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<h2>Announcement</h2>
+<pre>
+Mar 30, 2009 - The Ivy project is pleased to announce its 2.1.0-rc1 release.
+This is the first candidate release of Ivy 2.1.0.
+
+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 release candidate for 2.1.0 final, meaning that no changes
+except bug fixes will occur between this release candidate and 2.1.0 final.
+Problems found at this phase can be fixed in the final release, so now
+is a good time to download and use it. If no outstanding bugs are reported
+in the coming weeks, this release candidate will be promoted as the 2.1.0
+final release.
+
+Key features of the 2.1.0 release are
+* enhanced Maven2 compatibility, with several bug fixes and more
+ pom features covered
+* new options for the Ivy Ant tasks and commandline
+* numerous bug fixes as documented in Jira and in the release notes
+
+We encourage all users of Ivy to update to this new version.
+
+Issues should be reported to:
+https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY
+
+Download the 2.1.0-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,
+Maarten Coene
+</pre>
<h2>Release Notes</h2>
