Changelog for Groovy 1.6.0-beta-1

Bug

[GROOVY-1257] - compiling of classes with missing parents of a parent class
[GROOVY-1630] - each(Matcher,Closure) doesn't work for patterns with groups; plus other regex issues [minor breaking change]
[GROOVY-2380] - groovysh not working with JVM 1.4.2_06-b03
[GROOVY-2432] - Setting unscoped log level to ALL can cause infiinte loop and stack overflow
[GROOVY-2483] - groovy.bat can not set system property
[GROOVY-2491] - Concurrency performance changes break closure method resolution in Grails
[GROOVY-2523] - compiler complains for loop has empty body
[GROOVY-2532] - Building GroovyDoc Runs Out of Heap Space
[GROOVY-2533] - Arithmetic with negative literals doesn't work as expected
[GROOVY-2542] - Missing hyphen in XML declaration encoding created by StreamingMarkupBuilder
[GROOVY-2548] - -cp include in bash script startGroovy do not include all needed jars
[GROOVY-2555] - Calling abstract super method causes stack overflow instead of compiler error
[GROOVY-2564] - startGroovy error with solaris
[GROOVY-2567] - Antbuilder/Groovy ant task that uses forking java task causes StackOverflow in ANT script
[GROOVY-2569] - the equals operator(==) error
[GROOVY-2573] - ConfigSlurper does not process property files with nested properties correctly
[GROOVY-2575] - getLineNumber()/getColumnNumber() on PropertyExpression always returns -1
[GROOVY-2585] - Can not insert nulls into the table using Sql.execute
[GROOVY-2586] - scrollPane() should not allow multiple components as children
[GROOVY-2591] - Groovy Ant Task is not executing Groovy Test Cases as the Command Line does
[GROOVY-2592] - XmlNodePrinter doesn't escape special characters in attributes
[GROOVY-2603] - ['a'] as LinkedHashSet throws GroovyCastException
[GROOVY-2604] - Annotations on a local variable crash GroovyC
[GROOVY-2606] - Error processing uncompiled classes
[GROOVY-2617] - Unable to use spread operator with maps
[GROOVY-2618] - GroovyConsole's Executing Window doesn't disappear after script finishes nor if user clicks on Interrupt button
[GROOVY-2619] - for ( ; ite.hasNext() ; ) does not compile
[GROOVY-2620] - Process.consumeProcessXXX methods do not handle newline properly.
[GROOVY-2622] - Calling a vararg method from a closure throws an exception
[GROOVY-2628] - Command line option for classpath (--cp/--classpath) is broken on Windows
[GROOVY-2634] - Using Java Generics
[GROOVY-2637] - Enums error
[GROOVY-2643] - Delegate property is ignored by closure
[GROOVY-2644] - startGroovy.bat appends CLASSPATH to jvm's startup classpath
[GROOVY-2646] - changed behaviour of isImplicitThis() in MethodCallExpression
[GROOVY-2654] - Joint compilation Groovy class stubs missing exception information
[GROOVY-2658] - Overloaded methods mismatched arguments
[GROOVY-2666] - Different exception behavior in groovy 1.6 (original exception is wrapped)
[GROOVY-2670] - -cp and -clasaspath don't work for Groovy.bat in Vista
[GROOVY-2672] - groovysh catch an exception on the multibyte environment.
[GROOVY-2678] - Installation of Groovy in a Path the contains spaces doesn't work (eg "Program Files")
[GROOVY-2685] - CLIBuilder regression since 1.5.1
[GROOVY-2689] - Strange coersion bug in Groovy shell
[GROOVY-2690] - groovy.bat faile to start script that are in a folder with a dash follow with "s"
[GROOVY-2691] - Annotations are not working
[GROOVY-2693] - Generics and joint compilation: method types are not fully respected
[GROOVY-2694] - CachedClass.CachedMethodComparatorWithString doesn't work on non Sun JDK
[GROOVY-2695] - Problem in Groovy MOP causing stack overflows in Grails
[GROOVY-2697] - line/column information for parenthesised expression
[GROOVY-2699] - GDK links are wrong
[GROOVY-2700] - Joint compiler incorrectly assumes that subclass is a Java class
[GROOVY-2706] - Unable to use increment operator on static variables prefixed by class name
[GROOVY-2712] - SwingBuilder cannot bind to the 'value' property of a scrollBar
[GROOVY-2714] - multiline string with """ or ''' error causes problem in groovysh
[GROOVY-2718] - CLONE -JAVA_HOME with Backslash at end results in Error JAVA_HOME not set
[GROOVY-2719] - wrong method override is chosen
[GROOVY-2723] - XStream cannot loadXML from GroovyScriptEngine created classes
[GROOVY-2725] - Semicolon required for certain generics declarations
[GROOVY-2726] - Missing 2 else's in InvokerHelper.setAttribute()
[GROOVY-2739] - Compilation error: BUG! exception in phase 'semantic analysis' in source unit
[GROOVY-2742] - Behavior of Closure in GString needs to be documented
[GROOVY-2743] - Fail to compile when there is a method return List<int[]>
[GROOVY-2745] - the gsp template can not support unicode(utf-8)
[GROOVY-2747] - Joint Compilation fails on the command line
[GROOVY-2749] - eachLine and splitEachLine work without encoding
[GROOVY-2755] - The runtime must instantiate or avoid the nulled MetaClass
[GROOVY-2766] - methodMissing is invoked twice
[GROOVY-2774] - Java final fields may be changed by Groovy
[GROOVY-2776] - "println" in new console window prints in the oldest one
[GROOVY-2794] - Groovy 1.5.6 Windows startGroovy.bat fails to pass CLASSPATH to groovy starter
[GROOVY-2798] - startGroovy error in 1.5.6 using Cygwin
[GROOVY-2800] - wrong use of generics in stub compiler

