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Changes from Ant 1.6.5 to Ant 1.7.0

Changes that could break older environments:

• Initial support for JDK 6 (JSR 223) scripting. <script> tasks will now use javax.scripting if BSF is not available, or if explicitly requested by using a "manager" attribute.
• Removed launcher classes from nodeps jar.
• <classconstants> filter reader uses ISO-8859-1 encoding to read the java class file. Bugzilla report 33604.
• Defer reference process. Bugzilla 36955, 34458, 37688. This may break build files in which a reference was set in a target which was never executed. Historically, Ant would set the reference early on, during parse time, so the datatype would be defined. Now it requires the reference to have been in a bit of the build file which was actually executed. If you get an error about an undefined reference, locate the reference and move it somewhere where it is used, or fix the depends attribute of the target in question to depend on the target which defines the reference/datatype.
• <script> and <scriptdef> now set the current thread context.
• Unrestrict the dbvendor names in the websphere element of the ejbjar task. Bugzilla Report 40475.
• <env> nested element in <java>, <exec> and others is now case-insensitive for windows OS. Bugzilla Report 28874.
• Removed support for xalan1 completely. Users of Xalan1 for Ant builds will have to stay at ant 1.6.5 or upgrade to xalan2.
• Use org.apache.log4j.Logger instead of org.apache.log4j.Category. Category has been deprecated for ~2 years and has been removed from the log4j code. Logger was introduced in log4j 1.2 so users of log4j 1.1 and log4j 1.0 need to upgrade to a newer version of log4j. Bugzilla Report 31951.
• build.sysclasspath now also affects the bootclasspath handling of spawned Java VMs. If you set build.sysclasspath to anything other than "ignore" (or leave it unset, since "ignore" is the default when it comes to bootclasspath handling), then the bootclasspath of the VM running Ant will be added to the bootclasspath you've specified.
• The <java fork="false"> now as per default installs a security manager using the default permissions. This is now independent of the failonerror attribute. Bugzilla report 33361.
• <signjar> now notices when the jar and signedjar are equal, and switches to the same dependency logic as when signedjar is omitted. This may break something that depended upon signing in this situation. However, since invoking the JDK jarsigner program with -signedjar set to the source jar actually crashes the JVM on our (Java1.5) systems, we don't think any build files which actually worked will be affected by the change.
• <signjar> used to ignore a nested fileset when a jar was also provided as an attribute, printing a warning message; now it signs files in the fileset.
• An improved method of handling timestamp granularity differences between client and server was added to the <ftp> task. FTP servers typically have HH:mm timestamps whereas local filesystems have HH:mm:ss timestamps. Previously, this required tweaking with the timediffmillis attribute which also was used to handle timezone differences. Now, there is a new timestampgranularity attribute. The default value for get operations is 0 since the user has the more powerful preservelastmodified attribute to work with. Since this is not available on put operations the default value adds a minute to the server timestamp in order to account for this, Scripts which previously used timediffmillis to do this compensation may need to be rewritten. timediffmillis has now been deprecated.
• Support for the XSL:P XML parser has been removed. Bugzilla Report 23455.
• Visual Age for Java optional tasks removed as the required library is no longer available.
• Testlet (test) optional task removed as the required library is no longer available.
• IContract optional task removed as the required library is no longer available.
• Metamata (maudit, mmetrics, and mparse tasks) removed as the required library is no longer available.
• Sitraka (jpcoverage, jpcovmerge, jpcovreport) tasks suppressed as the required library is no longer available.
• <fixcrlf> used \r (Mac) line endings on OS X, whose proper line separator is \n (Unix). Bugzilla report 39585.
• <scp> now optionally supports the sftp protocol, you may need a newer jsch.jar. Bugzilla Report 39373.
• Ant launcher program prints errors to stderr, and exits with a 2 exit code value if, for any reason, it cannot actually start Ant proper. This will only affect programs/scripts that called the launcher and which did not want to receive an error if Ant itself would not start
• All .NET tasks are now deprecated in favor of the new .NET Antlib: http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/dotnet/index.html

Fixed bugs:

• Directory deletion did not work properly. Bugzilla 40972.
• docletpath attribute of javadoc was ignored. Bugzilla 40900.
• Fixed incorrect recursion in DOMUtil.listChildNodes(). Bugzilla 40918.
• CompressedResource.compareTo() did not take comparison with another CompressedResource into account. Bugzilla 40949.
