[ANN] Groovy 2.1.0 released

[Guillaume Laforge]

Hi all,

The Groovy team is pleased to announce the *release of Groovy 2.1.0*.

With over *1.7 million downloads in 2012*, a *strong ecosystem*, Groovy
continues its development and adoption, refines existing features and
evolves new ones.

In this new release, Groovy 2.1:

- *offers full support for the JDK 7 “invoke dynamic”* bytecode instruction
and API,
- goes beyond conventional static type checking capabilities with a *special
annotation to assist with documentation and type safety of DSLs* and
adds *static type checker extensions*,
- provides *additional compilation customization* options,
- features a *meta-annotation facility* for combining annotations
elegantly,
- and provides various other enhancements and minor improvements.

Please read all the details about the *new features and improvements* in
the *Groovy 2.1 release notes* document:
http://bit.ly/groovy21notes

You can *download Groovy 2.1.0* from the Download area:
http://groovy.codehaus.org/Download?nc

And have a look at the *JIRA tickets* we worked on:
http://bit.ly/groovy21jira

Thanks a lot to all our users, contributors and committers who made this
release possible.

I'd particularly like thank our *new committers*: Pascal Schumacher, André
Steingreß and Tim Yates, for all their feedback and various contributions.
Welcome to the team!

The Groovy team is looking forward to your feedback on this new release!

Keep on groovy'ing!