diff --git a/docs/antnews.html b/docs/antnews.html
index d67ecd8e6..2a4371756 100644
--- a/docs/antnews.html
+++ b/docs/antnews.html
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@
       <a name="Apache Ant 1.8.2"></a>
       Apache Ant 1.8.2
     </h3>
-                        <h3>December 20th, 2010 - Apache Ant 1.8.2 Released</h3>
+                        <h3>December 27th, 2010 - Apache Ant 1.8.2 Released</h3>
                                 <p>Apache Ant 1.8.2 is now available for download as source or binary (with and without
       dependencies) from
       <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi</a>.</p>
diff --git a/docs/bindownload.html b/docs/bindownload.html
index 23fcc7614..5ab8390ac 100644
--- a/docs/bindownload.html
+++ b/docs/bindownload.html
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ Other mirrors: <select name="Preferred">
 <a href="[preferred]/ant/README.html">release notes</a>.</p>
                                 <div class="warning">
 <div class="label">Note</div>
-<div class="content">Ant 1.8.2 was released on 20-December-2010 and
+<div class="content">Ant 1.8.2 was released on 27-December-2010 and
 may not be available on all mirrors for a few days.</div>
 </div>
                                 <br />
diff --git a/docs/faq.html b/docs/faq.html
index a28c9b948..0ef115dba 100644
--- a/docs/faq.html
+++ b/docs/faq.html
@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@
       </td>
                           <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
       valign="top" align="left">
-          20 December 2010
+          27 December 2010
       </td>
       </tr>
           </table>
diff --git a/docs/index.html b/docs/index.html
index dd77d299e..ff6b6bbad 100644
--- a/docs/index.html
+++ b/docs/index.html
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@
       <a name="Apache Ant1.8.2"></a>
       Apache Ant1.8.2
     </h3>
-                        <h3>December 20th, 2010 - Apache Ant 1.8.2 Released</h3>
+                        <h3>December 27th, 2010 - Apache Ant 1.8.2 Released</h3>
                                 <p>Apache Ant 1.8.2 is now available for download as source or binary (with and without
       dependencies) from
       <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi</a>.</p>
diff --git a/docs/manualdownload.html b/docs/manualdownload.html
index ccd857d51..b5af19e50 100644
--- a/docs/manualdownload.html
+++ b/docs/manualdownload.html
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ Other mirrors: <select name="Preferred">
 <a href="[preferred]/ant/README.html">release notes</a>.</p>
                                 <div class="warning">
 <div class="label">Note</div>
-<div class="content">Ant 1.8.2 was released on 7-May-2010 and
+<div class="content">Ant 1.8.2 was released on 27-December-2010 and
 may not be available on all mirrors for a few days.</div>
 </div>
                                 <br />
diff --git a/docs/srcdownload.html b/docs/srcdownload.html
index 2b490f27d..7600ed887 100644
--- a/docs/srcdownload.html
+++ b/docs/srcdownload.html
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ Other mirrors: <select name="Preferred">
 <a href="[preferred]/ant/README.html">release notes</a>.</p>
                                 <div class="warning">
 <div class="label">Note</div>
-<div class="content">Ant 1.8.2 was released on 20-December-2010 and
+<div class="content">Ant 1.8.2 was released on 27-December-2010 and
 may not be available on all mirrors for a few days.</div>
 </div>
                                 <br />
diff --git a/release/signit.xml b/release/signit.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..81d0ddd05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release/signit.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<project name="signit">
+  <!-- use this property file to enter your default key id -->
+  <property file="${user.home}/gnupg.properties"/>
+  <taskdef resource="org/apache/commons/openpgp/ant/antlib.xml">
+    <classpath>
+      <pathelement
+        location="${user.home}/.m2/repository/org/bouncycastle/bcprov-jdk12/130/bcprov-jdk12-130.jar"/>
+      <pathelement
+        location="${user.home}/.m2/repository/org/apache/commons/commons-openpgp/1.0-SNAPSHOT/commons-openpgp-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar"/>
+      <pathelement
+        location="${user.home}/.m2/repository/org/bouncycastle/bcpg-jdk12/130/bcpg-jdk12-130.jar"/>
+    </classpath>
+  </taskdef>
+  <signer secring="${user.home}/AppData/Roaming/gnupg/secring.gpg"
+    pubring="${user.home}/AppData/Roaming/gnupg/pubring.gpg" password="${password}" keyid="${keyid}">
+    <fileset dir="../java-repository">
+      <include name="**/*.jar"/>
+      <include name="**/*.pom"/>
+    </fileset>
+    <fileset dir="../distribution">
+      <include name="**/*.bz2"/>
+      <include name="**/*.zip"/>
+      <include name="**/*.gz"/>
+    </fileset>
+  </signer>
+
+</project>
diff --git a/xdocs/antnews.xml b/xdocs/antnews.xml
index 6d931e626..8a1a26cdc 100644
--- a/xdocs/antnews.xml
+++ b/xdocs/antnews.xml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 
 <body>
   <section name="Apache Ant 1.8.2">
-    <h3>December 20th, 2010 - Apache Ant 1.8.2 Released</h3>
+    <h3>December 27th, 2010 - Apache Ant 1.8.2 Released</h3>
     <p>Apache Ant 1.8.2 is now available for download as source or binary (with and without
       dependencies) from
       <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi</a>.</p>
diff --git a/xdocs/bindownload.xml b/xdocs/bindownload.xml
index c3883381d..3bf528b33 100644
--- a/xdocs/bindownload.xml
+++ b/xdocs/bindownload.xml
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Other mirrors: <select name="Preferred">
 
