Changelog for Groovy 6.0.0-beta-1

Bug

  • [GROOVY-11792] - for-in loop variable captured by closure/AIC sees final value, not per-iteration value
  • [GROOVY-12125] - deleteDir() should treat symbolic links as leaves
  • [GROOVY-12134] - @Delegate regression: fails to skip a final method inherited from a precompiled superclass
  • [GROOVY-12139] - Primitive array Varargs Java incompatibility (fix needed also for classic bytecode)
  • [GROOVY-12144] - AstNodeToScriptAdapter decompiler drops or corrupts several constructs when rendering AST back to source
  • [GROOVY-12145] - JUnit 5 migration silently disabled ~195 test methods: base class removed but @Test not added
  • [GROOVY-12146] - Regression of GROOVY-11715 - Unordered Annotation members
  • [GROOVY-12148] - fix out-of-bounds read on dangling escape in decodeJsonString
  • [GROOVY-12149] - Nondeterministic reflection order flows into generated bytecode, breaking reproducible builds
  • [GROOVY-12154] - `@CompileStatic` lambda with a primitive-typed parameter targeting a generic functional interface fails at runtime with `LambdaConversionException`
  • [GROOVY-12155] - decode process output streams using the native encoding
  • [GROOVY-12163] - fix concurrent modification of ExpandoMetaClass mixinClasses
  • [GROOVY-12186] - reject lone low surrogate in StreamingMarkupWriter.write
  • [GROOVY-12190] - @TypeChecked switch on enum: unqualified case constants pass type checking but throw MissingPropertyException at runtime
  • [GROOVY-12203] - False positive "name clash" for a valid override when a `? super` wildcard uses a type that declares the same type variable name
  • [GROOVY-12213] - avoid decoding the request URI in HttpBuilder.appendQuery
  • [GROOVY-12219] - Lazy iterators that prefetch remove the wrong element in DefaultGroovyMethods

Dependency upgrade

Improvement

  • [GROOVY-9192] - Implement optional parser error recovery for Parrot parser
  • [GROOVY-12122] - Provide a Regex timeout facility
  • [GROOVY-12124] - Modernize the TimeCategory date/time DSL: add a java.time flavor and a dequirked java.util.Date flavor
  • [GROOVY-12127] - Improve benchmark framework: Runner calibration/Deterministic dispatch metrics/Cold instance-dispatch bench
  • [GROOVY-12128] - loop contract checks fire at points that disagree with loop semantics
  • [GROOVY-12129] - groovy-contracts: postcondition weaving mishandles implicit returns
  • [GROOVY-12130] - groovy-contracts: inline postconditions read the wrong cached constant
  • [GROOVY-12131] - OptimizerVisitor: detect constant nodes shared across classes
  • [GROOVY-12132] - groovyc: print collected warnings on successful compilation (make -w effective)
  • [GROOVY-12133] - Implement findBalancedGroups utility to support Regex Balanced Groups
  • [GROOVY-12135] - groovy-contracts: Add a ThrowsIf annotation
  • [GROOVY-12136] - groovy-contracts: allow @Requires to opt out of weaving the contract
  • [GROOVY-12138] - emit invokedynamic call sites for property writes
  • [GROOVY-12140] - box-identity divergence for primitive varargs with classic bytecode
  • [GROOVY-12143] - GEP-27: lambda hoisting
  • [GROOVY-12147] - Add locale-aware number, currency and percent formatting/parsing to the GDK
  • [GROOVY-12150] - Decompiled AST view should show a closure's generated class name
  • [GROOVY-12151] - hoist eligible closure bodies to a shared adapter @PackedClosures/flag (GEP-27 S1)
  • [GROOVY-12153] - Fix AstNodeToScriptAdapter decompiler rendering fidelity for strings
  • [GROOVY-12156] - chooseBestMethod returns candidates in identity-hash order, making static-compilation output path-dependent
  • [GROOVY-12157] - Covariant bridge methods are emitted in hash order, not the order they are found
  • [GROOVY-12158] - @AutoImplement generates methods in hash order, not the order they are found
  • [GROOVY-12159] - Synthetic class-literal fields and accessors are emitted in hash order, not the order the literals were encountered
  • [GROOVY-12160] - @AnnotationCollector emits collected annotation members in hash order when the collector is precompiled
  • [GROOVY-12161] - Omit identity catch-all for try/catch without finally and slim exception bytecode
  • [GROOVY-12162] - Harden and extend bytecode peephole optimization
  • [GROOVY-12164] - Closure.call fast path misses closures with typed parameters (~6x slower via full metaclass dispatch)
  • [GROOVY-12165] - 2-arg typed/untyped map iteration, guard fall-through at arity 2, ambiguous same-arity overloads, static decline
  • [GROOVY-12168] - Improve exception handling consistency for numbers during JSON parsing
  • [GROOVY-12169] - Improve syntax error messages and caret positions for missing ')', ']', and '}'
  • [GROOVY-12171] - Improve GString syntax error when '$' is not followed by a valid interpolation
  • [GROOVY-12173] - Left-factor parser rules to reduce lookahead on hot parse paths
  • [GROOVY-12181] - Refactor async runtime and AST helpers introduced by GROOVY-9381
  • [GROOVY-12182] - groovy-http-builder: confine requests (and redirects) to the base URI
  • [GROOVY-12183] - Improve MarkdownSlurper resilience
  • [GROOVY-12185] - Move classic call-site caching into optional groovy-callsite module *
  • [GROOVY-12189] - JEP 181: replace bridge methods with nest-based access control (implementation tweak)
  • [GROOVY-12191] - Scope indy SwitchPoint invalidation *
  • [GROOVY-12199] - Replace ant-jarjar with com.gradleup.shadow for package relocation
  • [GROOVY-12204] - Support check-only compilation (stop after a configurable compile phase)
  • [GROOVY-12206] - Ingest type-use annotations when reading compiled classes
  • [GROOVY-12207] - Consult package-info.class of dependencies during resolution
  • [GROOVY-12208] - NullChecker: broaden null-guard recognition
  • [GROOVY-12209] - NullChecker: track nullness through ?., ?:, and ternary results
  • [GROOVY-12211] - Avoid full bytecode re-parse when completing NestMembers after class generation
  • [GROOVY-12214] - STC: method reference should select the functional-interface overload over a Closure overload

New Feature

  • [GROOVY-11947] - Add timing utility methods (timed, timedNanos) and Timed record to groovy-jdk
  • [GROOVY-12115] - Reify a receiver's type argument as a Class parameter under @CompileStatic (@ClassTag)
  • [GROOVY-12187] - Add SqlInjectionChecker type checker to detect quoted GString interpolation in SQL queries

Sub-task

  • [GROOVY-12215] - Fat-free variants for collectMany, countBy, split, take/dropWhile, groupBy
  • [GROOVY-12216] - Fat-free twins for the fold/reduce DGM methods (inject, injectAll)
  • [GROOVY-12218] - Complete fat-free (functional-interface) twins for the array (`T[]`) forms of the GROOVY-12054 DGM methods

Task

  • [GROOVY-12137] - experimental reflective cold tier for indy dispatch

* potentially breaking change (read issue for details - even minor differences are sometimes flagged as potentially breaking changes)