As an open source project under
Apache’s Jakarta project, Ant undergoes nightly code
revisions and builds. These nightly builds create
Ant’s “non-stable
versions.” Every so often, the primary maintainers
declare the functionality and stability of a nightly build as
release quality. As of this writing, there have
been five such releases: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, and 1.4.1. This
reference’s main focus is on 1.4.1, released in
October of 2001. Some tasks, copydir for example,
are deprecated as of Release 1.2, but are still covered in this book
since they have not been completely removed from the list of core
tasks.
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