Changelog for Groovy 4.0.18

Bug

• [GROOVY-10998] - Not reporting cyclic dependency in function's type parameters
• [GROOVY-11254] - Compiler crash: ClassNode#getTypeClass for TemporalAccessor called before the type class is set
• [GROOVY-11257] - [STC] Cannot detect the type of Optional in some cases
• [GROOVY-11259] - STC loses generic information on method references
• [GROOVY-11265] - Runtime rehydrate error for closure in interface default method
• [GROOVY-11267] - Trait static methods are not resolved when called from closure
• [GROOVY-11269] - GroovyClassDoc has empty 'enumConstants' when call method GroovyDocParser.getClassDocsFromSingleSource(...)
• [GROOVY-11271] - ConcurrentCommonCache causes memory leaks.
• [GROOVY-11276] - Generics error in method resolution

Dependency upgrade

• [GROOVY-11278] - Bump slf4j to 2.0.11 (test and standard install dependency)
• [GROOVY-11279] - Bump log4j2 version to 2.22.1 (test dependency)
• [GROOVY-11280] - Bump javaparser to 3.25.8
• [GROOVY-11282] - Bump jackson/jackson-databind to 2.16.1
• [GROOVY-11283] - Bump Gradle to 7.6.3

Improvement

• [GROOVY-11262] - Avoid processing duplicated entries within META-INF
• [GROOVY-9464] - GroovyDoc: List inherited properties