Groovy Changelog

What's new in Groovy 4.0.21

Apr 9, 2024

Bug:
Access to a private property of a parent object is not caught
Dependency upgrade:
Bump asm to 9.7
Bump jackson/Jackson-databind to 2.17.0
Bump jqwik to 1.8.4 (test dependency)
Bump log4j2 version to 2.23.1 (test dependency)
Bump javaparser to 3.25.10
Improvement:
SQL enhancement to allow metadata access for execute
Support JDK 23

New in Groovy 4.0.18 (Jan 19, 2024)

New in Groovy 4.0.17 (Dec 22, 2023)

New in Groovy 3.0.20 (Dec 22, 2023)

Bug:
[GROOVY-10055] - STC does not support self bounded types
[GROOVY-10080] - Closure with type argument inference does not work as expected
[GROOVY-10094] - STC misses type checks on default arguments
[GROOVY-10153] - STC: cannot combine use-variance with bounded polymorphism
[GROOVY-10228] - STC fails to substitute type variable in the presence of the diamond operator and a function call
[GROOVY-10271] - Wrong inference when using ternary operator with closure and variable
[GROOVY-10272] - Wrong inference when using ternary operator with lambdas
[GROOVY-10308] - SC incorrectly reports "access to Object#field" is forbidden
[GROOVY-10310] - STC is unable to call parameterized function
[GROOVY-10325] - STC: error for map*.value assignment
[GROOVY-10326] - STC: missing error for map*.key assignment
[GROOVY-10328] - STC: incorrect type inference for list, map, etc. with lower bound generics
[GROOVY-10356] - STC changes the inferred type of variable in the presence of flow typing
[GROOVY-10380] - SC: IncompatibleClassChangeError when calling interface default method from non-public interface
[GROOVY-10494] - Groovy 4 can not compile super.foo with generic interface (or trait) method
[GROOVY-10619] - STC: fix support for unbounded wildcard references to self-bounded type parameters
[GROOVY-10623] - Type mismatch when encountering unconditional flow typing and null
[GROOVY-10651] - STC: closure parameter type inference for raw type that is iterable over type parameter
[GROOVY-10671] - STC fails to compile AssertJ fluent API expression
[GROOVY-10674] - STC crashes when combining use-site variance with bounded polymorphism
[GROOVY-10688] - LUB does not work properly when mixing type parameter names and using wildcards
[GROOVY-10698] - Fail to infer the type argument when using nested diamond operator
[GROOVY-10897] - Static Type Checking selects wrong method for abstract method call check
[GROOVY-10936] - Patterns conditionally created using pattern operator ~ are cast to String/GString
[GROOVY-10975] - STC rejects program when passing method reference in parameterized function
[GROOVY-11006] - CompileStatic: cannot implicitly call double setter with BigDecimal literal
[GROOVY-11024] - STC NPE when using Collectors.toMap() with a generic result
[GROOVY-11028] - STC: empty map (or list) literal does not type check like emptyMap()
[GROOVY-11163] - Class parsing does not set erasure of type param with bounds
[GROOVY-11170] - Fix edge cases for SecureASTCustomizer
[GROOVY-11192] - Code that causes Groovy Compiler Crash
[GROOVY-11195] - STC: false positive for Class method called from static context
[GROOVY-11196] - ambiguous method error for tap on null receiver
[GROOVY-11209] - XmlUtil escapeControlCharacters escapes control characters 0-30 instead of 0-31
[GROOVY-11241] - Regression in STC generics solution
[GROOVY-11242] - Stackoverflow error when calling super from overridden method
[GROOVY-11250] - Compilation fails when accessing getter with shortcut notation on Java class
[GROOVY-7506] - Cannot assign value of type java.util.List<java.lang.String> to variable of type java.lang.String[]
[GROOVY-7992] - Sort methods that accept a comparator should accept Comparator<? super T> (fix type checker ability to cope with super in DGM methods)
[GROOVY-8488] - STC: floating-point literals no longer accepted as args to method with double parameter
[GROOVY-8909] - List literal type inference does not take its context into account
[GROOVY-8946] - @CompileStatic ignores declared type and forces a cast when inside a closure
[GROOVY-8948] - BigDecimal to primitive conversion not working
[GROOVY-9844] - STC infers too-narrow bounds for inline map
[GROOVY-9909] - Cannot call super when overriding an interface default method
[GROOVY-9998] - Wildcards with a lower bound fail static type checking
Dependency upgrade:
[GROOVY-11160] - Bump ivy to 2.5.2 (includes CVE-2022-46751)
[GROOVY-11162] - Bump ant version to 1.10.14
[GROOVY-11214] - Bump jansi to 2.4.1
[GROOVY-11219] - Bump javaparser to 3.25.6
[GROOVY-11233] - Bump log4j2 version to 2.22.0 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-11235] - Bump jackson/jackson-databind to 2.16.0
[GROOVY-11248] - Bump logback-classic to 1.3.14 (test dependency)
Improvement:
[GROOVY-10295] - STC: cannot infer list or map type for method return
[GROOVY-10341] - "super" invocations of abstract methods should be caught at compile time with static compilation enabled
[GROOVY-10660] - STC: infer closure/lambda parameter types for return expression
[GROOVY-11201] - STC: assign method pointer to SAM-type
[GROOVY-7106] - Improve coercion / implicit cast of map literals for @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-7274] - Improve type inference for hash map -> Map<?, ?>

New in Groovy 4.0.15 (Sep 14, 2023)

New in Groovy 2.5.23 (Aug 22, 2023)

New in Groovy 4.0.13 (Jun 29, 2023)

New in Groovy 4.0.12 (May 8, 2023)

Bug:
[GROOVY-10920] - Compiler exception with void expression as while condition with CompileStatic
[GROOVY-10972] - Issue in resolving overloaded method reference
[GROOVY-10994] - Fail to resolve method reference with generics
[GROOVY-10996] - Compilation issue in Groovy 4
[GROOVY-11001] - AIOOBE when using method reference in nested lambda
[GROOVY-11003] - Cannot find method with variable arguments when using fully qualified class names
[GROOVY-11007] - STC: instanceof guard for property loses type information
[GROOVY-11009] - STC resolves wrong method reference
[GROOVY-11011] - SC: array instanceof guard and length or subscript
[GROOVY-11012] - Wrong type is inferred when calling method defined in the parent class
[GROOVY-11019] - joint compilation: public static final string does not compile
[GROOVY-11020] - NullPointerException in instruction selection when calling parameterized function whose type parameter has an upper bound corresponding to a SAM type
[GROOVY-11023] - SC: IncompatibleClassChangeError when closure direct-targets extension method
[GROOVY-11024] - STC NPE when using Collectors.toMap() with a generic result
[GROOVY-11028] - STC: empty map (or list) literal does not type check like emptyMap()
[GROOVY-11029] - SC: super property is not accessible by a subclass that defines a getter and setter
[GROOVY-11030] - CompileStatic: string concatenation in method parameter default value results in NoSuchMethodError
[GROOVY-11036] - StackOverflowError in cyclic interface inheritance
[GROOVY-11041] - Incorrect property handling for records
[GROOVY-11044] - SC: property access within closure produces cast exception
Dependency upgrade:
[GROOVY-11016] - Bump javaparser to 3.25.2
[GROOVY-11018] - Bump picocli to 4.7.2
[GROOVY-11031] - Bump jackson/jackson-databind to 2.15.0
[GROOVY-11032] - Bump picocli to 4.7.3
[GROOVY-11033] - Bump JUnit Jupiter/JUnit Platform to 5.9.3/1.9.3
[GROOVY-11037] - Bump logback-classic to 1.3.7 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-11043] - Bump javaparser to 3.25.3
[GROOVY-11045] - Bump testng to 7.5.1
Improvement:
[GROOVY-10758] - Improve error message when using generic ClassNodes in ASTT
[GROOVY-11015] - [GINQ]Leverage the power of Virtual Thread
[GROOVY-11040] - Optimisations for bytecode for record generated methods

New in Groovy 4.0.11 (Mar 31, 2023)

New in Groovy 4.0.10 (Mar 12, 2023)

New in Groovy 4.0.9 (Feb 9, 2023)

New in Groovy 4.0.8 (Jan 22, 2023)

New in Groovy 4.0.6 (Oct 16, 2022)

New in Groovy 4.0.5 (Sep 9, 2022)

Bug:
[GROOVY-10096] - STC: accepts incorrect program with flow typing
[GROOVY-10120] - STC: Guava Multimap#asMap bridge method
[GROOVY-10271] - Wrong inference when using ternary operator with closure and variable
[GROOVY-10272] - Wrong inference when using ternary operator with lambdas
[GROOVY-10356] - STC changes the inferred type of variable in the presence of flow typing
[GROOVY-10521] - Compiler complains about abstract method not implemented when implementing trait
[GROOVY-10623] - Type mismatch when encountering unconditional flow typing and null
[GROOVY-10646] - STC: outer class type parameter inference
[GROOVY-10674] - STC crashes when combining use-site variance with bounded polymorphism
[GROOVY-10688] - LUB does not work properly when mixing type parameter names and using wildcards
[GROOVY-10697] - @ToString throws an NPE for POJO with null field
[GROOVY-10698] - Fail to infer the type argument when using nested diamond operator
[GROOVY-10699] - Unable to infer type argument from the parameter type of a lambda
[GROOVY-10700] - STC cannot locate method specified by interface but supplied by AST transform
[GROOVY-10701] - NullPointerException in instruction selection phase when having conditionals with lambdas and function references
[GROOVY-10704] - Random order of TraitBridge methods breaks cachability
[GROOVY-10705] - ToString order bug for super properties
[GROOVY-10709] - Performance regression in Gradle with Groovy 4
[GROOVY-10710] - operator == is slow when comparing primitive arrays and lists
[GROOVY-10711] - CompileStatic doesn't call asBoolean
[GROOVY-10712] - STC: for-each over Iterator fails to infer element type
[GROOVY-10714] - STC can't distinguish overloads
[GROOVY-10720] - Resolving wrong overloaded method?
[GROOVY-10725] - Regression in STC related to generics, unknown cause
[GROOVY-10731] - Exceptions thrown from MarkupTemplateEngine when map accessors and GString interpolation are used
[GROOVY-10733] - Fix illegal access for array clone on JDK16+
[GROOVY-10734] - STC doesn't resolve zero-argument method references in nested generics
[GROOVY-10737] - Groovydoc deprecation list page is always empty even if @deprecated is used in groovydoc comments on some elements
[GROOVY-10741] - STC method pointer or reference to generated property method
[GROOVY-10742] - STC permits incorrect void method reference
[GROOVY-10744] - STC support assignment of primitives to interface types like Comparable and Serializable
[GROOVY-10747] - Fix illegal access for object clone on JDK16+
[GROOVY-10748] - logback-classic 1.3.0 and 1.4.0 breaks on Groovy
[GROOVY-10749] - STC: closure/lambda/reference parameter as type witness for SAM type generics
[GROOVY-7247] - spreadMap type inference is incorrect and STC reports on valid code
[GROOVY-7370] - Varargs in constructor are not treated correctly when creating instances of anonymous class
[GROOVY-7506] - Cannot assign value of type java.util.List<java.lang.String> to variable of type java.lang.String[]
[GROOVY-8487] - @CompileStatic calls DefaultGroovyMethods.iterator with Iterator value in for loop
[GROOVY-8737] - STC Method resolution fails if other methods with more parameters exist
[GROOVY-8828] - Union types incorrectly resolved
[GROOVY-8965] - instanceof with || inserts wrong cast
[GROOVY-9415] - failure in static compilation with getAt
Dependency upgrade:
[GROOVY-10719] - Bump javaparser to 3.24.4
[GROOVY-10729] - Bump JUnit Jupiter/JUnit Platform to 5.9.0/1.9.0
[GROOVY-10730] - Bump Gradle to 7.5.1 (build dependency)
[GROOVY-10736] - Bump gson (test dependency) to 2.9.1
[GROOVY-10738] - Bump Spock to 2.2 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-10751] - Bump slf4j to 2.0.0 (test and standard install dependency)
[GROOVY-10752] - Bump logback to 1.3.0 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-10753] - Bump jackson databind version to 2.13.4
Improvement:
[GROOVY-10696] - The DGM removeAll variants which take a closure can be refactored to use removeIf for better efficiency
[GROOVY-10715] - Make StreamingTemplateEngine support reusing ClassLoader
[GROOVY-10732] - @Immutable handling of cloneable types should have the same behavior for non-cloneables on JDK16+
[GROOVY-10739] - Improve error message for malformed grab coordinate
[GROOVY-10743] - The use method for Category classes can't take an interface with static methods due to a NPE
New Feature:
[GROOVY-10728] - Slight enhancement to groovy-dateutil extensions

New in Groovy 4.0.2 (Jun 5, 2022)

Bug:
[GROOVY-10100] - groovyc infers the wrong type when using a method reference of a function with varargs
[GROOVY-10114] - Wrong type argument inference when using the result of ternary operator directly.
[GROOVY-10115] - STC: compiler error when using type parameter with extends
[GROOVY-10116] - STC: error when passing a type parameter in type constructor
[GROOVY-10130] - Flow typing does not work when && is combinded with instanceof
[GROOVY-10158] - Unexpected type mismatch when combining conditional and bounded type parameter
[GROOVY-10221] - Unexpected compile-time error when combining closures and bounded type parameters
[GROOVY-10226] - LUB is computed incorrectly when involving bounded type variables
[GROOVY-10266] - The diamond operator does not work when passing a value whose type is a type variable
[GROOVY-10267] - STC reports wrong message when encoutering wildcard types
[GROOVY-10350] - groovysh doesn't work on Arm64 architecture (Apple M1)
[GROOVY-10357] - STC crashes on compiling an abstract method with default arguments and lambda
[GROOVY-10358] - Unable to resolve method after LUB operator
[GROOVY-10367] - STC fails to infer the correct type for type variable in the presence of the diamond operator and bounded polymorphism
[GROOVY-10368] - STC fails to instantiate type variable when using diamond operator
[GROOVY-10466] - Compilation error on Spock expectation
[GROOVY-10482] - Incorrect inference of type argument of parameterized method call
[GROOVY-10494] - Groovy 4 can not compile super.foo with generic interface (or trait) method
[GROOVY-10495] - Invalid newlines generated by XmlTemplateEngine
[GROOVY-10499] - Incomplete type variable substitution when using wildcard type and diamond operator
[GROOVY-10520] - Incorrect line numbers for Closure classes in AstNode
[GROOVY-10528] - STC: NPE for raw type instanceof followed by parameterized extension method
[GROOVY-10540] - Inconsistent application of and checking for GroovyObject in classgen
[GROOVY-10541] - groovysh can not launch when running on Oracle Linux 8.5(ARM)
[GROOVY-10543] - Problem with groovy-all Gradle module metadata
[GROOVY-10544] - Static compiler chooses superinterface return type
[GROOVY-10548] - Static compiler allows property access on records but uses wrong method names
[GROOVY-10552] - @AutoImplement for method with type parameter(s)
[GROOVY-10553] - Regression: Annotation on trait field is illegally duplicated
[GROOVY-10556] - TypeChecked/CompileStatic index out of bounds
[GROOVY-10558] - Wrong argument type when using static method from nested class
[GROOVY-10561] - @NamedVariant self referential default values are not correctly resolved
[GROOVY-10565] - JDK 17: Sealed classes inside a package cause Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassFormatError: Illegal class name
[GROOVY-10570] - AnnotationCollector produces unspecified errors when used in Java
[GROOVY-10576] - STC: map putAll fails to match "?" to "Object"
[GROOVY-10579] - Type '[I' is not assignable to reference type when using Groovy 3.0.10
[GROOVY-10580] - Conditionally initialized `final` variables considered maybe uninitialized
[GROOVY-10583] - Stub generator handles method type parameter bounds incorrectly
[GROOVY-10585] - `@AutoFinal` does not use annotation parameters when used with `ASTTransformationCustomizer`
[GROOVY-10589] - TypeChecked/CompileStatic Incompatible generic argument types regression for List.sort(boolean, Comparator)
[GROOVY-7288] - @Delegate to object by Class which implementing trait with fields complains 'abstract method in a non-abstract class'
[GROOVY-8243] - SAM trait coercion via middle interface
[GROOVY-8244] - SAM trait coercion with default parameters
[GROOVY-9866] - Inner class of superinterface cannot be found
Dependency upgrade:
[GROOVY-10532] - Bump Codenarc to 3.0.0 (build dependency)
[GROOVY-10533] - Bump jackson to 2.13.2
[GROOVY-10534] - Bump gradle to 7.4.1 (build dependency)
[GROOVY-10536] - Bump jqwik to 1.6.5 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-10537] - Bump logback to 1.2.11 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-10538] - Bump log4j2 version to 2.17.2 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-10539] - Bump Spotbugs/Spotbugs annotations to 4.6.0 (build dependency)
[GROOVY-10554] - Bump javaparser to 3.24.2
[GROOVY-10562] - Bump japicmp plugin to 0.4.0 (build dependency)
[GROOVY-10563] - Bump gradle to 7.4.2 (build dependency)
[GROOVY-10564] - Bump jackson databind version to 2.13.2.2
[GROOVY-10569] - Bump asm to 9.3
[GROOVY-10572] - Bump json-unit (test dependency) to 2.33.0
Improvement:
[GROOVY-10573] - Support ASM JDK19 constants
Sub-task:
[GROOVY-10586] - Revert: Funnel doPrivileged through VMPlugin (JEP-411)
Task:
[GROOVY-10560] - Provide additional XmlUtil variants for more options when disabling doctypes *
potentially breaking change (read issue for details - even minor differences are sometimes flagged as potentially breaking changes)

New in Groovy 2.5.17 (Jun 1, 2022)

New in Groovy 3.0.11 (Jun 1, 2022)

Bug:
[GROOVY-10089] - SC: GroovyCastException for map value as constructor for Collection
[GROOVY-10143] - NullPointerException while compiling a trait
[GROOVY-10180] - STC: instanceof and DGM each(Map,Closure)
[GROOVY-10201] - JDK 17: class String1_groovyProxy cannot implement sealed interface java.lang.constant.ConstantDesc
[GROOVY-10227] - STC computes an imprecise LUB when involving two parameterized types implementing the same interface
[GROOVY-10230] - Unexpected generics parameter arity mismatch in the "instruction selection" phase
[GROOVY-10235] - STC: Generic type of Set not correctly resolved when calling ConcurrentHashMap.newKeySet()
[GROOVY-10267] - STC reports wrong message when encoutering wildcard types
[GROOVY-10280] - Type variable substitution does not work well when running into chain of field accesses
[GROOVY-10282] - STC: false positive for BiFunction and BinaryOperator with same type parameter
[GROOVY-10324] - STC is unable to infer type variable when combining parameterized types and the diamond operator
[GROOVY-10330] - STC instantiates type variable with a wrong type when calling an instance method of the same class
[GROOVY-10343] - STC fails to infer dependent type variable
[GROOVY-10357] - STC crashes on compiling an abstract method with default arguments and lambda
[GROOVY-10363] - STC produces compile-time error on encoutering bounded type parameter with conditional
[GROOVY-10364] - STC does not type check method call when using bounded type parameter as a type argument
[GROOVY-10367] - STC fails to infer the correct type for type variable in the presence of the diamond operator and bounded polymorphism
[GROOVY-10405] - @AutoClone breaks in Java17 for File properties
[GROOVY-10481] - Groovy 3.x - @AutoClone breaks in Java17 for File properties
[GROOVY-10482] - Incorrect inference of type argument of parameterized method call
[GROOVY-10495] - Invalid newlines generated by XmlTemplateEngine
[GROOVY-10519] - v9 ClassFinder closes existing FileSystems that it doesn't own
[GROOVY-10520] - Incorrect line numbers for Closure classes in AstNode
[GROOVY-10522] - stubgen: Extra method created for Boolean property
[GROOVY-10535] - IF condition on empty Collection has different behavior than null Collection
[GROOVY-10552] - @AutoImplement for method with type parameter(s)
[GROOVY-10556] - TypeChecked/CompileStatic index out of bounds
[GROOVY-10557] - TypeChecked/CompileStatic tries to cast to wrong type in nested closure
[GROOVY-10558] - Wrong argument type when using static method from nested class
[GROOVY-10570] - AnnotationCollector produces unspecified errors when used in Java
[GROOVY-10576] - STC: map putAll fails to match "?" to "Object"
[GROOVY-10579] - Type '[I' is not assignable to reference type when using Groovy 3.0.10
[GROOVY-10583] - Stub generator handles method type parameter bounds incorrectly
[GROOVY-10585] - `@AutoFinal` does not use annotation parameters when used with `ASTTransformationCustomizer`
[GROOVY-10593] - Groovydoc links to wrong type
[GROOVY-10596] - IF-condition evaluation on the non-null object sometimes doesn't return true
[GROOVY-10598] - BUG! exception in phase 'instruction selection' unexpected NullPointerException
[GROOVY-10601] - Incompatible generic argument type when combining conditionals and bounded type parameters
[GROOVY-10603] - LUB operation returns incorrect result
[GROOVY-10611] - Static fields not initialized when accessed from another class
[GROOVY-10624] - Nested diamond operators do not work correctly although the expected type argument is known
[GROOVY-10626] - --enable-preview doesn't show in CLI/help for groovysh
[GROOVY-10628] - Elvis assignment operator loses type information
[GROOVY-10634] - Regular expressions cause groovysh 3.0.10, JDK 17 to crash
[GROOVY-6919] - Static compilation fails with multiple bounds generics
[GROOVY-7288] - @Delegate to object by Class which implementing trait with fields complains 'abstract method in a non-abstract class'
[GROOVY-7419] - Static Compilation with Diamond of local EnumMap<>
[GROOVY-8243] - SAM trait coercion via middle interface
[GROOVY-8244] - SAM trait coercion with default parameters
[GROOVY-8409] - Static compilation with generic function wrapping BiFunction causes GroovyCastException
[GROOVY-9033] - Bad code green: empty list literal with each method
[GROOVY-9853] - ClassFormatError using method reference on interface target
[GROOVY-9948] - Cannot infer the correct type in the presence of diamond operator
[GROOVY-9956] - Cannot infer correct type argument when passing a subtype of the declared type argument
[GROOVY-9963] - Generic type of field is not instantiated
[GROOVY-9972] - LUB does not work correctly in case of ternary operator
[GROOVY-9983] - Type argument inference does not work in ternary operator
[GROOVY-9995] - Wrong inference inside closure when having a bounded type parameter
Dependency upgrade:
[GROOVY-10532] - Bump Codenarc to 3.0.0 (build dependency)
[GROOVY-10537] - Bump logback to 1.2.11 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-10538] - Bump log4j2 version to 2.17.2 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-10554] - Bump javaparser to 3.24.2
[GROOVY-10569] - Bump asm to 9.3
[GROOVY-10627] - Bump jackson to 2.13.3
[GROOVY-10642] - Bump creadur-rat-gradle plugin to 0.7.1 (build dependency)

New in Groovy 3.0.10 (Mar 7, 2022)

Bug:
[GROOVY-10051] - STC: return type for unresolved placeholder with bound resolved to Object
[GROOVY-10071] - SC: closure with variadic parameter
[GROOVY-10072] - SC: closure with default argument(s)
[GROOVY-10125] - FP Cycle detected in type parameter that extends another type parameter
[GROOVY-10176] - @NamedVariant with primitives can't find method
[GROOVY-10178] - @CompileStatic and @NullCheck make compiler fail
[GROOVY-10184] - NPE in SecureASTCustomizer with indirectImportCheckEnabled
[GROOVY-10218] - BUG! exception in phase 'instruction selection' when non-existent method called
[GROOVY-10232] - Massive increase in memory usage due to CacheableCallSite
[GROOVY-10234] - Groovyc throws Stackoverflow error on generic class with lower bound
[GROOVY-10239] - GroovyCastException when @CompileStatic and !in keyword are used together
[GROOVY-10249] - Generated stubs missing method from traits with array parameter
[GROOVY-10261] - @NamedVariant: Default parameters on ctor/method are ignored when passing some named parameters
[GROOVY-10262] - MethodNode#getText can output incorrect modifiers
[GROOVY-10269] - STC: Stackoverflow Error when passing function reference to closure
[GROOVY-10288] - Regression with generics
[GROOVY-10289] - Regression with static and non static class mixing
[GROOVY-10299] - Groovy compiler generates invalid Java stubs
[GROOVY-10303] - Compiler NPE within CompileStack#clear
[GROOVY-10312] - MissingMethodException in method with default parameter in trait - regression in 3.0.9
[GROOVY-10318] - Weird behavior of !in operator
[GROOVY-10319] - Groovy3 CompileStatic bug: Method clone is protected in java.lang.Object
[GROOVY-10320] - Generics failed to compile with Groovy 3.0.9 when overriding plus operator
[GROOVY-10336] - STC crashes when passing method reference to an inner closure
[GROOVY-10375] - SC: cast exception for private property access from lambda
[GROOVY-10379] - Error for super class and super interface methods of same name
[GROOVY-10396] - Static import is not applied for custom println method since 2.5.1
[GROOVY-10398] - LazyFieldNode never equals itself
[GROOVY-10407] - unchecked method invocation warning in generated stubs
[GROOVY-10414] - STC: cannot set non-static outer class property via setter method
[GROOVY-10419] - STC: stack overflow for elvis assignment with explicit setter
[GROOVY-10424] - SC: stack overflow for optimized boolean on private inner class with inner class(es)
[GROOVY-10456] - Inconsistent exception upon accessing empty property
[GROOVY-10457] - Compilation of constructor calls inside CompileDynamic constructors fails with ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
[GROOVY-10458] - Path to a problematic file isn't shown in the error message sometimes if compilation fails with IndexOutOfBoundsException
[GROOVY-10461] - Gradle multimodule project fails with NoClassDefFoundError in groovyjarjarasm.asm.signature.SignatureReader.parseType
[GROOVY-10464] - Wrong cast for type parameter in generated stubs
[GROOVY-10472] - @AutoImplement is failing when covariant returns are involved
[GROOVY-10478] - Groovy4: java.lang.VerifyError: Bad invokespecial instruction: interface method reference is in an indirect superinterface.
[GROOVY-10483] - Source encoding incorrectly set in v4.0.0
[GROOVY-10484] - NamedVariant: NamedParam not checked when added by transform
[GROOVY-10497] - NamedVariant: default value overrides supplied value if it's falsy
[GROOVY-10500] - NamedVariant: non-trivial default value of NamedDelegate property
[GROOVY-10502] - NamedVariant: improve consistency of default value treatment
[GROOVY-10516] - Script @groovy.transform.Field AST transformation generics handling with fully qualified types
[GROOVY-4320] - Joint compiler + @Delegate fail to recognize method signature with default value
[GROOVY-5204] - @Delegate to a method with optional params
[GROOVY-5239] - Statically imported method vs other methods with the same name
[GROOVY-5364] - Static property reference from static context in script does not compile
[GROOVY-5367] - Closure property in Binding used as Closure delegate cannot be called
[GROOVY-5726] - Source locations of command chain expressions
[GROOVY-5736] - Log4j, Commons, Slf4j ast transforms are broken in Groovy-Eclipse
[GROOVY-6510] - Problems with implicit closures inside of @Category-annotated classes
[GROOVY-6802] - CompileStatic: ListAssignment takes precedence over Coercion when statically compiling
[GROOVY-6803] - CompileStatic: ListAssignment for String takes precendence over Coercion when statically compiling
[GROOVY-7033] - Bug with annotation with closure on method of anonymous class
[GROOVY-8050] - Reference outer class property via inner class
[GROOVY-8433] - Anonymous inner class results in cast exception with @Category applied
[GROOVY-8448] - Local variable is accessible via explicit this
[GROOVY-8974] - STC ignores declaration type
[GROOVY-9006] - Static type checking fails on java.sql.Timestamp when compared to null
[GROOVY-9158] - @NamedParam arguments don't get their default value when only named parameters are used in the method call
[GROOVY-9259] - Implementing Groovy interface with default methods can cause compile issues.
[GROOVY-9784] - GroovyRowResult not assignable to Map<String, Object> with static type checker
[GROOVY-9807] - Static compile of dynamically generated code produces different output in a top-level class and a nested class
[GROOVY-9927] - Stub not using fully qualified class for inner java class when importing outer class
Dependency upgrade:
[GROOVY-10255] - Bump JUnit5 to 5.8.1
[GROOVY-10313] - Bump jansi to 2.4.0
[GROOVY-10334] - Bump Ant version to 1.10.12
[GROOVY-10397] - Bump junit to 5.8.2
[GROOVY-10399] - Bump bridger to 1.6.Final (build dependency)
[GROOVY-10408] - Bump log4j2 version to 2.15.0 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-10410] - Bump log4j2 version to 2.16.0 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-10416] - Bump logback to 1.2.8 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-10425] - Bump log4j2 version to 2.17.0 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-10427] - Bump jackson version to 2.13.1
[GROOVY-10432] - Bump hsqldb to 2.6.1 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-10435] - Bump log4j2 version to 2.17.1 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-10441] - Bump testng to 7.5
[GROOVY-10444] - Bump javaparser to 3.24.0
[GROOVY-10446] - Bump logback to 1.2.10 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-10486] - Bump gradle versions plugin to 0.42.0 (build dependency)
[GROOVY-10490] - Bump xstream to 1.4.19
[GROOVY-10493] - Bump slf4j to 1.7.36 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-10506] - Bump gradle to 6.9.2 (build dependency)
[GROOVY-10507] - Bump Spock to 2.1-groovy-3.0 (test dependency)
Documentation:
[GROOVY-10468] - Ability to define system properties for groovyc using CompilerConfiguration
Improvement:
[GROOVY-10352] - Java8 does not load enum values into annotation attributes
[GROOVY-10477] - SC: optimize for-in loop on array with dynamic variable
[GROOVY-10505] - TraitComposer should mark generated methods as @Generated
[GROOVY-5441] - Type argument checking

New in Groovy 4.0.0 (Jan 30, 2022)

