Grails v8.0.0-M3 released!

NewsBot · 10 July 2026 18:24

Grails v8.0.0-M3 has been released.

What’s Changed

Restore lenient config handling @jdaugherty (#15949)

Add available-locale discovery and a language selector to i18n @codeconsole (#15940)

Forge - Grails 8 Updates around Grails Data @jdaugherty (#15944)

Register plugin beans before Spring Boot auto-configuration by retiming doWithSpring @codeconsole (#15934)

Add method-based doWithSpring(BeanBuilder) plugin lifecycle hook @codeconsole (#15939)

Add GORM for MongoDB / Spring Data MongoDB interop module @codeconsole (#15745)

Add a light/dark/auto theme selector to the create-app layout @codeconsole (#15941)

Clarify exception resolver request logging metadata @jamesfredley (#15811)

Mask exception request parameters case-insensitively @jamesfredley (#15810)

Inherit Spring Boot managed dependency versions in grails-bom @jamesfredley (#15730)

Stop @EnableWebMvc from being automatically added to Grails Applications @codeconsole (#13863)

ci: free runner disk space before the joint validation Grails build @jdaugherty (#15946)

Neo4j: detect web applications without relying on the dispatcherServlet bean @codeconsole (#15936)

ci: raise publish retry timeout to give slow Nexus uploads headroom (7.0.x) @jdaugherty (#15945)

make CI dependency caching actually work (branch-keyed jar cache) @jdaugherty (#15935)

Various identifier fixes for not unwrapping Hibernate proxies @jdaugherty (#15841)

Make i18n and URL-mappings framework beans overridable (@ConditionalOnMissingBean) @codeconsole (#15916)

Infer controller namespace for link generation when unambiguous @jamesfredley (#15791)

Clean up Grails 8 Hibernate 7 TODO drift @jamesfredley (#15829)

Update Micronaut platform versions @jamesfredley (#15825)

Merge 7.x (with spring security / mail / redis ) into 8.x @jdaugherty (#15834)

Vulnerability scanning @jdaugherty (#15631)

Add opt-in MongoDB multi-document transactions to GORM for MongoDB @codeconsole (#15744)

Merge grails-spring-security, gr…

Link: Release 8.0.0-M3 · apache/grails-core · GitHub