Groovy 2.5.3 Released

Dear community,

The Apache Groovy team is pleased to announce version 2.5.3 of Apache Groovy. Apache Groovy is a multi-facet programming language for the JVM. Further details can be found at the http://groovy.apache.org website.

This release is a maintenance release of the GROOVY_2_5_X branch. It is strongly encouraged that all users using prior versions on this branch upgrade to this version.

This release includes 50 bug fixes/improvements as outlined in the changelog: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12318123&version=12343876

Sources, convenience binaries, downloadable documentation and an SDK bundle can be found at: http://www.groovy-lang.org/download.html

We recommend you verify your installation using the information on that page.

Jars are also available within the major binary repositories.

We welcome your help and feedback and in particular want to thank everyone who contributed to this release.

For more information on how to report problems, and to get involved, visit the project website at https://groovy.apache.org/</a>;

Best regards,

The Apache Groovy team.