From 5bb770730d2878973b1ceaded05bcb71b028353d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve Loughran Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 05:48:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] document that"$"->"$"; retaining "$$"->"$" ...I think new items should go below this one git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@272448 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- WHATSNEW | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index 44ed7baea..ef8e9dc76 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -4,6 +4,14 @@ Changes from Ant 1.4.1 to current CVS version Changes that could break older environments: -------------------------------------------- +* Important: Single $ signs are no longer silently stripped! + Before you panic that we have broken all your build files, we have kept + the old "$$" -> "$" 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. + * was fixed to expand properties inside nested and elements; before this only happened when you assigned the text to the string attribute. If you had $ signs in the string, they may