Volunteer Effort to update Existing Grails Plugins for Grails 7

[jamesfredley]

Let's use this discussion to coordinate requests for Grails plugins that need updates for Grails 7, along with volunteers willing to take them on.

The com.netflix.nebula.jakartaee-migration Gradle plugin is a convenient way to resolve the javax to jakarta changes for older Grails plugins: https://grails.apache.org/docs/snapshot/guide/upgrading.html#_12_2_javax_jakarta. If the plugin only requires javax to jakarta changes, this will get you up and running before the Grails Plugin has been released for Grails 7.

The vast majority of Grails plugins have historically been maintained by external developers. Now that Grails is under the Apache Foundation, all contributions—including plugin maintenance—are handled entirely by volunteers.

As outlined in the upgrading guide, all Grails plugins require updates to be compatible with Grails 7. The most common and primary plugins have already been updated, but for the others, we recommend reaching out to the original authors first. Keep in mind there are hundreds of plugins accumulated over the past 20 years, so community involvement is key.

With Grails 7 several additional best practices have been applied to existing plugins. A few good examples:

• https://github.com/grails-plugins/grails-audit-logging-plugin
• https://github.com/apache/grails-redis

These steps include:

• separating the plugin from the test/example project(s) for the plugin
• adjusting Gradle configuration scope for dependencies always provided by the end Grails project to compileOnly or testImplementation
• setting springDependencyManagement = false to generate a simpler POM file
• Utilizing Grails dependency starters: compileOnly "org.apache.grails:grails-dependencies-starter-web" and testImplementation "org.apache.grails:grails-testing-support-web"
• ensuring github actions are setup to build your plugin
• using grailsPublish to ensure your sources, javadoc, groovydoc, etc are published correctly

If an author is no longer interested in maintaining their plugin, it can be transferred to either grails-plugins or gpc. However, this requires an end user or volunteer to step up, complete the necessary updates, and commit to ongoing maintenance. The update process typically takes just 1 to a few hours, and future maintenance is usually minimal—unless the plugin has pre-existing issues that need addressing.

Once a plugin is updated, submit the details via a pull request to grails-plugins.json, which feeds into the official plugin list at grails.apache.org/plugins.html.

Feel free to share specific plugin requests or your availability to volunteer in the comments below!

List of Grails Plugins moved to Apache:

old group id	old artifact id	new group id	new artifact id
org.grails.plugins	cache	org.apache.grails	grails-cache
org.grails.plugins	database-migration	org.apache.grails	grails-data-hibernate5-dbmigration
org.grails.plugins	fields	org.apache.grails	grails-fields
org.grails.plugins	geb	org.apache.grails	grails-geb
org.grails.plugins	quartz	org.apache.grails	grails-quartz
org.grails.plugins	grails-redis	org.apache.grails	grails-redis
org.grails.plugins	scaffolding	org.apache.grails	grails-scaffolding
org.grails.plugins	spring-security-acl	org.apache.grails	grails-spring-security-acl
org.grails.plugins	spring-security-cas	org.apache.grails	grails-spring-security-cas
org.grails.plugins	spring-security-core	org.apache.grails	grails-spring-security
org.grails.plugins	spring-security-ldap	org.apache.grails	grails-spring-security-ldap
org.grails.plugins	spring-security-oauth2	org.apache.grails	grails-spring-security-oauth2
org.grails.plugins	spring-security-rest	org.apache.grails	grails-spring-security-rest
org.grails.plugins	spring-security-rest-gorm	org.apache.grails	grails-spring-security-rest-datamapping
org.grails.plugins	spring-security-rest-grailscache	org.apache.grails	grails-spring-security-grails-cache
org.grails.plugins	spring-security-rest-memcached	org.apache.grails	grails-spring-security-rest-memcached
org.grails.plugins	spring-security-rest-redis	org.apache.grails	grails-spring-security-rest-redis
org.grails.plugins	spring-security-ui	org.apache.grails	grails-spring-security-ui

[jamesfredley]

@weinellucian requested

https://github.com/mattmoss/grails-markdown on #15042

https://github.com/grails-plugins/cache-headers on #15043

[sbglasius]

I am going to need grails-markdown as well, and can probably do the effort needed for that plugin

[jamesfredley]

Grails 7 PR for cache-headers: grails-plugins/cache-headers#13

[jamesfredley]

https://github.com/grails-plugins/grails-db-reverse-engineer/ was requested and some work has been completed for Grails 7, but there is likely some remaining for a final release. Was requested here https://www.linen.dev/s/grails/t/26864715/https-groovy-apache-org-wiki-grails-proposal-html-grails-pro

[jamesfredley]

https://github.com/grails-plugins/grails-audit-logging-plugin has an RC1 for Grails 7 and a final release will be published after the final Grails 7 release.

