Apache Ivy
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Plans and prices
From Apache Ivy's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Apache Ivy | Free | Open source dependency manager |
The facts
Each one read from Apache Ivy's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Ant integration
- Ivy integrates with Apache Ant and provides Ant tasks for dependency resolution, reporting, and publication.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Caching
- Ivy uses a cache to avoid duplicate dependency downloads.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Current release
- The download page lists Apache Ivy 2.6.0 as available.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Dependency reports
- Ivy generates HTML and graph reports that show dependencies, transitive dependencies, and conflicts.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Dependency resolution
- Ivy manages transitive dependencies and provides configurable conflict management to select versions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Distribution formats
- The download page provides binary, binary-with-dependencies, and source distributions in ZIP and tar.gz archives.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Download verification
- The project recommends verifying downloaded releases with PGP signatures or SHA512 checksums.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Extensibility
- Users can plug in repositories and define custom version strategies, conflict managers, and module metadata.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Java dependencies
- Ivy is oriented toward Java dependency management but can manage dependencies of any kind.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Latest listed version
- The download page lists Apache Ivy 2.6.0 as available.checked 11 Oct 2026
- License
- Apache Ivy is free and open source under the Apache License, Version 2.0.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Open source license
- Ivy is free and open source under the Apache License, Version 2.0.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Package formats
- Ivy files,Maven POMs,OSGi bundleschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Private registry auth
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Publishing
- Ivy can publish projects to a repository to support multi-project environments.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Apache Ivy manages project dependencies by recording, tracking, resolving, and reporting them.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Release verification
- The project recommends verifying downloaded release files with PGP signatures or SHA512 checksums.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Reports
- Ivy produces HTML reports about immediate dependencies and graph reports about transitive dependencies and conflicts.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Repository compatibility
- Ivy supports Maven 2 metadata compatibility and can use Ivy files, Maven 2 POMs, or custom module descriptors.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Repository support
- Ivy supports Maven 2 metadata and can be configured to use different repositories.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Runtime and compatibility
- The binary distribution requires at least JRE 1.4 and can be used with Apache Ant 1.6.2 or later.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Runtime requirement
- The core engine is a single JAR that requires JRE 1.4 or greater.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security
- The security page says Apache Ivy 2.6.0 fixed CVE-2026-26032, a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability affecting versions through 2.5.3.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
