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  198. <h3 class="section">
  199. <a name="Ant1.8.0"></a>
  200. Ant1.8.0
  201. </h3>
  202. <h3>Februrary 8th, 2010 - Ant 1.8.0 Released</h3>
  203. <p>Apache Ant 1.8.0 is now available for download as source or binary (with and without
  204. dependencies) from
  205. <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi</a>.</p>
  206. <p>Key features of the 1.8.0 release are</p>
  207. <ul>
  208. <li>Lexically scoped local properties, i.e. properties that are only defined inside a target,
  209. sequential block or similar environment. This is very useful inside
  210. of &lt;macrodef&gt;s where a macro can now define a temporary property
  211. that will disappear once the task has finished.</li>
  212. <li>&lt;import&gt; can now import from any file- or URL-providing resource -
  213. this includes &lt;javaresource&gt;.
  214. This means &lt;import&gt; can read build file snippets from JARs or fixed server URLs.
  215. There are several other improvements in the area of import.</li>
  216. <li>Various improvements to the directory scanning code that help with symbolic link
  217. cycles (as can be found on MacOS X Java installations for example) and improve
  218. scanning performance. For big directory trees the improvement is
  219. <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ant-dev/200809.mbox/%3Cy1u4p48li29.fsf@v30161.1blu.de%3E">dramatic</a>.</li>
  220. <li>The way developers can extend Ant's property expansion algorithm has been rewritten
  221. (breaking the older API) to be easier to use and be more powerful.
  222. The whole local properties mechanism is implemented using that API and could be
  223. implemented in a separate library without changes in Ant's core.
  224. Things like the yet-to-be-released props Antlib can now provide often required
  225. "scripty" fuctions without touching Ant itself.
  226. At the same time the if and unless attributes have been rewritten to do the expected
  227. thing if applied to a property expansion (i.e. if="${foo}" will mean "yes, do it"
  228. if ${foo} expands to true, in Ant 1.7.1 it would mean "no" unless a property named
  229. "true" existed). This adds "testing conditions" as a new use-case to property
  230. expansion.</li>
  231. <li>A new top-level element &lt;extension-point&gt; assists in writing re-usable
  232. build files that are meant to be imported. &lt;extension-point&gt; has a name
  233. and a dependency-list like &lt;target&gt; and can be used like a &lt;target&gt;
  234. from the command line or a dependency-list but the importing build file can add
  235. targets to the &lt;extension-point&gt;'s depends list. </li>
  236. <li>Ant now requires Java 1.4 or later</li>
  237. <li>new task include provides an alternative to &lt;import&gt; that
  238. should be preferred when you don't want to override any targets</li>
  239. <li>numerous bug fixes and improvements as documented in Bugzilla
  240. and in WHATSNEW</li>
  241. </ul>
  242. <h3 class="section">
  243. <a name="Ivy 2.1.0"></a>
  244. Ivy 2.1.0
  245. </h3>
  246. <h3>October 8, 2009 - Apache Ivy 2.1.0 Released</h3>
  247. <p>Apache Ivy 2.1.0 is now available for download as source or binary (with and without
  248. dependencies) from
  249. <a href="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi">http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi</a>.</p>
  250. <p>Key features of the 2.1.0 release are</p>
  251. <ul>
  252. <li>enhanced Maven2 compatibility, with several bug fixes and
  253. more pom features covered</li>
  254. <li>new options for the Ivy Ant tasks and commandline</li>
  255. <li>configuration intersections and configuration groups</li>
  256. <li>numerous bug fixes and improvements as documented in Jira
  257. and in the release notes</li>
  258. </ul>
  259. <p>For more information see
  260. the <a href="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/">Ivy home page</a>.</p>
  261. <h3 class="section">
  262. <a name="IvyDE 2.0.0"></a>
  263. IvyDE 2.0.0
  264. </h3>
  265. <h3>July 13, 2009 - Apache IvyDE 2.0.0 Released</h3>
  266. <p>Apache IvyDE 2.0.0 is now available for download from
  267. <a href="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ivyde/download.cgi">http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ivyde/download.cgi</a>
  268. or directly from the updatesite
  269. <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/ivyde/updatesite">http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/ivyde/updatesite</a>
  270. </p>
  271. <p>This is the first release considered as stable since the project as been hosted
