You'd be better off looking at the release notes rather than the changelogs:
https://groovy-lang.org/releasenotes/groovy-4.0.html But I'll try to summarise the release notes here shortly. Cheers, Paul. On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 11:15 AM Aristedes Maniatis <a...@ish.com.au> wrote: > > Hi team > > Thanks for all your hard work on groovy. Would you be able to describe > in summary the big picture of moving from version 3 to 4. > > Groovy 3 appeared to be an important change largely because of the new > parrot parser. However looking at the giant list of version 4 changes > [1] is hard since most of these changes already landed in version 3. > > What should we be looking out for in our testing of version 4? > > > Ari > > > [1] http://groovy-lang.org/changelogs/changelog-4.0.0-unreleased.html > > > > On 30/11/21 3:25pm, Paul King wrote: > > Dear community, > > > > The Apache Groovy team is pleased to announce version 4.0.0-rc-1 of > > Apache Groovy. > > Apache Groovy is a multi-faceted programming language for the JVM. > > Further details can be found at the https://groovy.apache.org website. > > > > This is a pre-release of a new version of Groovy. > > We greatly appreciate any feedback you can give us when using this version. > > > > This release includes 26 bug fixes/improvements as outlined in the > > changelog: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12318123&version=12350848 > > > > Sources, convenience binaries, downloadable documentation and an SDK > > bundle can be found at: https://groovy.apache.org/download.html > > We recommend you verify your installation using the information on that > > page. > > > > Jars are also available within the major binary repositories. > > > > We welcome your help and feedback and in particular want > > to thank everyone who contributed to this release. > > > > For more information on how to report problems, and to get involved, > > visit the project website at https://groovy.apache.org/ > > > > Best regards, > > > > The Apache Groovy team.
