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Changes from Ant 1.8.1 TO current SVN version

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Changes that could break older environments:

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Fixed bugs:

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Other changes:

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Changes from Ant 1.8.0 TO Ant 1.8.1 

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Changes that could break older environments:

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 * ant-trax.jar is no longer produced since TrAX is included in JDK 1.4+.

 * Ant no longer ships with Apache Xerces-J or the XML APIs but relies

   on the Java runtime to provide a parser and matching API versions.

 * The stylebook ant task and the ant-stylebook.jar are removed.  

Fixed bugs:

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 * Tasks that iterate over task or type definitions, references or

   targets now iterate over copies instead of the live maps to avoid

   ConcurrentModificationExceptions if another thread changes the

   maps.

   Bugzilla Report 48310.

 * The filesmatch condition threw a NullPointerException when

   comparing text files and the second file contained fewer lines than

   the first one.

   Bugzilla Report 48715.

 * Regression: The <ear> task would allow multiple

   META-INF/application.xml files to be added.

   Bugzilla Report 6836.

 * VectorSet#remove(Object) would fail if the size of the vector

   equaled its capacity.

 * Regression : ant -diagnostics was returning with exit code 1

   Bugzilla Report 48782

 * Fix for exec task sometimes inserts extraneous newlines

   Bugzilla Report 48746

 * SymlinkTest#testSymbolicLinkUtilsMethods failing on MacOS

   Bugzilla Report 48785.

 * If <concat>'s first resourcecollection child is a <resources>,

   any subsequently added child resourcecollection joins the first.

   Bugzilla Report 48816.        

 * <get> with an invalid URL could trigger an NPE in some JVMs.

   Bugzilla Report 48833

 * Broken Pipe issue under Ubuntu Linux

   Bugzilla Report 48789

 * Properties wrongly read from file or not update during read

   Bugzilla Report 48768       

 * AntClassLoader in Ant 1.8.0 has been considerably slower than in

   1.7.1

   Bugzilla Report 48853

 * ANT_CMD_LINE_ARGS are rippling through lower level Ant usage 

   Bugzilla Report 48876

 * email : IO error sending mail with plain mimetype

   Bugzilla Report 48932    

 * the complete-ant-cmd.pl script failed to create a proper cache of

   target if "ant -p" failed.

   Bugzilla Report 48980

 * <rmic>'s sourcebase attribute was broken.

   Bugzilla Report 48970

 * <copy>'s failonerror didn't work as expected when copying a single

   element resource collection to a file.

   Bugzilla Report 49070

 * <get> no longer followed redirects if the redirect URL was relative

   and not an absolute URL.

   Bugzilla Report 48972

 * fixed a performance degradation in the code that expands property

   references.

   Bugzilla Reports 48961 and 49079

 * <jar filesetmanifest="merge"> was broken on Windows.

   Bugzilla Report 49090

 * <symlink> delete failed if the link attribute was a relative path

   to a link inside the current directory without a leading ".".

   Bugzilla Report 49137

 * <telnet> and <rexec> failed to find the expected strings when

   waiting for responses and thus always failed.

   Bugzilla Report 49173

Other changes:

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 * Project provides new get methods that return copies instead of the

   live maps of task and type definitions, references and targets.

 * Ant is now more lenient with ZIP extra fields and will be able to

   read archives that it failed to read in earlier versions.

   Bugzilla Report 48781.

 * The <zip> family of tasks has been sped up for bigger archives.

   Bugzilla Report 48755.

 * Add removeKeepExtension option to NetRexxC task.

   Bugzilla Report 48788.

 * Add prefix attribute to loadproperties task.

 * Add resource attribute to length task.

 * PropertyResource will effectively proxy another Resource if ${name}

   evaluates to a Resource object.

 * Added forcestring attribute to equals condition to force evaluation

   of Object args as strings; previously only API-level usage of the

   equals condition allowed Object args, but Ant 1.8.x+ property

   evaluation may yield values of any type.

 * BuildFileTest.assertPropertyUnset() fails with a slightly more 

   meaningful error message

   Bugzilla Report 48834

 * <junit> will now throw an exception if a test name is empty.  This

   used to manifest itself in unrelated errors like

   Bugzilla Report 43586.

 * A change that made <exec> more reliable on Windows (Bugzilla Report

   5003) strongly impacts the performance for commands that execute

   quickly, like attrib.  Basically no single execution of a command

   could take less than a second on Windows.

   A few timeouts have been tweaked to allow these commands to finish

   more quickly but still they will take longer than they did with Ant

   1.7.1.

   Bugzilla Report 48734.

 * Added SimpleBigProjectLogger, intermediate between NoBannerLogger and

   BigProjectLogger.

