NAntContrib Release Notes

0.85-rc1 (November 28 2004)

New Tasks

<depends>

Guarantees that listed dependencies are resolved before continuing.

<grep>

Searches files for a regular-expression and produces an XML report of the matches.

<PVCS>

Support for PVCS has been added.

<Surround SCM>

Support for Surround SCM has been added.

<Subversion>

Support for Subversion has been introduced.

<Perforce>

Support for Perforce SCM has been added.

Task changes

<aximp>

Has been moved to NAnt project.

<comregister>

Minor fix to prevent file locking.
Added support for unregistering type libraries.
Prevented failure message boxes from being displayed when (un)registering a DLL server.
Improved reporting of error conditions.

<gac>

Documentation has been improved.
Several issues have been fixed.

<msi> / <msm>

Added automatic parsing of subdirectories of components.
Added support for registry components.
Documentation has been improved.
Added support for configurable merge modules.
Several issues have been fixed.
Added support for installing assemblies to the GAC.

<sql>

Added "append" attribute that indicates whether to overwrite output file.
Added "showheaders" attribute that specifies whether or not to display schema information.
Column separator is changed from " " (two spaces) to ", ".
Added "quotechar" attribute which specified the character(s) to place arround column values to prevent collisions with for instance the comma character.

<vb6>

Several issues have been fixed.

<vssadd>

Added support for recursive add.

<xsd>

Documentation has been improved.
Several issues have been fixed.

0.84 (December 26, 2003)

Task changes

<regasm>

Fixed issue when long filenames were specified for the typelib or regfile attribute.

0.84-rc 2 (December 21, 2003)

No changes

0.84-rc 1 (December 6, 2003)

New Tasks

<vssdif>

Shows all changes to a Visual SourceSafe project after a specified label.

Task changes

<msi> and <msm>

For entries in the File table, the language will now be supplied.
Nullable columns for a custom table are now properly supported.
Added checkinterop attributes to the component and fileoverride elements.
Support pure registry components.
Improved error reporting.

<slingshot>

Fixed bug with regards to parameters.
Added support for Visual Studio.NET 2003 solutions.

<sql>

Made task less chatty.

<validatexml>

Renamed schemas child element name from <schemaref> to <schema>.

<version>

Improved error reporting and documentation.

<vssget>

Added removedeleted attribute to support removal of local files that were deleted files from the Visual SourceSafe repository.
Added usemodtime attribute to support setting the timestamp of local files to the modification time of these files in the Visual SourceSafe repository.
Added unit tests.

Removed Tasks

<tlbimp>

Task has been moved to NAnt.

<tlbexp>

Task has been moved to NAnt.

<rc>

Task has been moved to NAnt.

<midl>

Task has been moved to NAnt.

<mailex>

All functionality has been merged into the NAnt <mail> task.

<asminfo>

Task has been moved to NAnt.

<taskdef>

Task has been moved to NAnt.