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<p><span>This is with great pleasure that the development team announces the <strong>release candidate of Groovy 2.0</strong>.</span></p><div style=""><span>For the impatient among you, you can download Groovy 2.0 RC-1 in the <a href="http://groovy.codehaus.org/Download?nc">download area</a> of the Groovy website. </span><span>And read the <a href="https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10242&amp;version=18472">JIRA changelog</a>.</span></div><div style=""><span>The big change in this release candidate is the <strong>modularity</strong> aspect. </span><span>We've now fully <strong>switched to Gradle</strong>, as our build tool, to build a more modular Groovy. </span><span>You still have a big &quot;all&quot; JAR, but if you're interested in just picking the core JAR and the needed modules for your project, you can now do so.</span></div><div style=""><span><br /></span></div><div style=""><span>The following modules, also available as Maven artifacts, have been created and extracted: ant, bsf, console, docgenerator, groovydoc, groovysh, jms, json, jsr-223, servlet, sql, swing, templates, test, testng, xml.</span></div><div style=""><span><br /></span></div><div style=""><span>Also, it's possible for you to <strong>create your own extension modules</strong>, which will provide additional methods to JDK or third-party classes, just like Groovy does with the Groovy Development Kit.</span></div><div style=""><span>For more information on this extension module system, please have a look at this <a href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/Creating+an+extension+module">page</a> explaining the details.</span></div><div style=""><span><br /></span></div><div style=""><span>We're <strong>looking forward to your feedback</strong> on this release!</span></div><div style="">This is very important that you <strong>test this release</strong> within your projects to report anything, any bug or issue that you may encounter, so that we can make a great 2.0 release.</div><div style="">We're particularly interested in feedback on the <strong>invoke dynamic support</strong>, the <strong>static type checking</strong>, the <strong>static compilation</strong>, as well as the new <strong>modularity</strong> of Groovy.</div><div style=""><span><br /></span></div><div style=""><span>Thanks a lot for your attention and precious time helping us releasing a great new milestone of the project!</span></div><div style="">And big thanks to all those who contributed to this release!</div><div style=""><span><br /></span></div><div style=""><span>On behalf of the Groovy development team, we hope you'll all keep on groovy'ing :-)</span></div>