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| |=== |
| a| NOTE: _WARNING:_ |
| The Groovy 2.6 version of Groovy has been retired to focus on faster delivery of Groovy 3.0. |
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| Groovy 2.6 was intended to be a back-port of Groovy 3.0 for JDK7 but with |
| features requiring JDK 8 removed. Alpha versions have been released which support |
| the new Parrot parser (when enabled) but these versions are not feature complete wrt Groovy 3.0 functionality. |
| We have left the alpha versions available to help people wanting to port towards Groovy 3.0 |
| but who are stuck on JDK7. However, we strongly encourage all users on JDK8 or above |
| to move directly to Groovy 3.0. |
| You should consult the link:../groovy-3.0.html[Groovy 3.0 release notes] for a list of supported language changes. |
| Only differences with 3.0 due to the different JVM requirements are reported here. |
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| [[Groovy2.6releasenotes-Parrot]] |
| == Parrot Parser |
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| Groovy 2.6 defaults to using the old parser but you can enable the Parrot parser which supports additional syntax options and language features. |
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| === Enabling the parser |
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| For Groovy 3.0, the new parser is enabled by default. |
| However, for Groovy 2.6, you enable the new parser using a system property. |
| Use `-Dgroovy.antlr4=true` (set via `JAVA_OPTS` if needed). |
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| If building from source, you need to provide Gradle with `-PuseAntlr4` |
| in order to include the classes which support the new parser. |
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| == Feature differences with Groovy 3.0 |
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| Groovy 2.6 doesn't support native lambdas. |
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| == Bundled dependencies |
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| Groovy 2.6 optionally uses an earlier version of Ant (vs a later version in Groovy 3.0 which requires JDK8). |
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| == JDK requirements |
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| Groovy 2.6 requires JDK8+ to build and JDK7 (vs JDK8 for Groovy 3.0) is the minimum version of the JRE that we support. |
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| [[Groovy2.6releasenotes-Moreinformation]] |
| == More information |
| |
| You can browse all the link:../changelogs/changelog-2.6.0-alpha-1.html[tickets closed for Groovy 2.6 in JIRA]. |