 * <mappedresources> supports new attributes enablemultiplemappings

   and cache.

 * Added the augment task to manipulate existing references via Ant's basic

   introspection mechanisms.

Changes from Ant 1.8.0RC1 TO Ant 1.8.0

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Changes that could break older environments:

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 * the appendtolines filter has been renamed to suffixlines.

Fixed bugs:

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 * stack traces were not reported at all by <junit/>

   when filtertrace="on", which is the default.

 * ant.bat can now also process the -noclasspath switch when it is 

   the first switch on a command line.

   Bugzilla Report 48186.

 * <fixcrlf> now tries to delete the created temporary files earlier.

   Bugzilla Report 48506.

 * the implementation of <zip> had been changed in a way that broke

   the jarjar links task and protentially other third-party subclasses

   as well.

   Bugzilla Report 48541.

 * <scp> task didn't report build file location when a remote operation failed

   Bugzilla Report 48578.  

 * <propertyfile> would add the same comment and a date line each time

   it updated an existing property file.

   Bugzilla Report 48558.

 * <sound> didn't work properly in recent Java VMs.

   Bugzilla Report 48637.

Other changes:

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Changes from Ant 1.7.1 TO Ant 1.8.0RC1

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Changes that could break older environments:

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 * if and unless attributes (on <target> as well as various tasks and other

   elements) have long permitted ${property} interpolation. Now, if the result

   evaluates to "true" or "false" (or "yes", "no", "on", "off"), that boolean

   value will be used; otherwise the traditional behavior of treating the value

   as a property name (defined ~ true, undefined ~ false) is used. Existing

   scripts could be broken if they perversely defined a property named "false"

   and expected if="false" to be true, or used if="true" expecting this to be

   triggered only if a property named "true" were defined.

 * Ant now requires Java 1.4 or later.

 * Improved handling of InterruptException (lets suppose someone/thing

   is trying to kill the thread when we receive an

   InterruptException), when an InterruptException is received, we do

   not wait anymore in a while loop till the end time has been

   reached.

   Bugzilla Report 42924.

 * Refactor PropertyHelper and introspection APIs to make extension

   more granular and support setting task/type attribute values to

   objects decoded by custom PropertyEvaluator delegates. Also add

   <propertyhelper> task for registering delegates and/or replacing

   the registered PropertyHelper instance.

   Bugzilla Report 42736.

 * Added a restricted form of typedef called <componentdef>. This

   allows definition of elements that can only be within tasks or

   types. This method is now used to define conditions, selectors,

   comparators and filterreaders. This means that tasks may now have

   nested conditions just by implementing the Condition interface,

   rather than extending ConditionBase. It also means that the use of

   namespaces for some of the selectors introduced in Ant 1.7.0 is no

   longer necessary.  Implementing this means that the DynamicElement

   work-around introduced in Ant 1.7.0 has been removed.

   Bugzilla Report 40511.

 * In the <touch> task when a <mapper> is used, the millis and

   datetime attributes now override the time of the source resource if

   provisioned.

   Bugzilla Report 43235.

 * Remove fall-back mechanism for references that are not resolved

   during normal runtime execution.

 * FileUtils.createTempFile now actually creates the file.

   The TempFile task still does not create the file by default, can be

   instructed to do so however using a new parameter.

   Bugzilla Report 33969.

 * A lock in Project ensured that a BuildListener's messageLogged

   method was only ever executed by a single thread at a time, while

   all other methods could be invoked by multiple threads

   simultaniously (while within <parallel>, for example).  This lock

   is no longer in place, messageLogged should be made thread-safe

   now.

 * <sql>'s onError="stop" no longer fails the build if an error

   occurs,  this is the main difference between stop and error and

   matches what the documentation implied.

   Bugzilla Report 24668.

 * Ant's configuration introspection mechanisms have been modified to prefer

   Resource and FileProvider attributes to plain java.io.File attributes;

   however the configuration-from-String behavior remains equivalent, rendering

   a FileResource.

 * CBZip2InputStream will now throw an IOException if

   passed in a null or empty InputStream to read from.

   Bugzilla Reports 32200.

 * <unzip> will now fail when trying to extract certain broken

   archives that would have been silently ignored in earlier version.

   Bugzilla Report 35000.

 * Ant's <zip> family of tasks tries to preserve the existing Unix

   permissions when updating archives or copying entries from one

   archive to another.

   Since not all archiving tools support storing Unix permissions in

   the same way that is used by Ant, sometimes the permissions read by

   Ant seem to be 0, which means nobody is allowed to do anything to

   the file or directory.

   If Ant now encounters a permission set of 0 it will assume that

   this is not the intended value and instead apply its own default

   values.  Ant used to create entries with 0 permissions itself.

