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  164. <a name="Ant 1.5.3"></a>
  165. Ant 1.5.3
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  167. <h3>April 9, 2003 - Ant 1.5.3 Available</h3>
  168. <p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 is now available for
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  170. </p>
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  172. <div class="label">Note</div>
  173. <div class="content">Ant 1.5.3 will be the last release that supports
  174. JDK 1.1. The next major release of Ant, Ant 1.6, will require JDK 1.2 or
  175. later
  176. </div>
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  178. <h3 class="section">
  179. <a name="Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1"></a>
  180. Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1
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  182. <h3>March 25, 2003 - Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1 Available</h3>
  183. <p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1 is now available for
  184. <a href="http://ant.apache.org/beta/">download</a>.
  185. Please download it and try it out. If you have any issues
  186. please raise a bug on
  187. <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Ant">BugZilla</a>
  188. or send an email to the Ant dev mailing list
  189. </p>
  190. <h3 class="section">
  191. <a name="Ant 1.5.2"></a>
  192. Ant 1.5.2
  193. </h3>
  194. <h3>March 3, 2003 - Ant 1.5.2 Available!</h3>
  195. <p>The final version of Ant 1.5.2 is now available for
  196. <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.
  197. If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the
  198. discussion on the dev and user mailing lists.
  199. </p>
  200. <h3 class="section">
  201. <a name="Ant 1.5.2Beta1"></a>
  202. Ant 1.5.2Beta1
  203. </h3>
  204. <h3>February 21, 2003 - Ant 1.5.2 Beta1 Available!</h3>
  205. <p>The first beta version of Ant 1.5.2 is now available for
  206. download at <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.5.2beta1/">
  207. http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.5.2beta1</a>.
  208. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the
  209. discussion on the dev and user mailing lists.
  210. </p>
  211. <h3 class="section">
  212. <a name="Ant Top Level Project"></a>
  213. Ant Top Level Project
  214. </h3>
  215. <h3>November 18, 2002</h3>
  216. <p>The Apache board <a href="mission.html">created</a>
  217. the Apache Ant top level project. Ant has now migrated from the Jakarta
  218. project into an Apache project of its own. This is primarily an
  219. organizational change and will not affect the technical aspects of
  220. the project. Ant retains a strong association with the Apache
  221. Jakarta project. One effect of this change is that the Ant webpage
  222. is now located at <a href="http://ant.apache.org">http://ant.apache.org</a>
  223. </p>
  224. <h3 class="section">
  225. <a name="Ant 1.5.1"></a>
  226. Ant 1.5.1
  227. </h3>
  228. <h3>October 3, 2002 - Ant 1.5.1 Available !</h3>
  229. <p>The final version of Ant 1.5.1 is now available for
  230. <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">
  231. download</a>. If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the
  232. discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
  233. </p>
  234. <h3 class="section">
  235. <a name="Ant 1.5.1Beta1"></a>
  236. Ant 1.5.1Beta1
  237. </h3>
  238. <h3>August 19, 2002 - Ant 1.5.1 Beta1 Available !</h3>
  239. <p>The first beta version of Ant 1.5.1 is now available for
  240. download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the
  241. discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
  242. </p>
  243. <h3 class="section">
  244. <a name="Ant 1.5"></a>
  245. Ant 1.5
  246. </h3>
  247. <h3>July 15, 2002 - Fix for Cygwin problem in wrapper script available</h3>
  248. <p>The wrapper script of Ant 1.5 needs to be replaced with a new
  249. version for Cygwin users. See the <a href="faq.html#1.5-cygwin-sh">FAQ</a> for details.</p>
  250. <h3>July 10, 2002 - Ant 1.5 Released!</h3>
  251. <p>The final version of Ant 1.5 is now available for
  252. <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ant/release/v1.5/">
  253. download</a>. If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the
  254. discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
  255. </p>
  256. <h3 class="section">
  257. <a name="Ant 1.5Beta3"></a>
  258. Ant 1.5Beta3
  259. </h3>
  260. <h3>June 24, 2002 - Ant 1.5 Beta3 Available!</h3>
  261. <p>The third beta version of Ant 1.5 is now available for
  262. download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the
  263. discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
  264. </p>
  265. <h3 class="section">
  266. <a name="Ant 1.5Beta2"></a>
  267. Ant 1.5Beta2
  268. </h3>
  269. <h3>June 1, 2002 - Ant 1.5 Beta2 Available!</h3>
  270. <p>The second beta version of Ant 1.5 is now available for
  271. download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the
  272. discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
  273. </p>
  274. <h3 class="section">
  275. <a name="Ant 1.5Beta1"></a>
  276. Ant 1.5Beta1
  277. </h3>
  278. <h3>Ant 1.5 Beta1 Available !</h3>
  279. <p>The first beta version of Ant 1.5 is now available for
  280. download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the
  281. discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
  282. </p>
  283. <h3 class="section">
  284. <a name="Ant wins again!"></a>
  285. Ant wins again!
  286. </h3>
  287. <h3>Apr 29, 2002: Ant wins <em>Software Development</em> magazine's
  288. 2002 Productivity Award.</h3>
  289. <p>
  290. <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com"><img src="images/sdm_productivity_award.gif" alt="" border="0" height="75" width="135" align="right" /></a>
  291. Ant has been awarded a <strong>2002 Productivity Award</strong> by
  292. <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/"><em>Software Development</em></a>
  293. magazine. Read the
  294. <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/jolts/press_release_4-26-02.htm">
  295. press release</a> for more information and the full list of winners.