  272. by the Apache Software Foundation.</p>
  273. <p>Major changes in this release:</p>
  274. <ul>
  275. <li>the "resolve in workspace" feature (make IvyDE search for Ivy dependencies
  276. directly into the Eclipse projects) has been introduced in the last release
  277. but was quite experimental. It has been refactored to be more reliable and
  278. have been reported to be working like a charm by some of the IvyDE early users.</li>
  279. <li>the user documentation of IvyDE is now available directly into the Eclipse help center.</li>
  280. <li>IvyDE can now load property files along with the Ivy settings.</li>
  281. </ul>
  282. <p>For more information see
  283. the <a href="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ivyde/">IvyDE home page</a>.</p>
  284. <h3 class="section">
  285. <a name="Ivy 2.0.0"></a>
  286. Ivy 2.0.0
  287. </h3>
  288. <h3>January 20, 2009 - Apache Ivy 2.0.0 Released</h3>
  289. <p>Apache Ivy 2.0.0 (final) is now available for download as source or binary (with and without
  290. dependencies) from
  291. <a href="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi">http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi</a>.</p>
  292. <p>This is the first non-beta release of Ivy under Apache and includes some major new features
  293. like: enhanced Maven2 compatibility, improved cache management, improved concurrency support
  294. and numerous bug fixes and other improvements.</p>
  295. <p>For more information see the <a href="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/">Ivy home page</a>.</p>
  296. <h3 class="section">
  297. <a name="AntUnit 1.1"></a>
  298. AntUnit 1.1
  299. </h3>
  300. <h3>September 26, 2008 - Apache AntUnit 1.1 Released</h3>
  301. <p>Apache AntUnit 1.1 is now available for download as <a href="http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/bindownload.cgi">binary</a>
  302. or <a href="http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/srcdownload.cgi">source</a>
  303. release.</p>
  304. <p>In addition to a few bugfixes and some new assertions AntUnit
  305. 1.1 allows test listeners to receive the log output of the
  306. project under test. Both plainlistener and xmllistener have
  307. an option that makes them echo the project's output into their
  308. respective logs.</p>
  309. <p>For more information see the <a href="antlibs/antunit/">Antlib's
  310. home page</a></p>
  311. <h3 class="section">
  312. <a name="AntUnit 1.1 Beta 1"></a>
  313. AntUnit 1.1 Beta 1
  314. </h3>
  315. <h3>September 3, 2008 - Apache AntUnit 1.1 Beta 1 Available</h3>
  316. <h3 class="section">
  317. <a name="Ant 1.7.1"></a>
  318. Ant 1.7.1
  319. </h3>
  320. <h3>June 27, 2008 - Ant 1.7.1 Available</h3>
  321. <p>Apache Ant 1.7.1 is now available for <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
  322. <p> Ant 1.7.1 is mainly a bugfix release.</p>
  323. <p>Ant 1.7.1 has extended support for Java6 features.</p>
  324. <p> Ant 1.7.1 &lt;script&gt; now has support for JavaFX.</p>
  325. <h3 class="section">
  326. <a name="Apache Ivy is an Ant Sub-Project Now!"></a>
  327. Apache Ivy is an Ant Sub-Project Now!
  328. </h3>
  329. <h3>October 11, 2007 - Apache Ivy is an Ant Sub-Project Now!</h3>
  330. <p>Apache Ivy, "A Java based tool for tracking, resolving and
  331. managing project dependencies.", just finished <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/">Incubation</a> and has joined
  332. the Ant project. More information will be available from the Ant
  333. site soon.</p>
  334. <p>Until we've finished the migration, you can learn more about
  335. Ivy from its <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/ivy/">Incubator
  336. website</a>.</p>
  337. <h3 class="section">
  338. <a name="AntUnit 1.0"></a>
  339. AntUnit 1.0
  340. </h3>
  341. <h3>January 8, 2007 - Apache AntUnit 1.0 Available</h3>
  342. <p>Apache AntUnit 1.0 is now available for <a href="http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
  343. <p>This Ant Library contains tasks to test Ant tasks using Ant
  344. instead of JUnit. For more information see the <a href="antlibs/antunit/">AntUnit home page</a>.</p>
  345. <h3 class="section">
  346. <a name="Ant 1.7.0"></a>
  347. Ant 1.7.0
  348. </h3>
  349. <h3>December 19, 2006 - Ant 1.7.0 Available</h3>
  350. <p>Apache Ant 1.7.0 is now available for <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
  351. <p> Ant 1.7 introduces a resource framework. Some of the core ant
  352. tasks such as &lt;copy/&gt; are now able to process not only file
  353. system resources but also zip entries, tar entries, paths, ...
