The Apache Grails (incubating) community is pleased to announce the release of Apache Grails (incubating) 7.0.0-M5.
Grails is a powerful Groovy-based web application framework for the JVM built on top of Spring Boot that has many plugins to further extend its functionality. This release another milestone on our journey to a final 7.0 release. Users are encouraged to try the milestone to provide early feedback. Detailed upgrade instructions are available here: https://docs.grails.org/7.0.0-M5/guide/upgrading.html. As we continue to conform to the ASF standards, there have been some growing pains with this release. When building from source, the following must be occur to build successful: 1. export GRAILS_PUBLISH_RELEASE=false - so that artifacts aren't signed 2. either run `git init` on the extracted source directory or exclude the documentation task via `-x docs` when building in the root directory. Please see the INSTALL instructions in the source distribution for any other relevant instructions. The release notes are available here: https://grails.apache.org/blog/2025-07-15-grails-7-m5.html For the complete list of changes: https://github.com/apache/grails-core/compare/v7.0.0-M4...v7.0.0-M5 Apache Grails website: https://grails.apache.org/ Download Links: https://grails.apache.org/download.html Grails Resources: - Grails GitHub repo: https://github.com/apache/grails-core - Issues: https://github.com/apache/grails-core/issues - Mailing lists: https://grails.apache.org/community.html Happy Coding, The Apache Grails (incubating) Team
