diff --git a/lucene/benchmark/build.xml b/lucene/benchmark/build.xml
index c316736197d..4809e4a3251 100644
--- a/lucene/benchmark/build.xml
+++ b/lucene/benchmark/build.xml
@@ -220,7 +220,8 @@
 	    </java>
 	    <echo>Benchmark output is in file: ${collation.output.file}</echo>
 	    <echo>Converting to JIRA table format...</echo>
-	    <exec executable="perl" output="${collation.jira.output.file}" failonerror="true">
+	    <exec executable="${perl.exe}" output="${collation.jira.output.file}" failonerror="true">
+        <arg value="-CSD"/>
 	      <arg value="scripts/collation.bm2jira.pl"/>
 	      <arg value="${collation.output.file}"/>
 	    </exec>
@@ -246,7 +247,8 @@
       </java>
       <echo>Benchmark output is in file: ${shingle.output.file}</echo>
       <echo>Converting to JIRA table format...</echo>
-      <exec executable="perl" output="${shingle.jira.output.file}" failonerror="true">
+      <exec executable="${perl.exe}" output="${shingle.jira.output.file}" failonerror="true">
+        <arg value="-CSD"/>
         <arg value="scripts/shingle.bm2jira.pl"/>
         <arg value="${shingle.output.file}"/>
       </exec>
diff --git a/lucene/build.xml b/lucene/build.xml
index 230bfa7696c..7418c8080bf 100644
--- a/lucene/build.xml
+++ b/lucene/build.xml
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@
     <delete dir="${svn.export.dir}/tools/clover"/>
 
     <build-changes changes.src.dir="${svn.export.dir}/site/changes"
-                   changes.target.dir="${svn.export.dir}/docs/changes"/>
+                   changes.target.dir="${svn.export.dir}/docs/changes" changes.product="LUCENE"/>
     <tar tarfile="${source.package.file}" compression="gzip" longfile="gnu">
       <tarfileset prefix="lucene-${version}" dir="${svn.export.dir}"/>
     </tar>
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@
   </target>
 
   <target name="changes-to-html">
-    <build-changes changes.src.dir="${changes.src.dir}" changes.target.dir="${changes.target.dir}" />
+    <build-changes changes.src.dir="${changes.src.dir}" changes.target.dir="${changes.target.dir}" changes.product="LUCENE"/>
   </target>
 
   <target name="pitest-modules" depends="compile-test">
diff --git a/lucene/common-build.xml b/lucene/common-build.xml
index 0b145b212be..9131c1ddcb5 100644
--- a/lucene/common-build.xml
+++ b/lucene/common-build.xml
@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@
   -->
   <property name="svnversion.exe" value="svnversion" />
   <property name="svn.exe" value="svn" />
+  <property name="perl.exe" value="perl" />
   
   <property name="hg.exe" value="hg" />
   <property name="moman.url" value="https://bitbucket.org/jpbarrette/moman" />
@@ -1351,7 +1352,8 @@ ${tests-output}/junit4-*.suites     - per-JVM executed suites
     <sequential>
       <property name="output.build.xml" location="${build.dir}/stage_maven_build.xml"/>
       <property name="dev-tools.scripts.dir" value="../dev-tools/scripts"/>
-      <exec dir="." executable="perl" failonerror="true" outputproperty="stage.maven.script.output">
+      <exec dir="." executable="${perl.exe}" failonerror="true" outputproperty="stage.maven.script.output">
+        <arg value="-CSD"/>
         <arg value="${dev-tools.scripts.dir}/write.stage.maven.build.xml.pl"/>
         <arg value="${maven.dist.dir}"/>              <!-- Maven distribution artifacts directory -->
         <arg value="${output.build.xml}"/>            <!-- Ant build file to be written -->
@@ -1889,14 +1891,21 @@ ${tests-output}/junit4-*.suites     - per-JVM executed suites
    compile changes.txt into an html file
    -->
   <macrodef name="build-changes">
+    <attribute name="changes.product"/>
     <attribute name="changes.src.dir" default="${changes.src.dir}"/>
     <attribute name="changes.target.dir" default="${changes.target.dir}"/>
     <sequential>
       <mkdir dir="@{changes.target.dir}"/>
-      <exec executable="perl" input="CHANGES.txt" output="@{changes.target.dir}/Changes.html"
+      <get src="https://issues.apache.org/jira/rest/api/2/project/@{changes.product}"
+        dest="@{changes.target.dir}/jiraVersionList.json" httpusecaches="false"/>
+      <exec executable="${perl.exe}" input="CHANGES.txt" output="@{changes.target.dir}/Changes.html"
             failonerror="true" logError="true">
+        <arg value="-CSD"/>
         <arg value="@{changes.src.dir}/changes2html.pl"/>
+        <arg value="@{changes.product}"/>
+        <arg value="@{changes.target.dir}/jiraVersionList.json"/>
       </exec>
+      <delete file="@{changes.target.dir}/jiraVersionList.json"/>
       <copy todir="@{changes.target.dir}">
         <fileset dir="@{changes.src.dir}" includes="*.css"/>
       </copy>
diff --git a/lucene/site/changes/changes2html.pl b/lucene/site/changes/changes2html.pl
index 9e4dfd95846..0279750250b 100755
--- a/lucene/site/changes/changes2html.pl
+++ b/lucene/site/changes/changes2html.pl
@@ -41,17 +41,10 @@ my $first_relid = undef;
 my $second_relid = undef;
 my @releases = ();
 
-my @lines = <>;                        # Get all input at once
+my @lines = <STDIN>;                        # Get all input at once
 
-my $product = '';
-for my $line (@lines) {
-  ($product) = $line =~ /(Solr|Lucene)/i;
-  if ($product) {
-    $product = uc($product);
-    last;
-  }
-}
-my %release_dates = &setup_release_dates;
+my $product = $ARGV[0];
+my %release_dates = &setup_release_dates($ARGV[1]);
 my $in_major_component_versions_section = 0;
 
 
@@ -804,6 +797,7 @@ sub get_release_date {
 #
 sub setup_release_dates {
   my %release_dates;
+  my $file = shift;
   if (uc($product) eq 'LUCENE') {
     %release_dates
        = ( '0.01' => '2000-03-30',      '0.04' => '2000-04-19',
@@ -826,9 +820,7 @@ sub setup_release_dates {
            '3.0.0' => '2009-11-25');
   }
 
-  print STDERR "Retrieving $project_info_url/$product ...\n";
-  my $project_info_json = get_url_contents("$project_info_url/$product");
-
+  my $project_info_json = readFile($file);
   my $project_info = json2perl($project_info_json);
   for my $version (@{$project_info->{versions}}) {
     if ($version->{releaseDate}) {
@@ -844,20 +836,13 @@ sub setup_release_dates {
   return %release_dates;
 }
 
-#
-# returns contents of the passed in url
-#
-sub get_url_contents {
-  my $url = shift;
-  my $tryWget = `wget --no-check-certificate -O - $url`;
-  if ($? eq 0) {
-    return $tryWget;
-  }
-  my $tryCurl = `curl $url`;
-  if ($? eq 0) {
-    return $tryCurl;
-  }
-  die "could not retrieve $url with either wget or curl!";
+sub readFile {
+  my $file = shift;
+  open(F, '<'.$file) || die "could not open $file: $!";
+  local $/ = undef;
+  my $project_info_json = <F>;
+  close(F);
+  return $project_info_json;
 }
 
 #
diff --git a/solr/build.xml b/solr/build.xml
index e280c825cec..bd007c330ae 100644
--- a/solr/build.xml
+++ b/solr/build.xml
@@ -370,7 +370,8 @@
     <delete dir="${svn.export.dir}/lucene/tools/clover"/>
 
     <build-changes changes.src.dir="${svn.export.dir}/lucene/site/changes"
-                   changes.target.dir="${svn.export.dir}/solr/docs/changes"/>
+                   changes.target.dir="${svn.export.dir}/solr/docs/changes"
+                   changes.product="SOLR"/>
 
     <tar destfile="${source.package.file}" compression="gzip" longfile="gnu">
       <tarfileset dir="${svn.export.dir}"
@@ -498,7 +499,7 @@
   </target>
 
   <target name="changes-to-html">
-    <build-changes changes.src.dir="${changes.src.dir}" changes.target.dir="${changes.target.dir}" />
+    <build-changes changes.src.dir="${changes.src.dir}" changes.target.dir="${changes.target.dir}" changes.product="SOLR"/>
   </target>
  
   <target name="sign-artifacts">