upgraded grails version to 7

.github/workflows/gradle.yml

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+name: "Java CI"
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - '[5-9].[0-9].x'
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - '[5-9].[0-9].x'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+env:
+  GIT_USER_NAME: 'grails-build'
+  GIT_USER_EMAIL: 'grails-build@users.noreply.github.com'
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        java: ['17', '21']
+    steps:
+      - name: "📥 Checkout the repository"
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: "☕️ Setup JDK"
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v4
+        with:
+          distribution: 'liberica'
+          java-version: ${{ matrix.java }}
+      - name: "🐘 Setup Gradle"
+        uses: gradle/actions/setup-gradle@v4
+      - name: "🔨 Run Base Tests"
+        env:
+          DEVELOCITY_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.DEVELOCITY_ACCESS_KEY }}
+          DEVELOCITY_BUILD_CACHE_NODE_USER: ${{ secrets.DEVELOCITY_BUILD_CACHE_NODE_USER }}
+          DEVELOCITY_BUILD_CACHE_NODE_KEY: ${{ secrets.DEVELOCITY_BUILD_CACHE_NODE_KEY }}
+        run: ./gradlew check --continue
+      - name: "☄️ Upload Base Tests Results - cache-headers"
+        if: ${{ always() }}
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: testreport-cache-headers-${{ matrix.java }}
+          path: examples/plugin/build/reports/tests
+      - name: "☄️ Upload Base Tests Results - standalone app for plugin"
+        if: ${{ always() }}
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: testreport-plugin-test-app-${{ matrix.java }}
+          path: examples/plugin-test-app/build/reports/tests
+      - name: "☄️ Upload Base Tests Results - functional app for plugin"
+        if: ${{ always() }}
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: testreport-functional-test-app-${{ matrix.java }}
+          path: examples/functional-test-app/build/reports/tests
+  publish:
+    if: github.event_name == 'push'
+    needs: build
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+    steps:
+      - name: "📥 Checkout the repository"
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: "☕️ Setup JDK"
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v4
+        with:
+          distribution: 'liberica'
+          java-version: '17'
+      - name: "🐘 Setup Gradle"
+        uses: gradle/actions/setup-gradle@v4
+      - name: "📤 Publish to Snapshot (repo.grails.org)"
+        env:
+          GRAILS_PUBLISH_RELEASE: 'false'
+          DEVELOCITY_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.DEVELOCITY_ACCESS_KEY }}
+          MAVEN_PUBLISH_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.MAVEN_PUBLISH_USERNAME }}
+          MAVEN_PUBLISH_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.MAVEN_PUBLISH_PASSWORD }}
+          MAVEN_PUBLISH_URL: ${{ secrets.MAVEN_PUBLISH_SNAPSHOT_URL }}
+        working-directory: ./plugin
+        run: ../gradlew publish
+      - name: "📜 Generate Documentation"
+        if: success()
+        env:
+          DEVELOCITY_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.DEVELOCITY_ACCESS_KEY }}
+        working-directory: ./plugin
+        run: ../gradlew docs
+      - name: "🚀 Publish to Github Pages"
+        if: success()
+        uses: grails/github-pages-deploy-action@grails
+        env:
+          SKIP_SNAPSHOT: ${{ contains(needs.publish.outputs.release_version, 'M') }}
+          TARGET_REPOSITORY: ${{ github.repository }}
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}
+          BRANCH: gh-pages
+          FOLDER: plugin/build/docs
+          DOC_FOLDER: gh-pages
+          COMMIT_EMAIL: ${{ env.GIT_USER_EMAIL }}
+          COMMIT_NAME: ${{ env.GIT_USER_NAME }}

