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 is 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 occur to build successfully: 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
