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| </div><div id='content' class='page-1'><div class='row'><div class='row-fluid'><div class='col-lg-3'><ul class='nav-sidebar'><li><a href='./'>Blog index</a></li><li class='active'><a href='#doc'>Apache Groovy 2022 Year In Review</a></li><li><a href='#_releases_contributions' class='anchor-link'>Releases & Contributions</a></li><li><a href='#_downloads' class='anchor-link'>Downloads</a></li><li><a href='#_blogs' class='anchor-link'>Blogs</a></li><li><a href='#_apachecon' class='anchor-link'>ApacheCon</a></li></ul></div><div class='col-lg-8 col-lg-pull-0'><a name='doc'></a><h1>Apache Groovy 2022 Year In Review</h1><p><span>Author: <i>Paul King</i></span><br/><span>Published: 2022-12-29 02:28PM</span></p><hr/><div id="preamble"> |
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| <p>The year 2022 has been a reasonably good one for the Groovy Programming Language. |
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| <p>In 2022, Groovy had 18 releases starting with Groovy 4 in January:</p> |
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| <p>The latest release of Groovy 4 is 4.0.7 which includes over 300 improvements |
| and bug fixes since 4.0.0. For more details about Groovy 4, you can read the |
| <a href="https://groovy-lang.org/releasenotes/groovy-4.0.html">release notes</a>. |
| There have also been bug fix releases for earlier Groovy versions.</p> |
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| <p>For our main branch of our main source code repo, there were 820 commits from 28 |
| contributors. This is the branch which corresponds to Groovy 5 but many fixes |
| were also back-ported to earlier Groovy versions.</p> |
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| <p>Just on Groovy 5, we expect to have alpha versions available for review in the |
| first quarter of 2023. Also, while discussing commit counts, we should note that |
| <a href="https://github.com/eric-milles">Eric Milles</a> became the 5th person to overtake James |
| Strachan (the original founder of Groovy) in numbers of commits to the project. |
| Congrats Eric!</p> |
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| <p>There were also many contributions outside those code commits. |
| <em>We thank all those involved in contributing to or promoting Groovy in 2022</em>!</p> |
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| <p>In early 2021, Groovy surpassed the 1 billion artifacts downloaded mark. |
| This is downloads of artifacts from repositories like Maven Central and |
| (at least until recently) Bintray. We now only collect stats from Maven Central. |
| We don’t collect stats on downloads of the zip releases nor attempt to account |
| for the many downloads where Groovy is bundled within other products, so |
| the stats are no doubt much higher. Well, the good news is that the rate of |
| downloads is still increasing, so interest in Groovy remains high. |
| While the figures for December are not yet finalised, it looks like |
| <strong><em>2022 will be the first year Groovy surpasses 1 Billion downloads in a single calendar year</em></strong>!</p> |
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| <p><span class="image"><img src="img/downloads_until_2022.png" alt="Groovy download stats"></span></p> |
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| <p>We also started increasing the number of posts in the |
| <a href="https://groovy.apache.org/blog">Groovy project blog</a>. |
| There were nearly 30 posts for you to peruse from this year. |
| We try to show off Groovy features and also have some fun.</p> |
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| <p><span class="image"><img src="img/blog_collage_2022.jpg" alt="collage of blog post images"></span></p> |
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| <p>You might also like to check out the <a href="https://www.javaadvent.com/2022/12/groovy-and-data-science.html">Groovy and Data Science blog post</a> from |
| the <a href="https://www.javaadvent.com/">JVM Advent</a> folks. It summarises a handful of the above-mentioned blog posts.</p> |
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| <p>Several folks from the project and many friends of Groovy participated in the sold out |
| ApacheCon conference in New Orleans in October. We thank the conference organisers, |
| speakers and attendees for the wonderful conference.</p> |
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| <p><span class="image"><img src="img/apachecon_collage_2022.jpg" alt="Some photos from ApacheCon 2022"></span></p> |
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| <p>We have plenty more in store for 2023. We invite you to come on the journey with us!</p> |
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