. <sysproperty> element which allows JVM properties to be defined.
  551. Added an outputdir attribute to allow the destination to be a
  552. directory into which the exploded jar is written.
  553. * ejbjar now supports Borland Enterprise Server 5 and Jonas 2.5
  554. Changes from Ant 1.5beta1 to Ant 1.5beta2
  555. =========================================
  556. Changes that could break older environments:
  557. --------------------------------------------
  558. * Properties will now be expanded in mail message bodies. This means
  559. that one $ sign will be stripped if your mail message contains the text
  560. $$.
  561. * org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Expand no longer extends MatchingTask.
  562. * Available#setFile now again uses a File argument as it did in 1.4,
  563. this may break environments that have been adapted to the String
  564. argument version present in 1.5beta1.
  565. Fixed bugs:
  566. -----------
  567. * When <move> attempts a rename, it deletes the destination file, if it
  568. exists, before renaming the source file. However, <move> was not
  569. checking if the destination file was actually a directory before
  570. trying to delete it.
  571. * Make CVS Tasks to work under Cygwin.
  572. * Fix LineContains to handle huge files elegantly without causing
  573. Stack Overflows.
  574. * if you ask for the "classic" compiler on Java1.4, you get upgraded to
  575. "modern" because there is no classic compiler any more.
  576. * the <http> condition was viewing 404 'not found' exceptions as success. Now
  577. it defaults to viewing any response >=400 as an error, and has an errorsBeginAt
  578. attribute you can use if you want a higher or lower value.
  579. * <get> throws a build exception on an http authorization error, unless you
  580. have set ignoreerrors to true.
  581. * <wsdltodotnet> was spelt in Wintel case: <WsdlToDotnet>. It is now lower
  582. case, though the old spelling is retained for anyone who used it.
  583. * Merging of Manifests in jar now works as documented.
  584. * paths that have been separated by colons would be incorrectly parsed
  585. on NetWare.
  586. * runant.pl now supports NetWare.
  587. * <tempfile> and <setproxy> tasks were in beta1, but not defined by
  588. default; They now are. <tempfile> fills a property with the name of a
  589. temporary file; <setproxy> lets you set the JVM's http, ftp and socks proxy
  590. settings.
  591. * <available classname="foo" ignoresystemclasses="true"> failed for
  592. JDK 1.1 and 1.2, even if the class could be found on the
  593. user-specified classpath.
  594. * <property environment=... /> now works on z/OS.
  595. * forked <javac> failed for the wrong reason on JDK 1.1 - Ant would
  596. use a temporary file to hold the names of the files to compile under
  597. some conditons, but 1.1 doesn't support this feature. Ant will no
  598. longer try this, but you may run into problems with the length of the
  599. command line now.
  600. * the refid attribute for <property>s nested into <ant> or <param>s
  601. nested into <antcall> didn't work.
  602. * <replaceregexp> didn't work for nested <fileset>s.
  603. * <javadoc> dropped sourcepath entries if no "interesting" .java
  604. source files could be found below them. This has been backwards
  605. incompatible and caused problems with custom doclets like xdoclet.
  606. * Using the doclet, docletpath or docletpathref attributes of
  607. <javadoc> may have caused NullPointerExceptions.
  608. * nested <filesets> of <javadoc> would include too much.
  609. * <dependset> will no longer choke on <targetfileset>s that point to
  610. non-existing directories.
  611. * <patch> didn't work at all.
  612. * <replace> and <replaceregexp> now fail if the file they are working
  613. on is locked.
  614. * <javadoc> would pick up the wrong executable in the combination JDK
  615. 1.2 and AIX.
  616. Other changes:
  617. --------------
  618. * z/OS now gets detected by the os condition.
  619. * <fileset> and <dirset> now have an optional followsymlink attribute
  620. that can prevent Ant from following symbolic links on some platforms.
  621. * BeanShell is now supported in the <script> task.
  622. * <ejbjar> under Weblogic attempts to use the ejbc20 compiler for 2.0 beans
  623. based on the deployment descriptor's DTD reference. Under weblogic 7.00 Beta
  624. this ejbc class has been deprecated. To avoid the deprecation warning use
  625. ejbcclass="weblogic.ejbc".
  626. * <ejbjar> will add a manifest to the generated jar based on the naming
  627. convention in use. This overrides the manifest specified in the
  628. <ejbjar> attribute
  629. Changes from Ant 1.4.1 to 1.5beta1
  630. ==================================
  631. Changes that could break older environments:
  632. --------------------------------------------
  633. * Important: Single $ signs are no longer silently stripped!
  634. =======
  635. * Project.getBuildListeners now returns a clone of the listener
  636. list. Changes to the returned list will not affect the listeners
  637. currently attached to the Project. It also means that it is safe to
  638. iterate over the returned list if listeners are added or removed
  639. during the traversal.
  640. * <pvcs> default filenameformat has been different from Ant 1.4.1.
  641. Now it is different from 1.5beta1 and 1.5beta2.
  642. * Some messages that are printed during startup will not be
  643. written to the logfile specified via -logfile as they might destroy
  644. the format of the file for special BuildLoggers (like XmlLogger).
  645. Fixed bugs:
  646. -----------
  647. * <available> could fail to find files or directories that happen to
  648. start with the name of the project's basedir but are not children of
  649. the basedir.
  650. * Nested <property>'s inside <ant> can now be overriden by subsequent
  651. <ant> and <antcall> tasks.
  652. * <xslt>'s outputtype attribute wouldn't do anything.
  653. * <linecontains> filterreader could swallow lines.
  654. * <sequential> used to configure the tasks (set their attributes)
  655. before the first task has been executed. This means that properties
  656. that have been set by nested task seemed to be unset for the other
  657. tasks in the same <sequential> element.
  658. * <javac>'s sourcepath setting has been ignored by some compiler
  659. implementations.
  660. * <javadoc>'s packagelist attribute didn't work.
  661. * the plain mailer would always use port 25 in <mail>.
  662. * Ant's default logger could swallow empty lines.
  663. * ejbjar's iPlanet nested element now can process multiple descriptors.
  664. * IPlanetEjbc was looking in the wrong place for four iiop files.
  665. * <javac> would pass the -source switch to JDK 1.3's javac, even
  666. though it doesn't support it.
  667. Other changes:
  668. --------------
  669. * <checksum> now uses a buffer (of configurable size).
  670. * The "Trying to override task definition" warning has been degraded
  671. to verbose level if the two task definitions only differ in the class
  672. loader instance that has loaded the definition.
  673. * Add a jvmargs to the ejbjar's weblogic element to allow additional
  674. arguments to be provided to the VM runnign ejbc. Document the
  675. jvmdebuglevel attribute which can be used to avoid warnings about
  676. interface classess being found on the classpath. Document the new
  677. <sysproperty> element which allows JVM properties to be defined.
  678. Added an outputdir attribute to allow the destination to be a
  679. directory into which the exploded jar is written.
  680. * ejbjar now supports Borland Enterprise Server 5 and Jonas 2.5
  681. Changes from Ant 1.5beta1 to Ant 1.5beta2
  682. =========================================
  683. Changes that could break older environments:
  684. --------------------------------------------
  685. * Properties will now be expanded in mail message bodies. This means
  686. that one $ sign will be stripped if your mail message contains the text
  687. $$.
