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Apache Ant 1.9.0 Released

The Apache Ant team has announced the release of Apache Ant 1.9.0

Several changes are made in this release of Ant that have the possibility of breaking older environments (although probably unlikely).  The main one if these is that this new release requires a minimum of Java 5. The others are described as:

  • FixCRLF used to treat the EOL value ASIS to convert to the system property line.separator. Specified was that ASIS would leave the EOL characters alone, the task now really leaves the EOL characters alone. This also implies that EOL ASIS will not insert a newline even if fixlast is set to true. Bugzilla report 53036
  • The CommandLauncher hierarchy that used to be a set of inner classes of Execute has been extracted to the org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.launcher package.
  • Any FileResource whose represented File has a parent also has a basedir.
  • Removing the Perforce Ant tasks replaced by tasks supplied by Perforce Inc.
  • Setting the default encoding of StringResource to UTF-8 instead of null
  • Upgrade JUnit 4 to JUnit 4.11

Full details of all the issues fixed with this release can be found here.

This updated version of Ant can be downloaded form the project's download site.

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