diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 268e6dfd9..3f9ef5f7d 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ Gautam Guliani
 Georges-Etienne Legendre
 Gero Vermaas
 Gerrit Riessen
+Gilbert Rebhan
+Gilles Scokart
 Glenn McAllister
 Glenn Twiggs
 Greg Nelson
diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index d0b4d3bda..aa2e15183 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -141,6 +141,10 @@ Changes that could break older environments:
    set failOnError to false.
    Bugzilla Report 47362.
 
+ * Ant now uses the java.runtime.version instead of java.vm.version
+   system property for the Created-By Manifest attribute.
+   Bugzilla Report 47632.
+
 Fixed bugs:
 -----------
 
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Manifest.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Manifest.java
index f10063e0d..058969b8d 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Manifest.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Manifest.java
@@ -746,8 +746,8 @@ public class Manifest {
                 insr = new InputStreamReader(in, "UTF-8");
                 Manifest defaultManifest = new Manifest(insr);
                 Attribute createdBy = new Attribute("Created-By",
-                    System.getProperty("java.vm.version") + " ("
-                    + System.getProperty("java.vm.vendor") + ")");
+                    System.getProperty("java.runtime.version") + " ("
+                    + System.getProperty("java.runtime.vendor") + ")");
                 defaultManifest.getMainSection().storeAttribute(createdBy);
                 return defaultManifest;
             } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {