diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 669c75ebf..d16197e51 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -829,6 +829,9 @@ Other changes:
    can be told to not download files that already exist locally.
    Bugzilla Report 40058.
 
+ * Ant now builds against commons-net 2.0 as well.
+   Bugzilla Report 47669.
+
 Changes from Ant 1.7.0 TO Ant 1.7.1
 =============================================
 
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/net/FTP.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/net/FTP.java
index 6eaf9ede2..88f81ecff 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/net/FTP.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/net/FTP.java
@@ -2447,7 +2447,7 @@ public class FTP
             log("login succeeded", Project.MSG_VERBOSE);
 
             if (binary) {
-                ftp.setFileType(org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTP.IMAGE_FILE_TYPE);
+                ftp.setFileType(org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTP.BINARY_FILE_TYPE);
                 if (!FTPReply.isPositiveCompletion(ftp.getReplyCode())) {
                     throw new BuildException("could not set transfer type: "
                                              + ftp.getReplyString());