<h2>Announcement</h2> <pre> December 21, 2015 - The Apache Ivy project is pleased to announce its 2.5.0 release. 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 this 2.5.0 release are * Ivy now uses BoucyCastle 1.52. Due to the non backward compatibility of that library, earlier versions are not supported. * the minimum Java version required is now Java 7 * TODO * TODO You can download this 2.5.0 release at: http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi Issues should be reported to: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY More information can be found on the website: http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ </pre> <h2>List of Changes in this Release</h2> For details about the following changes, check our JIRA install at http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ivy List of changes since Ivy 2.4.0: - FIX: Made the maven 'test' configuration public so we can use the test-jar as dependency (IVY-1444) - FIX: NullPointerException in dependencytree with no dependencies (IVY-1539) - FIX: checkIfChanged is not settable attribute for checkdepsupdate ant task (IVY-1549) - FIX: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when using a p2 repository for dependencies (IVY-1504) - FIX: fixdeps remove transitive 'kept' dependencies - FIX: PomModuleDescriptorParser should parse licenses from parent POM (IVY-1526) (Thanks to Jaikiran Pai) - FIX: dynamic revisions are not cached per resolver (IVY-1430) (Thanks to Stephen Haberman) - FIX: Dependencies failed using branch attribute (and extra attributes) (IVY-1141) (Thanks to Stephen Haberman) - FIX: useCacheOnly should allow lookup of changing dependencies in cache (IVY-1515) (Thanks to Ilya) - FIX: Translation of POM to Ivy XML with * exclusion is removing main artifact (IVY-1531) (Thanks to Jaikiran Pai) - FIX: Have makepom task take description from ivy-module > info > description element (IVY-1520) - FIX: Fix RetrieveEngine to take into account the correct extension while dealing with unpacked artifacts (IVY-1478) (Thanks to Jaikiran Pai) - FIX: ParseException "Unsupported repository, resources names are not uris" for ivy.xml with parent on Windows (IVY-1448) (Thanks to Riccardo Foschia and Jaikiran Pai) - FIX: Ivy 2.4.0 improperly handles modules with colon (:) in version (IVY-1522) (Thanks to Jaikiran Pai) - FIX: Delay the processing of configured cache ttls, until the IvySettings object is usable (IVY-1495) (Thanks to Jaikiran Pai) - FIX: Including optional ivysettings of type 'file' doesn't work when file doesn't exist (IVY-1555) (Thanks to Jaikiran Pai) - FIX: Makepom ignores dependency classifiers (IVY-1528) (Thanks to Jaikiran Pai) - FIX: Infinite loop in dependencytree (IVY-1540) (Thanks to Jaikiran Pai) - FIX: ivy:cachefileset fails with String index out of range on Windows (IVY-1475) - IMPROVEMENT: Throw an IllegalStateException when retrieving the resolutionCacheRoot on the DefaultResolutionCacheManager if the basedir (or IvySettings) is not set (IVY-1482) - IMPROVEMENT: Optimization: limit the revision numbers scanned if revision prefix is specified (Thanks to Ernestas Vaiciukevičius) - IMPROVEMENT: Update bouncycastle to 1.52 (IVY-1521) (Thanks to Michal Srb) - NEW: Lets ssh-based resolvers use an ~/.ssh/config file to find username/hostname/keyfile options (Thanks to Colin Stanfill) - NEW: Add ivy.maven.lookup.sources and ivy.maven.lookup.javadoc variables to control the lookup of the additional artifacts. Defaults to true, for backward compatibility (IVY-1529) - NEW: Add (conditional) support for SHA-256 SHA-512 and SHA-384 checksum algorithms (IVY-1554) (Thanks to Jaikiran Pai) <!