Hi. I have a project and I’m trying to use grails 7.0.0-M5 with spring security core 7.0.0-M4. When I try to go on login page I receive this error: Message: Error creating bean with name ‘grails.plugin.springsecurity.LoginController’: Failed properties: Property ‘grailsLayoutSelector’ threw exception: java.lang.AbstractMethodError; Property ‘grailsRenderViewMutator’ threw exception: java.lang.AbstractMethodError Caused by: Failed properties: Property ‘grailsLayoutSelector’ threw exception: java.lang.AbstractMethodError; Property ‘grailsRenderViewMutator’ threw exception: java.lang.AbstractMethodError Someone could help me?

Spring Security Core 7.0.0-M5 should be ready soon now that Core 7.0.0-M5 has been released. This looks related to https://docs.grails.org/snapshot/guide/single.html#_12_14_grails_layout_configuration

Ok. I’ll try again when security M5 is released

because the rest responder trait had hard coded references we had to decouple those references in m5; i intend to do the prep release for redis and spring security this week

I'm getting this problem or an extremely similar one myself on a Grails 7.0.0-M5 app upgraded from 6.2.3, triggered by an interceptor. But I'm not using Spring Security at all. Caused by: org.springframework.beans.PropertyBatchUpdateException: Failed properties: Property 'grailsLayoutSelector' threw exception: groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: grails.artefact.controller.support.ResponseRenderer$Trait$Helper.setGrailsLayoutSelector() is applicable for argument types: (s.SecurityInterceptor, o.a.g.w.l.LayoutSelector) values: [socialsupermarket.SecurityInterceptor@1ff1b403, org.apache.grails.web.layout.LayoutSelector@a2ac2d2]; Property 'grailsRenderViewMutator' threw exception: groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: grails.artefact.controller.support.ResponseRenderer$Trait$Helper.setGrailsRenderViewMutator() is applicable for argument types: (s.SecurityInterceptor, o.a.g.w.l.GrailsLayoutRenderViewMutator) values: [socialsupermarket.SecurityInterceptor@1ff1b403, org.apache.grails.web.layout.GrailsLayoutRenderViewMutator@4b2837d4]

which plugins are you using? its likely you have a plugin compiled with a previous version of 7.0.0 because we reverted sitemesh in m5

This is the list of project specific dependencies from build.gradle: //Project specific runtimeOnly 'mysqlmysql connector java5.1.46' implementation 'com.opencsvopencsv5.5.2' implementation 'org.apache.groovygroovy dateutil4.0.27' implementation 'org.apache.groovygroovy datetime4.0.27' implementation 'com.nimbusdsnimbus jose jwt8.3' //Project specific plugins implementation "org.grails.pluginsasync7.0.0-M3" implementation "org.grails.pluginsgrails mail5.0.0" implementation "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-websocket"

its mail

Ha, I was just about to point a finger at that! I added in the dependencies and got the errors on restart, before any other classes had been added in. I'm glad it's a single plugin which is responsible, because it gives me more hope for the rest of the conversion.

we knew this latest revert would be a breaking change

I'll use Spring's JavaMailSender for emails in the meantime, until the Mail plugin gets updated. Straightforward enough.

You have a gsp project right?

This is my dependencies block from build.gradle. To be clear, I've gone back to the version generated from application forge, with all my classes in place. dependencies { implementation platform("org.apache.grailsgrails bom$grailsVersion") developmentOnly("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools") integrationTestImplementation testFixtures("org.apache.grails:grails-geb") console "org.apache.grails:grails-console" implementation "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-logging" implementation "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-validation" implementation "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-autoconfigure" implementation "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter" implementation "org.apache.grails:grails-core" implementation "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuator" implementation "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat" implementation "org.apache.grails:grails-web-boot" implementation "org.apache.grails:grails-logging" implementation "org.apache.grails:grails-rest-transforms" implementation "org.apache.grails:grails-databinding" implementation "org.apache.grails:grails-i18n" implementation "org.apache.grails:grails-services" implementation "org.apache.grails:grails-url-mappings" implementation "org.apache.grails:grails-interceptors" implementation "org.apache.grails:grails-scaffolding" implementation "org.apache.grails:grails-data-hibernate5" implementation "org.apache.grails:grails-gsp" profile "org.apache.grails.profiles:web" runtimeOnly "com.h2database:h2" runtimeOnly "com.zaxxer:HikariCP" runtimeOnly "cloud.wondrify:asset-pipeline-grails" testAndDevelopmentOnly "org.webjars.npm:bootstrap" testAndDevelopmentOnly "org.webjars.npm:bootstrap-icons" testAndDevelopmentOnly "org.webjars.npm:jquery" testImplementation "org.apache.grails:grails-testing-support-datamapping" testImplementation "org.apache.grails:grails-testing-support-web" testImplementation "org.spockframework:spock-core" //Project specific runtimeOnly 'mysqlmysql connector java5.1.46' implementation 'com.opencsvopencsv5.5.2' implementation 'org.apache.groovygroovy dateutil4.0.27' implementation 'org.apache.groovygroovy datetime4.0.27' implementation 'com.nimbusdsnimbus jose jwt8.3' //Project specific plugins implementation "org.grails.pluginsasync7.0.0-M3" //implementation "org.grails.pluginsgrails mail5.0.0" implementation 'com.sun.mailjakarta.mail2.0.1' implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-mail' implementation "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-websocket" }