  354. Resource collections group resources, and can be further
  355. combined with operators such as union and intersection. This
  356. can be extended by custom resources and custom tasks using resources.</p>
  357. <p>
  358. Ant 1.7 starts outsourcing of optional tasks to Antlibs.
  359. The .NET antlib in preparation will replace the .NET optional tasks which ship in Ant.
  360. Support for the version control system Subversion will be only provided as an antlib to
  361. be released shortly.
  362. </p>
  363. <p>Ant 1.7 fixes also a large number of bugs.</p>
  364. <p>Ant 1.7 has some initial support for Java6 features.</p>
  365. <h3 class="section">
  366. <a name=".NET Ant Library 1.0Beta1"></a>
  367. .NET Ant Library 1.0Beta1
  368. </h3>
  369. <h3>November 6, 2006 - Apache .NET Ant Library 1.0 Available</h3>
  370. <p>Apache .NET Ant Library 1.0 is now available for <a href="http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
  371. <p>This Ant Library contains support for tools like NUnit as well
  372. as the "old" .NET tasks of Ant's core. It has been tested
  373. Microsoft's frameworks as well as Mono.</p>
  374. <p>For more information see the <a href="antlibs/dotnet/">Antlib's
  375. home page</a></p>
  376. <h3 class="section">
  377. <a name="AntUnit 1.0Beta2"></a>
  378. AntUnit 1.0Beta2
  379. </h3>
  380. <h3>October 29, 2006 - Apache AntUnit 1.0Beta2 Available</h3>
  381. <p>Apache AntUnit 1.0Beta1 is now available for <a href="http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
  382. <p>This Ant Library contains tasks to test Ant tasks using Ant
  383. instead of JUnit. For more information see the <a href="antlibs/antunit/">AntUnit home page</a>.</p>
  384. <h3 class="section">
  385. <a name="AntUnit 1.0Beta1"></a>
  386. AntUnit 1.0Beta1
  387. </h3>
  388. <h3>September 22, 2006 - Apache AntUnit 1.0Beta1 Available</h3>
  389. <p>Apache AntUnit 1.0Beta1 is now available for <a href="http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
  390. <p>This Ant Library contains tasks to test Ant tasks using Ant
  391. instead of JUnit. For more information see the <a href="antlibs/antunit/">AntUnit home page</a>.</p>
  392. <h3 class="section">
  393. <a name=".NET Ant Library 1.0Beta1"></a>
  394. .NET Ant Library 1.0Beta1
  395. </h3>
  396. <h3>September 13, 2006 - Apache .NET Ant Library 1.0Beta1 Available</h3>
  397. <p>Apache .NET Ant Library 1.0Beta1 is now available for <a href="http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
  398. <p>This Ant Library contains support for tools like NUnit as well
  399. as the "old" .NET tasks of Ant's core. It has been tested
  400. Microsoft's frameworks as well as Mono.</p>
  401. <p>For more information see the <a href="antlibs/dotnet/">Antlib's
  402. home page</a></p>
  403. <h3 class="section">
  404. <a name="Ant 1.6.5"></a>
  405. Ant 1.6.5
  406. </h3>
  407. <h3>June 2, 2005 - Ant 1.6.5 Available</h3>
  408. <p>Apache Ant 1.6.5 is now available for <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
  409. <p>This is a bug fix release.</p>
  410. <h3 class="section">
  411. <a name="Ant 1.6.4"></a>
  412. Ant 1.6.4
  413. </h3>
  414. <h3>May 19, 2005 - Ant 1.6.4 Available</h3>
  415. <p>Apache Ant 1.6.4 is now available for <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.</p>
  416. <p>This is a bug fix release.</p>
  417. <h3 class="section">
  418. <a name="Ant 1.6.3"></a>
  419. Ant 1.6.3
  420. </h3>
  421. <h3>April 28, 2005 - Ant 1.6.3 Available</h3>
  422. <p>Apache Ant 1.6.3 is now available for <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.</p>
