Dear development community, I am happy to start the VOTE thread for a Groovy 2.4.16 release! This is a maintenance release of the 2.4 branch and the last planned release for this branch.
This release includes 17 bug fixes/improvements as outlined in the changelog: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12318123&version=12342996 Tag: https://git1-us-west.apache.org/repos/asf?p=groovy.git;a=tag;h=refs/tags/GROOVY_2_4_16 Tag commit id: f800b9f8ba85b5e328b545c4d8880dd47ed514f3 The artifacts to be voted on are located as follows (r31469). Source release: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/groovy/2.4.16/sources Convenience binaries: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/groovy/2.4.16/distribution Release artifacts are signed with a key from the following file: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/groovy/KEYS Please vote on releasing this package as Apache Groovy 2.4.16. Reminder on ASF release approval requirements for PMC members: http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#release-approval Hints on validating checksums/signatures (but replace md5sum with sha256sum): https://www.apache.org/info/verification.html The vote is open for the next 72 hours and passes if a majority of at least three +1 PMC votes are cast. [ ] +1 Release Apache Groovy 2.4.16 [ ] 0 I don't have a strong opinion about this, but I assume it's ok [ ] -1 Do not release Apache Groovy 2.4.16 because... Here is my vote: +1 (binding)
