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Zac Spitzer talks about “Lucee 6 Release Features, Behind-the-Scenes ” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light.
I'm here with Zac Spitzer from the Lucee Association Switzerland along with some other organizations that I'll tell you about later. And we're going to be talking about some exciting breaking news about Lucee six. All the features in that and when you can get your hands on it. And a bit about behind the scenes on what happens in Lucee and how you can best get support from the Lucee folks."
Show notes
Lucee 6 beta release
Breaking news - early beta in early July
Update: The beta is delayed until some breakers are fixed - see Zac's Lucee 6 roadmap and 5.3.9 blog post
Download from https://www.lucee.org/
Open beta, separate docs site or local docs
VS Code and other IDEs read from cfdocs site
Free and can sponsor
5.3.9 regression release first
Beta length
180 alpha builds
https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/secure/GHGoToBoard.jspa?sprintId=58
Open collective support
The Lucee process and his role
Lucee Community Manager
Jack of all trades
Support
Lucee docs (originally by Pix8), Zac speeded it up https://docs.lucee.org/
Build engineer
Log4j fix - upgrade
Travis.ci migration to GitHub actions
Ticket triage
Dev schedulers
Facilitate Misha to focus on deep (PM)
Help Brad Wood on CommandBox integration
Learning Java
“Code speaks louder than words”
Improving dev workflows
QoQ improvements
Extensions dependencies → Lucee Lite
Lucee 6 New features
Single context mode
Vs current multi-context in Lucee (and one context in ACF)
Faster server startup
Web sites each have one
Json config (from XML)
Fixing bad CFML defaults
CFLocation AddToken = False is now default
Java type UDFs
Type = Java
Add Java code direct in your CF code!
Autowrapping of the Java code
Currently Lucee uses OSGI for JARs for dynamic use
Subcomponents
Better TryCF.com experience
Query of Query
Less funky that ACF - more like regular database queries - same semantics
10x Faster performance (as of 5.3.8) for single table
Joins different
Future CF functions inside a QoQ query
Prior announced features in Lucee 6
Improve the Startup Time < 0.5s
Startup with only One Context halves the startup time
Removed old cruf for flash etc
Webinfo folder outside the webroot - more secure - smaller and faster
Pete Freitag Fuseless llamda helped on this
Warmenable = 1 to pre-load these folders
Better logging eg in deploy log
Log leves errors and info ones
Improve the Existing Serverless Deployment (JSR 223)
Introduce Headless Deployment for AWS Lambda
Project Loom - more parallel threads
https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/going-inside-javas-project-loom-and-virtual-threads
Add Built-In Support for syslog
Hibernate Upgrade to version 5.4 (Ortus supported upgrade for better ORM)
Web.cfc for website context
Listeners - queries, mail, HTTP progress listener
Admin log viewer - aggregates them
His GitHub or ForgeBox
Performance analyzer
Enable debug logs
Thread debugging for parallel code
His GitHub or ForgeBox
CF distributed lock across a cluster (Redis server)
Future improvements
Improved Functionality of Futures and Promises
Lockdown Settings for Administrators
The Use of Lucee will now be Disguised
Individual CFTOKEN or CFID Names
Introduction of a Password Vault
Quarantine mode
Add a Default Log Appender which is the Fallback if not configured.
Text file vs DataDog etc
Event-Driven Architecture
Brand New Native Support for JavaStreams (Luis CDstreams does this)
Easy use of Java libraries
We love Lucee
NASA Mars web app in Lucee
The Lucee Release cycle
Point release schedule
Monthly vs stable release
Full test on the release
5.3.8 long release
6-month release cycle in future
Test library of regression code distributed tests for more stable releases - no regressions (errors in release)
Send in pull requests
Lucee 6 Announced the 2018 CFCamp in Munich
Better version numbering - faster major releases
LTS (Long Term Support) for prior version
Sprints
Lucee support tips
Search in Google to see if others have solved your problem already
dev.lucee.org (searchable by Google)
Give what you have tried, give sample code (small), screenshots if appropriate, include error message
Test cases in TestBox
Only bring to GitHub after discussing in the above Lucee forum
(Alt is Lucee support contract esp new features
CF Slack public Lucee channel
Don’t DM support questions to Zac - share with others
Don’t Tweet me
Why are you proud to use CF?
