Changelog for Groovy 3.0.16

Bug

• [GROOVY-10070] - Groovy classes (for Groovy < 4) cannot access protected methods from base classes under Java 16
• [GROOVY-10145] - Support JDK16
• [GROOVY-10329] - import static star: add support for static callable property
• [GROOVY-10391] - Default interface methods causing problems with java 17 and groovy 3.0.9
• [GROOVY-10450] - Cannot call BiPredicate methods on closures or lambdas on JRE 16+
• [GROOVY-10733] - Fix illegal access for array clone on JDK16+
• [GROOVY-10918] - Memory leak: local variable values are not discarded
• [GROOVY-10928] - Invalid stub code for interface field
• [GROOVY-10929] - Method closure somehow doesn't match argument
• [GROOVY-10933] - Bootstrap Method Error on non-void lambda for Consumer
• [GROOVY-10939] - Non-static method java.lang.Object#hashCode cannot be called from static context
• [GROOVY-11112] - Calling SwingWorker publish() method aborts with groovy.lang.MissingMethodException
• [GROOVY-7490] - CompileStatic confuses statically importing an instance and statically importing a method

Dependency upgrade

• [GROOVY-10906] - Bump JUnit Jupiter/JUnit Platform to 5.9.2/1.9.2
• [GROOVY-10927] - Bump jackson to 2.14.2
• [GROOVY-10965] - Bump javaparser to 3.25.1
• [GROOVY-10969] - Bump gradle to 6.9.4 (build dependency)
• [GROOVY-10970] - Bump log4j2 version to 2.20.0 (test dependency)
• [GROOVY-11221] - Bump log4j2 version to 2.21.1 (test dependency)