Upcoming 6.2.4 and 7.0.1 RCs and 7.1 Alpha

Hey everyone, we getting very close to publishing the Release Candidates for both 6.2.4 and 7.0.1

Drop a comment if there are any outstanding regressions or if you have been trying out the snapshots

Please try out the latest snapshots if you can and let me know how you go

6.2

6.2 is in maintenance mode, so it’s just getting important bugfixes

https://download.lucee.org/changelog/?version=6.2

7.0

7.0 is our active stable branch, so more bug fixes and tweaks

https://download.lucee.org/changelog/?version=7.0

7.1 Alpha

7.1 is in alpha, we are working on a range of improvements.

Further reducing the core runtime size, moving

  • moving smtp/pop3/imap to an extension
  • compress() and extract() moves to the compress extension
  • QoQ using HSQLDB for now requires the HSQLDB extension

I’ve also been squirreling away working on a heap of performance improvements, faster compiling, faster components, I’m seeing a solid minimum 5-10% boost, sometimes a lot more from the various pending PRs I’ve been working on, all depending on the application workload

Here’s the epic about this performance work

https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-5919

Component using properties / accessors (getters/setters) use less memory and load faster

https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-3335

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7.0.1.90-SNAPSHOT is passing all of my unit and Cypress tests, and the LDEV-5915 bug that I reported is fixed.

7.1 Alpha fails with undefined tag [cfmail], but I assume that’s because the extension isn’t ready yet.

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Will the fix for LDEV-5813 (com.sun.mail.util.SocketConnectException not found by javax.mail) be in 6.2.4?

We’ve got apps we can’t migrate to V7, as they’re on frameworks that haven’t yet verified compatibility.

Hmmm, didn’t know that was a still a problem with 6.2, do you have a repo for that? Is that happening in the background, when mails are spooled?

Have you tested the frameworks with 7 yourself? feedback for maintainers is important, sometimes they need a nudge or two, whether bug reports or hey it all works