diff --git a/changes.xml b/changes.xml
index c9e4a70..45cb0cd 100644
--- a/changes.xml
+++ b/changes.xml
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@
       Default XSLT stylesheets now properly escape XML in exception
       stack traces.
     </action>
+    <action type="fix">
+      assertPropertyContains was not checking the value of the property but
+      the name of the property.
+    </action>
   </release>
   
   <release version="1.1" date="2008-09-26">
diff --git a/src/etc/testcases/assert.xml b/src/etc/testcases/assert.xml
index adac596..60075cf 100644
--- a/src/etc/testcases/assert.xml
+++ b/src/etc/testcases/assert.xml
@@ -102,6 +102,16 @@ under the License.
     <au:assertPropertyEquals name="foo" value="BAR"/>
   </target>
 
+  <target name="assertPropertyContains">
+    <property name="foo" value="bar"/>
+    <au:assertPropertyContains name="foo" value="ba"/>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="assertPropertyContainsFail">
+    <property name="foo" value="bar"/>
+    <au:assertPropertyContains name="foo" value="foo"/>
+  </target>
+
   <target name="assertFileExistsPass">
     <au:assertFileExists file="assert.xml"/>
   </target>
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/ant/antunit/antlib.xml b/src/main/org/apache/ant/antunit/antlib.xml
index 7c8c154..c8edb02 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/ant/antunit/antlib.xml
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/ant/antunit/antlib.xml
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ under the License.
     <sequential>
       <au:assertPropertySet message="@{message}" name="@{name}"/>
       <au:assertTrue message="@{message}">
-        <contains string="@{name}" substring="@{value}"
+        <contains string="${@{name}}" substring="@{value}"
                   casesensitive="@{casesensitive}"/>
       </au:assertTrue>
     </sequential>
diff --git a/src/tests/junit/org/apache/ant/antunit/AssertTest.java b/src/tests/junit/org/apache/ant/antunit/AssertTest.java
index 3a78a62..5494cdd 100644
--- a/src/tests/junit/org/apache/ant/antunit/AssertTest.java
+++ b/src/tests/junit/org/apache/ant/antunit/AssertTest.java
@@ -101,6 +101,12 @@ public class AssertTest extends BuildFileTest {
     public void testPropertyEqualsFail3() {
         testFail("assertPropertyEqualsFail3", "Expected property 'foo' to have value 'BAR' but was 'bar'");
     }
+    public void testPropertyContains() {
+        testPass("assertPropertyContains");
+    }
+    public void testPropertyContainsFail() {
+        testFail("assertPropertyContainsFail", "Expected property 'foo' to contain value 'foo' but was 'bar'");
+    }
     public void testFileExistsFail() {
         testFail("assertFileExistsFail",
                  "Expected file 'assert.txt' to exist");