ivy cache, changing patterns and time to live

Hi, we are investigating some serious pain with our build times and identified ivy:resolve as the main time consumer. While having similar dependency trees in most of the components in the multi module build, all artifacts seem to be searched in the remote repository all the time. We know

are there plans to release ivy 2.5.0 in the near future

I ran into some JDK9 issues with Reflection while using Ivy 2.2.0 with Ant 1.8.2 (Ivy was giving an ACCESS warning on resolving artifacts). So, I was looking at the latest Ivy release and noticed that it was dated 2014, which caused some concerns about maintainability and availability of