Apache Ivy 2.1.0-rc2
                               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 second 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
    Mathieu Anquetin
    Andrey Lomakin
 	Jon Schneider
 	Aleksey Zhukov

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 2.1.0-rc1:
- DOCUMENTATION: not all attributes of publish task are documented (IVY-963) (thanks to Jon Schneider)
- DOCUMENTATION: missing documentation for the 'Version Pattern Matcher' (IVY-871) (thanks to Jon Schneider)
- DOCUMENTATION: added missing documentation for the 'keep' attribute on the (post)resolve Ant tasks (IVY-1091)
- DOCUMENTATION: wrong url in installation.html (IVY-1054)

- NEW: configuration intersections (IVY-1093)
- NEW: configuration groups (IVY-1097)
- NEW: added built-in versionmatcher: 'Version Pattern Matcher' (IVY-871)

- IMPROVEMENT: Retrieve ant task doesn't support dynamic resolve mode (IVY-1085)
- IMPROVEMENT: Added support for NTLM authentication (IVY-1094) (thanks to Mathieu Anquetin)
- IMPROVEMENT: Standalone runner should accept all the same parameters as ant tasks (IVY-1090)
- IMPROVEMENT: Pre and post retrieve artifact events (IVY-1084)

- FIX: Ivy didn't fail when an outdated artifact in cache couldn't get deleted
- FIX: ivy:resolve ignores branch in "dynamic" resolve mode (IVY-1087) (thanks to Aleksey Zhukov)
- FIX: [originalname] not expanded during retrieve when module descriptor contains extra attributes (IVY-1096)
- FIX: The Ant output wasn't always prefixed by the name of the task
- FIX: Ivy buildnumber task does not find artifact in Sonatype Nexus repo (IVY-1069)
- FIX: Publish with SSH (sftp or ssh) prevents enclosing java process to terminate (IVY-1075)
- FIX: Ibiblio resolver throws IndexOutOfBoundsException when using snapshot versions with usepoms='false' (IVY-1028)
- FIX: Wrong BuildException messages (findmodules) (IVY-1056)
- FIX: PomModuleDescriptorBuilder does not resolve ejb type dependencies to jar extension (IVY-1058) (thanks to Andrey Lomakin)
- FIX: Ivy doesn't handle maven dependencies with type 'test-jar' correctly (IVY-1066)
- FIX: transitive dependencies and conflict management (IVY-1083)
- FIX: exclude does not work in non-trivial conf case (IVY-983)
- FIX: The artifact report task is generating duplicate artifact entries (IVY-1098)