WWIT to make CF more alive this year?
Listen to the Audio
Mentioned in this episode
Lucee 6 announced
Lucee
Secrets From the Folks Who Make the Official Lucee CFML Docker Images, with Geoff Bowers
CFML Secrets with Patrick Quinn (AWS, Lucee and SeeFusion)
Bio
Zac Spitzer
Senior Software Engineer @ Rasia
80% Senior Software Engineer @ Distrokid
20% Community Manager @ Lucee Association Switzerland
Originally from Melbourne, Australia
Lives in Berlin, Germany
CFML Developer since 1996, Allaire CF 2.0
Links
Twitter
Lucee profile
Git Hub profile
Email zac @ lucee.org
Interview transcript
Michaela Light 0:02
Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Zach Spitzer from the Lucy Association Switzerland along with some other organizations that I'll tell you about later. And we're going to be talking about some exciting breaking news about Lucy six. All the features in that and when you can get your hands on it. And a bit about behind the scenes on what happens in Lucy and how you can best get support from the Lucy folks. Welcome Zach Debian. So if you don't know, Zach, he's quite quite out there in all the forums, you know, the slack forum on the Facebook ColdFusion channel. Because he is the community manager at Lucy sociation, Switzerland and helps with support and does a lot of other things we'll talk about in a moment, as well as being a senior software engineer at Razia. And does a lot of work for distro kid, which is one of the biggest ColdFusion sites in the world. So as you will know, if you've listened to the mark drew episode about trisko distro kid. He's originally from Melbourne, Australia, but now he's living in Berlin, Germany, and how to voice transplants so he could speak in a better accent than Australian. Just kidding. And he's been doing cold fusion since 1996. Back in the earlier days cold fusion 2.0. So thanks for coming on the show slack. And looking forward to hearing about what's going to be in Lucy six. Yeah, so what's the breaking news?
Zac Spitzer 1:39
So the breaking news is we're finally going to do a first beater of Lucy six in July. Whoo.
Michaela Light 1:47
So it's been a long? Where can people find that?
Zac Spitzer 1:50
So we will be doing I'll be publishing it all over the web. Once we do that. We'll be publishing it online via the Lucy administrator. Because with Lucy, unlike Adobe, you can just update your your local coffee, Lucy server to Lucy six. So we've maintained that we're maintaining compatibility with the old version of Lucy. So if you've got a Lucy 5380539 server, you can just go go to the admin when it comes out and try it out.
Michaela Light 2:19
Oh, cool. And so should we go to lucy.org or some other URL?
Zac Spitzer 2:24
Yep, you can download [email protected]. And you can download one of our existing installers or you can use command box. So we will be starting publishing builds we haven't published builds for the Alpha releases of Lucy six, because it's been a bit broken, and we don't want to waste people's time. Even though lots of people have been super keen to try it. We wanted to reach a point where it was ready to go. So yeah, in a couple of weeks, we will have the first piece of version out there.
Michaela Light 2:53
Excellent. How many Alpha builds? Have you been through that?
Zac Spitzer 2:57
Work? 206 point 0.0 180 At the moment. So that's been a lot.
Michaela Light 3:04
So 180 different builds, people have been trying it out inside the Alpha community. But you're getting ready in a few weeks. By the time this episode is released, I expect it will be released are soon available from lucy.org. And what is the what is the cost? For those who have been asleep for the last few years? What's the cost to use Lucy?
Zac Spitzer 3:30
Nothing you just need to be passionate.
