Groovy 1.8 release notes

This page is a placeholder for the upcoming release notes for the final release of Groovy 1.8. This page is neither complete nor even finished!

Performance improvements

Extended Command Expressions for nicer Domain-Specific Languages

GPars bundled within the Groovy distribution

Closure enhancements

Closure annotation parameters

Closure functional flavors

Closure composition

Closure memoization

Closure trampoline

Native JSON support

JSON parser

JSON builder

New AST Transformations

@Log

@Field

@PackageScope enhancements

@Synchronized

@InheritConstructors

@IndexedProperties

@AutoClone

@AutoExternalizable

Controlling the execution of your code

@ThreadInterrupt

@TimedInterrupt

@ConditionalInterrupt

@Canonical

@ToString

@EqualsAndHashCode

@TupleConstructor

Alignments with JDK 7

Diamond operator

Integral literal enhancements

Underscore in numbers

Binary notation

Miscelanous

Breaking changes