17 August 2015
Great news for the Grails Community this week! Burt Beckwith has successfully released a Grails 3 version of Spring Security Core!. Even the documentation is updated at https://grails-plugins.github.io/grails-spring-security-core/. You can find a simple app using the updated plugin in Ruben Mondejar's github repo
As Peter Ledbrook also mentions in his blog post Exploring Grails 3, on upgrading an app to Grails 3 this was one of the major hurdles. Peter also advertise for the Grails team to announce "on what direction they hope to take the framework." Jeff mentioned on the last Groovy Podcast that a roadmap was in place and we would hear more on this in the near future.
Keegan Witt has joined the Groovy team as committer, and has worked on the Windows installer for Groovy 2.4.4. It is available from bintray
Gradle has compiled a feature comparison list between Gradle and Maven. It might be a bit biased, but the evidence is overwhelming ;)
Spring Boot 1.3.0.M3 is available now, and the easiest way is using GVM. You can read whats new in the release notes
David Estes is ready with a new minor release of the asset-pipeline plugin, with persisted development runtime cache. The version is 2.5.0, and the caching results in faster load and startup times in dev mode in Grails.
The Hadoop Dev Team at LinkedIn has open-sourced the LinkedIn Gradle Plugin for Apache Hadoop, including the LinkedIn Gradle DSL for Apache Hadoop.
The release date of Dan Woods Ratpack book is currently scheduled for February 2016: Learning Ratpack - Simple, Lean, and Powerful Web Applications. If you need a Ratpack fix, the article section both includes an interview with Luke Daley, and a very good article by Kyle Boon on Zero to Ratpack
For better looking Spock reports, you can use the spock-reports project, which just released version 1.2.7