• Avoid possible NPE in Jar.java. Bugzilla 40847.
• regression in attribute prefix (+ others) for refid in zipfileset and tarfileset. Bugzilla 41004, 30498.
• dependset failed if the basedir of a target fileset did not exist. Bugzilla 40916.
• Recursive filtering encountered NullPointerExceptions under certain circumstances. Bugzilla 41086.
• XmlProperty overrides previously set property value when handling duplicate elements. Bugzilla 41080.
• Having many tasks causes OOM. Bugzilla 41049.
• Regression: <path> was evaluating nested content only once, so that it could not e.g. pick up files that didn't exist the first time through. Bugzilla 41151.
• OOM caused by IH holding on to classes and thus their classloaders. Bugzilla 28283 and 33061.
• <delete> doesnt delete when defaultexcludes="false" and no includes is set fixed. Bugzilla 40313.
• Behavior change of DirectoryScanner/AbstractFileset when conditional include patterns are used. Bugzilla 40722.
• <javac> fails with NPE when compiling with eclipse ecj 3.1.x. Bugzilla 40839.
• JUnitTestRunner had a NPE when unable to create parser, the exception containing the error did not get reported. Bugzilla 36733.
• <checksum> with file and todir option failed. Bugzilla report 37386.
• <path location="loc"> was broken (Regression from beta1). Bugzilla report 40547.
• Nested fileset in <cab> did not work. Bugzilla report 39439.
• The ant wrapper script should now correctly locate the java executable in more recent IBM JDKs for AIX as well.
• URLResource did not close jar files, and also did not disconnect HTTPConnection (s).
• Error calling junitreport. Bugzilla 40595.
• <junittask/> created junitvmwatcher*.properties files but did not close and delete them.
• <xmlproperty> did not create properties for empty leaf elements. Bugzilla report 26286.
• UnknownElement.maybeConfigure always configured. Bugzilla report 40641.
• No check for refid when prefix attribute is set in zipfileset. Bugzilla report 30498.
• Fix for junit4 issue introduced since beta2. Bugzilla report 40682.
• Error in duplicate project name with <import> and <antcall>. Bugzilla report 39920.
• junit4 did not work with fork=no and junit4 in $ANT_HOME/lib. Bugzilla report 40697.
• PathConvert on Windows should process forward and back slashes equivalently. Bugzilla report 32884.
• ant.bat now looks in %USERPROFILE% and %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% in addition to %HOME% for pre/post batch files. Bugzilla report 39298.
• The inheritance hierarchy of the legacy <path> type was changed; code built against Ant 1.7 would therefore no longer execute on older versions of Ant. Since <path> is historically heavily used this was undesirable, and since it is also avoidable, the change to <path>'s taxonomy was reverted.
• <zip filesonly="true"> included empty directories. Bugzilla report 40258.
• Invalid hash code of Target causes XmlLogger to fail. Bugzilla report 40207.
• Macro element did not include top level Text. Bugzilla report 36803.
• AntClassLoader did not isolate resources when isolate was set. Bugzilla report 38747.
• Diagnostics broken when using java 1.4. Bugzilla report 40395.
• Exception reporting in <copy> was broken. Bugzilla report 40300.
• Handling of corrupt tar files, TarInputStream.read() never returns EOF. Bugzilla report 39924.
• Some bugs in ReaderInputStream. Bugzilla report 39635.
• <antlr> did not recognise whether the target is up-to-date for html option. Bugzilla report 38451.
• Documented minimal version of jsch now 0.1.29. Bugzilla report 40333.
• <available> searched parent directories for files. Bugzilla report 37148.
• The build could be halted if a file path contained more ".." components than the actual depth of the preceding path. Now such paths are left alone (meaning they will likely be treated as nonexistent files). Bugzilla Report 40281.
• Converting a <dirset> to a string was broken. Bugzilla Report 39683.
• Manifests have improved line length handling, taking care of encoding. Bug reports 37548 / 34425.
• <manifest> now closes the inputstream explicitly. Bug report 39628.
• <rpm> now also correctly searches the first element of the path. Bug report 39345.
• ant.bat now handles classpath set to "". Bug report 38914.
• <junit> now supports JUnit 4. Bugzilla Report 38811.
• <junit> can now work with junit.jar in its <classpath>. Bugzilla Report 38799.
• Some potential NullPointerExceptions, Bugzilla Reports 37765 and 38056.
• Problem when adding multiple filter files, Bugzilla Report 37341.
