Github user paulk-asert commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/groovy/commit/1bcaaeaf60078dd5a9aca5cbf1df8f45de68db60#commitcomment-28387263
Best bet for checking is to just serialize from 2.4 using
ObjectOutputStream into a dat file (binary file) and read that back in with 2.5.---
