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<author email="">Conor MacNeill</author>
<author email="">Stefan Bodewig</author>
<author email="">Magesh Umasankar</author>
<author email="">Antoine Levy-Lambert</author>
<title>Apache Ant&#x2122; Project News</title>
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<body>
<section name="Apache Ant 1.8.1">
<h3>May 7th, 2010 - Apache Ant 1.8.1 Released</h3>
<p>Apache Ant 1.8.1 is now available for download as source or binary (with and without
dependencies) from
<a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi</a>.</p>
<p>Key features of the 1.8.1 release are</p>
<ul>
<li>new task augment allows to add attributes or nested elements to previously defined references</li>
<li>numerous bug fixes and improvements as documented in Bugzilla
and in WHATSNEW</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section name="Apache Ant 1.8.0">
<h3>Februrary 8th, 2010 - Apache Ant 1.8.0 Released</h3>
<p>Key features of the 1.8.0 release are</p>
<ul>
<li>Lexically scoped local properties, i.e. properties that are only defined inside a target,
sequential block or similar environment. This is very useful inside
of <macrodef>s where a macro can now define a temporary property
that will disappear once the task has finished.</li>
<li><import> can now import from any file- or URL-providing resource -
this includes <javaresource>.
This means <import> can read build file snippets from JARs or fixed server URLs.
There are several other improvements in the area of import.</li>
<li>Various improvements to the directory scanning code that help with symbolic link
cycles (as can be found on MacOS X Java installations for example) and improve
scanning performance. For big directory trees the improvement is
<a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ant-dev/200809.mbox/%3Cy1u4p48li29.fsf@v30161.1blu.de%3E">dramatic</a>.</li>
<li>The way developers can extend Ant's property expansion algorithm has been rewritten
(breaking the older API) to be easier to use and be more powerful.
The whole local properties mechanism is implemented using that API and could be
implemented in a separate library without changes in Ant's core.
Things like the yet-to-be-released props Antlib can now provide often required
"scripty" fuctions without touching Ant itself.
At the same time the if and unless attributes have been rewritten to do the expected
thing if applied to a property expansion (i.e. if="${foo}" will mean "yes, do it"
if ${foo} expands to true, in Ant 1.7.1 it would mean "no" unless a property named
"true" existed). This adds "testing conditions" as a new use-case to property
expansion.</li>
<li>A new top-level element <extension-point> assists in writing re-usable
build files that are meant to be imported. <extension-point> has a name
and a dependency-list like <target> and can be used like a <target>
from the command line or a dependency-list but the importing build file can add
targets to the <extension-point>'s depends list. </li>
<li>Ant now requires Java 1.4 or later</li>
<li>new task include provides an alternative to <import> that
should be preferred when you don't want to override any targets</li>
<li>numerous bug fixes and improvements as documented in Bugzilla
and in WHATSNEW</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section name="Apache Ivy 2.1.0">
<h3>October 8, 2009 - Apache Ivy 2.1.0 Released</h3>
<p>Apache Ivy 2.1.0 is now available for download as source or binary (with and without
dependencies) from
<a href="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi">http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi</a>.</p>
<p>Key features of the 2.1.0 release are</p>
<ul>
<li>enhanced Maven2 compatibility, with several bug fixes and
more pom features covered</li>
<li>new options for the Ivy Ant tasks and commandline</li>
<li>configuration intersections and configuration groups</li>
<li>numerous bug fixes and improvements as documented in Jira
and in the release notes</li>
</ul>
<p>For more information see
the <a href="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/">Ivy home page</a>.</p>
</section>
<section name="Apache IvyDE 2.0.0">
<h3>July 13, 2009 - Apache IvyDE 2.0.0 Released</h3>
<p>Apache IvyDE 2.0.0 is now available for download from
<a href="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ivyde/download.cgi">http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ivyde/download.cgi</a>
or directly from the updatesite
