So the Grails Foundation will be releasing a more formal message soonish, but these are the takeaways I got from a meeting they held today inviting some of the community contributors to fill in some details and ask for feedback.
Funding for new features has stopped as we all know this is similar to what happened when Pivotal stopped funding Grails, the difference this time is there hasn't been anyone reaching out offering to pick up or support the Grails team in one form or another.
We talked about the decline of interest in Grails, and contributing factors This was what led OCI to pull funding, and is only supporting paying customers at this point.
If nothing else there was a thought about moving the project to Commonhaus, where it would it would just be supported by the community, and might move even slower than it was before. There was some work done on Grails 7 upgrading to Groovy 4 and Spring Boot 3.x, but it's unknown how much work would still need to be done to get that to a releasable state and how much collateral damage it done by those upgrades.
The Grails Foundation is open to all possibilities at this point, but if Grails is really going to continue it is going to need a groundswell of community support which has been declining in recent years.