  688. * org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Expand no longer extends MatchingTask.
  689. * Available#setFile now again uses a File argument as it did in 1.4,
  690. this may break environments that have been adapted to the String
  691. argument version present in 1.5beta1.
  692. Fixed bugs:
  693. -----------
  694. * When <move> attempts a rename, it deletes the destination file, if it
  695. exists, before renaming the source file. However, <move> was not
  696. checking if the destination file was actually a directory before
  697. trying to delete it.
  698. * Make CVS Tasks to work under Cygwin.
  699. * Fix LineContains to handle huge files elegantly without causing
  700. Stack Overflows.
  701. * if you ask for the "classic" compiler on Java1.4, you get upgraded to
  702. "modern" because there is no classic compiler any more.
  703. * the <http> condition was viewing 404 'not found' exceptions as success. Now
  704. it defaults to viewing any response >=400 as an error, and has an errorsBeginAt
  705. attribute you can use if you want a higher or lower value.
  706. * <get> throws a build exception on an http authorization error, unless you
  707. have set ignoreerrors to true.
  708. * <wsdltodotnet> was spelt in Wintel case: <WsdlToDotnet>. It is now lower
  709. case, though the old spelling is retained for anyone who used it.
  710. * Merging of Manifests in jar now works as documented.
  711. * paths that have been separated by colons would be incorrectly parsed
  712. on NetWare.
  713. * runant.pl now supports NetWare.
  714. * <tempfile> and <setproxy> tasks were in beta1, but not defined by
  715. default; They now are. <tempfile> fills a property with the name of a
  716. temporary file; <setproxy> lets you set the JVM's http, ftp and socks proxy
  717. settings.
  718. * <available classname="foo" ignoresystemclasses="true"> failed for
  719. JDK 1.1 and 1.2, even if the class could be found on the
  720. user-specified classpath.
  721. * <property environment=... /> now works on z/OS.
  722. * forked <javac> failed for the wrong reason on JDK 1.1 - Ant would
  723. use a temporary file to hold the names of the files to compile under
  724. some conditons, but 1.1 doesn't support this feature. Ant will no
  725. longer try this, but you may run into problems with the length of the
  726. command line now.
  727. * the refid attribute for <property>s nested into <ant> or <param>s
  728. nested into <antcall> didn't work.
  729. * <replaceregexp> didn't work for nested <fileset>s.
  730. * <javadoc> dropped sourcepath entries if no "interesting" .java
  731. source files could be found below them. This has been backwards
  732. incompatible and caused problems with custom doclets like xdoclet.
  733. * Using the doclet, docletpath or docletpathref attributes of
  734. <javadoc> may have caused NullPointerExceptions.
  735. * nested <filesets> of <javadoc> would include too much.
  736. * <dependset> will no longer choke on <targetfileset>s that point to
  737. non-existing directories.
  738. * <patch> didn't work at all.
  739. * <replace> and <replaceregexp> now fail if the file they are working
  740. on is locked.
  741. * <javadoc> would pick up the wrong executable in the combination JDK
  742. 1.2 and AIX.
  743. Other changes:
  744. --------------
  745. * z/OS now gets detected by the os condition.
  746. * <fileset> and <dirset> now have an optional followsymlink attribute
  747. that can prevent Ant from following symbolic links on some platforms.
  748. * BeanShell is now supported in the <script> task.
  749. * <ejbjar> under Weblogic attempts to use the ejbc20 compiler for 2.0 beans
  750. based on the deployment descriptor's DTD reference. Under weblogic 7.00 Beta
  751. this ejbc class has been deprecated. To avoid the deprecation warning use
  752. ejbcclass="weblogic.ejbc".
  753. * <ejbjar> will add a manifest to the generated jar based on the naming
  754. convention in use. This overrides the manifest specified in the
  755. <ejbjar> attribute
  756. Changes from Ant 1.4.1 to 1.5beta1
  757. ==================================
  758. Changes that could break older environments:
  759. --------------------------------------------
  760. * Important: Single $ signs are no longer silently stripped!
  761. * The filesetmanifest attribute added to <jar> after the 1.4.1
  762. release has been removed for now. This change may affect only
  763. the 1.5Beta/1.6Alpha users. An attempt will be made to add this
  764. feature back into Ant 1.6.
  765. Fixed bugs:
  766. -----------
  767. * <zip> and friends would always update existing archive if you set
  768. the update attribute to true.
  769. * To support backward compatibility with older versions, <pathconvert>
  770. will once again set the property, even if the result is the empty
  771. string, unless the new 'setonempty' attribute is set to false|no|off
  772. (default is "true").
  773. * The manifest task would crash XmlLogger
  774. Other changes:
  775. --------------
  776. * added **/.svn and **/.svn/** to the default excludes
  777. Changes from Ant 1.5beta2 to Ant 1.5beta3
  778. =========================================
  779. Changes that could break older environments:
  780. --------------------------------------------
  781. * Project.getBuildListeners now returns a clone of the listener
  782. list. Changes to the returned list will not affect the listeners
  783. currently attached to the Project. It also means that it is safe to
  784. iterate over the returned list if listeners are added or removed
  785. during the traversal.
  786. * <pvcs> default filenameformat has been different from Ant 1.4.1.
  787. Now it is different from 1.5beta1 and 1.5beta2.
  788. * Some messages that are printed during startup will not be
  789. written to the logfile specified via -logfile as they might destroy
  790. the format of the file for special BuildLoggers (like XmlLogger).
  791. * <pathconvert> won't set the property if the result is the empty string.
  792. Fixed bugs:
  793. -----------
  794. * <available> could fail to find files or directories that happen to
  795. start with the name of the project's basedir but are not children of
  796. the basedir.
  797. * Nested <property>'s inside <ant> can now be overriden by subsequent
  798. <ant> and <antcall> tasks.
  799. * <xslt>'s outputtype attribute wouldn't do anything.
  800. * <linecontains> filterreader could swallow lines.
  801. * <sequential> used to configure the tasks (set their attributes)
  802. before the first task has been executed. This means that properties
  803. that have been set by nested task seemed to be unset for the other
  804. tasks in the same <sequential> element.
  805. * <javac>'s sourcepath setting has been ignored by some compiler
  806. implementations.
  807. * <javadoc>'s packagelist attribute didn't work.
  808. * the plain mailer would always use port 25 in <mail>.
  809. * Ant's default logger could swallow empty lines.
  810. * ejbjar's iPlanet nested element now can process multiple descriptors.
  811. * IPlanetEjbc was looking in the wrong place for four iiop files.
  812. * <javac> would pass the -source switch to JDK 1.3's javac, even
  813. though it doesn't support it.
  814. Other changes:
  815. --------------
  816. * <checksum> now uses a buffer (of configurable size).
  817. * The "Trying to override task definition" warning has been degraded
  818. to verbose level if the two task definitions only differ in the class
  819. loader instance that has loaded the definition.
  820. * Add a jvmargs to the ejbjar's weblogic element to allow additional
  821. arguments to be provided to the VM runnign ejbc. Document the
  822. jvmdebuglevel attribute which can be used to avoid warnings about
  823. interface classess being found on the classpath. Document the new
  824. <sysproperty> element which allows JVM properties to be defined.
