diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/defaults.properties b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/defaults.properties
index 06507a369..69b29b40d 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/defaults.properties
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/defaults.properties
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ war=org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.War
whichresource=org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.WhichResource
xmlproperty=org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.XmlProperty
xslt=org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.XSLTProcess
+xz=org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.xz.Xz
zip=org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Zip
# optional tasks
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/xz/Xz.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/xz/Xz.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d88f91052
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/xz/Xz.java
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ *
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.xz;
+
+import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Pack;
+import org.tukaani.xz.LZMA2Options;
+import org.tukaani.xz.XZOutputStream;
+
+/**
+ * Compresses a file with the XZ algorithm. Normally used to compress
+ * non-compressed archives such as TAR files.
+ *
+ * @since Ant 1.10.1
+ *
+ * @ant.task category="packaging"
+ */
+
+public class Xz extends Pack {
+ /**
+ * Compress the zipFile.
+ */
+ protected void pack() {
+ XZOutputStream zOut = null;
+ try {
+ zOut = new XZOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(zipFile),
+ new LZMA2Options());
+ zipResource(getSrcResource(), zOut);
+ } catch (IOException ioe) {
+ String msg = "Problem creating xz " + ioe.getMessage();
+ throw new BuildException(msg, ioe, getLocation());
+ } finally {
+ FileUtils.close(zOut);
+ }
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Whether this task can deal with non-file resources.
+ *
+ * This implementation always returns true only.
+ * @return true
+ */
+ protected boolean supportsNonFileResources() {
+ return true;
+ }
+}