Tuesday, August 30, 2016
With Ken Kousen in Marlborough, CT and Baruch Sadogursky in Santa Clara, CA.
- Gradle 3.0 released
- Gradle daemon now enabled by default
- Support for Java 9 EAP builds
- No longer support for Java 5 or Java 6
- Parallel task execution improvements
- Faster dependency resolution
- Ratpack 1.4.1 released 2016-08-23, soon after Ratpack 1.4.0 on 2016-08-08.
- Several dependencies upgraded (Jackson, Netty, Guava, ...)
- New Promise methods
- SerialBatch and ParallelBatch classes added
- Retrofit 2 integration
- Additional RxRatpack methods
- Ratpack HTTP client now supports connection pooling
- Gr8Conf US 2016 Wrap-Up from the OCI Grails Team Blog
- Another Gr8Conf US wrap-up from Roberto Perez
- YouTube channel for Gr8Conf EU is adding videos
- Two more hires for the Grails team at OCI, (@ilopmar and @jackfrosch)
- Auto-update Chrome driver for Selenium plugin, useful for Geb
- Some talks from GR8Conf US:
- Getting Started with Grails 3 by Colin Harrington
- Intro to Spock and Geb by Craig Atkinson
- Geb Tips and Tricks by Craig Atkinson
- Gradle Plugin Goodness slides by Annyce Davis
- Practical and Stupidly Impractical Groovy DSLs by Craig Burke (featuring the infamous DaneCookBot)
- Gradle Recipes for Android available as a free ebook download
- G3 summit, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Nov 28 - Dec 1, 2016
- Gr8conf IN, New Delhi, India, January 2017
- Gr8conf EU, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 31 - June 2, 2017
- A lot of Groovy content at JavaOne 2016, SF, CA, Sept 18-22, 2017
- No Fluff Just Stuff for the website hosting
- The Grails diary for so much of the regular news
- The Groovy Calamari for tons of news as well!
- Twitter: @groovypodcast
- Google+: https://plus.google.com/112706418002827266912/posts
- Peter Ledbrook - t: @pledbrook, w: http://www.cacoethes.co.uk/
- Baruch Sadogursky - t: @jbaruch, w: http://www.jfrog.com
- Ken Kousen -t: @kenkousen, w: http://www.kousenit.com