All sounds great. If I can help with any of these PRs, let me know, and I will be glad to submit some drafts.
James On 2026-10-12 22:04 UTC 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 >
