I'm going to move forward with the 8.0.0 release. I've merged all of the PRs that I think were fully resolved. I've also merged 7.0.x up to 8.0.x. If anyone feels that something should not have been merged, please say so here and I can reroll the release late tonight.
On Sat, Oct 3, 2026 at 7:00 PM James Fredley <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pulls?q=is%3Apr+state%3Aopen+milestone%3Agrails%3A8.0.0 > is much improved and 3 of remaining 5 are approved. > > Looking good for staging a vote on schedule. > > James > > 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 > > >
