Hello everyone, I have built a candidate release for Ivy 2.5.0.
It's been a long time since we have done a release of Ivy. 2.4.0 was released on December 26, 2014 after which it took a while to release the next version. We revived the project a few years later and many bug fixes and some enhancements were done. Thanks to Nicolas, 2.5.0-rc1 was released on Apr 19, 2018. We intentionally called it 2.5.0-rc1 because of the long delay we had between these releases and also the amount of changes that went it. We wanted to quickly release 2.5.0 after that, but various different reasons (some of them being newly reported bugs), it got delayed. However, its now time to officially release 2.5.0. This is my first release of Ivy project, so please do check out the release artifacts and vote accordingly and if you find anything amiss, please report. The complete set of changes that are part of this release (since 2.4.0) is listed here https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/ant/ivy/2.5.0-site-docs/release-notes.html. The git tag for this release is: https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=ant-ivy.git;a=tag;h=refs/tags/2.5.0_Vote_RC1 with SHA for this tag being 48234fc5ede85a865eb874a96c08472ce1751fd1 The artifacts has been published to: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/ant/ivy/2.5.0/ at SVN revision 36396 The staging Maven repository is available at: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheant-1043/org/apache/ivy/ivy/2.5.0/ The Eclipse updatesite is available here: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/ant/ivyde/updatesite/ivy-2.5.0.final_20191020104435/ This vote will be open for at least 72 hours and will not close before 23rd October 2019 12:00 UTC. - Jaikiran, Ivy 2.5.0 release manager, on behalf of Ivy team
