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180 <a name="Ant 1.6.5"></a>
181 Ant 1.6.5
182 </h3>
183 <h3>June 2, 2005 - Ant 1.6.5 Available</h3>
184 <p>Apache Ant 1.6.5 is now available for <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
185 <p>This is a bug fix release.</p>
186 <h3 class="section">
187 <a name="Ant 1.6.4"></a>
188 Ant 1.6.4
189 </h3>
190 <h3>May 19, 2005 - Ant 1.6.4 Available</h3>
191 <p>Apache Ant 1.6.4 is now available for <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.</p>
192 <p>This is a bug fix release.</p>
193 <h3 class="section">
194 <a name="Ant 1.6.3"></a>
195 Ant 1.6.3
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197 <h3>April 28, 2005 - Ant 1.6.3 Available</h3>
198 <p>Apache Ant 1.6.3 is now available for <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.</p>
199 <p>There is a large list of fixed bugs and enhancements.</p>
200 <p>Some of the bugs affecting the embedded use of Ant are fixed.</p>
201 <h3 class="section">
202 <a name="Antidote Retired"></a>
203 Antidote Retired
204 </h3>
205 <h3>April 4th, 2005 - The Apache Ant Project Retires Antidote, the
206 Ant GUI</h3>
207 <p>The Antidote subproject was once started to provide a GUI for
208 Ant at a time where IDE support for Ant was far from usable.
209 Unfortunately it never attracted a developer community of its
210 own.</p>
211 <p>At the same time IDE support for Ant has become ubiquitous by
212 now and there is little reason to have a GUI just for Ant. This
213 makes it even less likely that volunteers will start to spend time
214 working on it.</p>
215 <p>Antidote's development has been stalled for years now, despite
216 some efforts to rejuvenate it by single developers. Therefore the
217 Ant developers have chosen to retire Antidote.</p>
218 <p>Antidote will no longer be developed by the Ant project; its
219 CVS module will be shut down.</p>
220 <p>If you are interested in Antidote's sources to learn from or
221 build on it, you can find snapshots at <a href="http://archive.apache.org/ant/antidote/">http://archive.apache.org/ant/antidote/</a>.</p>
222 <h3 class="section">
223 <a name="Ant 1.6.2"></a>
224 Ant 1.6.2
225 </h3>
226 <h3>July 16, 2004 - Ant 1.6.2 Available</h3>
227 <p>Apache Ant 1.6.2 available for <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.</p>
228 <p>Nested elements for namespaced tasks and types may belong to the
229Ant default namespace as well as the task's or type's namespace.</p>
230 <p>All exceptions thrown by tasks are now wrapped in a
231buildexception giving the location in the buildfile of the task.</p>
232 <p>Ant 1.6.2 fixes a large number of bugs and adds a number of
233features which were asked for by users on Bugzilla.</p>
234 <h3 class="section">
235 <a name="Wiki Migration"></a>
236 Wiki Migration
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238 <h3>February 29, 2004</h3>
239 <p>The Ant Wiki pages have been migrated to their
240 <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/ant/">new home</a> on the Apache
241 Wiki farm.
242 </p>
243 <h3 class="section">
244 <a name="Ant 1.6.1"></a>
245 Ant 1.6.1
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247 <h3>February 12, 2004 - Ant 1.6.1 Available</h3>
248 <p>Apache Ant 1.6.1 is still available for
249 <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.
250 </p>
251 <p>The ASF Board has approved the new Apache License 2.0.
252 For a copy of that license, please see
253 <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/">
254 http://www.apache.org/licenses/</a>.</p>
255 <p>The Ant 1.6.1 release is delivered with the
256 Apache License 2.0.</p>
257 <p>Ant 1.6.1 fixes several bugs, most notably the handling
258 of the default namespace for nested elements.</p>
259 <p>Ant 1.6.1 also introduces initial support for compiling with
260 Java 1.5.</p>
261 <h3 class="section">
262 <a name="Ant 1.6.0"></a>
263 Ant 1.6.0
264 </h3>
265 <h3>December 18, 2003 - Ant 1.6.0 Available</h3>
266 <p>Apache Ant 1.6.0 is still available for
267 <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.
