Release Notes


Announcement

March 23, 2014 - The Ivy project is pleased to announce its 2.4.0-RC1 release.

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 this 2.4.0-RC1 release are
* some new Ant tasks
* improved OSGI support
* numerous bug fixes as documented in Jira and in the release notes

As a release candidate version, we strongly encourage the use of this version for 
testing and validation. From now on, features are frozen until final 2.4.0 version, 
only bug fixes will be applied before 2.4.0. If no outstanding bugs are reported 
with this release candidate, it will promoted to 2.4.0 about three weeks after this
release candidate. 

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

Download the 2.4.0-RC1 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

Release Notes

CONTENTS
1. What is Apache Ivy?
2. How to Get Involved
3. How to Report Issues
4. Committers and Contributors for this release
5. 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. 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.

3. 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

4. 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
Jean-Louis Boudart
Maarten Coene
Charles Duffy
Nicolas Lalevee
Antoine Levy Lambert

Contributors
Gregory Amerson
Mykhailo Delegan
Tony Likhite
Carsten Pfeiffer
Yanus Poluektovich
Frederic Riviere
Gene Smith
Erwin Tratar

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

5. 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 2.3.0:

- DOCUMENTATION: Broken link in documentation (IVY-1405)
- DOCUMENTATION: Explicitly document that threaded use is not supported.

- NEW: the buildobr task can now work a set of resolved artifacts: useful for managing an OSGi target platform
- NEW: fixdeps task: serializes transitively resolved dependencies into an ivy.xml file
- NEW: IvyDependencyTree task : display a dependency tree on the console
- NEW: Support Conditional Setting of a Property (IVY-1367)
- NEW: Exposing some parent metadata (organisation, module, revision, branch) as properties (IVY-1288)
- NEW: symlinkmass feature based on symlink feature of ivy:retrieve (IVY-1252) (Thanks to Gene Smith)
- NEW: Agent authentication for SSH and SFTP transports (IVY-1421)
- NEW: New OSGi resolver 'osgi-agg': a chain resolver dedicated to better handle OSGi dependencies
- NEW: Add support for "packed" artifacts: .pack.gz bundles in an OSGi P2 repository for instance

- IMPROVEMENT: New LockStrategy available based on NIO FileLocks (IVY-1424)
- IMPROVEMENT: Optional ivysettings directives (IVY-1392) (thanks to Yanus Poluektovich)
- IMPROVEMENT: add support for source bundles from p2 repositories
- IMPROVEMENT: add support for source URI from OBR repositories
- IMPROVEMENT: Also copy original metadata artifact (e.g. POM) on ivy:install (IVY-1431) (Thanks to Erwin Tratar)
- IMPROVEMENT: useOrigin will do avoid copy with url resolvers configured with a 'file:/' URL
- IMPROVEMENT: add support for source artifacts in buildobr task
- IMPROVEMENT: add possibility to configure the User-Agent http header by setting a property http.agent (Thanks to Tony Likhite)

- FIX: In IvyDE, Ivy fails to parse ivy-settings.xml file if it contains element (thanks to Gregory Amerson) (IVY-1441)
- FIX: ParseException when "Bundle-Description" is present in OSGi MANIFEST.MF (IVY-1438)
- FIX: NIO FileLocker released locks too early (IVY-1424) (thanks to Charles Duffy)
- FIX: Ssh Resolver doesn't work with Java 7 (IVY-1408) (thanks to Mykhailo Delegan)
- FIX: Parsing publication date in Ant tasks not thread-safe (IVY-1412)
- FIX: NullPointerException when using httpclient and server doesn't return content-type header (IVY-1400) (thanks to Frederic Riviere)
- FIX: Properly handle evicted nodes in ResolveReport
- FIX: Artifact repository locking did not correctly handle threaded use (IVY-1454) (thanks to Carsten Pfeiffer)
- FIX: Better support for "Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment" from an OSGi MANIFEST.MF
- FIX: When inheriting a module descriptor, also merge the exclude rules
- FIX: Correct application of mediators (ie. override) during conflict resolution (IVY-1455)
- FIX: Fix revision number mapping across namespaces (IVY-1423)
- FIX: fix a NPE when loading a composite P2 repository with no children
- FIX: fix missing configuration when fixdeps is used with a partial resolve
- FIX: XmlModuleDescriptorWritter doesn't support fully extra infos elements (IVY-1457)