  296. </p>
  297. <h3 class="section">
  298. <a name="Ant has won!"></a>
  299. Ant has won!
  300. </h3>
  301. <h3>Mar 26, 2002: Ant wins the JavaWorld Editors' Choice
  302. Award</h3>
  303. <p>
  304. <a href="http://www.javaworld.com"><img src="images/jw_ec_logo_winner2002.gif" alt="" border="0" height="85" width="230" align="right" /></a>
  305. Ant has won the JavaWorld Editors' Choice Award for
  306. <strong>Most Useful Java Community-Developed Technology</strong>.
  307. Read the
  308. <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2002/jw-0326-awards.html "> full article</a> -- or jump directly to the bit about
  309. <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2002/jw-0326-awards-p3.html"> our award</a> <code>:)</code></p>
  310. <h3 class="section">
  311. <a name="Java 1.4 Support"></a>
  312. Java 1.4 Support
  313. </h3>
  314. <h3>Feb 15, 2002: Java 1.4 Support</h3>
  315. <p>
  316. Java 1.4 has now been released by Sun. The latest Ant source supports
  317. the new <tt>assert</tt> statement in the compiler task via the <tt>source</tt>
  318. attribute. It also contains a compatibility fix needed for some ant tasks
  319. on Java 1.4 over Windows XP. If you have problems running Ant 1.4.1 on WinXP/Java 1.4,
  320. please use a recent build or compile your own version from the source tree.
  321. </p>
  322. <h3 class="section">
  323. <a name="See our new logo!"></a>
  324. See our new logo!
  325. </h3>
  326. <h3>Have a look at our new cool logo!</h3>
  327. <h3 class="section">
  328. <a name="Ant 1.4.1"></a>
  329. Ant 1.4.1
  330. </h3>
  331. <h3>11 October 2001 Ant 1.4.1 released !</h3>
  332. <p>Please visit the
  333. <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ant/release/v1.4.1/">
  334. download area</a>.
  335. </p>
  336. <h3 class="section">
  337. <a name="Ant 2.0 Requirements Collected - Next is Design"></a>
  338. Ant 2.0 Requirements Collected - Next is Design
  339. </h3>
  340. <p>A commented version of the collected user requirements is now
  341. available <a href="ant2/features.html">here</a> - it is not
  342. complete as some details still have to be defined, but it should
  343. give you an idea of what Ant2 is going to look like.</p>
  344. <p>Several details can only be decided in the light of real code
  345. and prototypes. Several people are working on prototypes (that
  346. can be found in Ant's CVS module in the proposals directory) and
  347. discussion is going on on the Ant-Dev mailing list.</p>
  348. <h3 class="section">
  349. <a name="Best-Practices Profile of Ant at Sun's Dot-Com Builder"></a>
  350. Best-Practices Profile of Ant at Sun's Dot-Com Builder
  351. </h3>
  352. <p>Sun has released an introductory article on Ant on their
  353. 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>
  354. <h3 class="section">
  355. <a name="Ant 2.0 Requirements"></a>
  356. Ant 2.0 Requirements
  357. </h3>
  358. <p>Ant has been in use for quite some time and has been used in ways never conceived when it
  359. was originally written. While Ant 1.x has continued to sucessfully evolve and grow, there
  360. are a number of limitations and inconsistencies that are now apparent and which need to
  361. be addressed.
  362. </p>
  363. <p>
  364. As we continue to evolve and enhance Ant 1.x, it is now time to define what Ant 2.0 will
  365. encompass. Ant 2.0 will be a major rearchitecting of Ant. It has a number of goals including:
  366. </p>
  367. <ul>
  368. <li>Define the "contract" with build file writers to which Ant will be bound.</li>
  369. <li>Define the "contract" between the Ant core and Task writers.</li>
  370. <li>Make Ant more easily extendable by allowing additional tasks to be "dropped" in.</li>
  371. <li>Allow Ant to function as a component to simplify integration with GUIs and IDEs.</li>
  372. <li>Make Ant more regular and logical.</li>
  373. </ul>
  374. <p>
  375. It is expected that Ant 2.0 will break Ant 1.x based build files. The intention is to
  376. make this the last time that will happen.
  377. </p>
  378. <p>
  379. To advance the definition of Ant, user requirements are now being accepted on the
  380. Ant-Dev mailing list. Any requirement will be accepted for consideration. The
  381. requirements are being collected into a document which is available
  382. <a href="ant2/requested-features.txt">on-line</a>. New features will be excepted
  383. until March 21st, 2001. At that time, each requirement will be discussed
  384. for inclusion in an Ant 2.0 requirement document.
  385. </p>
  386. <p>
  387. For your reference some of the goals which have shaped the development of Ant 1.x are
  388. available <a href="ant2/original-specification.html">here</a>. These continue to be
  389. relevant to Ant 2.0.
  390. </p>
  391. <p>
  392. If you want to shape the future of Ant, join the
  393. <a href="mail.html">Ant-Dev mailing list</a> and contribute
  394. your ideas.
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