.github/workflows/release.yml

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+name: "Release"
+on:
+  release:
+    types: [published]
+env:
+  GIT_USER_NAME: 'grails-build'
+  GIT_USER_EMAIL: 'grails-build@users.noreply.github.com'
+jobs:
+  publish:
+    permissions:
+      contents: write  #  to create release
+      issues: write  #  to modify milestones
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      release_version: ${{ steps.release_version.outputs.value }}
+      target_branch: ${{ steps.extract_branch.outputs.value }}
+      extract_repository_name: ${{ steps.extract_repository_name.outputs.repository_name }}
+    env:
+      GIT_USER_NAME: 'grails-build'
+      GIT_USER_EMAIL: 'grails-build@users.noreply.github.com'
+    steps:
+      - name: "📥 Checkout the repository"
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}
+      - name: "Extract repository name"
+        id: extract_repository_name
+        run: |
+          echo "repository_name=${GITHUB_REPOSITORY##*/}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+      - name: "☕️ Setup JDK"
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v4
+        with:
+          distribution: 'temurin'
+          java-version: '17'
+      - name: "🐘 Setup Gradle"
+        uses: gradle/actions/setup-gradle@v4
+      - name: "📝 Store the target branch"
+        id: extract_branch
+        run: |
+          echo "Determining Target Branch"
+          TARGET_BRANCH=${GITHUB_REF#refs/heads/}
+          echo $TARGET_BRANCH
+          echo "value=${TARGET_BRANCH}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+      - name: "📝Set the current release version"
+        id: release_version
+        run: echo "value=${GITHUB_REF:11}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+      - name: "⚙️ Run pre-release"
+        uses: grails/github-actions/pre-release@main
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      - name: "🔐 Generate key file for artifact signing"
+        env:
+          SECRING_FILE: ${{ secrets.SECRING_FILE }}
+        run: |
+          printf "%s" "$SECRING_FILE" | base64 -d > "${{ github.workspace }}/secring.gpg"
+      - name: "🧩 Run Assemble"
+        if: success()
+        id: assemble
+        env:
+          DEVELOCITY_BUILD_CACHE_NODE_USER: ${{ secrets.DEVELOCITY_BUILD_CACHE_NODE_USER }}
+          DEVELOCITY_BUILD_CACHE_NODE_KEY: ${{ secrets.DEVELOCITY_BUILD_CACHE_NODE_KEY }}
+        run: ./gradlew -U assemble -Psigning.secretKeyRingFile=${{ github.workspace }}/secring.gpg -Psigning.keyId=${{ secrets.SIGNING_KEY }}
+      - name: "🚀 Publish to Maven Central"
+        id: publish
+        env:
+          GRAILS_PUBLISH_RELEASE: 'true'
+          NEXUS_PUBLISH_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.NEXUS_PUBLISH_USERNAME }}
+          NEXUS_PUBLISH_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.NEXUS_PUBLISH_PASSWORD }}
+          NEXUS_PUBLISH_URL: ${{ secrets.NEXUS_PUBLISH_RELEASE_URL }}
+          NEXUS_PUBLISH_STAGING_PROFILE_ID: ${{ secrets.NEXUS_PUBLISH_STAGING_PROFILE_ID }}
+          NEXUS_PUBLISH_DESCRIPTION: '${{ steps.extract_repository_name.outputs.repository_name }}:${{ steps.release_version.outputs.value }}'
+          SIGNING_KEY: ${{ secrets.SIGNING_KEY }}
+          SIGNING_PASSPHRASE: ${{ secrets.SIGNING_PASSPHRASE }}
+          DEVELOCITY_BUILD_CACHE_NODE_USER: ${{ secrets.DEVELOCITY_BUILD_CACHE_NODE_USER }}
+          DEVELOCITY_BUILD_CACHE_NODE_KEY: ${{ secrets.DEVELOCITY_BUILD_CACHE_NODE_KEY }}
+        run: >
+          ./gradlew
+          -Psigning.keyId=${{ secrets.SIGNING_KEY }}
+          -Psigning.secretKeyRingFile=${{ github.workspace }}/secring.gpg
+          publishToSonatype 
+          closeSonatypeStagingRepository
+  release:
+    needs: publish
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+    steps:
+      - name: "📥 Checkout repository"
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: "☕️ Setup JDK"
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v4
+        with:
+          distribution: liberica
+          java-version: 17
+      - name: "📥 Checkout repository"
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}
+          ref: v${{ needs.publish.outputs.release_version }}
+      - name: "🐘 Setup Gradle"
+        uses: gradle/actions/setup-gradle@v4
+        with:
+          develocity-access-key: ${{ secrets.DEVELOCITY_ACCESS_KEY }}
+      - name: "🏆 Release staging repository"
+        env:
+          GRAILS_PUBLISH_RELEASE: 'true'
+          DEVELOCITY_BUILD_CACHE_NODE_USER: ${{ secrets.DEVELOCITY_BUILD_CACHE_NODE_USER }}
+          DEVELOCITY_BUILD_CACHE_NODE_KEY: ${{ secrets.DEVELOCITY_BUILD_CACHE_NODE_KEY }}
+          NEXUS_PUBLISH_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.NEXUS_PUBLISH_USERNAME }}
+          NEXUS_PUBLISH_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.NEXUS_PUBLISH_PASSWORD }}
+          NEXUS_PUBLISH_URL: ${{ secrets.NEXUS_PUBLISH_RELEASE_URL }}
+          NEXUS_PUBLISH_STAGING_PROFILE_ID: ${{ secrets.NEXUS_PUBLISH_STAGING_PROFILE_ID }}
+          NEXUS_PUBLISH_DESCRIPTION: '${{ needs.publish.outputs.extract_repository_name }}:${{ needs.publish.outputs.release_version }}'
+        run: >
+          ./gradlew
+          findSonatypeStagingRepository
+          releaseSonatypeStagingRepository
+      - name: "⚙️Run post-release"
+        if: success()
+        uses: grails/github-actions/post-release@main
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        env:
+          SNAPSHOT_SUFFIX: -SNAPSHOT
+  docs:
+    needs: publish
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+    steps:
+      - name: "📥 Checkout the repository"
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}
+          ref: v${{ needs.publish.outputs.release_version }}
+      - name: "☕️ Setup JDK"
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v4
+        with:
+          distribution: 'liberica'
+          java-version: '17'
+      - name: "🐘 Setup Gradle"
+        uses: gradle/actions/setup-gradle@v4
+      - name: "📜 Generate Documentation"
+        env:
+          DEVELOCITY_BUILD_CACHE_NODE_USER: ${{ secrets.DEVELOCITY_BUILD_CACHE_NODE_USER }}
+          DEVELOCITY_BUILD_CACHE_NODE_KEY: ${{ secrets.DEVELOCITY_BUILD_CACHE_NODE_KEY }}
+        working-directory: ./plugin
+        run: ../gradlew docs
+      - name: "🚀 Publish to Github Pages"
+        if: success()
+        uses: grails/github-pages-deploy-action@v2
+        env:
+          SKIP_SNAPSHOT: ${{ contains(needs.publish.outputs.release_version, 'M') }}
+          # if multiple releases are being done, this is the last branch - 1 version
+          #SKIP_LATEST: ${{ !startsWith(needs.publish.outputs.target_branch, '6.2') }}
+          TARGET_REPOSITORY: ${{ github.repository }}
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}
+          BRANCH: gh-pages
+          FOLDER: plugin/build/docs
+          DOC_FOLDER: gh-pages
+          COMMIT_EMAIL: ${{ env.GIT_USER_EMAIL }}
+          COMMIT_NAME: ${{ env.GIT_USER_NAME }}
+          VERSION: ${{ needs.publish.outputs.release_version }}