Hi Jonny,
Thanks for your work on getting to this release.
I look forward to the testcontainers integration becoming official! A
minor release sounds correct to me.
I'm stretched thin so hopefully the vote can be across a weekend if
possible :) Major versions after that based on Groovy versions also
sound good. Best regards,
Carl
On 10/12/26 6:04 PM, Jonny wrote:
For the past couple of weeks, I have been working through to merge
open PRs and get in some dependency updates. I think it's time we cut
a Geb release in the 8.x line. Given that this would include:
1. The test-containers integration
2. The playwright experimental module
3. The merged example modules for Gradle, Maven, and JUnit (still
working on Cucumber example, but PR is coming soon)
4. The new Geb AI skill markdown
I think a minor release version makes more sense than a patch version.
(8.1.0 instead of 8.0.2).
After that, I'd like to work on building a next major version release.
My thinking is that this should include:
1. A Groovy upgrade - Part of me thinks we should do a 9.0 based on
5.x and a 10.0 based on 6.x, but feel free to talk me out of that
if you think that's a bad plan.
2. BiDi support, as a Selenium-friendly alternative to Playwright
that still realizes a lot of the same value
My question is whether there's anything that anyone else would like to
see in any of these releases? This could include work on the thread
safety concerns laid out in
https://lists.apache.org/thread/vb8dtnpynwzok2cq8vqzglx6r7o8c9jc or
something else entirely. Would love to hear from the Grails folks
about what their needs are.
Best,
Jonny
