Buildr 1.4.2 is released. It brings many fixes and small improvements to the 1.4.x stream.

Apache Buildr is a build system for Java-based applications, including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and tools. We wanted something that's simple and intuitive to use, so we only need to tell it what to do, and it takes care of the rest. But also something we can easily extend for those one-off tasks, with a language that's a joy to use.

New in 1.4.2:
* Added: BUILDR-415 Ability to exclude tests from command line
* Added: BUILDR-495 Document twitter on Buildr's homepage
* Added: BUILDR-212 Update support for SNAPSHOT artifacts (Timo Rantalaiho and Izzet Mustafa)
* Added: BUILDR-465 Eclipse project names should be customizable
* Added: BUILDR-493 Eclipse task should generate javadocpath
* Added: BUILDR-509 Option to generate non-prefixed Eclipse project names
* Added: BUILDR-510 Add support for trace categories: --trace=foo,bar
* Added: Integration test to show how to change the war packaging spec.
* Added: Integration test to show how to use junit 3.
* Added: Integration test to show how to get ahold of parent project
* Change: BUILDR-473 Update jruby-openssl dependency version or support a range of versions
* Change: BUILDR-478 Upgrade to net-ssh 2.0.23 and net-sftp 2.0.4 (Shane Witbeck)
* Change: BUILDR-475 Support for long names on tar.gz (updated to minitar 0.5.3)
* Change: BUILDR-484 Upgrade to Scala 2.8.0 (final) and associated dependencies
(ScalaCheck 1.7, ScalaTest 1.2, Specs 1.6.5)
* Change: BUILDR-487 package :sources should default to using .jar extension (instead of .zip)
* Change: Upgrade to Jruby 1.5.2
* Fixed: BUILDR-143 Upload to a file:// path needs ability to specify permissions (Joel Muzzerall)
* Fixed: BUILDR-144 Filter does not preserve file permissions
* Fixed: BUILDR-163 cobertura-check
* Fixed: BUILDR-203 Compiler guessing very inefficient
* Fixed: BUILDR-225 ArchiveTask#merge, not according to doc
* Fixed: BUILDR-256 Automatically installing gems aborts rspec test runner (Rhett Sutphin)
* Fixed: BUILDR-285 Cobertura failing when running build
* Fixed: BUILDR-302 Move out-of-date Nailgun documentation to wiki (Shane Witbeck)
* Fixed: BUILDR-317 ecj compiler
* Fixed: BUILDR-326 follow up: binary safe untarring on Windows (Sam Hendley)
* Fixed: BUILDR-335 follow up: excluding libraries from war is confusing
* Fixed: BUILDR-342 The jruby gem installer invokes the removed Gem.manage_gems function (Rhett Sutphin)
* Fixed: BUILDR-403 Buildr::Util::Gems.install does not find gems on remote sources
* Fixed: BUILDR-436 release task should only replace "-SNAPSHOT" (spec from Jean-Philippe Caruana)
* Fixed: BUILDR-438 Release Task: customizable version numbers (Alexis Midon)
* Fixed: BUILDR-464 Improve the versioning of Buildr (Rhett Sutphin)
* Fixed: BUILDR-466 Rendering issue with IE on the website (Shane Witbeck)
* Fixed: BUILDR-468 test:failed does not respect test.exclude
* Fixed: BUILDR-469 test:failed causes all transitive tests to run
* Fixed: BUILDR-472 ECJ dependency now required to build any java project
* Fixed: BUILDR-477 Error while parsing maven-metadata.xml
* Fixed: BUILDR-479 Enforce using a minimal version of jruby
* Fixed: BUILDR-481 Antwrap monkey-patching in core.rb
* Fixed: BUILDR-482 Javadoc : cannot load class java.com.sun.tools.javadoc.Main
* Fixed: BUILDR-488 artifact poms not reinstalled
* Fixed: BUILDR-491 sftp download goes into infinite loop
* Fixed: BUILDR-498 Artifact download fails with "negative argument" if
terminal capabilities are undefined
* Fixed: BUILDR-499 Java package caching through constants
e.g. (Java.java.lang.String cached as Java::Lang::String)
can shadow Ruby modules
* Fixed: BUILDR-501 Fix buildr label when listing tasks (Peter Donald)
* Fixed: BUILDR-503 Include with as includes directories as files when the directory has the same name as the path
* Fixed: BUILDR-506 Gem packaging does not work under windows (Peter Donald)
* Fixed: BUILDR-508 Remove unnecessary use of Java.classpath in OpenJPA extension (Peter Donald)
* Fixed: BUILDR-507 Gem packaging should replace dashes with dots in version number (Peter Donald)