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title: "The Grails Plugin Has a New Home: Apache Grails"
description: "The Grails plugin for IntelliJ IDEA, providing framework-aware coding assistance, GSP tooling, and GORM integration, has moved to the Apache Grails project. The Apache Software Foundation now owns its source code, while the Apache Grails Project Management Committee oversees development, releases, and compatibility rather than IntelliJ IDEA release cycles. The Grails team builds, signs, and publishes updates to JetBrains Marketplace under the Apache Grails vendor listing; build 262.0.0 supports IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2. Existing users do not need to migrate, and the plugin ID remains unchanged for now, but beginning with 2026.2 it is no longer bundled by default with IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate. Users who cannot find it in the IDE can install it from Marketplace, where JetBrains will continue featuring the plugin."
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# The Grails Plugin Has a New Home: Apache Grails

[Jetbrains](https://yomu.fyi/company/jetbrains) · Andrey Belyaev · Sep 1, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

The Grails plugin for IntelliJ IDEA, providing framework-aware coding assistance, GSP tooling, and GORM integration, has moved to the Apache Grails project. The Apache Software Foundation now owns its source code, while the Apache Grails Project Management Committee oversees development, releases, and compatibility rather than IntelliJ IDEA release cycles. The Grails team builds, signs, and publishes updates to JetBrains Marketplace under the Apache Grails vendor listing; build 262.0.0 supports IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2. Existing users do not need to migrate, and the plugin ID remains unchanged for now, but beginning with 2026.2 it is no longer bundled by default with IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate. Users who cannot find it in the IDE can install it from Marketplace, where JetBrains will continue featuring the plugin.

## Context

The plugin’s maintainers and ownership are moving to the Apache Grails project so its tooling can evolve with the framework roadmap, while JetBrains focuses on core IDE and platform work.

## Approach / What changed

The Apache Software Foundation owns the plugin source, and the Apache Grails PMC oversees development. The Grails team builds, signs, and publishes releases directly to JetBrains Marketplace under its own vendor credentials.

## Takeaways

- Build 262.0.0 supports IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2.
- The plugin ID remains unchanged for now, so existing Marketplace users do not need to migrate.
- Starting with IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2, the plugin is no longer bundled by default with IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and may need to be installed from Marketplace.

**Tags:** [Grails](https://yomu.fyi/topic/grails)

- Source: [Jetbrains](https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2026/09/the-grails-plugin-has-a-new-home-apache-grails)
- Source URL: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2026/09/the-grails-plugin-has-a-new-home-apache-grails
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-09-03T11:17:12.846Z

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