268 </p>
269 <p>As
270 we've already said in the announcements of Ant 1.5.4, this release
271 requires JDK 1.2 or later to run.</p>
272 <p>Ant 1.6.0 adds a lot of new features, most prominently support
273 for XML namespaces as well as a new concept of Ant libraries that
274 makes use of namespaces to avoid name clashes of custom tasks.
275 For a longer list of fixed bugs and new features see the release
276 notes.</p>
277 <p>If you find anything that hasn't been covered in the manual (I bet you
278did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the
279<a href="http://wiki.apache.org/ant/NewAntFeaturesInDetail">Wiki</a>.</p>
280 <h3 class="section">
281 <a name="Ant 1.5.4"></a>
282 Ant 1.5.4
283 </h3>
284 <h3>August 12, 2003 - Ant 1.5.4 Available</h3>
285 <p>Apache Ant 1.5.4 is still available for
286 <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.
287 </p>
288 <p>This is a minor bugfix release that fixes a problem with the
289 <code>javah</code> task on JDK 1.4.2 and a couple of bugs in the
290 Visual Age for Java intergration tasks. If you don't use javah or
291 VAJ, there is no reason to upgrade.</p>
292 <div class="warning">
293 <div class="label">Note</div>
294 <div class="content">Ant 1.5.4 is the last release that supports
295 JDK 1.1. Ant 1.6.0 requires JDK 1.2 or
296 later.
297 </div>
298 </div>
299 <h3 class="section">
300 <a name="Java Pro 2003 Readers Choice Award"></a>
301 Java Pro 2003 Readers Choice Award
302 </h3>
303 <a href="http://www.ftponline.com/javapro/">
304 <img style="padding: 5px" src="images/jp_rcwinner_2003.gif" alt="" border="0" height="80" width="139" align="right" /></a>
305 <h3>June 11th, 2003: Ant wins a Java Pro readers' choice award</h3>
306 <p>
307 Ant has won the Java Pro 2003 Readers' Choice Award for
308 </p>
309 <p>
310 <strong>Most Valuable Java Deployment Technology</strong>.
311 </p>
312 <p>
313 Thanks to Java Pro and all its readers. You can read about
314 these
315 <a href="http://www.ftponline.com/reports/javaone/2003/awards/">awards</a>
316 at the Java Pro website.
317 </p>
318 <h3 class="section">
319 <a name="JDJ Editors Choice Award"></a>
320 JDJ Editors Choice Award
321 </h3>
322 <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>
323 <h3>June 2003: Ant wins JDJ Editors' Choice Award</h3>
324 <p>
325"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
326 </p>
327 <h3 class="section">
328 <a name="Ant keeps on winning!"></a>
329 Ant keeps on winning!
330 </h3>
331 <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/"><img src="images/jw_ec_logo_winner2003.gif" alt="" border="0" height="108" width="252" align="right" /></a>
332 <h3>June 9th, 2003: Ant wins the JavaWorld Editors' Choice Award</h3>
333 <p>
334 Ant has won the JavaWorld Editors' Choice Award for
335 </p>
336 <p>
337 <strong>Most Useful Java Community-Developed Technology</strong>
338 </p>
339 <p>
340 for the second time in a row! Read the
341 <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2003/jw-0609-eca.html"> full article</a> -- or jump directly to the bit about
342 <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2003/jw-0609-eca-p4.html"> our award</a> <code>:)</code></p>
343 <h3 class="section">
344 <a name="Ant 1.5.3"></a>
345 Ant 1.5.3
346 </h3>
347 <h3>April 9, 2003 - Ant 1.5.3 Available</h3>
348 <p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 is still available for
349 <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.
350 </p>
351 <h3 class="section">
352 <a name="Ant 1.5.2"></a>
353 Ant 1.5.2
354 </h3>
355 <h3>March 3, 2003 - Ant 1.5.2 Available!</h3>
356 <p>The final version of Ant 1.5.2 is available for
357 <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">download</a>.
358 If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the
359 discussion on the dev and user mailing lists.
