Changelog for Groovy 2.5.0-rc-3

Bug

[GROOVY-5912] - Static compilation: Groovy doesn't fail compilation when accessing package scope methods, but fails at runtime
[GROOVY-6167] - Generics: within a single declaration, generic type definition order matters
[GROOVY-6632] - CompileStatic selects wrong constructor when GString is a parameter
[GROOVY-6742] - Groovy is unable to resolve this Generics use case
[GROOVY-6938] - Wrong error reported by @CompileStatic when overriding a method returning a parameterized value
[GROOVY-7031] - @CompileStatic breaks assign in combination with dereferencing
[GROOVY-7204] - Static type checking and compilation fail when multiple generics in use
[GROOVY-7691] - Type checking error on generic property with covariant type in subclass
[GROOVY-7753] - regression of return type from ternary operator
[GROOVY-7883] - Static compiler prefers private constructor over public if private matches better
[GROOVY-7985] - Wrong "incompatible generic type" error
[GROOVY-8055] - @CompileStatic improperly orders parameter types
[GROOVY-8059] - STC overloaded generic method selection not using resolved types
[GROOVY-8408] - invokeMethod cannot be set through category
[GROOVY-8509] - SC: error for call to protected method from same package
[GROOVY-8579] - No bytecode level check is done before producing JDK8+ bytecodes
[GROOVY-8589] - GrapeMain bugfix: should not show error about missing mandatory args when --help or --version is specified

[GROOVY-3867] - Allow methodMissing/propertyMissing to be defined through category
[GROOVY-8520] - Replace commons-cli with picocli in CliBuilder
[GROOVY-8567] - Migrate Groovyc to picocli
[GROOVY-8569] - Migrate groovy.ui.GroovyMain to picocli
[GROOVY-8576] - Remove Java2GroovyMain dependency on commons-cli
[GROOVY-8577] - Migrate org.codehaus.groovy.tools.GrapeMain.groovy to picocli

[GROOVY-8379] - Rework groovy-json FastStringUtils
[GROOVY-8557] - Verify that CliBuilder-based applications work correctly with picocli version of CliBuilder
[GROOVY-8588] - Tweak new groovyc implementation for consistent use of -v and -V switches