diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index b4f91e603..aca7b5e3d 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ lucas
 Ludovic Claude
 Magesh Umasankar
 Maneesh Sahu
+Marcel Schutte
 Marcus Börger
 Mariusz Nowostawski
 Martijn Kruithof
@@ -161,8 +162,7 @@ Scott Carlson
 Sean Egan
 Sean P. Kane
 Shiraz Kanga
-skanthak
-slo
+Sebastian Kantha
 Stefan Bodewig
 Stefano Mazzocchi
 Stephane Bailliez
diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 1b89be733..3a962376f 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -90,6 +90,8 @@ Fixed bugs:
 * -projecthelp swallowed (configuration) errors silently.
   Bugzilla report 27732.
 
+* filterset used by filtertask doesn't respect loglevel. Bugzilla Report 27568.
+
 Other changes:
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diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Project.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Project.java
index 4906bc352..ba7449647 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Project.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Project.java
@@ -137,6 +137,11 @@ public class Project {
     private Hashtable targets = new Hashtable();
     /** Set of global filters. */
     private FilterSet globalFilterSet = new FilterSet();
+    {
+        // Initialize the globalFileSet's project
+        globalFilterSet.setProject(this);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Wrapper around globalFilterSet. This collection only ever
      * contains one FilterSet, but the wrapper is needed in order to