[ANNOUNCE] Apache Groovy 2.4.16 released

Dear community, The Apache Groovy team is pleased to announce version 2.4.16 of Apache Groovy. Apache Groovy is a multi-faceted 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_4_X branch.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Groovy 2.4.16 released

Nice work, Paul! Cheers, Daniel.Sun - Daniel Sun Apache Groovy committer Blog: http://blog.sunlan.me Twitter: @daniel_sun -- Sent from: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Groovy-Dev-f372993.html

Re: [VOTE] Move the Groovy repositories on git-wip-us.apache.org to gitbox.apache.org

These have now been moved. If you are just submitting PR's via github, there is nothing to do. If you have origin set to some git-wip-us type address, you'll want to do something like: $ git remote set-url origin https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/groovy.git Cheers, Paul. On Wed, Dec 12, 2018

Re: [VOTE] Move the Groovy repositories on git-wip-us.apache.org to gitbox.apache.org

Gotcha. Cheers, Daniel.Sun - Daniel Sun Apache Groovy committer Blog: http://blog.sunlan.me Twitter: @daniel_sun -- Sent from: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Groovy-Dev-f372993.html

Re: More Default String Methods

My suggestions: * alter your code style to match the existing style * rename `after` to `takeAfter` * rename `before` to `takeBefore` * rename `between` to `takeBetween` * no need for `stripLeft` since that is what `drop` does - with a minor difference in behavior for the -1 case * rename `stripRi