Even through the dog days of summer, when heat (is it really that hot, or is it perhaps an artifact of Lucee’s scorching release schedule the past 2 years? ) and summer vacation schedules are wreaking havoc with productivity, we’ve been very busy here at Lucee headquarters, working on the latest releases for our community.
Today we’re announcing the end of Release Candidate status for 5.2.9.29 (RC), and we’re posting the final release of Lucee 5.2.9.31.
Since Lucee developers are ever-astute, you’ll notice the incremented build number on the final release. That’s due to a couple of regressions that we patched during the RC period (ticket 1971 and ticket 1945). Note that it looked like 1968 may also have been a regression, but, it was rejected due to failure to reproduce. Just holler if you see anything similar to the behavior in 1968. Other than that, it was a quiet RC period with regard to regressions, which is what we like to see.
Head over to the download site to grab your copy before supplies run out (#ObviouslyKidding).
Next, here’s what’s upcoming with regard to Lucee releases and development team news:
The September sprint is underway, and will produce the first Release Candidate of Lucee 5.3 (previously in beta).
Keep an eye out for the release announcement in a few weeks, along with a related story entitled “What happened to Lucee 5.2.9.10???” (I can explain.)
Teaser: Lucee 5.3 will represent a nice leap forward for the community. At last count, including the beta, a hefty 75 tickets have gotten attention in Lucee 5.3 builds (64 snapshot builds and counting, as of this writing).
We’ve made very good progress on a couple of critical development goals–Java 10/11 and Tomcat 9 compatibility efforts. More on this soon.
We have a member of Lucee dev team, who is also a Tomcat committer, attending TomcatCon next week in Montreal.
With the summer heat getting to me (not to mention the extra añejo tequila), that’s all I’ve got for now. Thanks as always for listening, and thanks again for your interest in Lucee!
What about calling us Lucee netizens… Cones!?
When you stop laughing, follow me…
“The human retina contains about 120 million rod cells, and 6 million cone cells.” (Photoreceptor cell - Wikipedia)
Rods are responsible for vision at low light levels. They do not mediate color vision, and have a low spatial acuity.
Cones are active at higher light levels, are capable of color vision and are responsible for high spatial acuity.
bascially,
Rods can only see low light, they cannot see all the Light,
you have to be a Cone to see All the Light (Lucee).
Ok, let the public record show that @thegnunorm is credited with the first unifying theory of a nickname for Lucee users! Should we maybe ticket this, so we can get some upvotes?
@IamSigmund
What about the docker images? The mos recent release is always one version behind the ones announced here in the board? Is this on puprose?
Hey @phal0r. I’m cc’ing Geoff here (@modius), since the Docker images are not an official LAS offering, but rather a volunteer effort on the part of the community (provided by Geoff’s company, Daemon, who also happen to be LAS members). Geoff can clarify.
Is it possible for the time being to have the old Modern debug template still live on, locally I find the new one not respecting debug choices and causing extra bloat.
There’s no intent behind the delay. The current build process is manual and can only start once the final release is available.
We’re working on a new build matrix for docker images to provide a number of variations based on different versions of lucee, tomcat, nginx and the underlying os:
It’s pretty complex, but @justincarter and friends should have this tested, committed and released shortly. We’ve been waiting for the release of 5.3 to make the underlying repository changes – namely moving to a single repository with a whole variety of tagging.
For example, you will be able to pull a specific type of image like so:
FROM lucee/lucee:5.3-light-nginx-alpine
Once that’s complete, we will post a more thorough explanation of how the build process will be managed.
Hey Zac. Are you referring to the question about Java support, or Docker files, or maybe something else? Quite a few separate discussions happening on this thread at this point.
Yep, the linked issue might have already fixed it, but as only the minified JavaScript is checked in, it’s hard to review and I haven’t tested it out myself
) and summer vacation schedules are wreaking havoc with productivity, we’ve been very busy here at Lucee headquarters, working on the latest releases for our community.
