We are extremely pleased to announce the release of Grails 2.3 M1! This is the first milestone release leading up to 2.3 GA.

The release includes numerous features and improvements. The most significant of which are:

• Dependency Management based on Aether
• New and improved Data binding mechanism
• XSS Prevention
• Asynchronous Programming APIs
• Forked Execution for run-app, test-app and console
• Hibernate 4 Support (in beta)

We encourage you to checkout the full release notes. Below are a few use links for reference:

• Download
• What's New Guide
• Upgrade Notes for 2.2 users

The next milestone is due in 6 weeks time and will include:

• REST Improvements
• More Stable Hibernate 4 Plugin
• Async Eventing Model

We are pleased to announce the releases of Grails 2.1.5 and Grails 2.2.2.

Both releases include dozens of bug fixes and improvements. Please refer to the release notes for further information.

We are please to announce that ZK plugin for Grails, a leading RIA plugin providing an alternative View/Controller layer for Grails since 2008 has been released its latest 2.2.0 version.

This version of ZK plugin for Grails supports Grails 2.2.x and ships with ZK 6.5.2.

Release Notes

For installation instructions and more information, please visit:

• The plugin page
• ZKGrails project

Find out more about the upcoming Async programming features in Grails 2.3.

Grails 2.1.4 and 2.2.1, both of which include many bug fixes and performance improvements, have been released.

Please see the release notes for each release for further info:

• Grails 2.1.4
• Grails 2.2.1

In particular the release notes include information about a couple of necessary breaking changes that you may want to review.

The next release of Grails will be Grails 2.3 milestone 1 which will be out shortly, stay tuned!

The TLC account software is now available on GitHub as a Grails 2.2 project at https://github.com/pfernley2/tlc.git.

We are please to announce that there will be a Test-Driven Development (TDD) training course for Grails in Thailand. It's a 2-day course covering TDD, unit testing, GrailsMock as well as Spock via a set of Grails Koān practice.

When: Saturday, February 23 to Sunday, February 24, 2013.

Where: Hubba Thailand

More information: Eventbrite

See my post on the upcoming dependency resolution improvements in Grails 2.3

We are please to announce that the 2.1.0 version of ZK plugin for Grails, aka ZKGrails, has been released.

ZKGrails is a leading RIA development solution on the Grails framework. This version of ZKGrails ships with the greatest ZK 6.5 and be compatible with Grails 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2.

The new version includes:

• POGO Composer declaration
• Improved jQuery-style APIs
• Plugin-aware ZUL resolver
• Improved clustering support

For installation instructions and more information, please visit:

• The plugin page
• ZKGrails project

I am pleased to announce that the Grails job board at http://FindGrailsJobs.com/ is live with Geolocation search, RSS, Google Maps, and OAuth!

You can now search jobs within <distance> miles/km of <place>, and subscribe the RSS feed.

Grails job board now supports OAuth too. You can login via Google, Linkedin, Twitter, or GitHub to post Grails, Groovy jobs at http://FindGrailsJobs.com/

You can also view all Grails, Groovy jobs on Google map at http://FindGrailsJobs.com/job/map

Have a Happy Holidays!