The Apache Ant Team is proud to announce the 1.9.3 release of Ant. Apache Ant is a Java based build tool. Ant 1.9.3 has been released. The main change is a fix for the speed of the exec task. See bugzilla report 54128. Other bug fixes and improvements are documented in the README file. Many thanks to Tim Whittington who created the patch, which has been used to restore the speed of the task, and many thanks too to David F. Elliott for his patch and t o Laurent Goujon who nagged to get the patch applied. Source and binary distributions are available from the Apache Ant download site: http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi and http://ant.apache.org/srcdownload.cgi Please verify signatures using the KEYS file available at the above location when downloading the release. For complete information on Ant, including instructions on how to submit bug reports, patches, or suggestions for improvement, see the Apache Ant website: http://ant.apache.org/index.html Antoine Levy-Lambert, on behalf of the Apache Ant community