grails end of life dates — full support timeline
6 of 7 tracked grails releases have already reached end of life. The dates below are published support dates, not estimates.
Version support timeline
| Release | Released | End of life | Latest | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 2025-10-19 | not announced | 7.2.1 | supported |
| 6 | 2023-07-24 | 2025-10-19 | 6.2.3 | ended |
| 5 | 2021-10-12 | 2025-01-09 | 5.3.6 | ended |
| 4 | 2019-07-11 | 2023-03-31 | 4.1.4 | ended |
| 3 | 2015-03-31 | 2021-09-30 | 3.3.18 | ended |
| 2 | 2011-12-15 | 2021-06-30 | 2.6.1 | ended |
| 1 | 2009-05-14 | 2012-05-01 | 1.3.9 | ended |
Who is affected
Anyone running an unsupported grails release. After end of life a version stops receiving security patches, which typically becomes an audit or compliance finding before it becomes an outage. Upgrading to a supported release is the migration path; the table above shows which releases still qualify.
Source
These dates are maintained by endoflife.date/grails, an open community dataset that cites vendor announcements. Verify against the vendor before making a compliance decision.
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