Hi all,
The Groovy team is pleased to announce the *release of Groovy 2.3.5*.
*Groovy 2.3.5 is a bug fix release* of our Groovy 2.3 branch.
You’ll find fixes for *static compilation* and *type-checking*, *JSON
serialization* issues, *markup template engine* errors, and *performance
improvements*.
We care a lot about backward and binary compatibility, but in this release,
we also thought about *upward compatibility*, so that code compiled with a
newer version can even run on an older runtime.
So we leveraged this version to add a new artifact, named
groovy-backports-compat23. This artifact shouldn’t be necessary for most of
you, but if you face an error like:
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.typehandling.ShortTypeHandling
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:372)
in your project, then it means that a class has been compiled with Groovy
2.3+ but that you are trying to use it with an older version of Groovy. By
adding this jar on classpath, you give a chance to your program to run.
This may be particularily interesting for Gradle users that want to use a
plugin built on Gradle 2+ on older versions of Gradle and face this error.
Adding the following line to their build files should help:
buildscript {
// ...
dependencies {
classpath 'some plugin build on gradle 2'
classpath 'org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-backports-compat23:2.3.5'
}
}
Note that for now, this jar only contains the ShortTypeHandlingClass.
Future versions may include more.
You can download Groovy 2.3.5 here:
http://beta.groovy-lang.org/download.html
The detailed JIRA release notes can be found here:
https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10242&version=20491
Keep on groovy-ing!
--
Guillaume Laforge
Groovy Project Manager
Pivotal, Inc.
Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/
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