   The <zip> family of tasks has a new attribute preserve0permissions

   that can be set to restore the old behavior.

   Bugzilla Report 42122.

 * If a batch containing multiple JUnit tests running inside a forked

   Java VM caused the VM to crash (or caused a timeout), the

   formatters would receive an error message for the last test in the

   batch.

   Ant will now pass in a test with the name "Batch-With-Multiple-Tests"

   instead - this is supposed to show more clearly that the last test

   may not have started at all.

   Bugzilla Report 45227.

 * If the number of minutes a build takes is bigger then 1000 Ant will

   no longer print a thousands separator in the "elapsed time"

   message.  It used to be the thousands separator of the current

   locale.

   Bugzilla Report 44659.

 * <symlink action="delete"> used to fail if the link was broken (i.e.

   pointing to a file or directory that no longer existed).  It will now

   silently try to remove the link.

   Bugzilla Report 41285.

 * <delete file="..."> used to log a warning and not delete broken

   symbolic links.  <delete dir="..."/> didn't even log a warning.

   The task will now try to delete them in both cases.

   Bugzilla Report 41285.

 * if the dir attribute of a <fileset> points to a symbolic link and

   followsymlinks is set to false, the fileset will no longer be

   scanned and always seem empty.

   Bugzilla Report 45741.

 * the .NET tasks that have been deprecated since Ant 1.7.0 have been

   removed, please use the stand-alone Antlib you can find at

   http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/dotnet/index.html

   instead.

 * the logic of closing streams connected to forked processes (read

   the input and output of <exec> and friends) has been changed to

   deal with cases where child processes of the forked processes live

   longer than their parents and keep Ant from exiting.

   It is unlikely but possible that the changed logic breaks stream

   handling on certain Java VMs.

   Bugzilla issue 5003.

 * <checksum>'s totalproperty was platform dependent because it relied

   on java.io.File#compareTo.  It has now been made platform

   independent, which means that totalPropery values obtained on

   Windows (and other systems where the sort order of File is not case

   sensitive) can be different from the values obtained with earlier

   versions of Ant.

   Bugzilla Report 36748.

 * globmapper didn't work properly if the "to" or "from" patterns

   didn't contain a "*".  In particular it implicitly added a * to the

   end of the pattern(s).  This is no longer the case.  If you relied

   on this behavior you will now need to explicitly specify the

   trailing "*".

   Bugzilla Report 46506.

 * <copy> silently ignored missing resources even with

   failOnError="true".  If your build tries to copy non-existant

   resources and you relied on this behavior you must now explicitly

   set failOnError to false.

   Bugzilla Report 47362.

 * Ant now prefers the java.runtime.version system property over

   java.vm.version for the Created-By Manifest attribute.

   Bugzilla Report 47632.

 * The <image> task now supports a nested mapper.  In order to

   implement this, the Java API of the task had to change so any

   custom subclass overriding the processFile method will need to

   adapt (by overriding the new two-arg processFile method).

   Bugzilla Report 23243.

 * A new property syntax can be used to set attributes from

   references: ${ant.ref:some-reference}

   In most cases this will yield the exact same result as 

   ${toString:some-reference} - only when an attribute setter method

   accepts an object type other than string and the project's

   reference is an Object of matching type the new syntax will pass in

   that object.

   If your build file already contains properties whose name starts

   with "ant.ref:" there is a potential for collision.  If your

   property has been set, normal property expansion will take

   precedence over the new syntax.  If the property has not been set

   and a reference with the postfix of your property name exists

   (i.e. in a very unlikely event) then the new syntax would yield a

   different result (an expanded property) than Ant 1.7.1 did.

 * A ProjectHelper implementation can now provide the default build file

   name it is expecting, and can specify if they can support a specific build

   file. So Ant is now capable of supporting several ProjectHelper

   implementations, deciding on which to use depending of the input build file.

 * Mapper-aware selectors (depends, different, present) now accept typedef'd

   FileNameMappers.

Fixed bugs:

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 * The default logger was failing to print complete stack traces for

   exceptions other than BuildException when inside <ant> or

   <antcall>, thus omitting often important diagnostic

   information.

   Bugzilla 43398 (continued).

 * Better handling of package-info.class.

   Bugzilla Report 43114.

 * RPM task needed an inserted space between the define and the value.

   Bugzilla Report 46659.

 * Got rid of deadlock between in, out and err in the Redirector. 

   Bugzilla Report 44544.

 * Caused by AssertionError no longer filtered.

   Bugzilla Report 45631.

 * <zip> would sometimes recreate JARs unnecessarily.

   Bugzilla Report 45902.

 * <symlink> task couldn't overwrite existing symlinks that pointed to

   nonexistent files

   Bugzilla Report 38199.

