Apache Ivy 2.1.0-rc1
                               Release Notes
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CONTENTS
1. What is Apache Ivy?
2. Status of this release
3. How to Get Involved
4. How to Report Issues
5. Committers and Contributors for this release
6. 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 release candidate of Ivy targetting 2.1.0. 

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 2.1.0 version, 
only bug fixes may be applied before 2.1.0. If no outstanding bugs are reported 
with this release candidate, it will promoted to 2.1.0 about two weeks after this
release candidate. 

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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
 	Carlton Brown
 	Martin Eigenbrodt
 	John Gibson
 	Randy Nott

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

6. 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:
- IMPROVEMENT: Fail the retrieve when multiple artifacts of same module are mapped to same file (IVY-1050)
- IMPROVEMENT: ivy initialization shouldn't fail if properties file doesn't exist (IVY-1038)
- IMPROVEMENT: ivy:resolve ant task does not support "branch" attribute (IVY-1035)
- IMPROVEMENT: Ability to strip revConstraint attribute from delivered Ivy files (IVY-989)
- IMPROVEMENT: enhanced error message when defining an artifact for an unknown configuration.
- IMPROVEMENT: display the revision of the resolved module in ivy-report.xsl (IVY-1024) (thanks to Carlton Brown)
- IMPROVEMENT: resolver attribute for buildnumber task (IVY-1019) (thanks to Martin Eigenbrodt)
- IMPROVEMENT: add refresh parameter to post resolve tasks (IVY-1017)
- IMPROVEMENT: Remove excessive HEAD requests for URL repository (IVY-996)
- IMPROVEMENT: add -version option on command line (IVY-1014)
- IMPROVEMENT: support resolve refresh in command line (IVY-1013)
- IMPROVEMENT: Error message is not clear when specifying an invalid value for checksums (IVY-977)
- IMPROVEMENT: catch AccessControlException on System.getProperties() (IVY-1015)

- FIX: Error message: "impossible to get artifacts when data has not been loaded" , on certain modules only (IVY-987)
- FIX: Ivy doesn't handle the classifier attribute of artifacts inside dependency elements (IVY-1041)
- FIX: Buildnumber task does not work for chained resolvers (IVY-1037)
- FIX: Dependencies don't inherit exclusions from dependencyManagement (IVY-974) (thanks to John Gibson)
- FIX: Dependency Configuration Negation does not work (IVY-982)
- FIX: Ivy retrieve does not honor validate="false" from ivysettings (IVY-992)
- FIX: Snapshot issues when using ibiblio resolver with m2compatible is false (IVY-1028)
- FIX: Ivy Standalone hangs after publishing to SSH resolver (IVY-1009)
- FIX: overwrite='false' completely prevents publishing into url repositories (IVY-1007)
- FIX: Fixed broken logo link in ivy-report.xsl (IVY-1024) (thanks to Carlton Brown)
- FIX: Support for opensll sha1 and md5 checksum (IVY-1006)
- FIX: TTL does not work as expected (IVY-1012)
- FIX: Listing of URL's under a given URL does not handle fully specified URL's (IVY-959) (thanks to Randy Nott)
- FIX: <ivy:buildnumber> returns wrong result when resolve fails (IVY-970)
- FIX: listing possible token values doesn't work properly for the ibiblio resolver
- FIX: Ivy deliver fails to replace dynamic revision (IVY-999) (thanks to Martin Eigenbrodt)