Here are a bit more details on the new little features of those releases: http://glaforge.appspot.com/article/groovy-1-8-3-and-1-9-beta-4-released
Guillaume On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 19:47, Guillaume Laforge <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > The Groovy development team is happy to announce the releases of Groovy > 1.8.3 and Groovy 1.9-beta-4. > > At the same time as working on newer branches like the static type checking > support, the invoke dynamic support, and modularization of Groovy, we have > fixed quite a few bugs, and integrated several patches that have been kindly > submitted by the community. > > In the minor enhancements for both versions, you'll be able to customize > the groovy shell prompt with -Dgroovysh.prompt=cool or by exporting the > GROOVYSH_PROMPT variable. > You can run a remote groovy script with the groovy command by passing it a > URL pointing at the script or class you want to run (instead of the local > file): groovy http://example.com/foo.groovy > The Groovy JDK doc will now show you the version number of Groovy for which > it's been generated. > There's a new method to format dates, with timezone information. > > For 1.9 exclusively, we have a new tab in the Groovy console AST browser to > watch the bytecode generated by the groovy compiler (select the class > generation phase, and the classnode for which you want to see the bytecode). > We also have a new mechanism for controlling how Global AST transformations > are applied or not. > > You can download those versions on the Groovy website here: > http://groovy.codehaus.org/Download > > The JIRA release notes can be viewed here: > > - For Groovy 1.8.3: > > http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10242&version=17657 > - For Groovy 1.9-beta-4: > > http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10242&version=17656 > > Thanks a lot everybody for your many contributions, patches, pull requests > on GitHub! > > Keep on Groovying :-) > > -- > Guillaume Laforge > Groovy Project Manager > SpringSource, a division of VMware > > Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/ > Twitter: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge> > Google+: http://gplus.to/glaforge > > -- Guillaume Laforge Groovy Project Manager SpringSource, a division of VMware Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/ Twitter: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge> Google+: http://gplus.to/glaforge
