[ANN] Groovy 2.4.0-beta-4 released
Guillaume Laforge
Hi all,
This is with great pleasure that we are announcing the release of Groovy 2.4.0-beta-4.
The highlights for this release are:
a rewritten JsonBuilder for improved performance in JSON generation
a @SelfType annotation for traits
a new variant of GStringTemplateEngine capable of handling strings larger than 64k
improved support for overloaded setters
lots of bugfixes (some of which are backported in the upcoming 2.3.8 release)
a new naming convention for closures
properties with multiple setter
The last point is important if your project somehow relies on the name of the closure classes as it is a potential breaking change. The reason for the new scheme is detailed here.
You can download Groovy in our download area:
http://beta.groovy-lang.org/download.html
You can consult the JIRA change log:
http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10242&version=20612
Thanks for your feedback and contributions!
Note that we are likely to change the scope of the 2.4 to exclude macros. There’s still a lot of work and discussion to be done on that topic, making it incompatible with our target for a 2.4 release. This feature is likely to be delayed to Groovy 2.5.
Keep on groovy’ing!