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   <properties>
     <author email="">Conor MacNeill</author>
     <author email="stefan.bodewig@freenet.de">Stefan Bodewig</author>
     <title>Welcome</title>
   </properties>

 <body>
   <section name="Ant1.8.1">
     <h3>May 6th, 2010 - Ant 1.8.1 Released</h3>
     <p>Apache Ant 1.8.1 is now available for download as source or binary (with and without
       dependencies) from
       <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi</a>.</p>

     <p>Key features of the 1.8.1 release are</p>
     <ul>
       <li>new task augment allows to add attributes or nested elements to previously defined references</li>
       <li>numerous bug fixes and improvements as documented in Bugzilla
         and in WHATSNEW</li>
     </ul>

   </section>
 	<section name="Ant 1.8.0">
 		<h3>February 8, 2010 - Ant 1.8.0 Available</h3>
                 <p>Key features of the 1.8.0 release are</p>
 		<ul>
 		    <li>Lexically scoped local properties, i.e. properties that are only
 		        defined inside a target,
                 sequential block or similar environment.</li>
             <li>&lt;import&gt; can now import from any file- or URL-providing resource -
                 this includes &lt;javaresource&gt;.</li>
 			<li>Various improvements to the directory scanning code that help
 			with symbolic link cycles (as can be found on MacOS X Java
 			installations for example) and improve scanning performance.
 			For big directory trees the improvement is
             <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ant-dev/200809.mbox/%3Cy1u4p48li29.fsf@v30161.1blu.de%3E">dramatic</a>.</li>
             <li>The way developers can extend Ant's property expansion algorithm has been rewritten
             (breaking the older API) to be easier to use and be more powerful.
             </li>
             <li>a new top level element extension-point allows build files to be
 				extended with custom targets more easily</li>
 			<li>At the same time the if and unless attributes have been rewritten to do the expected
             thing if applied to a property expansion (i.e. if="${foo}" will mean "yes, do it"
             if ${foo} expands to true, in Ant 1.7.1 it would mean "no" unless a property named
            "true" existed). This adds "testing conditions" as a new use-case to property
             expansion.</li>
 			<li>Ant now requires Java 1.4 or later</li>
 			<li>new task include provides an alternative to &lt;import> that
 				should be preferred when you don't want to override any targets</li>
 			<li>numerous bug fixes and improvements as documented in Bugzilla
 				and in WHATSNEW</li>
 		</ul>
 	</section>
   <section name="Ivy 2.1.0">
     <h3>October 8, 2009 - Apache Ivy 2.1.0 Released</h3>
     <p>Apache Ivy 2.1.0 is now available for download as source or binary (with and without
       dependencies) from
       <a href="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi">http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi</a>.</p>

     <p>Key features of the 2.1.0 release are</p>
     <ul>
       <li>enhanced Maven2 compatibility, with several bug fixes and
         more pom features covered</li>
       <li>new options for the Ivy Ant tasks and commandline</li>
       <li>configuration intersections and configuration groups</li>
       <li>numerous bug fixes and improvements as documented in Jira
         and in the release notes</li>
     </ul>

     <p>For more information see
       the <a href="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/">Ivy home page</a>.</p>
   </section>


   <section name="AntUnit 1.1">
     <h3>September 26, 2008 - Apache AntUnit 1.1 Released</h3>

     <p>Apache AntUnit 1.1 Beta is now available for download as <a
       href="http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/bindownload.cgi">binary</a>
       or <a
       href="http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/srcdownload.cgi">source</a>
       release.</p>

     <p>In addition to a few bugfixes and some new assertions AntUnit
       1.1 allows test listeners to receive the log output of the
       project under test.  Both plainlistener and xmllistener have
       an option that makes them echo the project's output into their
       respective logs.</p>

     <p>For more information see the <a href="antlibs/antunit/">Antlib's
         home page</a></p>
   </section>


   <section name="Apache Ant">

     <p>
 		Ant is a Java library and command-line tool.
 		Ant's mission is to drive processes described in build files as targets
 		and extension points dependent upon each other.
 		The main known usage of Ant is the build of Java applications.
 		Ant supplies a number of built-in tasks allowing to compile, assemble,
 		test and run Java applications.
 		Ant can also be used effectively to build non Java applications, for
 		instance C or C++ applications. More generally, Ant can be used to
 		pilot any type of process which can be described in terms of targets
 		and tasks.
     </p>
 	<p>
 		Ant is written in Java. Users of Ant can develop their own
 		&quot;antlibs&quot; containing Ant tasks and types, and are offered
 		a large number of ready-made commercial or open-source &quot;antlibs&quot;.
     </p>
 	<p>
 		Ant is extremely flexible and does not impose coding conventions or
 		directory layouts to the Java projects which adopt it as a build tool.
 	</p>
 	<p>
 		Software development projects looking for a solution combining build tool and
 		dependency management can use Ant in combination with <a href="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/">Ivy</a>.
 </p>


   </section>

   <section name="Documentation">

 <p>
 You can view the documentation for the current release (Apache Ant 1.8.0)
 <a href="manual/index.html">online</a>
 </p>

 <p>
 Comprehensive documentation is included in the source and binary distributions.
 </p>

   </section>

   <!--section name="Nightly Builds">
     <p>
     If you wish to use the latest Ant features, you can try downloading a nightly
     build from <a href="http://brutus.apache.org/~nightlybuild/builds/ant/">here</a>
     </p>

   </section-->

   <section name="Get Involved">
 <ul>
 <li><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/getinvolved/getinvolvedindex.html">Get Involved</a></li>
 <li><a href="mail.html">Join Mailing Lists</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&amp;r=1&amp;w=2">Search the Dev Mailing List</a>
 </li>
 <li><a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&amp;r=1&amp;w=2">Search the User Mailing List</a>
 </li>
 </ul>


