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The Groovy-Eclipse team is proud to announce the release of Groovy-Eclipse 2.7.2. This is a service refresh of Groovy-Eclipse and it now contains support for the 2.0.6 Groovy compiler as well as Eclipse 4.2.1 and 3.8.1.  Our primary focus with this release has been to improve the <code>@CompileStatic</code> experience in the IDE.   You can use the following update sites to install this release:<table class="wysiwyg-macro" data-macro-name="info" data-macro-parameters="title=Groovy-Eclipse update site for Eclipse 4.2, 3.8, and 3.7" style="background-image: url(/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro-heading?definition=e2luZm86dGl0bGU9R3Jvb3Z5LUVjbGlwc2UgdXBkYXRlIHNpdGUgZm9yIEVjbGlwc2UgNC4yLCAzLjgsIGFuZCAzLjd9&amp;locale=en_GB&amp;version=2); background-repeat: no-repeat;" data-macro-body-type="RICH_TEXT"><tr><td class="wysiwyg-macro-body">For Eclipse 3.8 and 4.2 (Juno): <code><a href="http://dist.springsource.org/release/GRECLIPSE/e4.2/">http://dist.springsource.org/release/GRECLIPSE/e4.2/</a></code>For Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo): <code><a href="http://dist.springsource.org/release/GRECLIPSE/e3.7/">http://dist.springsource.org/release/GRECLIPSE/e3.7/</a></code> </td></tr></table>The Groovy 2.0 compiler is not installed by default.  If you want to install it, you can do so from the Extra Compilers category in the update site. And a zipped version of the update site is available at:<table class="wysiwyg-macro" data-macro-name="info" data-macro-parameters="title=Zipped Groovy-Eclipse update site for Eclipse 4.2, 3.8, and 3.7" style="background-image: url(/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro-heading?definition=e2luZm86dGl0bGU9WmlwcGVkIEdyb292eS1FY2xpcHNlIHVwZGF0ZSBzaXRlIGZvciBFY2xpcHNlIDQuMiwgMy44LCBhbmQgMy43fQ&amp;locale=en_GB&amp;version=2); background-repeat: no-repeat;" data-macro-body-type="RICH_TEXT"><tr><td class="wysiwyg-macro-body">For Eclipse 3.8 and 4.2 (Juno): <a href="http://dist.springsource.org/release/GRECLIPSE/e4.2/archive-2.7.2.xx-RELEASE-20121219-0800-e42.zip">http://dist.springsource.org/release/GRECLIPSE/e4.2/archive-2.7.2.xx-RELEASE-20121219-0800-e42.zip</a> For Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo): <a href="http://dist.springsource.org/release/GRECLIPSE/e3.7/archive-2.7.2.xx-RELEASE-20121219-0800-e37.zip">http://dist.springsource.org/release/GRECLIPSE/e3.7/archive-2.7.2.xx-RELEASE-20121219-0800-e37.zip</a>You can install from the zip by pointing your Eclipse update manager to the downloaded zip file and following the installation instructions.  Do not unzip into your Eclipse dropins folder. </td></tr></table><img class="editor-inline-macro" src="/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro?definition=e3RvYzppbmRlbnQ9MTBweHxtYXhMZXZlbD00fQ&amp;locale=en_GB&amp;version=2" data-macro-name="toc" data-macro-parameters="indent=10px|maxLevel=4"><h3>Upgrade to Groovy 2.0.6</h3>Groovy-Eclipse now contains Groovy 2.0.6 as an optional add-on from the update site.  See <a class="confluence-link" href="/display/GROOVY/Compiler+Switching+within+Groovy-Eclipse" data-linked-resource-id="133923519" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Compiler Switching within Groovy-Eclipse" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Compiler Switching within Groovy-Eclipse</a> for more information on how to do this.<h3>Compile static fixes</h3>Groovy-Eclipse's internal representation of generics has been completely overhauled to be more aligned with that of the groovy compiler's representation.  This has fixed many small problems with using the <code>@CompileStatic</code> annotation.  Your experience using this annotation in the IDE will be greatly improved.<h3>Memory Footprint</h3>We have put in some initial work on reducing the memory footprint of your Groovy projects.  