Ant 1.5.1
This is the 1.5.1 version of Ant. It is available in both
binary and source distributions.
Note:
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and must be untarred with a GNU compatible version of tar. The version
of tar on Solaris and Mac OS X will not work with these files
Changes
The changes from Release 1.5 to this release are detailed below.
Please refer to the WHATSNEW file for more information.
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- <tstamp>'s prefix attribute failed to apply to nested <format> elements.
- <junitreport> created an empty junit-noframes.html if no format had
been specified.
- <basename> would remove more than it should if the file name
contained more than one dot.
- <filterset>s nested into <filterset>s didn't work.
- Shipped XML parser is now Xerces 2.2.0
- Filesets now support a 'file' attribute, allowing a single-file
fileset to be constructed without having to specify its parent
directory separately.
- <junit> will now return the result of a call to getName instead of
"unknown" for Test implementations that don't extend TestCase but have
a public String getName() method.
- Date/time in CvsChangeLog was in local timezone and 12 hour format leading
to a problem when sorting by time. It is now UTC (GMT) and in 24-hour
format as per cvs 'specifications'.
- CvsTagDiff now supports ampersand modules or modules that have a different
root directory than their name.
- EjbJar threw NPEs for the Websphere element. The property 'websphere.home'
was not documented.
- Mail example in the documentation was not correct.
- Checksum was broken in the following scenario:
(using verifyproperty OR in a condition) AND using filesets
with multiple files.
- The ExpandProperties filter threw NPEs when defined using
the <filterreader> format.
- The sh wrapper script didn't work under Cygwin if ANT_HOME wasn't
set with a Unix style filename.
- The sh wrapper script could fail if you started Ant from a directory
with whitespace in its name.
- ant -diagnostics was not working properly when the task dependency
was missing and was just printing the missing dependency.
- If a task got redefined via <taskdef>, it lost its child elements.
- <property>'s classpathref attribute was broken.
- <arg line="''" /> would result in no command line argument, will now
be a single empty argument. Use <arg value="''"/> if you need the
quotes literally.
- <replaceregexp> could append a newline character at the end of the
file.
- Appendix E of Java Development with Ant (Loughran/Hatcher) was
contributed to the docs.
- <available> will only print deprecration warnings if it is actually
used to change the value of a property.