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Ant 1.7.0 Available

( December 19, 2006)
Apache Ant 1.7.0 is now available for download.
#  introduces a resource framework. Some of the core ant tasks such as <copy/> are now able to process not only file system resources but also zip entries, tar entries, paths, ... Resource collections group resources, and can be further combined with operators such as union and intersection. This can be extended by custom resources and custom tasks using resources.
# starts outsourcing of optional tasks to Antlibs. The .NET antlib in preparation will replace the .NET optional tasks which ship in Ant. Support for the version control system Subversion will be only provided as an antlib to be released shortly. 
# has some initial support for Java6 features.

Keep an Eye On Virtual Ant
Virtual Ant provides a GUI which provides a full macro recording mechanism for building Ant configuration files. The GUI allows you to specify operations and their orders, and builds the project file based on what you do. The project isn't available yet, but a demo is - and the project author is asking for feedback.
More... (at TheServerSide)
(1 Dec, 2006)