<a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/ivyde/updatesite">http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/ivyde/updatesite</a>
</p>
<p>This is the first release considered as stable since the project as been hosted
by the Apache Software Foundation.</p>
<p>Major changes in this release:</p>
<ul>
<li>the "resolve in workspace" feature (make IvyDE search for Ivy dependencies
directly into the Eclipse projects) has been introduced in the last release
but was quite experimental. It has been refactored to be more reliable and
have been reported to be working like a charm by some of the IvyDE early users.</li>
<li>the user documentation of IvyDE is now available directly into the Eclipse help center.</li>
<li>IvyDE can now load property files along with the Ivy settings.</li>
</ul>
<p>For more information see
the <a href="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ivyde/">IvyDE home page</a>.</p>
</section>
<section name="Apache Ivy 2.0.0">
<h3>January 20, 2009 - Apache Ivy 2.0.0 Released</h3>
<p>Apache Ivy 2.0.0 (final) is now available for download as source or binary (with and without
dependencies) from
<a href="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi">http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi</a>.</p>
<p>This is the first non-beta release of Ivy under Apache and includes some major new features
like: enhanced Maven2 compatibility, improved cache management, improved concurrency support
and numerous bug fixes and other improvements.</p>
<p>For more information see the <a href="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/">Ivy home page</a>.</p>
</section>
<section name="Apache AntUnit 1.1">
<h3>September 26, 2008 - Apache AntUnit 1.1 Released</h3>
<p>Apache AntUnit 1.1 is now available for download as <a
href="http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/bindownload.cgi">binary</a>
or <a
href="http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/srcdownload.cgi">source</a>
release.</p>
<p>In addition to a few bugfixes and some new assertions AntUnit
1.1 allows test listeners to receive the log output of the
project under test. Both plainlistener and xmllistener have
an option that makes them echo the project's output into their
respective logs.</p>
<p>For more information see the <a href="antlibs/antunit/">Antlib's
home page</a></p>
</section>
<section name="Apache AntUnit 1.1 Beta 1">
<h3>September 3, 2008 - Apache AntUnit 1.1 Beta 1 Available</h3>
</section>
<section name="Apache Ant 1.7.1">
<h3>June 27, 2008 - Apache Ant 1.7.1 Available</h3>
<p>Apache Ant 1.7.1 is now available for <a
href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
<p> Ant 1.7.1 is mainly a bugfix release.</p>
<p>Ant 1.7.1 has extended support for Java6 features.</p>
<p> Ant 1.7.1 <script> now has support for JavaFX.</p>
</section>
<section name="Apache Ivy is an Ant Sub-Project Now!">
<h3>October 11, 2007 - Apache Ivy is an Ant Sub-Project Now!</h3>
<p>Apache Ivy, "A Java based tool for tracking, resolving and
managing project dependencies.", just finished <a
href="http://incubator.apache.org/">Incubation</a> and has joined
the Ant project. More information will be available from the Ant
site soon.</p>
<p>Until we've finished the migration, you can learn more about
Ivy from its <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/ivy/">Incubator
website</a>.</p>
</section>
<section name="Apache AntUnit 1.0">
<h3>January 8, 2007 - Apache AntUnit 1.0 Available</h3>
<p>Apache AntUnit 1.0 is now available for <a
href="http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
<p>This Ant Library contains tasks to test Ant tasks using Ant
instead of JUnit. For more information see the <a
href="antlibs/antunit/">AntUnit home page</a>.</p>
</section>
<section name="Apache Ant 1.7.0">
<h3>December 19, 2006 - Apache Ant 1.7.0 Available</h3>
<p>Apache Ant 1.7.0 is now available for <a
href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
<p> Ant 1.7 introduces a resource framework. Some of the core ant
tasks such as <copy/> are now able to process not only file
system resources but also zip entries, tar entries, paths, ...
Resource collections group resources, and can be further
combined with operators such as union and intersection. This
can be extended by custom resources and custom tasks using resources.</p>
<p>
Ant 1.7 starts outsourcing of optional tasks to Antlibs.
The .NET antlib in preparation will replace the .NET optional tasks which ship in Ant.
Support for the version control system Subversion will be only provided as an antlib to
be released shortly.