  423. <p>There is a large list of fixed bugs and enhancements.</p>
  424. <p>Some of the bugs affecting the embedded use of Ant are fixed.</p>
  425. <h3 class="section">
  426. <a name="Antidote Retired"></a>
  427. Antidote Retired
  428. </h3>
  429. <h3>April 4th, 2005 - The Apache Ant Project Retires Antidote, the
  430. Ant GUI</h3>
  431. <p>The Antidote subproject was once started to provide a GUI for
  432. Ant at a time where IDE support for Ant was far from usable.
  433. Unfortunately it never attracted a developer community of its
  434. own.</p>
  435. <p>At the same time IDE support for Ant has become ubiquitous by
  436. now and there is little reason to have a GUI just for Ant. This
  437. makes it even less likely that volunteers will start to spend time
  438. working on it.</p>
  439. <p>Antidote's development has been stalled for years now, despite
  440. some efforts to rejuvenate it by single developers. Therefore the
  441. Ant developers have chosen to retire Antidote.</p>
  442. <p>Antidote will no longer be developed by the Ant project; its
  443. CVS module will be shut down.</p>
  444. <p>If you are interested in Antidote's sources to learn from or
  445. build on it, you can find snapshots at <a href="http://archive.apache.org/ant/antidote/">http://archive.apache.org/ant/antidote/</a>.</p>
  446. <h3 class="section">
  447. <a name="Ant 1.6.2"></a>
  448. Ant 1.6.2
  449. </h3>
  450. <h3>July 16, 2004 - Ant 1.6.2 Available</h3>
  451. <p>Apache Ant 1.6.2 available for <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.</p>
  452. <p>Nested elements for namespaced tasks and types may belong to the
  453. Ant default namespace as well as the task's or type's namespace.</p>
  454. <p>All exceptions thrown by tasks are now wrapped in a
  455. buildexception giving the location in the buildfile of the task.</p>
  456. <p>Ant 1.6.2 fixes a large number of bugs and adds a number of
  457. features which were asked for by users on Bugzilla.</p>
  458. <h3 class="section">
  459. <a name="Wiki Migration"></a>
  460. Wiki Migration
  461. </h3>
  462. <h3>February 29, 2004</h3>
  463. <p>The Ant Wiki pages have been migrated to their
  464. <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/ant/">new home</a> on the Apache
  465. Wiki farm.
  466. </p>
  467. <h3 class="section">
  468. <a name="Ant 1.6.1"></a>
  469. Ant 1.6.1
  470. </h3>
  471. <h3>February 12, 2004 - Ant 1.6.1 Available</h3>
  472. <p>Apache Ant 1.6.1 is still available for
  473. <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.
  474. </p>
  475. <p>The ASF Board has approved the new Apache License 2.0.
  476. For a copy of that license, please see
  477. <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/">
  478. http://www.apache.org/licenses/</a>.</p>
  479. <p>The Ant 1.6.1 release is delivered with the
  480. Apache License 2.0.</p>
  481. <p>Ant 1.6.1 fixes several bugs, most notably the handling
  482. of the default namespace for nested elements.</p>
  483. <p>Ant 1.6.1 also introduces initial support for compiling with
  484. Java 1.5.</p>
  485. <h3 class="section">
  486. <a name="Ant 1.6.0"></a>
  487. Ant 1.6.0
  488. </h3>
  489. <h3>December 18, 2003 - Ant 1.6.0 Available</h3>
  490. <p>Apache Ant 1.6.0 is still available for
  491. <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.
  492. </p>
  493. <p>As
  494. we've already said in the announcements of Ant 1.5.4, this release
  495. requires JDK 1.2 or later to run.</p>
  496. <p>Ant 1.6.0 adds a lot of new features, most prominently support
  497. for XML namespaces as well as a new concept of Ant libraries that
  498. makes use of namespaces to avoid name clashes of custom tasks.
