It is critical to have 8.0.0 out for the Apache Community over Code Conference, so this timeline is ideal.
Anything found later or even known before can be part of 8.0.1, 8.1.0-M1 and or 9.0.0-M1. James Fredley On 2026-10-01 07:05 UTC James Daugherty wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > In the weekly, we spoke about when to release 8.0.0. As stated in slack & > in the weekly, I've worked to clear our 8.x backlog so no changes remain. > Based on the current votes, 8.0.0-RC2 should come out on Friday (Oct 2). > > The only "known" action items I have are: > 1. release a final version of the asset pipeline & ensure Grails 8 uses it > 2. sitemesh 3.x final version > > I'm proposing that we stage 8.0 on Sunday, assuming these are finished by > then and no major issues are raised. Any issues that are found during the > 8.0 vote can easily be addressed by a quick hotfix to 8.0 and this ensures > that 8.0 is out before the ASF conference. > > I would also like to propose we release the intellij plugin in tandem to > the 8.0.0 release since its latest code has fixes related to Grails 8 (plus > it adds community edition support). > > I'm assuming we'll release grails-micronaut some time shortly after Grails > 8's release date. Hopefully shortly after 8 goes live. If a volunteer is > available to make this happen sooner, please speak up =) > > -James >
