It seems good at this stage Walter
> On Oct 3, 2026, at 1:35 PM, James Fredley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Since there will always be bugs found and fixed in 8.0.1+, we should fix waht > we can on > https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pulls?q=is%3Apr+state%3Aopen+milestone%3Agrails%3A8.0.0 > and then call the vote. No reason to hold up the release since 100% of the > time we will fix bugs on 8.0.1+. > > James Fredley > > > On 2026/10/03 17:31:14 James Fredley wrote: >> I will take a look at the identified issues and PRs and try to help them >> move along so we can try to stay on the schedule. >> >> James >> >> On 2026-10-03 15:04 UTC James Daugherty wrote: >>> Hi Everyone, >>> >>> We set a tentative deadline to call a vote for the 8.0.0 release on >>> Monday. To help prepare for that vote, I upgraded a large, internal >>> application to the latest 8 snapshot. I've found numerous issues that I >>> would consider blocking - data binding inheritance / uploads / composite >>> keys / proxy issues / and more. PRs are open for all of the issues found - >>> 8 of them remain. Mattias had an LLM do a review of Hibernate 5 vs 7 after >>> my PRs revealed these issues. He's also found several issues as a result >>> of that. >>> >>> How do we want to proceed with the 8.0.0 vote? We don't currently have >>> people reviewing PRs to meet our deadline of Monday. How do we want to >>> handle the 8.0.0 release? Do we want to try to get these reviewed? Merge >>> them and review as part of the vote? Should we delay the 8.0.0 release for >>> more bug fixes? >>> >>> If we merge the open PRs, my application's tests show no more issues & I >>> think we would be in a releasable state. This comment only applies to >>> Hibernate 5 though, as I think Hibernate 7 may have more issues from >>> Mattias' research. I suggest we mark Hibernate 7 as experimental to >>> signify it may undergo major changes during the 8.x lifecycle - this would >>> allow us to make breaking changes outside of a major release. What are >>> people's thoughts on our timeline & changing our policy for Hibernate 7 >>> during the 8.0.x releases? >>> >>> -James >>> >>
