Hi,

on behalf of the Ant development team, I have the pleasure to announce
the release of Ant 1.8.0.

Some of the features included in the new release are :

  * Lexically scoped local properties, i.e. properties that are only
defined inside a target, sequential block or similar environment.
  * <import> can now import from any file- or URL-providing resource -
this includes <javaresource>.
  * Various improvements to the directory scanning code that help with
symbolic link cycles (as can be found on MacOS X Java installations for
example) and improve scanning performance. For big directory trees the
improvement is dramatic.
  * The way developers can extend Ant's property expansion algorithm
has been rewritten (breaking the older API) to be easier to use and be
more powerful.
  * a new top level element extension-point allows build files to be
extended with custom targets more easily
  * At the same time the if and unless attributes have been rewritten
to do the expected thing if applied to a property expansion (i.e.
if="${foo}" will mean "yes, do it" if ${foo} expands to true, in Ant
1.7.1 it would mean "no" unless a property named "true" existed). This
adds "testing conditions" as a new use-case to property expansion.
  * Ant now requires Java 1.4 or later
  * new task include provides an alternative to <import> that should
be preferred when you don't want to override any targets
  * numerous bug fixes and improvements as documented in Bugzilla and
in WHATSNEW

Regards,

Antoine Levy-Lambert


---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@(protected)
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@(protected)