Changelog for Groovy 1.8.0-beta-4
Bug
- [GROOVY-4470] - Stub generator cannot handle multi-line strings as annotation values
- [GROOVY-4584] - VerifyError with nonstatic category references in static methods
- [GROOVY-4587] - VerifyError after int optimizations
- [GROOVY-4600] - (null as float) behaviour changed in 1.8
- [GROOVY-4604] - Stub generator doesn't escape double quotes in String annotation values
- [GROOVY-4607] - Groovy doesn't correctly check for weaker access privileges when using inheritance
- [GROOVY-4614] - what does a static outer class declaration mean?
- [GROOVY-4619] - problem compiling @Delegate to an interface that extends another interface
- [GROOVY-4628] - typo in document comment of Immuable
- [GROOVY-4630] - NPE in OptimizingStatementWriter
- [GROOVY-4657] - Regression: Null element coerced to "null" String when containing List is coerced to String array
- [GROOVY-4667] - for-loop type declaration does not work
Improvement
- [GROOVY-972] - makeMarkupBuilder use Writers instead of PrintWriters to allow System independent line feeds, e.g. with StringWriter
- [GROOVY-2806] - Performance of fibonacci function
- [GROOVY-4152] - Groovy code using constants seems unsuitable for hotswap
- [GROOVY-4574] - consistency of the regex apis: replaceFirst with Closure
- [GROOVY-4588] - Add start DGSM to Thread class
- [GROOVY-4621] - CliBuilder should treat GString like Strings when specifying options
New Feature
Sub-task
- [GROOVY-4276] - allow direct method calls on "this" to private methods if the method call target is clearly selectable at compile time
- [GROOVY-4402] - GEP-3: allow zero-args methods in the chain of calls
- [GROOVY-4403] - GEP-3: disambiguate cases where minus something or [] or {} are used as the argument of extended command expressions
Task
Wish
- [GROOVY-4537] - New signature for String.replaceFirst( regex, closure )