[ANN] Groovy 2.2.0 is released

[Guillaume Laforge]

Hi all,

This is with great pleasure that the Groovy team is announcing today
the *release
of Groovy 2.2*, the latest version of the Groovy programming language.

Groovy 2.2 features:


- Implicit closure coercion
- @Memoized AST transformation for methods
- Define base script classes with an annotation
- New DelegatingScript base class for scripts
- New @Log variant for the Log4j2 logging framework
- @DelegatesTo with generics type tokens
- Precompiled type checking extensions
- Groovysh enhancements
- Bintray's JCenter repository
- OSGi manifests for the “invoke dynamic” JARs
- And other minor bug fixes, enhancements and performance improvements

You can read more detailed release notes <http://bit.ly/g22notes> as well
as have a look at all the JIRA issues fixed <http://bit.ly/g22jira>.

Then download Groovy 2.2 <http://bit.ly/g22dl> while it's hot!

Thanks a lot to all the users, contributors, developers who contributed to
that release!

Keep on groovy'ing!