</p>
<p>Ant 1.7 fixes also a large number of bugs.</p>
<p>Ant 1.7 has some initial support for Java6 features.</p>
</section>
<section name="Apache .NET Ant Library 1.0Beta1">
<h3>November 6, 2006 - Apache .NET Ant Library 1.0 Available</h3>
<p>Apache .NET Ant Library 1.0 is now available for <a
href="http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
<p>This Ant Library contains support for tools like NUnit as well
as the "old" .NET tasks of Ant's core. It has been tested
Microsoft's frameworks as well as Mono.</p>
<p>For more information see the <a href="antlibs/dotnet/">Antlib's
home page</a></p>
</section>
<section name="Apache AntUnit 1.0Beta2">
<h3>October 29, 2006 - Apache AntUnit 1.0Beta2 Available</h3>
<p>Apache AntUnit 1.0Beta1 is now available for <a
href="http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
<p>This Ant Library contains tasks to test Ant tasks using Ant
instead of JUnit. For more information see the <a
href="antlibs/antunit/">AntUnit home page</a>.</p>
</section>
<section name="Apache AntUnit 1.0Beta1">
<h3>September 22, 2006 - Apache AntUnit 1.0Beta1 Available</h3>
<p>Apache AntUnit 1.0Beta1 is now available for <a
href="http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
<p>This Ant Library contains tasks to test Ant tasks using Ant
instead of JUnit. For more information see the <a
href="antlibs/antunit/">AntUnit home page</a>.</p>
</section>
<section name="Apache .NET Ant Library 1.0Beta1">
<h3>September 13, 2006 - Apache .NET Ant Library 1.0Beta1 Available</h3>
<p>Apache .NET Ant Library 1.0Beta1 is now available for <a
href="http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
<p>This Ant Library contains support for tools like NUnit as well
as the "old" .NET tasks of Ant's core. It has been tested
Microsoft's frameworks as well as Mono.</p>
<p>For more information see the <a href="antlibs/dotnet/">Antlib's
home page</a></p>
</section>
<section name="Apache Ant 1.6.5">
<h3>June 2, 2005 - Apache Ant 1.6.5 Available</h3>
<p>Apache Ant 1.6.5 is now available for <a
href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
<p>This is a bug fix release.</p>
</section>
<section name="Apache Ant 1.6.4">
<h3>May 19, 2005 - Apache Ant 1.6.4 Available</h3>
<p>Apache Ant 1.6.4 is now available for <a
href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.</p>
<p>This is a bug fix release.</p>
</section>
<section name="Apache Ant 1.6.3">
<h3>April 28, 2005 - Apache Ant 1.6.3 Available</h3>
<p>Apache Ant 1.6.3 is now available for <a
href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.</p>
<p>There is a large list of fixed bugs and enhancements.</p>
<p>Some of the bugs affecting the embedded use of Ant are fixed.</p>
</section>
<section name="Apache Antidote Retired">
<h3>April 4th, 2005 - The Apache Ant Project Retires Apache Antidote, the
Ant GUI</h3>
<p>The Antidote subproject was once started to provide a GUI for
Ant at a time where IDE support for Ant was far from usable.
Unfortunately it never attracted a developer community of its
own.</p>
<p>At the same time IDE support for Ant has become ubiquitous by
now and there is little reason to have a GUI just for Ant. This
makes it even less likely that volunteers will start to spend time
working on it.</p>
<p>Antidote's development has been stalled for years now, despite
some efforts to rejuvenate it by single developers. Therefore the
Ant developers have chosen to retire Antidote.</p>
<p>Antidote will no longer be developed by the Ant project; its
CVS module will be shut down.</p>
<p>If you are interested in Antidote's sources to learn from or
build on it, you can find snapshots at <a
href="http://archive.apache.org/ant/antidote/">http://archive.apache.org/ant/antidote/</a>.</p>
</section>
<section name="Apache Ant 1.6.2">
<h3>July 16, 2004 - Apache Ant 1.6.2 Available</h3>
<p>Apache Ant 1.6.2 available for <a
href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.</p>
<p>Nested elements for namespaced tasks and types may belong to the
Ant default namespace as well as the task's or type's namespace.</p>
<p>All exceptions thrown by tasks are now wrapped in a
buildexception giving the location in the buildfile of the task.</p>
<p>Ant 1.6.2 fixes a large number of bugs and adds a number of
features which were asked for by users on Bugzilla.</p>
</section>
<section name="Wiki Migration">
<h3>February 29, 2004</h3>
<p>The Apache Ant Wiki pages have been migrated to their
<a href="http://wiki.apache.org/ant/">new home</a> on the Apache
Wiki farm.
