@@ -19,43 +19,21 @@ Changes that could break older environments:
* <xmlproperty> will no longer fail if the file to be loaded doesn't exist.
* ZipScanner#getIncludedFiles will now return the names of the ZipEntries
that have been matched instead of the name of the archive.
* XML namespaces are now enabled in the XML parser, meaning XML namespace
declarations no longer cause errors.
* The <zip> task and friends have been heavily modified, almost every
method signature of the Zip class has changed. If you have subclassed
Zip (or one of its subclasses), your class will most likely not
compile against the current code base. If it still compiles, it will
probably not work as in Ant 1.5.1.
* The <ftp> and <telnet> tasks now require Jakarta Commons Net instead
of the older ORO Netcomponents version. See
<http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/net/index.html>.
Fixed bugs:
-----------
* <translate> was not ignoring comment lines.
* Expand tasks did not behave as expected with PatternSets.
* <property environment=... /> now works on OS/400.
* <manifest> wouldn't update an existing manifest if only an attribute
of an existing section changed.
* ant.bat now supports the ANT_ARGS and JAVACMD environment variables
again (like Ant 1.5 did).
* The "plain" <junit> <formatter> could throw a NullPointerException
if an error occured in setUp.
* <cab> could hang listcab on large <fileset>s.
* <junit> will now produce output when a test times out as well.
* The starteam stcheckout, stcheckin tasks now correctly compute
status of files against whatever local tree they are run against
and, optionally, will not process a file if it is current.
@@ -64,55 +42,13 @@ Fixed bugs:
The stlist task now similarly displays that status correctly making
it a more generally useful tool.
* <replace> would count some internal character replacements when
reporting the number of replaced tokens.
* <concat> would cause an exception if a <filelist> pointed to files
that do not exist.
* <javadoc> will now pass -source to custom doclets as well.
* <cvstagdiff> would throw a NullPointException if there had been no
differences.
* <cvschangelog> could miss today's changes.
* entity includes would cause exceptions if path names included spaces.
* <concat> could append newline characters between concatenated files.
* <xmlvalidate> ignored the specified encoding of the files to
validate.
* the errorsbeginat attribute of the <http> condition didn't work.
* Ant will try to force loading of certain packages like com.sun.*
from the system classloader. The packages are determined by the
version of the JVM running Ant.
* Ant didn't find the runtime libraries on IBM's JDK 1.4 for Linux.
* addConfiguredXXX would not work for TaskAdapter wrapped tasks
* random component of temporary files is now always a positive integer.
* Fix <ilasm> outputfile testing so that the output file does not need
to exist beforehand.
* Ant could incorrectly try to use the 1.4 regexp implementation even
if it isn't available if you run the JVM with -Xverify:none.
* Ant would die with an exception if you used nested <reference>
elements in Ant and the refid attribute didn't point to an existing
project reference.
* The <get> task can now be compiled (and Ant thus bootstrapped) using
Kaffee.
* build.sysclasspath will now be honored by more tasks.
* <jar update="true"> would remove the original manifest.
* Ant will now exit with a return code of 1 if it encounters problems
with the command line arguments.
@@ -130,15 +66,6 @@ Fixed bugs:
* <exec> output and error streams can now be redirected independently
to either a property or a file (or both)
* <tar>'s up-to-date check didn't work for nested <(tar)fileset>s.
* <exec> now supports OS/2.
* <zip> and friends would only update/recreate existing archives if
the files to add/update have been newer than the archive.
* <javadoc>'s <link> element could fail for offline="true" on some JDKs.
Other changes:
--------------
* The filesetmanifest attribute of <jar> has been reenabled.
@@ -197,19 +124,12 @@ Other changes:
* new task <attrib> to change file attributes on Windows systems.
* MailLogger now sets the Date header correctly.
* Shipped XML parser is now Xerces 2.3.0
* <style> has a new attribute reloadstylesheet to work around a
bug in widespread Xalan versions.
* <tarfileset> has a new dirmode attribute to specify the permissions
for directories.
* <zip> can now store Unix permissions in a way that can be
reconstructed by Info-Zip's unzip command.
