Considering our limited human resources and time constraints, it is hard to give definitive and accurate estimates of the milestones we are going to release.
Tentative Roadmap
Groovy 1.6.x
Releases
- Groovy 1.6.5 released on 2nd of Octobre 2009
- in maintenance mode till Q2-2010
- minor bug fix releases as needed
Groovy 1.7.x
Releases
- Groovy 1.7-beta-2: 9th of October 2009
- Groovy 1.7-RC-1: end of October 2009
- Groovy 1.7-RC-2: mid November 2009
- Groovy 1.7 GA: December 2009
- incremental bug fix releases through 2010
Groovy 1.8.x
Feature set
- extended command expression (GEP-3)
- extended annotations (closures, collections)
- support for joint compilation of AST transformations
- internal runtime optimization
- usage of invokedynamic and annonymous classloader (JDK7 features)
- updates for JDK 7 language features (aka Project Coin)
Releases
- Groovy 1.8-beta-1: March 2010
- Groovy 1.8-beta-2: May 2010
- Groovy 1.8-beta-3: July 2010
- Groovy 1.8-RC-1: mid-September 2010
- Groovy 1.8-RC-2: end of September 2010
- Groovy 1.8 GA: October 2010
Groovy 2.0
Feature set
- New Meta-Object Protocol
- Incremental compiler
Releases
- Groovy 2.0-beta-1: end of December 2010
Previous stable release history and maintenance plans
The 1.5 stream of Groovy is the previous stable release. Only bug fix releases are planned for this stream.
Historical releases
- 1.5.0
2007 Dec 07 (Detailed list of enhancements and bug fixes) - 1.5.1
2007 Dec 21 (Detailed list of enhancements and bug fixes) - 1.5.2
2008 Jan 29 (Detailed list of enhancements and bug fixes) - 1.5.3
2008 Jan 31 (Detailed list of enhancements and bug fixes) - 1.5.4
2008 Feb 01 (Detailed list of enhancements and bug fixes) - 1.5.5
2008 Apr 14 (Detailed list of enhancements and bug fixes) - 1.5.6
2008 Apr 25 (Detailed list of enhancements and bug fixes) - 1.5.7
2008 Oct 09 (Detailed list of enhancements and bug fixes)
Upcoming releases
Here are the various features and fixes we are planning to implement in the upcoming bug fix releases of Groovy for the 1.5 stream.
Groovy 1.5.8:
Current stable release history and maintenance plans
The current stable release is 1.6.0.
Historical releases
- 1.6-beta1
2008 May 02 (Detailed list of enhancements and bug fixes) - 1.6-beta2
2008 Oct 09 (Detailed list of enhancements and bug fixes) - 1.6-rc1
2008 Dec 22 (Detailed list of enhancements and bug fixes) - 1.6-rc2
2009 Jan 22 (Detailed list of enhancements and bug fixes) - 1.6-rc3
2009 Feb 09 (Detailed list of enhancements and bug fixes) - 1.6.0
2009 Feb 18 (Detailed list of enhancements and bug fixes)
Upcoming releases
Here are the various features and fixes we are planning to implement for upcoming releases.
Groovy 1.6.1:
Roadmap for Future releases
The next major release is 1.7.
Groovy 1.7-beta1:
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