[GROOVY-10470] Update from Groovy 3 to 4.0.0 breaks existing code

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Information Provided
• Affects Version/s: 4.0.0
• Component/s: groovy-runtime
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Alexander Veit
• Created: 03/Feb/22 13:01
• Updated: 08/Mar/22 12:16
• Resolved: 14/Feb/22 07:43

Description

After updating from Groovy 3 to 4.0.0 scripts that use AntBuilder without an import statement no longer work.

This is probably caused by missing default includes for groovy.ant.* or groovy.ant.AntBuilder.

The same problem exists for XmlSlurper and XmlParser.

Example: The script below works with Groovy 3.0.9 but not with 4.0.0.

new AntBuilder()