Changelog for Groovy 1.0.0-beta-10

Bug

[GROOVY-76] - Broken GroovyMock test case
[GROOVY-255] - Throwing Exceptions in Builders confuses groovy
[GROOVY-305] - single character strings should be coerced to characters if it helps
[GROOVY-310] - Subclasses cannot access inhierited static fields from implicit class context
[GROOVY-325] - Static closures have wrong owner object
[GROOVY-342] - try/catch not catching
[GROOVY-368] - character sequences (String.next()) don't work as expected
[GROOVY-382] - Cast to int[] fails at runtime
[GROOVY-473] - creating primitive type arrays don't actually create primitive type arrays
[GROOVY-525] - after upack, files in bin aren't executable
[GROOVY-532] - += gives me "Unable to pop operand off"
[GROOVY-540] - Cannot catch imported exception
[GROOVY-559] - Can't find constractor with an array parameter
[GROOVY-564] - Verify error with polymorphic functions
[GROOVY-566] - throwing exception within each() closure gets changed to InvokerInvocationException
[GROOVY-593] - XMLBuilder makes broken XML if data contains &
[GROOVY-598] - array of object in class
[GROOVY-649] - Seriously Large Memory Leak (reproducable)
[GROOVY-669] - groovyc creates class files that does not verify (java.lang.VerifyError)
[GROOVY-675] - multiple backslashes and backslash plus dollarsign are not correctly interpreted
[GROOVY-696] - Groovy misses first exception
[GROOVY-700] - Escaping Slash
[GROOVY-703] - Check null pointer condition in method convertToByteArray
[GROOVY-704] - Primitive function arguments cause VerifyError
[GROOVY-708] - Misleading error message
[GROOVY-709] - println error reporting not correct
[GROOVY-713] - Method Overload with Primitive Array Parameters
[GROOVY-714] - Which method should be called in this case (primitive array vs its wrapper array)?
[GROOVY-717] - method call for method with same name as a field causes wierdness
[GROOVY-721] - respect null values when unboxing arrays
[GROOVY-722] - don't use boxing for arrays created when calling methods
[GROOVY-724] - class cast exception when using empty boolean arrays
[GROOVY-726] - no line number in exception stack trace
[GROOVY-727] - Parsing Error for the Multiplication Operator(*) in New Groovy
[GROOVY-733] - NullpointerException instead of MissingMethodException
[GROOVY-738] - Parsing Error for Bitwise Operations in NewGroovy
[GROOVY-739] - Handling the Meta Character \b in String or GString
[GROOVY-740] - Closures can't modify variables more than 1 lexical level up
[GROOVY-743] - Accessing private field gives MissingPropertyException, not
[GROOVY-823] - Running "groovy -version" does not print the Groovy version

Improvement

[GROOVY-375] - classloader enhancements to MetaClass
[GROOVY-542] - bitwise "or", "and" and "xor"
[GROOVY-678] - swing 2d example code cleaning
[GROOVY-680] - the tarball does not include +x permissions on the bin/* scripts
[GROOVY-701] - log error/throw exception in Builder
[GROOVY-710] - Removed a needless IOException from GroovyShell
[GROOVY-718] - improve error reporting for throwables
[GROOVY-730] - Add the "oneRow" method to the groovy.sql.Sql class
[GROOVY-745] - more readabel error message when script name is equal to an variabel name
[GROOVY-746] - [PATCH] use equals to compare strings

New Feature

[GROOVY-692] - minv/maxv where closure computes value
[GROOVY-702] - GroovySQL should allow a closure to be registered to configure the JDBC statement before use
[GROOVY-744] - Allow groovy script extensions to be left off when running from command line