  499. For a longer list of fixed bugs and new features see the release
  500. notes.</p>
  501. <p>If you find anything that hasn't been covered in the manual (I bet you
  502. did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the
  503. <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/ant/NewAntFeaturesInDetail">Wiki</a>.</p>
  504. <h3 class="section">
  505. <a name="Ant 1.5.4"></a>
  506. Ant 1.5.4
  507. </h3>
  508. <h3>August 12, 2003 - Ant 1.5.4 Available</h3>
  509. <p>Apache Ant 1.5.4 is still available for
  510. <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.
  511. </p>
  512. <p>This is a minor bugfix release that fixes a problem with the
  513. <code>javah</code> task on JDK 1.4.2 and a couple of bugs in the
  514. Visual Age for Java intergration tasks. If you don't use javah or
  515. VAJ, there is no reason to upgrade.</p>
  516. <div class="warning">
  517. <div class="label">Note</div>
  518. <div class="content">Ant 1.5.4 is the last release that supports
  519. JDK 1.1. Ant 1.6.0 requires JDK 1.2 or
  520. later.
  521. </div>
  522. </div>
  523. <h3 class="section">
  524. <a name="Java Pro 2003 Readers Choice Award"></a>
  525. Java Pro 2003 Readers Choice Award
  526. </h3>
  527. <a href="http://www.ftponline.com/javapro/">
  528. <img style="padding: 5px" src="images/jp_rcwinner_2003.gif" alt="" border="0" height="80" width="139" align="right" /></a>
  529. <h3>June 11th, 2003: Ant wins a Java Pro readers' choice award</h3>
  530. <p>
  531. Ant has won the Java Pro 2003 Readers' Choice Award for
  532. </p>
  533. <p>
  534. <strong>Most Valuable Java Deployment Technology</strong>.
  535. </p>
  536. <p>
  537. Thanks to Java Pro and all its readers. You can read about
  538. these
  539. <a href="http://www.ftponline.com/reports/javaone/2003/awards/">awards</a>
  540. at the Java Pro website.
  541. </p>
  542. <h3 class="section">
  543. <a name="JDJ Editors Choice Award"></a>
  544. JDJ Editors Choice Award
  545. </h3>
  546. <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>
  547. <h3>June 2003: Ant wins JDJ Editors' Choice Award</h3>
  548. <p>
  549. "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
  550. </p>
  551. <h3 class="section">
  552. <a name="Ant keeps on winning!"></a>
  553. Ant keeps on winning!
  554. </h3>
  555. <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/"><img src="images/jw_ec_logo_winner2003.gif" alt="" border="0" height="108" width="252" align="right" /></a>
  556. <h3>June 9th, 2003: Ant wins the JavaWorld Editors' Choice Award</h3>
  557. <p>
  558. Ant has won the JavaWorld Editors' Choice Award for
  559. </p>
  560. <p>
  561. <strong>Most Useful Java Community-Developed Technology</strong>
  562. </p>
  563. <p>
  564. for the second time in a row! Read the
  565. <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2003/jw-0609-eca.html"> full article</a> -- or jump directly to the bit about
  566. <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2003/jw-0609-eca-p4.html"> our award</a> <code>:)</code></p>
  567. <h3 class="section">
  568. <a name="Ant 1.5.3"></a>
  569. Ant 1.5.3
  570. </h3>
  571. <h3>April 9, 2003 - Ant 1.5.3 Available</h3>
  572. <p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 is still available for
  573. <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.
  574. </p>
  575. <h3 class="section">
  576. <a name="Ant 1.5.2"></a>
  577. Ant 1.5.2
  578. </h3>
  579. <h3>March 3, 2003 - Ant 1.5.2 Available!</h3>
  580. <p>The final version of Ant 1.5.2 is available for
  581. <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.
  582. If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the
  583. discussion on the dev and user mailing lists.
