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 <h2>Announcement</h2>
 
 <pre>
-[As 2.4.0-RC1 is not an approved Apache release at this time, the below serves
-as a template, subject to modification].
-
 January 20, 2014 - The Ivy project is pleased to announce its 2.4.0-RC1 release.
 
 Ivy is a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving and