I'll try to do 6.0.0-beta-2 (and 5.1.0) later in the week - still a few PRs to finish reviews for.
Cheers, Paul. On Wed, Aug 5, 2026 at 7:27 AM Paul King <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks everyone for the great team effort in getting the Groovy 6 > beta-1 release ready. The release is out and I have created beta-2 in > Jira. I think we are feature complete with Groovy 6 and we won't get > further feedback from some parts of our ecosystem until we get 6 to > GA. So my plan is to rename beta-2 to RC-1 before the next release IF > we only have bug fixes and minor or opt-in improvements. I'd also like > to release sooner rather than later - maybe kicking off in a week or > two. But we'll do a beta-2 if we need it - there are some pending PRs > that might warrant a beta-2. > > Cheers, Paul. > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2026 at 4:40 PM Paul King <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Dear community, > > > > The Apache Groovy team is pleased to announce version 6.0.0-beta-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 88 bug fixes/improvements as outlined in the > > changelog: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12318123&version=12357232 > > > > 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.
