As a test, I just downloaded and installed the latest express version, both the PDF and MSSQL extensions already say update me, is there any reason the latest versions aren’t bundled?
The Release date refers to available updated version? Perhaps “Update Released” would be clearer? Also is it possible to include release date in the downgrade/upgrade dropdowns (after the version number)?
@micstriit Can you help explain what version of the extensions get bundled with the server? Is there a way to always bundle the latest versions of the extensions?
PS. Not sure what the status of http://extension.lucee.org/ is – where did you see it linked from? Is it just the provider link in the Administrator as shown in your screengrab?
Every lucee.jar bundles the required extensions, the lucee core (an OSGi bundle) defines the required bundles in the Manifest. Lucee does not necessary bundle the latest version of an extension, specially when we update an extension we wait sometime before we bundle that version with the core.
no they are not flagged as beta, we are simply careful to make it the default. In this case we simple have a new version of the JDBC drivers, have in mind that a newer JDBC driver also can produce problems with people using older DB versions. That does not necessary mean that something is wrong with the driver. the problem could be the combination of a specific driver with a specific DB version. So in that case we let the people update so people are aware they did update the JDBC driver.
An older JDBC driver sometime has a broader support than the latest version.
We see that specially with PostgreSQL, we are always very careful with newer version coming from them.