# Groovy Weekly #65

> Get the latest Groovy ecosystem updates, including Apache incubation news, Grails 3.0.1, Ratpack releases, and insightful articles.

Author: [Guillaume Laforge](https://glaforge.dev/) | Published: 2015-04-07 | Topics: groovy, groovy-weekly | Canonical: https://glaforge.dev/posts/2015/04/07/groovy-weekly-65/


I hope you all had a Groovy Easter, with baskets full of eggs and chocolate!

Little update on the Groovy infrastructure, as the project moves into incubation at Apache, the [JIRA issue tracker has moved](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY/), and don’t forget that the [Groovy mailing-lists are also moving](http://www.groovy-lang.org/mailing-lists.html).

## Releases

*   [SwissKnife 1.2.3](https://twitter.com/arasthel92/status/584746749245423617) released, the Swiss knife for for Android development with Groovy
*   [Ratpack 0.9.15](http://ratpack.io/versions/0.9.15) released
*   [Spock Subjects Collaborators Extension 1.0.3](https://twitter.com/MGrzejszczak/status/583390682938798080) released by Marcin Grzejszczak
*   [Grails 3.0.1](https://twitter.com/grailsframework/status/583557647623913472) released
*   [ElasticSearch Groovy client v1.5.0](https://twitter.com/pickypg/status/585108230373830656) released
    
## Articles

*   [Grails 3.0 built upon Spring Boot and Gradle](http://jaxenter.com/grails-3-0-built-upon-spring-boot-and-gradle-116071.html) on JaxEnter
*   Using [Android product flavors to build full and demo version of an application](http://www.objectpartners.com/2015/03/31/using-android-product-flavors-to-build-full-and-demo-version-of-the-app/), by Manij Shrestha

## News

*   The [Groovy JIRA has now moved to Apache](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:summary-panel)
*   [Gradle has a brand new forum](https://twitter.com/Gradleware/status/583310059108712448) powered by Discourse
*   Tim Fox shares a glimpse of the [upcoming new Vert.x website](http://vert-x3.github.io/)
*   Jacob Aae Mikkelsen [Grails Diary](http://grydeske.net/news/show/90) week 14
    
## Presentations

*   SpringOne2GX 2014
    *   [Ratpack and Grails 3](http://www.infoq.com/presentations/ratpack-grails-3) by Lari Hotari
    *   [Building awesome APIs with Grails](http://www.infoq.com/presentations/grails-api-2014) by Chris Latimer
    *   [Gradle for Android](http://www.infoq.com/presentations/gradle-android) by Ken Kousen
    *   [Introduction to Grails 3.0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKkovWazbJM) by Dan Vega
    *   [Creating and running a Grails 3 application](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMyRGIJNa0) by Dan Vega

## Tweets

*   [Creating iOS applications with Groovy](https://twitter.com/grooscript/status/582180967164563456) and GrooScript, using ReactJS native
*   April Fools from Apache Groovy mentor says [Groovy could graduate on April 1st](https://twitter.com/bdelacretaz/status/583192854757007360) already
*   [Spring Boot 1.1.12](https://twitter.com/gvmtool/status/583384389201080321) available on GVM
*   [Spring Boot 1.2.3](https://twitter.com/gvmtool/status/583384477612797953) available on GVM
*   [Grails 3.0.1](https://twitter.com/gvmtool/status/583555987854008320) available on GVM

## Mailing-list posts

*   [Groovy's JIRA moved to Apache](http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/ANN-JIRA-moved-to-Apache-td5723366.html)

## Books

*   Peter Ledbrook shares early [draft chapters of his Practical Groovy](https://twitter.com/pledbrook/status/583291238067077120) self-published book

## Events

*   [GR8Conf US 2015 registration is open](https://twitter.com/gr8confus/status/585089220848517121)