 <div class="warning">
 <div class="label">Note</div>
-<div class="content">Ant 1.8.2 was released on 20-December-2010 and
+<div class="content">Ant 1.8.2 was released on 27-December-2010 and
 may not be available on all mirrors for a few days.</div>
 </div>
 <br></br>
diff --git a/xdocs/faq.xml b/xdocs/faq.xml
index 357b4f05d..055c2132d 100644
--- a/xdocs/faq.xml
+++ b/xdocs/faq.xml
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@
           </tr>
           <tr>
             <td>1.8.2</td>
-            <td>20 December 2010</td>
+            <td>27 December 2010</td>
           </tr>
         </table>
       </answer>
diff --git a/xdocs/index.xml b/xdocs/index.xml
index d6315b972..f8f684b9c 100644
--- a/xdocs/index.xml
+++ b/xdocs/index.xml
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
   </section>
 
   <section name="Apache Ant1.8.2">
-    <h3>December 20th, 2010 - Apache Ant 1.8.2 Released</h3>
+    <h3>December 27th, 2010 - Apache Ant 1.8.2 Released</h3>
     <p>Apache Ant 1.8.2 is now available for download as source or binary (with and without
       dependencies) from
       <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi</a>.</p>
diff --git a/xdocs/manualdownload.xml b/xdocs/manualdownload.xml
index beafd2e5b..5dd798610 100644
--- a/xdocs/manualdownload.xml
+++ b/xdocs/manualdownload.xml
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Other mirrors: <select name="Preferred">
 
 <div class="warning">
 <div class="label">Note</div>
-<div class="content">Ant 1.8.2 was released on 7-May-2010 and
+<div class="content">Ant 1.8.2 was released on 27-December-2010 and
 may not be available on all mirrors for a few days.</div>
 </div>
 <br></br>
diff --git a/xdocs/srcdownload.xml b/xdocs/srcdownload.xml
index cf0b75e4d..927c8339b 100644
--- a/xdocs/srcdownload.xml
+++ b/xdocs/srcdownload.xml
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ Other mirrors: <select name="Preferred">
 
 <div class="warning">
 <div class="label">Note</div>
-<div class="content">Ant 1.8.2 was released on 20-December-2010 and
+<div class="content">Ant 1.8.2 was released on 27-December-2010 and
 may not be available on all mirrors for a few days.</div>
 </div>
 <br></br>