  825. Added an outputdir attribute to allow the destination to be a
  826. directory into which the exploded jar is written.
  827. * ejbjar now supports Borland Enterprise Server 5 and Jonas 2.5
  828. Changes from Ant 1.5beta1 to Ant 1.5beta2
  829. =========================================
  830. Changes that could break older environments:
  831. --------------------------------------------
  832. * Properties will now be expanded in mail message bodies. This means
  833. that one $ sign will be stripped if your mail message contains the text
  834. $$.
  835. * org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Expand no longer extends MatchingTask.
  836. * Available#setFile now again uses a File argument as it did in 1.4,
  837. this may break environments that have been adapted to the String
  838. argument version present in 1.5beta1.
  839. Fixed bugs:
  840. -----------
  841. * When <move> attempts a rename, it deletes the destination file, if it
  842. exists, before renaming the source file. However, <move> was not
  843. checking if the destination file was actually a directory before
  844. trying to delete it.
  845. * Make CVS Tasks to work under Cygwin.
  846. * Fix LineContains to handle huge files elegantly without causing
  847. Stack Overflows.
  848. * if you ask for the "classic" compiler on Java1.4, you get upgraded to
  849. "modern" because there is no classic compiler any more.
  850. * the <http> condition was viewing 404 'not found' exceptions as success. Now
  851. it defaults to viewing any response >=400 as an error, and has an errorsBeginAt
  852. attribute you can use if you want a higher or lower value.
  853. * <get> throws a build exception on an http authorization error, unless you
  854. have set ignoreerrors to true.
  855. * <wsdltodotnet> was spelt in Wintel case: <WsdlToDotnet>. It is now lower
  856. case, though the old spelling is retained for anyone who used it.
  857. * Merging of Manifests in jar now works as documented.
  858. * paths that have been separated by colons would be incorrectly parsed
  859. on NetWare.
  860. * runant.pl now supports NetWare.
  861. * <tempfile> and <setproxy> tasks were in beta1, but not defined by
  862. default; They now are. <tempfile> fills a property with the name of a
  863. temporary file; <setproxy> lets you set the JVM's http, ftp and socks proxy
  864. settings.
  865. * <available classname="foo" ignoresystemclasses="true"> failed for
  866. JDK 1.1 and 1.2, even if the class could be found on the
  867. user-specified classpath.
  868. * <property environment=... /> now works on z/OS.
  869. * forked <javac> failed for the wrong reason on JDK 1.1 - Ant would
  870. use a temporary file to hold the names of the files to compile under
  871. some conditons, but 1.1 doesn't support this feature. Ant will no
  872. longer try this, but you may run into problems with the length of the
  873. command line now.
  874. * the refid attribute for <property>s nested into <ant> or <param>s
  875. nested into <antcall> didn't work.
  876. * <replaceregexp> didn't work for nested <fileset>s.
  877. * <javadoc> dropped sourcepath entries if no "interesting" .java
  878. source files could be found below them. This has been backwards
  879. incompatible and caused problems with custom doclets like xdoclet.
  880. * Using the doclet, docletpath or docletpathref attributes of
  881. <javadoc> may have caused NullPointerExceptions.
  882. * nested <filesets> of <javadoc> would include too much.
  883. * <dependset> will no longer choke on <targetfileset>s that point to
  884. non-existing directories.
  885. * <patch> didn't work at all.
  886. * <replace> and <replaceregexp> now fail if the file they are working
  887. on is locked.
  888. * <javadoc> would pick up the wrong executable in the combination JDK
  889. 1.2 and AIX.
  890. Other changes:
  891. --------------
  892. * z/OS now gets detected by the os condition.
  893. * <fileset> and <dirset> now have an optional followsymlink attribute
  894. that can prevent Ant from following symbolic links on some platforms.
  895. * BeanShell is now supported in the <script> task.
  896. * <ejbjar> under Weblogic attempts to use the ejbc20 compiler for 2.0 beans
  897. based on the deployment descriptor's DTD reference. Under weblogic 7.00 Beta
  898. this ejbc class has been deprecated. To avoid the deprecation warning use
  899. ejbcclass="weblogic.ejbc".
  900. * <ejbjar> will add a manifest to the generated jar based on the naming
  901. convention in use. This overrides the manifest specified in the
  902. <ejbjar> attribute
  903. Changes from Ant 1.4.1 to 1.5beta1
  904. ==================================
  905. Changes that could break older environments:
  906. --------------------------------------------
  907. * Important: Single $ signs are no longer silently stripped!
  908. Before you panic that we have broken all your build files, we have kept
  909. the old "$$" -> "$" behaviour. So only build files which accidentally had
  910. a $ sign in a string that was being silently stripped may break.
  911. We added this fix to stop newbie confusion; if you want to write a
  912. build file which works on ant versions 1.4.1 or earlier, stay with
  913. the double $$ sign rule.
  914. * Shipped XML parser is now Xerces 2.0.1 along with the XML Parser APIs.
  915. XML Parser APIs is a separate jar that contains the necessary
  916. JAXP/DOM/SAX classes.
  917. * <telnet> was fixed to expand properties inside nested <read> and
  918. <write> elements; before this only happened when you assigned the text
  919. to the string attribute. If you had $ signs in the string, they may
  920. need escaping.
  921. * the RegexpMatcher interface has been extended to support case
  922. insensitive matches and other options - custom implementations of
  923. this interface won't work any longer. We recommend to use the new
  924. Regexp interface that also supports substitution instead of the
  925. RegexpMatcher interface in the future.
  926. * <gzip> will throw an exception if your src attribute points to a directory.
  927. * Unjar, Unzip and Unwar will throw an exception if the Src attribute
  928. represents a directory. Support for nested filesets is provided
  929. instead.
  930. * It is no longer possible to overwrite a property using tasks like
  931. <condition>, <exec>, <pathconvert>, or <tstamp>. In some exceptional
  932. cases it will generate a warning if you attempt to overwrite an
  933. existing property.
  934. * Taskwriters please note: Whenever tasks had any overloaded set* methods,
  935. Ant's introspection mechanism would select the last overloaded method
  936. provided to it by the Java Runtime. A modification has now been made such
  937. that when the Java Runtime provides a method with a String as its argument,
  938. a check is made to see if there is another overloaded method that takes in
  939. some other type of argument. If there is one such method, then the method
  940. that takes in String as an argument is not selected by the Introspector.
  941. * The pattern definition **/._* has been included into the Default
  942. Excludes list.
  943. * <propertyfile>'s <entry> element was modified to remove "never" as a value
  944. as its behavior was undocumented and flakey.
  945. * The -projecthelp flag now only prints out targets that include the
  946. 'description' attribute, unless the -verbose or -debug flag is included
  947. on the Ant command line.
  948. * Ant's testcases now require JUnit 3.7 or above, as they now use the new
  949. assertTrue method instead of assert.
  950. * If the 'output' attribute of <ant> is set to a simple filename or a
  951. relative path, the file is created relative to ${basedir}, not ${user.dir}.
  952. * The default value for build.compiler is now javac1.x with x
  953. depending on the JDK that is running Ant instead of classic/modern.
  954. Fixed bugs:
  955. -----------
  956. * A bug existed that prevented generated log files from being deleted as
  957. part of the build process itself. This has now been fixed.
