Changelog for Groovy 5.0.0-alpha-8

Bug

• [GROOVY-11319] - Access to a private property of a parent object is not caught
• [GROOVY-11341] - @CompileStatic: Compilation fails due to a synthetic bridge method in the subclass

Dependency upgrade

• [GROOVY-11337] - Bump asciidoctorj-diagram to 2.3.0
• [GROOVY-11343] - Bump asm to 9.7
• [GROOVY-11344] - Bump jackson/jackson-databind to 2.17.0
• [GROOVY-11345] - Bump jqwik to 1.8.4 (test dependency)
• [GROOVY-11346] - Bump checkstyle to 10.14.2 (build dependency)
• [GROOVY-11348] - Bump gradle to 8.7 (build)
• [GROOVY-11349] - Bump asciidoctorj pdf to 2.3.15
• [GROOVY-11350] - Bump log4j2 version to 2.23.1 (test dependency)
• [GROOVY-11354] - Bump javaparser to 3.25.10
• [GROOVY-11355] - Bump checkstyle to 10.15.0 (build dependency)

Improvement

• [GROOVY-11342] - SQL enhancement to allow metadata access for execute
• [GROOVY-11347] - Support JDK 23
• [GROOVY-11351] - Add zip and columns extension methods