| <p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Dear community,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Apache Groovy team is pleased to announce version 2.4.16 of Apache Groovy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Apache Groovy is a multi-faceted programming language for the JVM.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Further details can be found at the </span><a href="http://groovy.apache.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://groovy.apache.org&source=gmail&ust=1544783792951000&usg=AFQjCNGudxYl5_TdTaz4TSomv1UPiDkoGA" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">http://groovy.apache.org</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> website.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This release is a maintenance release of the GROOVY_2_4_X branch.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">While we recommend moving to the current 2.5.x releases (currently 2.5.4),</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">for any users who can't upgrade to 2.5 and are using 2.4.x versions,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">we strongly recommend that you upgrade to this version.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This release includes 18 bug fixes/improvements as outlined in the changelog:</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12318123&version=12342996" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId%3D12318123%26version%3D12342996&source=gmail&ust=1544783792951000&usg=AFQjCNFCuJGQH1QSJQmN0a4lIkcIGYSozg" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">https://issues.apache.org/jira<wbr />/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?proje<wbr />ctId=12318123&version=12342996</a><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sources, convenience binaries, downloadable documentation and an SDK</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">bundle can be found at: </span><a href="http://www.groovy-lang.org/download.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.groovy-lang.org/download.html&source=gmail&ust=1544783792951000&usg=AFQjCNHfHgJYSQ3-qcOtvR73KmXxT8AXHQ" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">http://www.groovy-lang.org/dow<wbr />nload.html</a><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">We recommend you verify your installation using the information on that page.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Jars are also available within the major binary repositories.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">We welcome your help and feedback and in particular want</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">to thank everyone who contributed to this release.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">For more information on how to report problems, and to get involved,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">visit the project website at </span><a href="https://groovy.apache.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://groovy.apache.org/&source=gmail&ust=1544783792951000&usg=AFQjCNE5niZmBM9bhKrSEf8vt8Xi97xGpw" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">https://groovy.apache.org/</a><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Best regards,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Apache Groovy team.</span> </p> |
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