Ivy is a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving and reporting) project dependencies, characterized by flexibility, configurability, and tight integration with Apache Ant.

This is a beta release, for wide testing with users. Problems found at this phase can be fixed in the final release, so now is a good time to download and use it. Although there may be some changes at the API level, it is already being in production builds in many large Java projects.

Key features of the 2.0.0-beta2 release are

• enhanced Maven2 compatibility, with a fully rewritten pom parser
• improved cache management, including dynamic revision caching with fine grain TTL
• namespace aware validation, allowing to use validation with extra attributes
• easier settings loading, which do not require an id anymore
• numerous bug fixes as documented in Jira and in the release notes

Issues should be reported to: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY

Download the 2.0.0-beta2 release files at: http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi

More information can be found on the Ivy website: http://ant.apache.org/ivy/

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Ivy is a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving and reporting) project dependencies, characterized by flexibility, configurability, and tight integration with Apache Ant.

Apache Ivy has recently graduated from the Apache Incubator as a subproject of Apache Ant, as such this is its first release as an official Apache project.

The status of this version is a beta, meaning that we encourage users to try it out. This version is already providing a good stability and robustness. API and features are still subject to change though.

Key features of the 2.0.0-beta1 release are

• enhanced Maven2 compatibility
• improved concurrency support with cache locking and atomic publish
• all tutorials have been reviewed to be in sync with 2.0 changes
• numerous bug fixes as documented in Jira and in the release notes

Issues should be reported to: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY

Download the 2.0.0-beta1 release files at: http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi

More information can be found on the Ivy website: http://ant.apache.org/ivy/

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AntUnit provides Ant tasks that allow you to write (functional) tests in Ant build files. For example

<target name="testTouchCreatesFile">
<au:assertFileDoesntExist file="${foo}">
<touch file="${foo}">
<au:assertFileExists file="${foo}"/>
</target>

would assert that a certain file was freshly created by the <touch> task.

We don't suggest that you write the unit tests for all your code using AntUnit. But if you are writing Ant tasks, AntUnit makes it very easy to write tests and in fact is used by the Ant developers to test Ant itself.

In addition to some assertion tasks, the library provides an <antunit> task that runs all tests in selected build files and a formatter mechanism similar to the <junit> task.

The release is the first "proper" release of AntUnit, it is almost identical to the beta2 release.

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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.

Ant 1.7 starts outsourcing of optional tasks to Antlibs. The .NET antlib replaces the .NET optional tasks which ship in Ant. Support for the version control system Subversion is also provided as an antlib.

Ant 1.7 fixes also a large number of bugs.

Ant 1.7 has some initial support for Java6 features.

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AntUnit is an Ant Library created to simplify testing of Ant tasks and types.

This release fixes a few bugs found in the first beta and adds a new assertion that matches strings against regular expressions (requires Apache Ant 1.7.0 Beta 3 or later).

Downloads: http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/bindownload.cgi

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The Apache .NET Ant library contains the "old" support task for developing software for the .NET platform but also adds support for common tools of the .NET world like NAnt or NUnit.

This library has been tested with Microsoft's .NET framework versions 1.1 and 2.0 on Windows as well as Mono on Linux.

The first beta release can be found at http://people.apache.org/dist/ant/antlibs/dotnet/ , it requires Ant 1.7.0Beta1 or later.

Please direct any feedback to the Ant mailing lists and report bugs in Ant's Bugzilla issue tracker.

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The manual of the beta version is available here.

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.

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.

Ant 1.7 fixes also a large number of bugs.

Ant 1.7 has no support for Java6 features, but first tests on Java6 did not fail.

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This is a bug fix release.

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This is a bug fix release.

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There is a large list of fixed bugs and enhancements.

Some of the bugs affecting the embedded use of Ant are fixed.

Downloads:

http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi

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There is a large list of fixed bugs and enhancements.

Some of the bugs affecting the embedded use of Ant are fixed.

Downloads:

http://cvs.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.6.3beta1

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