❯ Guillaume Laforge

Groovy 2.2 released

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This is with great pleasure that the Groovy team is announcing today the release of Groovy 2.2, the latest version of the Groovy programming language.

Groovy 2.2 features:

  • Implicit closure coercion
  • @Memoized AST transformation for methods
  • Define base script classes with an annotation
  • New DelegatingScript base class for scripts
  • New @Log variant for the Log4j2 logging framework
  • @DelegatesTo with generics type tokens
  • Precompiled type checking extensions
  • Groovysh enhancements
  • Bintray’s JCenter repository
  • OSGi manifests for the “invoke dynamic” JARs
  • And other minor bug fixes, enhancements and performance improvements

You can read more detailed release notes as well as have a look at all the JIRA issues fixed.

Then download Groovy 2.2 while it’s hot!

Thanks a lot to all the users, contributors, developers who contributed to that release!