Bug:
[GROOVY-10002] - STC: inconsistent support for assignment of list literals
[GROOVY-10006] - @CompileStatic fails to unify types
[GROOVY-10009] - TracingInterceptor throws NullPointerException if arguments contains a null argument
[GROOVY-10010] - STC: method call with GString elements in list/array has different error from assignment
[GROOVY-10011] - Combining flow typing and type argument inference does not work as expected
[GROOVY-10024] - Dollar slashy /$ string ending in backslash "breaks" the parser
[GROOVY-10027] - STC: NamedParams error for method call argument
[GROOVY-10033] - Compiler crash when encountering function reference on nested class
[GROOVY-10046] - NPE in static compiler
[GROOVY-10047] - STC infers Closure instead of SAM for method references
[GROOVY-10049] - STC fails when calling a generic method from another generic method
[GROOVY-10051] - STC: return type for unresolved placeholder with bound resolved to Object
[GROOVY-10053] - STC: Wrong type inferred for lambda parameter in a generic method
[GROOVY-10055] - STC does not support self bounded types
[GROOVY-10056] - Inferred parameter type of lambda expression for multi-dimensions array is not correct
[GROOVY-10057] - MissingMethodException for pointer/reference from Class instance to Class method
[GROOVY-10062] - STC: no type parameter inference for variadic method called with fewer arguments than parameters
[GROOVY-10063] - STC: multiple-assignment from tuple-bearing static method
[GROOVY-10067] - STC: Wrong return value type inferred for generic method with upper bound without parameters
[GROOVY-10071] - SC: closure with variadic parameter
[GROOVY-10072] - SC: closure with default argument(s)
[GROOVY-10075] - Static compiler incorrectly typechecks extension modules
[GROOVY-10079] - groovyc does not perform unboxing on Character type
[GROOVY-10080] - Closure with type argument inference does not work as expected
[GROOVY-10082] - Incompatible generic argument types when combining subtyping and closures
[GROOVY-10085] - Class.isCase() documentation does not clarify that Class.isCase(SomeClass) is false, or why
[GROOVY-10086] - STC misses type error when calling a vararg method
[GROOVY-10087] - STC does not perform boxing on chars when encountering assignment and function call
[GROOVY-10088] - STC: type argument not applied to error message
[GROOVY-10089] - SC: GroovyCastException for map value as constructor for Collection
[GROOVY-10091] - Incompatible generic argument types on closure's return type
[GROOVY-10094] - STC misses type checks on default arguments
[GROOVY-10097] - CLONE - Better propagation of InterruptedException (additional cases)
[GROOVY-10098] - Unexpected behaviour when the return type of a closure is a type parameter
[GROOVY-10102] - Type checking fails when calling trait method using indirect SelfType relation
[GROOVY-10104] - SC: runtime error for default argument call expression
[GROOVY-10106] - STC error for call to static trait method from closure
[GROOVY-10107] - Cannot assign null to a variable with a bounded generic type
[GROOVY-10111] - compiler crash during canonicalization
[GROOVY-10113] - StackOverflowError in STC
[GROOVY-10121] - @AnnotationCollector does not work with JUnit 5
[GROOVY-10122] - Wrong cast in stubs generated
[GROOVY-10125] - FP Cycle detected in type parameter that extends another type parameter
[GROOVY-10128] - Cannot assign closure with long as return type to java.util.function.Function<X, Number>
[GROOVY-10132] - XmlUtil.serialize() Emoji bug
[GROOVY-10133] - Inconsistent method selection for [Bb]oolean properties
[GROOVY-10134] - Groovy console can not highlight token properly sometimes
[GROOVY-10141] - NPE in InnerClassVisitor for non-static inner class CCE within two AICs
[GROOVY-10144] - Calling method on specific trait fails when on different files
[GROOVY-10145] - Support JDK16
[GROOVY-10159] - Compilation failure: ClassCastException
[GROOVY-10164] - RootLoader cannot be set as system class loader in Java 12+
[GROOVY-10166] - Cannot call T#method(arg) with arguments <arg>
[GROOVY-10178] - @CompileStatic and @NullCheck make compiler fail
[GROOVY-10179] - STC: instanceof and for-in variable type
[GROOVY-10180] - STC: instanceof and DGM each(Map,Closure)
[GROOVY-10181] - Groovy 3 AST for annotated fields reports wrong lastLineNumber if field not initialized
[GROOVY-10184] - NPE in SecureASTCustomizer with indirectImportCheckEnabled
[GROOVY-10188] - Different treatment of property expressions in closures from 2.4 to 2.5
[GROOVY-10189] - File.withWriter and Path.withWriter are inconsistent
[GROOVY-10191] - NoSuchMethodError during static field inlining is not caught, unlike NoSuchFieldException
[GROOVY-10199] - ASTTest cannot reference types from transform classpath
[GROOVY-10200] - Static scope error for variable in non-static method of static inner class
[GROOVY-10217] - Type inference does not work with GDK class enhancements
[GROOVY-10218] - BUG! exception in phase 'instruction selection' when non-existent method called
[GROOVY-10220] - Unexpected type mismatch when having conflicting type parameter names
[GROOVY-10222] - Unable to infer the type parameter of a parameterized function
[GROOVY-10225] - Unexpected NullPointerException during the "instruction selection" phase
[GROOVY-10228] - STC fails to substitute type variable in the presence of the diamond operator and a function call
[GROOVY-10229] - Question mark in the attribute for a class name
[GROOVY-10230] - Unexpected generics parameter arity mismatch in the "instruction selection" phase
[GROOVY-10232] - Massive increase in memory usage due to CacheableCallSite
[GROOVY-10234] - Groovyc throws Stackoverflow error on generic class with lower bound
[GROOVY-10235] - STC: Generic type of Set not correctly resolved when calling ConcurrentHashMap.newKeySet()
[GROOVY-10236] - Parser fails to parse a single-statement lambda when omitting parentheses for method call
[GROOVY-10238] - @CompileStatic @Canonical inner class throws RTE: NoSuchMethodError: java.util.Map.withDefault
[GROOVY-10239] - GroovyCastException when @CompileStatic and !in keyword are used together
[GROOVY-10243] - IOOBE thrown when parsing switch-expression without branches
[GROOVY-10248] - Groovy ResolveVisitor runs twice
[GROOVY-10249] - Generated stubs missing method from traits with array parameter
[GROOVY-10250] - Erroneous type inference of closure in STC
[GROOVY-10254] - STC: cannot return closure from method without casting
[GROOVY-10256] - STC: no error for incompatible type bounds on return value
[GROOVY-10261] - @NamedVariant: Default parameters on ctor/method are ignored when passing some named parameters
[GROOVY-10262] - MethodNode#getText can output incorrect modifiers
[GROOVY-10269] - STC: Stackoverflow Error when passing function reference to closure
[GROOVY-10277] - STC fails to catch type error on the return type of lambdas
[GROOVY-10280] - Type variable substitution does not work well when running into chain of field accesses
[GROOVY-10282] - STC: false positive for BiFunction and BinaryOperator with same type parameter
[GROOVY-10283] - Cannot assign type parameter whose bound is a parameterized type that takes a wildcard
[GROOVY-10289] - Regression with static and non static class mixing
[GROOVY-10291] - STC fails to substitute type variable when using the diamond operator and calling a closure
[GROOVY-10294] - Variable's inferred type is upcasted to an Object
[GROOVY-10299] - Groovy compiler generates invalid Java stubs
[GROOVY-10302] - StackOverflowError on Java 16+ for override method that delegates to super
[GROOVY-10303] - Compiler NPE within CompileStack#clear
[GROOVY-10306] - STC rejects program when assigning a closure that returns a class field
[GROOVY-10308] - SC incorrectly reports "access to Object#field" is forbidden
[GROOVY-10309] - Improper type variable substitution when involving type parameters with conficting names
[GROOVY-10310] - STC is unable to call parameterized function
[GROOVY-10311] - MetaClassImpl creates static meta property for non-static field and getter (no setter)
[GROOVY-10312] - MissingMethodException in method with default parameter in trait - regression in 3.0.9
[GROOVY-10314] - finally block produces long sequence of nop instructions
[GROOVY-10315] - Unable to infer type variable of parameterized function that expects two parameters
[GROOVY-10317] - Type variable substitution does not work properly on parameterized function's return type
[GROOVY-10318] - Weird behavior of !in operator
[GROOVY-10319] - Groovy3 CompileStatic bug: Method clone is protected in java.lang.Object
[GROOVY-10320] - Generics failed to compile with Groovy 3.0.9 when overriding plus operator
[GROOVY-10322] - Type variable of function does not shadow the corresponding type variable of class
[GROOVY-10323] - Compiler crashes on parameterized function with duplicate type variables
[GROOVY-10324] - STC is unable to infer type variable when combining parameterized types and the diamond operator
[GROOVY-10325] - STC: error for map*.value assignment
[GROOVY-10326] - STC: missing error for map*.key assignment
[GROOVY-10328] - STC: incorrect type inference for list, map, etc. with lower bound generics
[GROOVY-10329] - import static star: add support for static callable property
[GROOVY-10330] - STC instantiates type variable with a wrong type when calling an instance method of the same class
[GROOVY-10336] - STC crashes when passing method reference to an inner closure
[GROOVY-10337] - STC rejects program on compiling constructor initialization with a wildcard type
[GROOVY-10339] - STC instantiates parameterized function with a wrong type leading to unsoundness
[GROOVY-10344] - STC crashes when bound has two wildcard types as type arguments
[GROOVY-10347] - STC: lowed bound wildcard inference produces false positives
[GROOVY-10351] - Wrong type argument is inferred on combining use-site variance and diamond operator
[GROOVY-10375] - SC: cast exception for private property access from lambda
[GROOVY-10379] - Error for super class and super interface methods of same name
[GROOVY-10380] - SC: IncompatibleClassChangeError when calling interface default method from non-public interface
[GROOVY-10394] - SC: operands evaluated multiple times for <=> operator on reference types
[GROOVY-10396] - Static import is not applied for custom println method since 2.5.1
[GROOVY-10398] - LazyFieldNode never equals itself
[GROOVY-10406] - Dollar slashy string is too greedy
[GROOVY-10407] - unchecked method invocation warning in generated stubs
[GROOVY-10414] - STC: cannot set non-static outer class property via setter method
[GROOVY-10419] - STC: stack overflow for elvis assignment with explicit setter
[GROOVY-10424] - SC: stack overflow for optimized boolean on private inner class with inner class(es)
[GROOVY-10433] - "sealed" not usable as a restricted identifier
[GROOVY-10434] - ClassNode isRecord and isSealed not useful before AST transformation
[GROOVY-10439] - No error/warning for @Delegate introducing conflicting interface generics
[GROOVY-10449] - Include public fields in the list of properties returned by MetaClassImpl#getProperties() *
[GROOVY-10451] - Sealed classes incorrectly allow a self-reference in the permitted subclasses
[GROOVY-10456] - Inconsistent exception upon accessing empty property
[GROOVY-10457] - Compilation of constructor calls inside CompileDynamic constructors fails with ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
[GROOVY-3015] - Seems like ClosureMetaClass#invokeMethod does not respect the interceptable nature of the owner/delegate
[GROOVY-3421] - Expression underlying a spread map expression is evaluated twice
[GROOVY-3422] - unable to reference one static closure from another without class name prefix
[GROOVY-3493] - Cannot override methods via metaclass that are part of an interface implementation
[GROOVY-4266] - CLONE -Wrong generation of import statements in stubs
[GROOVY-4320] - Joint compiler + @Delegate fail to recognize method signature with default value
[GROOVY-4610] - GroovyInterceptable (AOP) not working with closures
[GROOVY-4727] - Adding "return" automatically in nested switch statements
[GROOVY-4945] - Incorrect "Possible solutions" when calling a method on super in a non-derived class
[GROOVY-5103] - groovy compiler ignores import * for static nested classes in java sources
[GROOVY-5106] - Same interface can be implemented with two different generic types
[GROOVY-5169] - JsonOutput.toJson(object) is not returning expected results
[GROOVY-5204] - @Delegate to a method with optional params
[GROOVY-5239] - Statically imported method vs other methods with the same name
[GROOVY-5245] - Inconsistency with accessing issers as properties
[GROOVY-5358] - Different ways of extending a class functionality esp. adding getProperty inconsistent
[GROOVY-5364] - Static property reference from static context in script does not compile
[GROOVY-5367] - Closure property in Binding used as Closure delegate cannot be called
[GROOVY-5453] - Incorrect resolve of category property for String
[GROOVY-5728] - Accessing private constructor from a static factory
[GROOVY-5736] - Log4j, Commons, Slf4j ast transforms are broken in Groovy-Eclipse
[GROOVY-5746] - Array assignment with operator does double call for index expression and array part
[GROOVY-6097] - Using super.propertyName gives a MissingMethodException when the property is a boolean and uses the "isPropertyName" naming convention.
[GROOVY-6282] - groovyc ant task generates invalid stub (picks wrong constructor) and fails in Java 1.7 compilation
[GROOVY-6328] - onMethodSelection() doesn't fire when setter is called with property syntax
[GROOVY-6408] - Problem With @CompileStatic And Typed Collections
[GROOVY-6453] - groovysh in Windows 7/8/10 doesn't support arrow keys and Del
[GROOVY-6586] - Read vs Write to members of base script supplied by @BaseScript is inconsistent
[GROOVY-6610] - "Expecting to find object/array on stack" VerifyError when passing static member as argument to chained ctor call
[GROOVY-6653] - StackOverflow Exception when calling super.method when extending java class
[GROOVY-6747] - Problem With Anonymous Inner Enum
[GROOVY-6802] - CompileStatic: ListAssignment takes precedence over Coercion when statically compiling
[GROOVY-6803] - CompileStatic: ListAssignment for String takes precendence over Coercion when statically compiling
[GROOVY-6837] - String[] + String[] gives Object[] *
[GROOVY-6882] - STC: AIC cannot resolve overridden method of outer class
[GROOVY-6912] - @CompileStatic not recognising Literal list when LHS is a concrete list type
[GROOVY-6919] - Static compilation fails with multiple bounds generics
[GROOVY-7024] - Reference to static member of parent class in enum constructor fails at runtime
[GROOVY-7033] - Bug with annotation with closure on method of anonymous class
[GROOVY-7094] - Semantic of access super fields is not consistent: super.@field == super.field
[GROOVY-7128] - Generic method declaration should see the super class
[GROOVY-7142] - type inference problem with List of Interface and List of the class which implements the interface
[GROOVY-7208] - Script.getProperty vs Script.setProperty asymmetry
[GROOVY-7232] - Delegation inconsistent between methods and properties in nested closures *
[GROOVY-7293] - @Memoized ignored in trait methods
[GROOVY-7304] - Cannot mutate private field from within an AIC or a closure
[GROOVY-7306] - Invalid stub generated for a constructor using a generic bounded parameter
[GROOVY-7373] - Interact Closures withing Groovy Trait methods are not recognized by the implementing class
[GROOVY-7399] - Method "with()" fails to call on the object reference in Trait
[GROOVY-7419] - Static Compilation with Diamond of local EnumMap<>
[GROOVY-7468] - type checker should use superclass bound when expected by generics
[GROOVY-7473] - ineffient code generation
[GROOVY-7490] - CompileStatic confuses statically importing an instance and statically importing a method
[GROOVY-7494] - ArrayStoreException assigning GStringImpl to String[] when using Indy
[GROOVY-7500] - Problem With Runtime Metaprogramming Over A Trait Method
[GROOVY-7510] - Static import of a static property causes joint compilation to fail
[GROOVY-7512] - Cannot call Trait method from Closure when using static compilation
[GROOVY-7549] - java.lang.IllegalAccessError occurs when attempting to run code built with CompileStatic
[GROOVY-7582] - Closure to SAM coercion doesn't handle overloads with different SAM signatures
[GROOVY-7682] - JsonBuilder or JsonOutput incompatible with JodaTime
[GROOVY-7686] - Can not see local variable from overriden method called from the constructor of an anonymous class instance
[GROOVY-7690] - TypeChecked Groovy does not throw illegal assignment error at compile time when using raw generic type
[GROOVY-7701] - org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.typehandling.GroovyCastException in Groovy ".with { ... }" - Block
[GROOVY-7720] - Type incompatibility of generic placeholders not detected on assignment
[GROOVY-7759] - @Lazy does not work when used in a Trait
[GROOVY-7799] - Extended generic types with var args isn't compiled if they contains in different files
[GROOVY-7843] - Trait method calling closure cannot be inherited while using CompileStatic
[GROOVY-7848] - Closure generic parameters ignored and return types missing from collections methods
[GROOVY-7867] - asType(Collection col, Class clazz) ingnores exceptions in clazz constructor
[GROOVY-7890] - Lack of compilation error while statically compiled the closure.
[GROOVY-7945] - Expect compilation error while resolving generic types
[GROOVY-7968] - A field and a property with the same name and both having an initial value leads to an ambiguity over what the initial value should be, so should fail compilation *
[GROOVY-8000] - Problem With Trait Generics
[GROOVY-8001] - Static compiling fails type checking with generics
[GROOVY-8034] - Compile error when using generic type with lower bound
[GROOVY-8049] - Trait properties with 'with'
[GROOVY-8050] - Reference outer class property via inner class
[GROOVY-8100] - MarkupBuilder cant yield before first tag
[GROOVY-8104] - Could not call constructor of inner class from anonimous class inside closure
[GROOVY-8111] - Stack overflow between WideningCategories lowestUpperBound and parameterizeLowestUpperBound
[GROOVY-8164] - Groovy allows a Java class to inherit static methods from its interface
[GROOVY-8179] - Map-style constructor call, inner class and static compilation
[GROOVY-8202] - void tail calls in closures break @CompileStatic type inference
[GROOVY-8270] - Bug in @AutoImplement
[GROOVY-8274] - methodMissing not executed when the delegate is an inner class
[GROOVY-8284] - getMetaClass should be annotated as (JavaBeans) transient
[GROOVY-8409] - Static compilation with generic function wrapping BiFunction causes GroovyCastException
[GROOVY-8427] - Issue With Static Compiler And Generics
[GROOVY-8433] - Anonymous inner class results in cast exception with @Category applied
[GROOVY-8452] - @CompileStatic, generic with 'extends' bug: Expected parameter of type ? but got A
[GROOVY-8638] - CompileStatic fails with Guava Multimap#asMap
[GROOVY-8652] - Putting key on generic Map fails when using CompileStatic
[GROOVY-8678] - Groovy Script execution fails when comparing decimal values against decimal constant without leading 0
[GROOVY-8693] - Calling indirect default interface methods fails both dynamic/static compiled
[GROOVY-8707] - += in CompileStatic dynamically sets property instead of using setter
[GROOVY-8715] - Cannot resolve array of inner class from type in same package (no import)
[GROOVY-8762] - Invalid this reference in nested class
[GROOVY-8774] - Stub generator doesn't handle package-info
[GROOVY-8820] - Closure inside trait cannot use Closure's delegate variables
[GROOVY-8840] - CLONE - Compile Static causes getAt to fail (advanced cases)
[GROOVY-8850] - StreamingMarkupBuilder adds namespace on elements not expected
[GROOVY-8909] - List literal type inference does not take its context into account
[GROOVY-8946] - @CompileStatic ignores declared type and forces a cast when inside a closure
[GROOVY-8960] - Can not call a java parameterized type method from groovy with java enum. Compile error
[GROOVY-8961] - Cannot pass generic list into explicit setter
[GROOVY-8974] - STC ignores declaration type
[GROOVY-8983] - Cannot assign Collection to Array
[GROOVY-8984] - Can assign Collection with super wildcard to Array
[GROOVY-8999] - Access to private fields and methods from subclass exhibits strange behavior
[GROOVY-9006] - Static type checking fails on java.sql.Timestamp when compared to null
[GROOVY-9033] - Bad code green: empty list literal with each method
[GROOVY-9064] - STC: explicit declared variable type ignored in favor of assigned value type(s)
[GROOVY-9076] - Debugger Step Into doesn't work in Groovy-compiled classes
[GROOVY-9093] - SC: subclass access to package-private or private field is not indicated as an error
[GROOVY-9146] - Seems to be a gap in method reference support
[GROOVY-9185] - groovyc doesn't keep RetentionPolicy in generated bytecode
[GROOVY-9194] - Groovy fails when a script starts with a #
[GROOVY-9255] - trait property throws MissingPropertyException when read using qualified super expression
[GROOVY-9256] - trait qualified-super expressions fail when inside closure
[GROOVY-9310] - Groovy does not ignore second bash directive
[GROOVY-9344] - CCE in closure shared variable assignment
[GROOVY-9373] - ASM: rework line numbers for blocks with fast-path, try/catch or return statement insertion
[GROOVY-9382] - Inconsistent support for [Bb]oolean properties
[GROOVY-9385] - Access to outer class private field from closure leads to ClassCastException (@CompileStatic)
[GROOVY-9386] - Field initialized in a trait using tap doesn't work correctly
[GROOVY-9387] - Using this.method() in closures inside BuilderSupport subclasses doesn't dispatch properly
[GROOVY-9389] - STC regression using increment/decrement operators on custom bean accessors in Groovy 3.0.0
[GROOVY-9391] - Casting the superclass object and calling it stack overflows
[GROOVY-9392] - GroovyClassLoader as system class loader fails in Groovy 3
[GROOVY-9396] - Captured arguments in closures are not annotated with @Generated
[GROOVY-9397] - CLONE - Closures are maybe not Threadsafe
[GROOVY-9398] - GroovyScriptEngine cannot recompile a class that uses generic parameters
[GROOVY-9399] - Annotations on annotation methods are missing in the AST
[GROOVY-9400] - Regression in end of line handling between 2.5.9 and 3.0.0
[GROOVY-9405] - Junit 5 IncompatibleClassChangeError
[GROOVY-9409] - org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.GroovySunClassLoader is unusable
[GROOVY-9410] - Writable is not on classpath for compilation when using maven repository
[GROOVY-9414] - Groovy 3.0.1 : @Delegate does not work with default getter
[GROOVY-9420] - Incorrect type inference on map[key]
[GROOVY-9422] - @CompileStatic non-static inner class instantiation in closure
[GROOVY-9427] - Regression in GString handling
[GROOVY-9429] - Illegal reflective access warnings occurred when getting property
[GROOVY-9433] - grammar ambiguity with ternary expression being confused with safe indexing
[GROOVY-9448] - Missing throws clause of constructor declaration in java stubs
[GROOVY-9449] - Mutliple methods with the same name now fail before AST transformations can fix it
[GROOVY-9450] - DefaultGroovyMethods findIndexOf method can't use startIndex
[GROOVY-9452] - Multiple Repeatable Annotations Container generated if an explicit container is present and an implicit one required
[GROOVY-9454] - STC: regression for instanceof on generic field/property
[GROOVY-9455] - STC: no error for if (!(x instanceof T)) x.methodFromT()
[GROOVY-9459] - Line number information for automatically inserted return statements quirky
[GROOVY-9460] - Groovy 3 Compilation Failure with method with argument Class<?> called with Class<D>
[GROOVY-9462] - Groovy 3 BUG! exception in phase 'conversion' in source unit Caused by NullPointerException
[GROOVY-9463] - STC: no type check error for invalid method pointer or reference
[GROOVY-9465] - GroovyDoc: class-header is not always displayed
[GROOVY-9469] - Original exception during global AST transformation no longer preserved in error message
[GROOVY-9477] - FastStringServiceFactory SPI loading in OSGi
[GROOVY-9480] - New v9 ClassFinder throws NoSuchFileException/UnsupportedOperationException and writes it to stderr
[GROOVY-9483] - Console exits when Cancel is clicked on the "Save changes" dialog
[GROOVY-9485] - metaclass is not initialized
[GROOVY-9489] - package.html files being ignored during javadoc generation when building on JDK9+
[GROOVY-9501] - MissingPropertyException for access to private static field from inner class when subclassing
[GROOVY-9505] - java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: This feature requires ASM8 on JDK 14 in Spock tests
[GROOVY-9506] - Joint compilation is broken
[GROOVY-9507] - JSP style loop in StreamingTemplateEngine template results in TemplateParseException
[GROOVY-9508] - groovyConsole CLI plumbing for --enable-preview command-line switch is missing one part
[GROOVY-9511] - Annotation spanning lines is not supported by Parrot
[GROOVY-9515] - MethodHandle with spread args should not be cached
[GROOVY-9516] - Static compiler infers wrong type for implicitly shared variables
[GROOVY-9517] - CompileStatic typeCasting runtime error from Class Array to Class List
[GROOVY-9518] - Closure argument types not inferred when calling a constructor
[GROOVY-9522] - Throwing NPE when I use ternary operator with something special
[GROOVY-9524] - VerifyError when referencing a private enum method
[GROOVY-9526] - Failed to reload classes with generic parameters
[GROOVY-9529] - Static type checking сannot choose between Map#getAt(Object) and Object#getAt(String) methods
[GROOVY-9543] - groovydoc multiple issues with generics
[GROOVY-9546] - Annotations on class signature are rendered incorrectly
[GROOVY-9547] - @see tags are not working properly
[GROOVY-9548] - groovydoc: properties claim to be "private" and don't show annotations
[GROOVY-9554] - @Field variable access within closures broken
[GROOVY-9556] - Stub generated without the effect of AST transformation makes joint compilation fail
[GROOVY-9558] - Wrong code for putAt on Map that is member of closure delegate
[GROOVY-9562] - Base class property causes CCE
[GROOVY-9566] - Default import for Proxy is wrong
[GROOVY-9567] - groovydoc: abstract methods do not have abstract modifier
[GROOVY-9568] - groovydoc: extra default constructor
[GROOVY-9569] - SC: new compiler error for access of static, non-final, outer-class field *
[GROOVY-9570] - Class-Level Closure Definition With Generics Fails TypeChecked
[GROOVY-9571] - groovydoc: annotation definitions, enums, interfaces, and traits have a default ctor
[GROOVY-9573] - groovydoc: byte[] shown as [B
[GROOVY-9574] - ConcurrentModificationException in Java9.concealedPackageList
[GROOVY-9575] - ASTNode.hashCode violates Object.hashCode contract: does not return consistent value
[GROOVY-9577] - Order of ModuleNode#getImports() is expected but not guaranteed
[GROOVY-9580] - STC: return type checking for generic, covariant property gives false error
[GROOVY-9581] - コンパイラで、クロージャから静的クラス変数を参照できない.
[GROOVY-9584] - CLONE - Error when creation a variable named "context"
[GROOVY-9586] - CLONE - SC: calling trait method inside closure has incorrect receivers data
[GROOVY-9587] - Scope of method call changed from non-static to static 2.4->2.5
[GROOVY-9588] - groovyCompile 6x slower in 3.0.4 than 2.5.6
[GROOVY-9591] - Compiler error for use of variable expression within tap closure
[GROOVY-9597] - CompileStatic: @ClosureParams in @DelegatesTo doesn't work
[GROOVY-9598] - CompileStatic: Runtime error: Access outer class property from static inner in @DelegatesTo
[GROOVY-9600] - Picocli-related VersionProvider helper classes should be public to avoid access warnings
[GROOVY-9601] - Parsing text into a class became much slower under Groovy 3.x
[GROOVY-9603] - Assignment of Map literal to Map element fails to compile (static)
[GROOVY-9604] - STC: method or property missing errors for Closure's getResolveStrategy(), etc.
[GROOVY-9605] - leftShift operator does not work on BigInteger (throws UnsupportedOperationException)
[GROOVY-9606] - Traits using generics generate incorrect stub for Methods
[GROOVY-9607] - Class generation regression in 3.0.5-ss: This method should not have been called
[GROOVY-9609] - ScriptBytecodeAdapter.getPropertyOnSuper fails with method missing for getProperty
[GROOVY-9615] - super.method() can trigger method on outer class in case of missing method
[GROOVY-9618] - Property reference resolves to field, not getter when property name is single upper-case letter *
[GROOVY-9620] - MetaClassImpl uses findPropertyInClassHierarchy inefficiently
[GROOVY-9632] - Java 8 Type Param Annotation Not Generated in Byte Code
[GROOVY-9634] - ClassNode hasPossibleMethod and tryFindPossibleMethod make inefficient use of getMethods(String) and getSuperClass()
[GROOVY-9635] - Generic types get mixed up
[GROOVY-9642] - Inner interface of parent class unresolved in anon. inner class expression
[GROOVY-9643] - Using Spock thrown() method causes IllegalAccessError for 2.0-M2-groovy-3.0 on JDK 8 with noverify switch
[GROOVY-9645] - Inconsistencies in JavaBean naming for property access
[GROOVY-9647] - Module changes for Groovy 4
[GROOVY-9648] - Bad error message when attempting to call a missing constructor
[GROOVY-9652] - SC: ClassCastException for comparison to single-character string literal in closure
[GROOVY-9653] - SC: ClassCastException on delegate object property set
[GROOVY-9654] - should not consider bridge methods when determining whether an overridden method annotated with @Override is valid
[GROOVY-9657] - JmxMetaMapBuilder.buildOperationMapFrom throw StringIndexOutOfBoundsException
[GROOVY-9658] - Infinite recursion exists in HashCodeHelper#updateHash(int, java.lang.Character)
[GROOVY-9661] - Since Groovy 3 ArrayExpression#sizeExpression can suddenly return null
[GROOVY-9662] - Groovy 3.0.5: Closure delegate is not working properly
[GROOVY-9666] - ConcurrentModificationException with ASTTransformation
[GROOVY-9672] - trait conflict resolution not available for static methods
[GROOVY-9673] - GroovyCastException when using Trait.super.name = ... with multiple setters
[GROOVY-9681] - Groovy2 indy not backward compatible missingMethod with Groovy3
[GROOVY-9688] - Groovy 3.0.5 references groovyjarjaropenbeans.BeanInfo (doesn't seem to be included in the distribution) and 3.0.0.rc1 uses java.beans.BeanInfo
[GROOVY-9691] - Method call "main" is replaced with StaticMethodCallExpression in script
[GROOVY-9692] - Adding extension method 'call' on ArrayList with Closure as a parameter stopped working in 3.0.x
[GROOVY-9699] - @CompileStatic does not use bridge methods for keyed map access
[GROOVY-9700] - SC: set groovy property written for variable expression assignment that should be direct setter call
[GROOVY-9702] - ASTTest annotation has runtime retention and transform removes required member from AST *
[GROOVY-9703] - DefaultGroovyMethods.reverse(T[], true) performs extra copy
[GROOVY-9704] - The '~' negate operator causes an ASM processing error when static compiled
[GROOVY-9706] - Groovy 3.0.5 varargs [Static type checking] - Cannot find matching method
[GROOVY-9707] - TypeChecked: NoSuchMethodError: DefaultGroovyMethods.plus(java.lang.String, java.lang.Object)
[GROOVY-9711] - @Sortable annotation always sorts by the parent properties
[GROOVY-9712] - groovyc fails when compiling class starting with unicode character
[GROOVY-9717] - 3.0 stubs include packages annotations on classes other than package-info.groovy
[GROOVY-9732] - CompareToNullExpression has empty implementation of transformExpression
[GROOVY-9735] - STC: incorrect error for actual vs inferred closure parameter type
[GROOVY-9737] - VerifyError if superclass has static and non-static overloads
[GROOVY-9739] - NPE in ClassNode.isDerivedFrom while compiling trait with Groovy 3.0.5
[GROOVY-9751] - STC: error for addAll with collect argument
[GROOVY-9757] - ASTTest is run for every SourceUnit in a CompilationUnit
[GROOVY-9758] - groovsh import of non existing class throws null pointer instead of syntax error
[GROOVY-9760] - NPE when trait with type parameter is implemented as raw type
[GROOVY-9762] - Wrong type resolved if method reference used with typed method
[GROOVY-9763] - Regression in groovyc 3.0 and 4.0 and Compile static with generic static method in trait
[GROOVY-9769] - STC: UnionTypeClassNode created for simple instanceof scenarios
[GROOVY-9770] - Groovy 3 generated lambda classes are marked as synthetic
[GROOVY-9771] - STC: "putAt" shortcut notation to outer class private field from Closure leads to GroovyCastException
[GROOVY-9772] - AnnotationCollectorTransform generates code not marked with @Generated
[GROOVY-9777] - Stub missing cast, depending on constructor order
[GROOVY-9779] - Inconsistency with callable properties in static context
[GROOVY-9784] - GroovyRowResult not assignable to Map<String, Object> with static type checker
[GROOVY-9786] - SC: cast exception for variable assigned within conditional blocks
[GROOVY-9790] - bootstrap method initialization exception raised when lambda parameter type is wrong
[GROOVY-9791] - SC: cross-package protected field access uses dynamic property methods
[GROOVY-9797] - println(-0.0f) does not comply with IEEE754
[GROOVY-9799] - Using a method reference causes a compiler error
[GROOVY-9803] - Static type checker forgets nested generic types
[GROOVY-9807] - Static compile of dynamically generated code produces different output in a top-level class and a nested class
[GROOVY-9814] - Method reference doesn't accept subtypes of argument
[GROOVY-9815] - Object not bound with Groovy (but works fine in Java)
[GROOVY-9816] - @AutoImplement does not consider declared properties
[GROOVY-9821] - STC: spread-safe and list property access error for CollType<? extends ItemType>
[GROOVY-9822] - StackOverflowError in STC
[GROOVY-9824] - CVE-2020-17521 Apache Groovy Information Disclosure
[GROOVY-9825] - interface constants from super interfaces lost in some contexts
[GROOVY-9826] - Better propagation of InterruptedException
[GROOVY-9828] - Migrate from Codehouse to Apache Groovy 4.0.0-alpha
[GROOVY-9842] - Static inner class of a static inner class is missing inner class table attribute
[GROOVY-9844] - STC infers too-narrow bounds for inline map
[GROOVY-9851] - Private field and method use from subclass is inconsistent
[GROOVY-9852] - Result is already complete (IllegalStateException) *
[GROOVY-9855] - Compiler does not resolve compile-time constants in string concatenation
[GROOVY-9859] - Groovy3 doesn't parse a function property when there's a new line between return value and function name
[GROOVY-9860] - compilation error when passing a closure's genericized parameters to a constructor under static compilation
[GROOVY-9861] - parsing bug when inner class references top level class fields in groovy 3
[GROOVY-9862] - General error during instruction selection: ClassCastException
[GROOVY-9863] - arithmetic using an implicit getter fails to compile with "BUG! exception in phase 'class generation'" under static compilation
[GROOVY-9867] - docgenerator not displaying array types correctly
[GROOVY-9875] - backspace does not work in the groovysh under SecureCRT connecting Linux
[GROOVY-9880] - Switch incorrectly falls through default case
[GROOVY-9881] - STC can't distinguish SAMs based on arity
[GROOVY-9882] - STC: field or property with parameterized SAM-type and closure initializer
[GROOVY-9884] - groovy3: setProperty does not work in sub classes
[GROOVY-9885] - STC doesn't coerce GString in certain ternary expressions
[GROOVY-9890] - Static type checking can't find default method overload on interface
[GROOVY-9891] - Wrongly detected incompatible generic arguments for Java collections
[GROOVY-9892] - STC: VerifyError when embedding unary pre/postfix inc/decrement operation of outer field in GString
[GROOVY-9893] - Wrong overloaded method selected
[GROOVY-9896] - Switch return statement transformation misses last case without break
[GROOVY-9901] - Memoization doesn't seem to work for trait methods
[GROOVY-9902] - Generic typecheck in @DelegatesTo doesn't work
[GROOVY-9903] - STC: @DelegatesTo error for incomplete arguments linked to first line of source
[GROOVY-9905] - Groovy 3 bug: references to an outer class's parent class variable fails
[GROOVY-9906] - ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when compiling method call with many overloaded methods
[GROOVY-9907] - Type tracked from instanceof condition is not captured in closure
[GROOVY-9909] - Cannot call super when overriding an interface default method
[GROOVY-9911] - Tuples with same collection values do not match
[GROOVY-9914] - map.collectEntries extension method variant returns Map<?,?>
[GROOVY-9915] - STC: call to static method fails with incompatible generics error
[GROOVY-9916] - IllegalArgumentException when set null to a boolean field into a closure
[GROOVY-9918] - NPE in static compiler when calling pathological method signature
[GROOVY-9923] - Several Sql#call variants incorrectly throw Exception rather than SqlException *
[GROOVY-9932] - MockFor/StubFor makes mocked internal method return null
[GROOVY-9934] - Bounded type parameter is not captured by closure
[GROOVY-9935] - int reference seems to not use its wrapper class
[GROOVY-9936] - Difference between Antlr2 and parrot parsers for variable declaration optimisation *
[GROOVY-9938] - VerifyError when instantiating class with @CompileStatic that implements a method with @DelegatesTo annotation.
[GROOVY-9945] - STC: Cannot find matching method when using Generics
[GROOVY-9948] - Cannot infer the right type in the presence of diamond operator
[GROOVY-9951] - @CompileStatic @POJO annotation on static inner class with @Immutable annotation
[GROOVY-9953] - Type from flow typing is not propagated in variable assignments
[GROOVY-9954] - JsonSlurper LAX parser skips the first character after comments
[GROOVY-9955] - IllegalAccessError exception is raised when accessing inherited static field
[GROOVY-9956] - Cannot infer correct type argument when passing a subtype of the declared type argument
[GROOVY-9963] - Generic type of field is not istantiated
[GROOVY-9966] - Build Error: StringIndexOutOfBoundsException when the stars align...
[GROOVY-9967] - STC: Access to field/property is forbidden after instanceof.
[GROOVY-9968] - @TypeChecked Error: Members of Iterable<T extends Foo> are Foo, not Object
[GROOVY-9970] - Type argument inference does not work in closure
[GROOVY-9971] - @TypeChecked: Closure<String> no longer compatible with Closure<GString> argument
[GROOVY-9972] - LUB does not work correctly in case of ternary operator
[GROOVY-9973] - @CompileStatic: Binary operation with property throws ClassCastException
[GROOVY-9974] - @CompileStatic with Method References
[GROOVY-9977] - @CompileStatic does not work when a class field has a lambda initializer
[GROOVY-9978] - ASM reporting processing error
[GROOVY-9981] - CLONE - println(-0.0f) does not comply with IEEE754
[GROOVY-9982] - Can't assign a field with the result of a method call of the same name from a base class
[GROOVY-9983] - Type argument inference does not work in ternary operator
[GROOVY-9984] - Wrong type inference when passing null
[GROOVY-9985] - STC does not report type mismatches in array initializers
[GROOVY-9991] - STC: error for closure not matching functional interface method's parameter count
[GROOVY-9993] - CLONE - Field and a property with the same name: clarification of boundary cases *
[GROOVY-9994] - Type checking of array initializer expressions
[GROOVY-9995] - Wrong inference inside closure when having a bounded type parameter
[GROOVY-9996] - Cannot infer correct type argument when using subtyping
[GROOVY-9997] - STC: cast or coerce to functional interface fails to infer param types of closure/lambda
[GROOVY-9998] - Wildcards with a lower bound fail static type checking
Dependency upgrade
[GROOVY-10013] - Bump jackson version to 2.12.2
[GROOVY-10014] - Bump checkstyle to 8.41.1
[GROOVY-10015] - Bump xstream to 1.4.16
[GROOVY-10016] - Bump JavaParser to 3.20.2
[GROOVY-10017] - Bump jansi to 2.3.2
[GROOVY-10018] - Bump log4j2 to 2.14.1
[GROOVY-10019] - Bump picocli to 4.6.1
[GROOVY-10020] - Bump Spotbugs/Spotbugs annotations to 4.2.2
[GROOVY-10021] - Bump json-unit to 2.25.0
[GROOVY-10030] - Bump asciidoctor versions
[GROOVY-10038] - Bump jackson to 2.12.3
[GROOVY-10042] - Bump Ant version to 1.10.10
[GROOVY-10043] - Bump spotbugs to 4.2.3
[GROOVY-10044] - Bump versions plugin to 0.38.0
[GROOVY-10048] - Bump Gradle to 6.8.3
[GROOVY-10058] - Bump junit to 5.7.1
[GROOVY-10093] - Bump Spock version to 2.0 final
[GROOVY-10117] - Bump javaparser to 3.22.1
[GROOVY-10118] - Bump xstream to 1.4.17
[GROOVY-10119] - Bump versions gradle plugin to 0.39.0
[GROOVY-10135] - Bump jansi to 2.3.3
[GROOVY-10151] - Bump gradle to 6.9
[GROOVY-10154] - Bump asm to 9.2
[GROOVY-10167] - Bump jackson version to 2.12.4
[GROOVY-10168] - Bump json-unit version to 2.27.0
[GROOVY-10169] - Bump Ant version to 1.10.11 (incorporates CVE-2021-36373 and CVE-2021-36374)
[GROOVY-10170] - Bump JUnit Jupiter/JUnit Platform to 5.7.2/1.7.2
[GROOVY-10171] - Bump slf4j to 1.7.31
[GROOVY-10172] - Bump Spotbugs version to 4.3.0
[GROOVY-10173] - Bump checkstyle to 8.44
[GROOVY-10174] - Bump gson to 2.8.7
[GROOVY-10175] - Bump Codenarc to 2.1.0
[GROOVY-10182] - Bump jansi to 2.3.4
[GROOVY-10202] - Bump Gradle to 6.9.1
[GROOVY-10203] - Bump xstream to 1.4.18
[GROOVY-10204] - Bump javaparser to 3.23.0
[GROOVY-10205] - Bump jackson version to 2.12.5
[GROOVY-10206] - Bump Spotbugs version to 4.4.0
[GROOVY-10211] - Bump Codenarc to 2.2.0
[GROOVY-10237] - Bump gradle to 7.2
[GROOVY-10242] - Bump asciidoctor gradle to 3.3.2
[GROOVY-10245] - Bump asciidoctorj to 2.5.2
[GROOVY-10246] - Bump junit5 to 5.8.0
[GROOVY-10255] - Bump JUnit5 to 5.8.1
[GROOVY-10276] - Bump jackson to 2.13.0
[GROOVY-10285] - Bump javaparser to 3.23.1
[GROOVY-10292] - Bump checkstyle to 9.0.1
[GROOVY-10296] - Bump Spotbugs/Spotbugs annotations to 4.4.2
[GROOVY-10313] - Bump jansi to 2.4.0
[GROOVY-10331] - Bump Commons CLI to 1.5.0
[GROOVY-10332] - Bump logback to 1.2.6
[GROOVY-10333] - Bump slf4j to 1.7.32
[GROOVY-10334] - Bump Ant version to 1.10.12
[GROOVY-10348] - Bump picocli to 4.6.2
[GROOVY-10349] - Bump gradle to 7.3-rc-5
[GROOVY-10366] - Bump gradle to 7.3
[GROOVY-10384] - Bump checkstyle to 9.1
[GROOVY-10385] - Bump japicmp plugin to 0.3.0
[GROOVY-10386] - Bump Spotbugs/Spotbugs annotations to 4.5.0
[GROOVY-10387] - Bump gson (test dependency) to 2.8.9
[GROOVY-10388] - Bump json-unit (test dependency) version to 2.28.0
[GROOVY-10389] - Bump logback to 1.2.7
[GROOVY-10390] - Bump jqwik (test dependency) to 1.6.0
[GROOVY-10397] - Bump junit to 5.8.2
[GROOVY-10399] - Bump bridger to 1.6.Final (build dependency)
[GROOVY-10400] - Bump gradle to 7.3.1 (build dependency)
[GROOVY-10402] - Bump jarjar to 1.8.0 (build dependency)
[GROOVY-10408] - Bump log4j2 version to 2.15.0 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-10410] - Bump log4j2 version to 2.16.0 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-10416] - Bump logback to 1.2.8 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-10420] - Bump gradle to 7.3.2 (build dependency)
[GROOVY-10421] - Bump jqwik to 1.6.1 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-10422] - Bump Spotbugs/Spotbugs annotations version to 4.5.2 (build dependencies)
[GROOVY-10423] - Bump checkstyle to 9.2 (build dependency)
[GROOVY-10425] - Bump log4j2 version to 2.17.0 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-10426] - Bump jqwik to 1.6.2 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-10427] - Bump jackson version to 2.13.1
[GROOVY-10430] - Bump gradle to 7.3.3 (build dependency)
[GROOVY-10432] - Bump hsqldb to 2.6.1 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-10435] - Bump log4j2 version to 2.17.1 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-10441] - Bump testng to 7.5
[GROOVY-10444] - Bump javaparser to 3.24.0
[GROOVY-10445] - Bump Spotbugs/Spotbugs annotations to 4.5.3 (build dependency)
[GROOVY-10446] - Bump logback to 1.2.10 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-10447] - Bump checkstyle to 9.2.1 (build dependency)
[GROOVY-10448] - Bump gradle versions plugin to 0.41.0 (build dependency)
[GROOVY-10452] - Bump slf4j to 1.7.33 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-10453] - Bump jqwik to 1.6.3 (test dependency)
[GROOVY-9403] - Bump javaparser to 3.15.12
[GROOVY-9419] - Bump gradle to 6.2.1
[GROOVY-9428] - Bump javaparser to 3.15.13
[GROOVY-9437] - Bump gradle to 6.2.2
[GROOVY-9466] - Bump javaparser to 3.15.15
[GROOVY-9488] - Bump javaparser to 3.15.17
[GROOVY-9490] - Bump ASM to 8.0
[GROOVY-9497] - Bump asm to 8.0.1
[GROOVY-9502] - Bump junit to 5.6.2
[GROOVY-9503] - Bump javaparser to 3.15.18
[GROOVY-9520] - Update Spotbugs/Spotbugs plugin to 4.0.2/4.0.5
[GROOVY-9527] - Bump javaparser to 3.15.21
[GROOVY-9536] - Bump testng to 7.2.0
[GROOVY-9540] - Bump spotbugs plugin to 4.0.8
[GROOVY-9544] - Bump gradle to 6.4
[GROOVY-9551] - Bump JavaParser to 3.15.22
[GROOVY-9552] - Bump Ant versions to address: [CVE-2020-1945] Apache Ant insecure temporary file vulnerability
[GROOVY-9557] - Bump gradle to 6.4.1
[GROOVY-9559] - Bump log4j2 version to 2.13.3
[GROOVY-9560] - Update Spotbugs/Spotbugs plugin to 4.0.3/4.2.0
[GROOVY-9583] - Bump gradle to 6.5
[GROOVY-9590] - Bump javaparser to 3.16.1
[GROOVY-9593] - Bump Spock to 2.0-M3-groovy-3.0
[GROOVY-9621] - Bump gradle to 6.5.1
[GROOVY-9622] - Bump checkstyle to 8.34
[GROOVY-9623] - Bump Jackson version to 2.11.1
[GROOVY-9624] - Bump Codenarc to 1.6
[GROOVY-9625] - Bump spotbugs/plugin to 4.0.6/4.4.4
[GROOVY-9626] - Bump rat to 0.7.0
[GROOVY-9627] - Bump picocli to 4.4.0 *
[GROOVY-9670] - Bump TestNG to 7.3.0
[GROOVY-9685] - Bump gradle to 6.6
[GROOVY-9686] - Bump spotbugs library/plugin to 4.1.1/4.5.0
[GROOVY-9687] - Bump versions plugin to 0.29.0
[GROOVY-9689] - Bump codenarc to 1.6.1
[GROOVY-9690] - Bump checkstyle to 8.35
[GROOVY-9693] - bump picocli to 4.5.0
[GROOVY-9694] - bump jackson version to 2.11.2
[GROOVY-9697] - Bump asciidoctor to 3.2.0
[GROOVY-9738] - Bump xstream to 1.4.13
[GROOVY-9740] - Bump JUnit5/platform to 5.7.0/1.7.0
[GROOVY-9741] - Bump gradle to 6.6.1
[GROOVY-9743] - Bump hsqldb to 2.5.1
[GROOVY-9746] - Bump picocli to 4.5.1
[GROOVY-9747] - Bump versions plugin to 0.33.0
[GROOVY-9748] - Bump spotbugs to 4.1.2
[GROOVY-9749] - Bump sonarqube plugin to 3.0
[GROOVY-9750] - Bump checkstyle to 8.36.1
[GROOVY-9752] - Bump ASM version to 9.0 and JDK 16 support
[GROOVY-9783] - Bump gradle to 6.7
[GROOVY-9787] - Bump javaparser to 3.16.2
[GROOVY-9788] - Bump Ant version to 1.10.9 (fixes Apache Ant CVE 2020-11979)
[GROOVY-9792] - Bump Spotbugs/Spotbugs annotations versions
[GROOVY-9793] - Bump JUnit4 version to 4.13.1 (includes security fix)
[GROOVY-9794] - Bump picocli version to 4.5.2
[GROOVY-9809] - Bump jackson to 2.11.3
[GROOVY-9810] - Bump javaparser to 3.16.3
[GROOVY-9812] - Bump Spock version to 2.0-M4-groovy-3.0
[GROOVY-9819] - bump jsp-api/servlet-api versions to 2.3.3/4.0.1
[GROOVY-9820] - Bump gradle to 6.7.1
[GROOVY-9830] - Bump xstream to 1.4.14
[GROOVY-9831] - Bump javaparser to 3.17.0
[GROOVY-9833] - Bump slf4j to 1.7.30
[GROOVY-9834] - Bump logback to 1.2.3
[GROOVY-9835] - Bump versions gradle plugin to 0.36.0
[GROOVY-9836] - Bump checkstyle to 8.37
[GROOVY-9837] - Bump japicmp gradle plugin to 0.2.9
[GROOVY-9838] - Bump log4j2 version to 2.14.0
[GROOVY-9839] - Bump Codenarc version to 2.0.0
[GROOVY-9840] - Bump findsecbugs plugin to 1.11.0
[GROOVY-9841] - Bump spotbugs plugin to 4.6.0
[GROOVY-9856] - Bump jackson to 2.12.0
[GROOVY-9869] - Upgrade Jansi to 2
[GROOVY-9876] - Bump antlr to 4.9.0
[GROOVY-9889] - Bump Gradle to 6.8
[GROOVY-9897] - Bump jansi to 2.1.1
[GROOVY-9898] - Bump xstream to 1.4.15
[GROOVY-9899] - Bump javaparser to 3.18.0
[GROOVY-9900] - Bump jackson to 2.12.1
[GROOVY-9912] - Bump Gradle to 6.8.1
[GROOVY-9913] - Bump checkstyle to 8.39
[GROOVY-9940] - Bump gradle to 6.8.2
[GROOVY-9942] - Bump Gradle to 6.8.2 and Gradle Enterprise Plugin to 3.5.2
[GROOVY-9943] - Bump ASM to 9.1 and add JDK17 constant
[GROOVY-9944] - Bump junit to 4.13.2
[GROOVY-9957] - Bump testng to 7.4.0
[GROOVY-9990] - Bump openbeans to 1.0.2
Documentation:
[GROOVY-9925] - Groovy match operator documentation should contain real examples and slashy strings reminder
[GROOVY-9926] - Groovy documentation does not describe how to instantiate empty maps in section where maps are first described
Improvement:
[GROOVY-10003] - Eliminate some ambiguities while parsing
[GROOVY-10004] - @Lazy transform should check for explicit getters/setters *
[GROOVY-10028] - Add support for type conversion from Stream to array/collection/list/set
[GROOVY-10029] - SC: produce direct method call for assignment of collection to array
[GROOVY-10031] - Compiler writes multianewarray instruction for all non-initializer array allocations
[GROOVY-10034] - Compiler writes extra cast for Type[] to Object[]
[GROOVY-10035] - Eliminate redundant type cast
[GROOVY-10036] - STC: unresolved generics for return type of extension method call with full type arguments
[GROOVY-10050] - Add additional NamedParam annotations in ResourceGroovyMethods, NioExtensions and JsonSlurper
[GROOVY-10052] - STC sometimes requires explicit closure to SAM cast inside of another closure
[GROOVY-10061] - "del" ASCII character also should be escaped
[GROOVY-10077] - Groovy Console: Support JDKs without macOS Runtime Support for Java
[GROOVY-10110] - AST browser should show additional information *
[GROOVY-10112] - IndexedProperty AST transform should only provide the getter for immutable fields
[GROOVY-10123] - Consolidate methods for collecting interfaces *
[GROOVY-10126] - Support parsing multiple YAML documents
[GROOVY-10146] - Groovy 3 compilation errors are less accurate than Groovy 2
[GROOVY-10148] - Groovy should support sealed classes
[GROOVY-10150] - Eliminate ambiguities while parsing non-static class creator
[GROOVY-10155] - Add JDK18 constant
[GROOVY-10160] - Highlight source code in the AST browser smartly
[GROOVY-10212] - Provide a mechanism for users to enable Antlr4's SLL (fast but only simple) mode
[GROOVY-10216] - Avoid unnecessary security checks for each invocation
[GROOVY-10233] - Sealed classes should generate native class information for JDK17+
[GROOVY-10252] - @Final should have a boolean attribute to disable
[GROOVY-10275] - Align intersect which takes a closure/comparator ordering to be the same as other languages. *
[GROOVY-10279] - Support native record
[GROOVY-10281] - Add compiler option for logging class generation
[GROOVY-10284] - AnnotationCollector should not collect @Incubating which is a meta-annotation in Groovy
[GROOVY-10286] - Set target bytecode by JDK
[GROOVY-10287] - The Groovy Console About window could list Java/OS versions along with the Groovy version
[GROOVY-10295] - STC: cannot infer list or map type for method return
[GROOVY-10297] - Refine @ToString and @EqualsAndHashCode generation of fallback methods
[GROOVY-10298] - Refine records to not use system properties
[GROOVY-10321] - @ToString could provide annotation attributes to control further the format of the created toString
[GROOVY-10338] - Enhance records with additional helper methods
[GROOVY-10340] - Refine sealed classes to not use system properties
[GROOVY-10341] - "super" invocations of abstract methods should be caught at compile time with static compilation enabled
[GROOVY-10352] - Java8 does not load enum values into annotation attributes
[GROOVY-10353] - StaticTypeCheckingSupport#evaluateExpression can provide lightweight evaluation for simple expressions
[GROOVY-10361] - TupleConstructor could be improved to have a smarter mode for handling default values
[GROOVY-10372] - STC: check lambda or closure parameter types against target method
[GROOVY-10377] - SC: === and !== compiled to ScriptBytecodeAdapter#compareIdentical
[GROOVY-10378] - Provide a mechanism to prioritise AST transforms running at the same stage
[GROOVY-10383] - SC: !in compiled to ScriptBytecodeAdapter#isNotCase
[GROOVY-10395] - SC: <=> compiled to ScriptBytecodeAdapter#compareTo for primitives
[GROOVY-10401] - Prevents paging out the groovy console when minimized
[GROOVY-10417] - MethodNode toString() could add quotes when name contains spaces (or other non-identifier characters)
[GROOVY-10418] - Include `src/antlr` in the sources jar
[GROOVY-10463] - Add equals() and hashCode() methods to ImportNode
[GROOVY-4694] - Move AstBuilderTransformation Global xForm to separate module
[GROOVY-6360] - GString performance is slow with String's method
[GROOVY-6603] - Static type checks for closure parameters of methods
[GROOVY-6954] - map.foo = "bar" not optimized by the static compiler
[GROOVY-7001] - generics info can be improved for DGM methods with a collector
[GROOVY-7106] - Improve coercion / implicit cast of map literals for @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-7274] - Improve type inference for hash map -> Map<?, ?>
[GROOVY-8729] - Eliminate the additional resolving phase of compilation for better performance
[GROOVY-9377] - Support JDK15
[GROOVY-9394] - Groovy could provide some minimal methods to assist with migrating between Groovy versions
[GROOVY-9408] - Avoid unnecessary looking up default import classes when resolving types
[GROOVY-9417] - Make @NullCheck play nicer with @Immutable
[GROOVY-9430] - Added support for ScriptEngine.FILENAME behaviour
[GROOVY-9447] - Add a parse tree viewer to groovy console
[GROOVY-9468] - Support running as Java code in the Groovy console
[GROOVY-9473] - Support compiling as Java code in the Groovy console
[GROOVY-9478] - Groovy Ant task could support Ant resources
[GROOVY-9486] - Remove redundant code `Sentinel`
[GROOVY-9487] - Update and check if initialized via same field of metaclass
[GROOVY-9492] - Relax groovy.test.NotYetImplemented dependency on JUnit 4's AssertionFailedError *
[GROOVY-9504] - Add support for Path to slurper classes
[GROOVY-9509] - JavaShell should allow options to be passed
[GROOVY-9512] - Control the fallback threshold of indy with different switch
[GROOVY-9513] - Enable indy by default
[GROOVY-9514] - Remove antlr2 parser
[GROOVY-9545] - DGM: add toArray(Class) extension method for java.util.stream.Stream
[GROOVY-9549] - groovydoc: implemented interfaces not shown in class description
[GROOVY-9576] - groovydoc: $INIT static method shown on Groovy enums
[GROOVY-9578] - Also output aborted tests in JUnit 5 GroovyJUnitRunnerHelper
[GROOVY-9589] - Parse source codes in parallel
[GROOVY-9592] - Replace "groovy.generate.stub.in.memory" with "groovy.mem.stub"
[GROOVY-9594] - Rename whitelist/blacklist in SecureASTCustomizer to more meaningful names *
[GROOVY-9602] - return more specific type for ifS/ifElseS helper methods in GeneralUtils
[GROOVY-9619] - Adjust pom for groovy-test-junit5 so that junit-jupiter-api is compile time not runtime
[GROOVY-9628] - Initial support for reproducible builds
[GROOVY-9631] - Replace legacy data structure with Java collection *
[GROOVY-9633] - Improve the doco on the Groovy Console
[GROOVY-9637] - Improve the performance of GString
[GROOVY-9644] - Add java.io.File to immutable type list
[GROOVY-9667] - Tweak ManagedIdentityConcurrentMap for better performance
[GROOVY-9669] - Enhance immutability check
[GROOVY-9682] - Support coerce for @NamedVariant
[GROOVY-9726] - Compile error needed for illegal field modifier combination
[GROOVY-9736] - Remove org.objectweb.asm.Opcodes as implemented interface in most (all?) places *
[GROOVY-9744] - PropertyNode should be enriched to support getter/setter names
[GROOVY-9745] - Provide a way to filter illegal/discouraged characters when using MarkupBuilder
[GROOVY-9753] - EqualsAndHashCode should be enhanced to be POJO aware
[GROOVY-9756] - MapConstructor generated code should be POJO aware
[GROOVY-9767] - GroovyAssert should not depend on org.junit.Assert *
[GROOVY-9800] - Log generic mismatches extensively
[GROOVY-9808] - GroovyShell parse script use given context
[GROOVY-9832] - groovy-jmx: JmxMetaMapBuilder should support GString object names
[GROOVY-9849] - Show elapsed time in groovy console
[GROOVY-9858] - In generated closures, annotate generated call() methods with @Generated
[GROOVY-9865] - Add some DGM methods for primitive arrays
[GROOVY-9868] - DGM methods via dgminfo not enabled for int[][], long[][], double[][]
[GROOVY-9877] - Add DGM `asReversed` to `List`
[GROOVY-9878] - GroovyClassLoader#fileReallyExists is inefficient
[GROOVY-9921] - Replace legacy data structure with Java collection(SingleKeyHashMap) *
[GROOVY-9941] - Make Gradle build fully cacheable
[GROOVY-9946] - Add `@Pure` to mark constant result of method
New Feature:
[GROOVY-10032] - CLONE - left-open and full-open ranges (consider adjusting containsWithinBounds behavior) *
[GROOVY-10193] - Support sealed type grammar
[GROOVY-10195] - Groovy should have a @Final AST transform
[GROOVY-10210] - Provide a helper factory class to assist with porting
[GROOVY-10240] - Support record grammar
[GROOVY-10274] - Improvements to DGM: provide a set union and minus which take a closure/comparator
[GROOVY-4990] - Ability to create missing parent directories when using File.write()
[GROOVY-5441] - Type arguemnt checking
[GROOVY-5450] - Final field assignment check on static compilation
[GROOVY-7492] - Groovy should allow CompileStatic classes to not implement GroovyObject
[GROOVY-8225] - Groovy support for JSR 308/JEP 104 (Annotations in more places)
[GROOVY-8258] - [GEP] Create a LINQ-like DSL (basic cases)
[GROOVY-9159] - [GEP] Support LINQ, aka GINQ
[GROOVY-9272] - Support switch expression
[GROOVY-9318] - SecureASTCustomizer: add support for allowing or blocking entire package trees
[GROOVY-9365] - Implement JavaShell to run Java code
[GROOVY-9384] - Groovy should provide a Maven BOM
[GROOVY-9534] - Groovy could provide an AST transform to hook into platform logging (JEP 264)
[GROOVY-9649] - left-open and full-open ranges
[GROOVY-9671] - Absorb GContracts project into Groovy project
[GROOVY-9675] - There should be a mechanism to disable individual macro methods & extension methods
[GROOVY-9677] - provide a library of pre-canned macro methods
[GROOVY-9680] - Groovy 4 should provide some pre-canned type checker extensions
[GROOVY-9684] - We should provide shouldFail/assertScript variants which take a shell
[GROOVY-9754] - Provide a record-like equivalent
[GROOVY-9755] - ToString AST transformation should be enhanced to be POJO aware
[GROOVY-9804] - Support TOML
[GROOVY-9817] - Enhance Closure annotation value (as Closure class) to Arrays
[GROOVY-9922] - Add DGM `getPid`
Proposal:
[GROOVY-10259] - Groovy4 NV Macros: Rename NV* -> SV*
Sub-task:
[GROOVY-10137] - [JDK16] Illegal access to dynamic proxy
[GROOVY-10138] - [JDK16] Failed to invoke default method of proxy
[GROOVY-2686] - Can't call a Closure in a Closure's Delegete
[GROOVY-7762] - Static inner classes not visible to child classes
Task:
[GROOVY-10005] - Remove groovy-jaxb module from Groovy 4
[GROOVY-10023] - Remove BSF from Groovy 4
[GROOVY-10065] - Move stream-related extension methods to StreamGroovyMethods
[GROOVY-10393] - Prepare for deprecation of security manager (JEP-411)
[GROOVY-10412] - Refactor: split formatting methods out of InvokerHelper
[GROOVY-10428] - Refactor: split formatting methods out of InvokerHelper (allow separate control of escapeBackslashes) *
[GROOVY-6843] - Remove GroovyDoc JANSI dependency
[GROOVY-9380] - VMPlugin refactor: Coalesce Java5 through Java7 into Java8 *
[GROOVY-9773] - Rework gradle build to use modern conventions
[GROOVY-9774] - Rework gradle build to use modern conventions - test remediation
[GROOVY-9775] - Rework gradle build to use modern conventions - doc remediation
[GROOVY-9827] - Rework gradle build to use modern conventions - better support "provided" concept *
[GROOVY-9958] - Prepare for bintray/jcenter sunset
[GROOVY-9989] - Investigate impact of Bintray/JCenter shutdown (grape config aspects)
Technical Debt:
[GROOVY-10300] - Rework runtime script member resolution

