v2024.2.0-RC2

What's Changed

⭐️ New Features

• 5c90945 Restore support for generating old version apps of Grails and Grace #1764
• 03b818a Provide a Groovy script file to configure the compiler for compiling Grace plugins #1730
• 11de4df Assemble LICENSE.txt and NOTICE.txt files to published jars #1722

🛠 Improvements

• 2e7871a Add release notes for 2024.2.0-RC2
• 943753b Update README - Update the version of Gradle badge
• 9635a14 Simplify GrailsVersion versions check usages #1762
• 6eb8879 Enhance GrailsVersion with support for comparing versions #1760
• c316c3e Make reproducible builds with Gradle #1752
• 187630c Use OrderedProperties to generate reproducible grails.factories #1751
• a631ade Use OrderedProperties to generate reproducible GSP views.properties #1750
• f166bf1 Enhance OrderedProperties #1747
• 1bb6085 Use git.build.version and git.commit.time in GrailsVersion #1748
• 89b23e8 Change the default to preserveFileTimestamps = false for all the archive tasks #1744
• 64d65eb Configure the connectTimeout and clientTimeout properties for the Nexus Publishing #1738
• 876a5dc Set environment variables for ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_sonatypeUsername and ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_sonatypePassword for Nexus credentials #1736
• 1d8f924 Create createGraceStartScripts task in grace-shell/build.gradle instead of gradle/assemble.gradle #1734
• 34b5234 Move Groovy script config.groovy from /buildSrc/config to /gradle/groovy #1732
• 1af7529 Add /repo to .gitignore
• 74e3527 Using the no-configuration-cache flag to disable Gradle configuration cache at build time #1726
• 8b99093 Update build scripts to support Gradle's configuration cache #1724
• 181a405 Declare Grace grace-doc plugin version in the Gradle version catalog #1718
• 29241c4 Declare Grace asset-pipeline plugin version in the Gradle version catalog #1716
• 47e8ec2 Make the dependencies ordered by the properties for generating the Grace BOM #1714
• 1f35830 Upload maven bundle as a GitHub artifact in the release workflow #1712
• cddb466 Build Maven bundle for publishing to Maven Central #1710
• 5bb2c34 Rename to graceVersion as the current version of project #1708
• 0522468 Refine the generated Grace BOM file #1706
• 95cc804 Add asset-pipeline modules to Grace BOM #1704
• 165e88f Add commons-codec and commons-lang3 to Grace BOM #1698

🐞 Bug Fixes

• d0d773f Fix signing configuration #1766
• e9a906a Environment.getGrailsVersion() should read property 'git.build.version' from grails-build.properties #1748 #1754
• e32aaad Fix file permissions in the Grace CLI's zip #1742
• edbf97e Fixes Gradle plugins validation failed with problems #1741
• 7e28825 Provide a workaround for the changed properties of plugins and profiles in the Grace BOM #1728
• d57d8e1 Only publish grace-bom as BOM file to the Maven Central repository #1702
• 9137ac4 Add explicit dependency on grace-plugin-datasource for grace-boot-hibernate #1700

🚀 Dependency Upgrades

• 0ca28d5 Upgrade to Flying Saucer PDF 9.13.4 #1694
• 0b7eae8 Upgrade to Grace Asset Pipeline Plugin 7.2.0-RC2 #1756
• c1ebcbd Upgrade to Grace Doc Engine 2.1.0 #1758
• e434080 Upgrade to Grace Gradle Plugin 2024.1.2 #1720
• 4855c6a Upgrade to Grace Views 7.2.0-RC2 #1697
• 23a097b Upgrade to Jackson Databind 2.21.7 #1693
• d953b51 Upgrade to Tomcat 10.1.61 #1682

⚙️ Tasks

• 557c9dd Release v2024.2.0-RC2

Full Changelog: v2024.2.0-RC1...v2024.2.0-RC2