Improvement

[GROOVY-1074] - Better exception reporting with line number
[GROOVY-1132] - match vs match[] handling inconsistent for eachMatch vs. =~
[GROOVY-1348] - Patch to provide acess to Script Object in GroovyScriptEngine
[GROOVY-1934] - \u0000 produces MultipleCompilationErrorsException, unexpected char
[GROOVY-2560] - sum, min and friends should work on the same types that collect, each and their friends work on.
[GROOVY-2598] - eachLine should support a 2 arg closure with index being second arg
[GROOVY-2615] - Patches for line / colum information for various AST Nodes
[GROOVY-2679] - Allow to omit square brackets in annotations when list has just one element (similar to Java)
[GROOVY-2721] - index-all page for Groovy JDK DocGenerator
[GROOVY-2735] - Allow to set ClassLoader explicitly for ProxyGenerator class
[GROOVY-2744] - It would be useful to have a way to flip posix behavior on/off for CliBuilder without exposing specific Commons CLI classes
[GROOVY-2748] - line/column information patch for several nodes
[GROOVY-2764] - Plus on Collection tries to keep similar type of original collection but not for LinkedList
[GROOVY-2765] - Intersect on Collection should try to keep similar type of original collection (like plus)
[GROOVY-2767] - Preserve line/column information for user-defined occurrences of variables this,super and literals null,true,false
[GROOVY-2770] - encoding specific versions of newWriter and withWriter wrap the created OutputStreamWriter in a BufferedWriter which hides encoding
[GROOVY-2772] - Add missing 'items' attribute for list
[GROOVY-2799] - add a way to override the commandline conf in GroovyStarter

New Feature

[GROOVY-1884] - GEP: Adding Bound Properties to GroovyBeans
[GROOVY-2593] - DataSet's should allowing sorting
[GROOVY-2594] - Allow factories to intercept and handle child closures
[GROOVY-2791] - Please add a loadFile method to groovy.ui.Console for ease of use.

Sub-task

[GROOVY-2595] - in SwingBuilder, action() node should accept child closure as action closure

Task

[GROOVY-1053] - Replace use of mockobjects.com with jMock

Wish

[GROOVY-259] - unit test case to ensure that we always set line number information on all AST nodes