Grails 1.4 canceled, next release version will be 2.0

Grails 1.4 should actually come after Grails 1.3.
SpringSource recently decided to cancel 1.4 and name the next release 2.0.
A lot of improvements and new features justify the new major version number.

The changes of the upcoming 2.0 release include:

• New console UI and interactive mode
• Enhanced error reporting and stack trace printing
• Improved development time reloading with a JVM agent
• Performance enhancements
• AST transformation API for plugin devs
• HTML5 scaffolding
• Static resource handling
• A formalized GORM API
• Abstract inheritance support
• Multiple data sources support with 2 phase commit
• Database migrations and reverse engineering
• Upgrades to libraries from Groovy 1.8, Spring 3.1, Hibernate 3.6 and Servlet 3.0
• Completely new Testing API with Spock support
• Unit test scaffolding and enhanced unit test output in the console

Grails 2.0 is scheduled for september 2011.

See the Grails mailing list for more details.