  958. * Fixed bug where <move> ignored <filterset>s.
  959. * Ant works properly with the combination of Java1.4/WindowsXP.
  960. * Fixed bug where <java> used to sometimes invoke class constructors twice.
  961. * Fixed bug with 4NT shell support.
  962. * Fixed bug where ant would not perform ftp without remotedir being
  963. specified even though this was not mandatory.
  964. * Fixed bug where ant would not copy system properties into new Project
  965. in ant/antcall tasks when inheritall="false" is set.
  966. * <propertyfile> would not close the original property file.
  967. * <ant> will no longer override a subbuild's basedir with inheritall="true".
  968. * Fixed problem with the built-in <junit> formatters which assumed
  969. that only one test could be running at the same time - this is not
  970. necessarily true, see junit.extensions.ActiveTestSuite.
  971. * <jar>'s whenEmpty attribute is useless as JARs are never empty, they
  972. contain at least a manifest file, therefore it will now print a
  973. warning and do nothing.
  974. * <typedef> hasn't been all that useful as it couldn't be used outside
  975. of targets (it can now) and nested "unknown" elements have always
  976. been considered to be tasks (changed as well).
  977. * <fixcrlf> would fail for files that contained lines longer than 8kB.
  978. * Some junit formatters incorrectly assumed that all testcases would
  979. inherit from junit.framework.TestCase.
  980. * <fixcrlf> dropped the first characters from Mac files.
  981. Other changes:
  982. --------------
  983. * Selector Elements now provide a way to create filesets based on
  984. sophisticated selection criteria.
  985. * Gzip and Bzip2 files can now be constructed in the fly when using
  986. the tar task without having to create the intermediate tar file on
  987. disk. The Untar task can also untar GZip and BZip2 files on the fly
  988. without creating the intermediate tar file.
  989. * New optional type, <classfileset> added.
  990. * <ejbjar> now allows control over which additional classes and interfaces
  991. are added to the generated EJB jars. A new attribute "dependency" can be
  992. defined which controls what classes are added. The addition of classes now uses
  993. the Jakarta-BCEL library rather than reflection, meaning bean classes are
  994. no longer loaded into Ant's JVM. The default dependency analyzer is known as
  995. the ancestor analyzer. It provides the same behaviour as the 1.4.1 version of
  996. <ejbjar>. If the BCEL library is not present, a warning will be issued stating
  997. the ancestor analyzer is not available. In this case <ejbjar> will continue
  998. to function but will not add super classes to the jar.
  999. * <available> has a new attribute named ignoreSystemClasses.
  1000. * New task <cvschangelog/> generates an XML report of changes that occur
  1001. on CVS repository.
  1002. * New filter readers: ClassConstants, ExpandProperties, HeadFilter,
  1003. LineContains, LineContainsRegExp, PrefixLines, ReplaceTokens,
  1004. StripJavaComments, StripLineBreaks, StripLineComments, TabsToSpaces,
  1005. TailFilter.
  1006. * <copy>, <loadfile>, <loadproperties>, <move> support FilterChains
  1007. of FilterReaders.
  1008. * New task <loadproperties> to load contents of file as Ant properties,
  1009. with nested <filterchain> elements.
  1010. * New task <loadfile> to load a whole file into a property.
  1011. * New task <echoproperties> to list your current properties to the screen
  1012. or a file.
  1013. * New tasks <bzip2> and <bunzip2> to pack and unpack files using the
  1014. BZip2 alogrithm.
  1015. * New tasks <replaceregexp>, <checksum>, <translate>, <waitfor>,
  1016. <manifest>, <vsscp>, <vssadd>, <vsscreate>, <splash>, <basename>, <dirname>,
  1017. <concat>, <sourceoffsite>, <jarlib-available>, <jarlib-display>,
  1018. <jarlib-manifest>, <jarlib-resolve>.
  1019. * A new combined <mail> task, which replaces the old <mail> and
  1020. <mimemail> tasks, has been added. The <mimemail> task, and
  1021. old SendEmail and MimeMail classes have been deprecated.
  1022. * Mail task allows specification of port number.
  1023. * Users can control what <zip> and <jar> must do when duplicate files
  1024. are found. A new element <zipgroupfileset> allows for multiple zip
  1025. files to be merged into the archive. In addition, <jar> also has
  1026. another new attribute: filesetmanifest. The existing manifest
  1027. attribute of <jar> now also accepts the name of a jar added through
  1028. a fileset.
  1029. * gzip now checks that the zipfile is older than the source file
  1030. before rebuilding the zipfile.
  1031. * TarFileset takes in three new attributes - fullpath, prefix
  1032. and preserveLeadingSlashes.
  1033. * <move> attempts to rename the directory, if everything inside it is
  1034. included, before performing file-by-file moves. This attempt will
  1035. be done only if filtering is off and if mappers are not used. This
  1036. is a performance improvement and there is no change otherwise in
  1037. the funtionality of this task.
  1038. * Exec task has extra attribute "resultproperty" to get the return code
  1039. into a property.
  1040. * Exec task prints a message when a timed-out process is killed.
  1041. * Added optional attributes - name, arch and version to the <os> task.
  1042. * Unjar, Untar, Unwar and Unzip now support patternsets to
  1043. select files from an archive for extraction. Filesets may be
  1044. used to select archived files for unarchival.
  1045. * Javac task allows debug levels to be specified. Debug levels
  1046. will have an effect only when the modern compiler or the
  1047. classic compiler (version 1.2 and higher) is used and debugging
  1048. is enabled.
  1049. * Added support for specifying CVS_RSH in the <cvs/> task
  1050. * The attributes zipfile, jarfile, warfile and earfile (from the Zip,
  1051. Jar, War and Ear tasks) have been deprecated and superseded by a
  1052. new attribute "destfile".
  1053. * Added new conditions <isset>, <checksum>, <http>, <socket>, <contains>,
  1054. <filesmatch>.
  1055. * <taskdef> and <typedef> will now emit a warning if a task/type of
  1056. the given name already exists.
  1057. * A new revision of VAJ tasks: The most important new feature
  1058. is the ability to execute VAJ tasks from the command line by
  1059. exploiting the Remote Tool Access feature of VAJ.
  1060. * Improved support for Novell NetWare.
  1061. * Added an optional encoding attribute to <fixcrlf>.
  1062. * <apply> has a new attribute relative that allows users to pass the
  1063. filenames as relative instead of absolute paths on the command line.
  1064. * References can now be copied into the child build by <ant> and
  1065. <antcall> using nested <reference> elements or the new inheritRefs
  1066. attribute.
  1067. * <fail> now supports builds to fail based on conditions via if and
  1068. unless attributes.
  1069. * Ant now comes with two new BuildLogger implementations - one that
  1070. can send emails containing a log of the build process (MailLogger),
  1071. and one that colorizes the output based on message levels, using
  1072. ANSI color code escape sequences (AnsiColorLogger).
  1073. * A "package" mapper type has been added to allow package directory
  1074. names replaced with the dotted form.
  1075. * You can now specify environment variables in the <java> and <junit> tasks
  1076. if the fork attribute has been set to true.
  1077. * -propertyfile command-line option has been added to load an entire
  1078. property file just as -D properties are declared (as user properties).
