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   <properties>
     <author email="">Conor MacNeill</author>
     <author email="">Stefan Bodewig</author>
     <author email="">Magesh Umasankar</author>
     <author email="">Antoine Levy-Lambert</author>
     <title>News</title>
   </properties>

 <body>
   <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="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="Ant 1.7.0">
     <h3>December 19, 2006 - 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 &lt;copy/&gt; 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=".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="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="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=".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="Ant 1.6.5">
     <h3>June 2, 2005 - 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="Ant 1.6.4">
     <h3>May 19, 2005 - 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="Ant 1.6.3">
     <h3>April 28, 2005 - 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="Antidote Retired">
     <h3>April 4th, 2005 - The Apache Ant Project Retires 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="Ant 1.6.2">
     <h3>July 16, 2004 - 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 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="Ant 1.6.1">
     <h3>February 12, 2004 - 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="Ant 1.6.0">
     <h3>December 18, 2003 - 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="Ant 1.5.4">
     <h3>August 12, 2003 - 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: 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&amp;count=1734&amp;tot=6&amp;page=2"><img src="images/JDJEditorsChoiceAward.jpg" alt="" border="0" align="right"/></a>
     <h3>June 2003: Ant wins JDJ Editors&apos; Choice Award</h3>

     <p>
 &quot;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.&quot; - Joe Ottinger
     </p>

   </section>

   <section name="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: Ant wins the JavaWorld Editors&apos; Choice Award</h3>

     <p>
     Ant has won the JavaWorld Editors&apos; 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="Ant 1.5.3">
     <h3>April 9, 2003 - 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="Ant 1.5.2">
     <h3>March 3, 2003 - 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="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="Ant 1.5.1">
     <h3>October 3, 2002 - 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="Ant 1.5">
     <h3>July 15, 2002 - Fix for Cygwin problem in wrapper script available</h3>
       <p>The wrapper script of 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 - 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="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: Ant wins <em>Software Development</em> magazine&apos;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="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: Ant wins the JavaWorld Editors&apos; Choice
     Award</h3>

     <p>
     Ant has won the JavaWorld Editors&apos; 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 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="Ant 1.4.1">
   <h3>11 October 2001 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 Ant at Sun&apos;s Dot-Com Builder">
       <p>Sun has released an introductory article on Ant on their
       Dot-Com Builder site on May&#160;30&#160;2001. See <a
       href="http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp">http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp</a></p>
   </section>


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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>News</title>
	</properties>

	<body>
	<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="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="Ant 1.7.0">
	<h3>December 19, 2006 - 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=".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="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="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=".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="Ant 1.6.5">
	<h3>June 2, 2005 - 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="Ant 1.6.4">
	<h3>May 19, 2005 - 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="Ant 1.6.3">
	<h3>April 28, 2005 - 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="Antidote Retired">
	<h3>April 4th, 2005 - The Apache Ant Project Retires 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="Ant 1.6.2">
	<h3>July 16, 2004 - 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 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="Ant 1.6.1">
	<h3>February 12, 2004 - 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="Ant 1.6.0">
	<h3>December 18, 2003 - 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="Ant 1.5.4">
	<h3>August 12, 2003 - 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: 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: 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="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: 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="Ant 1.5.3">
	<h3>April 9, 2003 - 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="Ant 1.5.2">
	<h3>March 3, 2003 - 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="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="Ant 1.5.1">
	<h3>October 3, 2002 - 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="Ant 1.5">
	<h3>July 15, 2002 - Fix for Cygwin problem in wrapper script available</h3>
	<p>The wrapper script of 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 - 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="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: 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="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: 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 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="Ant 1.4.1">
	<h3>11 October 2001 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 Ant at Sun's Dot-Com Builder">
	<p>Sun has released an introductory article on 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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