• Problem referencing jars specified by Class-Path attribute in manifest of a ant task jar file, when this ant task jar file is located in a directory with space, Bugzilla Report 37085.
• Backward incompatible change in ZipFileSet, Bugzilla Report 35824.
• Wrong replacement of file separator chars prevens junitbatchtest from running correctly on files from a zipfileset. Bugzilla Report 35499.
• Calling close twice on ReaderInputStream gave a nullpointer exception. Bugzilla Report 35544.
• Memory leak from IntrospectionHelper.getHelper(Class) in embedded environments. Bugzilla Report 30162.
• Translate task does not remove tokens when a key is not found. It logs a verbose message. Bugzilla Report 13936.
• Incorrect task name with invalid "javac" task after a "presetdef". Bugzilla reports 31389 and 29499.
• <manifest> was not printing warnings about invalid manifest elements. Bugzilla report 32190.
• <replace> got out of memory on large files (part of report 32566). <replace> can now handle files as long as there is enough disk space available.
• Commandline.describeCommand() methods would attempt to describe arguments even when none, other than the executable name, were present.
• Create signjar's helper ExecTask instance directly rather than by typedef discovery mechanisms. Bugzilla report 33433.
• FileUtils.resolveFile() promised to return absolute files but did not always do so.
• <ftp> failed to retrieve a file when the path towards the file contained an element starting with . Bugzilla report 33770.
• "<rmic> always compiles on Java1.5" bugzilla report=33862. Fixed default stub version to always be "compat", even on Java1.5+.
• The .NET compilation tasks failed if filenames given as references contained spaces. Bugzilla Report 27170.
• SQL task would try access result sets of statements that didn't return any, causing problems with Informix IDS 9.2 and IBM DB2 8.1 FixPak 6 (or later). Bugzilla Reports 27162 and 29954.
• Task.init() was called twice for most tasks. Bugzilla Report 34411.
• JavaTest testcases sometimes fail on windows. Bugzilla Report 34502.
• Targets with identical name work in imported project. Bugzilla Report 34566.
• DemuxOutputStream now uses a WeakHashMap to store the thread-stream mapping, to avoid holding on to thread references after they terminate.
• <xmlvalidate> and <schemavalidate> create a new parser for every file in a fileset, and so validate multiple files properly. Bugzilla Report 32791.
• <tar> / <untar> now accepts files upto 8GB, <tar> gives an error if larger files are to be included. This is the POSIX size limit.
• <junitreport> removed line-breaks from stack-traces. Bugzilla Report 34963.
• Off-by-one error in environment setup for execution under OpenVMS fixed.
• Bugzilla report 36171: -noclasspath crashes ant if no system classpath is set.
• <pvcs> used wrong switch for retrieving revisions by label. Bugzilla Report 36359.
• <sshexec> closed System.out, disabling output on second and subsequent invocations. Bugzilla report 36302.
• <cvschangelog> was crashing with CVS versions >= 1.12.x due to change in the date format. Bugzilla report 30962.
• The same IntrospectionHelper instance was continuously added as a listener to project. Bugzilla report 37184.
• FileUtils.toURI() was not encoding non-ASCII characters to ASCII, causing impossibility to process XML entities referenced by XML documents in non ASCII paths. Bugzilla report 37348.
• > 1 ssh invocations to a given host would fail. Bugzilla report 36207.
• EmailTask was eating SMTP error messages. Bugzilla report 37547.
• PropertySet API setMapper(...) didn't properly set up the Mapper. Bugzilla report 37760.
• Proper return code for ant.bat. Bugzilla report 13655.
• Project not set on ChainReaderHelpers used by the Redirector. Bugzilla report 37958.
• Copy task would fail on locked (or otherwise uncopyable) files even if failonerror set to false. Bugzilla report 38175.
• <junit> task did not print all the Test names when using forkmode='once'. Bugzilla report 37426.
• <available> could leak resources, Bugzilla Report 38260.
• Redirector called Thread.sleep in a synchronized block. Bugzilla report 37767.
• CCUnlock's objselect attribute could exhibit unpredictable behavior; standardized improperly included objselect and objsel property accessors to delegate to the inherited objSelect property accessor. Bugzilla report 37766.
• <unzip> and <untar> now correctly merge multiple nested patternsets. Bugzilla Report 38973.
• On case-insensitive filesystems, a <move> to change filename case erroneously deleted the "destination" file before attempting to rename the source file. Bugzilla 37701.
