What do you know, someone's actually working on it now!
Last time I checked (a few months ago), the project had gone about 2.5 years with no releases, no public mailing list activity, and almost no non-trivial source code commits. Bug reports, whether trivial or show-stopping, were consistently ignored, e.g. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-1485
It looks like some of the Ant contributors finally got around to picking up the project again a couple months ago. Here's hoping that they can get things back on track.
