Groovy 1.1-beta-3 released, RC-1 and 1.1-final around the corner

Dear Groovy friends,

I've blogged about the new here:
http://glaforge.free.fr/weblog/index.php?itemid=222&catid=2

and there:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/2007/09/20/Groovy+1.1-beta-3+released%2C+RC-1+and+1.1-final+around+the+corner

But here it is:

Groovy 1.1-beta-3 is there, paving the way for an RC-1 in the
following weeks, and if all goes well, for 1.1-final in October, right
in time for the Grails eXchange conference that takes place in London.
This conference will also be the opportunity for the Groovy developer
team to meet for the fourth Groovy Developer Conference! With Groovy
1.1 released by then, it'll be time to think about what's going to
happen for the next major version of Groovy.

Before going through the new release, let me recap some of the nice
things that have been happening lately around Groovy:

    * JetBrains released a second milestone to the wonderful Groovy &
Grails IntelliJ IDEA plugin, so be sure to check it out, as you'll
feel at ease developing Groovy with all the bells and whistles of your
beloved IDE. You've never programmed Groovy and Grails with so much
pleasure.
    * IBM's ProjectZero team is also helping us improving the Eclipse plugin.
    * Sun gave us access to a nice server beast so we can conduct some
high-concurrency load testing on Groovy.