Roadmap

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• Groovy 1.8-final: End of April 2011 
• Groovy 1.8.1: End of July 2011 
• Groovy 1.8.3: Early September 2011 
• Groovy 1.8.4: Octobre 2011 
• Groovy 1.8.5: End of December 2011 
• Groovy 1.8.6: February 2012 
• Groovy 1.8.7: July 2012 
• Groovy 1.8.8: September 2012 

Groovy 2.0

Groovy 2.0 is the main stable branch of the Groovy programming language. 

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• Groovy 1.9-beta-1: July 2011 
• Groovy 1.9-beta-3: September 2011 
• Groovy 1.9-beta-4: October 2011 
• Groovy 2.0-beta-1: November 2011 
• Groovy 2.0-beta-2: December 2011 
• Groovy 2.0-beta-3: May 2012
• Groovy 2.0-rc-1: end of May 2012 
• Groovy 2.0-rc-2: early June 2012 
• Groovy 2.0-rc-3: mid June 2012 
• Groovy 2.0-rc-4: end of June 2012 
• Groovy 2.0-final: end of June 2012 
• Groovy 2.0.1: end of July 2012 
• Groovy 2.0.2: early September 2012 
• Groovy 2.0.4: end of September 2012 
• Groovy 2.0.5: October 2012 
• Groovy 2.0.6: December 2012

Groovy 2.1

Groovy 2.1 is the next major version after 2.0.

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• Completion of the invoke dynamic support, in particular usage of invoke dynamic with constructors, and properties
• @DelegatesTo transformation for improved DSL support and static type checking
• AST transforms Annotation aliases
  
  • ability to create custom annotations for specific AST transforms applications
    for example: @Canonical could be a composite alias annotation for @ToString / @TupleConstructor / @EqualsAndHashCode
• Compilation configuration scripting
  • ability to create a script that further customize compilation with customizers, per-extension, per-sourceunit, etc

Releases

• Groovy 2.1 beta: end of November December 2012
• Groovy 2.1 .x: RC: early January 2013
• Groovy 2.1 final: end of January 2012

Groovy 3.0 (2013)

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