Changelog for Groovy 1.6.6

Bug

[GROOVY-2696] - Joint compiler does not honour JavaBean spec for boolean properties
[GROOVY-2897] - Accessors for boolean properties are not generated properly
[GROOVY-3318] - Javac doesn't see synthetic Groovy methods in Groovy-compiled superclass
[GROOVY-3645] - Running invalid Groovy program produces IncompatibleClassChangeError
[GROOVY-3709] - javadoc of toMapString
[GROOVY-3749] - Cannot have a script with a main method as the starting point
[GROOVY-3763] - CLONE -Using the Ant task with multiple targets fails
[GROOVY-3806] - Sql.java contains assertion which is always false
[GROOVY-3807] - Sql.expand not working in Sql.eachRow(GString sql, Closure metaClosure, Closure rowClosure)
[GROOVY-3808] - Sql.Dataset: No logging implemented
[GROOVY-3817] - try {} block followed by list notation does not work, needs something else in between
[GROOVY-3818] - grep or findAll results in ClassCastException (Comparaple) on TreeSet, TreeMap with custom comparator
[GROOVY-3827] - One compile error reported twice
[GROOVY-3830] - java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError thrown with Interface containing variable
[GROOVY-3831] - Expecting to find object/array on stack
[GROOVY-3843] - API doc of groovy.servlet.TemplateServlet, Logging and extra-output option 'generate.by' is 'generated.by'.
[GROOVY-3847] - Weird compiler error when using assert incorrectly
[GROOVY-3850] - groovyc should not generate method stub if method name is invalid in Java
[GROOVY-3851] - @Grapes does not work (at least not in Groovy Console)
[GROOVY-3852] - groovyc allows multiple annotations of the same type on the same element
[GROOVY-3853] - Changes to @Grab parameters not detected in Groovy Console
[GROOVY-3857] - Newline in interfaces declaration with generics is not fully supported.
[GROOVY-3861] - AST transforms of spock do not take effect when the library is loaded using @Grab
[GROOVY-3863] - this.class fails in static methods that return void
[GROOVY-3868] - "as" and "asType()" produce different results when converting Strings to primitive types
[GROOVY-3873] - adding methods to metaclass of interface not working
[GROOVY-3874] - Improve the caching logic in GroovyClassLoader
[GROOVY-3875] - CurriedClosure does not clone the parent closure
[GROOVY-3876] - as Integer doesn't work with GStringImpl
[GROOVY-3877] - problem trying to extend an abstract groovy class with a java class
[GROOVY-3878] - Can't call Java varargs method when it's mixed in to toplevel
[GROOVY-3885] - Groovy-all-jdk14-1.6.5 not usable - java/util/concurrent/locks/AbstractQueuedSynchronizer
[GROOVY-3893] - NPE in GroovyScriptEngine.getResourceConnection(String)
[GROOVY-3894] - NumberFormatException if value is too big
[GROOVY-3895] - Joint compiler doesn't like classes that contain methods with primitive types for names
[GROOVY-3904] - groovyc hangs if a type is declared to extend itself

Improvement

[GROOVY-3706] - Tiny improvement to groovy.sql.Sql eachRows()
[GROOVY-3778] - Round out eachRows() and rows() variants taking metaDataClosure.
[GROOVY-3786] - Multiple MarkupBuilder Issues
[GROOVY-3813] - MarkupBuilder alignment of special mkp commands compared with StreamingMarkupBuilder
[GROOVY-3816] - Should be possible to declare a class in a script and use it in another script with JSR223
[GROOVY-3839] - AST Transforms: @GroovyASTTransformationClass annotation should allow parameters of type Class[] not just String[]
[GROOVY-3860] - Groovydoc throws NullPointerException when link tag missing packages attribute
[GROOVY-3884] - InvokerHelper.getVersion() should also work on Google App Engine
[GROOVY-3890] - ObjectGraphBuilder: add a general purpose bean factory

New Feature

[GROOVY-3671] - "grape resolve -ivy (... ... ...)+" could generate ivy dependencies