Milestones

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.

For 1.1, we've decided to follow the same beta / RC numbering scheme. It means we will be releasing a few betas, and a couple of RCs before release 1.1-final:

1.1-beta-1
1.1-beta-2
1.1-beta-3
1.1-rc-1
1.1-rc-2
1.1-final

We plan to release 1.1 before the end of the year, and ideally, in Q3 of 2007.

Roadmap

Here are the various features we would like to implement in the forthcoming releases of Groovy:

GROOVY-1714	Java 5 features
GROOVY-1715	Annotation support
GROOVY-1716	Annotation definition
GROOVY-1717	Enum support
GROOVY-1698	No way to escape the / character in Groovy regex
GROOVY-1709	GEP: Groovy Enhancement Proposal
GROOVY-1710	Update all file headers to the ASL 2
GROOVY-1711	New Build System
GROOVY-1713	Automated GLS documentation out of TCK test cases
GROOVY-1712	Source and test reorganization and Groovy core / gdk artifacts
GROOVY-217	support java style old for loop notation
GROOVY-1718	Named-parameters without parentheses
GROOVY-158	Multiple assignment
GROOVY-1719	MetaClass enhancements
GROOVY-1721	Discovery mechanism for customizing metaclasses with a script using ExpandoMetaClass
GROOVY-1722	Extract interfaces from the Meta* classes
GROOVY-164	Date/Calendar operations
GROOVY-1723	Provide unit tests for date/time support
GROOVY-1724	Extend Map coercion to classes
GROOVY-1726	Grammar cleanup
GROOVY-1727	Groovy shell and Groovy swing console improvements
GROOVY-1728	Compiler performance
GROOVY-776	Create a GroovyDoc/JavaDoc tool
GROOVY-1646	Inherited method establishing logic needs to be MetaClass aware