[ANN] Joint releases of Groovy 1.8.9, 2.0.7 and 2.1.1

[Guillaume Laforge]

Hi all,

The Groovy development team is happy to announce the *joint releases of
Groovy 1.8.9, 2.0.7, and 2.1.1*!

Those three releases are essentially bug fix releases.

You can have a look at the JIRA issues we tackled here:

- JIRA release notes for Groovy
1.8.9<http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10242&version=18778>
- JIRA release notes for Groovy
2.0.7<http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10242&version=19028>
- JIRA release notes for Groovy
2.1.1<http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10242&version=18990>


Head over to the Groovy distribution area to download the Groovy
distributions <http://groovy.codehaus.org/Download> and documentation.

Some further notes about our current releases and branches:

Groovy 1.8.9 is the last planned update for the 1.8 versions of Groovy
unless critical bugs arise.
When resolving bug requests we may not automatically apply them to the 1.8
versions of Groovy as we are trying to focus on later releases when we can
and backporting some of the fixes can be a little tricky.
However, if you have a critical bug and are unable to upgrade, please
indicate that in the relevant jira issue and we will try to take that into
account when resolving issues.
Of course patches/pull requests against the 1_8_X branch are also welcome!
:-)

Releasing Groovy 2.0.7 wasn't strictly necessary as upgrading to Groovy
2.1.1 is straightforward but we wanted to make a formal last release for
the 2.0.x branch.

And going forward, bug fixes will be targeted at both 2.1.x and 2.2 lines,
and only 2.2 will get any new features that may come, but we don't
anticipate that 2.0.x will get further fixes as the 2.1.x line supersedes
that branch.

Thanks a lot to all those who contributed to this release, and we're
looking forward to hearing about your feedback!