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<h2>Announcement</h2>

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January 20, 2014 - The Ivy project is pleased to announce its 2.4.0-RC1 release.

Ivy is a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving and
reporting) project dependencies, characterized by flexibility,
configurability, and tight integration with Apache Ant.

Key features of this 2.4.0-RC1 release are
* improved Maven support
* numerous bug fixes as documented in Jira and in the release notes

As a release candidate version, we strongly encourage the use of this version for 
testing and validation. From now on, features are frozen until final 2.4.0 version, 
only bug fixes will be applied before 2.4.0. If no outstanding bugs are reported 
with this release candidate, it will promoted to 2.4.0 about three weeks after this
release candidate. 

Issues should be reported to:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY

Download the 2.4.0-RC1 release at:
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi

More information can be found on the Ivy website:
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/

Regards,
Charles Duffy
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<h2>Release Notes</h2>

CONTENTS
1. What is Apache Ivy?
2. How to Get Involved
3. How to Report Issues
4. Committers and Contributors for this release
5. List of Changes in this Release   
   
   
<h3>1. What is Apache Ivy?</h3>

Apache Ivy is a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving and reporting) 
project dependencies. 
It is characterized by the following:

   1. flexibility and configurability 
        Apache Ivy is essentially process agnostic and is not tied to any 
        methodology or structure. 
        Instead it provides the necessary flexibility and configurability 
        to be adapted to a broad range of dependency management and build 
        processes.
   2. tight integration with Apache Ant
        while available as a standalone tool, Apache Ivy works particularly well 
        with Apache Ant providing a number of powerful Ant tasks ranging 
        from dependency resolution to dependency reporting and publication.

<h3>2. Status of this release</h3> 

This is the second release candidate of Ivy targetting 2.4.0. 

As a release candidate version, we strongly encourage the use of this version for 
testing and validation. From now on, features are frozen until final 2.4.0 version, 
only bug fixes may be applied before 2.4.0. If no outstanding bugs are reported 
with this release candidate, it will promoted to 2.4.0 about three weeks after this
release candidate. 


<h3>3. How to Get Involved</h3>

The Apache Ivy project really needs and appreciates any contributions, 
including documentation help, source code and feedback.  If you are interested
in contributing, please visit http://ant.apache.org/ivy/get-involved.html.

<h3>4. How to Report Issues</h3>

The Apache Ivy project uses JIRA for issue tracking.  Please report any 
issues you find at http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY

<h3>5. Committers and Contributors for this Release</h3>

Here is the list of people who have contributed source code and documentation
to this release. Many thanks to all of them, and also to the whole Ivy community
contributing ideas and feedback, and promoting the use of Ivy. The list would be too
long, but Ivy couldn't be what it is without you!

 Committers
	Jean-Louis Boudart
	Maarten Coene
	Charles Duffy
	Nicolas Lalevee

 Contributors
	Gregory Amerson
	Mykhailo Delegan
	Carsten Pfeiffer
	Yanus Poluektovich
	Frederic Riviere
	Gene Smith
	Erwin Tratar

For the list of people who have contributed since Ivy inception, see CHANGES.txt file.

<h3>6. List of Changes in this Release</h3>

For a full release history of Ivy see the file CHANGES.txt

For details about the following changes, check our JIRA install at 
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ivy

List of changes since Ivy 2.3.0:

- DOCUMENTATION: Broken link in <dependency> documentation (IVY-1405)
- DOCUMENTATION: Explicitly document that threaded use is not supported.

- NEW: the buildobr task can now work a set of resolved artifacts: useful for managing an OSGi target platform
- NEW: fixdeps task: serializes transitively resolved dependencies into an ivy.xml file
- NEW: IvyDependencyTree task : display a dependency tree on the console
- NEW: Support Conditional Setting of a Property (IVY-1367)
- NEW: Exposing some parent metadata (organisation, module, revision, branch) as properties (IVY-1288)
- NEW: symlinkmass feature based on symlink feature of ivy:retrieve (IVY-1252) (Thanks to Gene Smith)
- NEW: Agent authentication for SSH and SFTP transports (IVY-1421)
- NEW: New OSGi resolver 'osgi-agg': a chain resolver dedicated to better handle OSGi dependencies
- NEW: Add support for "packed" artifacts: .pack.gz bundles in an OSGi P2 repository for instance

- IMPROVEMENT: New LockStrategy available based on NIO FileLocks (IVY-1424)
- IMPROVEMENT: Optional <include> ivysettings directives (IVY-1392) (thanks to Yanus Poluektovich)
- IMPROVEMENT: add support for source bundles from p2 repositories
- IMPROVEMENT: add support for source URI from OBR repositories
- IMPROVEMENT: Also copy original metadata artifact (e.g. POM) on ivy:install (IVY-1431) (Thanks to Erwin Tratar)
- IMPROVEMENT: useOrigin will do avoid copy with url resolvers configured with a 'file:/' URL
- IMPROVEMENT: add support for source artifacts in buildobr task

- FIX: In IvyDE, Ivy fails to parse ivy-settings.xml file if it contains <pgp> element (thanks to Gregory Amerson) (IVY-1441)
- FIX: ParseException when "Bundle-Description" is present in OSGi MANIFEST.MF (IVY-1438)
- FIX: NIO FileLocker released locks too early (IVY-1424) (thanks to Charles Duffy)
- FIX: Ssh Resolver doesn't work with Java 7 (IVY-1408) (thanks to Mykhailo Delegan)
- FIX: Parsing publication date in Ant tasks not thread-safe (IVY-1412)
- FIX: NullPointerException when using httpclient and server doesn't return content-type header (IVY-1400) (thanks to Frederic Riviere)
- FIX: Properly handle evicted nodes in ResolveReport
- FIX: Artifact repository locking did not correctly handle threaded use (IVY-1454) (thanks to Carsten Pfeiffer)
- FIX: Better support for "Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment" from an OSGi MANIFEST.MF
- FIX: When inheriting a module descriptor, also merge the exclude rules
- FIX: Correct application of mediators (ie. override) during conflict resolution (IVY-1455)
- FIX: Fix revision number mapping across namespaces (IVY-1423)
- FIX: fix a NPE when loading a composite P2 repository with no children
- FIX: fix missing configuration when fixdeps is used with a partial resolve
- FIX: XmlModuleDescriptorWritter doesn't support fully extra infos elements (IVY-1457)
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