</p>
</section>
<section name="Apache Ant 1.6.1">
<h3>February 12, 2004 - Apache Ant 1.6.1 Available</h3>
<p>Apache Ant 1.6.1 is still available for
<a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.
</p>
<p>The ASF Board has approved the new Apache License 2.0.
For a copy of that license, please see
<a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/">
http://www.apache.org/licenses/</a>.</p>
<p>The Ant 1.6.1 release is delivered with the
Apache License 2.0.</p>
<p>Ant 1.6.1 fixes several bugs, most notably the handling
of the default namespace for nested elements.</p>
<p>Ant 1.6.1 also introduces initial support for compiling with
Java 1.5.</p>
</section>
<section name="Apache Ant 1.6.0">
<h3>December 18, 2003 - Apache Ant 1.6.0 Available</h3>
<p>Apache Ant 1.6.0 is still available for
<a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.
</p>
<p>As
we've already said in the announcements of Ant 1.5.4, this release
requires JDK 1.2 or later to run.</p>
<p>Ant 1.6.0 adds a lot of new features, most prominently support
for XML namespaces as well as a new concept of Ant libraries that
makes use of namespaces to avoid name clashes of custom tasks.
For a longer list of fixed bugs and new features see the release
notes.</p>
<p>If you find anything that hasn't been covered in the manual (I bet you
did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the
<a href="http://wiki.apache.org/ant/NewAntFeaturesInDetail">Wiki</a>.</p>
</section>
<section name="Apache Ant 1.5.4">
<h3>August 12, 2003 - Apache Ant 1.5.4 Available</h3>
<p>Apache Ant 1.5.4 is still available for
<a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.
</p>
<p>This is a minor bugfix release that fixes a problem with the
<code>javah</code> task on JDK 1.4.2 and a couple of bugs in the
Visual Age for Java intergration tasks. If you don't use javah or
VAJ, there is no reason to upgrade.</p>
<div class="warning">
<div class="label">Note</div>
<div class="content">Ant 1.5.4 is the last release that supports
JDK 1.1. Ant 1.6.0 requires JDK 1.2 or
later.
</div>
</div>
</section>
<section name="Java Pro 2003 Readers Choice Award">
<a href="http://www.ftponline.com/javapro/">
<img style="padding: 5px" src="images/jp_rcwinner_2003.gif" alt="" border="0" height="80" width="139" align="right"/></a>
<h3>June 11th, 2003: Apache Ant wins a Java Pro readers' choice award</h3>
<p>
Ant has won the Java Pro 2003 Readers' Choice Award for
</p>
<p>
<strong>Most Valuable Java Deployment Technology</strong>.
</p>
<p>
Thanks to Java Pro and all its readers. You can read about
these
<a href="http://www.ftponline.com/reports/javaone/2003/awards/">awards</a>
at the Java Pro website.
</p>
</section>
<section name="JDJ Editors Choice Award">
<a href="http://sys-con.com/java/article2a.cfm?id=2059&count=1734&tot=6&page=2"><img src="images/JDJEditorsChoiceAward.jpg" alt="" border="0" align="right"/></a>
<h3>June 2003: Apache Ant wins JDJ Editors' Choice Award</h3>
<p>
"Ant is the hammer of the Java world: without it, civilization might have progressed, but much more slowly than it has. Ant is one of the most useful build tools I have ever had the pleasure to use." - Joe Ottinger
</p>
</section>
<section name="Apache Ant keeps on winning!">
<a href="http://www.javaworld.com/"><img src="images/jw_ec_logo_winner2003.gif" alt="" border="0" height="108" width="252" align="right"/></a>
<h3>June 9th, 2003: Apache Ant wins the JavaWorld Editors' Choice Award</h3>
<p>
Ant has won the JavaWorld Editors' Choice Award for
</p>
<p>
<strong>Most Useful Java Community-Developed Technology</strong>
</p>
<p>
for the second time in a row! Read the
<a href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2003/jw-0609-eca.html"> full article</a> -- or jump directly to the bit about
<a href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2003/jw-0609-eca-p4.html"> our award</a> <code>:)</code></p>
</section>
<section name="Apache Ant 1.5.3">
<h3>April 9, 2003 - Apache Ant 1.5.3 Available</h3>
<p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 is still available for
<a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.