New in Groovy 3.0.9 (Dec 27, 2021)

Bug:
[GROOVY-10009] - TracingInterceptor throws NullPointerException if arguments contains a null argument
[GROOVY-10010] - STC: method call with GString elements in list/array has different error from assignment
[GROOVY-10027] - STC: NamedParams error for method call argument
[GROOVY-10033] - Compiler crash when encountering function reference on nested class
[GROOVY-10046] - NPE in static compiler
[GROOVY-10047] - STC infers Closure instead of SAM for method references
[GROOVY-10056] - Inferred parameter type of lambda expression for multi-dimensions array is not correct
[GROOVY-10075] - Static compiler incorrectly typechecks extension modules
[GROOVY-10079] - groovyc does not perform unboxing on Character type
[GROOVY-10085] - Class.isCase() documentation does not clarify that Class.isCase(SomeClass) is false, or why
[GROOVY-10087] - STC does not perform boxing on chars when encountering assignment and function call
[GROOVY-10097] - CLONE - Better propagation of InterruptedException (additional cases)
[GROOVY-10098] - Unexpected behaviour when the return type of a closure is a type parameter
[GROOVY-10102] - Type checking fails when calling trait method using indirect SelfType relation
[GROOVY-10104] - SC: runtime error for default argument call expression
[GROOVY-10106] - STC error for call to static trait method from closure
[GROOVY-10107] - Cannot assign null to a variable with a bounded generic type
[GROOVY-10111] - compiler crash during canonicalization
[GROOVY-10113] - StackOverflowError in STC
[GROOVY-10121] - @AnnotationCollector does not work with JUnit 5
[GROOVY-10122] - Wrong cast in stubs generated
[GROOVY-10132] - XmlUtil.serialize() Emoji bug
[GROOVY-10141] - NPE in InnerClassVisitor for non-static inner class CCE within two AICs
[GROOVY-10159] - Compilation failure: ClassCastException
[GROOVY-10164] - RootLoader cannot be set as system class loader in Java 12+
[GROOVY-10179] - STC: instanceof and for-in variable type
[GROOVY-10181] - Groovy 3 AST for annotated fields reports wrong lastLineNumber if field not initialized
[GROOVY-10188] - Different treatment of property expressions in closures from 2.4 to 2.5
[GROOVY-10189] - File.withWriter and Path.withWriter are inconsistent
[GROOVY-10191] - NoSuchMethodError during static field inlining is not caught, unlike NoSuchFieldException
[GROOVY-10194] - "PermittedSubclasses requires ASM9" when importing enum on Java 17
[GROOVY-10196] - "Cannot find matching method" with specific class hierarchy and static compilation
[GROOVY-10197] - java.lang.VerifyError using property inside enum's constant
[GROOVY-10199] - ASTTest cannot reference types from transform classpath
[GROOVY-10200] - Static scope error for variable in non-static method of static inner class
[GROOVY-3015] - Seems like ClosureMetaClass#invokeMethod does not respect the interceptable nature of the owner/delegate
[GROOVY-3421] - Expression underlying a spread map expression is evaluated twice
[GROOVY-4610] - GroovyInterceptable (AOP) not working with closures
[GROOVY-5453] - Incorrect resolve of category property for String
[GROOVY-6282] - groovyc ant task generates invalid stub (picks wrong constructor) and fails in Java 1.7 compilation
[GROOVY-7867] - asType(Collection col, Class clazz) ingnores exceptions in clazz constructor
[GROOVY-8111] - Stack overflow between WideningCategories lowestUpperBound and parameterizeLowestUpperBound
[GROOVY-8179] - Map-style constructor call, inner class and static compilation
[GROOVY-8202] - void tail calls in closures break @CompileStatic type inference
[GROOVY-8452] - @CompileStatic, generic with 'extends' bug: Expected parameter of type ? but got A
[GROOVY-8638] - CompileStatic fails with Guava Multimap#asMap
[GROOVY-8652] - Putting key on generic Map fails when using CompileStatic
[GROOVY-9064] - STC: explicit declared variable type ignored in favor of assigned value type(s)
[GROOVY-9915] - STC: call to static method fails with incompatible generics error
[GROOVY-9945] - STC: Cannot find matching method when using Generics
[GROOVY-9971] - @TypeChecked: Closure<String> no longer compatible with Closure<GString> argument
[GROOVY-9984] - Wrong type inference when passing null
[GROOVY-9997] - STC: cast or coerce to functional interface fails to infer param types of closure/lambda
Dependency upgrade:
[GROOVY-10019] - Bump picocli to 4.6.1
[GROOVY-10042] - Bump Ant version to 1.10.10
[GROOVY-10043] - Bump spotbugs to 4.2.3
[GROOVY-10044] - Bump versions plugin to 0.38.0
[GROOVY-10048] - Bump Gradle to 6.8.3
[GROOVY-10058] - Bump junit to 5.7.1
[GROOVY-10093] - Bump Spock version to 2.0 final
[GROOVY-10167] - Bump jackson version to 2.12.4
[GROOVY-10169] - Bump Ant version to 1.10.11 (incorporates CVE-2021-36373 and CVE-2021-36374)
[GROOVY-10170] - Bump JUnit Jupiter/JUnit Platform to 5.7.2/1.7.2
[GROOVY-10171] - Bump slf4j to 1.7.31
[GROOVY-10172] - Bump Spotbugs version to 4.3.0
[GROOVY-10173] - Bump checkstyle to 8.44
[GROOVY-10174] - Bump gson to 2.8.7
[GROOVY-10175] - Bump Codenarc to 2.1.0
[GROOVY-10202] - Bump Gradle to 6.9.1
[GROOVY-10203] - Bump xstream to 1.4.18
[GROOVY-10204] - Bump javaparser to 3.23.0
[GROOVY-10205] - Bump jackson version to 2.12.5
[GROOVY-10206] - Bump Spotbugs version to 4.4.0
[GROOVY-10211] - Bump Codenarc to 2.2.0
Improvement:
[GROOVY-10036] - STC: unresolved generics for return type of extension method call with full type arguments
[GROOVY-10052] - STC sometimes requires explicit closure to SAM cast inside of another closure
[GROOVY-10077] - Groovy Console: Support JDKs without macOS Runtime Support for Java
[GROOVY-10112] - IndexedProperty AST transform should only provide the getter for immutable fields
[GROOVY-10146] - Groovy 3 compilation errors are less accurate than Groovy 2
[GROOVY-10150] - Eliminate ambiguities while parsing non-static class creator
[GROOVY-10212] - Provide a mechanism for users to enable Antlr4's SLL (fast but only simple) mode
New Feature:
[GROOVY-10210] - Provide a helper factory class to assist with porting
Task:
[GROOVY-9958] - Prepare for bintray/jcenter sunset

New in Groovy 3.0.7 (Dec 3, 2020)

