Hot on the heels of Groovy 1.1 beta 1, the Grails team are pleased to announce the release of Grails 0.5. The release can be obtained from the Downloads page and includes an array of new features including:

• Custom URL Mappings DSL
• Command objects / form validation
• List & Map support in GORM
• Support for composition in domain class (Hibernate "components")
• Base64 codec
• Dependency resolution with Ivy
• Project metadata and versioning support, smarter scripts and upgrade processes
• Script event hooks
• Automatic addition of log objects to all artefacts
• New Artefact API available to Plugins

For more information and examples of the new features consult the release notes

The JIRA change log can be seen here

The release ships with Groovy 1.1 beta and includes all the features and improvements from the Groovy release

Thanks to all those who contributed including the Groovy/Grails user community and Grails committers Marc Palmer, Jason Rudolph, Jeff Brown, Sergey Nebolsin, Marcel Overdijk and Daiji Takamori.

Enjoy!

–
Graeme Rocher
Grails Project Lead
http://grails.org