[jamesfredley]

6.0.0 for Grails 7.0.0 has been released: https://github.com/grails-plugins/grails-audit-logging-plugin/releases/tag/v6.0.0

[ilPittiz]

SAML 2.0 plugin
https://github.com/grails-spring-security-saml/grails-spring-security-saml on #10

Force SSL plugin
https://github.com/wondrify/grails-force-ssl on #5

The 1st one in particular is critical for my company

[jamesfredley]

grails-spring-security-saml is actively developed and an issue has been created for Grails 7 support: grails-spring-security-saml/grails-spring-security-saml#10 -

[TheRetroRoot]

I'm starting on the Force SSL plugin.

[jamesfredley]

https://github.com/nerdErg/grails-shiro was requested but will require apache/shiro#2017 first. Was requested by John Moore on https://www.linen.dev/s/grails/t/29393020/if-people-here-were-wanting-to-upgrade-a-reasonably-simple-a

[miq]

We need this one, too.

[miq]

grails-shiro is actively developed and available for Grails 7 at its new home https://github.com/grails-plugins/grails-shiro

[jamesfredley]

https://github.com/grails-plugins/grails-spring-security-oauth2-provider was requested by Alex from snapprojections.com here https://www.linen.dev/s/grails/t/28564277/what-happened-with-the-https-grails-plugins-github-io-grails

[jamesfredley]

https://github.com/gpc/grails-burning-image was requested by muser

[jamesfredley]

https://github.com/gpc/grails-postgresql-extensions as requested by @ppazos

[matrei]

gpc/grails-postgresql-extensions#132

[sbglasius]

@ppazos https://github.com/gpc/grails-postgresql-extensions/releases/tag/v8.0.0

implementation 'io.github.gpc:grails-postgresql-extensions:8.0.0'

[ppazos]

I'm guessing you want to mention @pabloalba

[jamesfredley]

https://github.com/Grails-Plugin-Consortium/grails-cxf was requested by @Bilgehan

[dauer]

I have a work in progress here https://github.com/dauer/grails-cxf/tree/grails-7

It has been tested in a relative large Grails 7 M4 application and I think the code is working.
Documentation needs to be updated and all the tests should be activated (the integration tests where not updated when upgraded from Grails 2 to 3)

[jamesfredley]

https://github.com/wondrify/seed-me

[scanepa]

I have a version working with 7.0.0-M4 so I'll update to RC2 as soon as it's out.

[scanepa]

Even if it's not in Maven, I'm using a version of seed-me running on RC2 in our application

[jamesfredley]

https://github.com/gpc/rendering requested by @jmlittle

Alternatively https://github.com/rlovtangen/grails-wkhtmltopdf or https://gpc.github.io/export/docs/

[billgonemad]

I submitted a PR for the rendering plugin. gpc/rendering#47

[sbglasius]

Released https://github.com/gpc/rendering/releases/tag/v7.0.0

implements 'io.github.gpc:rendering:7.0.0'

Docs at https://gpc.github.io/rendering/latest

[jamesfredley]

https://github.com/gpc/grails-asynchronous-mail - @jmlittle

[matrei]

Grails Logical Delete (formerly known as GORM Logical Delete) has been updated to Grails 7 and released as version 3.0.0.

[cbmarcum]

I have a fork of grails-paypal that I will upgrade.
I also have a fork of grails-ckeditor that I will give a shot. I didn't author either but I have upgraded both in the past.
I'm also very interested seeing hibernate-search updated.

[cbmarcum]

These gpc plugins:
taggable
commentable
feeds

[miq]

We need:
elasticsearch
shiro

and this gpc plugin:
export

We are also willing to do some work. I personally have problems with CLA assistant in elasticsearch plugin. Another PR in export plugin is pending since March 2025...

[miq]

grails-export is active again and has a Grails 7 release: https://github.com/gpc/grails-export
grails-elasticsearch is active again ad has a Grails 7 release: https://github.com/grails-plugins/grails-elasticsearch