Changelog for Groovy 4.0.16

Bug

• [GROOVY-10750] - Compiler does not resolve compile-time constants in string concatenation
• [GROOVY-11014] - CompileStatic & Elvis operator: Cannot assign literal value of type (java.lang.Number or java.lang.Comparable) to variable of type double
• [GROOVY-11180] - Regression: STC loses track of package-scope constants
• [GROOVY-11189] - STC LUB of List and Set is not Collection for Java 21
• [GROOVY-11192] - Code that causes Groovy Compiler Crash
• [GROOVY-11196] - ambiguous method error for tap on null receiver
• [GROOVY-11206] - Concatenated strings not treated as compile-time constants
• [GROOVY-11207] - STC rejects concatenated string as annotation parameter
• [GROOVY-11209] - XmlUtil escapeControlCharacters escapes control characters 0-30 instead of 0-31
• [GROOVY-8488] - STC: floating-point literals no longer accepted as args to method with double parameter
• [GROOVY-8948] - BigDecimal to primitive conversion not working

Dependency upgrade

• [GROOVY-11187] - Bump asm to 9.6
• [GROOVY-11210] - Bump Commons CLI to 1.6.0
• [GROOVY-11214] - Bump jansi to 2.4.1
• [GROOVY-11215] - Bump JUnit Jupiter/JUnit Platform to 5.10.1/1.10.1
• [GROOVY-11218] - Bump jackson/jackson-databind to 2.15.3
• [GROOVY-11219] - Bump javaparser to 3.25.6
• [GROOVY-11220] - Bump jqwik to 1.8.1 (test dependency)
• [GROOVY-11227] - Bump antlr to 4.13.1.1
• [GROOVY-11228] - Bump antlr to 4.13.1.2
• [GROOVY-11232] - Bump jqwik to 1.8.2 (test dependency)
• [GROOVY-11235] - Bump jackson/jackson-databind to 2.16.0

Improvement

• [GROOVY-11183] - Add `allThreads` method to `Thread`
• [GROOVY-11201] - STC: assign method pointer to SAM-type

Task

• [GROOVY-11197] - Support JDK 22