Hello everyone,
We last released Ant more than a year back. During that period we have
had some good amount of bug fixes and changes that have gone in. Plus,
Java 18 and beyond was released in the meantime where setting the
security manager isn't allowed by default (Ant sets it). Users can still
use the current released Ant version against these recent Java versions,
but they additionally have to set a system property while launching Ant
to allow setting the security manager. Ant's mainline code has changes
where it does the necessary work (to the extent possible) to set this
property internally without forcing the users to do that. So releasing
this version of Ant should help projects building against these recent
versions.
The way we detect Java versions within Ant's startup script isn't
straightforward, especially for Windows. We had a brief discussion[1]
about it in the past and I'll be focusing on this area to see if I can
improve that situation in this coming week before the release.
[1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/53jo1sy8ly2645j68m7s2g2mb4f10dy5
-Jaikiran
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