❯ Guillaume Laforge

Groovy 2.1 is released

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Here’s my announcement for the Groovy 2.1 release, and be sure to check out the full release notes of the release!

The Groovy team is pleased to announce the release of Groovy 2.1.0.
With over 1.7 million downloads in 2012, a strong ecosystem, Groovy continues its development and adoption, refines existing features and evolves new ones.

In this new release, Groovy 2.1:

  • offers full support for the JDK 7 “invoke dynamic” bytecode instruction and API,

  • goes beyond conventional static type checking capabilities with a special annotation to assist with documentation and type safety of DSLs and adds static type checker extensions,

  • provides additional compilation customization options,

  • features a meta-annotation facility for combining annotations elegantly,

  • and provides various other enhancements and minor improvements.

Please read all the details about the new features and improvements in the Groovy 2.1 release notes document:
http://bit.ly/groovy21notes

You can download Groovy 2.1.0 from the Download area:
http://groovy.codehaus.org/Download?nc

And have a look at the JIRA tickets we worked on:
http://bit.ly/groovy21jira

Thanks a lot to all our users, contributors and committers who made this release possible.

I’d particularly like thank our new committers: Pascal Schumacher, André Steingreß and Tim Yates, for all their feedback and various contributions. Welcome to the team!

The Groovy team is looking forward to your feedback on this new release!

Keep on groovy’ing!