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Zac Spitzer talks about “Lucee 6 Release Features, Behind-the-Scenes ” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light.
I'm here with Zac Spitzer from the Lucee Association Switzerland along with some other organizations that I'll tell you about later. And we're going to be talking about some exciting breaking news about Lucee six. All the features in that and when you can get your hands on it. And a bit about behind the scenes on what happens in Lucee and how you can best get support from the Lucee folks."
Show notes
Lucee 6 beta release
Breaking news - early beta in early July
Update: The beta is delayed until some breakers are fixed - see Zac's Lucee 6 roadmap and 5.3.9 blog post
Download from https://www.lucee.org/
Open beta, separate docs site or local docs
VS Code and other IDEs read from cfdocs site
Free and can sponsor
5.3.9 regression release first
Beta length
180 alpha builds
https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/secure/GHGoToBoard.jspa?sprintId=58
Open collective support
The Lucee process and his role
Lucee Community Manager
Jack of all trades
Support
Lucee docs (originally by Pix8), Zac speeded it up https://docs.lucee.org/
Build engineer
Log4j fix - upgrade
Travis.ci migration to GitHub actions
Ticket triage
Dev schedulers
Facilitate Misha to focus on deep (PM)
Help Brad Wood on CommandBox integration
Learning Java
“Code speaks louder than words”
Improving dev workflows
QoQ improvements
Extensions dependencies → Lucee Lite
Lucee 6 New features
Single context mode
Vs current multi-context in Lucee (and one context in ACF)
Faster server startup
Web sites each have one
Json config (from XML)
Fixing bad CFML defaults
CFLocation AddToken = False is now default
Java type UDFs
Type = Java
Add Java code direct in your CF code!
Autowrapping of the Java code
Currently Lucee uses OSGI for JARs for dynamic use
Subcomponents
Better TryCF.com experience
Query of Query
Less funky that ACF - more like regular database queries - same semantics
10x Faster performance (as of 5.3.8) for single table
Joins different
Future CF functions inside a QoQ query
Prior announced features in Lucee 6
Improve the Startup Time < 0.5s
Startup with only One Context halves the startup time
Removed old cruf for flash etc
Webinfo folder outside the webroot - more secure - smaller and faster
Pete Freitag Fuseless llamda helped on this
Warmenable = 1 to pre-load these folders
Better logging eg in deploy log
Log leves errors and info ones
Improve the Existing Serverless Deployment (JSR 223)
Introduce Headless Deployment for AWS Lambda
Project Loom - more parallel threads
https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/going-inside-javas-project-loom-and-virtual-threads
Add Built-In Support for syslog
Hibernate Upgrade to version 5.4 (Ortus supported upgrade for better ORM)
Web.cfc for website context
Listeners - queries, mail, HTTP progress listener
Admin log viewer - aggregates them
His GitHub or ForgeBox
Performance analyzer
Enable debug logs
Thread debugging for parallel code
His GitHub or ForgeBox
CF distributed lock across a cluster (Redis server)
Future improvements
Improved Functionality of Futures and Promises
Lockdown Settings for Administrators
The Use of Lucee will now be Disguised
Individual CFTOKEN or CFID Names
Introduction of a Password Vault
Quarantine mode
Add a Default Log Appender which is the Fallback if not configured.
Text file vs DataDog etc
Event-Driven Architecture
Brand New Native Support for JavaStreams (Luis CDstreams does this)
Easy use of Java libraries
We love Lucee
NASA Mars web app in Lucee
The Lucee Release cycle
Point release schedule
Monthly vs stable release
Full test on the release
5.3.8 long release
6-month release cycle in future
Test library of regression code distributed tests for more stable releases - no regressions (errors in release)
Send in pull requests
Lucee 6 Announced the 2018 CFCamp in Munich
Better version numbering - faster major releases
LTS (Long Term Support) for prior version
Sprints
Lucee support tips
Search in Google to see if others have solved your problem already
dev.lucee.org (searchable by Google)
Give what you have tried, give sample code (small), screenshots if appropriate, include error message
Test cases in TestBox
Only bring to GitHub after discussing in the above Lucee forum
(Alt is Lucee support contract esp new features
CF Slack public Lucee channel
Don’t DM support questions to Zac - share with others
Don’t Tweet me
Why are you proud to use CF?