 * <symlink> task couldn't overwrite files that were in the way of the symlink.

   Bugzilla Report 43426.

 * <symlink> task failonerror="false" does not stop build from failing

   when 'ln' command returns non-zero.

   Bugzilla Report 43624  

 * <touch> task couldn't differentiate between "no resources

   specified" and "no resources matched."

   Bugzilla Report 43799.

 * ManifestClassPath failed when a relative path would traverse the

   file system root.

   Bugzilla Report 44499.

 * <globmapper> had an indexoutofbounds when the prefix and postfix

   overlapped.

   Bugzilla Report 44731.

 * <typedef> and <taskdef> failed to accept file names with #

   characters in them.

   Bugzilla Report 45190

 * A deadlock could occur if a BuildListener tried to access an Ant property

   within messageLogged while a different thread also accessed one.

   Bugzilla Report 45194

 * Handle null result of system getProperty() in CommandlineJava.

   Similar to Bugzilla Report 42334.

 * Length task did not process nonexistent Resources even though these might

   conceivably still carry file length information.

   Bugzilla Report 45271.

 * <javac>'s includeJavaRuntime="false" should work for gcj now.  Note

   that you may need to set includeAntRuntime to false in order to

   have full control.

   Bugzilla Report 34638.

 * <sql> would fail if the executed statment didn't return a result

   set with some JDBC driver that dissalow Statement.getResultSet to

   be called in such a situation.

   Bugzilla Report 36265 

 * if the executed statement in <sql> returned a result set and an

   update count, the count would be lost.

 * if an executed statement in <sql> mixes update count and result set

   parts, some result sets wouldn't get printed.

   Bugzilla Report 32168.

 * XmlLogger could lose messages if <parallel> is used.

   Bugzilla Report 25734.

 * <scp> creates remoteToDir if it doesn't exist.

   Bugzilla Report 42781

 * CBZip2OutputStream threw an exception if it was closed prior to

   writing anything.

   Bugzilla Reports 32200, 45836

 * The IPlanetDeploymentTool didn't use the configured DTD locations.

   Bugzilla Report 31876.

 * The ant shell script printed a warning under Cygwin if JAVA_HOME

   was not set.

   Bugzilla Report 45245.

 * <filterset> sometimes incorrectly flagged infinite recursions of

   filter tokens

   Bugzilla Report 44226.

 * failures were treated as errors in forked JUnit tests when JUnit 4

   was used.

   Bugzilla Report 43892.

 * <jar> and <manifest> disallowed manifest attributes whose name

   contained the character '8'.

   Bugzilla Report 45675.

 * BigProjectLogger would set the project's basedir to the current

   working directory.

   Bugzilla Report 45607.

 * only <formatter>s that logged to a file were notified if forked VM

   crashed or a timeout occured in <junit>.

   Bugzilla Report 37312.

 * ant -v -version would print the version information twice.

   Bugzilla Report 45695.

 * when nested into builds that have been invoked by <ant> tasks

   <subant> might set the wrong basedir on the called projects.

   Bugzilla Report 30569.

 * If the message of the failed assertion of a forked JUnit test

   contained line feeds some excess output ended up in Ant's log.

   Bugzilla Report 45411.

 * <symlink action="delete"> failed to delete a link that pointed to

   a parent directory.

   Bugzilla Report 45743.

 * <symlink action="delete"> failed if ant lacked permission to rename

   the link's target.

   Bugzilla Report 41525.

 * when checking whether a jar is signed, <signjar> ignored the

   sigfile attribute.

   Bugzilla Report 44805.

 * When using JavaMail all <mail> tasks used the same mail host

   regardless of their configuration.

   Bugzilla Report 37970.

 * <signjar> and <issigned> didn't handle aliases with characters other

   than numbers, letters, hyphen or underscore properly.

   Bugzilla Report 45820.

 * <filterset> could miss multi-character begin tokens in some cases.

   Bugzilla Report 45094.

 * <depend> didn't close JARs that were part of the classpath.

   Bugzilla Report 45955.

 * in some cases <depend> would delete class files even if it didn't

   find the corresponding source files.

   Bugzilla Report 45916.

 * <javadoc> failed if the nested <bottom> or <head> contained line

   breaks.

   Bugzilla Report 43342.

 * encoding="auto" has been broken in <mail> since Ant 1.7.0 and only

   worked if JavaMail was available.

   Bugzilla Report 42389.

 * MailLogger could cause a NullPointerException.

   Bugzilla Report 44009.

 * <junit> didn't recognize failed assertions as failures if they

   caused subclasses of AssertionError to be thrown (like

   org.junit.ComparisonFailure that is thrown when assertEquals

   fails).