* <fixcrlf>'s eol attribute now also understand "mac", "unix" and "dos".
* <classfileset> now picks up dependencies of the form MyClass.class. This
@@ -237,6 +157,128 @@ Other changes:
* The <javadoc> task <tag> subelement has been enhanced to allow files
with tag mappings to be used.
Changes from Ant 1.5.1 to Ant 1.5.2
=============================================
Changes that could break older environments:
--------------------------------------------
* ANT_OPTS environment variable is now applied at the start of the
Java command line, allowing position specific parameters of some
JVMs, such as -classic to be specified.
* ZipScanner#getIncludedFiles will now return the names of the ZipEntries
that have been matched instead of the name of the archive.
* The <zip> task and friends have been heavily modified, almost every
method signature of the Zip class has changed. If you have subclassed
Zip (or one of its subclasses), your class will most likely not
compile against the current code base. If it still compiles, it will
probably not work as in Ant 1.5.1.
Fixed bugs:
-----------
* <translate> was not ignoring comment lines.
* <manifest> wouldn't update an existing manifest if only an attribute
of an existing section changed.
* ant.bat now supports the ANT_ARGS and JAVACMD environment variables
again (like Ant 1.5 did).
* The "plain" <junit> <formatter> could throw a NullPointerException
if an error occured in setUp.
* <junit> will now produce output when a test times out as well.
* <replace> would count some internal character replacements when
reporting the number of replaced tokens.
* <concat> would cause an exception if a <filelist> pointed to files
that do not exist.
* <javadoc> will now pass -source to custom doclets as well.
* <cvstagdiff> would throw a NullPointException if there had been no
differences.
* <cvschangelog> could miss today's changes.
* <concat> could append newline characters between concatenated files.
* <xmlvalidate> ignored the specified encoding of the files to
validate.
* the errorsbeginat attribute of the <http> condition didn't work.
* Ant will try to force loading of certain packages like com.sun.*
from the system classloader. The packages are determined by the
version of the JVM running Ant.
* Ant didn't find the runtime libraries on IBM's JDK 1.4 for Linux.
* random component of temporary files is now always a positive integer.
* Ant could incorrectly try to use the 1.4 regexp implementation even
if it isn't available if you run the JVM with -Xverify:none.
* Ant would die with an exception if you used nested <reference>
elements in Ant and the refid attribute didn't point to an existing
project reference.
* The <get> task can now be compiled (and Ant thus bootstrapped) using
Kaffee.
* build.sysclasspath will now be honored by more tasks.
* The signjar keystore attribute has been reverted to a String allowing
it to once again accept URLs. This should not affect current File based usage
unless you are extending the Signjar task.
* <jar update="true"> would remove the original manifest.
* fix up folder creation in PVCS task
* <tar>'s up-to-date check didn't work for nested <(tar)fileset>s.
* Corrected a problem in XMLLogger where it would not associated
messages with a taskdef'd task
* <uptodate> now works when using attributes (i.e. not filesets) and pointing
to the same file
* Java task (and output system) now stores output which doos not end
with a line feed.
* splash screen wouldn't disappear when build was finished.
* <exec> now supports OS/2.
* <zip> and friends would only update/recreate existing archives if
the files to add/update have been newer than the archive.
* <javadoc>'s <link> element could fail for offline="true" on some JDKs.
Other changes:
--------------
* MailLogger now sets the Date header correctly.
* Shipped XML parser is now Xerces 2.3.0
* signjar now accepts a maxmemory attribute to allow the memory allocated to the
jarsigner tool to be specified. The jarsigner from the JDK's JAVA_HOME bin
dir is now used rather than the first jarsigner on the path.
* **/.DS_Store has been added to the list of default pattern excludes.
* The Created-By header in the default manifest now contains the JVM
vendor and version according to the jar specification. A new header,
Ant-Version provides the Ant version used to create the jar.
* <zip> can now store Unix permissions in a way that can be
reconstructed by Info-Zip's unzip command.
Changes from Ant 1.5.1Beta1 to 1.5.1
====================================
Conor MacNeill