  1079. -D properties take precedence over -propertyfile specified ones.
  1080. * You can now set an ANT_ARGS environment variable to hold arguments you
  1081. always want passed to the 'ant' command -- for example, if you always
  1082. want to use a different logger or the -find flag.
  1083. * <tstamp> now supports a new "prefix" attribute to prefix properties set.
  1084. * You can now specify the -sourcepath for <javac> explicitly.
  1085. * <javac> now supports a new "listfiles" attribute to list the source
  1086. files it's handing off to the compiler.
  1087. * The compiler implementation for <javac> can now be chosen on a task by
  1088. task basis. The new "compiler" attribute of <javac> can be used to override
  1089. the value of the build.compiler property, if set.
  1090. * <javac> has a new nested element, <compilerarg>, which allows you
  1091. to specify additional args for the specific compiler you're using.
  1092. * <javac>'s "source" attribute is now enabled for jikes as well.
  1093. * <propertyfile>'s <entry> now has a 'unit' attribute to specify the
  1094. increment/decrement unit on date operations.
  1095. * <property> now supports a 'prefix' attribute when loading from a file
  1096. or resource.
  1097. * In Ant 1.4, a feature has been added to the <junit> task that would
  1098. add ant.jar, optional.jar and junit.jar implicitly to the classpath -
  1099. this feature can now be disabled by setting the new includeantruntime
  1100. attribute to false.
  1101. * <style> behaves differently from any other directory-based task, as it
  1102. processes all files that it finds in included directories in
  1103. addition to the files matched by your patterns. There is now a new
  1104. attribute, 'scanincludeddirectories', to suppress this behavior.
  1105. * <javadoc> now supports a <tag> nested element to provide the -tag option
  1106. to the standard Java 1.4 doclet. The element is ignored when not running
  1107. on Java 1.4.
  1108. * <ftp> can now chmod files on a remote server that supports
  1109. "site chmod", as well as set the umask before transferring files, if
  1110. the server supports "site umask".
  1111. * New <serverdeploy> "optional" task.
  1112. * <patternset> now supports nested patternsets.
  1113. * Perforce tasks now support a "failonerror" attribute (defaults to "true").
  1114. * Open Source application server JOnAS support:
  1115. EJB hot deploy and deploy with <serverdeploy> and <ejbjar>
  1116. * Added new DirSet (<dirset>) datatype.
  1117. * <path> now supports nested <dirset> and <filelist> elements.
  1118. * <pathconvert> now supports nested <dirset> and <filelist> elements.
  1119. * <pathconvert>'s "dirsep" and "pathsep" attributes now accept
  1120. multi-character values.
  1121. * <copy> task now has a 'failonerror' attribute to allow keep-going
  1122. behaviour when the file to be copied is not found (defaults to "true").
  1123. * <uptodate> now has a 'srcfile' attribute to allow specifying a
  1124. full-path filename.
  1125. * <exec>, <sql> and <java> now support append attributes to allow
  1126. appending the output to an existing file.
  1127. * <java> now supports a timeout attribute analog to <exec> - it is
  1128. highly recommended to only use it together with fork="true".
  1129. * <javadoc> now supports a source attribute to enable javadoc to
  1130. handle assertions present in JDK 1.4 source code.
  1131. * <replace> supports a new replacefilterfile attribute that
  1132. automatically turns all properties of a given file into
  1133. replacefilters.
  1134. * An alias of <xslt> has been added to refer to the <style> task.
  1135. * The compiler implementation for <rmic> can now be chosen on a task by
  1136. task basis. The new "compiler" attribute of <rmic> can be used to override
  1137. the value of the build.rmic property, if set.
  1138. * <rmic> has a new nested element, <compilerarg>, which allows you
  1139. to specify additional args for the specific compiler you're using.
  1140. * org.apache.tools.ant.XmlLogger now is a BuildLogger, rather than just
  1141. a BuildListener. It can operate in either mode successfully.
  1142. * <junit> has a new attribute "showoutput". If set to true, output
  1143. generated by tests will be sent to Ant's logging system as well as
  1144. to the formatters (instead of sending it to the formatters
  1145. exclusively).
  1146. * Ant has now a pluggable way to prompt users for input, which is used
  1147. by the new <input> task. IDE integrators can provide an
  1148. implementation of the InputHandler interface to decouple Ant's input
  1149. from the console. An implementation that gets its input from a file
  1150. for unattended builds is part of Ant's distribution.
  1151. For more details see docs/manual/inputhandler.html.
  1152. * <patch> has a new attribute that selects the directory in which to
  1153. run the command.
  1154. * <javadoc> now supports two new nested elements, <fileset> and <packageset>.
  1155. Changes from Ant 1.4 to Ant 1.4.1
  1156. ===========================================
  1157. Fixed bugs:
  1158. -----------
  1159. * <ant>'s antfile attribute will now also be considered an absolute path on
  1160. Windows systems, if it starts with a \ and no drive specifier.
  1161. * The fullpath attribute of <zipfileset> has been ignored if you used
  1162. the src attribute at the same time.
  1163. * The manifest file is now always placed as the second entry (after /META-INF)
  1164. in generated jars. This allows the manifest to be read by JarInputStreams
  1165. * Fixed bug in depend task which would fail with a NullPointerException if no
  1166. dependency cache was specified.
  1167. * sql task now handles REM statements correctly so that lines starying with rem
  1168. but which are not comments are actually processed.
  1169. * XMLLogger now uses the task's name rather than the classname
  1170. * <mapper>s will now work as expected if the to pattern expands to an
  1171. absolute pathname.
  1172. * <javac> didn't ignore memory settings in non-fork mode
  1173. * <cab> didn't split the options attribute into several command line
  1174. arguments correctly.
  1175. Other changes:
  1176. --------------
  1177. * New source attribute for <javac> to enable assertion in JDK 1.4
  1178. * XmlLogger and <antstructure> now add an encoding declaration to the
  1179. XML files they generate.
  1180. * <fileset> has a new attribute "casesensitive" to make it match
  1181. filenames in a case insensitive way (if you set it to false) - by
  1182. default filesets remain case sensitive.
  1183. Changes from Ant 1.3 to Ant 1.4
  1184. ===========================================
  1185. Changes that could break older environments:
  1186. --------------------------------------------
  1187. * JUnitReport now uses the xalan redirect extension for multi-output.
  1188. With Xalan 1.2.2 it forces the use of bsf.jar in the classpath.
  1189. (Available in the xalan distribution). It is recommended to switch
  1190. to Xalan 2.x that do not need it.
  1191. * Zip.setWhenempty() has changed its signature.
  1192. * <rmic> is now implemented using a factory. This makes extending
  1193. rmic to use a new compiler a lot easier but may break custom
  1194. versions of this task that rely on the old implementation.
  1195. * several Zip methods have changed their signature as we now use a Zip
  1196. package of our own that handles Unix permissions for directories.
  1197. Furthermore <zip> will now use the platform's default character
  1198. encoding for filenames - this is consistent with the command line
  1199. ZIP tools, but causes problems if you try to open them from within
  1200. Java and your filenames contain non US-ASCII characters. Use the new
  1201. encoding attribute of the task and set it to UTF8 to get the old
  1202. behavior.