Bug:
Groovysh in Windows 7/8/10 doesn't support arrow keys and Del
STC: AIC cannot resolve overridden method of outer class
ArrayStoreException assigning GStringImpl to String[] when using Indy
Bug in @AutoImplement
SC: subclass access to package-private or private field is not indicated as an error
Groovsh import of non existing class throws null pointer instead of syntax error
NPE when trait with type parameter is implemented as raw type
Wrong type resolved if method reference used with typed method
Regression in groovyc 3.0 and 4.0 and Compile static with generic static method in trait
STC: UnionTypeClassNode created for simple instanceof scenarios
Groovy 3 generated lambda classes are marked as synthetic
STC: "putAt" shortcut notation to outer class private field from Closure leads to GroovyCastException
AnnotationCollectorTransform generates code not marked with @Generated
Inconsistency with callable properties in static context
Avoid potential NPE in antlr2 groovysh
SC: cast exception for variable assigned within conditional blocks
Bootstrap method initialization exception raised when lambda parameter type is wrong
SC: cross-package protected field access uses dynamic property methods
Using a method reference causes a compiler error
Method reference doesn't accept subtypes of argument
Object not bound with Groovy (but works fine in Java)
@AutoImplement does not consider declared properties
JSP-API license seems to be missing
STC: spread-safe and list property access error for CollType<? extends ItemType>
StackOverflowError in STC
Replace some old api usage with newer available variants
Interface constants from super interfaces lost in some contexts
Better propagation of InterruptedException
Static inner class of a static inner class is missing inner class table attribute
Dependency upgrade:
Bump gradle to 6.7
Bump javaparser to 3.16.2
Bump Ant version to 1.10.9 (fixes Apache Ant CVE 2020-11979)
Bump Spotbugs/Spotbugs annotations versions
Bump JUnit4 version to 4.13.1 (includes security fix)
Bump picocli version to 4.5.2
Bump jackson to 2.11.3
Bump javaparser to 3.16.3
Bump Spock version to 2.0-M4-groovy-3.0
bump jsp-api/servlet-api versions to 2.3.3/4.0.1
Bump gradle to 6.7.1
Bump xstream to 1.4.14
Bump javaparser to 3.17.0
Bump slf4j to 1.7.30
Bump logback to 1.2.3
Bump versions gradle plugin to 0.36.0
Bump checkstyle to 8.37
Bump japicmp gradle plugin to 0.2.9
Bump log4j2 version to 2.14.0
Bump Codenarc version to 2.0.0
Bump findsecbugs plugin to 1.11.0
Improvement:
Groovy-jmx: JmxMetaMapBuilder should support GString object names
New Feature:
Enhance Closure annotation value (as Closure class) to Arrays

New in Groovy 3.0.6 (Sep 29, 2020)

Bug:
[GROOVY-7304] - Cannot mutate private field from within an AIC or a closure
[GROOVY-7373] - Interact Closures withing Groovy Trait methods are not recognized by the implementing class
[GROOVY-7399] - Method "with()" fails to call on the object reference in Trait
[GROOVY-7759] - @Lazy does not work when used in a Trait
[GROOVY-7843] - Trait method calling closure cannot be inherited while using CompileStatic
[GROOVY-8000] - Problem With Trait Generics
[GROOVY-8049] - Trait properties with 'with'
[GROOVY-8284] - getMetaClass should be annotated as (JavaBeans) transient
[GROOVY-8820] - Closure inside trait cannot use Closure's delegate variables
[GROOVY-8961] - Cannot pass generic list into explicit setter
[GROOVY-9146] - Seems to be a gap in method reference support
[GROOVY-9255] - trait property throws MissingPropertyException when read using qualified super expression
[GROOVY-9256] - trait qualified-super expressions fail when inside closure
[GROOVY-9386] - Field initialized in a trait using tap doesn't work correctly
[GROOVY-9460] - Groovy 3 Compilation Failure with method with argument Class<?> called with Class<D>
[GROOVY-9463] - STC: no type check error for invalid method pointer or reference
[GROOVY-9570] - Class-Level Closure Definition With Generics Fails TypeChecked
[GROOVY-9635] - Generic types get mixed up
[GROOVY-9648] - Bad error message when attempting to call a missing constructor
[GROOVY-9650] - MissingPropertyException when accessing @Log-generated log field from a CGLib-proxied outer class
[GROOVY-9652] - SC: ClassCastException for comparison to single-character string literal in closure
[GROOVY-9653] - SC: ClassCastException on delegate object property set
[GROOVY-9654] - should not consider bridge methods when determining whether an overridden method annotated with @Override is valid
[GROOVY-9655] - Groovy 3.0.5 regression with the "with" keyword
[GROOVY-9657] - JmxMetaMapBuilder.buildOperationMapFrom throw StringIndexOutOfBoundsException
[GROOVY-9658] - Infinite recursion exists in HashCodeHelper#updateHash(int, java.lang.Character)
[GROOVY-9661] - Since Groovy 3 ArrayExpression#sizeExpression can suddenly return null
[GROOVY-9664] - Groovy 3.0 does not work with Groovy 2 code using groovy.xml.XmlUtil
[GROOVY-9665] - Regression in 3.0.5 for accessing static constants in closures
[GROOVY-9666] - ConcurrentModificationException with ASTTransformation
[GROOVY-9672] - trait conflict resolution not available for static methods
[GROOVY-9673] - GroovyCastException when using Trait.super.name = ... with multiple setters
[GROOVY-9683] - Changed behavior of delegates in 2.5.13
[GROOVY-9688] - Groovy 3.0.5 references groovyjarjaropenbeans.BeanInfo (doesn't seem to be included in the distribution) and 3.0.0.rc1 uses java.beans.BeanInfo
[GROOVY-9691] - Method call "main" is replaced with StaticMethodCallExpression in script
[GROOVY-9692] - Adding extension method 'call' on ArrayList with Closure as a parameter stopped working in 3.0.x
[GROOVY-9695] - Regression for accessing private static constants in closures from Parent Classes
[GROOVY-9699] - @CompileStatic does not use bridge methods for keyed map access
[GROOVY-9700] - SC: set groovy property written for variable expression assignment that should be direct setter call
[GROOVY-9703] - DefaultGroovyMethods.reverse(T[], true) performs extra copy
[GROOVY-9704] - The '~' negate operator causes an ASM processing error when static compiled
[GROOVY-9706] - Groovy 3.0.5 varargs [Static type checking] - Cannot find matching method
[GROOVY-9711] - @Sortable annotation always sorts by the parent properties
[GROOVY-9712] - groovyc fails when compiling class starting with unicode character
[GROOVY-9717] - 3.0 stubs include packages annotations on classes other than package-info.groovy
[GROOVY-9732] - CompareToNullExpression has empty implementation of transformExpression
[GROOVY-9735] - STC: incorrect error for actual vs inferred closure parameter type
[GROOVY-9739] - NPE in ClassNode.isDerivedFrom while compiling trait with Groovy 3.0.5
[GROOVY-9751] - STC: error for addAll with collect argument
Dependency upgrade:
[GROOVY-9670] - Bump TestNG to 7.3.0
[GROOVY-9685] - Bump gradle to 6.6
[GROOVY-9686] - Bump spotbugs library/plugin to 4.1.1/4.5.0
[GROOVY-9687] - Bump versions plugin to 0.29.0
[GROOVY-9689] - Bump codenarc to 1.6.1
[GROOVY-9690] - Bump checkstyle to 8.35
[GROOVY-9693] - bump picocli to 4.5.0
[GROOVY-9694] - bump jackson version to 2.11.2
[GROOVY-9738] - Bump xstream to 1.4.13
[GROOVY-9740] - Bump JUnit5/platform to 5.7.0/1.7.0
[GROOVY-9741] - Bump gradle to 6.6.1
[GROOVY-9743] - Bump hsqldb to 2.5.1
[GROOVY-9746] - Bump picocli to 4.5.1
[GROOVY-9747] - Bump versions plugin to 0.33.0
[GROOVY-9748] - Bump spotbugs to 4.1.2
[GROOVY-9749] - Bump sonarqube plugin to 3.0
[GROOVY-9750] - Bump checkstyle to 8.36.1
[GROOVY-9752] - Bump ASM version to 9.0 and JDK 16 support
Improvement:
[GROOVY-9669] - Enhance immutability check
[GROOVY-9682] - Support coerce for @NamedVariant
[GROOVY-9726] - Compile error needed for illegal field modifier combination
[GROOVY-9745] - Provide a way to filter illegal/discouraged characters when using MarkupBuilder
Task:
[GROOVY-6843] - Remove GroovyDoc JANSI dependency

New in Groovy 3.0.4 (Sep 28, 2020)

Bug:
[GROOVY-4554] - JavaStubGenerator doesn't play nicely with package-info.groovy files
[GROOVY-8774] - Stub generator doesn't handle package-info
[GROOVY-9398] - GroovyScriptEngine cannot recompile a class that uses generic parameters
[GROOVY-9405] - Junit 5 IncompatibleClassChangeError
[GROOVY-9432] - ClassNotFoundException when attempting to use Picocli via Grapes
[GROOVY-9465] - GroovyDoc: class-header is not always displayed
[GROOVY-9501] - MissingPropertyException for access to private static field from inner class when subclassing
[GROOVY-9505] - java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: This feature requires ASM8 on JDK 14 in Spock tests
[GROOVY-9506] - Joint compilation is broken
[GROOVY-9507] - JSP style loop in StreamingTemplateEngine template results in TemplateParseException
[GROOVY-9508] - groovyConsole CLI plumbing for --enable-preview command-line switch is missing one part
[GROOVY-9511] - Annotation spanning lines is not supported by Parrot
[GROOVY-9515] - MethodHandle with spread args should not be cached
[GROOVY-9517] - CompileStatic typeCasting runtime error from Class Array to Class List
[GROOVY-9518] - Closure argument types not inferred when calling a constructor
[GROOVY-9519] - CLIBuilder: Option with "type: Integer, defaultValue '0'" results in Boolean if default value is applied
[GROOVY-9522] - Throwing NPE when I use ternary operator with something special
[GROOVY-9526] - Failed to reload classes with generic parameters
[GROOVY-9527] - Bump javaparser to 3.15.21
[GROOVY-9528] - CLIBuilder: "error: Missing required options" when unknown options are provided
[GROOVY-9529] - Static type checking сannot choose between Map#getAt(Object) and Object#getAt(String) methods
[GROOVY-9543] - groovydoc multiple issues with generics
[GROOVY-9546] - Annotations on class signature are rendered incorrectly
[GROOVY-9547] - @see tags are not working properly
[GROOVY-9556] - Stub generated without the effect of AST transformation makes joint compilation fail
Dependency upgrade:
[GROOVY-9502] - Bump junit to 5.6.2
[GROOVY-9503] - Bump javaparser to 3.15.18
[GROOVY-9520] - Update Spotbugs/Spotbugs plugin to 4.0.2/4.0.5
[GROOVY-9536] - Bump testng to 7.2.0
[GROOVY-9537] - Bump xstream version to 1.4.12
[GROOVY-9538] - Bump checkstyle version to 8.3.2
[GROOVY-9539] - Bump jackson version to 2.11.0
[GROOVY-9540] - Bump spotbugs plugin to 4.0.8
[GROOVY-9544] - Bump gradle to 6.4
[GROOVY-9551] - Bump JavaParser to 3.15.22
[GROOVY-9552] - Bump Ant versions to address: [CVE-2020-1945] Apache Ant insecure temporary file vulnerability
[GROOVY-9553] - Bump picocli to 4.3.2
[GROOVY-9557] - Bump gradle to 6.4.1
[GROOVY-9559] - Bump log4j2 version to 2.13.3
[GROOVY-9560] - Update Spotbugs/Spotbugs plugin to 4.0.3/4.2.0
Documentation:
[GROOVY-9531] - Improve CliBuilder docs for Groovy 3.0
Improvement:
[GROOVY-9504] - Add support for Path to slurper classes
[GROOVY-9512] - Control the fallback threshold of indy with different switch
[GROOVY-9545] - DGM: add toArray(Class) extension method for java.util.stream.Stream
[GROOVY-9549] - groovydoc: implemented interfaces not shown in class description

New in Groovy 3.0.3 (Sep 28, 2020)

Bug:
[GROOVY-9194] - Groovy fails when a script starts with a #
[GROOVY-9310] - Groovy does not ignore second bash directive
[GROOVY-9439] - GroovyDocs HTML page for groovy.json.JsonGenerator mostly empty
[GROOVY-9441] - Fix binary incompatibility between 2.5/3
[GROOVY-9448] - Missing throws clause of constructor declaration in java stubs
[GROOVY-9449] - Mutliple methods with the same name now fail before AST transformations can fix it
[GROOVY-9450] - DefaultGroovyMethods findIndexOf method can't use startIndex
[GROOVY-9451] - Unable to access static getter method as field
[GROOVY-9452] - Multiple Repeatable Annotations Container generated if an explicit container is present and an implicit one required
[GROOVY-9454] - STC: regression for instanceof on generic field/property
[GROOVY-9455] - STC: no error for if (!(x instanceof T)) x.methodFromT()
[GROOVY-9459] - Line number information for automatically inserted return statements quirky
[GROOVY-9462] - Groovy 3 BUG! exception in phase 'conversion' in source unit Caused by NullPointerException
[GROOVY-9469] - Original exception during global AST transformation no longer preserved in error message
[GROOVY-9480] - New v9 ClassFinder throws NoSuchFileException/UnsupportedOperationException and writes it to stderr
[GROOVY-9483] - Console exits when Cancel is clicked on the "Save changes" dialog
[GROOVY-9485] - metaclass is not initialized
[GROOVY-9489] - package.html files being ignored during javadoc generation when building on JDK9+
Dependency upgrade:
[GROOVY-9444] - update versions plugin to 0.28.0
[GROOVY-9445] - Update jackson version to 2.10.3
[GROOVY-9446] - Bump japicmp-gradle-plugin to 0.2.9
[GROOVY-9453] - Upgrade picocli to 4.2.0
[GROOVY-9457] - Upgrade checkstyle to 8.30
[GROOVY-9466] - Bump javaparser to 3.15.15
[GROOVY-9467] - Bump Gradle Spotbugs plugin to 4.0.2
[GROOVY-9474] - Bump Spock version to 2.0-M2-groovy-3.0
[GROOVY-9476] - Bump spotbugs to 4.0.1
[GROOVY-9479] - Bump Gradle to 6.3
[GROOVY-9488] - Bump javaparser to 3.15.17
[GROOVY-9490] - Bump ASM to 8.0
[GROOVY-9497] - Bump asm to 8.0.1
Documentation:
[GROOVY-9495] - groovy.transform.NullCheck not mentioned in release notes or language documentation
Improvement:
[GROOVY-9377] - Support JDK15
[GROOVY-9447] - Add a parse tree viewer to groovy console
[GROOVY-9475] - Groovy Ant task has an option to specify the output file but not the file encoding
[GROOVY-9478] - Groovy Ant task could support Ant resources
[GROOVY-9486] - Remove redundant code `Sentinel`
[GROOVY-9487] - Update and check if initialized via same field of metaclass
[GROOVY-9492] - Relax groovy.test.NotYetImplemented dependency on JUnit 4's AssertionFailedError *
New Feature:
[GROOVY-9442] - GEP: Support for the new JDK14 string escape sequence (s for single space)

New in Groovy 2.5.13 (Jul 22, 2020)

Bug:
[GROOVY-4945] - Incorrect "Possible solutions" when calling a method on super in a non-derived class
[GROOVY-6809] - VerifyError With Inner Class
[GROOVY-7094] - Semantic of access super fields is not consistent: super.@field == super.field
[GROOVY-7549] - java.lang.IllegalAccessError occurs when attempting to run code built with CompileStatic
[GROOVY-7701] - org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.typehandling.GroovyCastException in Groovy ".with { ... }" - Block
[GROOVY-7848] - Closure generic parameters ignored and return types missing from collections methods
[GROOVY-8441] - IllegalAccessError when calling a public method on a field whose type is declared to be a package-private implementation one
[GROOVY-8999] - Access to private fields and methods from subclass exhibits strange behavior
[GROOVY-9031] - Traits using generics generate incorrect stub for Properties
[GROOVY-9106] - @CompileStatic and @PackageScope support for inner classes and package peers
[GROOVY-9168] - Default Arguments: non-static inner class constructor call in default value not supported
[GROOVY-9288] - Compilation error when accessing a protected super class field from inside a closure
[GROOVY-9292] - Compilation error when accessing a protected super class field from a closure using owner, delegate or thisObject qualifier (different package)
[GROOVY-9422] - @CompileStatic non-static inner class instantiation in closure
[GROOVY-9477] - FastStringServiceFactory SPI loading in OSGi
[GROOVY-9499] - VerifyError when AIC used as argument to special constructor call
[GROOVY-9554] - @Field variable access within closures broken
[GROOVY-9558] - Wrong code for putAt on Map that is member of closure delegate
[GROOVY-9562] - Base class property causes CCE
[GROOVY-9569] - SC: new compiler error for access of static, non-final, outer-class field
[GROOVY-9580] - STC: return type checking for generic, covariant property gives false error
[GROOVY-9581] - コンパイラで、クロージャから静的クラス変数を参照できない.
[GROOVY-9584] - CLONE - Error when creation a variable named "context"
[GROOVY-9587] - Scope of method call changed from non-static to static 2.4->2.5
[GROOVY-9597] - CompileStatic: @ClosureParams in @DelegatesTo doesn't work
[GROOVY-9599] - CliBuilder: Option with "type: String, defaultValue ''" (empty String) results in NullObject if default value is applied
[GROOVY-9600] - Picocli-related VersionProvider helper classes should be public to avoid access warnings
[GROOVY-9603] - Assignment of Map literal to Map element fails to compile (static)
[GROOVY-9605] - leftShift operator does not work on BigInteger (throws UnsupportedOperationException)
[GROOVY-9606] - Traits using generics generate incorrect stub for Methods
[GROOVY-9608] - MetaClassImpl.getAttribute(Class,Object,String,boolean) drops super
[GROOVY-9615] - super.method() can trigger method on outer class in case of missing method
[GROOVY-9620] - MetaClassImpl uses findPropertyInClassHierarchy inefficiently
[GROOVY-9642] - Inner interface of parent class unresolved in anon. inner class expression
Improvement:
[GROOVY-9274] - Add DGM `minus` to `LocalDate`
[GROOVY-9578] - Also output aborted tests in JUnit 5 GroovyJUnitRunnerHelper
[GROOVY-9594] - Rename whitelist/blacklist in SecureASTCustomizer to more meaningful names *
[GROOVY-9602] - return more specific type for ifS/ifElseS helper methods in GeneralUtils
[GROOVY-9619] - Adjust pom for groovy-test-junit5 so that junit-jupiter-api is compile time not runtime

New in Groovy 2.5.12 (May 21, 2020)

New in Groovy 2.5.11 (Apr 10, 2020)

New in Groovy 2.4.19 (Mar 6, 2020)

New in Groovy 2.5.10 (Mar 6, 2020)

New in Groovy 3.0.0 RC 2 (Dec 9, 2019)

Bug:
[GROOVY-7722] - StackOverflowError when use anonymous class with generics.
[GROOVY-7864] - Stack overflow correcting generics when using @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-7996] - Using with method with a closure that references a protected property produces ClassCastException
[GROOVY-8305] - Error trying to grab a dependency available in local m2 repo when using the default Ivy settings file provided by Groovy
[GROOVY-8310] - Strange @CompileStatic check in Closure
[GROOVY-8315] - Looping in GroovyRecognizer.enumConstants during compilation
[GROOVY-8372] - GrapeIvy downloads wrong artifact for non-default conf when artifact name is not the same as the module
[GROOVY-8399] - ImportCustomizer is applied once per class (should be once per module)
[GROOVY-8423] - Private and protected inner classes have incorrect access modifier values
[GROOVY-8441] - IllegalAccessError when calling a public method on a field whose type is declared to be a package-private implementation one
[GROOVY-8446] - void[] return type causes compiler to fail
[GROOVY-8457] - Compiler error for @CompileStatic and @NotYetImplemented combination
[GROOVY-8686] - STC: type inferencing for (a instanceof C && a...) bleeds into enclosing scope
[GROOVY-8775] - Bug joint compilation in ant task groovyc: classpath not set
[GROOVY-8825] - CLONE - Conflict between @Generated and @Delegate
[GROOVY-8855] - Calling Matcher.asBoolean() twice returns different results
[GROOVY-8930] - JVM verification fails when using static interface method from inside CompileStatic groovy
[GROOVY-9126] - Unreachable line numbers after ARETURN in bytecode
[GROOVY-9173] - IllegalAccessError for class extending Java class that provides protected getProperty/setProperty
[GROOVY-9183] - Issue using @MapConstructor and @NamedVariant
[GROOVY-9195] - STC: mixed checking for access to non-public fields
[GROOVY-9197] - Groovyc fails to correctly propagate classpath entries to javac when run under JDK 11
[GROOVY-9238] - Groovy 2.5 AnnotationCollector not generating expected bytecode
[GROOVY-9245] - synthetic constructors should be ignored
[GROOVY-9257] - Could not create Groovysh with JDK 11 and Spring-Boot
[GROOVY-9288] - Compilation error when accessing a protected super class field from inside a closure
[GROOVY-9292] - Compilation error when accessing a protected super class field from a closure using owner, delegate or thisObject qualifier (different package)
[GROOVY-9293] - Compilation error when accessing package-private super class field using `this` from inside a closure
[GROOVY-9294] - SC: array length not available within closure
[GROOVY-9301] - [Antlr2]Parser error for enum constant with comma followed by method
[GROOVY-9321] - @CompileStatic on call of static method on interface (Java 8): VerifyError
[GROOVY-9323] - AST for precompiled classes loaded from the classpath does not contain constructor annotation information
Dependency upgrade:
[GROOVY-8304] - Upgrade Apache Ivy from 2.4.0 to a newer version
[GROOVY-9290] - Bump ivy to 2.5.0
[GROOVY-9297] - Bump javaparser to 3.15.3
[GROOVY-9300] - Bump gradle to 5.6.4
[GROOVY-9303] - Bump javaparser to 3.15.4
[GROOVY-9307] - Bump javaparser to 3.15.5
[GROOVY-9311] - Bump jackson-dataformat-yaml to 2.10.1
[GROOVY-9314] - Bump picocli to 4.1.0
[GROOVY-9325] - Bump picocli to 4.1.1
[GROOVY-9326] - Bump CodeNarc to 1.5
Documentation:
[GROOVY-9207] - Links in AST transforms section broken
Improvement:
[GROOVY-9289] - @Delegate should check property/method names for annotation attributes like includes/excludes
[GROOVY-9298] - Eliminate some illegal access warnings when indy is enabled
[GROOVY-9312] - Recent grape changes break certain usage on Windows
[GROOVY-9316] - Improved toString for AnnotationNode
[GROOVY-9320] - Support serializable lambda expression
[GROOVY-9324] - Implement `AstStringCompiler` in Java

New in Groovy 3.0.0 RC 1 (Oct 25, 2019)

Bug:
[GROOVY-6996] - Anonymous class field initialized with an enclosing argument results in MissingPropertyException
[GROOVY-8815] - Inconsistent class file - undefined type parameter for trait implementer
[GROOVY-9031] - Traits using generics generate incorrect stub
[GROOVY-9059] - Failed to parse/compile generic methods with "extends"
[GROOVY-9215] - Incorrect compile time access error is raised when using @CompileStatic and/or @TypeChecked
[GROOVY-9226] - Calling super.toString() with @TypeChecked or @CompileStatic will throw java.lang.StackOverflowError
[GROOVY-9231] - groovy.lang.TypeChecked should be groovy.transform
[GROOVY-9237] - GContracts and Groovy3
[GROOVY-9243] - Fail to resolve nested type defined in base type written in Groovy
[GROOVY-9244] - Anonymous subclasses should cast their super-parameters
[GROOVY-9246] - Version 3.0.0-beta-3 does not conform to OSGi version standard.
[GROOVY-9265] - ScriptMain.groovy: -1: Access to bugs.ClassWithInnerClass$InnerClass#obj is forbidden @ line -1, column -1.
[GROOVY-9270] - Using "instanceof boolean" or using a Trait will cause the compiled code to not work with OSGi/maven-bundle-plugin/bnd
[GROOVY-9281] - Unqualified reference to inner class of super class does not support package-private visibility
[GROOVY-9282] - Account for package-private methods when overriding as protected
Dependency upgrade:
[GROOVY-9116] - Bump ant to 1.10.7
[GROOVY-9212] - Bump gradle to 5.6-rc-1
[GROOVY-9216] - Bump gradle to 5.6-rc-2
[GROOVY-9219] - Bump versions gradle plugin to 0.22.0
[GROOVY-9220] - Bump spotbugs gradle plugin to 2.0.0
[GROOVY-9221] - Bump build-scan gradle plugin to 2.4
[GROOVY-9222] - Bump picocli to 4.0.2
[GROOVY-9227] - Bump gradle to 5.6
[GROOVY-9234] - Bump build-scan gradle plugin to 2.4.1
[GROOVY-9241] - Bump gradle to 5.6.1
[GROOVY-9242] - Bump picocli to 4.0.3
[GROOVY-9247] - Bump gradle to 5.6.2
[GROOVY-9249] - Bump junit to 5.5.2
[GROOVY-9251] - Bump picocli to 4.0.4
[GROOVY-9262] - Bump asm to 7.2
[GROOVY-9263] - Bump versions gradle plugin to 0.25.0
[GROOVY-9264] - Bump build-scan gradle plugin to 2.4.2
[GROOVY-9269] - Bump jackson related libs to 2.10.0
[GROOVY-9275] - Bump antlr to 4.7.4
[GROOVY-9277] - Bump versions gradle plugin to 0.26.0
[GROOVY-9280] - Bump gradle to 5.6.3
[GROOVY-9285] - Bump javaparser to 3.15.2
[GROOVY-9286] - Bump versions gradle plugin to 0.27.0
Improvement:
[GROOVY-8185] - Change Groovydoc processing to support antlr4 grammar including getting comments from AST
[GROOVY-8444] - Support unqualified enum constants in switch cases (like Java)
[GROOVY-9217] - Fix warning "An illegal reflective access operation has occurred" when setting property
[GROOVY-9218] - Reduce the memory usage of `MethodIndex` instances
[GROOVY-9223] - Avoid generating common methods for each groovy class
[GROOVY-9228] - CLI options for static compilation
[GROOVY-9229] - Add @ClosureParams to closure input parameter of Sql.withInstance(...)
[GROOVY-9233] - Add @ClosureParams to closure input parameter of Sql.withBatch(...)
[GROOVY-9236] - Avoid unnecessary resolving
[GROOVY-9240] - Better signature for ResourceGroovyMethods.traverse(File, Map<String, Object>, Closure) (and overloadings)
[GROOVY-9261] - Refine type checking for ARM
[GROOVY-9266] - Extension method metaClass lacks closure metadata for IDE/STC
[GROOVY-9274] - Add DGM `minus` to `LocalDate`
[GROOVY-9276] - Improve the performance of parsing
Task:
[GROOVY-9254] - Split package renaming second stage

New in Groovy 2.5.5 (Dec 24, 2018)

New in Groovy 2.4.16 (Dec 13, 2018)

New in Groovy 2.5.4 (Nov 12, 2018)

New in Groovy 2.5.3 (Oct 15, 2018)

Bug:
[GROOVY-7330] - Incorrect dynamic proxy creation from map when there are default methods
[GROOVY-8084] - Captured types doesn't work in @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-8090] - Incorrectly processing method-level type generics information
[GROOVY-8327] - Can't access static instance method before class is constructed
[GROOVY-8337] - STC: instanceof in ternary expression not propagating type info to true expression
[GROOVY-8342] - Static compilation error with a method returning an array in a type parameter
[GROOVY-8405] - Inherited methods with default parameters cause cause static compilation to fail
[GROOVY-8497] - Can't call getProperty() from Java
[GROOVY-8549] - Compile Static causes getAt to fail
[GROOVY-8669] - Groovy class does not compile if the ValueType of an annotation is not on the classpath
[GROOVY-8703] - Unexpected behavior with @NamedVariant on constructor
[GROOVY-8727] - JDK 11 Compilation Failure: ClassVisitor.visitNestMemberExperimental throws UnsupportedOperationException
[GROOVY-8747] - jar/zip file and input stream are not closed in grape
[GROOVY-8753] - Compiler error in STC: exception in phase 'instruction selection'
[GROOVY-8754] - Spaces in JAVA_HOME not handled properly for JDK10 on windows
[GROOVY-8757] - Incorrect bytecode produced after compiling class implementing trait with generic method
[GROOVY-8758] - @WithReadLock in inner class of @CompileStatic class causes java.lang.VerifyError
[GROOVY-8761] - Exception in phase 'instruction selection'
[GROOVY-8764] - Closure inside an anonymous class uses wrong outside class instance with @CS
[GROOVY-8768] - Unable to add Groovy indy JARs as dependency in Gradle
[GROOVY-8779] - Groovy 2.5.2 triggers a bug in IntelliJ IDEA
[GROOVY-8797] - VariableScopeVisitor.getPropertyName does not check for "isser" style method
[GROOVY-8800] - Wrong detection of Java 10 version in groovy-json
[GROOVY-8806] - Immutable classes break in groovy 2.5.2
[GROOVY-8816] - NPE in inferClosureParameterTypes with CompileStatic and incorrect zero-arg closure
[GROOVY-8819] - java.lang.VerifyError when calling this() with static final field from a super class
[GROOVY-8822] - Conflict between @Generated and @Delegate
[GROOVY-8833] - @Canonical creates invalid hashCode
[GROOVY-8835] - AstNodeToScriptVisitor - no token needed for EmptyStatement initialization
Dependency upgrade:
[GROOVY-8744] - bump ASM to 6.2.1
[GROOVY-8745] - bump ant versions
[GROOVY-8746] - bump bridger to 1.5.Final
[GROOVY-8759] - groovy.cli.picocli.CliBuilder should behave like cli.commons.CliBuilder on invalid options
[GROOVY-8767] - bump gradle to 4.10
[GROOVY-8773] - Bump JUnit 5 to 5.3
[GROOVY-8785] - Bump JUnit 5 to 5.3.1
[GROOVY-8786] - Bump picocli to 3.6.0 from 3.5.0
[GROOVY-8789] - Bump spot bugs to 1.6.3
[GROOVY-8790] - bump gradle to 4.10.1
[GROOVY-8807] - Bump gradle to 4.10.2
[GROOVY-8809] - Bump Spock version to 1.2-Final
[GROOVY-8818] - Bump asm to 7.0-beta
[GROOVY-8823] - Bump slf4j to 1.7.25
Improvement:
[GROOVY-8748] - CompileUnit could implement NodeMetaDataHandler to act as a "global" node for metadata
[GROOVY-8780] - Add `sha256` DGM
[GROOVY-8783] - Support Java 9/10/11 bytecode
[GROOVY-8784] - Prepare for supporting JDK 12 bytecode
[GROOVY-8812] - Make `Sql` and `BatchingStatementWrapper` implement `AutoCloseable`
[GROOVY-8827] - Close a small gap in the EMC DSL for constructors
New Feature:
[GROOVY-8765] - Annotate generated methods with @Generated
[GROOVY-8808] - Add DGM `Throwable.asString`
Sub-task:
[GROOVY-8802] - GroovyObject method implementations when supplied by Groovy compiler are now marked with @Internal

New in Groovy 2.5.2 (Aug 14, 2018)

New in Groovy 3.0.0 Alpha 3 (Jun 26, 2018)

Bugs:
[GROOVY-5912] - Static compilation: Groovy doesn't fail compilation when accessing package scope methods, but fails at runtime
[GROOVY-6167] - Generics: within a single declaration, generic type definition order matters
[GROOVY-6632] - CompileStatic selects wrong constructor when GString is a parameter
[GROOVY-6742] - Groovy is unable to resolve this Generics use case
[GROOVY-6938] - Wrong error reported by @CompileStatic when overriding a method returning a parameterized value
[GROOVY-7031] - @CompileStatic breaks assign in combination with dereferencing
[GROOVY-7204] - Static type checking and compilation fail when multiple generics in use
[GROOVY-7691] - Type checking error on generic property with covariant type in subclass
[GROOVY-7753] - regression of return type from ternary operator
[GROOVY-7883] - Static compiler prefers private constructor over public if private matches better
[GROOVY-7985] - Wrong "incompatible generic type" error
[GROOVY-8055] - @CompileStatic improperly orders parameter types
[GROOVY-8059] - STC overloaded generic method selection not using resolved types
[GROOVY-8171] - Escaped dollar slashy difference between old and parrot parsers
[GROOVY-8408] - invokeMethod cannot be set through category
[GROOVY-8509] - SC: error for call to protected method from same package
[GROOVY-8546] - Parrot Parser: multiple Reader instances opened from SourceUnit; many left open
[GROOVY-8583] - Fail to infer auto-return type from ternary operator
[GROOVY-8590] - STC incorrectly infers type of nested method call used in a return stmt
[GROOVY-8595] - Expected parameter of type XXX but got YYY static compile error
[GROOVY-8598] - Possible bug in AstBuilder Antlr4
[GROOVY-8609] - Fails to compile when upper bound has generics
[GROOVY-8610] - STC NPE using DGM collect on Iterator
[GROOVY-8613] - GCE in elvis assignment evaluation
[GROOVY-8624] - File descriptor leaks in compiler and runtime
[GROOVY-8628] - Groovydoc fails to parse static nested classes with diamond operator
[GROOVY-8629] - Groovy STC fails on the nested method call in constructor call
Dependency upgrade:
[GROOVY-8599] - Bump ivy to 2.5.0-rc1
[GROOVY-8636] - Bump asm to 6.2
[GROOVY-8661] - bump gradle to 4.8.1
Improvement:
[GROOVY-3867] - Allow methodMissing/propertyMissing to be defined through category
[GROOVY-8490] - Extend @Newify to support a class name pattern parameter
[GROOVY-8594] - DocGenerator could be moved to avoid split packages - part (2)
[GROOVY-8597] - SqlGroovyMethods could be moved to avoid split packages - part (2)
[GROOVY-8604] - Cache the parameterized type for better performance
[GROOVY-8621] - Grape command line tool synopsis improvement
[GROOVY-8630] - Refine the parameterized type cache
New Feature:
[GROOVY-8558] - Add DGM `getLocation` to get the url of the jar containing the specified class
Task:
[GROOVY-8618] - Update docs for GroovyConsole
[GROOVY-8619] - Update docs for Groovy Shell
[GROOVY-8620] - Update docs for Grape dependency manager

