Changelog for Groovy 5.0.0-alpha-10

Bug

• [GROOVY-9873] - SAM type or functional interface referenced from a method is not visible from class loader
• [GROOVY-10359] - STC misses type error when involving a variable with a char a declared type
• [GROOVY-11353] - SC: variable initialized to null and assigned primitive value in loop
• [GROOVY-11371] - unsafe conversion of array of reference type to an array of primitive type
• [GROOVY-11436] - [GINQ] Some non-ascii characters in ascii table can not align correctly in console
• [GROOVY-11438] - STC: loss of precision check for typecast number literals
• [GROOVY-11448] - General error during canonicalization when having closure with default args
• [GROOVY-11450] - flow typing can lead to type unsafe results when having nested ifs
• [GROOVY-11457] - STC does not properly handle try/catch in flow typing leading to type unsafety
• [GROOVY-11467] - Failed to find method when using method reference on a class field
• [GROOVY-11469] - Empty execute method in groovy.sql.Sql
• [GROOVY-11471] - Assignments in closures can introduce issues in flow typing

Dependency upgrade

• [GROOVY-11429] - Bump junit to 5.10.3
• [GROOVY-11433] - Bump jackson to 2.17.2
• [GROOVY-11435] - Bump asciidoctorj-diagram to 2.3.1
• [GROOVY-11441] - Bump gradle to 8.9
• [GROOVY-11452] - Bump asciidoctorj-pdf to 2.3.18
• [GROOVY-11455] - Bump junit to 5.11.0
• [GROOVY-11456] - Bump gradle to 8.10
• [GROOVY-11458] - Bump javaparser to 3.26.2
• [GROOVY-11460] - Bump slf4j to 2.0.16 (test and standard install dependency)
• [GROOVY-11461] - Bump logback-classic to 1.5.7 (test dependency)
• [GROOVY-11462] - Bump Codenarc to 3.5.0-groovy-4.0 (build dependency)
• [GROOVY-11463] - Bump ant version to 1.10.15
• [GROOVY-11464] - Bump commons-cli to 1.9.0
• [GROOVY-11465] - Bump jqwik to 1.9.0 (test dependency)
• [GROOVY-11466] - Bump checkstyle to 10.18.1 (build dependency)
• [GROOVY-11472] - Bump logback-classic to 1.5.8 (test dependency)
• [GROOVY-11473] - Bump log4j2 version to 2.24.0 (test dependency)

Improvement

• [GROOVY-11432] - Support method references/method pointers in annotations
• [GROOVY-11443] - Support multiple Requires/Ensures/Invariant annotations in groovy-contracts