   Bugzilla Report 45028.

 * the Unix "ant" wrapper script failed to protect wildcards in

   command line arguments in some cases.

   Bugzilla Report 31601.

 * <cvstagdiff> crippled file names and could miss some entries if

   multiple modules have been specified.

   Bugzilla Report 35301.

 * Tasks with a "public void add(SomeType)" method failed to work as

   TaskContainers at the same time.

   Bugzilla Report 41647.

 * Tasks that implementes DynamicElemen or DynamicElementNS failed to

   work as TaskContainers at the same time.

   Bugzilla Report 41647.

 * combining SSL and authentication in <mail> and MailLogger failed in

   some setups.

   Bugzilla Report 46063.

 * if an error occurs while logging the buildFinished event, the

   original error is now logged to System.err.

   Bugzilla Report 25086.

 * <copy> failed with a NullPointerException when copying a resource

   without a name.  It will now fail with a meaningful error message.

   Bugzilla Report 39960.

 * <xslt> now uses the configured classpath to load the factory (when

   using TraX) before falling back to Ant's own classpath.

   Bugzilla Report 46172.

 * <dependset> complained about files being modified in the future if

   they had been just very recently (within Ant's assumed granularity

   of the file system).

   Bugzilla Report 43665.

 * <sshexec> didn't store the ouput in outputproperty if the remote

   command failed.

   Bugzilla Report 46340.

 * DirectoryScanner's slow-scanning algorithm that is used when you

   ask for excluded or not-included files and/or directories could

   miss some files and directories in the presence of recursive

   exclude patterns.

 * <sort> resource collection kept only one of entries deemed equal by

   the chosen Comparator.

   Bugzilla Report 46527.

 * the ZipFile class used by <unzip> and others could leave the

   archive open (making it undeletable on Windows as long as the java

   VM was running) for files with an unexpected internal structure.

   Bugzilla Report 46559.

 * The zip package now supports the extra fields invented by InfoZIP

   in order to store Unicode file names and comments.

 * The zip package detects the encoding bit set by more modern

   archivers when they write UTF-8 filenames and optionally sets it

   when writing zips or jars.

   Bugzilla Report 45548

 * <sync> could run into a NullPointerException when faced with broken

   symbolic links.

   Bugzilla Report 46747.

 * The ant shell script should now support MSYS/MinGW as well.

   Bugzilla Report 46936.

 * <signjar> has a new force attribute that allows re-signing of jars

   that are already signed.

   Bugzilla Report 46891.

 * <sshexec> now again honors failonerror in the face of connection

   errors.

   Bugzilla Report 46829.

 * The <replacetokens> filter threw an exception if the stream to

   filter ended with a begin token.

   Bugzilla Report 47306.

 * <scriptmapper>, <scriptfilter> and <scriptcondition> didn't support

   the setbeans attribute.

   Bugzilla Report 47336.

 * <loadproperties>' encoding attribute didn't work.

   Bugzilla Report 47382.

 * Ant created tar archives could contain random bytes at the end

   which confused some untar implementations.

   Bugzilla Report 47421.

 * various places where unchecked PrintWriters could hide exceptions

   have been revisited to now check the error status or not use a

   PrintWriter at all.

   Bugzilla Report 43537.

 * filesetmanifest="mergewithoutmain" in <jar> didn't treat inline

   manifests as expected.

   Bugzilla Report 29731.

 * <record> didn't work properly with nested builds.

   Bugzilla Report 41368. 

 * <jar> with filesetmanifest different from skip didn't work if the

   update attribute has been set to true.

   Bugzilla Report 30751.

 * The default stylesheets for <junitreport> failed to properly escape

   XML content in exception stack traces.

   Bugzilla Report 39492.

 * AntClassLoader didn't set the proper CodeSource for loaded classes.

   Bugzilla Report 20174.

 * AntClassLoader.getResourceAsStream would return streams to

   resources it didn't return with getResource and to classes it

   failed to load.

   Bugzilla Report 44103.

 * Logging exceptions without a message would cause a

   NullPointerException.

   Bugzilla Report 47623.

 * WeblogicDeploymentTool could fail on platforms with a file

   separator other than "/".

   Bugzilla Report 35649.

 * The update attribute of the modified selector was ignored.

   Bugzilla Report 32597.

 * <manifest> and <jar> can now merge Class-Path attributes from

   multiple sources and optionally flatten them into a single

   attribute.

   The default behaviour still is to keep multiple Class-Path

   attributes if they have been specified and to only include the

   attributes of the last merged manifest.

   Bugzilla Report 39655.

 * <delete> didn't work correctly with a <modified> selector because

   it was scanning the same filesets more than once.

