Release Notes


Announcement

Jan 20, 2009 - The Ivy project is pleased to announce its 2.0.0 release.
This is the first non-beta release of Ivy under Apache.

Ivy is a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving and
reporting) project dependencies, characterized by flexibility,
configurability, and tight integration with Apache Ant.

Key features of the 2.0.0 release are
* enhanced Maven2 compatibility, with several bug fixes and more
  pom features covered
* improved cache management, including dynamic revision caching
  with fine grain TTL
* improved concurrency support with cache locking and atomic publish
* namespace aware validation, allowing to use validation with
  extra attributes
* new 'packager' resolver added
* better and more homogeneous relative paths handling
* better support for local builds
* numerous bug fixes as documented in Jira and in the release notes

We encourage all users of Ivy to update to this new version.

Issues should be reported to:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY

Download the 2.0.0 release at:
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi

More information can be found on the Ivy website:
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/

Regards,
Maarten Coene

Apache Ivy 2.0.0 Release Notes

CONTENTS
1. What is Apache Ivy?
2. Status of this release
3. Major Changes in this Release
4. Migrating from Jayasoft Ivy to Apache Ivy
5. How to Get Involved
6. How to Report Issues
7. Committers and Contributors for this release
8. List of Changes in this Release


1. What is Apache Ivy?

Apache Ivy is a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving and reporting) project dependencies.
It is characterized by the following:

1. flexibility and configurability
Apache Ivy is essentially process agnostic and is not tied to any
methodology or structure.
Instead it provides the necessary flexibility and configurability
to be adapted to a broad range of dependency management and build
processes.
2. tight integration with Apache Ant
while available as a standalone tool, Apache Ivy works particularly well
with Apache Ant providing a number of powerful Ant tasks ranging
from dependency resolution to dependency reporting and publication.

2. Status of this release

This is the first official release made since Ivy has moved to the Apache Software Foundation. We strongly encourage the use of this new version instead of the older 1.4.1 version, which has not been produced within the Apache Software Foundation.

3. Major Changes in this Release

This section describes what has changed between version 1.4.1 and this version of Apache Ivy which may cause incompatibilities. For a full list of detailed changes, please refer to CHANGES.txt file.

This new version of Apache Ivy is almost fully compatible with 1.4 version as long as you do not use custom plugins: Ivy API has changed, but not its behavior. Some tasks and configuration elements have been renamed, but the old versions are still available, they are only deprecated (you will see deprecated warnings).

3.1. Java Package Name Changes

All of the Ivy Java package names have changed in Apache Ivy. They now start with org.apache rather than fr.jayasoft. There have been other changes as well. Important refactorings have done on the source code to ease the understanding of Ivy internal architecture by new developers.

A class named org.apache.ivy.Ivy14 is provided with an API compatible with the fr.jayasoft.Ivy class of Ivy 1.4.1, to ease migration to this new version.

3.2. Configuration replaced by Settings

Configuration used to have two meanings in prior Ivy versions, causing some confusion with new users. To avoid this confusion, Apache Ivy calls settings instead of configuration the files used to customize Ivy. Configuration is still used for module configurations.

Besides the changes in the documentation, this renaming also imply a modification in settings files, which now use ivysettings as root element instead of ivyconf, and settings instead of conf element to define top level defaults (such as defaultCache, ...). Previous names have been deprecated, so previous settings files can still be used, but you will see a deprecation warning.

3.3. Public resolver in default settings is now ibiblio in m2 compatible mode

In previous versions Ivy used to use the ivyrep resolver as default public resolver, but ivyrep is no longer maintained, while maven 2 repository on ibiblio is growing rapidly.

Since Ivy is compatible with maven 2 repository, defaulting to the ibiblio maven 2 repository makes more sense.

If you have any issue of backward compatibility with these new settings, you can simply set the following ant property before loading the settings (implicitly or explicitly):
ivy.14.compatible=true

3.4. Relative paths resolution

Relative paths resolution in Ivy used to be resolved against the current directory.

