v2025.0.0-M2

What's Changed

This release is based on Spring Boot 4.0.9 and Spring Framework to 7.0.10.

• Upgrade to Maven 3.10.0, Gradle 9.8.2
• Upgrade to SiteMesh 2.8.0, Tomcat 11.0.27

For a complete list of changes made in this release see v2025.0.0 on GitHub.

⭐️ New Features

• 83bc723 Restore support for generating old version apps of Grails and Grace #1765
• a349dc7 Make reproducible builds with Gradle #1753
• 53a1f31 Assemble LICENSE.txt and NOTICE.txt files to published jars #1723

🛠 Improvements

• dd9a1a3 Add release notes for 2025.0.0-M2
• 3ec25a9 Update README - Update the versions of Gradle and Spring Boot badges
• 36d1f4c Simplify GrailsVersion versions check usages #1763
• dc275d7 Enhance GrailsVersion with support for comparing versions #1761
• e83b863 Use git.build.version and git.commit.time in GrailsVersion #1749
• 49edd4d Update to latest Gradle's start script templates #1746
• 7e2c9aa Change the default to preserveFileTimestamps = false for all the archive tasks #1745
• b02e5f7 Configure the connectTimeout and clientTimeout properties for the Nexus Publishing #1739
• 4a6b803 Set environment variables for ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_sonatypeUsername and ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_sonatypePassword for Nexus credentials #1737
• edfb6f7 Create createGraceStartScripts task in grace-shell/build.gradle instead of gradle/assemble.gradle #1735
• 9ef11e1 Move Groovy script config.groovy from /buildSrc/config to /gradle/groovy #1733
• 4e5a80a Add /repo to .gitignore
• 514cb18 Provide a Groovy script file to configure the compiler for compiling Grace plugins #1731
• 83ef45d Using the no-configuration-cache flag to disable Gradle configuration cache at build time #1727
• 8e8b51c Update build scripts to support Gradle's configuration cache #1725
• 8c14603 Declare Grace grace-doc plugin version in the Gradle version catalog #1719
• ed1ba26 Declare Grace asset-pipeline plugin version in the Gradle version catalog #1717
• b19300f Make the dependencies ordered by the properties for generating the Grace BOM #1715
• 4b3cdb1 Upload maven bundle as a GitHub artifact in the release workflow #1713
• 5dc8e9a Build Maven bundle for publishing to Maven Central #1711
• 4066c91 Rename to graceVersion as the current version of project #1709
• f83dacf Refine the generated Grace BOM file #1707
• 700dd6c Add asset-pipeline modules to Grace BOM #1705
• 7883f1b Add explicit dependency on grace-plugin-datasource for grace-boot-hibernate #1701
• fd3c51b Add commons-codec and commons-lang3 to Grace BOM #1699

🐞 Bug Fixes

• 32faa5d Fix signing configuration #1767
• c698425 Environment.getGrailsVersion() should read property 'git.build.version' from grails-build.properties #1755
• b535d3e Fix file permissions in the Grace CLI's zip #1743
• e135def Fixes Gradle plugins validation failed with problems #1740
• b876963 Provide a workaround for the changed properties of plugins and profiles in the Grace BOM #1729
• bf39b32 Only publish grace-bom as BOM file to the Maven Central repository #1703

🚀 Dependency Upgrades

• 536bd11 Upgrade to Eclipse Expressly 6.0.0 #1769
• bc4bf3a Upgrade to Flying Saucer PDF 9.13.4 #1696
• 7b5a54e Upgrade to Grace Asset Pipeline Plugin 8.0.0-M2 #1757
• c694085 Upgrade to Grace Asset Pipeline Plugin 8.0.0-M1 #1691
• 0cfa581 Upgrade to Grace Data Hibernate 2024.2.0-RC1 #1662
• f4d1690 Upgrade to Grace Doc Engine 2.1.0 #1759
• 627e27e Upgrade to Grace Gradle Plugin 2025.0.0-M1 #1721
• 7fe5385 Upgrade to Grace Views 8.0.0-M1 #1692
• 6d47c85 Upgrade to Gradle 9.8.2 #1657
• 159fa07 Upgrade to Gradle Tooling API 9.8.2 #1658
• 06b13a3 Upgrade to Hibernate Validator 9.0.2.Final #1770
• ea68fe2 Upgrade to Jackson Databind 2.21.7 #1695
• 10775a7 Upgrade to Maven 3.10.0 #1653
• e14ae35 Upgrade to SiteMesh 2.8.0 #1771
• 4fc88a9 Upgrade to Spring Boot 4.0.9 #1687
• 452312b Upgrade to Spring Framework 7.0.10 #1688
• 261ae84 Upgrade to Tomcat 11.0.27 #1683

⚙️ Tasks

• 1428a3d Release v2025.0.0-M2

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