   Bugzilla Report 43574.

 * when using custom filterreaders with the <filterreader classname="">

   syntax Ant could leak memory.

   The problem didn't occur when using <typedef> or <componentdef> to

   define the filterreader which is the recommended approach.

   Bugzilla Report 45439.

 * Ant didn't set the proper "magic" value for tar entries containing

   long file names in GNU longfile mode.

   Bugzilla Report 47653.

 * The tar task failed to recognize that the archive had to be

   (re-)created in some cases where the sources are filesystem based

   resources but not filesets.

   Bugzilla Report 48035. 

 * <sshexec>'s outputproperty was prefixed by the executed command

   when the command attribute has been used, breaking backwards

   compatibility to Ant 1.7.0.

   Bugzilla Report 48040.

 * different task instances of the same <scriptdef>ed tasks could

   overwrite each others attributes/nested elements.

   Bugzilla Report 41602.

 * The Hashvalue algortihm implementation of the modified task could

   fail to read the file(s) completely.

   Bugzilla Report 48313.

Other changes:

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 * The get task now also follows redirects from http to https

   Bugzilla Report 47433

 * A HostInfo task was added performing information on hosts, including info on 

   the host ant is running on. 

   Bugzilla Reports 45861 and 31164.

 * There is now a FileProvider interface for resources that act as a source

   of filenames. This should be used by tasks that require resources

   to provide filenames, rather than require that all resources

   are instances or subclasses of FileResource.

   Bugzilla Report 43348

 * There is now a URLProvider interface for resources that act as a

   source of URLs. This should be used by tasks that require resources

   to provide URLs, rather than require that all resources are

   instances or subclasses of URLResource.

 * Fixcrlf now gives better error messages on bad directory attributes.

   Bugzilla Report 43936

 * a new property ant.project.default-target holds the value of the

   current <project>'s default attribute.

 * a new property ant.project.invoked-targets holds a comma separated

   list of the targets that have been specified on the command line

   (the IDE, an <ant> task ...) when invoking the current project.

 * The <type> resource selector has had an "any" type added for better

   configurability.

 * Ant should detect the OS as both a Mac and a Unix system when

   running on OpenJDK.

   Bugzilla Report 44889.

 * new protected getConnection and getStatement methods allow

   subclasses of SQLExec more control - or access to the cached

   instances when overriding other methods like runStatements.

   Bugzilla Report 27178.

 * <sql> has a new failOnConnectionError attribute that can be used to

   keep a build going even if the task failed to connect to the

   database.

   Bugzilla Report 36712.

 * A new attribute strictDelimiterMatching can be used to ignore case

   or whitespace differences when <sql> searches for delimiters.

   This is useful if you execute a SQL script that has contains "GO"

   and "go" as delimiters.

   Bugzilla Report 26459.

 * A new showWarnings attribute of <sql> allows warnings to be logged.

   Bugzilla Report 41836.

 * A new treatWarningsAsErrors attribute of <sql> can be used to fail

   a build if a warning occurs.

   Bugzilla Report 41836.

 * Ant now supports scoped properties (see Local task).

   Bugzilla Report 23942.

 * <sql>'s CSV output can be controlled via the new attributes

   csvColumnSeparator and csvQuoteCharacter.

   Bugzilla Report 35627.

 * <ftp>'s logging has been improved.

   Bugzilla Reports 30932, 31743.

 * It is now possible to disable <ftp>'s remote verification.

   Bugzilla Report 35471.

 * <sshexec> now supports input in a way similar to <exec>

   Bugzilla Report 39197.

 * <scp> can now preserve the file modification time when downloading

   files.

   Bugzilla Report 33939.

 * the new task sshsession can run multiple tasks in the presence of

   an SSH session providing (local and remote) tunnels.

   Bugzilla Report 43083.

 * ZipOutputStream has been sped up for certain usage scenarios that

   are not used by Ant's family of zip tasks.

   Bugzilla Report 45396.

 * <echo> supports an "output" Resource attribute as an alternative to "file".

 * <sql> "output" attribute now supports any Resource in addition to a file.

 * <scp> no longer requires a passphrase when using key based

   authentication.

   Bugzilla Report 33718.

 * a new failOnEmptyArchive attribute on <unzip> and <untar> can now

   make the task fail the build if it tries to extract an empty

   archive.

 * <unzip> and <untar> have a new attribute stripAbsolutePathSpec.

   When set to true, Ant will remove any leading path separator from

   the archived entry's name before extracting it (making the name a

   relative file name).

   Bugzilla Report 28911.

 * <unzip> will now detect that it was asked to extract a file that is

   not an archive earlier if the file is big.

   Bugzilla Report 45463.

