5.1.0 Release Notes

Greclipse 5.1.0 was released on September 29th 2023.

New and Noteworthy

Groovy 5.0.0-alpha-2
Groovy 4.0.15
Groovy 3.0.19

📋 The new antlr4-based Parrot Parser is disabled by default. To enable it, add -Dgroovy.antlr4=true to your eclipse.ini file after the -vmargs line or add a compiler config script to your project with configuration.pluginFactory = org.codehaus.groovy.control.ParserPluginFactory.antlr4(). Please note that parser recovery is not implemented for the Parrot Parser, so your editing experience may be sub-par in this mode.

debug expression support for primitive variables
debug expression support for method references
detail formatter and logical structure support for same-package type references
exclude unreferenced imports for evaluation expressions and conditional breakpoints

📋 Groovy debug support can be disabled by setting system property eclipse.groovy.debug to false.

1491: Fix debug expression support for primitive variables
1492: Fix debug expression support for method references
1493: Fix detail formatter and logical structure support for same-package type references
1494: Add support for Eclipse 4.29 (2023-09)
1496: Exclude unreferenced imports for evaluation expressions and conditional breakpoints
1497: Fix code hover for closure annotation attributes
1501: Fix type inferencing, syntax highlighting and code completion for groovy-contracts
1503: Fix auto completion and code navigation for script containing class that extends Script
1504: Add support for Groovy 3.0.19
1505: Add support for Groovy 4.0.14
1509: Trait properties and methods ignored
1510: Add support for Groovy 4.0.15
1511: Cross-project or library searching fails to find type references for star imports or qualified names
1512: Fix code hover and navigation for type annotations

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