WWIT to make CF more alive this year?
Listen to the Audio
Mentioned in this episode
Lucee 6 announced
Lucee
Secrets From the Folks Who Make the Official Lucee CFML Docker Images, with Geoff Bowers
CFML Secrets with Patrick Quinn (AWS, Lucee and SeeFusion)
Bio
Zac Spitzer
Senior Software Engineer @ Rasia
80% Senior Software Engineer @ Distrokid
20% Community Manager @ Lucee Association Switzerland
Originally from Melbourne, Australia
Lives in Berlin, Germany
CFML Developer since 1996, Allaire CF 2.0
Links
Twitter
Lucee profile
Git Hub profile
Email zac @ lucee.org
Interview transcript
Michaela Light 0:02
Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Zach Spitzer from the Lucy Association Switzerland along with some other organizations that I'll tell you about later. And we're going to be talking about some exciting breaking news about Lucy six. All the features in that and when you can get your hands on it. And a bit about behind the scenes on what happens in Lucy and how you can best get support from the Lucy folks. Welcome Zach Debian. So if you don't know, Zach, he's quite quite out there in all the forums, you know, the slack forum on the Facebook ColdFusion channel. Because he is the community manager at Lucy sociation, Switzerland and helps with support and does a lot of other things we'll talk about in a moment, as well as being a senior software engineer at Razia. And does a lot of work for distro kid, which is one of the biggest ColdFusion sites in the world. So as you will know, if you've listened to the mark drew episode about trisko distro kid. He's originally from Melbourne, Australia, but now he's living in Berlin, Germany, and how to voice transplants so he could speak in a better accent than Australian. Just kidding. And he's been doing cold fusion since 1996. Back in the earlier days cold fusion 2.0. So thanks for coming on the show slack. And looking forward to hearing about what's going to be in Lucy six. Yeah, so what's the breaking news?
Zac Spitzer 1:39
So the breaking news is we're finally going to do a first beater of Lucy six in July. Whoo.
Michaela Light 1:47
So it's been a long? Where can people find that?
Zac Spitzer 1:50
So we will be doing I'll be publishing it all over the web. Once we do that. We'll be publishing it online via the Lucy administrator. Because with Lucy, unlike Adobe, you can just update your your local coffee, Lucy server to Lucy six. So we've maintained that we're maintaining compatibility with the old version of Lucy. So if you've got a Lucy 5380539 server, you can just go go to the admin when it comes out and try it out.
Michaela Light 2:19
Oh, cool. And so should we go to lucy.org or some other URL?
Zac Spitzer 2:24
Yep, you can download [email protected]. And you can download one of our existing installers or you can use command box. So we will be starting publishing builds we haven't published builds for the Alpha releases of Lucy six, because it's been a bit broken, and we don't want to waste people's time. Even though lots of people have been super keen to try it. We wanted to reach a point where it was ready to go. So yeah, in a couple of weeks, we will have the first piece of version out there.
Michaela Light 2:53
Excellent. How many Alpha builds? Have you been through that?
Zac Spitzer 2:57
Work? 206 point 0.0 180 At the moment. So that's been a lot.
Michaela Light 3:04
So 180 different builds, people have been trying it out inside the Alpha community. But you're getting ready in a few weeks. By the time this episode is released, I expect it will be released are soon available from lucy.org. And what is the what is the cost? For those who have been asleep for the last few years? What's the cost to use Lucy?
Zac Spitzer 3:30
Nothing you just need to be passionate.
Read more