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Subject: AW: [ANN] Release of Ant 1.8.0
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:48:47 +0100
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From: "Knuplesch, Juergen" <Juergen.Knuplesch@icongmbh.de>
To: "Ant Users List" <user@ant.apache.org>

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Von: Antoine Levy Lambert [mailto:antoine@gmx.de]=20
Gesendet: Montag, 8. Februar 2010 23:29
An: Ant Users List
Betreff: [ANN] Release of Ant 1.8.0

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.=20
if=3D"${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

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