360 </p>
361 <h3 class="section">
362 <a name="Ant Top Level Project"></a>
363 Ant Top Level Project
364 </h3>
365 <h3>November 18, 2002</h3>
366 <p>The Apache board <a href="mission.html">created</a>
367 the Apache Ant top level project. Ant has now migrated from the Jakarta
368 project into an Apache project of its own. This is primarily an
369 organizational change and will not affect the technical aspects of
370 the project. Ant retains a strong association with the Apache
371 Jakarta project. One effect of this change is that the Ant webpage
372 is now located at <a href="http://ant.apache.org/">http://ant.apache.org/</a>
373 </p>
374 <h3 class="section">
375 <a name="Ant 1.5.1"></a>
376 Ant 1.5.1
377 </h3>
378 <h3>October 3, 2002 - Ant 1.5.1 Available !</h3>
379 <p>The final version of Ant 1.5.1 is still available for
380 <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">
381 download</a>. If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the
382 discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
383 </p>
384 <h3 class="section">
385 <a name="Ant 1.5"></a>
386 Ant 1.5
387 </h3>
388 <h3>July 15, 2002 - Fix for Cygwin problem in wrapper script available</h3>
389 <p>The wrapper script of Ant 1.5 needs to be replaced with a new
390 version for Cygwin users. See the <a href="faq.html#1.5-cygwin-sh">FAQ</a> for details.</p>
391 <h3>July 10, 2002 - Ant 1.5 Released!</h3>
392 <p>The final version of Ant 1.5 is now available for
393 <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">
394 download</a>. If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the
395 discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.
396 </p>
397 <h3 class="section">
398 <a name="Ant wins again!"></a>
399 Ant wins again!
400 </h3>
401 <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/"><img src="images/sdm_productivity_award.gif" alt="" border="0" height="108" width="181" align="right" /></a>
402 <h3>Apr 29, 2002: Ant wins <em>Software Development</em> magazine's
403 2002 Productivity Award.</h3>
404 <p>
405 Ant has been awarded a <strong>2002 Productivity Award</strong> by
406 <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/"><em>Software Development</em></a>
407 magazine. Read the
408 <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/jolts/press_release_4-26-02.htm">
409 press release</a> for more information and the full list of winners.
410 </p>
411 <h3 class="section">
412 <a name="Ant has won!"></a>
413 Ant has won!
414 </h3>
415 <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/"><img src="images/jw_ec_logo_winner2002.gif" alt="" border="0" height="108" width="252" align="right" /></a>
416 <h3>Mar 26, 2002: Ant wins the JavaWorld Editors' Choice
417 Award</h3>
418 <p>
419 Ant has won the JavaWorld Editors' Choice Award for
420 <strong>Most Useful Java Community-Developed Technology</strong>.
421 Read the
422 <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2002/jw-0326-awards.html "> full article</a> -- or jump directly to the bit about
423 <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2002/jw-0326-awards-p3.html"> our award</a> <code>:)</code></p>
424 <h3 class="section">
425 <a name="Java 1.4 Support"></a>
426 Java 1.4 Support
427 </h3>
428 <h3>Feb 15, 2002: Java 1.4 Support</h3>
429 <p>
430 Java 1.4 has now been released by Sun. The latest Ant source supports
431 the new <tt>assert</tt> statement in the compiler task via the <tt>source</tt>
432 attribute. It also contains a compatibility fix needed for some ant tasks
433 on Java 1.4 over Windows XP. If you have problems running Ant 1.4.1 on WinXP/Java 1.4,
434 please use a recent build or compile your own version from the source tree.
435 </p>
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437 <a name="See our new logo!"></a>
438 See our new logo!
439 </h3>
440 <h3>Have a look at our new cool logo!</h3>
441 <h3 class="section">
442 <a name="Ant 1.4.1"></a>
443 Ant 1.4.1
444 </h3>
445 <h3>11 October 2001 Ant 1.4.1 released !</h3>
446 <p>Please visit the
447 <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/">
448 download area</a>.
449 </p>
450 <h3 class="section">
451 <a name="Best-Practices Profile of Ant at Sun's Dot-Com Builder"></a>
452 Best-Practices Profile of Ant at Sun's Dot-Com Builder
453 </h3>
454 <p>Sun has released an introductory article on Ant on their
455 Dot-Com Builder site on Mayￜ30ￜ2001. 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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