   </section>

 </body>
 </document>
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	<document>

	<properties>
	<author email="">Conor MacNeill</author>
	<author email="stefan.bodewig@freenet.de">Stefan Bodewig</author>
	<title>Welcome</title>
	</properties>

	<body>
	<section name="Ant1.8.1">
	<h3>May 6th, 2010 - Ant 1.8.1 Released</h3>
	<p>Apache Ant 1.8.1 is now available for download as source or binary (with and without
	dependencies) from
	<a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi</a>.</p>

	<p>Key features of the 1.8.1 release are</p>
	<ul>
	<li>new task augment allows to add attributes or nested elements to previously defined references</li>
	<li>numerous bug fixes and improvements as documented in Bugzilla
	and in WHATSNEW</li>
	</ul>

	</section>
	<section name="Ant 1.8.0">
	<h3>February 8, 2010 - Ant 1.8.0 Available</h3>
	<p>Key features of the 1.8.0 release are</p>
	<ul>
	<li>Lexically scoped local properties, i.e. properties that are only
	defined inside a target,
	sequential block or similar environment.</li>
	<li><import> can now import from any file- or URL-providing resource -
	this includes <javaresource>.</li>
	<li>Various improvements to the directory scanning code that help
	with symbolic link cycles (as can be found on MacOS X Java
	installations for example) and improve scanning performance.
	For big directory trees the improvement is
	<a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ant-dev/200809.mbox/%3Cy1u4p48li29.fsf@v30161.1blu.de%3E">dramatic</a>.</li>
	<li>The way developers can extend Ant's property expansion algorithm has been rewritten
	(breaking the older API) to be easier to use and be more powerful.
	</li>
	<li>a new top level element extension-point allows build files to be
	extended with custom targets more easily</li>
	<li>At the same time the if and unless attributes have been rewritten to do the expected
	thing if applied to a property expansion (i.e. if="${foo}" will mean "yes, do it"
	if ${foo} expands to true, in Ant 1.7.1 it would mean "no" unless a property named
	"true" existed). This adds "testing conditions" as a new use-case to property
	expansion.</li>
	<li>Ant now requires Java 1.4 or later</li>
	<li>new task include provides an alternative to <import> that
	should be preferred when you don't want to override any targets</li>
	<li>numerous bug fixes and improvements as documented in Bugzilla
	and in WHATSNEW</li>
	</ul>
	</section>
	<section name="Ivy 2.1.0">
	<h3>October 8, 2009 - Apache Ivy 2.1.0 Released</h3>
	<p>Apache Ivy 2.1.0 is now available for download as source or binary (with and without
	dependencies) from
	<a href="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi">http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi</a>.</p>

	<p>Key features of the 2.1.0 release are</p>
	<ul>
	<li>enhanced Maven2 compatibility, with several bug fixes and
	more pom features covered</li>
	<li>new options for the Ivy Ant tasks and commandline</li>
	<li>configuration intersections and configuration groups</li>
	<li>numerous bug fixes and improvements as documented in Jira
	and in the release notes</li>
	</ul>

	<p>For more information see
	the <a href="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/">Ivy home page</a>.</p>
	</section>


	<section name="AntUnit 1.1">
	<h3>September 26, 2008 - Apache AntUnit 1.1 Released</h3>

	<p>Apache AntUnit 1.1 Beta is now available for download as <a
	href="http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/bindownload.cgi">binary</a>
	or <a
	href="http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/srcdownload.cgi">source</a>
	release.</p>

	<p>In addition to a few bugfixes and some new assertions AntUnit
	1.1 allows test listeners to receive the log output of the
	project under test. Both plainlistener and xmllistener have
	an option that makes them echo the project's output into their
	respective logs.</p>

	<p>For more information see the <a href="antlibs/antunit/">Antlib's
	home page</a></p>
	</section>


	<section name="Apache Ant">

	<p>
	Ant is a Java library and command-line tool.
	Ant's mission is to drive processes described in build files as targets
	and extension points dependent upon each other.
	The main known usage of Ant is the build of Java applications.
	Ant supplies a number of built-in tasks allowing to compile, assemble,
	test and run Java applications.
	Ant can also be used effectively to build non Java applications, for
	instance C or C++ applications. More generally, Ant can be used to
	pilot any type of process which can be described in terms of targets
	and tasks.
	</p>
	<p>
	Ant is written in Java. Users of Ant can develop their own
	"antlibs" containing Ant tasks and types, and are offered
	a large number of ready-made commercial or open-source "antlibs".
	</p>
	<p>
	Ant is extremely flexible and does not impose coding conventions or
	directory layouts to the Java projects which adopt it as a build tool.
	</p>
	<p>
	Software development projects looking for a solution combining build tool and
	dependency management can use Ant in combination with <a href="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/">Ivy</a>.
	</p>



	</section>

	<section name="Documentation">

	<p>
	You can view the documentation for the current release (Apache Ant 1.8.0)
	<a href="manual/index.html">online</a>
	</p>

	<p>
	Comprehensive documentation is included in the source and binary distributions.
	</p>

	</section>

	<!--section name="Nightly Builds">
	<p>
	If you wish to use the latest Ant features, you can try downloading a nightly
	build from <a href="http://brutus.apache.org/~nightlybuild/builds/ant/">here</a>
	</p>

	</section-->

	<section name="Get Involved">
	<ul>
	<li><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/getinvolved/getinvolvedindex.html">Get Involved</a></li>
	<li><a href="mail.html">Join Mailing Lists</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&r=1&w=2">Search the Dev Mailing List</a>
	</li>
	<li><a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&r=1&w=2">Search the User Mailing List</a>
	</li>
	</ul>



	</section>

	</body>
	</document>