Grails v8.0.0-M2 released!

NewsBot · 29 June 2026 15:24

Grails v8.0.0-M2 has been released.

What’s Changed

fix: align H7 HibernateGormStaticApi internal SQL method names with H5 @borinquenkid (#15768)

Replace usages of deprecated external APIs @matrei (#15722)

Modernize Grails 8 content negotiation: framework MIME defaults and honor the Accept header @codeconsole (#15758)

Add Grails request-lifecycle + GSP rendering observability (inline micrometer spans + uri route fix) @codeconsole (#15750)

Support TTL indexes in the GORM-Mongo mapping DSL and reconcile index option changes @codeconsole (#15747)

Use config-driven Grails version docs @jamesfredley (#15769)

Update Spring Boot to 3.5.16 @jamesfredley (#15767)

Hibernate 7 - Step 2 @jdaugherty (#15568)

Fix stop-app using a PID file instead of Actuator or JMX @jamesfredley (#15698)

build(deps): update Gradle to 9.6.0 @jamesfredley (#15763)

Update to Gradle 8.14.5 @jamesfredley (#15762)

Convert SiteMesh 3 taglibs to method handlers and use SiteMesh 3.3.0-M1 @codeconsole (#15746)

Do not close an externally-supplied MongoClient in GORM for MongoDB @codeconsole (#15743)

fix(codecs): stop overriding the codecLookup bean definition @codeconsole (#15752)

Merge 7.1.2 @jdaugherty (#15753)

8.x Register CriteriaTypeCheckingExtension and cover createCriteria().{} closures @codeconsole (#15720)

Add @GrailsCompileStatic support for controllers that call tag libs @jdaugherty (#15669)

fix(ci): seed vMAJOR.MINOR.0 for release branches with no published release @jamesfredley (#15742)

fix(ci): remove filter-by-range from release-drafter to stop v0.1.0 draft flood @jamesfredley (#15741)

Expand Hibernate 7 functional coverage and query parity @jamesfredley (#15731)

8.x Make SiteMesh 3 the default GSP layout @codeconsole (#15713)

fix: parse ASCII minus in locale-aware number binding @jamesfredley (#15726)

feat(deps): Bump Micronaut platform to 5.0.0 (GA) @jamesfredley (#15677)

Make domain properties nullable by default (Grails 8) @codeconsol…

Link: Release 8.0.0-M2 · apache/grails-core · GitHub