Now, full and incremental builds will consume less memory than before. <h3>Better handling of built-in AST transforms</h3>Groovy-Eclipse now has editing support for the following built-in AST transforms: @Bindable, @Vetoable, @ListenerList, @Log, and @AutoExternalize.<h3>Formatter improvements</h3>Now you have more explicit control over how lists are formatted. Long lists are wrapped so that each element is on a single line and short lists are all on one line. From the Groovy -&gt; Formatter preferences page, you can define the number of characters a long list.Below, you can see the preferences page where you can set this option:<img class="confluence-embedded-image confluence-content-image-border" height="288" width="619" src="/download/attachments/230400717/image2012-12-17+12%3A19%3A23.png?version=1&amp;modificationDate=1369011392803" data-image-src="/download/attachments/230400717/image2012-12-17+12%3A19%3A23.png?version=1&amp;modificationDate=1369011392803" data-linked-resource-id="230565227" data-linked-resource-type="attachment" data-linked-resource-default-alias="image2012-12-17 12:19:23.png" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org" data-linked-resource-container-id="230400717" title="null > image2012-12-17 12:19:23.png">And by setting the long list length to be 30 characters, the following is formatted, with the upper list being wrapped, with the lower list staying on the same line:<img class="confluence-embedded-image confluence-content-image-border" height="128" width="237" src="/download/attachments/230400717/image2012-12-17+12%3A20%3A40.png?version=1&amp;modificationDate=1369011392787" data-image-src="/download/attachments/230400717/image2012-12-17+12%3A20%3A40.png?version=1&amp;modificationDate=1369011392787" data-linked-resource-id="230565226" data-linked-resource-type="attachment" data-linked-resource-default-alias="image2012-12-17 12:20:40.png" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org" data-linked-resource-container-id="230400717" title="null > image2012-12-17 12:20:40.png">Additionally, we have fixed other bugs in this area and your formatting experiences should be greatly improved.<h3>Building Eclipse plugins written in Groovy using Maven Tycho</h3>It is now possible to build Eclipse plugins written in Groovy using <a href="http://eclipse.org/tycho">Tycho</a> and the groovy-eclipse-compiler.  For more information on how to do this and an archetype project. see the <a href="https://github.com/open-archetypes/groovy-eclipse-plugin-archetype">groovy-eclipse-plugin-archetype</a> github project.<h3>Compatibility</h3>Groovy-Eclipse 2.7.2 uses Groovy 1.8.6. <a class="confluence-link" href="/display/GROOVY/Compiler+Switching+within+Groovy-Eclipse" data-linked-resource-id="133923519" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Compiler Switching within Groovy-Eclipse" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Groovy 1.7.10 can be enabled optionally</a>, and Groovy 2.0.6 can be installed through the extra compilers section on the update site. This version of Groovy-Eclipse is recommended to be installed on STS versions 3.0.0 - 3.2.0.M1, Eclipse 3.7.2, 3.8.1, and 4.2.1.<h3>Shout outs</h3>And thank you to the following contributors for help with this release:<ul><li>Andres Almiray and others for their work on <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRECLIPSE-1554">GRECLIPSE-1554</a> and providing new DSLD support for built in Groovy AST transforms</li><li>Fred Bricon for his work on <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRECLIPSE-1418">GRECLIPSE-1418</a> and getting Maven Tycho support working in Groovy-Eclipse </li></ul><h3>Bug fixes</h3>See the details on our <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&amp;jqlQuery=project+%3D+GRECLIPSE+AND+fixVersion+%3D+%222.7.2.Release%22+AND+status+%3D+Resolved+ORDER+BY+priority+DESC&amp;mode=hide">issue tracker</a>.