Changelog for Groovy 4.0.28

Bug

• [GROOVY-11522] - Possible Null Pointer Dereference in VariableScopeVisitor.java
• [GROOVY-11676] - Method reference using class name results in bogus error message
• [GROOVY-11683] - STC loses generic information on method reference
• [GROOVY-11695] - [GINQ] `groupby` alias can not be found in `switch` expression of `orderby`
• [GROOVY-11702] - Tuple#toArray doesn't honor expected contract for immutability
• [GROOVY-11711] - Templates not recognized for inner classes in certain scenarios
• [GROOVY-11715] - Grails reproducible build part 3: @DelegatesTo ordering

Dependency upgrade

• [GROOVY-11686] - Bump gradle to 8.14.1
• [GROOVY-11687] - Bump junit to 5.13.0
• [GROOVY-11696] - Bump junit to 5.13.1
• [GROOVY-11697] - Bump gradle to 8.14.2
• [GROOVY-11699] - Bump javaparser to 3.27.0
• [GROOVY-11700] - Bump jackson to 2.19.1
• [GROOVY-11704] - Bump junit5 to 5.13.2
• [GROOVY-11708] - Bump junit5 to 5.13.3
• [GROOVY-11716] - Bump gradle to 8.14.3
• [GROOVY-11718] - Bump jackson to 2.19.2

Improvement

• [GROOVY-11689] - @Delegate generates random method orders
• [GROOVY-11691] - Missing ClosureParams for NioExtensions#eachFile(Path, Closure)
• [GROOVY-11693] - missed specific error message in extension module loading