Dear development community, I am happy to start the VOTE thread for a Groovy 4.0.0-beta-1 release!
This release includes 58 bug fixes/improvements as outlined in the changelog: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12318123&version=12350080 Tag: https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=groovy.git;a=tag;h=refs/tags/GROOVY_4_0_0_BETA_1 Tag commit id: a38acfbb37ea83b0e213525d4bb2faed0dee0ef5 The artifacts to be voted on are located as follows (r-1). Source release: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/groovy/4.0.0-beta-1/sources Convenience binaries: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/groovy/4.0.0-beta-1/distribution Release artifacts are signed with a key from the following file: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/groovy/KEYS Please vote on releasing this package as Apache Groovy 4.0.0-beta-1. 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 Reminder that you need gradle 5 or above for the bootstrap step if building from sources and if you are on a flaky network, last resort if you are having trouble might be to disable dependency verification: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/dependency_verification.html#sec:disabling-verification 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 4.0.0-beta-1 [ ] 0 I don't have a strong opinion about this, but I assume it's ok [ ] -1 Do not release Apache Groovy 4.0.0-beta-1 because... Here is my vote: +1 (binding)
