diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/checksum.html b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/checksum.html
index 0effc771e..5ea92a595 100644
--- a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/checksum.html
+++ b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/checksum.html
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ perform checksum verifications.
     <td valign="top">The root directory where checksums should be written.</td>
     <td valign="top" align="center">No. If not specified, checksum files
       will be written to the same directory as the files themselves.
+      <em>since Ant 1.6</em>
     </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
@@ -79,6 +80,7 @@ perform checksum verifications.
       the files within the filesets they are defined in will be used to
       compute this checksum. (The file separators in the paths will be
       converted to '/' before computation to ensure platform portability).
+      <em>since Ant 1.6</em>
     </td>
     <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
   </tr>
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Checksum.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Checksum.java
index aa762a6cd..6330fdb18 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Checksum.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Checksum.java
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * The Apache Software License, Version 1.1
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2001-2002 The Apache Software Foundation.  All rights
+ * Copyright (c) 2001-2003 The Apache Software Foundation.  All rights
  * reserved.
  *
  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
@@ -176,6 +176,8 @@ public class Checksum extends MatchingTask implements Condition {
     /**
      * Sets the root directory where checksum files will be
      * written/read
+     *
+     * @since Ant 1.6
      */
     public void setTodir(File todir) {
         this.todir = todir;
@@ -215,6 +217,8 @@ public class Checksum extends MatchingTask implements Condition {
     /**
      * Sets the property to hold the generated total checksum
      * for all files.
+     *
+     * @since Ant 1.6
      */
     public void setTotalproperty(String totalproperty) {
         this.totalproperty = totalproperty;