Two days ago Grails reached the 1.0 milestone; the first release candidate is out. New Features inlude:
- GORM features ORM DSL for advanced Mappings
- Support for easy to use Filters
- Tag Library Improvements – Namespaces, body variables, page scope, improved
- Controllers Improvements – Multi-dimensional params object, data binding retains type conversion errors
- URL Mapping Improvements – Mapping response codes, mapping directly onto views and more
- GORM Improvements – Pessimistic locking support, session flushing control
- Config Improvements – Support for JNDI data sources, property placeholders and flexible config locations
A descriptions of the various features can be found in the releasenotes.
Personally I must say that the 0.6 release brought more interesting new features; but hey… Grails going 1.0 is great news!