So what happened at LAS and with Lucee since CFCamp 2016. In the session I presented the latest and greatest of Lucee from 5.1 to 5.3.

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It is still so much fun !!!

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LAS? Was ist das?

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Lucee Association Switzerland is:
• A so called "Verein"
• Solely takes care of developing Lucee
• Dependend on Members and Supporters
• Actively develops Lucee

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Lucee Association Switzerland is:
• Lead by a management board
• Which decides:
– Budget (Sponsorship etc.)
– General direction of Lucee
– Community events
– Meets give or take every two months

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LAS – next 12 months
As of Nov. 1st we will have a new core
team part time JAVA developer
And then as of February 1st, full time

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LAS – next 12 months
• With the resources we will have, we will
– Hire 2 additional people full time
– Organize a Lucee road show
• This will be happening in April 2018
– Take more care of the community
– Be more vocal and visible

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Lucee – the next 12 months
• Lucee release cycle
– Complete process is and will further be
automated
– Process publically visible

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Lucee – the next 12 months
• Lucee release cycle
– Tickets will be triaged and
moved to Sprint backlogs
(4 5 week sprint)
– The release cycle will be
switched to 4 5 weeks

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Yes, is a community project

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Bug Fix
Slots

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IN DETAIL
• 49 brand new features
• 275 bugs fixed
• 19 compatibility issues fixed
• Performance improvements
• Admin enhancements
• Process improvements

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Soon we will release
Lucee 5.3 BETA

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Lucee 5.3
• Core features
– Admin overhaul
– Hibernate fixes
– Performance
• XML
• Loops

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Lucee 5.3
• Core features
– Additional Application.cfc settings
– Overhaul of the docs shipped
– Mail server templates
– Mail watcher
– Update handler – Extension handler

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Lucee 5.3
• CFLoop script is now 40% (in most cases) faster than
before
• Solved at compiler level

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Lucee 5.3
• Lucee Docs

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Lucee 5.3
• Showed it many times, I just love it

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Lucee 5.3
• Compatibility issues fixed
• Environment variable support
• Added Cache handlers for additional Lucee tools
(like ArgusCache)
• Support for custom data in Debugging

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Lucee 5.3
• Support for query tags
qRet = queryExecute(
sql:"SELECT TOP 10 name, zip FROM customers",
options: {
cachedWithin:0.1
datasource:"test",
tags: ["Test1", "Test2"]
}
);

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Lucee 5.3
objectCache action="clear" tags="Test1";

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Lucee 5.3
• Support for additional caching
– CFHTTP
– Webservices
– Files
– Functions
– Include

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Lucee 5.3
• Web.cfc and Server.cfc

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Lucee 5.3
• Many small additions
– File Touch
– Update to specific Lucee versions
– Update to specific Extensions versions
– Snapshots, Alpha, Beta cycle for Extensions

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Lucee 5.3
• Many small additions
– Add support for nested threads
– New function isInThread()
– New function DBPoolClear()
– Key, value as aliasses for index, item

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Lucee 5.3
• Many small additions
– Define the mailserver, cache in the
Application.cfc
– Removed form tags from the core to an
Extension
– Removed Soap Webservices (Axis) from the
core to an Extension

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Lucee 5.3
• To summarize
https://goo.gl/2UexqN

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What next?