• <scp> can now handle uris with @s other than the final one denoting the domain. Bugzilla 38082.
• If the class invoked by the <java> task threw a ClassNotFoundException, this was misinterpreted as the specified class itself not being found.
• <echoproperties> setPrefix javadoc claimed null or empty prefix would be ignored; instead an error was thrown. Bugzilla report 39954.
• <get> would fetch files that were up to date, because it used > in a remote/local timestamp comparison, not >=. Bugzilla 35607.
• <xslt> passes the current file (name + directory) to the stylesheet/transformation. xsl-parameter name is configurable. Bugzilla report 21042.
• The <zip> API allowed creation of directories in file-only archives; a habitual offender was the subclassed <jar>, which included META-INF/ in the destination file regardless of whether filesonly was set to true.
• <rmic> has a new adapter, xnew, to use the -XNew back end on java1.5+. By forking rmic, this works on java1.6+. Bugzilla report 38732.
• Copy of UnknownElement in macroinstance was not recursive. Bugzilla report 40238.
• Mixing of add and addConfigured methods in Mapper/ChainedMapper causes incorrect chaining. Bugzilla report 40228.

Other changes:

• Warn user when a reference in the form "${refid}" cannot be resolved as this is a sign they probably meant "refid" (misuse of property expansion syntax).
• Add dtd to javadoc for junit. Bugzilla 40754.
• Add quiet attribute to loadfile/resource. Bugzilla 38249.
• Make Locator#fromURI also append the drive letter when running under Windows with JDK 1.3 or 1.2.
• Do not uppercase the drive letters systematically in FileUtils#normalize.
• Java 5 enumerations may now be used as values in XML attributes in place of EnumeratedAttribute. Bugzilla 41058.
• Create a pom file for ant-testutil and add ant-testutil.jar to the ant distribution. Bugzilla 40980.
• Roll back automatic proxy enabling on Java 1.5. It broke things like Oracle JDBC drivers, and Ant itself on IBM's JVM on AIX, and didnt seem to work to well the rest of the time. To enable the feature, use the -autoproxy command line option.
• Upgraded XML API and parser to Xerces 2.8.1
• A code review of some threaded logic has tightened up the synchronization of Watchdog, ExecuteWatchdog and ExecuteJava, which could reduce the occurence of race conditions here, especially on Java1.5+.
• Allow broken reference build files. The defer reference processing would break too many files - so allow them with a warning.
• Removed dependency on sun.misc.UUEncoder for UUMailer.
• Added regex attribute to the echoproperties task. Bugzilla 40019.
• <war> task now allows you to omit the web.xml file. as this is optional in the servlet 2.5 and Java EE 5 APIs. set needxmlfile="false" to avoid a missing web.xml file from halting the build.
• Diagnostics catches and logs security exceptions when accessing system properties.
• <javadoc> useexternalfile now applies to all command line arguments of javadoc. Bugzilla report 40852.
• javadoc/tag@description is now set to the name if description is not specified. Bugzill report 32927.
• Some performance improvements, including Bugzilla report 25778.
• Add <matches> condition. Bugzilla report 28883.
• Extending JAR-Task for SPI. Bugzilla report 31520.
• Added <tokens> resource collection for convenient creation of string resources from other resources' content. Inspired by Bugzilla 40504.
• Added <compare> resource selector to select resources based on the results of their comparison to other resources.
• Added outputtoformatters attribute to <junit> to allow suppression of noisey tests. Bugzilla report 12817.
• Log level of message 'Overriding previous definition of reference to' set to Verbose. Bugzilla report 17240.
• Added setbeans attribute to <script> to allow <script>'s to be run without referencing all references. Bugzilla report 37688.
• Added classpath attribute and nested element to <script> to allow the language jars to be specified in the build script. Bugzilla report 29676.
• Trim the driver attribute on the <sql> task. Bugzilla report 21228.
• Allow (jar) files as well as directories to be given to jdepend. Bugzilla report 28865.
• Convert SplashTask to use NOT sun internal classes. Bugzilla report 35619.
• Made PatternSet#hasPatterns public to allow custom filesets access. Bugzilla report 36772.
• Added searchparents attribute to <available>. Bugzilla report 39549.
• Tasks that don't extend Ant's Task class will now get the build file location reflected into a method of the signature void setLocation(Location)
  • if such a method exists.
• Remove needless synchronization in DirectoryScanner. Bugzilla report 40237.
