Grails Engineering Meeting Notes (01 21 2021)

Date: 01/21/2021

Attendees

Looked into some of the Spring Security updates
- Puneet: It would be good if we could do some Spring Security testing with the Grails 4.1 milestones
- Bobby: OK, Sounds good

While releasing the milestone for Grails Core that updates Apache Groovy and hit a Gradle issue
- https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/15721
- Identified some workarounds and is continuing with those for this release
Worked on the blog for the semantic versioning updates
Released 4.1.0 M5 today
After updating to Gradle 6.5, whenever there is a conflict between a snapshot and a milestone Gradle is picking the milestone
- We may need to switch to -SNAPSHOT instead of .SNAPSHOT to fix the issues. Does anyone have any concerns about switching that?
- Everyone agreed to the change
Next release should be a 5.0.0 milestone and it should be next week
James, do you think we should update to Micronaut 2.2.3 next week?
- James: Micronaut 2.3 will be released this week. You can probably update to 2.3 next week
- Puneet: Do you think there will issues just changing the version?
- James: No, I don't think there will be issues

Met with Paul King late last week and did some more digging regarding Groovy compilation slowness but have not identified the main culprit
- PR improving the fileReallyExists implementation did improve things somewhat, so it would be good to get that version of Groovy into Grails
There are some parallel build options for Groovy that we may be able to incorporate into Grails 5
Found a few more enhancements for the Groovy classloader and did a PR
- The classloader is used for runtime too, so it should improve performance during compilation and runtime
SpringLoader needs an updated Gradle version in order to work with newer Grails
- It shouldn't be a problem to get that updated and released
- Bobby: It would be great to get that added for JDK 8 and 11 for Grails 5
- David: 8 is definitely a possibility. 11 is a challenge