diff --git a/docs/manual/OptionalTasks/ftp.html b/docs/manual/OptionalTasks/ftp.html
index 6d2afabbb..c76a67583 100644
--- a/docs/manual/OptionalTasks/ftp.html
+++ b/docs/manual/OptionalTasks/ftp.html
@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ a firewall via socks.
 <b>Use of the FTP task with Microsoft FTP servers
 </b>
 <p>
-To use the FTP task with Microsoft FTP servers, you need a build of commons-net and of
-jakarta-oro coming from the CVS HEAD of these two projects.
-It is expected that the commons-net 1.2.0 release will fix these issues.
+To use the FTP task with Microsoft FTP servers, 
+you need CVS HEAD of commons-net and jakarta-oro after 2004-02-01 
+or a release of commons-net after 1.1.0 and jakarta-oro after 2.0.8.
 </p>
 <b>Warning: </b> there have been problems reported concerning the ftp get with newer attribute.
 Problems might be due to format of ls -l differing from what is expected by commons-net,
diff --git a/docs/manual/install.html b/docs/manual/install.html
index 8a946b847..49ee3ecbf 100644
--- a/docs/manual/install.html
+++ b/docs/manual/install.html
@@ -304,7 +304,8 @@ Installing Ant / Optional Tasks</a> section above.</p>
     <td>jakarta-oro-2.0.7.jar</td>
     <td>regexp type with mappers and the perforce tasks<br>
     For the use of the FTP task together with MS FTP servers,
-    you need a fresh build of jakarta-oro coming from CVS HEAD</td>
+    you need CVS HEAD of commons-net and jakarta-oro after 2004-02-01 
+or a release of commons-net after 1.1.0 and jakarta-oro after 2.0.8</td>
     <td><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/" target="_top">http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/</a></td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
@@ -402,8 +403,8 @@ Installing Ant / Optional Tasks</a> section above.</p>
   <tr>
     <td>commons-net.jar</td>
     <td>ftp, rexec and telnet tasks<br>
-    In order to interact successfully with a MS FTP server, you need a build of commons-net coming from the commons-net CVS Head.<br>
-    You will also need a build of jakarta-oro coming from the CVS HEAD.<br>
+    In order to interact successfully with a MS FTP server, you need CVS HEAD of commons-net and jakarta-oro after 2004-02-01 
+or a release of commons-net after 1.1.0 and jakarta-oro after 2.0.8.<br>
     </td>
     <td><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/net/index.html"
            target="_top">http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/net/index.html</a></td>