Groovy1.1 RC2 发布了！

Groovy1.1 RC2如期发布，本次发布大幅改善了性能，GroovyConsole和GroovyShell的易用性以及XML的处理，下个发布的版本就是Groovy1.1 Final了！敬请期待！

下载地址：http://dist.groovy.codehaus.org/distributions/groovy-binary-1.1-rc-2.zip

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Groovy1.1RC2发布后，抽了点时间给Groovy Console加了‘自动缩进’功能和‘自动完成’功能，我称它们为Smart Edit Function，但被告知现在已经处于RC阶段，所以只能放到Groovy1.2了，效果图：

附：朝花夕拾——Groovy & Grails

Release Notes - groovy - Version 1.1-rc-2 - HTML format

Sub-task

[GROOVY-1723] - Provide unit tests for date/time support

Bug

[GROOVY-272] - Misleading MissingMethodException
[GROOVY-1019] - Ant Task Not Using Classpath
[GROOVY-1066] - Task.execute() not called when expected within a sequential closure
[GROOVY-1260] - Using the Ant task with multiple targets fails
[GROOVY-1272] - pom missing from ibiblio release of groovy-all-1.0-jsr-05
[GROOVY-1853] - Groovy in maven(m2) repository does not have pom.xml
[GROOVY-1918] - StackOverflowError when use GSQL's eachRow
[GROOVY-2006] - JDK Dynamic Proxies Broken
[GROOVY-2079] - 'abc'++ throws Error
[GROOVY-2081] - Script executes correctly when called with absolute path, but fails when called with relative path
[GROOVY-2124] - groovyConsole can not read dead keys on Linux
[GROOVY-2149] - Groovyc ant task cannot be found when using embeddable/groovy-all*.jar in ant build script
[GROOVY-2182] - groovy.sql.Sql printing row in closure causes java.lang.StackOverflowError
[GROOVY-2195] - ConfigSlurper does not resolve within closures references to outer properties
[GROOVY-2201] - select code in groovyconsole and fails to execute selected code via ctrl + enter
[GROOVY-2203] - missing cast in covariant return types implementation
[GROOVY-2205] - Multiline text selection not handled correctly in GroovyConsole on execution (Windows only bug)
[GROOVY-2207] - row num and col num of error info is not correct
[GROOVY-2209] - Maps of closures coercion to classes fails with non-overriding methods, protected methods, and with arrays parameters
[GROOVY-2210] - The behavior of enum is different between Java and Groovy in switch statement.
[GROOVY-2213] - Instantiation exception in Groovysh when creating an enum type
[GROOVY-2215] - Cannot create enum type with explicit constructor
[GROOVY-2217] - FactoryBuilderSupport doesn't route all pertinent calls to its proxyBuilder
[GROOVY-2218] - TimeCategory Date subtraction does not always work for hours and minutes
[GROOVY-2219] - VerifyError with derived class
[GROOVY-2224] - Groovy Console - Closing Frame with Find/Replace dialog open leaves the dialog open and process not ending
[GROOVY-2225] - replaceAll cannot replace backslash
[GROOVY-2227] - Stacktrace/bytecode missing line numbers
[GROOVY-2232] - VerifyError when using DelegatingMetaClass
[GROOVY-2243] - missing method list in exception
[GROOVY-2245] - groovy launch requires "tools.jar" system property to be set even if corresponding file does not exist
[GROOVY-2246] - subMap, findAll should return LinkedHashMap instead of plain HashMap

Improvement

[GROOVY-139] - user vs. developer error messages - filtering stack traces
[GROOVY-1203] - Website should show Maven's artifactId and groupId on Download Page
[GROOVY-1960] - bundling Groovy jar in Ant lib dir causes Sql to fail to fails to find driver class when jar file specified in classpath element
[GROOVY-2087] - Groovy ant task should support passing parameters
[GROOVY-2101] - Error message needs changing
[GROOVY-2186] - Configurable reaction to exceptions during template binding
[GROOVY-2199] - FileNameFinder should supports excludes pattern as well as current includes pattern
[GROOVY-2200] - AllTestSuite should supports excludes pattern as well as current includes pattern
[GROOVY-2206] - Add row num to Groovy Console
[GROOVY-2233] - GPath: allow attribute reference using unquoted selectors in XmlParser Nodes, making it consistent with XmlSlurper

New Feature

[GROOVY-783] - Make GroovyShell read script using specified encoding
[GROOVY-2036] - There is no equivalent of Ruby's respond_to - you have to catch MissingMethodException
[GROOVY-2253] - XmlParser should provide a getter/setter to allow adjustment of the trimWhitespace settting

Task

[GROOVY-1333] - fix code appearance on codehaus/confluence