Wow, the Springsource's team has released a new version of Grails. This has very interesting features. I mention some of them here.
New libraries support:
Spring 3.1 M1,
Groovy 1.8,
Hibernate 3.6,
Servlet 3.0
Tomcat 7.0
New scaffold UI using HTML5
Better and simple unit testing.
Abstract Inheritance. (This is not supported in previous version. Your father class was need to be concret).
GORM API now available to Java
And New OrCreate and OrSave Queries for the dynamic finders.
Grails 1.4 comes with other very good features. You can see a detail Here
I'll testing this very soon, and post here my new experiences with that.