Dear development community, I am happy to start the VOTE thread for a Groovy 4.0.0-beta-2 release!
This release includes 104 bug fixes/improvements as outlined in the changelog: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12318123&version=12350212 Tag: https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=groovy.git;a=tag;h=refs/tags/GROOVY_4_0_0_BETA_2 Tag commit id: 666b0084241f10293aa57175664ab4ca9764e3cb The artifacts to be voted on are located as follows (r50820). Source release: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/groovy/4.0.0-beta-2/sources Convenience binaries: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/groovy/4.0.0-beta-2/distribution Release artifacts are signed with a key from the following file: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/groovy/KEYS Please vote on releasing this package as Apache Groovy 4.0.0-beta-2. Reminder on ASF release approval requirements for PMC members: http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#release-approval Hints on validating checksums/signatures (but replace md5sum with sha256sum): https://www.apache.org/info/verification.html The vote is open for the next 72 hours and passes if a majority of at least three +1 PMC votes are cast. [ ] +1 Release Apache Groovy 4.0.0-beta-2 [ ] 0 I don't have a strong opinion about this, but I assume it's ok [ ] -1 Do not release Apache Groovy 4.0.0-beta-2 because... Here is my vote: +1 (binding)