From 9f1ea2f9794354db449fbd58b7b7220d33ddbd57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Jason Benson <mbenson@apache.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:29:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add whatsnew note for fixing <path>

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@462963 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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 WHATSNEW | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 998f5f0a5..0e28be3a1 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ Fixed bugs:
 * ant.bat now looks in %USERPROFILE% and %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% in addition to
   %HOME% for pre/post batch files. Bugzilla report 39298.
 
+* The inheritance hierarchy of the legacy <path> type was changed; code built
+  against Ant 1.7 would therefore no longer execute on older versions of Ant.
+  Since <path> is historically heavily used this was undesirable, and since it
+  is also avoidable, the change to <path>'s taxonomy was reverted.
+
 Other changes:
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