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This release is a collection of bugfixes which were made since 1.5.1. The only added functionality is that Ant can now create ZIP archives that store Unix file permissions in a way that is compatible with InfoZip's tools. Zip/jar updating will now consult the content of existing archives to determine whether an item is out of date. There are fixes to the wrapper scripts for Windows (both .bat and the Cygwin-sh variety). The classloader behavior for non-forked Java and junit tasks is much better on JDK 1.4.
This is a collection of bugfixes over 1.5.1. The only added functionality is that Ant can now create ZIP archives that store Unix file permissions in a way compatible to InfoZip's tools. Zip/jar updating will now consult the content of existing archives to determine out-of-dateness. There are fixes to the wrapper scripts for Windows (both .bat and the Cygwin-sh variety). The classloader behavior for non-forked Java and junit tasks is much better on JDK 1.4.
Among many minor bugfixes this release includes serious improvements of the wrapper scripts which should now support Cygwin and the handling of user-defined tasks that get used in child build processes. It also ships with the latest version of Xerces-J and includes a PDF version of Appendix E of the Ant book.
This release fixes most bugs reported against 1.5; most importantly,
the wrapper scripts have been improved to work properly with
Cygwin. Another major bug affected all custom tasks that were used in
builds that used more than one build file.
This release features improved support for JDK 1.4. Not only does Ant itself build and test completely on Java 1.4, but compiler and javadoc extensions are now handled for the assert keyword and other changes. New tasks and features include a task to prompt for user input, tasks to handle BZIP2 archives, checksums, a server deployment task, finer-grained control over FileSets via Selectors, and FilterChains for data manipulation, among many others. It now works on Netware, z/OS, and MacOS X.
