News from Nov 09, 2006

The Grails team are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Grails 0.3 over at the Download page. This releases packs in a load of new features and bug fixes that together count for over 114 JIRA issues. Some of the highlights of this release are:

Huge advancements to GORM with many-to-many support, improved inheritance support, new relationship management methods, a more concise syntax and more
Support for batch DML queries
Improved support for environments with the ability to specify different data sources, log configurations on a per environment basis
Support for the JSR-220 defined Hibernate merge method as a dynamic persistence method
New GSP tags for helping with forms and so on
The runtime configuration engine has been entirely re-written and Grails now boostraps loads faster
Support for user defined validators
Many, many bug fixes and improvements

Thanks to all those who contributed and to the ever growing Grails community. We have big things planned for 0.4, so stay tuned