News from August, 2007

Dear Groovy/Grails community,

We are pleased to announce the release of Grails 0.6 which will be the last of the 0.x stream of releases as we march toward 1.0.

This release of Grails introduces huge improvements to platform stability and performance as well as the following key headling features:

Joint Groovy/Java Compilation
Spring Web Flow Integration
Support for Spring scopes to allow scoped services
Improved support for REST with automatic XML/JSON marshalling and RESTful URL mappings
New Config DSL for configuration not possible by convention
Refreshed scaffolding interface and branding
Support for Sitemesh inline decorators
Controllers can now call tag libraries as methods
New GSP tags
Massive improvements to speed of start-up time, unit tests and generation tools

The full release notes can be found here: http://grails.org/0.6+Release+Notes

Grails 0.6 can be downloaded from here: http://grails.org/Download

Thanks to all those who contributed including the Groovy & Grails teams and the user community

Enjoy!

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