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  168. <h3 class="section">
  169. <a name="Ant 1.6.5"></a>
  170. Ant 1.6.5
  171. </h3>
  172. <h3>June 2, 2005 - Ant 1.6.5 Available</h3>
  173. <p>Apache Ant 1.6.5 is now available for <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
  174. <p>This is a bug fix release.</p>
  175. <h3 class="section">
  176. <a name="Ant 1.6.4"></a>
  177. Ant 1.6.4
  178. </h3>
  179. <h3>May 19, 2005 - Ant 1.6.4 Available</h3>
  180. <p>Apache Ant 1.6.4 is now available for <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.</p>
  181. <p>This is a bug fix release.</p>
  182. <h3 class="section">
  183. <a name="Ant 1.6.3"></a>
  184. Ant 1.6.3
  185. </h3>
  186. <h3>April 28, 2005 - Ant 1.6.3 Available</h3>
  187. <p>Apache Ant 1.6.3 is now available for <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.</p>
  188. <p>There is a large list of fixed bugs and enhancements.</p>
  189. <p>Some of the bugs affecting the embedded use of Ant are fixed.</p>
  190. <h3 class="section">
  191. <a name="Antidote Retired"></a>
  192. Antidote Retired
  193. </h3>
  194. <h3>April 4th, 2005 - The Apache Ant Project Retires Antidote, the
  195. Ant GUI</h3>
  196. <p>The Antidote subproject was once started to provide a GUI for
  197. Ant at a time where IDE support for Ant was far from usable.
  198. Unfortunately it never attracted a developer community of its
  199. own.</p>
  200. <p>At the same time IDE support for Ant has become ubiquitous by
  201. now and there is little reason to have a GUI just for Ant. This
  202. makes it even less likely that volunteers will start to spend time
  203. working on it.</p>
  204. <p>Antidote's development has been stalled for years now, despite
  205. some efforts to rejuvenate it by single developers. Therefore the
  206. Ant developers have chosen to retire Antidote.</p>
  207. <p>Antidote will no longer be developed by the Ant project; its
  208. CVS module will be shut down.</p>
  209. <p>If you are interested in Antidote's sources to learn from or
  210. build on it, you can find snapshots at <a href="http://archive.apache.org/ant/antidote/">http://archive.apache.org/ant/antidote/</a>.</p>
  211. <h3 class="section">
  212. <a name="Ant 1.6.2"></a>
  213. Ant 1.6.2
  214. </h3>
  215. <h3>July 16, 2004 - Ant 1.6.2 Available</h3>
  216. <p>Apache Ant 1.6.2 available for <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.</p>
  217. <p>Nested elements for namespaced tasks and types may belong to the
  218. Ant default namespace as well as the task's or type's namespace.</p>
  219. <p>All exceptions thrown by tasks are now wrapped in a
  220. buildexception giving the location in the buildfile of the task.</p>
  221. <p>Ant 1.6.2 fixes a large number of bugs and adds a number of
  222. features which were asked for by users on Bugzilla.</p>
  223. <h3 class="section">
  224. <a name="Wiki Migration"></a>
  225. Wiki Migration
  226. </h3>
  227. <h3>February 29, 2004</h3>
  228. <p>The Ant Wiki pages have been migrated to their
  229. <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/ant/">new home</a> on the Apache
  230. Wiki farm.
  231. </p>
  232. <h3 class="section">
  233. <a name="Ant 1.6.1"></a>
  234. Ant 1.6.1
  235. </h3>
  236. <h3>February 12, 2004 - Ant 1.6.1 Available</h3>
  237. <p>Apache Ant 1.6.1 is still available for
  238. <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.
  239. </p>
  240. <p>The ASF Board has approved the new Apache License 2.0.
  241. For a copy of that license, please see
  242. <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/">
  243. http://www.apache.org/licenses/</a>.</p>
  244. <p>The Ant 1.6.1 release is delivered with the
  245. Apache License 2.0.</p>
  246. <p>Ant 1.6.1 fixes several bugs, most notably the handling
  247. of the default namespace for nested elements.</p>
  248. <p>Ant 1.6.1 also introduces initial support for compiling with
  249. Java 1.5.</p>
  250. <h3 class="section">
  251. <a name="Ant 1.6.0"></a>
  252. Ant 1.6.0
  253. </h3>
  254. <h3>December 18, 2003 - Ant 1.6.0 Available</h3>
  255. <p>Apache Ant 1.6.0 is still available for
  256. <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.