New in Groovy 2.5.0 (Jun 23, 2018)

Bugs:
[GROOVY-2972] - groovy.lang.ObjectRange.size() disobeys its contract for large ranges of Long values.
[GROOVY-3233] - The main(args) entry point cannot be found when a class file has multiple classes and the first class extends another class.
[GROOVY-3395] - calling binding variable as function fails to try object's call() method
[GROOVY-4255] - BUG! exception in phase 'class generation' ... SpreadExpression should not be visited here
[GROOVY-4356] - Static members should not be able to access class-level generic types
[GROOVY-4787] - BUG! exception in phase 'class generation' generating class from map in closure
[GROOVY-4811] - exception while compiling annotation type
[GROOVY-4851] - NullPointerException on iterator() call
[GROOVY-5318] - generic types in fully-qualified class names parsing error
[GROOVY-5471] - Add "indy" option to Groovy Console
[GROOVY-5912] - Static compilation: Groovy doesn't fail compilation when accessing package scope methods, but fails at runtime
[GROOVY-5936] - java.lang.OutOfMemoryError through Iterator.collectEntries and others (part 2: handle others)
[GROOVY-6052] - ++ or -- doesn't respect final modifier
[GROOVY-6167] - Generics: within a single declaration, generic type definition order matters
[GROOVY-6212] - SpreadExpression BUG! when slicing a List
[GROOVY-6263] - Accessing private methods from public ones using categories and inheritance causes MissingMethodException
[GROOVY-6396] - same linkedlist code different behavior between groovy and java
[GROOVY-6454] - Can't delegate (with the @Delegate annotation) to a method whose name contains a dollar ($) character
[GROOVY-6523] - Improve Documentation for in DefaultGroovyMethods.intersect(..)
[GROOVY-6617] - joint compiler fails to compile groovy class implemented java interface
[GROOVY-6619] - Groovy command-line parser breaks when parsing '-n'
[GROOVY-6632] - CompileStatic selects wrong constructor when GString is a parameter
[GROOVY-6634] - Annotated enum constants breaks enum
[GROOVY-6659] - generic bounds ignored by type checking
[GROOVY-6660] - invalid generics symbol arity does not lead to compilation error
[GROOVY-6742] - Groovy is unable to resolve this Generics use case
[GROOVY-6938] - Wrong error reported by @CompileStatic when overriding a method returning a parameterized value
[GROOVY-6991] - CliBuilder.usage() fails with SIOBE if header/footer longer than 74 chars
[GROOVY-7013] - GroovyDoc cannot parse several .java files from java 1.7 source code
[GROOVY-7014] - A Java compile time error results in a runtime exception in Groovy
[GROOVY-7031] - @CompileStatic breaks assign in combination with dereferencing
[GROOVY-7061] - Type inference not working for Collections.sort()
[GROOVY-7083] - PermGen memory leak in ConfigSlurper.parse(Script script, URL location)
[GROOVY-7087] - @TupleConstructor and @Builder should be able to use defined setters rather than the field directly
[GROOVY-7151] - groovyc should accept meta annotation with ElementType.TYPE
[GROOVY-7202] - Unable to resolve nested enum of parent class when compiling against binary parent
[GROOVY-7204] - Static type checking and compilation fail when multiple generics in use
[GROOVY-7259] - groovydoc only considers package level fields as properties even if you have a get and set methods declared
[GROOVY-7283] - DefaultGroovyMethods methods should include type information
[GROOVY-7325] - Verify error cloning a HashSet under CompileStatic conditions
[GROOVY-7385] - Invalid Integer & Long literals compile when they shouldn't
[GROOVY-7390] - @EqualsAndHashCode incorrect when using non-field properties
[GROOVY-7394] - @ToString could support non-field properties
[GROOVY-7417] - @EqualsAndHashCode inconsistent when using boolean properties for classes with explicit getters
[GROOVY-7433] - API inconsistency between takeWhile, dropWhile and collectReplacements for CharSequences
[GROOVY-7434] - Groovy should support resolving ambiguous signatures when using ClosureParams
[GROOVY-7440] - Improve ClosureParam type hints for various splitEachLine GroovyMethod methods
[GROOVY-7443] - instantiating a class withTraits does not use the classloader of the trait
[GROOVY-7465] - ResourceGroovyMethods/NioGroovyMethods BOM behavior is inconsistent
[GROOVY-7522] - TupleConstructor overwrites empty default constructors
[GROOVY-7523] - TupleConstructor with empty includes includes all
[GROOVY-7529] - Fix up transforms (apart from TupleConstructor) which are affected by empty includes default
[GROOVY-7562] - imports and custom class defs not working in Groovysh Interpreter Mode
[GROOVY-7566] - Groovysh command arguments parser does not handle escaped blanks
[GROOVY-7567] - Groovysh File completion with hyphens broken
[GROOVY-7573] - Groovyc ant task does not release file handles
[GROOVY-7585] - ObjectRange strange semantics for mismatched arguments
[GROOVY-7608] - Comparison of decimal subclasses of Number with == fails
[GROOVY-7624] - Collection asImmutable() methods aren't immutable
[GROOVY-7636] - NumberMath.getMath suboptimal choice for custom Numbers
[GROOVY-7637] - DefaultTypeTransformation.compareTo not symmetrical
[GROOVY-7655] - Wrong method is chosen when using super with generics
[GROOVY-7673] - Remove synchronized methods of groovy.sql.Sql and document it as not thread-safe
[GROOVY-7691] - Type checking error on generic property with covariant type in subclass
[GROOVY-7721] - Static type checking fails when compiling against a Java8 interface with inherited methods
[GROOVY-7750] - @Lazy allows instantiation of abstract class
[GROOVY-7753] - regression of return type from ternary operator
[GROOVY-7803] - Java annotation with @Target(TYPE) on an annotation
[GROOVY-7827] - Allow groovyc ant task to select all available target bytecode versions
[GROOVY-7828] - Created a class loader that override loadClass can calls protected methods results in VerifyError
[GROOVY-7837] - TupleConstructor should provide pre and post annotation attributes like MapConstructor
[GROOVY-7840] - Verifier#makeDescriptorWithoutReturnType uses ClassNode#toString with generics
[GROOVY-7852] - Inconsistent checking of final for multi-assignments
[GROOVY-7853] - o.c.g.r.t.DefaultTypeTransformation does not apply the right toString on primitve arrays when transforming to String
[GROOVY-7862] - Statically compiled calls to protected methods of an outerclass' superclass result in IllegalAccessErrors
[GROOVY-7865] - Better error message in the presence of Generics arity errors
[GROOVY-7883] - Static compiler prefers private constructor over public if private matches better
[GROOVY-7892] - CLONE - ClassCastException when calling DefaultTypeTransformation#compareEqual
[GROOVY-7902] - collate() infinite loop with zeroed step
[GROOVY-7920] - Simple getAt example produces a BUG exception
[GROOVY-7931] - javadoc generation fails for non-indy build
[GROOVY-7937] - CLONE - same linkedlist code different behavior between groovy and java (fix priority of DGM methods vs actual methods on an object)
[GROOVY-7960] - IntRange iterator returns null instead of NoSuchElementException
[GROOVY-7961] - ObjectRange iterator returns null instead of NoSuchElementException
[GROOVY-7967] - AstNodeToScriptAdapter should output source using the recommended modifier order
[GROOVY-7970] - Can't call private method from outer class when using anonymous inner classes and @CS
[GROOVY-7985] - Wrong "incompatible generic type" error
[GROOVY-8013] - The checking of property names during AST transform attribute processing doesn't take into account includeSuperProperties
[GROOVY-8016] - @TupleConstructor could use the order of properties listed in 'includes' when that option is used
[GROOVY-8033] - STC: spread property references fails in static method
[GROOVY-8043] - NPE compiling Memoized method
[GROOVY-8046] - ClassFormatError void field
[GROOVY-8055] - @CompileStatic improperly orders parameter types
[GROOVY-8059] - STC overloaded generic method selection not using resolved types
[GROOVY-8072] - AstBrowser source view does not generate labels for statements
[GROOVY-8086] - Bump gradle version to 3.3 on master
[GROOVY-8087] - bump log4j2 version
[GROOVY-8093] - Final variable analysis broken within closure fields
[GROOVY-8094] - Final variable analysis giving incorrect message within nested if
[GROOVY-8120] - Bump commons cli version to 1.4
[GROOVY-8144] - Invoking a public method declared in a non-public class result in a IllegalAccessError
[GROOVY-8163] - Groovy scripts can disable java security manager and escape sandbox
[GROOVY-8176] - tap - exception in phase 'instruction selection'
[GROOVY-8186] - Builder ExternalStrategy constructors have trouble with private fields
[GROOVY-8200] - Shorthand |= results in NPE
[GROOVY-8205] - Static type checking failure for enums
[GROOVY-8211] - ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException at compilation when accessing a generic type with the wrong number of type parameters
[GROOVY-8230] - Deadlock in GroovyClassLoader
[GROOVY-8241] - SAM parameter type inference for explicit parameter
[GROOVY-8251] - Implement withCloseable on AutoCloseable
[GROOVY-8252] - AIOOBE in combination of ncurry and rcurry
[GROOVY-8288] - [Sql] withBatch fails when batchSize == number of addBatch call
[GROOVY-8303] - VerifyError for nested class this call to static method
[GROOVY-8316] - Project sourceSet for antlr seems wrong
[GROOVY-8317] - Smart type inference doesn't work on explicit closure params
[GROOVY-8319] - Improve smart type on list expresions
[GROOVY-8330] - Wrong 'Inconvertible types' error on casting interface
[GROOVY-8338] - Calling Stream.of from groovy class in JDK 9 fails
[GROOVY-8343] - Issue implementing Java interface
[GROOVY-8347] - Extend AutoFinal to closures and inner class within a class
[GROOVY-8356] - Use javax.validation 2.0 API results in GroovyBugError
[GROOVY-8360] - Enums that are nested classes do not have the static modifier set
[GROOVY-8367] - @Memoized not working for inner classes
[GROOVY-8386] - Final variable analysis broken with try/catch/finally
[GROOVY-8387] - Invalid module-info.class in jar artifacts
[GROOVY-8408] - invokeMethod cannot be set through category
[GROOVY-8416] - Map-based constructor generated by @Immutable works only with HashMap
[GROOVY-8429] - Jar files under indy directory of distribution miss the file extension(i.e. jar)
[GROOVY-8430] - @Field doesn't support final fields
[GROOVY-8432] - Weird behavior parsing dates
[GROOVY-8435] - @Immutable should use the cache setting of @ToString
[GROOVY-8436] - IOException "Stream closed" occurred when rebuilding Apache Groovy in IntelliJ IDEA
[GROOVY-8439] - @CompileStatic cannot compile generic class's static method
[GROOVY-8445] - Static analysis does not work properly when coercing Closure to FunctionInterface
[GROOVY-8453] - @TupleConstructor ignoring inherited standard Java Beans properties
[GROOVY-8455] - @TupleConstructor gives wrong ordering when includeSuperFields is set
[GROOVY-8456] - @MapConstructor could provide a noArg flag
[GROOVY-8471] - Contents of META-INF/services/org.codehaus.groovy.source.Extensions conflict with Maven/Jisaw
[GROOVY-8474] - 'Unexpected super property set for:' when accessing super class property via super.propertyName
[GROOVY-8482] - Build refactor impacts on release process
[GROOVY-8483] - groovy-all v2.5.0-beta-3 is missing from bintray
[GROOVY-8484] - Duplicate zip file entries in Groovy 2.5.0-beta-3 source jars on Maven Central
[GROOVY-8486] - Closure executed multiple times even if memoized
[GROOVY-8509] - SC: error for call to protected method from same package
[GROOVY-8515] - groovy.g no longer included in sources jars
[GROOVY-8523] - Static type checking instanceof
[GROOVY-8531] - Fail to resolve type defined in super class written in Java
[GROOVY-8537] - GroovyCollections.combinations(Iterable) exhibits incorrect (asymmetric) behavior
[GROOVY-8538] - <T> static type checking, generics, and collect
[GROOVY-8541] - Incorrect packaging in groovy-all pom
[GROOVY-8545] - DGM#intersect(Set, Iterable) throws ClassCastException if Iterable larger than Set
[GROOVY-8562] - Wrong Closure delegation for property access when using @CompileStatic and DELEGATE_FIRST / DELEGATE_ONLY
[GROOVY-8579] - No bytecode level check is done before producing JDK8+ bytecodes
[GROOVY-8589] - GrapeMain bugfix: should not show error about missing mandatory args when --help or --version is specified
[GROOVY-8590] - STC incorrectly infers type of nested method call used in a return stmt
[GROOVY-8600] - BUG! exception in phase 'instruction selection'
Dependency upgrade:
[GROOVY-5282] - upgrade Apache Commons CLI to version 1.3
[GROOVY-7334] - update spock to 1.0
[GROOVY-7335] - Update SLF4J to 1.7.10
[GROOVY-7418] - upgrade xstream to 1.4.8 and also exclude optional xmlpull dependency
[GROOVY-7421] - upgrade gradle to 2.4
[GROOVY-7430] - upgrade testng dependency for groovy-testng to 6.9.4
[GROOVY-7455] - Upgrade Ant to 1.9.5
[GROOVY-7458] - Upgrade XmlUnit to 1.6
[GROOVY-7471] - Upgrade commons cli to 1.3.1
[GROOVY-7491] - Upgrade Ant to 1.9.6
[GROOVY-7516] - upgrade gradle to 2.5
[GROOVY-7606] - Upgrade gradle to 2.7
[GROOVY-7607] - Upgrade Log4J2 to 2.3
[GROOVY-7634] - Update Logback version to 1.1.6
[GROOVY-7642] - Bump gradle to 2.8
[GROOVY-7653] - Update SLF4J version to 1.7.19
[GROOVY-7680] - Bump gradle to version 2.9
[GROOVY-7724] - Upgrade gradle to 2.10
[GROOVY-7752] - Bump Gradle version to 2.11
[GROOVY-7791] - Update JLine to 2.14.2
[GROOVY-7792] - Update ASM to 5.1
[GROOVY-7795] - Upgrade xstream to 1.4.9
[GROOVY-7823] - Bump Ant version to 1.9.7
[GROOVY-7830] - Bump Gradle version to 2.13
[GROOVY-7831] - bump logging dependency versions
[GROOVY-7899] - Bump servlet-api version to 3.0.1
[GROOVY-7901] - bump jansi version to 1.13
[GROOVY-7943] - bump to Gradle 3.1
[GROOVY-8009] - Bump gradle version to 3.2.1
[GROOVY-8010] - Bump jarjar version to 1.4.1
[GROOVY-8075] - Bump Ant version to 1.9.9
[GROOVY-8291] - Bump XStream version to 1.4.10
[GROOVY-8504] - Bump ASM version to 6.1
[GROOVY-8533] - Bump jansi to 1.17
[GROOVY-8534] - Bump jline to 2.14.6
[GROOVY-8608] - Bump picocli version to 3.0.2 from 3.0.1
Epic:
[GROOVY-8556] - Migrate classes depending on commons-cli to picocli
Improvements:
[GROOVY-3270] - GroovyConsole: Configurable output area size
[GROOVY-3867] - Allow methodMissing/propertyMissing to be defined through category
[GROOVY-3976] - Alternative to "with" called "tap" that has an implicate "return delegate"
[GROOVY-4024] - Don't use classloader for analyzing compiled classes in groovyc
[GROOVY-4585] - backslash can not be escaped by `SimpleTemplateEngine`
[GROOVY-4847] - Missing GDK rounding methods for BigDecimal
[GROOVY-5380] - Add Ctrl+B for word/line/block selection
[GROOVY-5426] - ObjectRange.iterator() is reliant on size()
[GROOVY-6027] - groovy -h could be more clear
[GROOVY-6319] - Canonical annotation should become a meta annotation
[GROOVY-6514] - groovysh should offer easier access to grapes
[GROOVY-6537] - Support getParsedOptionValue() in OptionAccessor.getProperty()
[GROOVY-6538] - Support default value for OptionAccessor.getProperty()
[GROOVY-6555] - Allow @Immutable classes to validate their properties upon construction
[GROOVY-6854] - JsonOutput should be configurable with ISO 8601 UTC time zone instead of GMT
[GROOVY-6928] - Support all the Java 6 classes at createSimilarCollection() and createSimilarMap()
[GROOVY-6975] - Provide an option to deactivate escaping in JSON serialization
[GROOVY-7078] - make @Immutable play nice with constructor injection
[GROOVY-7162] - Handle @Immutable in class hierarchy?
[GROOVY-7227] - AST transformations relating to properties/fields should validate their includes/excludes lists
[GROOVY-7239] - Allow optimized array access in static compiled code with indy
[GROOVY-7360] - @EqualsAndHashCode generated hashcode values can be made more collision proof
[GROOVY-7383] - Make CompilerConfiguration.ALLOWED_JDKS public
[GROOVY-7422] - @AnnotationCollector could provide more control over how annotations are added in the presence of existing explicit annotations
[GROOVY-7423] - Access to Method parameter names at runtime
[GROOVY-7426] - Add "Clear Output" Toolbar button to Groovy Console
[GROOVY-7427] - TupleConstructor should allow a mechanism to switch off automatic parameter defaults
[GROOVY-7486] - groovy.util.Node.depthFirst should provide a way to specify pre-order, post-order ordering
[GROOVY-7488] - Depth 1st and Breath 1st taking a closure
[GROOVY-7540] - Add a method to StringGroovyMethods for replacing String pairs supplied as a Map
[GROOVY-7552] - add org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.DefaultGroovyMethods.isEmpty(Iterable)
[GROOVY-7563] - InvokerHelper formatting methods have inconsistent API
[GROOVY-7565] - Groovysh tab completion should provide trailing spaces only when expecting more arguments
[GROOVY-7569] - PowerAsserts should print results more verbosely and safer
[GROOVY-7572] - Add withAutoClosable method
[GROOVY-7574] - Range members should be final
[GROOVY-7599] - @Immutable should recognize JSR-310 classes
[GROOVY-7600] - @Immutable support for Optional?
[GROOVY-7611] - java.util.Optional should evaluate to false if empty
[GROOVY-7616] - collectEntries throws cryptic error when used with split(delimiter, limit)
[GROOVY-7629] - ObjectRange methods duplicate functionality and should not rely on size()
[GROOVY-7640] - @Builder should have an option to include superclass properties
[GROOVY-7643] - Update GrapeIvy.groovy: set ivyInstance to IvyContext, for speed up
[GROOVY-7672] - TupleConstructor should have only SOURCE retention policy
[GROOVY-7769] - Allow @Delegate Annotation on a getter
[GROOVY-7825] - Enhance Groovy's CliBuilder to support annotation style definitions
[GROOVY-7877] - The Range abstraction could support numeric ranges where the items in the range differ by some step size different to 1
[GROOVY-7893] - LexerFrame could be made more general purpose and made accessible from GroovyConsole
[GROOVY-7905] - ListWithDefault DGM methods aren't type inference friendly
[GROOVY-7911] - Chained multiple assignment parsing fail
[GROOVY-7941] - MissingMethodException should limit argument types in getMessage()
[GROOVY-7981] - Not public constructors for groovy.transform.Immutable anotated class
[GROOVY-8011] - @ToString if used with includes='prop1,prop2' could allow the pseudo prop name 'super' as an alternative to using the includeSuper flag
[GROOVY-8014] - @ToString could output properties in a predefined order when 'includes' is used
[GROOVY-8088] - For @MapConstructor and @TupleConstructor we should provide a default undefined value for better Java compatibility
[GROOVY-8114] - Include correct time unit in timeout error message
[GROOVY-8197] - Make JUnit3/4 GroovyRunners
[GROOVY-8218] - Allow to specify reverse order for @Sortable
[GROOVY-8259] - add suppressed exceptions for with[Auto]Closeable methods
[GROOVY-8351] - groovy-starter.conf could be extended to support configscript
[GROOVY-8353] - groovyConsole should support -Dname=value setting of system properties
[GROOVY-8406] - DefaultGroovyMethods missing Array support
[GROOVY-8410] - Provide a common cache
[GROOVY-8428] - Add DGM startsWithAny(String...) and endsWithAny(String...)
[GROOVY-8440] - @Immutable annotation should be re-vamped to be a meta-annotation
[GROOVY-8464] - Allow rendering inline json
[GROOVY-8465] - @ToString should support the includeSuperFields annotation attribute
[GROOVY-8472] - Final variable analysis doesn't account for early exit for try/catch/finally
[GROOVY-8477] - @Immutable-related transformations should be more configurable
[GROOVY-8480] - org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ExtensionModule should move to META-INF/groovy
[GROOVY-8490] - Extend @Newify to support a class name pattern parameter
[GROOVY-8510] - Safe number parsing methods for more convenient XML parsing
[GROOVY-8520] - Replace commons-cli with picocli in CliBuilder
[GROOVY-8521] - Create new groovy-cli-commons module
[GROOVY-8548] - DGM#intersect should provide a variant with a comparator
[GROOVY-8567] - Migrate Groovyc to picocli
[GROOVY-8569] - Migrate groovy.ui.GroovyMain to picocli
[GROOVY-8576] - Remove Java2GroovyMain dependency on commons-cli
[GROOVY-8577] - Migrate org.codehaus.groovy.tools.GrapeMain.groovy to picocli
[GROOVY-8592] - Migrate command line tools to picocli version of CliBuilder
[GROOVY-8593] - DocGenerator could be moved to avoid split packages - part (1)
[GROOVY-8596] - SqlGroovyMethods could be moved to avoid split packages - part (1)
[GROOVY-8601] - Groovy should have a runner for JUnit5 tests
[GROOVY-8604] - Cache the parameterized type for better performance
[GROOVY-8605] - Autocompletion for Groovy command line tools
[GROOVY-8607] - CliBuilder should ignore 'opt' property if provided within a Map of arguments
New features:
[GROOVY-6744] - Have the elvis operator (?:) support the Optional type in Java 8
[GROOVY-7089] - Base64 URL Safe encoder
[GROOVY-7313] - "relativePath" extension method
[GROOVY-7353] - Groovy should provide a MapConstructor AST transform
[GROOVY-7479] - Groovy should provide "inits" and "tails" DGM methods for lists
[GROOVY-7657] - add groovy macro module
[GROOVY-7745] - Add Map#removeAll(Closure) and Map#retainAll(Closure)
[GROOVY-7746] - Add BufferedIterator and Groovy JDK methods for it
[GROOVY-7755] - Add Extension Methods for JAXB Marshalling and Unmarshalling Support
[GROOVY-7860] - Groovy could implement an @AutoImplement transform
[GROOVY-7956] - Provide an AST transformation which improves named parameter support
[GROOVY-8091] - Add a ASMifier tab to AstBrowser
[GROOVY-8095] - Provide logging for bytecode generation
[GROOVY-8138] - Compile static to support streams
[GROOVY-8234] - Add @Repeatable java8 annotation support
[GROOVY-8300] - Groovy should have an @AutoFinal annotation
[GROOVY-8334] - Java 8 Date/Time type support in Groovy JDK
[GROOVY-8352] - Add a @Generated annotation to mark generated members
[GROOVY-8500] - Support logging the stacktrace of bytecode generation
[GROOVY-8516] - Add DGM `md5`
[GROOVY-8518] - Add DGM `digest`
[GROOVY-8558] - Add DGM `getLocation` to get the url of the jar containing the specified class
[GROOVY-8559] - CLONE - Add @Repeatable java8 annotation support
Sub-tasks:
[GROOVY-1628] - Inconsistent checking of final
[GROOVY-4636] - GroovyConsole AST Browser does not show object initializer statements
[GROOVY-5501] - When inspecting the AST, it would be nice to have the node metadata properties listed too
[GROOVY-8226] - JSR308 initial plumbing tweaks
Tasks:
[GROOVY-6780] - Provide an improved FileNameCompleter inheriting functionality from the latest class where possible
[GROOVY-7429] - CLONE - upgrade Apache Commons CLI to version 1.3 - migrate OptionBuilder to Option.builder()
[GROOVY-8379] - Rework groovy-json FastStringUtils
[GROOVY-8501] - Switch internal details of @ImmutableBase existing constructor validation
[GROOVY-8525] - Binary compatibility issue for GroovyClassLoader between 2.4 vs later branches
[GROOVY-8557] - Verify that CliBuilder-based applications work correctly with picocli version of CliBuilder
[GROOVY-8588] - Tweak new groovyc implementation for consistent use of -v and -V switches
Wish:
[GROOVY-6090] - Reimplement CliBuilder over another CLI API

New in Groovy 2.5.0 RC 3 (May 23, 2018)

Bug:
[GROOVY-5912] - Static compilation: Groovy doesn't fail compilation when accessing package scope methods, but fails at runtime
[GROOVY-6167] - Generics: within a single declaration, generic type definition order matters
[GROOVY-6632] - CompileStatic selects wrong constructor when GString is a parameter
[GROOVY-6742] - Groovy is unable to resolve this Generics use case
[GROOVY-6938] - Wrong error reported by @CompileStatic when overriding a method returning a parameterized value
[GROOVY-7031] - @CompileStatic breaks assign in combination with dereferencing
[GROOVY-7204] - Static type checking and compilation fail when multiple generics in use
[GROOVY-7691] - Type checking error on generic property with covariant type in subclass
[GROOVY-7753] - regression of return type from ternary operator
[GROOVY-7883] - Static compiler prefers private constructor over public if private matches better
[GROOVY-7985] - Wrong "incompatible generic type" error
[GROOVY-8055] - @CompileStatic improperly orders parameter types
[GROOVY-8059] - STC overloaded generic method selection not using resolved types
[GROOVY-8408] - invokeMethod cannot be set through category
[GROOVY-8509] - SC: error for call to protected method from same package
[GROOVY-8579] - No bytecode level check is done before producing JDK8+ bytecodes
[GROOVY-8589] - GrapeMain bugfix: should not show error about missing mandatory args when --help or --version is specified
Epic:
[GROOVY-8556] - Migrate classes depending on commons-cli to picocli
Improvement:
[GROOVY-3867] - Allow methodMissing/propertyMissing to be defined through category
[GROOVY-8520] - Replace commons-cli with picocli in CliBuilder
[GROOVY-8567] - Migrate Groovyc to picocli
[GROOVY-8569] - Migrate groovy.ui.GroovyMain to picocli
[GROOVY-8576] - Remove Java2GroovyMain dependency on commons-cli
[GROOVY-8577] - Migrate org.codehaus.groovy.tools.GrapeMain.groovy to picocli
Task:
[GROOVY-8379] - Rework groovy-json FastStringUtils
[GROOVY-8557] - Verify that CliBuilder-based applications work correctly with picocli version of CliBuilder
[GROOVY-8588] - Tweak new groovyc implementation for consistent use of -v and -V switches

New in Groovy 2.4.15 (Mar 27, 2018)

New in Groovy 2.6.0 Alpha 3 (Mar 6, 2018)

New in Groovy 2.4.14 (Mar 2, 2018)

New in Groovy 2.4.13 (Dec 7, 2017)

Bug:
[GROOVY-7315] - CompileStatic/TypeChecked cannot create non-static nested inner class using named-arg short-hand syntax
[GROOVY-7721] - Static type checking fails when compiling against a Java8 interface with inherited methods
[GROOVY-7995] - Short syntax of closure call invokes wrong closure if wrapped in another closure and @CompileStatic is applied
[GROOVY-8042] - groovyConsole gets confused with a slashy string with an escaped forward slash
[GROOVY-8112] - NPE in Groovy compiler when referencing @Field in aic
[GROOVY-8208] - VariableExpressionTransformer does not set source position on property expressions
[GROOVY-8213] - Closures are maybe not Threadsafe
[GROOVY-8220] - GroovyCastException with CompileStatic
[GROOVY-8222] - AsmClassGenerator does not set source positions on property expressions
[GROOVY-8240] - Compilation error in @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-8242] - Javadoc for Newify is missing some attribute values
[GROOVY-8245] - @Newify(auto=false) causing error (in Groovy Web Console)
[GROOVY-8246] - AIOOBE in StaticTypeCheckingVisitor with SAM
[GROOVY-8247] - AIOOBE in StaticTypeCheckingVisitor with SAM and explicit closure parameter
[GROOVY-8249] - @Newify on local variable declaration fails to resolve class expression
[GROOVY-8252] - AIOOBE in combination of ncurry and rcurry
[GROOVY-8255] - Odd problems with flow typing and generics in Groovy 2.4.12+
[GROOVY-8260] - Static compilation requires casting inside instanceof check
[GROOVY-8261] - Faulty getText implementations for ExpressionStatement & ThrowStatement
[GROOVY-8262] - GrabAnnotationTransformation.visit has unreachable code
[GROOVY-8268] - ReturnStatement.toString() doesn't include its expression
[GROOVY-8271] - Take/TakeRight methods on iterator needlessly calls hasNext for one too many elements
[GROOVY-8288] - [Sql] withBatch fails when batchSize == number of addBatch call
[GROOVY-8289] - STC and default value in ctor is causing debugging error
[GROOVY-8294] - Return 404 for non-existing paths in `TemplateServlet` when running from .war
[GROOVY-8295] - Groovyc ant task can overflow Windows command line if classpath is large
[GROOVY-8313] - NullPointerException in TypeResolver when using generic array return type
[GROOVY-8319] - Improve smart type on list expresions
[GROOVY-8324] - Enabling groovy.indy.logging can lead to stack overflows
[GROOVY-8325] - @CompileStatic calls wrong newInstance method.
[GROOVY-8326] - @Override should not copied onto methods generated by applying @Memoize
[GROOVY-8330] - Wrong 'Inconvertible types' error on casting interface
[GROOVY-8336] - Static compilation requires casting inside instanceof check (additional cases)
[GROOVY-8341] - GDK: eachDirRecurse and eachFileRecurse are NOT depth-first
[GROOVY-8357] - EncodingGroovyMethods.decodeBase64() throws "bad character in base64 value" when meets t r
[GROOVY-8369] - Enum property access not working with @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-8380] - Regression in 2.4.13-SNAPSHOT: x & y, x | y, x ^ y lose typing information
[GROOVY-8382] - Target Typing for empty collections should work for field/property initialisers
[GROOVY-8383] - OptimizerVisitor#setConstField not @CS friendly
[GROOVY-8384] - Regression in 2.4.13 (snapshot) with STC and intdiv
Documentation:
[GROOVY-8257] - Incorrect package for Mixin AST transform in online docs
[GROOVY-8269] - Unclear/incorrect definition of default behavior for trait multiple inheritence conflicts
[GROOVY-8374] - Incorrect modifier listed in Properties description
Improvement:
[GROOVY-8376] - Add @DelegatesTo to SwingBuilder methods that call setDelegate
New Feature:
[GROOVY-8236] - Report more meaningful error for versions of Groovy not supporting @Repeatable
Task:
[GROOVY-8291] - Bump XStream version to 1.4.10

New in Groovy 3.0.0 Alpha 1 (Nov 29, 2017)

New in Groovy 2.6.0 Alpha 2 (Nov 15, 2017)

New in Groovy 2.5.0 Beta 2 (Oct 6, 2017)

New in Groovy 2.6.0 Alpha 1 (Sep 14, 2017)

