Hi folks,

We are due for some more releases shortly. We just have a few
outstanding fixes we'd like to put in place before hitting the go
button. But just as a heads up, we might be ready to proceed next
week. So, time to get in any changes you had in mind, or let me know
if there is anything we need to wait for.

With respect to Groovy 5, I was planning to release beta-1. We have
been holding back releasing alphas seeing whether we'd find time for a
few "big ticket breaking" items which I think we should now push to
Groovy 6. I have had feedback from several folks, keen to progress
this release more quickly at this stage. Please shout if you have any
concerns and we can do a discussion thread/vote on the release version
if needed.

The items we haven't progressed far enough for inclusion are:
* Module definitions written in Groovy (i.e. module-info.groovy) [GROOVY-9273]
* Maven resolver based Grape/Grab.
* Source Annotations on (some) statements, e.g. @LoopInvariant or
@Parallel on a for loop.
* Potential performance improvements (as per GEP-15 draft)
* Additional destructuring syntax

If you have cycles to help, please shout. At this stage, I'm thinking
we'll target Groovy 6 for those. Given we aren't likely to progress
those big items, we should be able to have an expedited series of
releases leading up to Groovy 5 final.

Cheers, Paul.

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