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 

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