What is the next Lucee 6 release going to be? I see the 6.1.1.88-RC but 6.2 seems to be about ready. Is there a guess on what release and date?
Lucee 6.1.1 will be released very soon, hopefully next week, but we still need to address a few issues. If any adjustments are necessary, another RC (Release Candidate) will be issued first.
Lucee 6.2 is currently in Beta, with another Beta version coming next week, followed by an RC shortly after.
Lucee 7.0 is still in Alpha, but we’re planning to release a Beta later this year, and hopefully more than one.
Lucee 6.1.1 focuses on bug fixes and improvements over 6.1.0.
Lucee 6.2, on the other hand, introduces some exciting new features (at least exciting to me! ). It offers full Maven support in CFML, allowing you to load Java libraries simply by defining Maven dependencies. It also adds native support for importing and invoking Java classes, along with experimental AI integration.
Lucee 7.0 brings even bigger changes: it removes multi-mode, dramatically improves startup time by loading configurations on demand, and runs natively on Jakarta EE, among other enhancements.
From what I saw, 6.2 is supposed to officially support Java 17 and 21 LTS?
What about Tomcat 10.1 or newer official support?
Yes, Lucee does support Tomcat 10 (jakarta), but also still Tomcat 9 (javax).
when you configure Lucee for Tomcat 10, you simply have to change this configuration in the web.xml
Tomcat 9
<servlet>
<servlet-name>CFMLServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>lucee.loader.servlet.CFMLServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
to this
Tomcat 10
<servlet>
<servlet-name>CFMLServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>lucee.loader.servlet.jakarta.CFMLServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
same change also for the RestServlet in case you using it.
all our Lucee 6.2 docker images https://hub.docker.com/r/lucee/lucee/tags?name=6.2 already using Tomcat 10.