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The macrodef task uses a different syntax to expand attributes now to highlight the fact that they are not properties. The usage of XML namespaces inside Ant has been adapted to better match the expectations of namespace aware tools. As always a couple of bugs found in the previous beta releases have been fixed. This release introduces some slight incompatibilities with the previous beta releases but is expected to be fully compatible with the final release of Ant 1.6.
Ant 1.6 adds a lot of new features over 1.5. Most
notably, support for XML namespaces and a new
concept of Ant libraries that uses namespaces to
avoid name clashes have been added. A lot of new
tasks have been added. Most prominently, support
for SSH is now available with the help of the JSch
library. This is the first version of Ant that
requires a JDK 1.2 or later to run.
The zip task family in Ant 1.5.2 contained a couple of serious bugs that have been fixed. In addition, two regressions in the FTP and manifest tasks have been detected. This final release also contains some other minor bugfixes.
The zip task family in Ant 1.5.2 contains a couple of serious bugs that have been fixed by this beta. In addition, two regressions in the ftp and manifest tasks have been detected.
