[Weekly Developer Meeting] - 2026-05-27

[James Fredley <ja...@apache.org>]

Hi everyone,

Here is a summary of the Apache Grails Weekly Planning Meeting held on 
May 27, 2026.

ATTENDEES:
James Fredley, Mattias Reichel, Paul King, Walter Duque de Estrada

TOPICS DISCUSSED:

1. 7.x.x Feature Complete
    No new features will be added to the 7.x line. Focus is on closing 
remaining open PRs.  June 30th EOL for Grails 7.x.x due to Spring Boot 
3.5.x EOL.
    Some PRs may be moved to the 8.0.x branch (Spring Boot 4).
    Decision: Avoid cascading merges to prevent instability.

2. Anthropic Claude Mythos Scan
    Targeting grails-core and grails-spring-security.
    Prerequisite PRs to merge first:
    https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pull/15664
    https://github.com/apache/grails-spring-security/pull/1224
    The initial scan will help improve documentation. This is not the 
final state.

3. Grails 8.0.0-M2 Milestone Progress
    Several PRs and updates reviewed:
    - Method-based TagLib syntax: 
https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pull/15465
    - Micronaut 5 GA with Java 25: 
https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pull/15677
    - Spring Boot 4.0.6: https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pull/15676
    - Gradle 9.5.1: https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pull/15672
    - Groovy 4.0.32: https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pull/15671
    - Groovy 5 Support: https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pull/15557 
(some reproducers still need updates)
    - Remove Spring Dependency Management Plugin: 
https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pull/15467
    - Hibernate 7.2 (two-step approach):
      Step 1: https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pull/15654
      Step 2: https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pull/15568

Full detailed notes are here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L590r6Z_xNQ48l31Yolsir75dUgAorEnTWmW1kGqJrw/edit

We meet every week via Google Meet. Meeting times alternate to support 
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topics for the next agenda.

Thanks,
James Fredley