This move is very welcome from my side. I have strong opinions on this matter:
- Security IS core. - Grails IS Spring. So I would also like to open a discussion about the possibility of renaming it to simply “grails-security”, and using the “grails-security-*” namespace for any related plugins. Gianluca Sartori -- https://dueuno.com On Mon, 18 May 2026 at 14:05, James Daugherty <[email protected]> wrote: > We briefly discussed this on the weekly, but I thought this deserves its > own thread: I would like to propose we merge grails-spring-security into > grails-core and its associated dependencies (means grails-redis). > > The reason we did not merge these before was the security build often hung > and took 2+ hours. Recently Mattias has worked to make that more stable. > It’s now running in 1-2min. > > We also have not done the best job releasing dependency updates on this > repo and by moving it into core we can ensure timely updates. We can > also easily identify dependencies that should really be in the bom. > > I would propose we move the 7.0 branch into 7.0.x so we can cease all > activity on spring security. > > What do others think? > > -James >