Bug:
[GROOVY-3472] - Wrong line/column numbers for method and closure blocks
[GROOVY-4095] - Labeled statements have wrong source position
[GROOVY-4438] - Use of an inner enum causes compilation to go into infinite loop
[GROOVY-4757] - Can't compile method with generic signatures and default visibiliy access
[GROOVY-4761] - Incorrect source location for method call expression
[GROOVY-4762] - Numbers as properties in command expressions
[GROOVY-5309] - Wrong line/col info for binary expressions
[GROOVY-5310] - Wrong line/col info for statements with whitespace before EOL
[GROOVY-5311] - Wrong line/col info for GStrings
[GROOVY-5312] - Wrong line/col info for MapEntryExpressions
[GROOVY-5313] - Wrong line/col info for SpreadMapExpressions
[GROOVY-5652] - Semicolon required after coercing to a parameterized (generic) type containing a parameterized (generic) type as its only or last type argument when there is no space between the ending ">>"
[GROOVY-6038] - Ability to declare inner annotation types
[GROOVY-7218] - && operator is not handled correctly in some cases when it starts a new line
[GROOVY-8131] - Statement continued onto next line is flagged when first character is "="
[GROOVY-8150] - Inconsistency in multiple assignment with single variable
[GROOVY-8161] - Empty statement before semicolon with parrot parser
[GROOVY-8216] - invalid octal split into two arguments
[GROOVY-8253] - Groovy console fails to launch
Improvement:
[GROOVY-3898] - Allow the specification of types when initializing multiple iteration variables in a "for" construct
[GROOVY-5306] - Add "a ?= 2" support: should be expanded to "a = a == null ? 2 : a"
[GROOVY-7772] - Class.&instanceMethod had better to have same meaning of Class::instanceMethod of Java8
[GROOVY-7977] - Refine the implementation of LRUCache
[GROOVY-8165] - Parrot parser could be made to work on jdk7
New Feature:
[GROOVY-2840] - Support "not" for in and instanceof
[GROOVY-3791] - Array initializer fails
[GROOVY-5348] - Implement do/while loop
[GROOVY-6336] - Support Java 7 ARM blocks
Question:
[GROOVY-8102] - Does/could Groovy support multiple variable definitions in for loop?
Sub-task:
[GROOVY-1588] - Better error messages when using Java's array init syntax
[GROOVY-2324] - grammar forces usage of lowercase names for commands
[GROOVY-8228] - JSR308 grammar changes
Task:
[GROOVY-5299] - antlr 4 grammar creation task

New in Groovy 2.4.12 (Jun 26, 2017)

New in Groovy 2.5.0 Beta 1 (Jun 6, 2017)

New in Groovy 2.4.11 (Apr 28, 2017)

New in Groovy 2.5.0 Alpha 1 (Apr 4, 2017)

Bug:
[GROOVY-2972] - groovy.lang.ObjectRange.size() disobeys its contract for large ranges of Long values.
[GROOVY-3233] - The main(args) entry point cannot be found when a class file has multiple classes and the first class extends another class.
[GROOVY-3395] - calling binding variable as function fails to try object's call() method
[GROOVY-4255] - BUG! exception in phase 'class generation' ... SpreadExpression should not be visited here
[GROOVY-4356] - Static members should not be able to access class-level generic types
[GROOVY-4787] - BUG! exception in phase 'class generation' generating class from map in closure
[GROOVY-4811] - exception while compiling annotation type
[GROOVY-5318] - generic types in fully-qualified class names parsing error
[GROOVY-5471] - Add "indy" option to Groovy Console
[GROOVY-5936] - java.lang.OutOfMemoryError through Iterator.collectEntries and others (part 2: handle others)
[GROOVY-6052] - ++ or -- doesn't respect final modifier
[GROOVY-6212] - SpreadExpression BUG! when slicing a List
[GROOVY-6263] - Accessing private methods from public ones using categories and inheritance causes MissingMethodException
[GROOVY-6396] - same linkedlist code different behavior between groovy and java
[GROOVY-6454] - Can't delegate (with the @Delegate annotation) to a method whose name contains a dollar ($) character
[GROOVY-6619] - Groovy command-line parser breaks when parsing '-n'
[GROOVY-6634] - Annotated enum constants breaks enum
[GROOVY-6659] - generic bounds ignored by type checking
[GROOVY-6991] - CliBuilder.usage() fails with SIOBE if header/footer longer than 74 chars
[GROOVY-7013] - GroovyDoc cannot parse several .java files from java 1.7 source code
[GROOVY-7014] - A Java compile time error results in a runtime exception in Groovy
[GROOVY-7087] - @TupleConstructor and @Builder should be able to use defined setters rather than the field directly
[GROOVY-7151] - groovyc should accept meta annotation with ElementType.TYPE
[GROOVY-7259] - groovydoc only considers package level fields as properties even if you have a get and set methods declared
[GROOVY-7283] - DefaultGroovyMethods methods should include type information
[GROOVY-7325] - Verify error cloning a HashSet under CompileStatic conditions
[GROOVY-7394] - @ToString could support non-field properties
[GROOVY-7417] - @EqualsAndHashCode inconsistent when using boolean properties for classes with explicit getters
[GROOVY-7433] - API inconsistency between takeWhile, dropWhile and collectReplacements for CharSequences
[GROOVY-7434] - Groovy should support resolving ambiguous signatures when using ClosureParams
[GROOVY-7440] - Improve ClosureParam type hints for various splitEachLine GroovyMethod methods
[GROOVY-7443] - instantiating a class withTraits does not use the classloader of the trait
[GROOVY-7465] - ResourceGroovyMethods/NioGroovyMethods BOM behavior is inconsistent
[GROOVY-7522] - TupleConstructor overwrites empty default constructors
[GROOVY-7523] - TupleConstructor with empty includes includes all
[GROOVY-7529] - Fix up transforms (apart from TupleConstructor) which are affected by empty includes default
[GROOVY-7562] - imports and custom class defs not working in Groovysh Interpreter Mode
[GROOVY-7566] - Groovysh command arguments parser does not handle escaped blanks
[GROOVY-7567] - Groovysh File completion with hyphens broken
[GROOVY-7585] - ObjectRange strange semantics for mismatched arguments
[GROOVY-7608] - Comparison of decimal subclasses of Number with == fails
[GROOVY-7636] - NumberMath.getMath suboptimal choice for custom Numbers
[GROOVY-7637] - DefaultTypeTransformation.compareTo not symmetrical
[GROOVY-7655] - Wrong method is chosen when using super with generics
[GROOVY-7673] - Remove synchronized methods of groovy.sql.Sql and document it as not thread-safe
[GROOVY-7750] - @Lazy allows instantiation of abstract class
[GROOVY-7803] - Java annotation with @Target(TYPE) on an annotation
[GROOVY-7827] - Allow groovyc ant task to select all available target bytecode versions
[GROOVY-7828] - Created a class loader that override loadClass can calls protected methods results in VerifyError
[GROOVY-7837] - TupleConstructor should provide pre and post annotation attributes like MapConstructor
[GROOVY-7852] - Inconsistent checking of final for multi-assignments
[GROOVY-7853] - o.c.g.r.t.DefaultTypeTransformation does not apply the right toString on primitve arrays when transforming to String
[GROOVY-7862] - Statically compiled calls to protected methods of an outerclass' superclass result in IllegalAccessErrors
[GROOVY-7865] - Better error message in the presence of Generics arity errors
[GROOVY-7892] - CLONE - ClassCastException when calling DefaultTypeTransformation#compareEqual
[GROOVY-7902] - collate() infinite loop with zeroed step
[GROOVY-7920] - Simple getAt example produces a BUG exception
[GROOVY-7931] - javadoc generation fails for non-indy build
[GROOVY-7937] - CLONE - same linkedlist code different behavior between groovy and java (fix priority of DGM methods vs actual methods on an object)
[GROOVY-7960] - IntRange iterator returns null instead of NoSuchElementException
[GROOVY-7961] - ObjectRange iterator returns null instead of NoSuchElementException
[GROOVY-7967] - AstNodeToScriptAdapter should output source using the recommended modifier order
[GROOVY-7970] - Can't call private method from outer class when using anonymous inner classes and @CS
[GROOVY-8013] - The checking of property names during AST transform attribute processing doesn't take into account includeSuperProperties
[GROOVY-8016] - @TupleConstructor could use the order of properties listed in 'includes' when that option is used
[GROOVY-8033] - STC: spread property references fails in static method
[GROOVY-8043] - NPE compiling Memoized method
[GROOVY-8046] - ClassFormatError void field
[GROOVY-8072] - AstBrowser source view does not generate labels for statements
[GROOVY-8086] - Bump gradle version to 3.3 on master
[GROOVY-8087] - bump log4j2 version
[GROOVY-8120] - Bump commons cli version to 1.4
Improvement:
[GROOVY-3976] - Alternative to "with" called "tap" that has an implicate "return delegate"
[GROOVY-4024] - Don't use classloader for analyzing compiled classes in groovyc
[GROOVY-4847] - Missing GDK rounding methods for BigDecimal
[GROOVY-5380] - Add Ctrl+B for word/line/block selection
[GROOVY-5426] - ObjectRange.iterator() is reliant on size()
[GROOVY-6027] - groovy -h could be more clear
[GROOVY-6184] - Make ClassHelper consistent in how it creates ClassNodes
[GROOVY-6319] - Canonical annotation should allow property names in toString
[GROOVY-6514] - groovysh should offer easier access to grapes
[GROOVY-6537] - Support getParsedOptionValue() in OptionAccessor.getProperty()
[GROOVY-6538] - Support default value for OptionAccessor.getProperty()
[GROOVY-6854] - JsonOutput should be configurable with ISO 8601 UTC time zone instead of GMT
[GROOVY-6928] - Support all the Java 6 classes at createSimilarCollection() and createSimilarMap()
[GROOVY-6975] - Provide an option to deactivate escaping in JSON serialization
[GROOVY-7162] - Handle @Immutable in class hierarchy?
[GROOVY-7227] - AST transformations relating to properties/fields should validate their includes/excludes lists
[GROOVY-7239] - Allow optimized array access in static compiled code with indy
[GROOVY-7360] - @EqualsAndHashCode generated hashcode values can be made more collision proof
[GROOVY-7383] - Make CompilerConfiguration.ALLOWED_JDKS public
[GROOVY-7422] - @AnnotationCollector could provide more control over how annotations are added in the presence of existing explicit annotations
[GROOVY-7423] - Access to Method parameter names at runtime
[GROOVY-7426] - Add "Clear Output" Toolbar button to Groovy Console
[GROOVY-7427] - TupleConstructor should allow a mechanism to switch off automatic parameter defaults
[GROOVY-7486] - groovy.util.Node.depthFirst should provide a way to specify pre-order, post-order ordering
[GROOVY-7488] - Depth 1st and Breath 1st taking a closure
[GROOVY-7540] - Add a method to StringGroovyMethods for replacing String pairs supplied as a Map
[GROOVY-7552] - add org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.DefaultGroovyMethods.isEmpty(Iterable)
[GROOVY-7563] - InvokerHelper formatting methods have inconsistent API
[GROOVY-7565] - Groovysh tab completion should provide trailing spaces only when expecting more arguments
[GROOVY-7572] - Add withAutoClosable method
[GROOVY-7574] - Range members should be final
[GROOVY-7600] - @Immutable support for Optional?
[GROOVY-7616] - collectEntries throws cryptic error when used with split(delimiter, limit)
[GROOVY-7629] - ObjectRange methods duplicate functionality and should not rely on size()
[GROOVY-7640] - @Builder should have an option to include superclass properties
[GROOVY-7643] - Update GrapeIvy.groovy: set ivyInstance to IvyContext, for speed up
[GROOVY-7672] - TupleConstructor should have only SOURCE retention policy
[GROOVY-7769] - Allow @Delegate Annotation on a getter
[GROOVY-7825] - Enhance Groovy's CliBuilder to support annotation style definitions
[GROOVY-7877] - The Range abstraction could support numeric ranges where the items in the range differ by some step size different to 1
[GROOVY-7893] - LexerFrame could be made more general purpose and made accessible from GroovyConsole
[GROOVY-7905] - ListWithDefault DGM methods aren't type inference friendly
[GROOVY-7911] - Chained multiple assignment parsing fail
[GROOVY-7941] - MissingMethodException should limit argument types in getMessage()
[GROOVY-8011] - @ToString if used with includes='prop1,prop2' could allow the pseudo prop name 'super' as an alternative to using the includeSuper flag
[GROOVY-8014] - @ToString could output properties in a predefined order when 'includes' is used
[GROOVY-8088] - For @MapConstructor and @TupleConstructor we should provide a default undefined value for better Java compatibility
New Feature:
[GROOVY-7089] - Base64 URL Safe encoder
[GROOVY-7313] - "relativePath" extension method
[GROOVY-7353] - Groovy should provide a MapConstructor AST transform
[GROOVY-7479] - Groovy should provide "inits" and "tails" DGM methods for lists
[GROOVY-7657] - add groovy macro module
[GROOVY-7745] - Add Map#removeAll(Closure) and Map#retainAll(Closure)
[GROOVY-7746] - Add BufferedIterator and Groovy JDK methods for it
[GROOVY-7755] - Add Extension Methods for JAXB Marshalling and Unmarshalling Support
[GROOVY-7860] - Groovy could implement an @AutoImplement transform
[GROOVY-8091] - Add a ASMifier tab to AstBrowser
Sub-task:
[GROOVY-1628] - Inconsistent checking of final
[GROOVY-4636] - GroovyConsole AST Browser does not show object initializer statements
[GROOVY-5501] - When inspecting the AST, it would be nice to have the node metadata properties listed too
Task:
[GROOVY-5282] - upgrade Apache Commons CLI to version 1.3
[GROOVY-7334] - update spock to 1.0
[GROOVY-7335] - Update SLF4J to 1.7.10
[GROOVY-7418] - upgrade xstream to 1.4.8 and also exclude optional xmlpull dependency
[GROOVY-7421] - upgrade gradle to 2.4
[GROOVY-7429] - CLONE - upgrade Apache Commons CLI to version 1.3 - migrate OptionBuilder to Option.builder()
[GROOVY-7430] - upgrade testng dependency for groovy-testng to 6.9.4
[GROOVY-7455] - Upgrade Ant to 1.9.5
[GROOVY-7458] - Upgrade XmlUnit to 1.6
[GROOVY-7471] - Upgrade commons cli to 1.3.1
[GROOVY-7491] - Upgrade Ant to 1.9.6
[GROOVY-7516] - upgrade gradle to 2.5
[GROOVY-7606] - Upgrade gradle to 2.7
[GROOVY-7607] - Upgrade Log4J2 to 2.3
[GROOVY-7634] - Update Logback version to 1.1.6
[GROOVY-7642] - Bump gradle to 2.8
[GROOVY-7653] - Update SLF4J version to 1.7.19
[GROOVY-7680] - Bump gradle to version 2.9
[GROOVY-7724] - Upgrade gradle to 2.10
[GROOVY-7752] - Bump Gradle version to 2.11
[GROOVY-7791] - Update JLine to 2.14.2
[GROOVY-7792] - Update ASM to 5.1
[GROOVY-7795] - Upgrade xstream to 1.4.9
[GROOVY-7823] - Bump Ant version to 1.9.7
[GROOVY-7830] - Bump Gradle version to 2.13
[GROOVY-7831] - bump logging dependency versions
[GROOVY-7899] - Bump servlet-api version to 3.0.1
[GROOVY-7901] - bump jansi version to 1.13
[GROOVY-7943] - bump to Gradle 3.1
[GROOVY-8009] - Bump gradle version to 3.2.1
[GROOVY-8010] - Bump jarjar version to 1.4.1
[GROOVY-8075] - Bump Ant version to 1.9.9
Wish:
[GROOVY-6090] - Reimplement CliBuilder over another CLI API

New in Groovy 2.4.10 (Mar 27, 2017)

New in Groovy 2.4.9 (Mar 2, 2017)

New in Groovy 2.4.8 (Jan 18, 2017)

Bug:
[GROOVY-6203] - GroovyScriptEngine does not take script base class into account
[GROOVY-7312] - Compiler generates invalid inner class constructor
[GROOVY-7530] - disjoint() does not work correctly if objects don't implement Comparable
[GROOVY-7541] - GroovyBugError in TypeTransformer.addTransformer
[GROOVY-7580] - ExpandoMetaClass append method does not throw an exception as per docs
[GROOVY-7602] - Intersect returns an empty list when the contents of the compared Collections are Maps
[GROOVY-7613] - Grape fails to load Groovy Extensions
[GROOVY-7620] - No error if abstract getter is not implemented but static field exists
[GROOVY-7723] - propertyMissing(String,Object) called for missing getter
[GROOVY-7728] - LAX parser: Commenting out key/val pairs doesn't work
[GROOVY-7751] - CallableStatement leak in Sql.call() method
[GROOVY-7758] - GroovyCastException when both @CompileStatic and @Newify are used
[GROOVY-7761] - Groovydoc incorrectly rejects dollar signs and mucks up some backslashes during @code tag replacement.
[GROOVY-7773] - Enum constructor with value throws "unexpected token" error
[GROOVY-7777] - groovysh cannot load script with shebang
[GROOVY-7781] - GPathResult: Cannot retrieve XML attribute with namespace
[GROOVY-7783] - Redundant computation in ObservableList
[GROOVY-7784] - TypeChecked/CompileStatic: IndexOutOfBoundsException
[GROOVY-7793] - Compiler compiles class with private abstract method
[GROOVY-7798] - Sql.query methods pass java.sql.ResultSet to the closure, instead of GroovyResultSet
[GROOVY-7804] - @CompileStatic/@TypeChecked unexpected NullpointerException compiler bug
[GROOVY-7806] - @interface has too-stringent requirement for newline
[GROOVY-7808] - XmlSlurper unprefixed attributes should not be in the default namespace
[GROOVY-7810] - XmlSluper default constructor documentation about namespace aware incorrect.
[GROOVY-7813] - Calling a non-static outer class method from a static class passes STC
[GROOVY-7816] - ObservableList addAll method property change event index off by one
[GROOVY-7820] - CachedMethod.compareToCachedMethod throws "Should never happen"
[GROOVY-7822] - Redundant computation in ObservableSet
[GROOVY-7826] - Infinite recursion in genericTypeAsString
[GROOVY-7832] - NullPointerException in GroovyConsole with an input method
[GROOVY-7833] - exception in phase 'conversion' if META-INF files contain comment headers
[GROOVY-7836] - CompileStatic + static inner class + EqualsAndHashCode gives VerifyError in equals
[GROOVY-7841] - Assert fails when accessing particular primitive values with @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-7846] - A trait that defines a static method that uses generic return types throws "BUG! Type is null"
[GROOVY-7986] - Map sort gives an error : Comparison method violates its general contract!
Documentation:
[GROOVY-7604] - traits docs diamond problem explanation
Improvement:
[GROOVY-6950] - StringGroovyMethods improve performance
[GROOVY-7775] - JavadocAssertionTestBuilder should handle escapes needed for HTML within javadoc, e.g. @ for @ and {@code ...}

New in Groovy 2.4.7 (Jan 16, 2017)

Bug:
[GROOVY-6203] - GroovyScriptEngine does not take script base class into account
[GROOVY-7312] - Compiler generates invalid inner class constructor
[GROOVY-7530] - disjoint() does not work correctly if objects don't implement Comparable
[GROOVY-7541] - GroovyBugError in TypeTransformer.addTransformer
[GROOVY-7580] - ExpandoMetaClass append method does not throw an exception as per docs
[GROOVY-7602] - Intersect returns an empty list when the contents of the compared Collections are Maps
[GROOVY-7613] - Grape fails to load Groovy Extensions
[GROOVY-7620] - No error if abstract getter is not implemented but static field exists
[GROOVY-7723] - propertyMissing(String,Object) called for missing getter
[GROOVY-7728] - LAX parser: Commenting out key/val pairs doesn't work
[GROOVY-7751] - CallableStatement leak in Sql.call() method
[GROOVY-7758] - GroovyCastException when both @CompileStatic and @Newify are used
[GROOVY-7761] - Groovydoc incorrectly rejects dollar signs and mucks up some backslashes during @code tag replacement.
[GROOVY-7773] - Enum constructor with value throws "unexpected token" error
[GROOVY-7777] - groovysh cannot load script with shebang
[GROOVY-7781] - GPathResult: Cannot retrieve XML attribute with namespace
[GROOVY-7783] - Redundant computation in ObservableList
[GROOVY-7784] - TypeChecked/CompileStatic: IndexOutOfBoundsException
[GROOVY-7793] - Compiler compiles class with private abstract method
[GROOVY-7798] - Sql.query methods pass java.sql.ResultSet to the closure, instead of GroovyResultSet
[GROOVY-7804] - @CompileStatic/@TypeChecked unexpected NullpointerException compiler bug
[GROOVY-7806] - @interface has too-stringent requirement for newline
[GROOVY-7808] - XmlSlurper unprefixed attributes should not be in the default namespace
[GROOVY-7810] - XmlSluper default constructor documentation about namespace aware incorrect.
[GROOVY-7813] - Calling a non-static outer class method from a static class passes STC
[GROOVY-7816] - ObservableList addAll method property change event index off by one
[GROOVY-7820] - CachedMethod.compareToCachedMethod throws "Should never happen"
[GROOVY-7822] - Redundant computation in ObservableSet
[GROOVY-7826] - Infinite recursion in genericTypeAsString
[GROOVY-7832] - NullPointerException in GroovyConsole with an input method
[GROOVY-7833] - exception in phase 'conversion' if META-INF files contain comment headers
[GROOVY-7836] - CompileStatic + static inner class + EqualsAndHashCode gives VerifyError in equals
[GROOVY-7841] - Assert fails when accessing particular primitive values with @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-7846] - A trait that defines a static method that uses generic return types throws "BUG! Type is null"
[GROOVY-7986] - Map sort gives an error : Comparison method violates its general contract!
Documentation:
[GROOVY-7604] - traits docs diamond problem explanation
Improvement:
[GROOVY-6950] - StringGroovyMethods improve performance
[GROOVY-7775] - JavadocAssertionTestBuilder should handle escapes needed for HTML within javadoc, e.g. @ for @ and {@code ...}

New in Groovy 2.4.6 (Feb 22, 2016)

Bug:
[GROOVY-2178] - Shell can not handle multi-line list defs
[GROOVY-2242] - Missing information in Javadoc of ExpandoMetaClass.enableGlobally()
[GROOVY-3341] - MissingMethodException in Builder is misleading
[GROOVY-4698] - Possible memory leak in Tomcat
[GROOVY-4888] - groovy console script execution output appears in all output windows
[GROOVY-6067] - MetaClassImpl triggers new entries for maps with default
[GROOVY-6352] - Type checker ignores wrong number of constructor arguments
[GROOVY-6669] - Compile in groovyConsole instantiates class
[GROOVY-6787] - type checker does not check generics bounds of wildcards properly
[GROOVY-6835] - flow typing activated by if statement doing an "instanceof" check doesn't work as expected with interface types
[GROOVY-6922] - JsonSlurper loses trailing 0's in numbers (regression in Groovy 2.3)
[GROOVY-6958] - null != NullObject when using Categories
[GROOVY-7036] - An interface implementation (override) with a method including a default parameter value does not compile
[GROOVY-7074] - DelegatingScript does not work with Builder as delegate
[GROOVY-7105] - Oracle Thin Driver Fails with an Exception in Groovy 2.3.x
[GROOVY-7170] - STC error If we use java.lang.Integer as Target Type with method generics
[GROOVY-7342] - last enum value is hidden if annotated
[GROOVY-7363] - Frequent compilation error on cascading generic types
[GROOVY-7378] - Spaces in JAVA_OPTS env var prevent launching of groovy
[GROOVY-7420] - Cannot choose between primitive and object variants of an overloaded method
[GROOVY-7442] - spread-dot operator within assert isn't expected with @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-7535] - Groovy category throwing MissingMethodException and MissingPropertyException when using multiple threads
[GROOVY-7538] - Compiler crash in the static type checker with self-referencing generic type
[GROOVY-7587] - Groovy 2.2 and 2.4 all fail to execute almost any script with Java 9 JIGSAW preview builds
[GROOVY-7596] - src/test/org/codehaus/groovy/ast/LineColumnCheck.txt file missing header in source release
[GROOVY-7597] - Static Compiler tries to cast delegate to target type of property accessor
[GROOVY-7598] - type checking with generics
[GROOVY-7610] - Null safe is call throws VerifyError when used as condition with CompileStatic
[GROOVY-7618] - Parameterless closure to SAM coercion causes NPE during instruction selection with STC
[GROOVY-7621] - Memory Leak (metaClassRegistry) unable to remove metaClass based on instances
[GROOVY-7623] - IBM Java (J9) ClassValue works correctly so should use it by default
[GROOVY-7627] - Property calls are not correctly type checked if the setter parameter type or getter return type are not the field type
[GROOVY-7630] - JsonSlurper LAX parser with invalid number
[GROOVY-7631] - @CompileStatic compiles 0 != null to false
[GROOVY-7639] - NPE when using safe traversal operator with CompileStatic
[GROOVY-7644] - ExternalizeMethods generates incorrect bytecode for statically compiled nested classes
[GROOVY-7645] - Stub generator unescapes escaped backslashes in String annotation values
[GROOVY-7649] - Grape.resolve() always fails after first unresolved dependency
[GROOVY-7650] - CLONE - collectEntries throws cryptic error when used with split(delimiter, limit)
[GROOVY-7652] - Float/Double trunc methods perform rounding for negative values
[GROOVY-7656] - Spread safe method calls on list literals result in the list expression being evaluated twice (SC)
[GROOVY-7665] - JsonSlurperCharSource decimal parsing producing unexpected results
[GROOVY-7675] - Compiler customization builder not resolve secureAst properties
[GROOVY-7688] - Using spread operator on function with compile static results in two calls to function
[GROOVY-7694] - Results of spread safe method calls should be stored in temporary variables
[GROOVY-7698] - @CompileStatic safe navigation is broken for property style non-synthetic setter calls
[GROOVY-7702] - @CompileStatic and the method with(Closure) seem to determine wrong type
[GROOVY-7705] - CompileStatic closure accessing "thisObject" private field: setProperty instead of synthetic method
[GROOVY-7707] - StreamingJsonBuilder produces IllegalStateException when using unescaped output
[GROOVY-7709] - NPE with ConvertedClosure
[GROOVY-7710] - Random resolution of an overloaded method with arrays as last parameter called without an argument
[GROOVY-7711] - Wrong method resolution for an overridden method with varargs and covariant return type
[GROOVY-7715] - ulimit use is not supported on NonStop
[GROOVY-7716] - groovy.json.internal.FastStringUtils.StringImplementation#toCharArray fails on jdk9
[GROOVY-7717] - StaticTypeCheckingTestCase#shouldFailWithMessages erroneously passes
[GROOVY-7718] - java.lang.ClassFormatError: Illegal class name on runtime cast array to trait
[GROOVY-7726] - Groovysh doc command fails when using Java 9
[GROOVY-7742] - CompileStatic stackoverflow with generic method with different placeholder as type argument
[GROOVY-7747] - Generated Java stub for enum with abstract method is invalid
Documentation:
[GROOVY-7524] - Document that mixing TupleConstructor and InheritConstructors will likely not give you what you want
[GROOVY-7533] - GroovyInterceptions.png has an inconsistency
[GROOVY-7592] - Problem in switch statement docs
[GROOVY-7603] - Update groovy docs for Category
[GROOVY-7605] - Improve docs for MetaClass getMethods vs getMetaMethods
[GROOVY-7625] - document why slashy strings allow brackets but double quoted strings do not
[GROOVY-7736] - Argfiles not documented for groovyc
Improvement:
[GROOVY-7546] - Misleasing error message for null + something-that-is-not-a-string
[GROOVY-7583] - Unnecessary Instantiation on DefaultGroovyMethods.numberAwareCompareTo
[GROOVY-7612] - GroovyDoc should allow timestamp/version stamp info (hidden info embedded in HTML) to be omitted
[GROOVY-7626] - Allow security managers to prevent system property access for Indy
[GROOVY-7668] - Better error-message for AST transformation when binary compatibility changes
[GROOVY-7703] - Add support for Iterable with Closure to JsonBuilder/StreamingJsonBuilder
[GROOVY-7706] - StreamingJsonBuilder should supported nested closures
[GROOVY-7708] - StreamingJsonBuilder doesn't define DelegatesTo on some methods, impacting @CompileStatic usage
[GROOVY-7735] - Closures should be generated as public classes
[GROOVY-7737] - Provide static methods in GeneralUtils to create ThrowStatement and CatchStatement
[GROOVY-7739] - Groovsh code-completion should display groovy jdk enhancements of java.io.file
[GROOVY-7740] - Groovsh code-completion should display groovy jdk enhancements of String
Task:
[GROOVY-7660] - gradle/utils.gradle: remove unused imports + general housekeeping

New in Groovy 2.4.5 (Sep 29, 2015)

New in Groovy 2.4.1 (Feb 19, 2015)

Bug:
[GROOVY-4852] - Constant Optimization is a little off
[GROOVY-4918] - GetEffectivePojoPropertySite#acceptGetProperty may produce a NullPointerException when provided with a null 'receiver' object
[GROOVY-6590] - field on primitive not recognized even if existing in wrapper type
[GROOVY-6697] - Setting property in trait using "super" doesn't work
[GROOVY-7000] - Support MarkupTemplateEngine integration with TemplateServlet
[GROOVY-7173] - jsonslurper does not unescape Strings (sometimes) on parsing with JsonParsingUsingCharacterSource
[GROOVY-7240] - Unable to start dollar slashy strings with an escaped dollar
[GROOVY-7243] - @Delegate does not honor "includes" on properties - all properties are delegated
[GROOVY-7255] - Problem With @CompileStatic And Static Trait Members
[GROOVY-7261] - @Lazy should work in combination with @Delegate
[GROOVY-7262] - There should be a TimeZone variant of the Date#parse method in DGSM
[GROOVY-7263] - Problem With Static Imports
[GROOVY-7264] - NPE in TypeResolver when access$XXX method generated for a method with generic types
[GROOVY-7266] - CompilationFailedException can be swallowed
[GROOVY-7267] - avoid hashcode based equality check without equals
[GROOVY-7269] - Problem With MetaMethods and replacing MetaProperty
[GROOVY-7273] - :doc command checks wrong api urls
[GROOVY-7275] - SelfType class "was not matched with found receiver" trait
[GROOVY-7276] - static compiler fails to eliminate dynamic property lookup
[GROOVY-7277] - TemplateResource.parse handles paths containing multiple dots incorrectly
[GROOVY-7278] - Error caused by @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-7280] - typo: 'possible loose of precision' should be 'possible loss of precision'
[GROOVY-7285] - Stackable Traits at runtime don't honor definition order
[GROOVY-7287] - Problem With Trait Generics With Conflicting Names
[GROOVY-7297] - StackOverflowError Related To Trait Generics
[GROOVY-7298] - NPE in TypeResolver using , Closure and @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-7300] - CompileStatic doesn't call property accessors on super classes correctly
[GROOVY-7302] - LazyMap size returns incorrect result for un-built maps if same key set more than once
Improvement:
[GROOVY-6658] - Set anchors for each section in Groovy Ascii docs.
[GROOVY-7228] - Minor typo in documentation for DefaultGroovyMethods.xor(left, right)
[GROOVY-7235] - Groovysh code completion is not compatible with JDK 9 (Jigsaw)
[GROOVY-7245] - Add primitive array join()
New Feature:
[GROOVY-7224] - Extend @Builder InitializerStrategy to support adding the annotation to Constructors

New in Groovy 2.4.0 Beta 1 (Jun 12, 2014)

New in Groovy 2.3.3 (Jun 12, 2014)

New in Groovy 2.3.2 (May 28, 2014)

New in Groovy 2.3.1 (May 19, 2014)

Bug:
[GROOVY-3937] - DocGenerator cross links use absolute gapi/api URLs instead of relative
[GROOVY-5981] - @TypedChecked error when using generics
[GROOVY-5998] - Using subscript operator on properties with a Builder and @DelegatesTo doesn't work
[GROOVY-6126] - CompileStatic: dispatch doesn't choose correct method when parameterized generic types are used
[GROOVY-6276] - Outer class method call failure with @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-6343] - @CompileStatic: can't access static field from nested closures
[GROOVY-6358] - @CompileStatic doesn't determine correct type for return from generic static method
[GROOVY-6420] - A stored procedure call (sql.call) fails, when any of the result-sets are NOT used in closure (param 3).
[GROOVY-6616] - @CompileStatic Reference to constructor is ambiguous
[GROOVY-6679] - java.util.Locale gives java.security.AccessControlException on App Engine
[GROOVY-6693] - Compiler fails to infer type if given a concrete type instead of a generified interface
[GROOVY-6707] - Groovy 2.3.0-beta-2 generic type checking incorrect
[GROOVY-6728] - CLONE - generation of groovy-jdk index entries in index-all.html needs further refactoring
[GROOVY-6730] - TypeChecked : Cannot use diamond with anonymous inner classes
[GROOVY-6731] - Static type checking - Cannot find matching method
[GROOVY-6736] - Error adding a trait to a Map
[GROOVY-6743] - ImportCommand Regex Too Restrictive
[GROOVY-6746] - Groovy class files miss the "EnclosingMethod" attribute
[GROOVY-6748] - Type checking when extracting value of generic type does not wok
[GROOVY-6750] - java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: MyClass and MyClass$MyInnerClass disagree on InnerClasses attribute with indy
[GROOVY-6751] - Error in @TypeChecked when method in both Interface and Superclass
[GROOVY-6755] - Bad type resolution causing bad classes and TypeNotPresentExceptions with joint compilation, deep generics and star imports
[GROOVY-6756] - Groovyc task should log build errors at error level, consistent with javac and allowing use of ant -q
[GROOVY-6760] - Static compiler fails to infer generic type
[GROOVY-6761] - Static compiler doesn't respect contravariant type tokens
[GROOVY-6762] - Groovy won't run in OSGI Java 7 environment
[GROOVY-6768] - Unable to resolve resources from grapes through ClassLoader
[GROOVY-6770] - The method NioGroovyMethods#write does not truncate the content of a file
[GROOVY-6771] - Grapes broken in 2.3
[GROOVY-6776] - VerifierError in Groovy 2.3, doesn't happen in Groovy 2.2
[GROOVY-6779] - Groovysh ":purge all" and ":show all" commands fail
[GROOVY-6782] - BUG! exception in phase 'class generation'
[GROOVY-6786] - 2.3.0 CompileStatic regressions
[GROOVY-6789] - Fix potential DoS attack with JSON parser
[GROOVY-6790] - Starting groovysh with groovysh.rc fails
[GROOVY-6793] - Module descriptors should be read in UTF-8
[GROOVY-6794] - Access forbidden can be triggered in MarkupTemplateEngine
[GROOVY-6795] - MarkupTemplateEngine won't cache templates
[GROOVY-6797] - MarkupTemplateEngine should allow custom template resolvers
[GROOVY-6801] - The AntlrParserPlugin format hook (-Dantlr.ast=format) is corrupted by jarjar
Improvement:
[GROOVY-5983] - No package link on groovy-jdk
[GROOVY-6551] - Groovy Sql API should support stored procedures that return multiple result sets
[GROOVY-6571] - groovy.sql.Sql.eachRow should set maxRows on the JDBC Statement
[GROOVY-6643] - groovy-jdk pages should show "inherited" methods
[GROOVY-6749] - DocGenerator could provide an inherited methods list as per normal javadoc or groovydoc
[GROOVY-6788] - Support fragments/template composition in MarkupTemplateEngine
Task:
[GROOVY-6796] - Upgrade GPars to 1.2.1

