fix for GRAILS-10347 "grails plugin-info throwing GroovyCastException in Grails 2.3.0 RC1"
fix for GRAILS-10097 "Aether's dependency resolution does not work behind a proxy"
fix for GRAILS-10325 "command line system properties not passed to the forked process"
GRAILS-10303 - deprecate BindDynamicMethod
GRAILS-9899: Update Protobuf
Merge pull request #391 from bobbywarner/2.2.x

GRAILS-9899: Update Protobuf
GRAILS-10376 - improve GPathResultMap handling of non-existent keys

get(key) should return null for non existent keys, not an empty string
fix for GRAILS-10372 "Incorrect JSON rendering by HalJsonRenderer - strings with double quotes, ints with quotes"
Merge pull request #354 from eugenypozharsky/GRAILS-10146

(GRAILS-10146) Fixed build with cognate plugin names
fix for GRAILS-10380 "java.lang.ClassFormatError: Absent Code attribute in method that is not native or abstract in class file javax/mail/Message"
Merge branch 'master' of github.com:grails/grails-core
fix for GRAILS-10377 "Spock tests with Spy/Mock fail with forked execution enabled"
fix for GRAILS-10333 ""respond" command always return a ISO-8859-1 encoded JSON" - default to UTF-8 encoding
partial fix for GRAILS-10306, don't support the daemon on Windows
fix failing tests
fix failing test
fix for GRAILS-10306 "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory when trying to run test project"
fix for GRAILS-10399 "problems downloading dependencies on newly created application"
fix for GRAILS-10400 "Grails REST is not rendering HAL+Json for Collections"
GRAILS-10319 - populate errors in GrailsWebDataBinder

This improves the functionality of uses cases where the data binder is used directly, as opposed to via DataBindingUtils.  DataBindingUtils should be treated as an implementation detail, not something that applications and/or plugins interact with directly.