Apache Ivy Changelog

What's new in Apache Ivy 2.4.0

• NEW:
• the buildobr task can now work a set of resolved artifacts: useful for managing an OSGi target platform
• fixdeps task: serializes transitively resolved dependencies into an ivy.xml file
• IvyDependencyTree task : display a dependency tree on the console
• Support Conditional Setting of a Property (IVY-1367)
• Exposing some parent metadata (organisation, module, revision, branch) as properties (IVY-1288)
• symlinkmass feature based on symlink feature of ivy:retrieve (IVY-1252) (Thanks to Gene Smith)
• Agent authentication for SSH and SFTP transports (IVY-1421)
• New OSGi resolver 'osgi-agg': a chain resolver dedicated to better handle OSGi dependencies
• Add support for "packed" artifacts: .pack.gz bundles in an OSGi P2 repository for instance
• Ivy Bintray resolver (IVY-1474) (Thanks to Evgeny Goldin)
• IMPROVEMENT:
• Generate POMs with /xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd reference instead of old /maven-v4_0_0.xsd (IVY-1491) (thanks to Hervé Boutemy)
• Add support for packed jar within an OSGi bundle
• ModuleRules.getRule is O(n) leading to resolution slowness (IVY-1465) (Thanks to Zhong Wang aka Kewpie)
• ivy:makepom will generate an exclusion when transitive=false on a dependency (IVY-1470)
• New LockStrategy available based on NIO FileLocks (IVY-1424)
• Optional ivysettings directives (IVY-1392) (thanks to Yanus Poluektovich)
• add support for source bundles from p2 repositories
• add support for source URI from OBR repositories
• Also copy original metadata artifact (e.g. POM) on ivy:install (IVY-1431) (Thanks to Erwin Tratar)
• useOrigin will do avoid copy with url resolvers configured with a 'file:/' URL
• add support for source artifacts in buildobr task
• add possibility to configure the User-Agent http header by setting a property http.agent (Thanks to Tony Likhite)
• FIX:
• impossible to get artifacts when data has not been loaded. (IVY-1399) (Thanks to David Turner)
• regression introduced by IVY-1457, dependency management wasn't properly handled introducing lots of resolution failures
• The SSH resolvers fails if the un-required jsch jar is missing (IVY-1471)
• failed to resolve dynamic revisions in some cases for URL repositories (IVY-1472)
• ClassCastException in Eclipse 4.4.1 (IVY-1487) (Thanks to Carsten Pfeiffer)
• NullPointerException when accessing charset to invalid URL (IVY-1452) (Thanks to Frédéric Riviere)
• Can't resolve wildcard dependencies when remote artifact server does not set content-type header (IVY-1493) (Thanks to Andrew Bernhagen)
• In IvyDE, Ivy fails to parse ivy-settings.xml file if it contains element (thanks to Gregory Amerson) (IVY-1441)
• ParseException when "Bundle-Description" is present in OSGi MANIFEST.MF (IVY-1438)
• NIO FileLocker released locks too early (IVY-1424) (thanks to Charles Duffy)
• Ssh Resolver doesn't work with Java 7 (IVY-1408) (thanks to Mykhailo Delegan)
• Parsing publication date in Ant tasks not thread-safe (IVY-1412)
• NullPointerException when using httpclient and server doesn't return content-type header (IVY-1400) (thanks to Frederic Riviere)
• Properly handle evicted nodes in ResolveReport
• Artifact repository locking did not correctly handle threaded use (IVY-1454) (thanks to Carsten Pfeiffer)
• Better support for "Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment" from an OSGi MANIFEST.MF
• When inheriting a module descriptor, also merge the exclude rules
• Correct application of mediators (ie. override) during conflict resolution (IVY-1455)
• Fix revision number mapping across namespaces (IVY-1423)
• fix a NPE when loading a composite P2 repository with no children
• fix missing configuration when fixdeps is used with a partial resolve
• XmlModuleDescriptorWritter doesn't support fully extra infos elements (IVY-1457)
• DOCUMENTATION:
• Broken link in documentation (IVY-1405)
• Explicitly document that threaded use is not supported.