It has just been announced at S2GForum, that VMWare / SpringSource has released Grails 1.3. This release includes Groovy 1.7, Maven repository support for plugins, Declarative plugin dependencies, Chaining of named criteria, JUnit 4 support, just to mention a few things.

If you want to hear more about this release, or want to hear about how Grails works "under the hood", you should attend our conference.

Here Graeme Rocher, the lead developer on Grails, will talk about the new stuff in 1.3 and will do presentation about how Grails does its magic.

We also have talks covering Groovy, Griffon, Gradle, Spock, iWebkit, AST and lots of other GR8 stuff! Check out the agenda for more information!

The last chance to register is this friday (May 14th.).