[ANNOUNCE] Apache Groovy 4.0.0-rc-2 released

[Paul King <pa...@apache.org>]

Dear community,

The Apache Groovy team is pleased to announce version 4.0.0-rc-2 of
Apache Groovy.
Apache Groovy is a multi-faceted programming language for the JVM.
Further details can be found at the https://groovy.apache.org website.

This is a pre-release of a new version of Groovy. We anticipate the GA release
of Groovy 4 will be early next year. We greatly appreciate any feedback you can
give us when using this version.

This release includes 52 bug fixes/improvements as outlined in the changelog:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12318123&version=12350895

Sources, convenience binaries, downloadable documentation and an SDK
bundle can be found at: https://groovy.apache.org/download.html
We recommend you verify your installation using the information on that page.

Jars are also available within the major binary repositories.

We welcome your help and feedback and in particular want
to thank everyone who contributed to this release.

For more information on how to report problems, and to get involved,
visit the project website at https://groovy.apache.org/

Best regards,

The Apache Groovy team.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Groovy 4.0.0-rc-2 released

[Paul King <pa...@asert.com.au>]

Hi folks,

I have created a GROOVY_4_0_X branch in git for Groovy 4. Master
becomes Groovy 5 (though we haven't yet discussed much about what
might be on our Groovy 5 roadmap - I'll start a separate thread for
that). I'll tweak CI appropriately over the coming days.

The next Groovy 4 version in Jira is 4.0.0-rc-3 which I'll rename to
4.0.0 should it turn out we don't need another RC. I expect the next
release (rc3 or final) to be early to mid January to give time for
feedback. Please try out Groovy 4 so we can iron out any gremlins
before the final release. There are still some performance issues we
are looking at, and while important, can also be accommodated in
subsequent dot releases. The most critical aspect right now is to
ensure we don't have any unforeseen/unintended code breakages.

Cheers, Paul.

On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 11:34 AM Paul King <pa...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> Dear community,
>
> The Apache Groovy team is pleased to announce version 4.0.0-rc-2 of
> Apache Groovy.
> Apache Groovy is a multi-faceted programming language for the JVM.
> Further details can be found at the https://groovy.apache.org website.
>
> This is a pre-release of a new version of Groovy. We anticipate the GA release
> of Groovy 4 will be early next year. We greatly appreciate any feedback you can
> give us when using this version.
>
> This release includes 52 bug fixes/improvements as outlined in the changelog:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12318123&version=12350895
>
> Sources, convenience binaries, downloadable documentation and an SDK
> bundle can be found at: https://groovy.apache.org/download.html
> We recommend you verify your installation using the information on that page.
>
> Jars are also available within the major binary repositories.
>
> We welcome your help and feedback and in particular want
> to thank everyone who contributed to this release.
>
> For more information on how to report problems, and to get involved,
> visit the project website at https://groovy.apache.org/
>
> Best regards,
>
> The Apache Groovy team.