Changelog for Groovy 1.1.0-rc-1

Bug

[GROOVY-1186] - NullpointerException occurs when unboxing boolean Java return type where no return value specified from Java interface implemented in Groovy
[GROOVY-1323] - Inline conditional List << not being executed fully.
[GROOVY-1440] - println /hello/ results in unexpected token exception
[GROOVY-1503] - SimpleTemplateEngine drops Windows new-line character (\r)
[GROOVY-1517] - DomToGroovy outputs builder code not compatible with MarkupBuilder
[GROOVY-1549] - Array equality is not treated same as List equality
[GROOVY-1738] - Color settings not saving
[GROOVY-1744] - Extreme performance problem when calling closures using 'shorthand' notation
[GROOVY-1776] - GroovyJ 0.1.9 corrupts compiler caches in IDEA Selena
[GROOVY-1860] - Problem calling override method with different return type.
[GROOVY-1863] - Groovy compiler executes code it is compiling
[GROOVY-1913] - Problem when running script that uses java covariants
[GROOVY-1962] - add a stream based class reader and an optional java5 module
[GROOVY-1978] - static imports not working with groovy classes
[GROOVY-1995] - minus(List self, Collection removeMe) throws IllegalStateException for dupplicate values
[GROOVY-2126] - ClassCastException when using java.util.prefs package
[GROOVY-2130] - Use of java iterators in for loop is syntax error
[GROOVY-2132] - Filter stacktraces in the new shell
[GROOVY-2133] - Static imports not working inside closures
[GROOVY-2136] - Static import of properties and fields does not work
[GROOVY-2137] - Enum class does not load
[GROOVY-2139] - Can not init instances with super(...)
[GROOVY-2141] - ExpandoMetaClass has concurrency modification issues with multiple threads
[GROOVY-2150] - ClosureMetaClass regression (mapping of ArrayLIst to parameters)
[GROOVY-2152] - Stacktrace in the new shell
[GROOVY-2153] - BUG! exception in phase 'semantic analysis'
[GROOVY-2155] - Some additional static import regressions since beta-2
[GROOVY-2156] - Parameter annotations cannot be queried at runtime
[GROOVY-2157] - Elvis operator is evaluating the "true" expression twice
[GROOVY-2158] - Code crashing in new shell but not in old
[GROOVY-2159] - Stub generator does not generate stubs for Groovy sub classes
[GROOVY-2165] - GroovyClassLoader dead lock situation with multiple threads
[GROOVY-2166] - ExpandoMetaClass causes exceptions with multiple threads, need to sync on isInitialised()
[GROOVY-2167] - Occasional NPE with multiple threads with class caching mechanism
[GROOVY-2169] - NPE in GroovyScriptEngine
[GROOVY-2170] - Purge commands don't work anymore in the new shell
[GROOVY-2180] - LoaderConfiguration is broken for relative paths
[GROOVY-2181] - NPE generated groovydoc documentation
[GROOVY-2187] - GString as String[] returns a 1-element array with the whole text
[GROOVY-2188] - missing coercion for array
[GROOVY-2190] - check generics usage in class header
[GROOVY-2194] - The method primitiveArrayToList doesn't checks for nulls inside arrays causing NPE
[GROOVY-2198] - owner/delegatechain is broken for multiple delegates

Improvement

[GROOVY-1314] - support covariant return types (& generics)
[GROOVY-1737] - Map unary negation operator to a method and be able to overload it via a Category
[GROOVY-1832] - XMLParser: remove method on NodeList returns true (success). But, Node is not removed.
[GROOVY-1835] - Allow string coercion into classes
[GROOVY-1977] - Allow static and default to be used as property names after the dereference operator
[GROOVY-1979] - SimpleTemplateEngine (and poentially other TemplateEngines) should allow caller to specify classloader
[GROOVY-1996] - Groovy-all pom.xml has dependency to an outdated version of Castor
[GROOVY-2053] - Re-write InteractiveShell (aka. groovysh) in Groovy
[GROOVY-2068] - Extract a FactoryBuilder from SwingBuilder
[GROOVY-2102] - Groovy-all pom.xml omits <optional> tag for its optional dependencies
[GROOVY-2140] - Handle Null Attributes in MarkupBuilder
[GROOVY-2142] - Add new metaClass property to all objects to unify access to meta class across instances
[GROOVY-2162] - The unary negate "~" operator could work with any kind of object, not just numbers and strings
[GROOVY-2172] - Change the new groovysh IO debug/verbose/quiet to a single verbosity field
[GROOVY-2173] - Create a Main CLI class for the new groovysh, to free Groovysh from those details
[GROOVY-2179] - Make the *new* groovysh the default

New Feature

[GROOVY-174] - Round Peg, Square Hole
[GROOVY-604] - Provide parsing errors and warnings
[GROOVY-605] - Automatic imports
[GROOVY-608] - Provide refactoring capabilities
[GROOVY-611] - Intention actions
[GROOVY-614] - Add an Outline/File structure pane
[GROOVY-1851] - Expose unary plus and unary minus operators as interceptable method calls: positive() and negative()
[GROOVY-2131] - Map implementation that fires PropertyChangeEvents
[GROOVY-2174] - Add commands to capture/manage a complete transcript of a groovysh session
[GROOVY-2175] - Add something like pythons {{sys.displayhook}} to the new groovysh
[GROOVY-2176] - Install SecurityManager for groovysh to prevent unwanted System.exit()

Sub-task

[GROOVY-1902] - add check for usage of generics only with generics enabled classes and with the correct number of parameters
[GROOVY-2151] - Filter stack traces in GroovyConsole