GROOVY-5875: Cannot use DELEGATE_FIRST and delegates that are inner classes.
GROOVY-5883 + GROOVY-6270: ensure the result of a Closure#call is cast to the target type before boolean conversion plus regression test for both
GROOVY-5885: add regression test
GROOVY-6272: Cannot define a no-args closure in Groovy Shell
GROOVY-6272: Cannot define a no-args closure in Groovy Shell

Implemented the improvements suggested by Jason
GROOVY-5069: AstBuilderFromSpecificationTest.testElvisOperatorExpression(): DSL and expected AST incorrect

Applied patch provided by Masato Nagai
GROOVY-6274: replaceNode improvements for XML processing
Fix for Lazy soft=true

Ensure @Lazy field is volatile

Soft References are always volatile, plus basic tests

remove automatic volatility from soft lazy variables

Fixed test (no volatility unless specified in source for soft lazy variables)
Merge pull request #145 from timyates/GROOVY-6056

GROOVY-6056 Fix for Lazy soft=true
GROOVY-6280: Update GPars Dependency to 1.1.0
GROOVY-6275: DOMCategory: text() doesn't get node value if it is a CDATA section
temporary CI server test failure debugging
test robustness against slightly different line ending whitespace
remove @Override for 3 methods containing optional parameters (prefactoring for GROOVY-5413)
GROOVY-4164: A groovier way of iterate over dates/calendars: upTo() and downTo()
GROOVY-2974: IntRange.step overflows near Integer.MAX_VALUE or Integer.MIN_VALUE
allow @Immutable transform to treat Class as immutable by default
missing groovydoc for one of the parameters
Merge pull request #233 from jeffbrown/immutable_class

GROOVY-6287: allow @Immutable transform to treat Class as immutable by default
updated to Version 1.7-rc-2