Changelog for Groovy 2.2.0-beta-2

Bug

[GROOVY-2974] - IntRange.step overflows near Integer.MAX_VALUE or Integer.MIN_VALUE
[GROOVY-5078] - Compiler should not allow 2 methods with same name and no argument to return different types
[GROOVY-5261] - A static method call inside a static closure bypasses closure delegate behavior
[GROOVY-5610] - Type checking of method calls using generics and default values is not supported
[GROOVY-5742] - CompileStatic goes into infinite loop when handling self-referential generics
[GROOVY-5839] - Typechecker does not detect shadowed generic parameter
[GROOVY-5873] - Type checker does not infer generic type
[GROOVY-5882] - @CompileStatic breaks with generic boxed numerics
[GROOVY-5883] - @CompileStatic incorrectly inferred closure return type upper bound
[GROOVY-5885] - @CompileStatic incorrectly infers generic return type
[GROOVY-5891] - Static compiler wrongly infers the return type of Class<T>.cast()
[GROOVY-5920] - Type not inferred from Iterator<Data<String>>
[GROOVY-5974] - @Delegate should support including/excluding which methods are delegated to (and optionally complain if multiple exist) - simple use cases
[GROOVY-5987] - JavaDoc and GroovyDoc tasks always rebuild
[GROOVY-6048] - Generated Java stub for inner interface with generics fails to compile
[GROOVY-6056] - @Lazy(soft=true) not quite right
[GROOVY-6155] - Can't access private static constant from closure, when using @CompileStatic
[GROOVY-6179] - Sublist can be modified by parent list operations
[GROOVY-6199] - @CompileStatic class throws runtime errors accessing outer class methods inside nested closures
[GROOVY-6250] - Parsing issue with enums using inner generic methods
[GROOVY-6251] - Grab of an extension module with a transitive dependency fails
[GROOVY-6261] - Inefficient method DefaultGrailsDomainClassInjector.implementsMethod(..)
[GROOVY-6262] - Sql.withTransaction setAutoCommit in finally not wrapped in try/catch
[GROOVY-6266] - 'class generation' bug when CompileStatic with HashMap and List
[GROOVY-6270] - Verifyerror in static compiled code
[GROOVY-6272] - Cannot define a no-args closure in Groovy Shell
[GROOVY-6274] - replaceNode improvements for XML processing *
[GROOVY-6275] - DOMCategory: text() doesn't get node value if it is a CDATA section
[GROOVY-6288] - Overloaded operator with return type
[GROOVY-6289] - Null arg call not ambiguouseven though it should be
[GROOVY-6295] - GroovyDoc doesn't escape angle brackets in @code and @literal tags
[GROOVY-6300] - JavaStubGenerator clears instance initializers
[GROOVY-6306] - Unable to use Grape to grab DLLs
[GROOVY-6307] - @TimedInterrupt et al only partially support multiple annotations within a single source file
[GROOVY-6311] - Using @CompileStatic on code that uses spread operator on a Set results in compilation error
[GROOVY-6317] - @CompileStatic on class using with(Closure) leads to compilation error.
[GROOVY-6333] - Changes required regarding unaryPlus and bitwiseNegate operators for numbers

Improvement

[GROOVY-3695] - DGM method signature improvements
[GROOVY-6269] - Document limitation of normal map-style constructor use when using @Immutable
[GROOVY-6287] - @Immutable could support Class as an immutable type
[GROOVY-6305] - newWriter() method for OutputStream

New Feature

[GROOVY-4164] - A groovier way of iterate over dates/calendars: upTo() and downTo()

Sub-task

[GROOVY-5875] - Cannot use DELEGATE_FIRST and delegates that are inner classes.

Task

[GROOVY-6227] - Delete (not working) Eclipse files from groovy-core git repo
[GROOVY-6252] - bump ant dependency version from 1.9.1 to 1.9.2
[GROOVY-6280] - Update GPars Dependency to 1.1.0
[GROOVY-6292] - Update Gradle version to 1.7-rc-2

Test

[GROOVY-5069] - AstBuilderFromSpecificationTest.testElvisOperatorExpression(): DSL and expected AST incorrect

Wish

[GROOVY-6226] - Configure Gradle Eclipse plugin for groovy-core

* potentially breaking change (read issue for details - even minor differences are sometimes flagged as potentially breaking changes)