Changelog for Groovy 5.0.0-alpha-4

Bug

• [GROOVY-10936] - Patterns conditionally created using pattern operator ~ are cast to String/GString
• [GROOVY-11200] - JsonSlurper parses badly format JSON without throwing exception
• [GROOVY-11239] - VerifyError for explicit this parameter and default argument(s)
• [GROOVY-11241] - Regression in STC generics solution

Dependency upgrade

• [GROOVY-11243] - Bump antlr to 4.13.1.3
• [GROOVY-11245] - Bump javaparser to 3.25.7
• [GROOVY-11246] - Bump Spotbugs/Spotbugs annotations to 4.8.3 (build dependency)
• [GROOVY-11247] - Bump logback-classic to 1.4.14 (test dependency)
• [GROOVY-11249] - Bump checkstyle to 10.12.6 (build dependency)

Improvement

• [GROOVY-6285] - Null safety: delegate constructor selection using static param types
• [GROOVY-8299] - Generate bytecode for interface with default, private and static methods
• [GROOVY-11240] - Tweak cleanup DFA cache of parser
• [GROOVY-11253] - Identity variants for DGM#countBy

New Feature

• [GROOVY-11238] - Logical implication operator revisited
• [GROOVY-11252] - StringGroovyMethods should have a getCodePoints method

Sub-task

• [GROOVY-11237] - Support static interface methods