The Groovy development team is proud to announce the final release of Groovy 2.3.0! Groovy 2.3 is the new major release of Groovy, featuring official support for running Groovy on JDK 8, traits, new and improved AST transformations like @TailRecursive, @Builder and @Sortable, a new NIO2 module with Path support, lightening fast JSON parsing and building, closure parameter type inference, a new markup template engine, Groovysh and GroovyConsole ease of use improvements, a new GroovyAssert test utility, more @BaseScript class capabilities, and more. Read more...

To celebrate the International Workers’ Day (a holiday in half of the world’s countries, no less! including mine), we’re announcing the release of Groovy 2.3.0-RC-4. Yes, RC-4 and not RC-3, as we’re still having some issues with our build and deployment infrastructure which made us have to skip a bit. Thanks to your feedback, we managed to iron out some more issues and regressions we were having with the tricky generics handling. Read more...

Another busy week for the Groovy ecosystem, with key releases of Groovy, Grails, Gradle, GPars, and CodeNarc! This can be labeled as a “release week”! Releases Guillaume Laforge announces the release candidate of Groovy 2.3 Guillaume Laforge announces the second release candidate of Groovy 2.3 Graeme Rocher announces a Grails joint release with Grails 2.3.8 and Grails 2.4-milestone-2 Gradle 1.12 released with some nice universal performance improvements, more control of the dependency resolution process, an improved API for IDE integration, Clang and CUnit support for native code and a slew of bug and compatibility fixes Release of GORM for MongoDB v3. Read more...

The Groovy team is happy to announce the release of Groovy 2.3.0-rc-2. This should be the last release candidate until the final release in a couple days. This release ironed out a few bugs, for instance in generics handling, or made the groovydoc tool aware of traits. Note that the latest fixes in the traits support introduce a binary incompatibility compared to the previous release candidate. You can have a look at the JIRA release notes: https://jira. Read more...

The Groovy team is happy to announce the first release candidate of Groovy 2.3! The major changes between this version and the last beta include: a simplification of the semantics of traits, by removing @ForceOverride and making it the default the implementation of stackable traits for improved composition of behavior a new @Builder AST transformation to generate builders for immutable classes bug fixes on generics type inference For more details on the changes in this version, please refer to the JIRA release notes. Read more...

The Easter bunny is delivering the latest Groovy Weekly column! With your chocolate eggs, you’ll get some bits of functional programming, a tutorial on Groovy traits, details of the JSON serialization performance improvements, and also get the chance of voicing your feedback on things like Groovy’s support of Java 8 lambda syntax, on the Ratpack async support, and more. Releases groovy-comprehension is a groovy extension module / AST transformation which provides simple list comprehension functionality similar to that of Haskell, Scala or Python. Read more...

Busy conference times: Greach is over, but we’re lucky to get the next batch of presentations and videos online on the Greach Youtube channel. The GR8Conf Europe early bird price has been extended for another week. And Cédric and myself (Guillaume) are heading to the Devoxx France conference to speak about Groovy and Gradle. While at the same time, the Groovy team is delivering a new beta for the lovely Groovy 2. Read more...

Hot on the heels of our first beta for Groovy 2.3, here’s already a second one! We’ve received a lot of feedback, which is really awesome! Thanks a lot to all those who put the first beta to its pace and reported their findings. The most important change in this release is that the groovy.jar no longer depends on ASM and Antlr. It’s the first release ever of Groovy where the groovy. Read more...

After the Groovy knights in Madrid, at the Greach conference, the Groovy team delivers the first beta of Groovy 2.3! An impressive feature list: including traits, official JDK 8 support, tail recursion, NIO2 module, super fast JSON support, closure type inference, a new markup template engine, and much more. You will also notice the new documentation shaping up but the Groovy Core team still looks forward to contributions to help with this gigantic task, so don’t hesitate to voice your will to help! Read more...

The Groovy team is very pleased to announce the first beta of the Groovy 2.3 release! Groovy 2.3.0-beta-1 is actually already a feature-complete beta, so the release cycle towards the final version will be very short. Furthermore, Grails 2.4 is looking forward to integrating it rapidly as well for its upcoming major release too! So you can expect a general availability version of Groovy in the coming weeks, as we’ll move directly in “release candidate” mode after this beta. Read more...