<!channel> 🎉 The Apache Grails community is proud to announce that Søren Berg Glasius has been named the 2026 Grails Lifetime Contributor. Søren has made sustained contributions across the Grails core, critical plugins through the Grails Plugin Collective (especially the Fields plugin), practical documentation and training, and years of community building as co-founder and long-time organizer of GR8Conf. He currently serves on the Project Management Committees for both Apache Grails and Apache Groovy. The full announcement, including testimonials from Guillaume Laforge, Graeme Rocher, and Jeff Scott Brown, is here: grails.apache.org/blog/2026-07-28-soren-glasius-lifetime-contributor… Please join us in thanking Søren for strengthening Grails as a framework, an ecosystem, and a community.

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