In 2.0, relative path resolution is done like this:
* In an Ivy file, paths are relative to the Ivy file itself (the only possible path in an Ivy file is for configurations declaration inclusion)
* In settings files, paths for file inclusion (namely properties file loading and settings inclusion) are relative to the directory in which the settings file is located. All other paths must be absolute unless explicitly noted.
* In Ivy Ant tasks and Ivy parameters or options, paths are relative to Ivy base directory, which when called from Ant is the same as your Ant basedir.

This may break your dependency resolution if you used to use relative paths for configuration file inclusion.

3.5 Ivyrep ivyroot attribute is now mandatory

If you still use the ivyrep resolver, you will need to provide an ivyroot. To restore the previous behavior, use ivyroot="http://ivyrep.jayasoft.org/". Since Ivyrep is not maintained anymore, we recommend moving away from this repository anyway.

3.6 alwaysCheckExactRevision now defaults to false

This property common to many resolvers is used to tell the resolver if the raw revision should be tested even when the revision is dynamic. This is used in very few use cases, so we decided to change the default to false.

If you want to set the default to true, set 'ivy.default.always.check.exact.revision' to 'true' before loading Ivy settings.

4. Migrating from Jayasoft Ivy to Apache Ivy

Besides what is stated in "3. Major Changes in this Release" Apache Ivy is fully compatible with Jayasoft Ivy as long as you do not use custom plugins. This means that you can use Apache Ivy as a drop in replacement of Jayasoft Ivy
in most cases.

However due to the the renaming of configuration files to settings files, we strongly suggest to update your configuration files:
- rename the files called ivyconf*.xml in ivysettings*.xml
- rename 'ivyconf' element in 'ivysettings'
- rename 'conf' element of those settings file in 'settings'

We also suggest using the new org.apache.ivy.ant package name for the antlib declaration.

Migrating custom plugins can be done by using the org.apache.ivy.Ivy14 class instead of fr.jayasoft.ivy.Ivy, and reorganizing your imports to reflect the changes in the package names.

5. How to Get Involved

The Apache Ivy project really needs and appreciates any contributions, including documentation help, source code and feedback. If you are interested in contributing, please visit http://ant.apache.org/ivy/get-involved.html.

6. How to Report Issues

The Apache Ivy project uses JIRA for issue tracking. Please report any issues you find at http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY

7. Committers and Contributors for this Release

Here is the list of people who have contributed source code and documentation to this release. Many thanks to all of them, and also to the whole Ivy community contributing ideas and feedback, and promoting the use of Ivy. The list would be too long, but Ivy couldn't be what it is without you!


Committers
Maarten Coene
Xavier Hanin
Nicolas Lalevee
Gilles Scokart

Contributors
Archie Cobbs
Patrick Woodworth

For the list of people who have contributed since Ivy inception, see CHANGES.txt file.

8. List of Changes in this Release

For a full release history of Ivy see the file CHANGES.txt

For details about the following changes, check our JIRA install at http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ivy

List of changes since Ivy 2.0.0-rc2:
- IMPROVEMENT: Extend packager resolver to allow arbitrary ant tasks in build instructions (IVY-994) (thanks to Archie Cobbs)
- IMPROVEMENT: Ivy Standalone setting to overwrite publications (IVY-976)
- IMPROVEMENT: Support useOrigin for artifacts with a set url attribute (IVY-965) (thanks to alex322)

- FIX: NullPointerException at PomModuleDescriptorBuilder.addDependency (IVY-995)
- FIX: Log levels aren't respected in certain cases using the standalone functionality (IVY-960) (thanks to Patrick Woodworth)
- FIX: NPE in LogReportOutputter (IVY-961)
- FIX: NullPointerException when resolving module wihout revision in the pattern (IVY-980)
- FIX: IO problem while parsing ivy file (Resetting to invalid mark) (IVY-975)
- FIX: Cannot parse maven2 poms containing an UTF-8 BOM
- FIX: Files with non-latin symbols fail to download (IVY-962)