# Groovy 1.8.6 released

> Groovy 1.8.6 is now available, a maintenance release packed with minor improvements and new features; get details and download it today!

Author: [Guillaume Laforge](https://glaforge.dev/) | Published: 2012-02-09 | Topics: groovy | Canonical: https://glaforge.dev/posts/2012/02/09/groovy-1-8-6-released/


The Groovy development team is pleased to announce the release of Groovy 1.8.6.

Groovy 1.8.6 is a maintenance release essentially, with a few minor improvements and new features.

You can see the details in the JIRA release notes here:  
[http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10242&version=18245](http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10242&version=18245)

You can download Groovy 1.8.6 in the Download section of the Groovy website:  
[http://groovy.codehaus.org/Download](http://groovy.codehaus.org/Download)

Thanks a lot to all those who contributed to this release!

Next in line should be a new beta of Groovy 2.0 ;-)