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document that"$"->"$"; retaining "$$"->"$"

...I think new items should go below this one


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@@ -4,6 +4,14 @@ Changes from Ant 1.4.1 to current CVS version
Changes that could break older environments:
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* Important: Single $ signs are no longer silently stripped!
Before you panic that we have broken all your build files, we have kept
the old "$$" -> "$" behaviour. So only build files which accidentally had
a $ sign in a string that was being silently stripped may break.
We added this fix to stop newbie confusion; if you want to write a
build file which works on ant versions 1.4.1 or earlier, stay with
the double $$ sign rule.
* <telnet> was fixed to expand properties inside nested <read> and
<write> elements; before this only happened when you assigned the text
to the string attribute. If you had $ signs in the string, they may


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