Lucee Roadmap 2026

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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 and of course regressions.

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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Thanks for posting the plan.

We do a lot of Java integration, so the changes in 7.x look radical, but sensible and worth adopting.

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Glad you understand, we battle the question of radical vs incremental constantly

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For those who missed the online meeting, the Lucee team visited the Mid-Michigan ColdFusion User’s Group and presented on these changes (plus a lot of other stuff!) : https://youtu.be/qN-BGkpcAaM?si=Kb1uFtIF7yieZFhe

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This was a great watch. LuCLI’s REPL looks like a great stand in for trycf.com

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Our team successfully deployed some of our larger CFML apps on Lucee 7 earlier this month. It’s been wildly successful. We have one app that is running about a 90 node EKS cluster used for for one of our classes at the university I work at to simulate some advanced networking designs, configurations and failures. The code base isn’t 100% the same as when we ran it on 5.4 last year but it’s pretty darn close – and with that we were able to save on CPU and memory usage across the board. We were able to reduce the ec2 instances in the cluster from an m3.medium to an m3.small thanks to the efficiencies in the engine, giving the same or better performance than we had before.

The new Java integrations are also a sleeper feature that won’t get a ton of headlines but has made my life a ton easier. We were able to rip out a bunch of custom java classes we had to write to bootstrap some AWS functions and use the native AWS provided libraries in our project. We could easily call everything from right within our CFML code and fully integrate the library in our projects in hours, not days. Because of the automatic imports in code via Maven, deploying java libraries is very straight forward and more importantly, easily repeatable when deploying projects.

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