diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index eee60a2..d54d58e 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
   <property name="path.build.classes" location="bin/classes" />
   <property name="path.src.resources" location="src/resources" />
   <property name="path.dist"  location="dist" />
+  <property name="path.release"  location="release" />
   <property name="path.build.lib" value="bin/lib" />
   <property name ="path.src.lib" value="src/lib" />
     <path id="compile.classpath">
@@ -29,10 +30,10 @@
 	    <fileset dir="${path.src.lib}"/>
 	  </copy>
   	
-    <javac srcdir="${path.src}" destdir="${path.build.classes}">
+    <javac srcdir="${path.src}" destdir="${path.build.classes}" target="7" source="7">
     	<classpath refid="compile.classpath" />
     </javac>
-  	<pathconvert property="mf.classpath" pathsep=" " > 
+  	  	<pathconvert property="mf.classpath" pathsep=" " > 
   		<path refid="compile.classpath" />  
   		<chainedmapper>
   		  <flattenmapper/>
@@ -65,10 +66,23 @@
   	
   </target>
 
+  <target name="zip" depends="dist"
+        description="generate the release zip" >
+  	
+	<zip destfile="${path.release}/kilcli-release.zip"
+		whenempty="fail"
+		level="9"
+		duplicate="fail">
+		<zipfileset dir="${path.dist}" excludes="**/*.log" prefix="kilcli"/>
+	</zip>
+
+  </target>
+
   <target name="clean"
         description="clean up" >
-    <!-- Delete the ${build} and ${dist} directory trees -->
+    <!-- Delete the output directory trees -->
     <delete dir="${path.build}"/>
     <delete dir="${path.dist}"/>
+    <delete dir="${path.release}"/>
   </target>
 </project>
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