implementation "org.apache.grails:grails-gsp" should include grails-layout, which should have the file that's missing

OK. Not sure whether your first sentence is a question.

the error you're getting is b/c we introduced an interface to let end users choose between sitemesh2 & sitemesh3

Changing to implementation "org.grails.plugins:async" results in * What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':configureGroovyCompilerGrailsCore'.

Could not resolve all files for configuration ':runtimeClasspath'.

> Could not find org.grails.pluginsasync. Required by: root project :

it's org.apache.grails:grails-async

This was an entirely new Grails 7.0.0-M5 from the application forge into which I copied my existing source, so I would not have thought any Gradle plugins would need updating? Anyway, the good news again is that the async plugin change got me past that issue (thanks!) but I've run into another one: Error starting ApplicationContext. To display the condition evaluation report re-run your application with 'debug' enabled. 2025-07-24 153430.888 ERROR --- [ restartedMain] o.s.boot.SpringApplication : Application run failed java.lang.StackOverflowError: null at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.DefaultTransactionAttribute.<init>(DefaultTransactionAttribute.java:62) at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.RuleBasedTransactionAttribute.<init>(RuleBasedTransactionAttribute.java:62) at org.grails.datastore.mapping.transactions.CustomizableRollbackTransactionAttribute.<init>(CustomizableRollbackTransactionAttribute.java:46) at socialsupermarket.AuthService.getTransactionManager(AuthService.groovy) at socialsupermarket.AuthService.getTransactionManager(AuthService.groovy) at socialsupermarket.AuthService.getTransactionManager(AuthService.groovy) at socialsupermarket.AuthService.getTransactionManager(AuthService.groovy) at socialsupermarket.AuthService.getTransactionManager(AuthService.groovy) at socialsupermarket.AuthService.getTransactionManager(AuthService.groovy) at socialsupermarket.AuthService.getTransactionManager(AuthService.groovy) at socialsupermarket.AuthService.getTransactionManager(AuthService.groovy) at socialsupermarket.AuthService.getTransactionManager(AuthService.groovy) at socialsupermarket.AuthService.getTransactionManager(AuthService.groovy) at socialsupermarket.AuthService.getTransactionManager(AuthService.groovy) at socialsupermarket.AuthService.getTransactionManager(AuthService.groovy) at socialsupermarket.AuthService.getTransactionManager(AuthService.groovy) at soci etc

Sounds like we missed updating that one in forge then

Yes, AuthService is my code, but it was working fine in 6.2.3. Not sure what the stack overflow with getTransactionManager might be.

That one i'm not sure on

OK, I had introduced a (presumably?) redundant @Service annotation in the AuthService class (which is in /services anyway). Having got rid of that, my app now starts up! Woohoo! Massive thanks for the help getting me to this point.

You're welcome and thanks for being patient as we iron out these early milestone releases.

The great news is that I have now moved on to the point where I'm able to address idiot bugs in my own code 😀 .

grails-forge does not add grails-async explicitly by default (no async or events) or with any of the optional features. grails-forge has done this since 6.0.0. And it is not provided transitively by any of the default dependencies. There have been a few conversations about this and I believe it was left that it would be provided by plugins that require it. https://github.com/apache/grails-spring-security/blob/7.0.x/plugin-core/plugin/build.gradle provides it And a few here https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aapache%2Fgrails-core+grails-async+language%3AGradle&amp;type=code&amp;l=Gradle&amp;p=1 the rest-api and rest-api-plugin profiles include it currently, although rest-api profile doesn't match forge, which is an oversight since that is a leftover from Grails 5.

it must have come from @John Moore's app then or something