  1203. * The <pvcs> task has been moved to a package of its own.
  1204. * JUnitResultFormater has two additional methods that must be
  1205. implemented by custom formatters.
  1206. * Ant will no longer use the canonical version of a path internally -
  1207. this may yield different results on filesystems that support
  1208. symbolic links.
  1209. * The output generated by the xml formatter for <junit> has changed
  1210. again, it doesn't format the numeric value in the time attribute anymore.
  1211. * Pattern matching rules have changes slightly, the pattern foo*
  1212. doesn't match files contained in a directory named foo - use foo/*
  1213. instead.
  1214. * <fixcrlf> will not remove trailing whitespace at the end of lines anymore.
  1215. * The Classloader usage has been changed for the taskdef, property, available
  1216. and sql tasks so that it delegates to the parent classloader. This may cause
  1217. ClassNotFoundExceptions to be thrown if a system class attempts to load a
  1218. class in the taskdef's classpath (typically factory objects).
  1219. * Ant now allows multithreading of tasks and the containment of tasks within
  1220. other tasks. This can break customer listeners which do not expect messages
  1221. from a task before the previous task has finished.
  1222. * Ant now installs its own ouput stream into System.out to route output to the
  1223. task currently executing on the current thread. This also means that all
  1224. output is now routed as Ant message events. Customer listeners and loggers
  1225. should not call System.out at any time. This has always been true but such
  1226. usage now will cause problems due to possible recursion.
  1227. * Invalid manifest files will now cause build failures in the <jar> task.
  1228. * Ant Introspection now looks for methods with method names starting with
  1229. addConfigured. When called these methods are passed an argument after it has
  1230. been configured from the build file. Custom tasks supporting nested elements
  1231. starting with the name configured will no longer function.
  1232. * The environment variable JAVACMD that can be used to specify the
  1233. java executable to Ant's wrapper scripts must not contain additional
  1234. command line parameters any longer - please use the environment
  1235. variable ANT_OPTS for such parameters now.
  1236. * Ant's wrapper scripts now quote the CLASSPATH environment variable, thus
  1237. supporting classpaths which refer to directories containing spaces. This means
  1238. that the CLASSPATH environment variable cannot have quotes. Any quotes should
  1239. be removed. This will not affect the operation of the CLASSPATH environment
  1240. variable in other contexts.
  1241. * A delete task like
  1242. <delete includeEmptyFilesets="true">
  1243. <fileset dir="somedir" />
  1244. </delete>
  1245. will now remove "somedir" as well, unless there are still files left
  1246. in it (matched by the default excludes).
  1247. * The copy task will now fail if the file to be copied is not found.
  1248. * Ant properties defined in properties files now behave the same way as
  1249. properties defined in the build file. In particular the $ character needs
  1250. to be escaped in property values by doubling it to $$. So, to define a
  1251. property with the value $hello, you need to define it in a properties file
  1252. as
  1253. test.prop=$$hello
  1254. This was not the case in Ant 1.3
  1255. Other changes:
  1256. --------------
  1257. * New tasks: ear, p4counter, record, cvspass, vsscheckin, vsscheckout,
  1258. typedef, sleep, mimemail, set of tasks for Continuus/Synergy, dependset,
  1259. condition, maudit, mmetrics, jpcoverage, jpcovreport, jpcovmerge
  1260. * Ant now uses JAXP 1.1
  1261. * rmic now supports Kaffe's and Weblogic's version of rmic.
  1262. * new magic property build.rmic to chose the rmic implementation
  1263. * <tar> will now add empty directories as well
  1264. * you can now specify a description for <p4change>
  1265. * <touch> can now work on <fileset>s
  1266. * <uptodate> now supports a value attribute
  1267. * <fail> supports nested text
  1268. * <fixcrlf> won't override files that are already in the correct
  1269. format.
  1270. * <sql> now supports REM comments as well as // and --
  1271. * <jar> now has a nested <metainf> element following the same idea as
  1272. <war>'s <webinf>.
  1273. * <pvcs> can now handle multiple projects.
  1274. * <available> now has a "type" attribute you can use in conjunction
  1275. with the "file" attribute to specify whether the "file" you're
  1276. looking for is a file or a directory.
  1277. * New <junit> formatter named "brief"
  1278. * <ejbjar> changes
  1279. * Add support for Borland Application Server to the <ejbjar> task using
  1280. a <borland> nested element.
  1281. * Add support for iPlanet Application Server to the <ejbjar> task. Also
  1282. includes some iPlanet utility tasks
  1283. * Add support for JBoss Application Server to the <ejbjar> task.
  1284. * Add a naming attribute to control the naming scheme that
  1285. ejbjar uses to name the generated EJB jars.
  1286. * Weblogic element now sets the compiler class for EJB 2.0 beans
  1287. * <dtd> elements can be specified at the <ejbjar> level for building generic
  1288. beans
  1289. * <dtd> elements can now be URLs
  1290. * Allow the manifest to be specified for the generated jars
  1291. * The weblogic element now supprts an attribte noEJBC to skip the processing
  1292. of the jar by ejbc. The ejbc step will then occur at deployment
  1293. * weblogic will tell ejbc to use Jikes compiler if build.compiler is set to
  1294. jikes. It can be restored to the default, javac, operation if desired.
  1295. * Allow the <sql> Delimiter to be set in the so that Oracle stored procs may be
  1296. entered
  1297. * <execon> and <apply> can now optionally skip empty filesets.
  1298. * <javadoc> has a new useexternalfile attribute that makes it use a
  1299. temporary file for sourcefile and package names - helps to defeat
  1300. command line length limitations.
  1301. * Data types like <path> can now be defined inside of <target>s
  1302. * you can now specify a classpath for <style> - the XSLZ processor
  1303. will be loaded from this path
  1304. * added a force attribute to <style> to support dependencies that the
  1305. task cannot determine itself (dependency on parameters, not file
  1306. modification times for example)
  1307. * added vmlauncher attribute to exec tasks. This defaults to true. If
  1308. it is set to false, the VM's ability to launch commands in bypassed
  1309. and the OS shell, either directly or through the auxillary antRun
  1310. scripts is used.
  1311. * regexp mapper now supports the java.util.regex package of JDK 1.4.
  1312. * New filesonly attribute for <zip> and friends to suppress directory
  1313. entries.
  1314. * New update attribute for <zip> and friends - update an existing
  1315. archive instead of creating a new one.
  1316. * <apply> and <execon> have been merged into a single task.
  1317. * added vssver.scc to the default excludes
  1318. * <available> has a new filepath attribute/nested element that allows
  1319. you top search for a file in a given path.
  1320. * <junit> can now optionally set a property on test failure.
  1321. * <taskdef> can now define several tasks at once, reading the
  1322. name/classname pairs from a property file or resource.
  1323. * <unzip/unjar/unwar> and <untar> now have an overwrite attribute that
  1324. defaults to true. If set to false, files that are newer than the
  1325. files in the archive will not be replaced.
  1326. * <patternset> and <fileset> now support nested <in/excludesfile>
  1327. elements - using these you can have more than one in/excludes file
  1328. per <patternset>.
  1329. * Three new supported compilers for javac: kjc for kopi, gcj for the
  1330. gcc frontend and sj for Symantec's compiler.
