MergeCandidates18xBranch

A list of commits to Ant's trunk that could be merged to the 1.8 branch if we wanted to create another 1.8.x release

• Revision 1292918 test improvements
  
• Revision 1292935 test improvements
  
• Revision 1294780 fixing BZ 52754
  
• Revision 1294340 fixing BZ 52738
  
• Revision 1294345 fixing BZ 52740
  
• Revision 1294360 fixing BZ 52742
  
• Revision 1294363 mention previous three fixes in WHATSNEW
  
• Revision 1294780 and Revision 1297127 fixing BZ 52743
  
• Revision 1295335 log message improvement
  
• Revision 1330090 fixing BZ 53141
  
• Revision 1340895 and Revision 1340990 bzip2 edge case improvement - test uses JUnit4 so has to be skipped, stream code contains some @Overrides that must be stripped
  
• Revision 1342883 fixing BZ 53215
  
• Revision 1342889 and Revision 1342897 fixing BZ 53291
  
• Revision 1342899 fixing BZ 53202
  
• Revision 1342959 fixing BZ 53036
  
• Revision 1343304 fixing BZ 51792
  
• Revision 1345316 fixing BZ 53347
  
• Revision 1350460 and Revision 1350461 fixing BZ 52706 - contains a few Java5 constructs
  
• Revision 1350000 fixing BZ 53405 - ExtensionPoint doesn't work with nested import/include
  
• Revision 1351053 fixing BZ 53399
  
• Revision 1372266 fixing BZ 53626
  

and commits from outside of Ant that may be worth merging

• Revision 1294460 fixing COMPRESS-176