Groovy jar dependencies not compatible with jdk-23 - Unsupported class file major version 67

[cschneidinger]

Expected behavior

I expect that JSR223 groovy scripts will not throw exceptions.

Actual behavior

I get the following error message when I execute a jmeter script with a JSR223 groovy script when I use a jdk version 23:

org.codehaus.groovy.GroovyBugError: BUG! exception in phase 'semantic analysis' in source unit 'Script135.groovy' Unsupported class file major version 67
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit$ISourceUnitOperation.doPhaseOperation(CompilationUnit.java:906) ~[groovy-3.0.20.jar:3.0.20]
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.compile(CompilationUnit.java:628) ~[groovy-3.0.20.jar:3.0.20]
at groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader.doParseClass(GroovyClassLoader.java:389) ~[groovy-3.0.20.jar:3.0.20]
at groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader.lambda$parseClass$3(GroovyClassLoader.java:332) ~[groovy-3.0.20.jar:3.0.20]
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.memoize.StampedCommonCache.compute(StampedCommonCache.java:163) ~[groovy-3.0.20.jar:3.0.20]
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.memoize.StampedCommonCache.getAndPut(StampedCommonCache.java:154) ~[groovy-3.0.20.jar:3.0.20]

If I replace the groovy--3.0.20.jar files with groovy--.3.0.23.jar, then the script works fine with jdk-23.

Steps to reproduce the problem

Create a simple script with a jsr223 groovy script and the above error will be thrown.

JMeter Version

5.6.3

Java Version

Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM Oracle GraalVM 23.0.1+11.1

OS Version

microsoft windows 11