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    <author email="">Conor MacNeill</author>
    <author email="stefan.bodewig@freenet.de">Stefan Bodewig</author>
    <author email="">Magesh Umasankar</author>
    <title>News</title>
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   <section name="Ant 1.6beta2">
    <h3>October 17, 2003 - Ant 1.6beta2 Available</h3>
    <p>Apache Ant 1.6beta2 is now available for <a
    href="http://cvs.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.6beta2/">download</a>.  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>We encourage user to give this beta a release a try and report
    any bugs found so that we get a chance to fix them before we make
    the final release of Ant 1.6.</p>

    <p>Ant 1.6 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>The manual of Ant 1.6 is available on line 
    <a href="manual-1.6beta/"> here</a>.</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://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?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 now available for 
     <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">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 will be the last release that supports
      JDK 1.1. The next major release of Ant, Ant 1.6, will require 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 now available for 
     <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>. 
    </p>
  </section>


  <section name="Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1">
    <h3>March 25, 2003 - Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1 Available</h3>
    <p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1 is now available for 
     <a href="http://ant.apache.org/beta/">download</a>. 
     Please download it and try it out. If you have any issues
     please raise a bug on 
     <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Ant">BugZilla</a>
     or send an email to the Ant dev mailing list
     </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 now available for 
     <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">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 1.5.2Beta1">
    <h3>February 21, 2003 - Ant 1.5.2 Beta1 Available!</h3>
    <p>The first beta version of Ant 1.5.2 is now available for 
     download at <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.5.2beta1/">
     http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.5.2beta1</a>. 
     If you have any feedback on the beta 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 now available for 
     <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">
     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 1.5.1Beta1">
    <h3>August 19, 2002 - Ant 1.5.1 Beta1 Available !</h3>
    <p>The first beta version of Ant 1.5.1 is now available for 
     download. If you have any feedback on the beta 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://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ant/release/v1.5/">
     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 1.5Beta3">
    <h3>June 24, 2002 - Ant 1.5 Beta3 Available!</h3>
    <p>The third beta version of Ant 1.5 is now available for 
     download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the 
     discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
     </p>
  </section>

  <section name="Ant 1.5Beta2">
    <h3>June 1, 2002 - Ant 1.5 Beta2 Available!</h3>
    <p>The second beta version of Ant 1.5 is now available for 
     download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the 
     discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
     </p>
  </section>

  <section name="Ant 1.5Beta1">
    <h3>Ant 1.5 Beta1 Available !</h3>
    <p>The first beta version of Ant 1.5 is now available for 
     download. If you have any feedback on the beta 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://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ant/release/v1.4.1/">
     download area</a>. 
     </p>
  </section>

  <section name="Ant 2.0 Requirements Collected - Next is Design">
      <p>A commented version of the collected user requirements is now
      available <a href="ant2/features.html">here</a> - it is not
      complete as some details still have to be defined, but it should
      give you an idea of what Ant2 is going to look like.</p>

      <p>Several details can only be decided in the light of real code
      and prototypes.  Several people are working on prototypes (that
      can be found in Ant's CVS module in the proposals directory) and
      discussion is going on on the Ant-Dev mailing list.</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>

  <section name="Ant 2.0 Requirements">
    <p>Ant has been in use for quite some time and has been used in ways never conceived when it
       was originally written. While Ant 1.x has continued to sucessfully evolve and grow, there 
       are a number of limitations and inconsistencies that are now apparent and which need to 
       be addressed. 
    </p>
    
    <p>
       As we continue to evolve and enhance Ant 1.x, it is now time to define what Ant 2.0 will
       encompass. Ant 2.0 will be a major rearchitecting of Ant. It has a number of goals including:
    </p>
       <ul>
         <li>Define the "contract" with build file writers to which Ant will be bound.</li>
         <li>Define the "contract" between the Ant core and Task writers.</li>
         <li>Make Ant more easily extendable by allowing additional tasks to be "dropped" in.</li>
         <li>Allow Ant to function as a component to simplify integration with GUIs and IDEs.</li>
         <li>Make Ant more regular and logical.</li>
       </ul>
     <p>       
       It is expected that Ant 2.0 will break Ant 1.x based build files. The intention is to
       make this the last time that will happen.
     </p>
     
     <p>
        To advance the definition of Ant, user requirements are now being accepted on the 
        Ant-Dev mailing list. Any requirement will be accepted for consideration. The 
        requirements are being collected into a document which is available 
        <a href="ant2/requested-features.txt">on-line</a>. New features will be excepted 
        until March 21st, 2001. At that time, each requirement will be discussed 
        for inclusion in an Ant 2.0 requirement document.
      </p>
      
      <p>
        For your reference some of the goals which have shaped the development of Ant 1.x are
        available <a href="ant2/original-specification.html">here</a>. These continue to be
        relevant to Ant 2.0.
      </p>
      
      <p>
        If you want to shape the future of Ant, join the 
        <a href="mail.html">Ant-Dev mailing list</a> and contribute
        your ideas.
      </p>
  </section>

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