 * New file and resource selectors <readable/> and <writable/> have

   been added that select file which the current process can read or

   write.

   Bugzilla Report 45081.

 * The filename file selector has a new attribute regex that allows

   files to be selected by matching their names against a regular

   expression.

   Bugzilla Report 45284

 * The name resource selector has a new attribute regex that allows

   resources to be selected by matching their names against a regular

   expression.

   Bugzilla Report 45284

 * Enhanced performance of Project.fireMessageLoggedEvent and DirectoryScanner 

   Bugzilla Reports 45651 and 45665

 * The package list location for offline links can now be specified as

   an URL.

   Bugzilla Report 28881

 * <echoxml> now supports XML namespaces.

   Bugzilla Report 36804.

 * A new listener for <junit> has been added that tries to invoke the

   tearDown method of a TestCase if that TestCase was run in a forked

   VM and the VM crashed or a timeout occured.  See the <junit> task's

   manual page for details.

   Bugzilla Report 37241.

 * The Jar task now supports the addition of a jar index file in update mode.

   Previously the absence of the index was not enough to trigger the rebuild;

   some other update was necessary.

   Bugzilla report 45098.

 * <ant> has a new attribute "useNativeBasedir" that makes the child

   build use the same basedir it would have used if invoked from the

   command line.  No matter what other attributes/properties have been

   set.

   Bugzilla Report 45711.

 * <patch> has a new optional failOnError attribute.

   Bugzilla Report 44772.

 * Antlib descriptors will now be parsed by the configured

   ProjectHelper if the implementation overrides the new

   canParseAntlibDescriptor and parseAntlibDescriptor methods.  If the

   configured helper doesn't override the methods, a new instance of

   ProjectHelper2 will be used just like in Ant 1.7.1.

   Bugzilla Report 42208.

 * It is now possible to explicitly set the executable used by

   <signjar>.

   Bugzilla Report 39189.

 * <compositemapper>'s order of results is now predictable.

   Bugzilla Report 44873

 * a new <firstmatchmapper> has been added, which works similar to

   <compositemapper> but only returns the results of the first nested

   mapper that matches.

   Bugzilla Report 44873

 * <get> has a new maxtime attribute that terminates downloads that

   are taking too long.

   Bugzilla Report 45181.

 * <ftp> now supports selectors for remote directories as well.

   Bugzilla Report 44726.

 * In some cases Ant fails to rename files if the source or target

   file has just recently been closed on Windows.  It will now try to

   delete the offending file once again after giving the Java VM time

   to really close the file.

   Bugzilla Report 45960.

 * two new properties can be used to set the MIME-Type and charset

   used by MailLogger.

   Bugzilla Report 27211.

 * a new attribute of <mail> allows the task to succeed if it can

   reach at least one given recipient.

   Bugzilla Report 36446.

 * two new properties allow MailLogger to send a fixed text instead of

   the log file.

   Bugzilla Report 38029.

 * <cvsversion> is supposed to support CVSNT now.

   Bugzilla Report 31409.

 * <cvs>' port attribute should now work for all clients that use the

   environment variable CVS_PSERVER_PORT instead of the "official"

   CVS_CLIENT_PORT.

   Bugzilla Report 30124.

 * <cvsversion> now works for local repositories as well.

 * <cvstagdiff> has an option to ignore removed files now.

   Bugzilla Report 26257.

 * <cvs> and friends now support modules with spaces in their names

   via nested <module> elements.

 * A new attribute "ignoreEmpty" controls how <concat> deals when

   there are no resources to concatenate.  If it is set to false, the

   destination file will be created regardless, which reinstates the

   behavior of Ant 1.7.0.

   Bugzilla Report 46010.

 * If the new remote attribute is set to true, <cvschangelog> can now

   work against a remote repository without any working copy.

   Bugzilla Report 27419.

 * start and end tags can now be used instead of dates in

   <cvschangelog>.

   Bugzilla Report 27419.

 * MailLogger and <mail> can now optionally enable support for

   STARTTLS.

   Bugzilla Report 46063.

 * <import> has new attributes "as" and "prefixSeparator" that can be

   used to control the prefix prepended to the imported targets'

   names.

 * a new task <include> provides an alternative to <import> that

   should be preferred when you don't want to override any targets.

 * delete has a new attribute removeNotFollowedSymlink.  If set to

   true, symbolic links not followed (because followSymlinks was false

   or the number of symlinks was too big) will be removed.

   Bugzilla Report 36658.

 * the os and osfamily attributes of <chown>, <chgrp>, <chmod> and

   <attrib> can now be used to run the commands on operating systems

   other than their "native" environment, i.e. non-Unix or non-Windows

   operating systems respectively.

   Bugzilla Report 7624.