  584. </p>
  585. <h3 class="section">
  586. <a name="Ant Top Level Project"></a>
  587. Ant Top Level Project
  588. </h3>
  589. <h3>November 18, 2002</h3>
  590. <p>The Apache board <a href="mission.html">created</a>
  591. the Apache Ant top level project. Ant has now migrated from the Jakarta
  592. project into an Apache project of its own. This is primarily an
  593. organizational change and will not affect the technical aspects of
  594. the project. Ant retains a strong association with the Apache
  595. Jakarta project. One effect of this change is that the Ant webpage
  596. is now located at <a href="http://ant.apache.org/">http://ant.apache.org/</a>
  597. </p>
  598. <h3 class="section">
  599. <a name="Ant 1.5.1"></a>
  600. Ant 1.5.1
  601. </h3>
  602. <h3>October 3, 2002 - Ant 1.5.1 Available !</h3>
  603. <p>The final version of Ant 1.5.1 is still available for
  604. <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">
  605. download</a>. If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the
  606. discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
  607. </p>
  608. <h3 class="section">
  609. <a name="Ant 1.5"></a>
  610. Ant 1.5
  611. </h3>
  612. <h3>July 15, 2002 - Fix for Cygwin problem in wrapper script available</h3>
  613. <p>The wrapper script of Ant 1.5 needs to be replaced with a new
  614. version for Cygwin users. See the <a href="faq.html#1.5-cygwin-sh">FAQ</a> for details.</p>
  615. <h3>July 10, 2002 - Ant 1.5 Released!</h3>
  616. <p>The final version of Ant 1.5 is now available for
  617. <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">
  618. download</a>. If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the
  619. discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
  620. </p>
  621. <h3 class="section">
  622. <a name="Ant wins again!"></a>
  623. Ant wins again!
  624. </h3>
  625. <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/"><img src="images/sdm_productivity_award.gif" alt="" border="0" height="108" width="181" align="right" /></a>
  626. <h3>Apr 29, 2002: Ant wins <em>Software Development</em> magazine's
  627. 2002 Productivity Award.</h3>
  628. <p>
  629. Ant has been awarded a <strong>2002 Productivity Award</strong> by
  630. <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/"><em>Software Development</em></a>
  631. magazine. Read the
  632. <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/jolts/press_release_4-26-02.htm">
  633. press release</a> for more information and the full list of winners.
  634. </p>
  635. <h3 class="section">
  636. <a name="Ant has won!"></a>
  637. Ant has won!
  638. </h3>
  639. <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/"><img src="images/jw_ec_logo_winner2002.gif" alt="" border="0" height="108" width="252" align="right" /></a>
  640. <h3>Mar 26, 2002: Ant wins the JavaWorld Editors' Choice
  641. Award</h3>
  642. <p>
  643. Ant has won the JavaWorld Editors' Choice Award for
  644. <strong>Most Useful Java Community-Developed Technology</strong>.
  645. Read the
  646. <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2002/jw-0326-awards.html "> full article</a> -- or jump directly to the bit about
  647. <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2002/jw-0326-awards-p3.html"> our award</a> <code>:)</code></p>
  648. <h3 class="section">
  649. <a name="Java 1.4 Support"></a>
  650. Java 1.4 Support
  651. </h3>
  652. <h3>Feb 15, 2002: Java 1.4 Support</h3>
  653. <p>
  654. Java 1.4 has now been released by Sun. The latest Ant source supports
  655. the new <tt>assert</tt> statement in the compiler task via the <tt>source</tt>
  656. attribute. It also contains a compatibility fix needed for some ant tasks
  657. on Java 1.4 over Windows XP. If you have problems running Ant 1.4.1 on WinXP/Java 1.4,
  658. please use a recent build or compile your own version from the source tree.
  659. </p>
  660. <h3 class="section">
  661. <a name="See our new logo!"></a>
  662. See our new logo!
  663. </h3>
  664. <h3>Have a look at our new cool logo!</h3>
  665. <h3 class="section">
  666. <a name="Ant 1.4.1"></a>
  667. Ant 1.4.1
  668. </h3>
  669. <h3>11 October 2001 Ant 1.4.1 released !</h3>
  670. <p>Please visit the
  671. <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">
  672. download area</a>.
  673. </p>
  674. <h3 class="section">
  675. <a name="Best-Practices Profile of Ant at Sun's Dot-Com Builder"></a>
  676. Best-Practices Profile of Ant at Sun's Dot-Com Builder
  677. </h3>
  678. <p>Sun has released an introductory article on Ant on their
  679. 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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