James Strachan announced 1.0-beta-3 of Groovy.

I'm pleased to announce the 1.0 beta 3 release of Groovy!

This release offers a large number of new features like subscript operators on strings/collections/arrays/maps with backwards/forwards inclusive/exclusive ranges, more core Java polymorphism, break statement, ternary expressions, much improved autoboxing support and a whole lot more. For a detailed list of all the changes in this release please see the change log...

Whilst the language syntax is not quite frozen for the final 1.0 release its getting very close (we hope the next release to freeze the syntax for backwards compatibility) and the projects codebase is getting stable and solid now.