# Release Notes December 23 2024 - The Apache Ivy project is pleased to announce its 2.5.3 release. ## What is Ivy? Apache Ivy is a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving and reporting) project dependencies, characterized by flexibility, configurability, and tight integration with Apache Ant. ## Download You can download this release at https://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi Issues should either be discussed in the Ivy user mailing list or reported at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY More information about the project can be found on the website https://ant.apache.org/ivy/ ## Key features in this release This 2.5.3 release is a bugfix release, no new features have been added. ## List of Changes in this Release For details about the following changes, check our JIRA install at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY List of changes since Ivy 2.5.2: FIX: trying to set safe XML features causes SAXExceptions when used with certain XML parsers (IVY-1647) FIX: some unit tests failed on Java 8 (IVY-1648) (Thanks to Adrien Piquerez) FIX: cached Ivy files were not valid in some scenarios (IVY-1649, IVY-1650) (Thanks to Moritz Baumann) DOCUMENTATION: improved to the documentation regarding the use of patterns in the resolvers and retrieve task (IVY-1651) (Thanks to Lewis John McGibbney) ## Committers and Contributors Here is the list of people who have contributed source code and documentation up to this release. Many thanks to all of them, and also to the whole IvyDE community contributing ideas and feedback, and promoting the use of Apache Ivy ! Committers: Matt Benson Jean-Louis Boudart Maarten Coene Charles Duffy Gintautas Grigelionis Xavier Hanin Nicolas Lalevée Jan Matèrne Jaikiran Pai Jon Schneider Gilles Scokart Stefan Bodewig Contributors: Ingo Adler Mathieu Anquetin Arseny Aprelev Andreas Axelsson Stéphane Bailliez Karl Baum Moritz Baumann Andrew Bernhagen Mikkel Bjerg Per Arnold Blaasmo Jeffrey Blattman Jasper Blues Jim Bonanno Joseph Boyd Dave Brosius Matthieu Brouillard Carlton Brown Mirko Bulovic Ed Burcher Jamie Burns Wei Chen Chris Chilvers Kristian Cibulskis Andrea Bernardo Ciddio Archie Cobbs Flavio Coutinho da Costa Stefan De Boey Mykhailo Delegan Charles Duffy Martin Eigenbrodt Alexandr Esaulov Stephen Evanchik Stephan Feder Robin Fernandes Gregory Fernandez Danno Ferrin Riccardo Foschia Benjamin Francisoud Wolfgang Frank Jacob Grydholt Jensen John Gibson Mitch Gitman Evgeny Goldin Scott Goldstein Jason A. Guild Stephen Haberman Aaron Hachez Ben Hale Peter Hayes Scott Hebert Payam Hekmat Tobias Himstedt Achim Huegen Pierre Hägnestrand Matt Inger Anders Jacobsson Anders Janmyr Steve Jones Christer Jonsson Michael Kebe Matthias Kilian Alexey Kiselev Gregory Kisling Stepan Koltsov Heschi Kreinick Sebastian Krueger Thomas Kurpick Berno Langer Costin Leau Ilya Leoshkevich Tat Leung Antoine Levy-Lambert Tony Likhite Andrey Lomakin William Lyvers Sakari Maaranen Jan Materne Markus M. May Lewis John McGibbney Abel Muino J. Lewis Muir Stephen Nesbitt Joshua Nichols Bernard Niset Ales Nosek David Maplesden Glen Marchesani Phil Messenger Steve Miller Mathias Muller Randy Nott Peter Oxenham Douglas Palmer Thomas Pasch Jesper Pedersen Emmanuel Pellereau Greg Perry Carsten Pfeiffer Yanus Poluektovich Roshan Punnoose Aurélien Pupier Jean-Baptiste Quenot Carl Quinn Damon Rand Geoff Reedy Torkild U. Resheim Christian Riege Frederic Riviere Jens Rohloff Andreas Sahlbach Brian Sanders Adrian Sandor Michael Scheetz Ben Schmidt Ruslan Shevchenko John Shields Nihal Sinha Gene Smith Michal Srb Colin Stanfill Simon Steiner Johan Stuyts John Tinetti Erwin Tratar Jason Trump David Turner Ernestas Vaiciukevičius Tjeerd Verhagen Willem Verstraeten Richard Vowles Sven Walter Zhong Wang James P. White Tom Widmer John Williams Chris Wood Patrick Woodworth Jaroslaw Wypychowski Sven Zethelius Aleksey Zhukov