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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>
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  <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 1.6.3beta1">
    <h3>March 31st, 2005 - Ant 1.6.3beta1 Available</h3>
    <p>Apache Ant 1.6.3beta1 is now available for <a
    href="http://cvs.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.6.3beta1">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="Ant 1.6.2">
    <h3>July 16, 2004 - Ant 1.6.2 Available</h3>
    <p>Apache Ant 1.6.2 is now available for <a
    href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">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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