Lucee Roadmap 2026

Lucee 6.2 LTS

Lucee 6.2 is our new LTS release, with 5.4 LTS having reached the End of Life at the end of 2025.

LTS means no new features, only critical important bug fixes.

There are already major architectural changes in 7, especially for Java integration which will not be backported.

As the next LTS will be Lucee 7, personally I would recommend jumping to 7.0 for any new upgrades, rather than 6.2, as there is a lot of nice stuff in 7.0

Lucee 7 Single mode / Jakarta migration

Current Stable release

https://dev.lucee.org/tag/lucee-7

Lucee 7.1 - Performance + Modularisation

Next major release currently in the BETA stage

  • Java 25 LTS baseline
  • SMTP, FTP, COMPRESS support has been moved to extensions
  • Maven based extensions
  • Native Step Debugger / DAP support (via an extension)
  • Faster CFML Compiler
  • Faster, lighter CFCs
  • QoQ HSQLDB connection pooling
  • Reduced memory usage, fewer garbage collections
  • Various performance improvements
  • OSGI configuration updates

https://dev.lucee.org/tag/lucee-71

Lucee 7.2 - configuration modernisation + extension management

Our bleeding edge active development branch

Micha has completely overhauled the way configuration is handled internally, moving to programmatically defined configuration, with schema support, validation and incremental application of config changes (rather than requiring a full config reload for each change)

Extension handling has also been overhauled

More to come!

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