Hi all,

The Groovy development team is pleased to announce the release of Groovy 1.8.6.

Groovy 1.8.6 is a maintenance release essentially, with a few minor improvements and new features.
You can see the details in the JIRA release notes here: 
http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10242&version=18245

You can download Groovy 1.8.6 in the Download section of the Groovy website: 
http://groovy.codehaus.org/Download

Thanks a lot to all those who contributed to this release!

Next in line should be a new beta of Groovy 2.0