[CAMEL-18341] Upgrade from Codehaus Groovy 3.0.12 to Apache Groovy 4.x

• Type: Dependency upgrade
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.18.0
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0
• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Nicolas Filotto
• Reporter: Aurélien Pupier
• Created: 03/Aug/22 09:55
• Updated: 23/May/23 07:57
• Resolved: 09/Mar/23 13:08

Description

Groovy 4.0.0 has been released at the beginning of 2022. it might be nice to move to the latest version.

There is a long list of features and bug fixes http://groovy-lang.org/changelogs/changelog-4.0.0.html

Maybe worth noticing it contains several fixes related to Java 17:

• GROOVY-10391 - Default interface methods causing problems with java 17 and groovy 3.0.9
• GROOVY-10405 - @AutoClone breaks in Java17 for File properties
• GROOVY-10429 - StringBuilder misses setLength method in Java17

Based on https://groovy.apache.org/versioning.html 3.x will have oen or two bugfixxes release (in fact already 3 happened). So good chances that there will be only security release of 3.x soon.

Issue Links

• relates to: CAMEL-18920 camel-groovy - Upgrade to Groovy 4.x
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #177
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #604
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3956
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #8102