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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> |
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| <body> |
| <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> |
| </section> |
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| </document> |
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