  1331. In addition extJavac or the new fork attribute can be
  1332. used to run the JDK's javac in a JVM separate from Ant.
  1333. * <fixrlf> can now with CR only line-ends and can use an arbitraty
  1334. between 2 and 80.
  1335. * The .NET tasks have been adapted to the beta2 release of the framework.
  1336. * <move> will now try to rename() files before copying them byte by
  1337. byte - only if filtering is of, of course.
  1338. * <ant> and <antcall> tasks now support a new attribute inheritAll. When set to
  1339. false, only user properties are passed through to the target Ant instance.
  1340. This includes properties set on the command line and properties explicitly
  1341. passed
  1342. * <javadoc> now skips off line links if the package list cannot be found.
  1343. * <wlrun> now allows the security policy file to exist outside the weblogic
  1344. directory.
  1345. * <java> task will set the Thread contextClassLoader under JDKs 1.2+ to the
  1346. classloader for the class being executed.
  1347. * Introduce the concept of a TaskContainer - a task or element which can contain
  1348. Ant Tasks.
  1349. * Add new tasks implementing the TaskContainer interface <parallel> and
  1350. <sequential> which allow parallel execution of tasks to be specified.
  1351. * <depend> task will now take into account dependencies on jar files and class
  1352. files from a given classpath.
  1353. * <jar> manifest entries may now be specified in the build file either
  1354. completely or to be merged with a manifest file.
  1355. * <tstamp> task custom formats now support locales.
  1356. * Added a listner which will forward events to Log4J. The log4j configuration
  1357. file should be in the directory from which Ant is run or passed as a system
  1358. property using a JVM argument.
  1359. * Introduced the concept of <filtersets> to allow for more control in which
  1360. filters get applied in a <copy> or <move> operation.
  1361. * Added nowarn attribute to javac and deprecated the Jikes-magic property
  1362. build.compiler.warnings.
  1363. * The <depend> task cache format has changed and all dependency information is
  1364. now stored in a single file.
  1365. Fixed bugs:
  1366. -----------
  1367. * Testcases have been made independent of current working directory.
  1368. * Input ZIP-Files will be closed when using a <zipfileset>.
  1369. * p4 tasks now don't fail if user, port or client have been omitted
  1370. (and this is acceptable for the context of the command).
  1371. * <javah>'s outputfile attribute will be resolved as relative to the
  1372. projects basedir.
  1373. * <antstructure> should create a valid DTD for propertyfile.operation.entry
  1374. and omit tasks it fails to load.
  1375. * won't try to pass a -bootclasspath flag to javac 1.1 anymore
  1376. * <style>'s style attribute no handles absolute paths correctly.
  1377. * <delete includeemptydirs="true"> now deletes more than just the leaf
  1378. directories.
  1379. * You can now specify a <fileset> for a directory that doesn't exist at
  1380. declaration time but will created before the fileset gets used for the
  1381. first time.
  1382. * If the quiet attribute has been set, <delete> will handle <fileset>s
  1383. with non-existing directories gracefully.
  1384. * Output written by testcases will now be captured by the <junit> task
  1385. and passed to the formatters.
  1386. * Quote the -group parameter to Javadoc as per the specification
  1387. * Initialise classes when loaded through the AntClassLoader - that is, run
  1388. static initializers
  1389. * Implement getResource() and getResources() in AntClassLoader
  1390. * Create the <ejbjar> weblogic command line as a set of arguments rather than
  1391. as a single line. Avoids problems with paths which contain spaces.
  1392. * <ejbjar> now fails when the weblogic ejbc compiler reports an error.
  1393. * Make the AntClassLoader load resources in the same order as it currently
  1394. loads classes.
  1395. * Handle classpaths with spaces
  1396. * Make sure XSLT processors close their output files in <style>.
  1397. * perform proper uptodate check in <rmic> when compiling for IIOP.
  1398. * <jjtree>'s uptodate test works even if outputdirectory is not the
  1399. parent dir of target
  1400. * <copy> will remove target file (if it exists) before writing to it -
  1401. this avoids problems with links on filesystems that support them.
  1402. * <ftp> now properly recurses remote directories.
  1403. * <ftp> closes remote connection when it's done.
  1404. * <junit> tries to include all necessary classes for the task itself
  1405. to the classpath when running in fork mode - doesn't work for JDK 1.1
  1406. * <apply> and <execon> do now execute the command only once, if you
  1407. specify the parallel attribute - instead of once per fileset.
  1408. * directory based tasks and fileset could miss some included files in
  1409. directories that have been excluded
  1410. * <fixcrlf> failed for large files.
  1411. * <move> removed files you tried to move to themselves.
  1412. * <sql> task will not trty to print the result set unless the query succeeded.
  1413. * Ant classloader will now ignore paths which are invalid relative to the
  1414. project base
  1415. * <ejbjar> weblogic elements check for jar file changes has been fixed.
  1416. Previously some changes would not be included.
  1417. * properties loaded from properties files are now resolved internally. This
  1418. removes the spurious warnings about usage of properties which have not been
  1419. set.
  1420. * <jar> task and friends now process the JAR manifest to ensure it is valid.
  1421. * The task finished event now includes any exception thrown by the task.
  1422. * <java> task now supports a jvmVersion attribute so that if another JVM is
  1423. being used, Ant can determine which options to use for features such as the
  1424. VM memory limits
  1425. Changes from Ant 1.2 to Ant 1.3
  1426. ===========================================
  1427. Changes that could break older environments:
  1428. --------------------------------------------
  1429. * Ant doesn't search for the buildfile anymore, unless you use the new
  1430. -find argument.
  1431. * <perforce> has been replaced by a number of new tasks.
  1432. * <javac> is now implemented using a factory. This makes extending
  1433. javac to use a new compiler a lot easier but may break custom
  1434. versions of this task that rely on the old implementation.
  1435. * The output generated by the xml formatter for <junit> has changed a
  1436. little, it doesn't append " sec" in the time attribute anymore.
  1437. Other changes:
  1438. --------------
  1439. * A GUI Frontend: Antidote. This is currently in development. At this
  1440. time, this is not part of the Ant release, although the source is
  1441. included if you are interested.
  1442. * New tasks: stylebook, propertyfile, depend, antlr, telnet, csc,
  1443. ilasm, apply, javah, several clearcase tasks, junitreport, sound
  1444. * Added output attribute to <java>.
  1445. * Added nested zipfileset element to <zip>
  1446. * Changed <sql> so that printing is at the task level rather than
  1447. the statement level.
  1448. * javadoc task will pass -d flag to any doclet if the destDir attribute is
  1449. given. If the doclet does not accept the -d flag then omit the destdir
  1450. attribute.
  1451. * <cab> can work on non-Windows platforms with the help of libcabinet.
  1452. See http://trill.cis.fordham.edu/~barbacha/cabinet_library/.
  1453. * <ftp> now supports passive mode.
  1454. * New <mapper> data type that can be used to get influence on the
  1455. target files for some tasks like <copy> or enable new types of tasks
  1456. like <apply>.
  1457. * <execon> provides more control over the command line now, the names
  1458. of the source files are no longer required to be at the end of the
  1459. command.
  1460. * Style tasks will now support TraX compliant XSL processors if one is present
  1461. in your classpath.
