Up to Ivy 2.3.x, a minimum of Java 1.4 is required.
For Ivy 2.4.0, a minimum of Java 5 is required.
Since Ivy 2.5.0, a minimum of Java 7 is required.
Ivy doesn’t require a specific version of Ant as long as the Ant being used complies with the JVM compatibility requirements noted above.
The required versions of the Apache HttpClient, Jsch or any optional dependency are to be checked against Ivy’s dependency descriptor. In Ivy’s source, check for the ivy.xml
file at the root. Or the pom.xml
of org.apache.ivy#ivy
in the Maven Central repository.