New in Groovy 2.3.0 (May 5, 2014)

New in Groovy 2.3.0 RC 2 (Apr 29, 2014)

New in Groovy 2.3.0 RC 1 (Apr 25, 2014)

New in Groovy 2.3.0 Beta 2 (Apr 11, 2014)

New in Groovy 2.3.0 Beta 1 (Apr 5, 2014)

Sub-task:
[GROOVY-5923] - CompileStatic: closure dispatch is sometimes not type checked
Bug:
[GROOVY-4744] - Fail to extend Java class with public final String getProperty(String s)
[GROOVY-5249] - Avoid unnecessary locking in ClassInfo.getMetaClass
[GROOVY-5842] - Runtimer error when types down match with Map and Map.Entry when using @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-5864] - @AutoExternalize doesn't create no-argument constructor
[GROOVY-5899] - withObject[Output|Input]Stream - auto detect 'it' type
[GROOVY-6314] - ResourceGroovyMethods uses BufferedWriter/BufferedOutputStream
[GROOVY-6327] - Some source files still have \r\n line endings
[GROOVY-6329] - @Delegate should support including/excluding which methods are delegated to (and optionally complain if multiple exist) - advanced use cases
[GROOVY-6330] - Groovy not checking generics information correctly for covariant methods implementing interfaces
[GROOVY-6337] - weird verify error with TupleConstructor and Lazy
[GROOVY-6440] - Upgrade to Gradle 1.9
[GROOVY-6451] - Support repository roots in @GrabResolver should work correctly for relative hrefs
[GROOVY-6456] - AbstractHttpServlet.applyResourceNameMatcher race condition
[GROOVY-6501] - Decouple AST transformation from its interface via ASTTransformationCustomizer
[GROOVY-6511] - Illegal use of non virtual function call when compiling with JDK 8
[GROOVY-6524] - Implicit closure coercion conflicts with DGM methods in type checked mode
[GROOVY-6548] - groovysh: Import command is vulnerable and ugly
[GROOVY-6550] - VerifyError when instantiating class that has Java 8 default method in its ancestry
[GROOVY-6559] - JsonOutput does not escape single char (char/Character)
[GROOVY-6560] - JsonOutput does not escape URL (windows path)
[GROOVY-6561] - Implementation for running a script from a URL in GroovyMain is flawed.
[GROOVY-6573] - TailRecursive creates compilation error
[GROOVY-6576] - list literal constructor misses direct constructor call
[GROOVY-6577] - misleading error message for boolean assignment
[GROOVY-6579] - Groovy Console not responsive when running the closure.
[GROOVY-6580] - InnerClassCompletionVisitor does not overwrite existing propertyMissing/methodMissing impls completely
[GROOVY-6582] - Script.invokeMethod bypasses getProperty when looking for closure-valued properties.
[GROOVY-6593] - Operators other than dot do not support carriage returns
[GROOVY-6596] - New template engine: MarkupTemplateEngine with optional type checking
[GROOVY-6597] - GroovyClassLoader.addClasspath should respect URI paths and not use URL.equals
[GROOVY-6605] - Object ranges should be inferred as Range for improved fluency
[GROOVY-6625] - Sql failed to process query unterminated ' character - legal statement containing quotes
[GROOVY-6627] - Problem With CompileStatic And Class.newInstance()
[GROOVY-6640] - Compilation warning when using @AutoClone on an object with collection properties
[GROOVY-6641] - Compiling a source with a URL pointing to the current working directory produces incorrectly named classes for top-level closures
[GROOVY-6646] - vararg method resolution with static compilation selects wrong candidate between (String...) and (Class ...)
[GROOVY-6647] - static compilation fails at runtime for calling private constructor
[GROOVY-6654] - Can't @Override method with generic argument type in parameterized subclass
[GROOVY-6657] - Type checker doesn't find constructor if generic placeholder name doesn't match
[GROOVY-6662] - indy caching bug for static method invocations
Improvement:
[GROOVY-3048] - Groovy Sql API should support stored procedures that have output parameters and return a result set
[GROOVY-3328] - Automatic imports for selected text execution
[GROOVY-4464] - Loosen white space restrictions
[GROOVY-4639] - Add isSet()/hasValue()/similar method to ConfigObject
[GROOVY-5159] - Grammar could accept nls! before SPREAD_DOT
[GROOVY-5924] - Provide a mechanism to allow the type checker to know what are the expected argument types of a closure
[GROOVY-6159] - JsonBuilder list handling improvement
[GROOVY-6303] - Add ability to use a different font for the input/output area of Groovy Console
[GROOVY-6383] - Allow more conditional blocks other than "environments" in ConfigSlurper
[GROOVY-6393] - groovysh: suggest reducing startup time by loading commands from code
[GROOVY-6395] - groovysh tab-complete properties of Map/Node instances
[GROOVY-6399] - groovysh: Completion of standalone default methods and infix keywords
[GROOVY-6448] - Add @DelegatesTo to AstSpecificationCompiler for better IDE autocomplete
[GROOVY-6459] - Add comment/uncomment function to groovy-console
[GROOVY-6466] - indy DTT#castToType usage
[GROOVY-6467] - usage of DTT#castToBoolean in indy
[GROOVY-6479] - Closure to SAM interface coercion doesn't handle contravariant types correctly
[GROOVY-6499] - groovysh: do not offer GroovyObject Default methods on tab completion
[GROOVY-6544] - SourceAwareCustomizer should combine SourceUnit+ClassNode
[GROOVY-6546] - Improve parser speeds of Groovy JSON parser while maintaining backward compatability
[GROOVY-6554] - Improve serialization speeds of JsonOutput while maintaining backward compatibility
[GROOVY-6572] - Add faster invocation path for closures in static compilation mode
[GROOVY-6585] - Extend @BaseScript so that script bodies can be implemented in a method named something other than run.
[GROOVY-6588] - Enhance GroovyAssert for JUnit 4 Support
[GROOVY-6592] - Allow @BaseScript on import or package definition
[GROOVY-6615] - Support custom abstract method for configured Script base class like @BaseScript does
[GROOVY-6645] - AstSpecificationCompiler and his methods should be public
[GROOVY-6652] - Upgrade to ASM 5.0.1
New Feature:
[GROOVY-1642] - Script needs to be able to retrieve the full path of "its" file
[GROOVY-6164] - Add a method to GroovySystem to control which metaclasses are ok to GC
[GROOVY-6377] - New Groovy NIO module
[GROOVY-6570] - Add @TailRecursive AST transformation
[GROOVY-6649] - Support a Sortable annotation and transform
[GROOVY-6661] - Support the concept of "traits"
Task:
[GROOVY-6347] - Upgrade TestNG dependency to version 6.8.7
[GROOVY-6366] - Update Jline to 2.11
[GROOVY-6367] - Update JANSI to 1.11
[GROOVY-6492] - Upgrade to Gradle 1.10
[GROOVY-6667] - Dependency upgrades: ant to 1.9.3, xmlunit to 1.5, xstream to 1.4.7

New in Groovy 2.2.2 (Feb 27, 2014)

Bug:
[GROOVY-6077] - Dynamic dispatch fails to recognize updates in the meta-class
[GROOVY-6218] - Type checker doesn't find the inject method
[GROOVY-6293] - @Immutable collection members are apparently mutable (sometimes?)
[GROOVY-6334] - java.lang.VerifyError when using field from parent as default value for a parameter in a child's contructor
[GROOVY-6455] - @CompileStatic and @Delegate with generics causes compilation failure
[GROOVY-6457] - File.eachFileMatch is inconsistent with File.eachFile and incurs extra stat() syscalls
[GROOVY-6462] - Difference between @Grab behavior during compilation and at runtime
[GROOVY-6464] - antlib.xml is missing from jars
[GROOVY-6469] - Call site caching bug prevents NumberNumber* call sites from going fast path
[GROOVY-6470] - @Grab does not work if the same dependency is used with and without a classifier
[GROOVY-6471] - AccessControlException when compiling scripts on the fly with Google App Engine dev server
[GROOVY-6473] - @Immutable should provide a no-arg constructor
[GROOVY-6475] - @CompileStatic fails on valid generic type argument
[GROOVY-6480] - Can't use empty range on array with @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-6482] - @CompileStatic does not support empty ranges properly
[GROOVY-6488] - Closure to SAM coercion cannot infer generic return type
[GROOVY-6489] - Static type checker bug for propery called "names"
[GROOVY-6493] - size() and iterator() not correct for an empty IntRange
[GROOVY-6495] - /c/Program Files (x86)/Groovy/Groovy-2.2.1/bin/startGroovy: line 96: [: too many arguments
[GROOVY-6496] - Compiler reporting bug when calling extension module method in Groovy 2.2
[GROOVY-6500] - FactoryBuilderSupport does not expose a getter for disposalClosures
[GROOVY-6504] - Type checker select the wrong inject method
[GROOVY-6508] - Outer class property dispatcher called by an inner class's propertyMissing looks for attributes/fields rather than properties on the outer class
[GROOVY-6509] - A public method annotated with @Memoized is not accessible by subclasses
[GROOVY-6512] - AccessControlException at at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ProxyGeneratorAdapter$InnerLoader.
[GROOVY-6521] - GStringTemplateEngine shares binding
[GROOVY-6522] - implicit invocation not working for member closures when using @CompileStatic annotation
[GROOVY-6525] - Groovy type extension does not type check for generic parameter
[GROOVY-6528] - Confusing Compiler Error For Static Method Calls
[GROOVY-6531] - indy has no fastpath for div, previous and next
[GROOVY-6533] - parameter.metaClass returns different result when parameter type is "Class parameter" compared to when type is "Class parameter"
[GROOVY-6541] - exception in phase 'class generation' using getAt()
[GROOVY-6552] - CompileStatic runtime failure (GroovyCastException) with anonymous inner classes where method parameter is referenced in anonymous inner class implementation
[GROOVY-6558] - incrementing a Static Compiled Map with default Integer value won't compile
[GROOVY-6559] - JsonOutput does not escape single char (char/Character)
[GROOVY-6560] - JsonOutput does not escape URL (windows path)
[GROOVY-6564] - Type checker fails to infer a generic type without an intermediate variable definition
[GROOVY-6568] - VerifyError with implicit call() on closure field with @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-6574] - boolean local variable is compiled as Boolean
[GROOVY-6575] - Missing type checks for assignment to array
[GROOVY-6576] - list literal constructor misses direct constructor call
[GROOVY-6580] - InnerClassCompletionVisitor does not overwrite existing propertyMissing/methodMissing impls completely
Improvement:
[GROOVY-4279] - support int/int with int goal type
[GROOVY-4280] - support int/int with any goal type
[GROOVY-4281] - support T/V with T,V being one from (int, short, byte, char, long)
[GROOVY-6542] - Have @Deletgate include line number in stack traces
[GROOVY-6589] - Improve error message in the case the user defines a "run" method in a script

New in Groovy 2.2.1 (Dec 4, 2013)

Bug:
[GROOVY-5014] - Syntax highlighting problem in groovy.ui.Console text editor on empty string expression entering
[GROOVY-5385] - StackOverflow Exception when calling super.method, which returns an instance of the corresponding class.
[GROOVY-5740] - Cannot use ASTTransformationCustomizer with TimedInterrupt
[GROOVY-6186] - Cannot invoke method next() on varible, which is initialized by default, in each\eachWithIndex
[GROOVY-6191] - Memory leak in GroovyScriptEngineImpl
[GROOVY-6374] - Verify error when coercing Map for a final class
[GROOVY-6385] - groovy.bat: Can't use question mark in script parameters
[GROOVY-6387] - groovysh completion vulnerable to map types with 'class' entry
[GROOVY-6389] - groovysh flawed display of collections
[GROOVY-6391] - groovysh: broken alias and register commands
[GROOVY-6392] - Groovysh: filename completion of save command broken
[GROOVY-6400] - Constructor call with @CompileStatic causes ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException during compilation
[GROOVY-6405] - AccessControlException with Google App Engine and indy version of the Groovy
[GROOVY-6411] - Incorrect exception behavior when class has @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-6419] - Groovy java.lang.VerifyError
[GROOVY-6421] - Newify fails for local variable assignment
[GROOVY-6424] - @GrabExclude's group element is documented as optional but the implementation requires it
[GROOVY-6426] - groovysh not running using the groovy-all jar
[GROOVY-6428] - AutoCloneStyle.SIMPLE doesn't play well with generics
[GROOVY-6431] - method resolution with parameter BigInteger fails for argument extending BigInteger
[GROOVY-6432] - ASTTransformationCustomizer should support raw Expressions for parameters
[GROOVY-6434] - @Newify AST transformation doesn't work for closure
[GROOVY-6435] - Static type checking error when assigning BigInteger child to BigInteger var from static context
[GROOVY-6436] - Log annotations broken for Turkish locale
[GROOVY-6444] - Closures are incorrectly coerced if a method call is done inside a closure
Improvement:
[GROOVY-6427] - The @Singleton transform should complain if other constructors are found

New in Groovy 2.2.0 RC 3 (Nov 6, 2013)

New in Groovy 2.1.9 (Oct 29, 2013)

New in Groovy 2.1.8 (Oct 15, 2013)

New in Groovy 2.1.7 (Sep 6, 2013)

Bug:
[GROOVY-5261] - A static method call inside a static closure bypasses closure delegate behavior
[GROOVY-5610] - Type checking of method calls using generics and default values is not supported
[GROOVY-5742] - CompileStatic goes into infinite loop when handling self-referential generics
[GROOVY-5839] - Typechecker does not detect shadowed generic parameter
[GROOVY-5873] - Type checker does not infer generic type
[GROOVY-5882] - @CompileStatic breaks with generic boxed numerics
[GROOVY-5883] - @CompileStatic incorrectly inferred closure return type upper bound
[GROOVY-5885] - @CompileStatic incorrectly infers generic return type
[GROOVY-5891] - Static compiler wrongly infers the return type of Class.cast()
[GROOVY-5920] - Type not inferred from Iterator
[GROOVY-5981] - @TypedChecked error when using generics
[GROOVY-6048] - Generated Java stub for inner interface with generics fails to compile
[GROOVY-6056] - @Lazy(soft=true) not quite right
[GROOVY-6155] - Can't access private static constant from closure, when using @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-6199] - @CompileStatic class throws runtime errors accessing outer class methods inside nested closures
[GROOVY-6249] - "int not-equal int" compiled using slow path in static complation mode
[GROOVY-6251] - Grab of an extension module with a transitive dependency fails
[GROOVY-6262] - Sql.withTransaction setAutoCommit in finally not wrapped in try/catch
[GROOVY-6266] - 'class generation' bug when CompileStatic with HashMap and List
[GROOVY-6270] - Verifyerror in static compiled code
[GROOVY-6272] - Cannot define a no-args closure in Groovy Shell
[GROOVY-6275] - DOMCategory: text() doesn't get node value if it is a CDATA section
[GROOVY-6288] - Overloaded operator with return type
[GROOVY-6289] - Null arg call not ambiguouseven though it should be
[GROOVY-6295] - GroovyDoc doesn't escape angle brackets in @code and @literal tags
[GROOVY-6300] - JavaStubGenerator clears instance initializers
[GROOVY-6311] - Using @CompileStatic on code that uses spread operator on a Set results in compilation error
[GROOVY-6317] - @CompileStatic on class using with(Closure) leads to compilation error.
Improvement:
[GROOVY-6269] - Document limitation of normal map-style constructor use when using @Immutable

New in Groovy 2.2.0 Beta 2 (Sep 6, 2013)

Sub-task:
[GROOVY-5875] - Cannot use DELEGATE_FIRST and delegates that are inner classes.
Bug:
[GROOVY-2974] - IntRange.step overflows near Integer.MAX_VALUE or Integer.MIN_VALUE
[GROOVY-5078] - Compiler should not allow 2 methods with same name and no argument to return different types
[GROOVY-5261] - A static method call inside a static closure bypasses closure delegate behavior
[GROOVY-5610] - Type checking of method calls using generics and default values is not supported
[GROOVY-5742] - CompileStatic goes into infinite loop when handling self-referential generics
[GROOVY-5839] - Typechecker does not detect shadowed generic parameter
[GROOVY-5873] - Type checker does not infer generic type
[GROOVY-5882] - @CompileStatic breaks with generic boxed numerics
[GROOVY-5883] - @CompileStatic incorrectly inferred closure return type upper bound
[GROOVY-5885] - @CompileStatic incorrectly infers generic return type
[GROOVY-5891] - Static compiler wrongly infers the return type of Class.cast()
[GROOVY-5920] - Type not inferred from Iterator
[GROOVY-5974] - @Delegate should support including/excluding which methods are delegated to (and optionally complain if multiple exist) - simple use cases
[GROOVY-5981] - @TypedChecked error when using generics
[GROOVY-6048] - Generated Java stub for inner interface with generics fails to compile
[GROOVY-6056] - @Lazy(soft=true) not quite right
[GROOVY-6155] - Can't access private static constant from closure, when using @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-6179] - Sublist can be modified by parent list operations
[GROOVY-6199] - @CompileStatic class throws runtime errors accessing outer class methods inside nested closures
[GROOVY-6250] - Parsing issue with enums using inner generic methods
[GROOVY-6251] - Grab of an extension module with a transitive dependency fails
[GROOVY-6261] - Inefficient method DefaultGrailsDomainClassInjector.implementsMethod(..)
[GROOVY-6262] - Sql.withTransaction setAutoCommit in finally not wrapped in try/catch
[GROOVY-6266] - 'class generation' bug when CompileStatic with HashMap and List
[GROOVY-6270] - Verifyerror in static compiled code
[GROOVY-6272] - Cannot define a no-args closure in Groovy Shell
[GROOVY-6274] - replaceNode improvements for XML processing
[GROOVY-6275] - DOMCategory: text() doesn't get node value if it is a CDATA section
[GROOVY-6288] - Overloaded operator with return type
[GROOVY-6289] - Null arg call not ambiguouseven though it should be
[GROOVY-6295] - GroovyDoc doesn't escape angle brackets in @code and @literal tags
[GROOVY-6300] - JavaStubGenerator clears instance initializers
[GROOVY-6306] - Unable to use Grape to grab DLLs
[GROOVY-6307] - @TimedInterrupt et al only partially support multiple annotations within a single source file
[GROOVY-6311] - Using @CompileStatic on code that uses spread operator on a Set results in compilation error
[GROOVY-6317] - @CompileStatic on class using with(Closure) leads to compilation error.
[GROOVY-6333] - Changes required regarding unaryPlus and bitwiseNegate operators for numbers
Improvement:
[GROOVY-3695] - DGM method signature improvements
[GROOVY-6269] - Document limitation of normal map-style constructor use when using @Immutable
[GROOVY-6287] - @Immutable could support Class as an immutable type
[GROOVY-6305] - newWriter() method for OutputStream
New Feature:
[GROOVY-4164] - A groovier way of iterate over dates/calendars: upTo() and downTo()
Task:
[GROOVY-6227] - Delete (not working) Eclipse files from groovy-core git repo
[GROOVY-6252] - bump ant dependency version from 1.9.1 to 1.9.2
[GROOVY-6280] - Update GPars Dependency to 1.1.0
[GROOVY-6292] - Update Gradle version to 1.7-rc-2
Test:
[GROOVY-5069] - AstBuilderFromSpecificationTest.testElvisOperatorExpression(): DSL and expected AST incorrect
Wish:
[GROOVY-6226] - Configure Gradle Eclipse plugin for groovy-core

New in Groovy 2.1.6 (Jul 10, 2013)

New in Groovy 2.2.0 Beta1 (Jul 10, 2013)

Sub-task:
[GROOVY-3105] - API documentation for ConfigSlurper
[GROOVY-5968] - Show only parts of bytecode
[GROOVY-5969] - Show closures in AST browser
[GROOVY-5970] - Non-blocking bytecode view
[GROOVY-5977] - "please select a class node" message in AST view
[GROOVY-6189] - basic SAM conversion
Bug:
[GROOVY-4258] - wiki-snapshot.pdf is not searchable. Text can't be copied.
[GROOVY-4485] - enum does not support default map constructors
[GROOVY-4503] - The delete key doesn't work as expected on groovysh on Linux
[GROOVY-4641] - Defining an abstract method in enum
[GROOVY-4655] - groovy.transform.EqualsAndHashCode annotation does not handle cycles
[GROOVY-4663] - Groovy Console shows both full and sanitized stack trace by default
[GROOVY-4701] - MissingMethodException#printStackTrace() throws exception if an arguments toString() method fails
[GROOVY-4794] - enum constant initializer parsing
[GROOVY-5068] - SecureASTCustomizer receiver needs documentation
[GROOVY-5211] - Method dispatch error with @Delegate
[GROOVY-5243] - @Canonical @TupleConstructor can't handle Object or Map properties
[GROOVY-5349] - ICO file in distribution is broken/missing
[GROOVY-5474] - groovy-all-2.0.0-beta-3-indy.jar invoke dynamic jar lacks osgi attributes
[GROOVY-5697] - Wiki snapshot (pdf) is outdated
[GROOVY-5755] - MissingPropertyException thrown when referencing an externally declared constant from a switch case in an enum instance method
[GROOVY-5756] - error during class generation: cannot define closures inside methods of an enum instance
[GROOVY-5771] - Project compilation fails when I put an enum in my project
[GROOVY-5801] - sql.firstRow() can be incredibly slow
[GROOVY-5802] - Exception thrown in groovyConsole
[GROOVY-5871] - @Grapes/@Grab not working with GroovyConsole
[GROOVY-5898] - Sql.java throws IllegalStateException("Failed to process query. Unterminated ' character?") when comments contain quotes
[GROOVY-5931] - groovy.util.slurpersupport.GPathResult is not java.lang.Iterable
[GROOVY-5937] - groovydoc does not document type alias for property correctly
[GROOVY-5938] - groovydoc does not document array property correctly
[GROOVY-5939] - groovydoc does not show link for property type
[GROOVY-5940] - groovydoc does not show class hierarchy correctly
[GROOVY-5948] - memoizeAtLeast and memoizeBetween don't cleanup garbage-collected SoftReferences
[GROOVY-5958] - 'Allowed Interruption' menu item is missing at GroovyConsole on MacOSX
[GROOVY-5971] - jarjar issue with CliBuilder/GroovyPosixParser
[GROOVY-5980] - Finally executes twice on NPE while casting method result
[GROOVY-6004] - Groovydoc should process annotations more intelligently
[GROOVY-6007] - @GrabResolver doesn't affect Ivy
[GROOVY-6017] - NPE in Groovydoc
[GROOVY-6019] - Cross compilation of Groovy annotation on Java class does not work
[GROOVY-6025] - Using short, byte, char annotation definition attribute constants should be supported
[GROOVY-6032] - @GrabResolver information is not retained at runtime in compiled class
[GROOVY-6054] - context variable breaks output transformation
[GROOVY-6057] - Add a Collection#combinations(Closure) method
[GROOVY-6058] - JsonSlurper should support URL and File variants for parse
[GROOVY-6065] - Overriding enum methods in constant specific body does not work if non-default constructor is used
[GROOVY-6068] - Thread safety issue in AntBuilder leads to major memory leak
[GROOVY-6082] - GroovyResultSet not updateable for Prepared Statements
[GROOVY-6085] - Annotation for inner interface in Java stub should not use dollar notation
[GROOVY-6093] - @XmlEnumValue annotation is lost from enum constant during compilation
[GROOVY-6106] - A list of syntax highlighting errors
[GROOVY-6120] - Verify error in class annotated with @Category if instance field is used
[GROOVY-6121] - Object[].groupBy is not defined
[GROOVY-6122] - FilteredNodeChildren doesn't provide childNodes() iterator
[GROOVY-6125] - Bugs in GPathResult.parent() and '..' notation
[GROOVY-6143] - groovysh & groovysh completion vulnerable to Classes with custom getProperty()
[GROOVY-6152] - LazyList does not allow range access
[GROOVY-6158] - Missing directory entries in groovy-all JAR
[GROOVY-6171] - Memory tweaks for groovy compiler
[GROOVY-6192] - @EqualsAndHashCode override not working when used with @Immutable if @Immutable appears first
[GROOVY-6201] - groovysh hangs on Edit command when using terminal editor (vim, nano, etc.) on posix terminals
[GROOVY-6205] - META-INF/services/org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ExtensionModule missing from groovy-all.jar
[GROOVY-6211] - Fix failing Process tests on windows
[GROOVY-6217] - The Edit command should replace the shell buffer, not append.
[GROOVY-6232] - Type checker fails with internal error for diamond
[GROOVY-6233] - static type checker fails to check constructor arguments
[GROOVY-6234] - Groovy can not be build with Gradle 1.6
[GROOVY-6237] - wrong resolution for hidden generics
Improvement:
[GROOVY-2183] - Allow the 'edit' command to work on windows
[GROOVY-3332] - The groovy.time.*Duration classes make use of java.sql.Date
[GROOVY-4778] - The groovy wiki pdf dosn't support searching
[GROOVY-4877] - Groovy Console should set the context class loader to the class loader that loaded the script.
[GROOVY-4943] - Allow enableAutoDownload to be set when using @Grab
[GROOVY-5445] - Make @Delegate delegate to inherited property accessors
[GROOVY-5709] - improve Grapes error reporting for ZipException
[GROOVY-5749] - Groovy Console -- Option to Auto-Save on Run
[GROOVY-5973] - DGM.collectMany() overload that accepts Iterable
[GROOVY-6039] - Allow type checking extensions to handle ambiguous references to methods
[GROOVY-6043] - Precompiled typechecking extension scripts
[GROOVY-6044] - Add handler for "Cannot return value of type Foo on method returning type Bar" error
[GROOVY-6053] - Try iterating or transforming Object into Collection in DefaultGroovyMethods like count(), sort() and other Collection methods.
[GROOVY-6062] - Hard check for JTable in ColumnModelFactory.onNodeCompleted prevented columnModel() to be used in a noparent()-block
[GROOVY-6073] - Fixes and improvements for Groovysh
[GROOVY-6074] - Import completion for all jar files on CLASSPATH
[GROOVY-6076] - New DelegatingScript Class which provides a delegate for property and method calls
[GROOVY-6112] - Support AST transforms on the field generated by @Field in scripts
[GROOVY-6134] - Make @DelegatesTo support mapping to generic type argument
[GROOVY-6139] - Extend groovysh completion evaluating "mostly" safe expressions before cursor
[GROOVY-6145] - Groovysh could allow filename completion inside strings
[GROOVY-6150] - Add 'doc' command to groovysh
[GROOVY-6160] - @DelegatesTo should be @Documented
New Feature:
[GROOVY-4379] - Providing Groovy binary release (groovy-binary.zip) in Maven repository
[GROOVY-4993] - @Memoized AST Transformation for Methods
[GROOVY-6087] - grape command could provide a resolver option for "install"
[GROOVY-6178] - Add class name completion to 'doc' command
Task:
[GROOVY-3055] - Improve API class documentation
[GROOVY-5342] - Update hsqldb dependency
[GROOVY-5344] - Update jline dependency
[GROOVY-5964] - Upgrade gradle to 1.5
[GROOVY-5965] - Upgrade ivy to 2.3.0
[GROOVY-6060] - Upgrade Ant to 1.9.0
[GROOVY-6081] - Improve unit tests execution time
[GROOVY-6170] - Upgrade ant 1.9.0 -> 1.9.1
[GROOVY-6172] - bump testng dependency 6.8 -> 6.8.5
[GROOVY-6173] - bump xstream dependency 1.4.2 -> 1.4.4
[GROOVY-6216] - Upgrade to ASM 4.1
Wish:
[GROOVY-6208] - Move groovy.icns to lib
[GROOVY-6225] - Change template of "index-all.html" so that it can be parsed by Dash's javadocset command

New in Groovy 2.1.5 (Jun 21, 2013)

New in Groovy 2.1.4 (May 31, 2013)

Bug:
[GROOVY-5449] - NullPointerException in compiler when using @Immutable
[GROOVY-5921] - BUG! exception in phase 'class generation' while poping argument from operand stack tracker
[GROOVY-6029] - GString not properly coerced to long
[GROOVY-6095] - Static checker fails on correct code
[GROOVY-6098] - @CompileStatic fails to compile when accessing boolean property using "isPropertyName()" getter method
[GROOVY-6099] - @CompileStatic gives ClassCastException at runtime when calling methods on Object in some scenarios
[GROOVY-6100] - @CompileStatic fails to compile when using constants declared on interfaces implemented by super class
[GROOVY-6101] - verify error with compile static
[GROOVY-6104] - Unable to access static interface fields from classes annotated with @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-6108] - Null-safe operator on lhs of comparison may lead to NPE with @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-6109] - Access to java.lang.Object#delegate is forbidden with Gaelyk
[GROOVY-6113] - Class with @CompileStatic throws VerifyError when passing int constant to method taking varargs object array
[GROOVY-6114] - Class with @CompileStatic, @Immutable, and a List property causes a compiler exception to be thrown
[GROOVY-6119] - Type checker doesn't recognize explicit map constructor
[GROOVY-6122] - FilteredNodeChildren doesn't provide childNodes() iterator
[GROOVY-6124] - Cannot use array slice with @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-6127] - VerifyError "Incompatible argument to function" when returning value from function after instanceof check in a function that should return Object (bug in inference base return type selection)
[GROOVY-6129] - @CompileStatic def map = new HashMap() crashes compiler
[GROOVY-6131] - Surprising Behavior With @CompileStatic And Collection.putAt
[GROOVY-6133] - bad example in comment of SourceAwareCustomizerFactory(source(basenameVaidator:{}))
[GROOVY-6137] - CompileStatic: in operator (isCase) isn't null safe in CS mode
[GROOVY-6147] - CompileStatic: dispatch bug with overloaded method when last argument is an array and there is an separate method without the last array argument
[GROOVY-6153] - SecureASTCustomizer using whitelist does not work deterministically
[GROOVY-6158] - Missing directory entries in groovy-all JAR
[GROOVY-6162] - 'this' in static context not treated as class by @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-6165] - Incorrect property lookup if a method starts with "get"
[GROOVY-6171] - Memory tweaks for groovy compiler
[GROOVY-6180] - Type checker skip mode not always applied to anonymous inner classes
[GROOVY-6183] - Errors with static attribute expression
[GROOVY-6187] - GroovyResultSet Proxy not working with Object methods
Improvement:
[GROOVY-6112] - Support AST transforms on the field generated by @Field in scripts
[GROOVY-6160] - @DelegatesTo should be @Documented
Task:
[GROOVY-6081] - Improve unit tests execution time

New in Groovy 2.1.3 (Apr 13, 2013)