  257. </p>
  258. <p>As
  259. we've already said in the announcements of Ant 1.5.4, this release
  260. requires JDK 1.2 or later to run.</p>
  261. <p>Ant 1.6.0 adds a lot of new features, most prominently support
  262. for XML namespaces as well as a new concept of Ant libraries that
  263. makes use of namespaces to avoid name clashes of custom tasks.
  264. For a longer list of fixed bugs and new features see the release
  265. notes.</p>
  266. <p>If you find anything that hasn't been covered in the manual (I bet you
  267. did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the
  268. <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/ant/NewAntFeaturesInDetail">Wiki</a>.</p>
  269. <h3 class="section">
  270. <a name="Ant 1.5.4"></a>
  271. Ant 1.5.4
  272. </h3>
  273. <h3>August 12, 2003 - Ant 1.5.4 Available</h3>
  274. <p>Apache Ant 1.5.4 is still available for
  275. <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.
  276. </p>
  277. <p>This is a minor bugfix release that fixes a problem with the
  278. <code>javah</code> task on JDK 1.4.2 and a couple of bugs in the
  279. Visual Age for Java intergration tasks. If you don't use javah or
  280. VAJ, there is no reason to upgrade.</p>
  281. <div class="warning">
  282. <div class="label">Note</div>
  283. <div class="content">Ant 1.5.4 is the last release that supports
  284. JDK 1.1. Ant 1.6.0 requires JDK 1.2 or
  285. later.
  286. </div>
  287. </div>
  288. <h3 class="section">
  289. <a name="Java Pro 2003 Readers Choice Award"></a>
  290. Java Pro 2003 Readers Choice Award
  291. </h3>
  292. <a href="http://www.ftponline.com/javapro/">
  293. <img style="padding: 5px" src="images/jp_rcwinner_2003.gif" alt="" border="0" height="80" width="139" align="right" /></a>
  294. <h3>June 11th, 2003: Ant wins a Java Pro readers' choice award</h3>
  295. <p>
  296. Ant has won the Java Pro 2003 Readers' Choice Award for
  297. </p>
  298. <p>
  299. <strong>Most Valuable Java Deployment Technology</strong>.
  300. </p>
  301. <p>
  302. Thanks to Java Pro and all its readers. You can read about
  303. these
  304. <a href="http://www.ftponline.com/reports/javaone/2003/awards/">awards</a>
  305. at the Java Pro website.
  306. </p>
  307. <h3 class="section">
  308. <a name="JDJ Editors Choice Award"></a>
  309. JDJ Editors Choice Award
  310. </h3>
  311. <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>
  312. <h3>June 2003: Ant wins JDJ Editors' Choice Award</h3>
  313. <p>
  314. "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
  315. </p>
  316. <h3 class="section">
  317. <a name="Ant keeps on winning!"></a>
  318. Ant keeps on winning!
  319. </h3>
  320. <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/"><img src="images/jw_ec_logo_winner2003.gif" alt="" border="0" height="108" width="252" align="right" /></a>
  321. <h3>June 9th, 2003: Ant wins the JavaWorld Editors' Choice Award</h3>
  322. <p>
  323. Ant has won the JavaWorld Editors' Choice Award for
  324. </p>
  325. <p>
  326. <strong>Most Useful Java Community-Developed Technology</strong>
  327. </p>
  328. <p>
  329. for the second time in a row! Read the
  330. <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2003/jw-0609-eca.html"> full article</a> -- or jump directly to the bit about
  331. <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2003/jw-0609-eca-p4.html"> our award</a> <code>:)</code></p>
  332. <h3 class="section">
  333. <a name="Ant 1.5.3"></a>
  334. Ant 1.5.3
  335. </h3>
  336. <h3>April 9, 2003 - Ant 1.5.3 Available</h3>
  337. <p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 is still available for
  338. <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.
  339. </p>
  340. <h3 class="section">
  341. <a name="Ant 1.5.2"></a>
  342. Ant 1.5.2
  343. </h3>
  344. <h3>March 3, 2003 - Ant 1.5.2 Available!</h3>
  345. <p>The final version of Ant 1.5.2 is available for
  346. <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.
  347. If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the
  348. discussion on the dev and user mailing lists.