• Improved recursion detection for lines with multiple matches of same token on a single line. Bugzilla report 38456.
• Task will now log correctly even if no project is set. Bugzilla report 38458.
• Use alternative names for the command line arguments in javac. Bugzilla Report 37546.
• The Reference class now has a project field that will get used (if set) in preference to the passed in project, when dereferencing the reference. Bugzilla Report 25777.
• On DOS and Netware, filenames beginning with a drive letter and followed by a colon but with no directory separator following the colon are no longer (incorrectly) accepted as absolute pathnames by FileUtils.normalize() and FileUtils.isAbsolutePath(). Netware volumes can still be specified without an intervening separator. UNC pathnames on Windows must include a server and share name, i.e. "\\a\b" to be considered valid absolute paths.
• A bug in SQLExec would prevent the execution of trailing, non-semicolon-delimited statements. Bugzilla Report 37764.
• InputHandler implementations may now call InputRequest.getDefaultValue() if they wish. The default handler uses this also. Bugzilla report 28621.
• Took in bugzilla report 39320, "Simple code cleanups"
• Improve compatibility with GNU Classpath and java versions prior to 1.5. Bugzilla 39027.
• ${ant.core.lib} may now be used to refer to the library containing the Ant classes, for instance useful when compiling tasks.
• Minor performance improvements Bugzilla report 37777
• New task <manifestclasspath> converts a path into a property suitable as the value for a manifest's Class-Path attribute.
• Fixed references to obsoleted CVS web site. Bugzilla Report 36854.
• Log fine-grained events at verbose level from JUnit. Bugzilla report 31885.
• <WsdlToDotnet> and <style> are now deprecated in favor of <wsdltodotnet> and <xslt>, respectively. Bugzilla report 25832.
• <echoproperties> now (alphanumerically) sorts the property list before echoing. Bugzilla report 18976.
• A new base class DispatchTask has been added to facilitate elegant creation of tasks with multiple actions.
• Major revision of <wsdltodotnet>. Supports mono wsdl and the microsoft wsdl run on mono, as well as most of the .NET WSE2.0 options. Extra schemas (files or urls) can be named in the <schema> element. Compilers can be selected using the compiler attribute, which defaults to "microsoft" on windows, and "mono" on everything else.
• It is now possible to specify the pattern created/parsed by <checksum>. Bugzilla Report 16539.
• Added a new "failall" value for the onerror attribute of <typedef>. Bugzilla report 31685.
• unzip/unwar/unjar/untar now supports a nested mapper, which lets you unzip in useful ways.
• Junit task -- display suite first. Bugzilla report 31962.
• Added isSigned condition and signedselector selector Bugzilla report 32126.
• Added preserveLastModified attribute to signjar task. Bugzilla report 30987.
• Added <scriptcondition> condition, for inline scripted conditions
• Added <xor> condition for exclusive-or combining of nested conditions.
• Added <scriptselector> selector for scripted file selection
• ant -diagnostics lists contents of ${user.home}/.ant/lib , and checks that the java.io.tmpdir directory exists and is writeable.
• mail task accepts nested header element. Bugzilla report 24713.
• zip/jar/war/ear supports level attribute for deflate compression level. Bugzilla report 25513.
• Added loginputstring attribute to the redirector type.
• Tighten security by sending storepass and keypass to signjar via the input stream of the forked process.
• New task <schemavalidate> extends <xmlvalidate> with extra support for XML Schema (XSD) files.
• <fixcrlf> supports a file attribute for easy fixup of a single file.
• New condition <parsersupports> which can look for XML parser feature or property support in the parser Ant is using.
• fixcrlf can be used in a filterchain.
• <sync> has a new nested element <preserveInTarget> that can be used to protect extra-content in the target directory. Bugzilla Report 21832.
• <signjar> now supports: -nested filesets at the same time as the jar attribute -a destDir attribute with the appropriate dependency logic, which can be used with the jar attribute or nested filesets -a mapper to permit filename remapping on signing -tsaurl and tsacert attributes for timestamped JAR signing -nested <sysproperty> elements, which can be used for proxy setup and the like
• The linecontains and linecontainsregexp filterreaders now support a negate attribute to select lines -not- containing specified text. Bugzilla Report 34374.
• <os> condition adds "winnt" as a family which can be tested. This is all windows platforms other than the Win9x line or Windows CE.