Bug:
[GROOVY-4641] - Defining an abstract method in enum
[GROOVY-4655] - groovy.transform.EqualsAndHashCode annotation does not handle cycles
[GROOVY-5211] - Method dispatch error with @Delegate
[GROOVY-5243] - @Canonical @TupleConstructor can't handle Object or Map properties
[GROOVY-5755] - MissingPropertyException thrown when referencing an externally declared constant from a switch case in an enum instance method
[GROOVY-5756] - error during class generation: cannot define closures inside methods of an enum instance
[GROOVY-5771] - Project compilation fails when I put an enum in my project
[GROOVY-5859] - Invalid generic cast generated in super constructor call in a Java stub
[GROOVY-5948] - memoizeAtLeast and memoizeBetween don't cleanup garbage-collected SoftReferences
[GROOVY-6021] - @DelegatesTo: static type checker misses an error
[GROOVY-6054] - context variable breaks output transformation
[GROOVY-6055] - @DelegatesTo added by AST assumes static context
[GROOVY-6061] - in CompileStatic mode, "a[i] = a[j]" won't work
[GROOVY-6064] - @CompileDynamic misses the processor
[GROOVY-6065] - Overriding enum methods in constant specific body does not work if non-default constructor is used
[GROOVY-6068] - Thread safety issue in AntBuilder leads to major memory leak
[GROOVY-6072] - `String | []` represented as ClassExpression in AST (causing problems in Spock data tables)
[GROOVY-6075] - The compiler doesn't honor the "target bytecode" flag
[GROOVY-6078] - Chained null-safe navigation is broken in CompileStatic mode
[GROOVY-6082] - GroovyResultSet not updateable for Prepared Statements
[GROOVY-6086] - @CompileStatic problem with methods returning array of Objects - Error msg: "Cannot return value of type [LSomeClass; on method returning type SomeClass[]"
[GROOVY-6091] - Explicit use of "delegate" doesn't make use of @DelegatesTo
[GROOVY-6093] - @XmlEnumValue annotation is lost from enum constant during compilation
[GROOVY-6094] - ImportNode doesn't contain line information
Improvement:
[GROOVY-5445] - Make @Delegate delegate to inherited property accessors
New Feature:
[GROOVY-6087] - grape command could provide a resolver option for "install"

New in Groovy 2.1.2 (Mar 19, 2013)

New in Groovy 2.1.1 (Feb 15, 2013)

Sub-task:
[GROOVY-3105] - API documentation for ConfigSlurper
[GROOVY-5968] - Show only parts of bytecode
[GROOVY-5970] - Non-blocking bytecode view
[GROOVY-5977] - "please select a class node" message in AST view
Bug:
[GROOVY-4458] - NPE in org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.dgmimpl.NumberNumberPlus$DoubleInteger
[GROOVY-5425] - ObjectRange doesn't have BigInteger optimisation for size()
[GROOVY-5894] - Left shift on collection fails for list with CompileStatic
[GROOVY-5937] - groovydoc does not document type alias for property correctly
[GROOVY-5938] - groovydoc does not document array property correctly
[GROOVY-5939] - groovydoc does not show link for property type
[GROOVY-5940] - groovydoc does not show class hierarchy correctly
[GROOVY-5947] - Build test failures on jdk8b78
[GROOVY-5953] - Correct slow invocation path with EMC
[GROOVY-5958] - 'Allowed Interruption' menu item is missing at GroovyConsole on MacOSX
[GROOVY-5959] - switch case misbehave with @Typechecked
[GROOVY-5962] - @TypeChecked should have a default value for extensions
[GROOVY-5963] - Exception in phase 'class generation'
[GROOVY-5971] - jarjar issue with CliBuilder/GroovyPosixParser
[GROOVY-5978] - configscript not available from Groovyc class
[GROOVY-5979] - Groovy Ant task doesn't support indy/configscript/scriptbaseclass
[GROOVY-5980] - Finally executes twice on NPE while casting method result
[GROOVY-5984] - Weird behaviour of switch-case-break statement with @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-5988] - Map subscript operator not working with CompileStatic
[GROOVY-5991] - Type Checking Extensions cannot handle operator methods
[GROOVY-5994] - Type checking extensions should have access to the compile classpath
[GROOVY-5995] - Type checking extensions are not initialized when used with @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-5997] - CompileStatic compilation error using a regex matcher
[GROOVY-6000] - Using getter/setter without property and @DelegatesTo doesn't work
Improvement:
[GROOVY-5999] - Make @Delegate work with @DelegatesTo
[GROOVY-6002] - ModuleNode should setScriptBaseClassFromConfig from context or unit
Task:
[GROOVY-3055] - Improve API class documentation

New in Groovy 2.1.0 (Jan 26, 2013)

Bug fixes:
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: size==0
error: incompatible types on Java stubs returning generics
ConfigSlurper broken on AppEngine
groovysh 2.0.0-beta-3 ERROR java.lang.ClassCastException: required class java.lang.Class but encountered class org.fusesource.jansi.AnsiRenderer
Multiple problems with @CompileStatic and abstract inheritance
TokenException returns wrong endColumn value
groovy-all-2.0.0-sources.jar is missing lots of source files
Constants defined in an interface not visible to implementing subclass in a static context
Java stub generator generates wrong cast for return value of generic method
Problem with cached calls with GroovyServlet
Running script with '--enoding' param and some script parameters
ArrayIndexOutOfBounds when calling super method in SKIP @CompileStatic section
TypeChecker: Fails with NPE when use generics in inheritance tree?
CompileStatic: VerifierError calling method within findAll closure
Parsing problem of number literal 0x8000000000000000L
interface
JsonOutput Date formatting is not threadsafe
@Compile static Sql.newInstance
@CompileStatic casting problem
Caused by: org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerInvocationException: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "find": java.io.IOException: error=24, Too many open files
Cannot use @CompileStatic with Thread.start method
Grape's Grab ignores 'ext' when classifier is not set
Incorrectly finding "where" in query string
TimeoutException immediately thrown when using both TimedInterrupt and with {} closure on a Map
Input stream not closed
STC: calling a closure stored in a property yields an NPE
Groovyc ant task fails with nested javac when using generics
Stub compiler expands generic-inner-class variable declaration incorrectly
Delegating to an abstract class hierarchy doesn't implement interfaces at a higher level
performance problem in DefaultGroovyMethods.removeAll()
Delegation to an interface with deprecated methods shows a compile error
@TypeChecked and "Charset ISO_8859_1_CHARSET = Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1")": Cannot assign value of type java.lang.Class to variable of type java.nio.charset.Charset
Changes in groovy.json.JsonOutput require extensive permissions that aren't compatible with some web frameworks.
XmlNodePrinter uses quote variables for more than just attributes
Node is missing documentation
InvokerInvocationException not being unwrapped
Adding milliseconds with TimeCategory gives incorrect toString
Adding milliseconds with TimeCategory gives incorrect toString
Documentation error for ExpandoMetaClass
XmlSlurper Unable to Access Attributes with Same Name but in Different Namespaces
No way to tell @Immutable that you're using an Immutable List structure already
groovy, groovysh, groovyconsole, etc Cannot use spaces in supplied classpath -cp
jarsigner fails because two duplicate objects exists in groovy-2.0.1.jar
groovydoc not working (ClassNotFoundException)
Static compilation runtime error when using mapped constructor
The if(instanceof) block is not inferring type in a Closure
@Log won't compile with @CompileStatic if "log" is used in a Closure
xml:lang attribute appears to break StreamingMarkupBuilder >= 2.0.6
Java code behaves wrong on 2.0.5 but not on 1.8.8
null initial value can't be inferred with generic field of a class
The spread-call syntax is statically compiled for collections, but not for arrays
combining the default namespace and normal namespaces with StreamingMarkupBuilder causes issues
groovy.xml.QName uses string interning of volatile data and the trim antipattern
ConfigObject is unexpectedly no longer Cloneable
Groovy:[Static type checking] - Inconvertible types: cannot cast javax.script.ScriptEngine to javax.script.Invocable
Compiler wrongly tries only static resolution when calling spread operator on a collection of strings
Compiler hangs on this code
@CompileStatic resolves the 'in' operator wrongly
@CompileStatic(SKIP) does not work for constructors
Groovyc: BUG! exception in phase 'class generation' in source unit
SwingBuilder never shuts down the default executor service
@CompileStatic VerifyError
JsonBuilder toPrettyString gen "\"\"" for emtyString it should be ""
Obscure method getTimeZone(java.util.Date) in org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.TimeCategory
getAt(EmptyRange) not called when passing an EmptyRange to getAt(Collection)
Object.with seems to lose typing when generics are used
-baseScript option for groovy command
unable to add assertions via compile time transform
Casting map as Random results in java.lang.VerifyError
StackOverflow with CompileStatic
covariant method addition causing call to abstract method
-configscript option for groovy command.
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError through Iterator.collectEntries and others (part 1: handle collectEntries)
CompileStatic: long loses type when bitwise OR applied to it
@TypeChecked$TypeCheckingInfo is added to constructors
Problem dispatching array as argument to a closure
SyntaxException.getEndColumn() returns "getStartColumn() + 1"
DOMCategory should provide name() convenience method for Node's not just Element's
Stub generator should not use raw types when casting default return values
wasted work in "ClassCompletionVerifier.checkMethodForWeakerAccessPrivileges"
wasted work in "DefaultGrailsDomainClassInjector.implementsMethod"
wasted work in the "ClassNode" constructor
Copy/paste error in EmptyBorderFactory
wasted work in "ClassNode.addMixin"
Static type checking - Color.red recognized as int
Pasting into groovy console using shift+insert turns overwrite mode on.
wasted work in "SimpleGroovyClassDocAssembler.extractName"
ImportCustomizer for CompilerCustomizationBuilder is not added to configscript CompilerConfiguration
Closure default params can cause BUG! exception in phase 'class generation'
groovy.ui.Console cannot be extended
XmlTemplateEngine does not escape expression values (part 1)
@AutoClone excludes param works correctly only for COPY_CONSTRUCTOR AutoCloneStyle
startGroovy breaks one-liners containing double quotes
"string".count('') fails
Groovy fails to launch scripts from Cygwin
Non found static type checking extensions throw unexplicit NPE
JsonBuilder.toString() fails with StackOverflowError when using Expando
groovy does not detect correct Java version on Mac
Improvements:
Add DGM leftShift and other appropriate methods for java.lang.Appendable
upgrade to gradle 1.1
remove $getCallSiteArray for indy compilation
array coercion missing for subarray assignment
Provide a builder for compilation customizers
Add an includePackage attribute for the ToString AST transform
AST customizer working as a guard for another
Add base script option to groovyc and its ant task
Support for DSL type checking
ConfigSlurper - multiple environment blocks broken
Process should have a method called closeStreams()
Provide File method to get directory size
groovy.lang.Closure javadoc should mention method resolution in resolve strategy constants
@EqualsAndHashCode should allow caching of hashCode values
Provide a way to assemble an annoation consisting of several other
@CompileDynamic annotation
@ToString should allow caching of toString values
Add an "encoding" option for Groovydoc tool and Ant task
Make @Delegate carry over method annotations
Option to default to Static Compilation
Allow customization of @Singleton's instance getter name
collectMany should have a map variant
@Immutable annotation should allow Cloneable fields
Remove buildSrc's target and .gradle directories from the source distribution
Upgrade junit to 4.11
support jar: in addition to file: and http: for urls when running scripts on the command line
Pretty toString() for AnnotationConstantExpression
DGM should have a getAt method for Iterable
Upgrade testng to 6.8
The range interface should return the generic type T from getTo() and getFrom()
upgrade qdox to 1.12.1
getBytes for GString
NP when AST implementation class lacks @GroovyASTTransformation
Create/Distribute an archive containing source, binary and documentation
Provide a way to lookup class nodes from static type checking extension scripts
Add createTempDir() to File
New features:
@DelegatesTo annotation for IDEs/TypeChecker
Compiler flag for type checking most classes, and TypeUnchecked annotation override
Provide a flag for the groovyc ant task to control whether it searches the classpath for source files
Support an Observable version of Set
Add clone or copy constructor to XML Node
add DGM variant for Map#subMap supporting an array of keys
Element.serialize
Sub-task:
GROOVY-3055 public api documentation for entire groovy.util.slurpersupport package - especially GPathResult
upgrade to gradle 1.2
Upgrade the GPars dependency to 1.0

New in Groovy 2.1.0 RC 3 (Jan 22, 2013)

New in Groovy 2.1.0 RC 2 (Jan 19, 2013)

New in Groovy 2.1.0 RC 1 (Jan 10, 2013)

Sub-task:
[GROOVY-3394] - public api documentation for entire groovy.util.slurpersupport package - especially GPathResult
Bug:
[GROOVY-3258] - groovy.xml.QName uses string interning of volatile data and the trim antipattern
[GROOVY-4670] - groovy.ui.Console cannot be extended
[GROOVY-5473] - groovysh 2.0.0-beta-3 ERROR java.lang.ClassCastException: required class java.lang.Class but encountered class org.fusesource.jansi.AnsiRenderer
[GROOVY-5632] - Closure default params can cause BUG! exception in phase 'class generation'
[GROOVY-5812] - Java code behaves wrong on 2.0.5 but not on 1.8.8
[GROOVY-5863] - ImportCustomizer for CompilerCustomizationBuilder is not added to configscript CompilerConfiguration
[GROOVY-5867] - xml:lang attribute appears to break StreamingMarkupBuilder >= 2.0.6
[GROOVY-5868] - ConfigObject is unexpectedly no longer Cloneable
[GROOVY-5870] - Groovy:[Static type checking] - Inconvertible types: cannot cast javax.script.ScriptEngine to javax.script.Invocable
[GROOVY-5872] - null initial value can't be inferred with generic field of a class
[GROOVY-5874] - Groovyc: BUG! exception in phase 'class generation' in source unit
[GROOVY-5879] - combining the default namespace and normal namespaces with StreamingMarkupBuilder causes issues
[GROOVY-5884] - @CompileStatic(SKIP) does not work for constructors
[GROOVY-5887] - The spread-call syntax is statically compiled for collections, but not for arrays
[GROOVY-5888] - Compiler wrongly tries only static resolution when calling spread operator on a collection of strings
[GROOVY-5889] - Compiler hangs on this code
[GROOVY-5890] - @CompileStatic resolves the 'in' operator wrongly
[GROOVY-5892] - @CompileStatic VerifyError
Improvement:
[GROOVY-4572] - Provide File method to get directory size
[GROOVY-5242] - groovy.lang.Closure javadoc should mention method resolution in resolve strategy constants
[GROOVY-5370] - ConfigSlurper - multiple environment blocks broken
[GROOVY-5452] - Process should have a method called closeStreams()
[GROOVY-5761] - getBytes for GString
New Feature:
[GROOVY-3689] - Element.serialize
[GROOVY-5877] - Provide a flag for the groovyc ant task to control whether it searches the classpath for source files
[GROOVY-5886] - Support an Observable version of Set

New in Groovy 2.0.5 (Oct 4, 2012)

New in Groovy 2.0.4 (Sep 22, 2012)

New in Groovy 2.0.2 (Sep 10, 2012)

Bug:
[GROOVY-4975] - GroovyScripeEngine fails to properly reload when dependent class is updated
[GROOVY-5125] - GroovyScriptEngine load from jarURL fail
[GROOVY-5187] - Groovy Script Engine creates new classes for each script and doesn't get garbage collected
[GROOVY-5321] - GroovyScriptEngine getResourceConnection treats resourceName argument as URI path spec
[GROOVY-5322] - MinimumRecompilationInterval is not used as an interval in GroovyScriptEngine
[GROOVY-5590] - Caused by: org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerInvocationException: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "find": java.io.IOException: error=24, Too many open files
[GROOVY-5627] - Problems with categories when using invoke dynamic
[GROOVY-5633] - indy transformation for receiver missing
[GROOVY-5635] - SyntaxException.getEndColumn() returns "getStartColumn() + 1"
[GROOVY-5636] - java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: size==0
[GROOVY-5638] - static compiler fails with bug massage for method call in loop increment
[GROOVY-5639] - Spurious "Closure shared variable has been assigned with various type" exception
[GROOVY-5640] - static type checking fails in for-each loops
[GROOVY-5641] - for variable omitted type makes Caught: BUG! exception in phase 'class generation'
[GROOVY-5642] - TypeChecked/CompileStatic says ambiguous about calling PrintWriter.write(byte[],int,int)
[GROOVY-5643] - array length is not correct with CompileStatic'd code.
[GROOVY-5644] - UFO Operator() errors with CompileStatic and TypeChecked
[GROOVY-5645] - CompileStatic cause inconsistent compilation error when varargs super method called (reference to method is ambiguous)
[GROOVY-5647] - SKIP is not honored when an inner class is defined in a SKIP method
[GROOVY-5649] - Stack overflow when property accessor is annoated with @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-5650] - Groovy 2.0.1: Regression in generic type inference
[GROOVY-5653] - STC: non ambiguous method call reported ambiguous
[GROOVY-5654] - SC: Problem accessing a Map string key with property notation
[GROOVY-5655] - SC: byte[] and Byte[] typecasting issue
[GROOVY-5656] - STC: non ambiguous constructor reference when subclass is used
[GROOVY-5657] - SC: Unable to pop operand off an empty stack with default/optional paramaters
[GROOVY-5658] - SC: issue with optional parameters generating an NPE
[GROOVY-5659] - VerifyError when CompileStatic with Increment Array Element
[GROOVY-5660] - JsonOutput Date formatting is not threadsafe
[GROOVY-5662] - java.lang.VerifyError when accessing array passed to method
[GROOVY-5664] - OSGi bundle hangs in "starting" state
[GROOVY-5666] - Incorrectly finding "where" in query string
[GROOVY-5668] - Input stream not closed
[GROOVY-5669] - DOMCategory should provide name() convenience method for Node's not just Element's
[GROOVY-5671] - Static compilation of calling increment operator on Integer fails
[GROOVY-5672] - groovyc produces AIOOBE if @TypeChecked used with @CompileStatic in certain circumstances
[GROOVY-5678] - (primopts) increment on array not done as primopt
[GROOVY-5679] - Enclosing method is not set for anonymous inner classes
[GROOVY-5681] - Anonynous inner class as default argument value throws IOOBE
[GROOVY-5683] - Accessing length of an array of arrays occurs VerifyError
[GROOVY-5687] - Constants defined in an interface not visible to implementing subclass in a static context
[GROOVY-5688] - NullPointerException in StaticTypeCheckingVisitor
[GROOVY-5689] - ClassCastException Double->Float with -= += operators and closures
[GROOVY-5690] - Compiler exception while applying to @CompileStatic and subclasses
[GROOVY-5691] - TimeoutException immediately thrown when using both TimedInterrupt and with {} closure on a Map
[GROOVY-5692] - TypeChecked not checking generics placeholder types across arguments when a method has multiple arguments
Improvement:
[GROOVY-5646] - Allow customization of @Singleton's instance getter name
[GROOVY-5680] - collectMany should have a map variant
New Feature:
[GROOVY-5682] - Add clone or copy constructor to XML Node

New in Groovy 2.0.1 (Jul 25, 2012)

Bug:
[GROOVY-5208] - Incorrect line numbers in code using optimized primitive operations
[GROOVY-5466] - Invalid code crashes the compiler
[GROOVY-5508] - Verifier fails to check property types with covariant override
[GROOVY-5543] - Grab a Module Extension fails to match Map objects
[GROOVY-5556] - GAPI on codehaus doesn't appear to have subproject groovydoc (check gradle build dist target)
[GROOVY-5557] - @Slf4j throws error in Groovy 2.0
[GROOVY-5559] - Type checker should treat gstrings as strings for generic collections
[GROOVY-5562] - GroovyFX - Class Cast Exception on BigDecimal to double when using Groovy 2.0 Indy="true"
[GROOVY-5564] - @CompileStatic(SKIP) throws an error
[GROOVY-5565] - NPE when using TypeChecking and AIC with field
[GROOVY-5566] - possible bug when applying static typing to AIC referencing an outer local variable
[GROOVY-5567] - Types not inferred correctly for static fields
[GROOVY-5568] - DGM properties not available in interfaces?
[GROOVY-5569] - Can't call method with concrete map implementation and generic arguments
[GROOVY-5570] - CompileStatic gives VerifyError: Register 1 contains wrong type
[GROOVY-5572] - Invalid behaviour of ?: operator within an 'if' statement in closure
[GROOVY-5573] - Type checker incorrectly selecting DGM return type instead of actual return type
[GROOVY-5574] - Log4j annotation causes class generation BUG!
[GROOVY-5578] - Cannot use default map constructor with Java classes and type checking
[GROOVY-5579] - Static compiler sometimes use setProperty where it could make direct access
[GROOVY-5580] - @CompileStatic doesn't support interfaces extending other interfaces
[GROOVY-5581] - Compilation order important to CompileStatic
[GROOVY-5583] - Parsing problem of number literal 0x8000000000000000L
[GROOVY-5584] - @CompileStatic fails to compile Map.each { key, value -> } form
[GROOVY-5585] - interface.property not recognized by type checker if property is of Object
[GROOVY-5586] - @Canonical class causes compile-time NPE under @StaticCompilation
[GROOVY-5587] - Map.Entry#key and #value fail to infer type correctly under @StaticCompile
[GROOVY-5588] - Multidimensional Arrays: Incompatible argument to function
[GROOVY-5589] - Type checker doesn't allow property notation as LHS when only a setter exists
[GROOVY-5590] - Caused by: org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerInvocationException: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "find": java.io.IOException: error=24, Too many open files
[GROOVY-5591] - groovy-all-2.0.0-sources.jar is missing lots of source files
[GROOVY-5592] - No recent snapshot for 2.0.1 available from http://snapshots.repository.codehaus.org
[GROOVY-5593] - groovy-all-2.0.0 does not work with JDK 1.5
[GROOVY-5594] - Type checker doesn't infer property type if coming from a generified getter
[GROOVY-5595] - Type checker doesn't fully infer Map.Entry type
[GROOVY-5598] - Cannot use @CompileStatic with Thread.start method
[GROOVY-5601] - static type checker NPE when instantiating generic interface (with and without diamond)
[GROOVY-5605] - Class Cast Exception when using Groovy 2.0 Indy="true" and using an integer with a double.
[GROOVY-5606] - Problem with CompileStatic
[GROOVY-5607] - @Compile static Sql.newInstance
[GROOVY-5608] - @CompileStatic casting problem
[GROOVY-5611] - Annotating a method with @CompileStatic when the class is already annotated leads to errors
[GROOVY-5612] - Fix "gradle idea" task
[GROOVY-5613] - @CompileStatic - Caught: java.lang.VerifyError - Inconsistent stack height 1 != 2
[GROOVY-5614] - Diamond Inference broken with Static Compilation
[GROOVY-5615] - var.getProperties() cannot be invoked as var.properties when using @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-5616] - Compile static failing to allow cast of groovy type to GroovyObject
[GROOVY-5617] - strange behavior with lists involving generics
[GROOVY-5618] - Type checker throws No such property: value for class: java.lang.Object
[GROOVY-5619] - Static compiler calls setter even with attribute notation
[GROOVY-5620] - Spread-safe operator unsupported on LHS of assignments
[GROOVY-5622] - Cannot loop using foreach or "for in" in @TypeChecked code
[GROOVY-5623] - collection's "each" fails if compiled with @CompileStatic
Improvement:
[GROOVY-5561] - When using @CompileStatic you cannot access class properties in some circumstances
[GROOVY-5577] - Augmenting the new AST node types introduced by compile static
[GROOVY-5597] - Add a label lookup feature to @ASTTest
[GROOVY-5599] - Assignments to null of variables with generics lead to cryptic errors
New Feature:
[GROOVY-5542] - Support Mac OS X Lion full screen capability

New in Groovy 2.0.0 (Jul 11, 2012)

New in Groovy 1.9 Beta 1 (Jul 25, 2011)

Bug:
[GROOVY-2177] - Groovysh 'history recall' seems to be picking the wrong entry (off by 1)
[GROOVY-2914] - LoadConfiguration fails to load *.jar
[GROOVY-4306] - Groovy Console Icon for Mac OS X broken
[GROOVY-4480] - Parsing seems to have changed in 1.8
[GROOVY-4498] - Only the root exception in a script is printed
[GROOVY-4504] - Groovy compilation results in warnings in generated code
[GROOVY-4601] - Stub generator doesn't escape strings with mixed single and double quotes
[GROOVY-4609] - Using log variable created with @Log or @Log4j causes compiler error if used in static method
[GROOVY-4691] - Grails 1.3.7 breaks bean-fields plugin
[GROOVY-4695] - anonymous classes InnerClassNode has -1 for line numbers
[GROOVY-4707] - Scripts' class nodes didn't have correct source positions
[GROOVY-4709] - @Interrupt AST transformations should not be applied on abstract methods
[GROOVY-4719] - Groovy build fails in tests - test RedundantCastInStubTest fails
[GROOVY-4720] - Method overriding with ExpandoMetaClass is partially broken
[GROOVY-4746] - broken @link in MetaObjectProtocol.java's javadoc
[GROOVY-4748] - javadoc comment problems which breaks generated HTMLs
[GROOVY-4781] - @WithReadLock and @WithWriteLock creates the wrong locks
[GROOVY-4782] - @Singleton(lazy=true) does not perform the correct double checked locking for Java
[GROOVY-4806] - Sql.eachRow documentation: actual GroovyResultSet vs. documentation GroovyRowResult
[GROOVY-4813] - GroovyScriptEngine does not use configured ImportCustomizer
[GROOVY-4818] - JsonSlurper's methods are package private
[GROOVY-4833] - @Field AST Transformation looses annotations
[GROOVY-4840] - LogASTTransformation fails if super class defines a private log field
[GROOVY-4854] - MyEnum.values() bombs out on AppEngine
[GROOVY-4866] - Documentation incorrect for Object#with
[GROOVY-4881] - JsonSlurper does not handle backslash
[GROOVY-4903] - StackOverflowError when parsing JSON text with JsonSlurper().parseText()
[GROOVY-4915] - Wrong access modifiers in JsonSlurper
Improvement:
[GROOVY-1570] - Truncate string when when generating MissingMethodException
[GROOVY-3401] - Ternary operator ?: does not handle newline before ":" gracefully
[GROOVY-4595] - Project Coin underscore placeholder in numbers
[GROOVY-4664] - Add @ThreadInterrupt to console scripts automatically
[GROOVY-4671] - DGM#inject can be generified
[GROOVY-4675] - Prefer ClassHelper.make(Class) over new ClassNode(Class)
[GROOVY-4690] - Allow PrimaryClassNodeOperations to be added to CompilerConfiguration
[GROOVY-4693] - GDK groovydocs for String.padXXX are not very clear [new wording attached]
[GROOVY-4703] - Improve FactoryBuilderSupport exception messages
[GROOVY-4713] - typo( lists -> maps ) in GDK doc comment
[GROOVY-4724] - add support for overriding package-, doc- or class-templates in Groovydoc descendant classes
[GROOVY-4779] - add syntax highlighting to the AST Browser decompiled source view
[GROOVY-4785] - Improve Closure javadoc for resolution strategy
[GROOVY-4800] - Avoid too many temporary arrays with each and eachWithIndex
[GROOVY-4814] - When working with ClassNodes, sometimes need to call getFields() before getField() will work (lazy init)
[GROOVY-4815] - force annotations on variables to be included in ast transforms
[GROOVY-4824] - groovyConsole should support more common file types: .story, .gpp, and .grunit
[GROOVY-4830] - GroovyConsole: Decompiled View should show method and class annotations
[GROOVY-4842] - Make @ThreadInterrupt optional in Groovy console
[GROOVY-4860] - Enable JsonBuilder to work with objects recursively
[GROOVY-4897] - better tab completions for GroovyShell
[GROOVY-4925] - JsonBuilder with Writer support would be handy
New Feature:
[GROOVY-1512] - When executing command-line scripts it should be possible to execute a BEGIN and an END method (akin to AWK or Perl)
[GROOVY-1984] - Shorther syntax for catching multiple exceptions at once
[GROOVY-4594] - Project Coin binary literals
[GROOVY-4865] - Add a take method to Collections, Iterators, Arrays
[GROOVY-4885] - groupBy with a list or an array of closures as it's parameter for nested grouping

New in Groovy 1.8.1 (Jul 25, 2011)

Sub-task:
[GROOVY-1475] - final modifier on a method parameter is not respected
Bug:
[GROOVY-2883] - Bug in AntBuilder - DemuxOutputStream should be used
[GROOVY-3088] - Modifiers on local variables are ignored
[GROOVY-4112] - Joint compilation fails if Groovy method with array parameter is called in vararg style from Java
[GROOVY-4306] - Groovy Console Icon for Mac OS X broken
[GROOVY-4498] - Only the root exception in a script is printed
[GROOVY-4570] - @ToString does not work for enum types
[GROOVY-4646] - Having a setter with a return value causes the stub generator to generate multiple setters and then fail to compile
[GROOVY-4650] - stub generation fails with generic signatures
[GROOVY-4673] - java.lang.ClassFormatError: Illegal class name "groovy/jmx/builder/package-info" in class file groovy/jmx/builder/package-info
[GROOVY-4686] - Varargs are not displayed by GroovyDoc
[GROOVY-4732] - Java5 configureClassNode does not take care of parameter annotations
[GROOVY-4745] - ClassNode.equals throws ClassCastException for object of other type
[GROOVY-4767] - Compilation error for generic interface method
[GROOVY-4768] - java stub contains "AnnotationNode" string instead of an annotation within an annotation
[GROOVY-4784] - [ null, 'ah' ].findAll() throws a NullPointerException
[GROOVY-4801] - Thrown exception not accessable inside catch block when class has @Category transformation applied
[GROOVY-4806] - Sql.eachRow documentation: actual GroovyResultSet vs. documentation GroovyRowResult
[GROOVY-4813] - GroovyScriptEngine does not use configured ImportCustomizer
[GROOVY-4818] - JsonSlurper's methods are package private
[GROOVY-4827] - @EqualsAndHashCode.excludes doesn't work correctly with class inheritance
[GROOVY-4831] - New line character is not escaped in attribute when using MarkupBuilder
[GROOVY-4833] - @Field AST Transformation looses annotations
[GROOVY-4840] - LogASTTransformation fails if super class defines a private log field
[GROOVY-4844] - @ToString should use getX() rather than the field x when getting property values
[GROOVY-4854] - MyEnum.values() bombs out on AppEngine
[GROOVY-4861] - Duplicate entry in InnerClasses
[GROOVY-4864] - HTML builder for "textarea" creates empty "textarea" element if no text specified, which is not alloed in HTML
[GROOVY-4866] - Documentation incorrect for Object#with
[GROOVY-4881] - JsonSlurper does not handle backslash
[GROOVY-4884] - Calling a method overwritten via metaClass from another method uses the original (non-overwritten) method
[GROOVY-4890] - MapExpression#getText incorrect for empty map
[GROOVY-4892] - GroovyInterceptable / invokeMethod does not correctly in Groovy 1.8.0 when Methods with no arguments are "delegated"
[GROOVY-4898] - groovydoc fails with MissingPropertyException
[GROOVY-4902] - Groovy class not compatible with Java integration when @Immutable is used
[GROOVY-4903] - StackOverflowError when parsing JSON text with JsonSlurper().parseText()
[GROOVY-4907] - Command line interface of AstNodeToScriptAdapter.groovy don't works
[GROOVY-4909] - insufficient compiler error messages relating to interface member visibility
[GROOVY-4914] - FieldNode doesn't collect annotations
[GROOVY-4915] - Wrong access modifiers in JsonSlurper
[GROOVY-4916] - Set equality fails if null elements are present
[GROOVY-4920] - Default values for primitives error in groovy 1.8.0
[GROOVY-4923] - Creating Pattern from declared String variable with pattern = ~stringvariable fails
[GROOVY-4924] - Class implementing a generic interface causes VerifyError
[GROOVY-4935] - stub generator loses package qualification for generic type argument
[GROOVY-4936] - package protected method in Parent class cannot be called
Improvement:
[GROOVY-1570] - Truncate string when when generating MissingMethodException
[GROOVY-3401] - Ternary operator ?: does not handle newline before ":" gracefully
[GROOVY-3921] - Add connection configuration options to URL.getText(), URL.newInputStream() and URL.newReader()
[GROOVY-4223] - Add local maven repo to default Grape config
[GROOVY-4798] - To support PreparedStatement.addBatch()
[GROOVY-4814] - When working with ClassNodes, sometimes need to call getFields() before getField() will work (lazy init)
[GROOVY-4815] - force annotations on variables to be included in ast transforms
[GROOVY-4824] - groovyConsole should support more common file types: .story, .gpp, and .grunit
[GROOVY-4842] - Make @ThreadInterrupt optional in Groovy console
[GROOVY-4848] - Allow custom exception class to be thrown in @Interrupt AST transformations
[GROOVY-4849] - @EqualsAndHashCode should use getX() instead of x when accessing properties
[GROOVY-4860] - Enable JsonBuilder to work with objects recursively
[GROOVY-4876] - @Newify works for pre-defined classes but not for classes defined in the same script
[GROOVY-4880] - Make ASTTransformationCustomizer handle annotation parameters
[GROOVY-4889] - An IDENTITY closure could be made available
[GROOVY-4893] - Minor enhancement to provide no-arg versions of DGM grep(), find() and findAll() methods
[GROOVY-4894] - 'includes' attribute in EqualsAndHashCode
[GROOVY-4897] - better tab completions for GroovyShell
[GROOVY-4899] - findResults object/collection/map enhancement patch (CLONED from findResult)
[GROOVY-4904] - Map.inject() doesn't accept closure with 3 arguments (collector, key, value), only 2 (collector, Map.Entry)
[GROOVY-4925] - JsonBuilder with Writer support would be handy
[GROOVY-4929] - rename DGM collectAll to collectNested - keep original as an alias for the time being with a view to deprecating/removing eventually
[GROOVY-4932] - groovy should provide a shorthand for: collect{}.flatten()
New Feature:
[GROOVY-1512] - When executing command-line scripts it should be possible to execute a BEGIN and an END method (akin to AWK or Perl)
[GROOVY-4865] - Add a take method to Collections, Iterators, Arrays
[GROOVY-4885] - groupBy with a list or an array of closures as it's parameter for nested grouping