We do some complex processing of environment options on startup, mostly in additional.groovy. The 1.5.2 upgrade exposed bugs that were sitting there for a while, apparently groovy folks have fixed them in this release. E.g. the findIndexOf(Closure) now works properly, which is the initial bump.
Raising to blocker, as one can't start standalone Mule because of this.
2.1 http://fisheye.codehaus.org/changelog/mule/?cs=10637