Graeme Rocher presented on upcoming versions of Grails. Grails 2.4 will include upgrades to Spring 4.0, Java 8 support, and the Asset Pipeline plugin. Grails 3.0 plans to embrace Gradle builds, abstract packaging, support non-servlet containers, and extend Grails' reach through profiles like Netty, batch, and Hadoop. It will also build on Spring Boot to enable embedded servers, runnable jars, and scripting/microservices. Key goals are reducing dependencies and bloat.