 * a new resource collection <mappedresources> generalizes the prefix

   and fullpath attributes of <zipfileset> to arbitrary mappers that

   can be applied to arbitrary resource collections.

   Bugzilla Report 4240.

 * <tarfileset> and <zipfileset> have a new attribute

   errorOnMissingArchive that allows "optional" filesets that don't

   break the build if the archive doesn't exist.

   Bugzilla Report 46091.

 * <javadoc> has new attributes that correspond to the

   -docfilessubdirs and -excludedocfilessubdir command line arguments.

   Bugzilla Report 34455.

 * <xslt> now fails early if a specified stylesheet doesn't exist.

   Bugzilla Report 34525.

 * <xslt> now has an option to supress transformer warnings.  This

   option only has an effect for processors that support this feature;

   the "trax" processor included with Ant does support it.

   Bugzilla Report 18897.

 * <xslt> has two new attributes failOnError and

   failOnTransformationError that can be used to not make the build

   process proceed if an error occurs.

   Bugzilla Report 36260.

 * <xslt> has a new attribute failOnNoResources that can be used to 

   make the build fail/continue if the collection of resources to

   transform is empty.

   Bugzilla Report 46274.

 * It is now possible to define system properties that should be set

   during xslt's transformation.  This can be used to enable XInclude

   processing in Xerces, for example.

   Bugzilla Report 36653.

 * a new resource collection <archives> can be used to specify

   collections of ZIP and TAR archives as sources.  It extracts them on

   the fly.  This is a generalization of the <zipgroupfileset> found

   as nested element of <zip> and friends.

   Bugzilla Report 46257.

 * <dependset> has a new verbose attribute that makes the task list

   all deleted targets and give a hint as to why it deleted them.

   Bugzilla Report 13681.

 * <replaceregexp> now supports arbitrary filesystem based resource

   collections.

   Bugzilla Report 46341.

 * <replace> now supports arbitrary filesystem based resource

   collections.

   Bugzilla Report 24062.

 * token and value of <replace>'s nested <replacefilter> can now also

   be specified as nested elements to allow multiline content more

   easily.

   Bugzilla Report 39568.

 * <replace> and <replaceregexp> can now optionally preserve the file

   timestamp even if the file is modified.

   Bugzilla Report 39002.

 * The <replace> child-elements <replacetoken> and <replacevalue> have

   a new attribute that controls whether properties in nested text get

   expanded.

   Bugzilla Report 11585.

 * <replace> has a new attribute failOnNoReplacements that makes the

   build fail if the task didn't do anything.

   Bugzilla Report 21064.

 * <sync>'s <preserveInTarget> has a new attribute that controls

   whether empty directories should be kept.

   Bugzilla Report 43159.

 * ant -diagnostics now checks that it can read as much from the

   temporary directory as it has written.  This may help detecting a

   full filesystem.

   Bugzilla Report 32676.

 * <pathconvert> has a new preserveduplicates attribute--historically

   these were eliminated in the interest of behaving in the manner

   of a "path."

 * <javac>'s source and target attributes are no longer ignored when

   using gcj.

   Bugzilla Issue 46617.

 * ant -diagnostics now outputs information about the default XSLT

   processor.

   Bugzilla Issue 46612.

 * the ZIP library will now ignore ZIP extra fields that don't specify

   a size.

   Bugzilla Report 42940.

 * CBZip2OutputStream now has a finish method separate from close.

   Bugzilla Report 42713.

 * the <zip> and <unzip> family of tasks has new options to deal with

   file name and comment encoding.  Please see the zip tasks'

   documentation for details.

 * <input ...><handler type="secure" /></input> now uses previously

   undocumented SecureInputHandler shipped with Ant 1.7.1.

 * Command line arguments for <exec> and similar tasks can now have

   optional prefix and suffix attributes.

   Bugzilla Report 47365

 * <apply>'s srcfile and targetfile child elements can now have

   optional prefix and suffix attributes.

   Bugzilla Report 45625

 * <jar> has a new attribute to enable indexing of META-INF

   directories which is disabled for backwards compatibility reasons.

   Bugzilla Report 47457

 * <apt>'s executable attribute can be used to specify a different

   executable.

   Bugzilla Report 46230.

 * <rmic>'s new executable attribute can be used to specify a

   different executable.

   Bugzilla Report 42132.

 * <javac>, <rmic>, <javah> and <native2ascii> now provide a nested

   element to specify a classpath that will be used when loading the

   task's (compiler) adapter class.

   Bugzilla Report 11143.

 * <javac>, <rmic>, <javah> and <native2ascii> now provide a nested

   element to specify the task's (compiler) adapter as an instance of

   a class that has been defined via typedef/componentdef.  This