https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59130

Updating the STATUS file too.

fix for https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58997

https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57965

https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58840

https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58908

this is the root cause of Bugzilla Issue 58886

Test with lots of args that break existing script
./ant --execdebug -Df='"' -Dx="'" "-Dx='" -Dz=\'\""'"

Contributed by J. Hoffmann

Using getResource won't load .class files on Jigsaw-modified versions of
Java9.

Bugzilla 58271: https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58271

BZ 58555: https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58555

closes #10

Bugzilla Report 58428

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32500937/nullpointerexception-using-on-the-fly-version-of-gunzip-ant-task

Bug found and fix provided by Earl Hood

Too bad this hasn't been found two weeks before.

https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57834

first part of https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57834 -
allbutlast to follow

https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43271

Apparently the remote umask still comes into play and the result won't
be exactly what we intended it to be.

Based on patch by Holly Cummins

Port of fixes for https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-314 and
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-315

since we read resources from it, the JVM won't close it and subsequent tests
can not remove ${output} - making them fail on Windows.

1024 byte buffer size is insufficient for transfering large files over faster (> 100Mbit) networks. We are transfering files tens or hundreds MB in size and transfer speed was 1MB/s. After increasing the buffer size too 100KB we are getting transfer speeds up to 60MB/s. Please consider increasing the BUFFER_SIZE in the next Ant release. Thanks, Peter