  1462. * Added a failonerror to the javac task. If set to false, the build will
  1463. continue even if there are compilation errors.
  1464. * Added nested format elements to the tstamp task allowing additional time
  1465. formats to be defined for arbitrary properties.
  1466. * Added classpath attribute and nested classpath element to <property>
  1467. to make the resource attribute more powerful.
  1468. * ${} property expansion will now be performed on the patterns read
  1469. from files specified as includesfile or excludesfile attributes.
  1470. * The <tar> and <untar> tasks now support GNU format for handling paths
  1471. which are greater than 100 characters in length. In addition the <tar>
  1472. task now supports nested filesets through which the file permissions
  1473. may be controlled.
  1474. * wlrun, wlstop and ejbjar now support Weblogic 6.0
  1475. * The MPasre task has been updated to work with MParse 2.0
  1476. * The documentation has been significantly updated.
  1477. Fixed bugs:
  1478. -----------
  1479. * <signjar> doesn't use deprectated methods anymore.
  1480. * javadoc's failonerror attribute works again
  1481. * javadoc's additionalparam attribute will now be split into separate
  1482. parameters (on spaces) to allow for more than one parameter.
  1483. * Changed <sql> task so that printing result sets works on Oracle
  1484. * Changes to ddcreator and ejbc helper to respect the descriptor hierarchy
  1485. keppgenerated in ejbc can now be turned off
  1486. * ejbjar now correctly ignores <ejb-ref> elements in the deployment descriptor.
  1487. CMP files are included by parsing the weblogic deployment descriptor rather
  1488. than relying on the naming convention used in ant 1.2
  1489. * ejbjar includes super classes and super interfaces into the generated ejb
  1490. jar files. The <support> nested element allows support classes to be
  1491. included in the EJB jar. The toplink element should now correctly locate
  1492. the toplink descriptor.
  1493. * <vssget> now correctly deals with spaces in arguments
  1494. * <jar> fails early if a given manifest file doesn't exist
  1495. * <rmic> doesn't search for the _Skel file anymore when stubversion is
  1496. set to 1.2.
  1497. * <rmic> uses the the same classpath to verify a class can be rmic'd
  1498. as it passes to the compiler.
  1499. * org.apache.tools.mail.MailMessage (and therefore <mail>) can now
  1500. handle SMTP servers sending multi line responses.
  1501. * nested <classpath> elements of <taskdef> now work for <taskdef>s not
  1502. nested into <target> as well.
  1503. * <property> and <available> will search for the resource "foo" instead
  1504. of "/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/foo" when given a relative resource
  1505. name foo.
  1506. * Handle build files in directories whose name contained a "#" character
  1507. * <junit> can now log to files whose name contains a comma as well.
  1508. * The AntClassLoader now refers to the loader which loaded it, any
  1509. requests it does not handle itself. Previously these went to the
  1510. primordial loader.
  1511. Changes from Ant 1.1 to Ant 1.2
  1512. ===============================
  1513. Changes that could break older environments:
  1514. --------------------------------------------
  1515. * Semantics of <property> has changed again in the hope to be more
  1516. intuitive. ${} expansion now happens at runtime and <property> tags
  1517. living inside of targets only take effect if they are visited at
  1518. runtime.
  1519. As a side effect of this change, task's attributes get set at runtime
  1520. not at parser time as well, which might change the results of
  1521. <script>s or other custom tasks that reference other tasks by their id
  1522. attribute.
  1523. * copying of support files in <javac> has been removed - as well as
  1524. the filtering attribute.
  1525. * the <expand> and <keysubst> tasks have been removed.
  1526. * the ignore and items attributes of directory based tasks have been removed.
  1527. * the command line switches _not_ starting with - have been removed.
  1528. * Path and EnumeratedAttribute have been moved from
  1529. org.apache.tools.ant to org.apache.tools.ant.types.
  1530. * the class attributes of <available>, <java>, <rmic> and <taskdef>
  1531. have been removed.
  1532. * the src attribute of <chmod> has been removed.
  1533. * <patch> and <javadoc> have lost some of their attributes.
  1534. * <java> and <cvs> have lost some undocumented attributes.
  1535. * the Unix antRun script would search for command.sh in the directory
  1536. it changed to and invoke this instead of command if present. This
  1537. behavior has been dropped.
  1538. * <ejbjar> task syntax has been changed significantly
  1539. * <exec> is no longer implemented by org.apache.tool.ant.taskdefs.Exec.
  1540. Custom tasks that rely on Project.createTask("exec") to return an
  1541. instance of this class are going to fail.
  1542. * nested <include> and <exclude> elements expect the value of their
  1543. name attribute to be a single pattern, they don't accept multiple
  1544. patterns anymore. Split them into multiple elements of the same type.
  1545. * <delete dir="somedir" /> will now delete the directory itself as
  1546. well as all included files. If you just want to clean out the
  1547. directory and keep the empty one, use a nested fileset.
  1548. Other changes:
  1549. --------------
  1550. * New tasks: antstructure, cab, execon, fail, ftp, genkey, jlink,
  1551. junit, sql, javacc, jjtree, starteam, war, unwar, uptodate,
  1552. native2ascii, copy, move, mparse.
  1553. * copydir, copyfile, deltree and rename are now deprecated. They
  1554. should be replaced with the new copy, delete and move tasks.
  1555. * <java> uses a ClassLoader of its own in no-fork mode if a classpath is
  1556. specified.
  1557. * <style> will create the necessary target directories and reprocess
  1558. all files if the stylesheet changes.
  1559. * New data types fileset and patternset - expected to get a broader use.
  1560. They, as well as PATH like structures, can now be defined on a global
  1561. level and later be referenced by their id attribute.
  1562. * You can specify environment variables to <exec>.
  1563. * <get> can check whether a remote file is actually newer than a local
  1564. copy before it starts a download (HTTP only).
  1565. * Added a -logger option to allow the class which performs logging to be
  1566. specified on the command line.
  1567. * Added a -emacs option to tell the logger to leave out taskname adornments
  1568. on log output.
  1569. * <chmod> works on all files in parallel and supports multiple filesets.
  1570. * <replace> can now use tokens and/or values that cross line boundaries.
  1571. * build.compiler supports now jvc as well.
  1572. * project specific help can now be obtained with the -projecthelp option.
  1573. * Added a -debug option to make -verbose less verbose (and more useful)
  1574. * Ant will now search for a file named build.xml in the parent directory
  1575. and above (towards the root of the filesystem) if you didn't specify
  1576. -buildfile and there is no build.xml in the current directory.
  1577. * <echo> can now write to a file and accepts nested text.
  1578. Fixed bugs:
  1579. -----------
  1580. * <chmod> didn't work when used as a directory based task.
  1581. * Path, Available, Property didn't resolve relative filenames with
  1582. respect to the Project's basedir.
  1583. * Project didn't interpret the basedir attribute correctly in all
  1584. cases.
  1585. * Nested <src> in <javac> caused NullPointerException.
  1586. * Corrupt Zip- and Jar-files ar now deleted if the task fails.
  1587. * many more fixes we've forgotten to document here ...
  1588. * The packagelistloc attribute of <javadoc>'s <link> child will be
  1589. resolved as a file (i.e. it is either absolute or relative to
  1590. basedir).