Changelog for Groovy 2.5.1

Bug

• [GROOVY-5423] - Wrong Method Being Invoked - Related To Static Imports
• [GROOVY-7536] - Problem with Java Stubs Related to a Trait with Property
• [GROOVY-8008] - @CompileStatic causes failure to compile Groovy class that calls overloaded Java method
• [GROOVY-8224] - Stubs for classes implementing traits with fields don't include getters/setters
• [GROOVY-8233] - Java stub generation incorrect for static properties of traits
• [GROOVY-8281] - Final field is null in trait, but it has assigned value
• [GROOVY-8389] - Static import of a property messes with instance method
• [GROOVY-8505] - ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException with @Nullable change
• [GROOVY-8583] - Fail to infer auto-return type from ternary operator
• [GROOVY-8595] - Expected parameter of type XXX but got YYY static compile error
• [GROOVY-8609] - Fails to compile when upper bound has generics
• [GROOVY-8610] - STC NPE using DGM collect on Iterator
• [GROOVY-8614] - Invalid reference generated in InnerClasses attribute for nested interface
• [GROOVY-8616] - groovy.util.CliBuilder not brought in by groovy-all pom
• [GROOVY-8624] - File descriptor leaks in compiler and runtime
• [GROOVY-8627] - Compile error using NamedParam with value
• [GROOVY-8628] - Groovydoc fails to parse static nested classes with diamond operator
• [GROOVY-8629] - Groovy STC fails on the nested method call in constructor call
• [GROOVY-8632] - Groovy 2.5.0 fails to compile Google Java Client sample code
• [GROOVY-8637] - @NamedVariant processing error
• [GROOVY-8644] - Groovy 2.5 binary JARs not available at Maven Central
• [GROOVY-8654] - Can't compile documentation, no Gradle task defined for this
• [GROOVY-8666] - groovy-all pom approach breaks OSGi due to split-packages
• [GROOVY-8675] - GenericsUtils.PARAMETERIZED_TYPE_CACHE is static and private
• [GROOVY-8694] - Ant doco still referenced groovy-all jar plus missing some attributes

Dependency upgrade

• [GROOVY-8636] - Bump asm to 6.2
• [GROOVY-8646] - Bump picocli version to 3.1.0 from 3.0.2
• [GROOVY-8661] - bump gradle to 4.8.1
• [GROOVY-8673] - bump testng to 6.13.1 for GROOVY_2_5_X
• [GROOVY-8682] - bump asciidoctor to 1.5.8
• [GROOVY-8690] - Bump picocli version to 3.2.0 from 3.1.0

Documentation

• [GROOVY-8618] - Update docs for GroovyConsole
• [GROOVY-8619] - Update docs for Groovy Shell
• [GROOVY-8620] - Update docs for Grape dependency manager

Improvement

• [GROOVY-8615] - typo in directory name causing java.time extension methods not to appear in doco
• [GROOVY-8621] - Grape command line tool synopsis improvement
• [GROOVY-8622] - Groovy Console should have an option to list its current classpath
• [GROOVY-8623] - Groovy Object Browser within Groovy Console could show Groovy version in about help
• [GROOVY-8630] - Refine the parameterized type cache
• [GROOVY-8635] - Make some groovy classes of groovy console compile static
• [GROOVY-8670] - Make groovy-bsf an optional "module" for 2.5.1+, i.e. not reference by groovy-all *
• [GROOVY-8671] - Move JaxbGroovyMethods into their own optional groovy-jaxb "module" *
• [GROOVY-8679] - BigDecimalMath.MAX_DIVISION_SCALE is hard-coded

Task

• [GROOVY-8421] - checkstyle build cleanup
• [GROOVY-8664] - switch from findbugs to spotbugs

* potentially breaking change (read issue for details - even minor differences are sometimes flagged as potentially breaking changes)