Changelog for Groovy 5.0.0-alpha-5

Bug

• [GROOVY-11117] - return first nested interface when GroovyClassLoader.parseClass parse interfaces with nested interfaces
• [GROOVY-11121] - unexpected error when having overloaded methods, one of which receiving an Iterable
• [GROOVY-11254] - Compiler crash: ClassNode#getTypeClass for TemporalAccessor called before the type class is set
• [GROOVY-11256] - Fail to identify direct call of abstract method
• [GROOVY-11257] - [STC] Cannot detect the type of Optional in some cases
• [GROOVY-11265] - Runtime rehydrate error for closure in interface default method
• [GROOVY-11269] - GroovyClassDoc has empty 'enumConstants' when call method GroovyDocParser.getClassDocsFromSingleSource(...)
• [GROOVY-11273] - Fail to identify updates on final variables declared in default methods

Dependency upgrade

• [GROOVY-11138] - Bump gradle to 8.5
• [GROOVY-11277] - Bump testng to 7.9.0
• [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-11281] - Bump checkstyle to 10.12.7 (build dependency)
• [GROOVY-11282] - Bump jackson/jackson-databind to 2.16.1

Improvement

• [GROOVY-9464] - GroovyDoc: List inherited properties
• [GROOVY-11255] - DGM#flatten flattens nested structures including arrays but not primitive arrays
• [GROOVY-11260] - ASTMatcher should support matching a var-arg placeholder
• [GROOVY-11262] - Avoid processing duplicated entries within META-INF
• [GROOVY-11272] - Generate `serialVersionUID` for each closure

New Feature

• [GROOVY-11261] - Provide a custom type checker for format strings