• <exec> (and hence, <apply> and any other derived classes) have an OsFamily attribute, which can restrict execution to a single OS family.
• Added "backtrace" attribute to macrodef. Bugzilla report 27219.
• Ant main provides some diagnostics if it ever sees a -cp or -lib option, as this is indicative of a script mismatch. Bugzilla report 34860
• <junitreport> prints a special message if supplied an empty XML File. This can be caused by the test JVM exiting during a test, either via a System.exit() call or a JVM crash.
• Project name is now used for all targets so one can write consistent import build files. Bugzilla report 28444.
• New condition <typefound> that can be used to probe for the declaration and implementation of a task, type, preset, macro, scriptdef, whatever. As it tests for the implementation, it can be used to check for optional tasks being available.
• Check for 1.5.* Ant main class. (weblogic.jar in classpath reports)
• New condition <isfailure> that tests the return-code of an executable. This contains platform-specific logic and is better than comparing the result with "0".
• Added initial support for Resource Collections, including the resourcecount task.
• property attribute of pathconvert is now optional. If omitted the result will be written to the log.
• New mapper, <scriptmapper>, supports scripted mapping of source files/strings to destination strings.
• Add the echoxml task. This will echo nested XML to a file, with the normal <?xml ?> processor instruction. UTF-8 encoding only; no-namespace support.
• Try to make subprojects of custom Project subclasses instances of the same type. Bugzilla report 17901.
• <ssh> and <scp> support keyboard-interactive authentication now.
• <javadoc> now supports -breakiterator for custom doclets if Ant is running on JSE 5.0 or higher. Bugzilla Report: 34580.
• New logger, TimestampedLogger, that prints the wall time that a build finished/failed. Use with -logger org.apache.tools.ant.listener.TimestampedLogger
• <junitreport> now generates pages alltests-errors.html and alltests-fails.html, that list only the errors and failures, respectively. Bugzilla Report: 36226
• New task <makeurl> that can turn a file reference into an absolute file:// url; and nested filesets/paths into a (space, comma, whatever) separated list of URLs. Useful for RMI classpath setup, amongst other things.
• <xslt> now accepts nested FileNameMappers e.g. <globmapper>. Bugzilla report 37604.
• New task <loadresource> that accompanies <loadfile> for non file resources.
• <echo> now supports an encoding when saving to a file.
• New GreedyInputHandler added.
• Add textfile attribute to the <filesmatch> condition. When true, the text contents of the two files are compared, ignoring line ending differences.
• New <resourcesmatch> condition.
• Added the onmissingfiltersfile attribute to filterset. Bugzilla report 19845.
• Added the inline handler element to the input task.
• <sql> supports property expansion if you set the expandProperties attribute. By default it does not expand properties, something we dare not change for fear of breaking complex SQL operations in existing files.
• <javadoc>'s packagenames attribute is now optional and defaults to "*".
• <javac>'s source and target attributes as well as <javadoc>'s source attribute will read default values from the properties ant.build.javac.source and ant.build.javac.target.
• Handling of ' ', '' in CLASSPATH and '' in -lib (cannot use ' ' in -lib on UNIX at the moment). Bugzilla Report 39295.
• <scp> now optionally supports the sftp protocol. Bugzilla Report 39373.
• Resources can now be used to indicate the location of the stylesheet to use in <xslt>. Bugzilla Report 39407.
• New <antversion> condition. Bugzilla report 32804.
• ReplaceTokens should allow properties files. Bugzilla report 39688.
• FTP Account could not be specified in ant FTP task. Bugzilla report 39720.
• Minor performance updates. Bugzilla report 39565.
• New deleteonexit attribute for the <tempfile> task. Bugzilla report 39842. Remember that the exit of the JVM can be a long time coming, especially under an IDE. Don't rely on this being called.
• <scriptdef>-created scripts have support for nested text. All text passed to a scripted task can be accessed via self.text.
• <fixcrlf> now supports an outputencoding attribute. Bugzilla report 39697.
• <junitreport> now supports nested XSL parameters. Bugzilla report 39708.
• <javacc> has a jdkversion attribute to pass the desired JDK version down to javacc. Bugzilla report 38715.
• <cvs> prints passfile info at -verbose level instead of -info. Bugzilla report 35268
• When <javac> can't find the compiler class, it prints out java.home for immediate diagnostics
• Ant launcher now supports a -main attribute so that you can specify an extension class to the built in org.apache.tools.ant.Main class. This class must implement the interface AntMain