diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 86f2e4c265..7b5d45fe98 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ Fixed bugs:
  * FTP task no longer duplicates a check for a file being a symlink.
    Bugzilla Report 63259
 
+ * junitlauncher task, when used in fork mode with "<testclasses>",
+   used to create the wrong number of listeners per test class. This
+   has now been fixed.
+   Bugzilla Report 63446
+
 
 Changes from Ant 1.10.5 TO Ant 1.10.6
 =====================================
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/junitlauncher/confined/TestClasses.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/junitlauncher/confined/TestClasses.java
index f119a348b4..96eddcdc84 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/junitlauncher/confined/TestClasses.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/junitlauncher/confined/TestClasses.java
@@ -110,12 +110,13 @@ protected void toForkedRepresentation(final JUnitLauncherTask task, final XMLStr
 
     public static List<TestDefinition> fromForkedRepresentation(final XMLStreamReader reader) throws XMLStreamException {
         reader.require(XMLStreamConstants.START_ELEMENT, null, LD_XML_ELM_TEST_CLASSES);
-        final TestClasses testDefinition = new TestClasses();
+        final List<TestDefinition> testDefinitions = new ArrayList<>();
         // read out as multiple SingleTestClass representations
         while (reader.nextTag() != XMLStreamConstants.END_ELEMENT) {
+            final SingleTestClass testDefinition = new SingleTestClass();
             reader.require(XMLStreamConstants.START_ELEMENT, null, Constants.LD_XML_ELM_TEST);
             final String testClassName = requireAttributeValue(reader, LD_XML_ATTR_CLASS_NAME);
-            testDefinition.add(new StringResource(testClassName + ".class"));
+            testDefinition.setName(testClassName);
             final String halt = reader.getAttributeValue(null, LD_XML_ATTR_HALT_ON_FAILURE);
             if (halt != null) {
                 testDefinition.setHaltOnFailure(Boolean.parseBoolean(halt));
@@ -137,9 +138,10 @@ public static List<TestDefinition> fromForkedRepresentation(final XMLStreamReade
                 testDefinition.addConfiguredListener(ListenerDefinition.fromForkedRepresentation(reader));
             }
             reader.require(XMLStreamConstants.END_ELEMENT, null, Constants.LD_XML_ELM_TEST);
+            testDefinitions.add(testDefinition);
         }
         reader.require(XMLStreamConstants.END_ELEMENT, null, LD_XML_ELM_TEST_CLASSES);
-        return Collections.singletonList(testDefinition);
+        return Collections.unmodifiableList(testDefinitions);
     }
 
     private static String requireAttributeValue(final XMLStreamReader reader, final String attrName) throws XMLStreamException {