Changelog for Groovy 2.3.0-rc-1

Bug

[GROOVY-6255] - XMLSlurper accessing xml:id
[GROOVY-6356] - Working with namespaced attributes awkward with XmlSlurper
[GROOVY-6630] - Static compilation confused by factory methods, map initializers and generics
[GROOVY-6671] - Types not inferred when coercing closures of generic method return type
[GROOVY-6674] - The JsonSlurper returns the wrong value type for floating point numbers.
[GROOVY-6692] - trait's groovyProxy class doesn't dispatch String#toString()
[GROOVY-6694] - Static method call within trait is not transformed properly
[GROOVY-6700] - Deprecate old groovy.util.GroovyAssert class in favor of the new Groovy 2.3 groovy.test.GroovyAssert class
[GROOVY-6701] - index entries of same method name are missing in index-all.html
[GROOVY-6702] - Trait, public fields & as-operator
[GROOVY-6708] - Instantiating traits with generics that extend traits with generics does not compile

[GROOVY-5461] - Make MarkupBuilder.getMkp() return MarkupBuilderHelper instead of Object
[GROOVY-6698] - Cleanup Gradle build in preparation for Gradle 2

[GROOVY-6484] - Provide an AST that creates a "fluent builder" for an immutable class
[GROOVY-6604] - PojoBuilder New Feature Proposal
[GROOVY-6709] - withCloseable{} DGM method for Closeable