-- Samples : - NEW: bla bla bla (IVY-1234) (Thanks to Jane Doe) - IMPROVEMENT: bla bla bla (IVY-1234) (Thanks to Jane Doe) - FIX: bla bla bla (IVY-1234) (Thanks to Jane Doe) - DOCUMENTATION: bla bla bla (IVY-1234) (Thanks to Jane Doe) --> <h2>Committers and Contributors</h2> Here is the list of people who have contributed source code and documentation up to this release. Many thanks to all of them, and also to the whole IvyDE community contributing ideas and feedback, and promoting the use of Apache Ivy ! <ul>Committers <li>Matt Benson</li> <li>Jean-Louis Boudart</li> <li>Maarten Coene</li> <li>Charles Duffy</li> <li>Xavier Hanin</li> <li>Nicolas Lalevee</li> <li>Jon Schneider</li> <li>Gilles Scokart</li> </ul> <ul>Contributors: <li>Ingo Adler</li> <li>alex322</li> <li>Mathieu Anquetin</li> <li>Andreas Axelsson</li> <li>Stephane Bailliez</li> <li>Karl Baum</li> <li>Andrew Bernhagen</li> <li>Mikkel Bjerg</li> <li>Per Arnold Blaasmo</li> <li>Jeffrey Blattman</li> <li>Jasper Blues</li> <li>Jim Bonanno</li> <li>Joseph Boyd</li> <li>Dave Brosius</li> <li>Matthieu Brouillard</li> <li>Carlton Brown</li> <li>Mirko Bulovic</li> <li>Ed Burcher</li> <li>Jamie Burns</li> <li>Wei Chen</li> <li>Chris Chilvers</li> <li>Kristian Cibulskis</li> <li>Andrea Bernardo Ciddio</li> <li>Archie Cobbs</li> <li>Flavio Coutinho da Costa</li> <li>Stefan De Boey</li> <li>Mykhailo Delegan</li> <li>Charles Duffy</li> <li>Martin Eigenbrodt</li> <li>Stephen Evanchik</li> <li>Robin Fernandes</li> <li>Gregory Fernandez</li> <li>Danno Ferrin</li> <li>Riccardo Foschia</li> <li>Benjamin Francisoud</li> <li>Wolfgang Frank</li> <li>Jacob Grydholt Jensen</li> <li>John Gibson</li> <li>Mitch Gitman</li> <li>Evgeny Goldin</li> <li>Scott Goldstein</li> <li>Gintautas Grigelionis</li> <li>Pierre Hägnestrand</li> <li>Scott Hebert</li> <li>Tobias Himstedt</li> <li>Aaron Hachez</li> <li>Ben Hale</li> <li>Stephen Haberman</li> <li>Peter Hayes</li> <li>Scott Hebert</li> <li>Payam Hekmat</li> <li>Achim Huegen</li> <li>Ilya</li> <li>Matt Inger</li> <li>Anders Jacobsson</li> <li>Anders Janmyr</li> <li>Steve Jones</li> <li>Christer Jonsson</li> <li>Michael Kebe</li> <li>Matthias Kilian</li> <li>Alexey Kiselev</li> <li>Gregory Kisling</li> <li>Stepan Koltsov</li> <li>Heschi Kreinick</li> <li>Sebastian Krueger</li> <li>Thomas Kurpick</li> <li>Tat Leung</li> <li>Costin Leau</li> <li>Antoine Levy-Lambert</li> <li>Tony Likhite</li> <li>Andrey Lomakin</li> <li>William Lyvers</li> <li>Sakari Maaranen</li> <li>Jan Materne</li> <li>Markus M. May</li> <li>Abel Muino</li> <li>J. Lewis Muir</li> <li>Stephen Nesbitt</li> <li>Joshua Nichols</li> <li>Bernard Niset</li> <li>Ales Nosek</li> <li>David Maplesden</li> <li>Glen Marchesani</li> <li>Phil Messenger</li> <li>Steve Miller</li> <li>Mathias Muller</li> <li>Randy Nott</li> <li>Peter Oxenham</li> <li>Jaikiran Pai</li> <li>Douglas Palmer</li> <li>Jesper Pedersen</li> <li>Emmanuel Pellereau</li> <li>Carsten Pfeiffer</li> <li>Yanus Poluektovich</li> <li>Roshan Punnoose</li> <li>Jean-Baptiste Quenot</li> <li>Carl Quinn</li> <li>Damon Rand</li> <li>Geoff Reedy</li> <li>Torkild U. Resheim</li> <li>Christian Riege</li> <li>Frederic Riviere</li> <li>Jens Rohloff</li> <li>Andreas Sahlbach</li> <li>Brian Sanders</li> <li>Adrian Sandor</li> <li>Michael Scheetz</li> <li>Ben Schmidt</li> <li>Ruslan Shevchenko</li> <li>John Shields</li> <li>Nihal Sinha</li> <li>Gene Smith</li> <li>Michal Srb</li> <li>Colin Stanfill</li> <li>Simon Steiner</li> <li>Johan Stuyts</li> <li>John Tinetti</li> <li>Erwin Tratar</li> <li>Jason Trump</li> <li>David Turner</li> <li>Ernestas Vaiciukevičius</li> <li>Tjeerd Verhagen</li> <li>Richard Vowles</li> <li>Sven Walter</li> <li>James P. White</li> <li>Tom Widmer</li> <li>John Williams</li> <li>Chris Wood</li> <li>Patrick Woodworth</li> <li>Jaroslaw Wypychowski</li> <li>Sven Zethelius</li> <li>Aleksey Zhukov</li> <li>Zhong Wang</li> </ul>