Changelog for Groovy 5.0.2

Bug

• [GROOVY-11675] - split property definitions aren't carrying final modifier to getters
• [GROOVY-11753] - Compilation error: Can't have an abstract method in a non-abstract class
• [GROOVY-11758] - IllegalAccessError: trait property and protected/package-private super access method
• [GROOVY-11768] - java 25: class cannot be non-sealed as it has no sealed parent.
• [GROOVY-11770] - StackOverflowError processing generics for kubernetes-client library
• [GROOVY-11776] - Overload resolution of trait methods does not work properly
• [GROOVY-11780] - Nest Host and Nest Members not always right for Closures
• [GROOVY-11781] - static field access to outer class does not work properly anymore
• [GROOVY-11782] - Inconsistent unboxing of null, and resulting exceptions

Dependency upgrade

• [GROOVY-11756] - Bump jline to 3.30.6
• [GROOVY-11759] - Bump jackson to 2.20.0
• [GROOVY-11767] - Bump log4j2 to 2.25.2
• [GROOVY-11771] - Bump asm to 9.9 and add JDK26 constants
• [GROOVY-11774] - Bump javaparser to 3.27.1
• [GROOVY-11777] - Bump logback to 1.5.19 (test dependency)
• [GROOVY-11783] - Bump jna to 5.18.1
• [GROOVY-11784] - Bump asciidoctorj-pdf to 2.3.20

Improvement

• [GROOVY-11755] - Support groovydoc for records

Question

• [GROOVY-8659] - Base class has final getter; extending class has property of same name; no warning for final override