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@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ properties files and output them instead of Ant's properties.
 
 * All tasks can be used outside of <target>s
 
+* Appendix E of Java Development with Ant (Loughran/Hatcher) contributed to the docs
+
 Changes from Ant 1.5beta3 to Ant 1.5
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