diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 460de4b74..55ec69981 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -15,13 +15,19 @@ Fixed bugs:
 * The sh wrapper script could fail if you started Ant from a directory
   with whitespace in its name.
 
+* ant -diagnostics was not working properly when the task dependency
+  was missing and was just printing the missing dependency.
+
+* The ExpandProperties filter threw NPEs when defined using
+  the <filterreader> format.
+
 Other changes:
 --------------
 
 * <echoproperties> can now create XML output.
 
 * <echoproperties> has a new srcfile attribute that can make it read
-properties files and output them instead of Ant's properties.
+  properties files and output them instead of Ant's properties.
 
 * <filterset> will now resolve filters recursively.
 
@@ -29,7 +35,8 @@ properties files and output them instead of Ant's properties.
 
 * All tasks can be used outside of <target>s
 
-* Appendix E of Java Development with Ant (Loughran/Hatcher) contributed to the docs
+* Appendix E of Java Development with Ant (Loughran/Hatcher)
+  contributed to the docs
 
 Changes from Ant 1.5beta3 to Ant 1.5
 ====================================
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/util/ChainReaderHelper.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/util/ChainReaderHelper.java
index 99ac8a840..cc48a30c0 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/util/ChainReaderHelper.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/util/ChainReaderHelper.java
@@ -196,6 +196,11 @@ public final class ChainReaderHelper {
                                 final Reader[] rdr = {instream};
                                 instream =
                                     (Reader) constructors[j].newInstance(rdr);
+                                if (project != null &&
+                                        instream instanceof BaseFilterReader) {
+                                    ((BaseFilterReader)
+                                        instream).setProject(project);
+                                }
                                 if (Parameterizable.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz)) {
                                     final Parameter[] params = filter.getParams();
                                     ((Parameterizable)