</p>
</section>
<section name="Apache Ant 1.5.2">
<h3>March 3, 2003 - Apache Ant 1.5.2 Available!</h3>
<p>The final version of Ant 1.5.2 is available for
<a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.
If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the
discussion on the dev and user mailing lists.
</p>
</section>
<section name="Apache Ant Top Level Project">
<h3>November 18, 2002</h3>
<p>The Apache board <a href="mission.html">created</a>
the Apache Ant top level project. Ant has now migrated from the Jakarta
project into an Apache project of its own. This is primarily an
organizational change and will not affect the technical aspects of
the project. Ant retains a strong association with the Apache
Jakarta project. One effect of this change is that the Ant webpage
is now located at <a href="http://ant.apache.org/">http://ant.apache.org/</a>
</p>
</section>
<section name="Apache Ant 1.5.1">
<h3>October 3, 2002 - Apache Ant 1.5.1 Available !</h3>
<p>The final version of Ant 1.5.1 is still available for
<a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">
download</a>. If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the
discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
</p>
</section>
<section name="Apache Ant 1.5">
<h3>July 15, 2002 - Fix for Cygwin problem in wrapper script available</h3>
<p>The wrapper script of Apache Ant 1.5 needs to be replaced with a new
version for Cygwin users. See the <a
href="faq.html#1.5-cygwin-sh">FAQ</a> for details.</p>
<h3>July 10, 2002 - Apache Ant 1.5 Released!</h3>
<p>The final version of Ant 1.5 is now available for
<a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">
download</a>. If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the
discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
</p>
</section>
<section name="Apache Ant wins again!">
<a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/"><img src="images/sdm_productivity_award.gif" alt="" border="0" height="108" width="181" align="right"/></a>
<h3>Apr 29, 2002: Apache Ant wins <em>Software Development</em> magazine's
2002 Productivity Award.</h3>
<p>
Ant has been awarded a <strong>2002 Productivity Award</strong> by
<a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/"><em>Software Development</em></a>
magazine. Read the
<a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/jolts/press_release_4-26-02.htm">
press release</a> for more information and the full list of winners.
</p>
</section>
<section name="Apache Ant has won!">
<a href="http://www.javaworld.com/"><img src="images/jw_ec_logo_winner2002.gif" alt="" border="0" height="108" width="252" align="right"/></a>
<h3>Mar 26, 2002: Apache Ant wins the JavaWorld Editors' Choice
Award</h3>
<p>
Ant has won the JavaWorld Editors' Choice Award for
<strong>Most Useful Java Community-Developed Technology</strong>.
Read the
<a href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2002/jw-0326-awards.html
"> full article</a> -- or jump directly to the bit about
<a href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2002/jw-0326-awards-p3.html"> our award</a> <code>:)</code></p>
</section>
<section name="Java 1.4 Support">
<h3>Feb 15, 2002: Java 1.4 Support</h3>
<p>
Java 1.4 has now been released by Sun. The latest Apache Ant source supports
the new <tt>assert</tt> statement in the compiler task via the <tt>source</tt>
attribute. It also contains a compatibility fix needed for some ant tasks
on Java 1.4 over Windows XP. If you have problems running Ant 1.4.1 on WinXP/Java 1.4,
please use a recent build or compile your own version from the source tree.
</p>
</section>
<section name="See our new logo!">
<h3>Have a look at our new cool logo!</h3>
</section>
<section name="Apache Ant 1.4.1">
<h3>11 October 2001 Apache Ant 1.4.1 released !</h3>
<p>Please visit the
<a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">
download area</a>.
</p>
</section>
<section name="Best-Practices Profile of Apache Ant at Sun's Dot-Com Builder">
<p>Sun has released an introductory article on Apache Ant on their
Dot-Com Builder site on May 30 2001. See <a
href="http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp">http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp</a></p>
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