I am onboard with this timeline. Let me get caught up on the open ancillary PRs, some will likely fall in place within this timeline.
James On 2026/07/15 15:33:01 James Daugherty wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I know lots of people (including me!) could not attend the weekly > meeting today. One topic that I felt couldn't wait until next week > was when & how to release Grails 8. So far Grails 8 includes: > 1. refactoring the bean lifecycle in plugins & adding Spring Boot 4 > Bean Registry support > 2. Groovy 5 > 3. Hibernate 7 > 4. Spring Boot 4 with JVM 21 baseline > 5. i18n updates & better locale support > 6. Several other new features that are too many to list. > > Looking at our original promises, I think the only missing component > is the CLI split. What do people think of the below proposal: > > 1. Merge (after review) Grails CLI Dependency Split > - PR: https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pull/15948 > - splits the dependencies from runtime vs buildtime for the shell/cli > dependencies > - Gradle plugin auto-adds cli dependencies when detected from a grails > runtime dependency > - Proposed implementation should be structured as directed by > discussions a week ago > - this is a breaking change for all plugins that ship commands > > 2. Release 8.0.0-M4 by Wednesday (July 22) next week > - would include the undertow support + reproducible fixes + cli split > - last release of new features or breaking changes > > 4. Release 8.0.0-RC1 by July 29th > - let the community further test > > 5. Assuming no further feedback release 8.0.0 by August 5th > > -James >