  349. </p>
  350. <h3 class="section">
  351. <a name="Ant Top Level Project"></a>
  352. Ant Top Level Project
  353. </h3>
  354. <h3>November 18, 2002</h3>
  355. <p>The Apache board <a href="mission.html">created</a>
  356. the Apache Ant top level project. Ant has now migrated from the Jakarta
  357. project into an Apache project of its own. This is primarily an
  358. organizational change and will not affect the technical aspects of
  359. the project. Ant retains a strong association with the Apache
  360. Jakarta project. One effect of this change is that the Ant webpage
  361. is now located at <a href="http://ant.apache.org/">http://ant.apache.org/</a>
  362. </p>
  363. <h3 class="section">
  364. <a name="Ant 1.5.1"></a>
  365. Ant 1.5.1
  366. </h3>
  367. <h3>October 3, 2002 - Ant 1.5.1 Available !</h3>
  368. <p>The final version of Ant 1.5.1 is still available for
  369. <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">
  370. download</a>. If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the
  371. discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
  372. </p>
  373. <h3 class="section">
  374. <a name="Ant 1.5"></a>
  375. Ant 1.5
  376. </h3>
  377. <h3>July 15, 2002 - Fix for Cygwin problem in wrapper script available</h3>
  378. <p>The wrapper script of Ant 1.5 needs to be replaced with a new
  379. version for Cygwin users. See the <a href="faq.html#1.5-cygwin-sh">FAQ</a> for details.</p>
  380. <h3>July 10, 2002 - Ant 1.5 Released!</h3>
  381. <p>The final version of Ant 1.5 is now available for
  382. <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">
  383. download</a>. If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the
  384. discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
  385. </p>
  386. <h3 class="section">
  387. <a name="Ant wins again!"></a>
  388. Ant wins again!
  389. </h3>
  390. <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/"><img src="images/sdm_productivity_award.gif" alt="" border="0" height="108" width="181" align="right" /></a>
  391. <h3>Apr 29, 2002: Ant wins <em>Software Development</em> magazine's
  392. 2002 Productivity Award.</h3>
  393. <p>
  394. Ant has been awarded a <strong>2002 Productivity Award</strong> by
  395. <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/"><em>Software Development</em></a>
  396. magazine. Read the
  397. <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/jolts/press_release_4-26-02.htm">
  398. press release</a> for more information and the full list of winners.
  399. </p>
  400. <h3 class="section">
  401. <a name="Ant has won!"></a>
  402. Ant has won!
  403. </h3>
  404. <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/"><img src="images/jw_ec_logo_winner2002.gif" alt="" border="0" height="108" width="252" align="right" /></a>
  405. <h3>Mar 26, 2002: Ant wins the JavaWorld Editors' Choice
  406. Award</h3>
  407. <p>
  408. Ant has won the JavaWorld Editors' Choice Award for
  409. <strong>Most Useful Java Community-Developed Technology</strong>.
  410. Read the
  411. <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2002/jw-0326-awards.html "> full article</a> -- or jump directly to the bit about
  412. <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2002/jw-0326-awards-p3.html"> our award</a> <code>:)</code></p>
  413. <h3 class="section">
  414. <a name="Java 1.4 Support"></a>
  415. Java 1.4 Support
  416. </h3>
  417. <h3>Feb 15, 2002: Java 1.4 Support</h3>
  418. <p>
  419. Java 1.4 has now been released by Sun. The latest Ant source supports
  420. the new <tt>assert</tt> statement in the compiler task via the <tt>source</tt>
  421. attribute. It also contains a compatibility fix needed for some ant tasks
  422. on Java 1.4 over Windows XP. If you have problems running Ant 1.4.1 on WinXP/Java 1.4,
  423. please use a recent build or compile your own version from the source tree.
  424. </p>
  425. <h3 class="section">
  426. <a name="See our new logo!"></a>
  427. See our new logo!
  428. </h3>
  429. <h3>Have a look at our new cool logo!</h3>
  430. <h3 class="section">
  431. <a name="Ant 1.4.1"></a>
  432. Ant 1.4.1
  433. </h3>
  434. <h3>11 October 2001 Ant 1.4.1 released !</h3>
  435. <p>Please visit the
  436. <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">
  437. download area</a>.
  438. </p>
  439. <h3 class="section">
  440. <a name="Best-Practices Profile of Ant at Sun's Dot-Com Builder"></a>
  441. Best-Practices Profile of Ant at Sun's Dot-Com Builder
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  443. <p>Sun has released an introductory article on Ant on their
  444. Dot-Com Builder site on May302001. 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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