Changelog for Groovy 4.0.5

Bug

• [GROOVY-10096] - STC: accepts incorrect program with flow typing
• [GROOVY-10120] - STC: Guava Multimap#asMap bridge method
• [GROOVY-10271] - Wrong inference when using ternary operator with closure and variable
• [GROOVY-10272] - Wrong inference when using ternary operator with lambdas
• [GROOVY-10356] - STC changes the inferred type of variable in the presence of flow typing
• [GROOVY-10521] - Compiler complains about abstract method not implemented when implementing trait
• [GROOVY-10623] - Type mismatch when encountering unconditional flow typing and null
• [GROOVY-10646] - STC: outer class type parameter inference
• [GROOVY-10674] - STC crashes when combining use-site variance with bounded polymorphism
• [GROOVY-10688] - LUB does not work properly when mixing type parameter names and using wildcards
• [GROOVY-10697] - @ToString throws an NPE for POJO with null field
• [GROOVY-10698] - Fail to infer the type argument when using nested diamond operator
• [GROOVY-10699] - Unable to infer type argument from the parameter type of a lambda
• [GROOVY-10700] - STC cannot locate method specified by interface but supplied by AST transform
• [GROOVY-10701] - NullPointerException in instruction selection phase when having conditionals with lambdas and function references
• [GROOVY-10704] - Random order of TraitBridge methods breaks cachability
• [GROOVY-10705] - ToString order bug for super properties
• [GROOVY-10709] - Performance regression in Gradle with Groovy 4
• [GROOVY-10710] - operator == is slow when comparing primitive arrays and lists
• [GROOVY-10711] - CompileStatic doesn't call asBoolean
• [GROOVY-10712] - STC: for-each over Iterator fails to infer element type
• [GROOVY-10720] - Resolving wrong overloaded method?
• [GROOVY-10725] - Regression in STC related to generics, unknown cause
• [GROOVY-10731] - Exceptions thrown from MarkupTemplateEngine when map accessors and GString interpolation are used
• [GROOVY-10733] - Fix illegal access for array clone on JDK16+
• [GROOVY-10734] - STC doesn't resolve zero-argument method references in nested generics
• [GROOVY-10737] - Groovydoc deprecation list page is always empty even if @deprecated is used in groovydoc comments on some elements
• [GROOVY-10741] - STC method pointer or reference to generated property method
• [GROOVY-10742] - STC permits incorrect void method reference
• [GROOVY-10744] - STC support assignment of primitives to interface types like Comparable and Serializable
• [GROOVY-10747] - Fix illegal access for object clone on JDK16+
• [GROOVY-10748] - logback-classic 1.3.0 and 1.4.0 breaks on Groovy
• [GROOVY-10749] - STC: closure/lambda/reference parameter as type witness for SAM type generics
• [GROOVY-6655] - GroovyClassLoader parallelLockMap memory leak on Java 7
• [GROOVY-7247] - spreadMap type inference is incorrect and STC reports on valid code
• [GROOVY-7370] - Varargs in constructor are not treated correctly when creating instances of anonymous class
• [GROOVY-7506] - Cannot assign value of type java.util.List<java.lang.String> to variable of type java.lang.String[]
• [GROOVY-8487] - @CompileStatic calls DefaultGroovyMethods.iterator with Iterator value in for loop
• [GROOVY-8737] - STC Method resolution fails if other methods with more parameters exist
• [GROOVY-8828] - Union types incorrectly resolved
• [GROOVY-8965] - instanceof with || inserts wrong cast
• [GROOVY-9415] - failure in static compilation with getAt
• [GROOVY-9999] - @TypeChecked results in Error when groovy casts to BigDecimal ([Static type checking] - Cannot find matching method java.lang.Math#sqrt(java.math.BigDecimal))

Dependency upgrade

• [GROOVY-10719] - Bump javaparser to 3.24.4
• [GROOVY-10729] - Bump JUnit Jupiter/JUnit Platform to 5.9.0/1.9.0
• [GROOVY-10730] - Bump Gradle to 7.5.1 (build dependency)
• [GROOVY-10736] - Bump gson (test dependency) to 2.9.1
• [GROOVY-10738] - Bump Spock to 2.2 (test dependency)
• [GROOVY-10751] - Bump slf4j to 2.0.0 (test and standard install dependency)
• [GROOVY-10752] - Bump logback to 1.3.0 (test dependency)
• [GROOVY-10753] - Bump jackson databind version to 2.13.4

Improvement

• [GROOVY-10696] - The DGM removeAll variants which take a closure can be refactored to use removeIf for better efficiency
• [GROOVY-10715] - Make StreamingTemplateEngine support reusing ClassLoader
• [GROOVY-10732] - @Immutable handling of cloneable types should have the same behavior for non-cloneables on JDK16+
• [GROOVY-10739] - Improve error message for malformed grab coordinate
• [GROOVY-10743] - The use method for Category classes can't take an interface with static methods due to a NPE

New Feature

• [GROOVY-10728] - Slight enhancement to groovy-dateutil extensions