Groovy 1.7

Today Groovy 1.7 was released.

The main features are:

• Anonymous Inner Classes and Nested Classes (Java Style)
  
• Support for annotations on imports, packages and variables declarations
  
• Grape enhancements (now it's possible to add a @Grab annotation on inports or variable declarations and download the requested dependencies from a repository)
• Power asserts that provide a descriptive message of what was wrong, like in the Spock Framework (real cool !)
• AST viewer and AST Builder
• Customizable Groovy Truth through the implementation af the asBoolean() method
• Improved Groovy Console
• SQL batch updates and transactions

A more detailed description of the new features can be found in the Groovy site.