Modernise the download page - #334
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This page was last touched in 2018 and still carried the ASF mirror-selection form. The mirror network was retired in favour of a single CDN, so that form now renders a "choose a mirror" dropdown offering exactly one entry, dlcdn.apache.org. The checksum, signature and KEYS links still pointed at www.apache.org/dist, which has been a 301 to downloads.apache.org for years. The page now matches the form the majority of the Maven estate already uses, finishing the sweep started in 2023 that stopped part-way through: - the artifact from dlcdn.apache.org - the .sha512, .asc and KEYS from downloads.apache.org - older releases from archive.apache.org The ASF licence header is left exactly as it was. The rendered download.html keeps the same headings and the same generated anchors, apart from the mirror section that is being removed. Generated-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context)
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This page was last touched in 2018 and still carries the ASF mirror-selection form. The mirror network was retired in favour of a single CDN, so that form currently renders a "choose a mirror" dropdown offering exactly one entry,
dlcdn.apache.org. The checksum, signature and KEYS links still point atwww.apache.org/dist, which has been a 301 todownloads.apache.orgfor years.This finishes, for this repo, the "Refresh download page" sweep started in 2023 that stopped part-way through the estate. The page now matches the form the majority of Maven components already use:
dlcdn.apache.org.sha512/.asc/KEYSfromdownloads.apache.orgarchive.apache.org(and over https, not http)Format is unchanged — this stays xdoc.
Rendered before/after
Built the site both ways and diffed the generated HTML.
Removed (all mirror-system leftovers):
[preferred],[if-any logo/http/ftp/backup], theSelectMirrorform,www.apache.org/mirrors/.Added: the real
dlcdn.apache.orgartifact link — note the old page had no usable artifact href in the static HTML at all, only the[preferred]placeholder — plushttps://www.apache.org/info/verification.html.Headings and anchors:
#Download_…and#Previous_Versionsare unchanged. Two anchors do go away with the mirror section:#mirrorand the version-numbered subsection anchor (#Apache_Maven_GPG_Plugin_3.2.9-SNAPSHOT), which is replaced by the stable#Files. The version-numbered one was never stable — it changed on every release — but#mirrorwas, so flagging it explicitly.download.cgiis deliberately left in place.Verified by local site build and HTML diff only — not claiming CI is green; draft until it is.
Licence header: left byte-for-byte as it was. My first pass spliced in a canonical header and silently downgraded an
https://LICENSE-2.0 URL tohttp://in a sibling repo; the generator now preserves each file's existing preamble and never rewrites it.Format: this stays xdoc. Converting the page to Markdown was evaluated separately and shown to round-trip losslessly, and was then deliberately declined — noting that here so the question does not get reopened from scratch later.