LogBox : Enterprise Logging & Messaging
6.x
6.x
  • Introduction
  • Intro
    • Release History
      • What's New With 6.8.0
      • What's New With 6.7.0
      • What's New With 6.6.0
      • What's New With 6.5.0
      • What's New With 6.2.0
      • What's New With 6.1.0
      • What's New With 6.0.0
    • About This Book
      • Author
  • Getting Started
    • Features at a Glance
    • Installation
      • LogBox Refcard
    • Need For Logging
    • How Does LogBox Work?
      • LogBox
      • Appender
      • Logger
        • Logger Category Inheritance
        • Security Levels
        • Dynamic Appenders
      • Layout
  • Configuration
    • Configuring LogBox
      • LogBox DSL
      • Adding Appenders
      • Adding Categories to Specific Loggin Levels
      • Adding Categories Granularly
      • Configuring The Root Logger
  • Usage
    • Using LogBox
    • Using a Logger Object
      • Can Methods For Performance
      • $toString() and ExtraInfo Argument
    • Appender Properties
      • CFAppender
      • ConsoleAppender
      • DBAppender
      • EmailAppender
      • FileAppender
      • RollingFileAppender
      • ScopeAppender
      • SocketAppender
      • TraceAppender
    • LogBox in a ColdBox Application
      • Configuration Within ColdBox
      • Benefits of using LogBox in a ColdBox application
      • Where is LogBox stored in a ColdBox app?
      • LogBox from the ColdBox Proxy
      • The LogBox Injection DSL
  • Extending LogBox
    • Creating Custom Appenders
      • Helper Methods
      • Instance Members
      • Dealing With Custom Layouts
      • Registering Appenders at Runtime
    • Creating a Custom Layout
      • Instance Members
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What's New With 6.0.0

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LogBox 6.0.0 is a major release for LogBox. It has some dramatic new features as we keep pushing for more modern and sustainable approaches to web development. We break down the major areas of development below and you can also find the full release notes per library at the end.

Engine Support

It is also yet another source code reduction due to the dropping of support for the following CFML Engines:

  • Adobe ColdFusion 11

  • Lucee 4.5

The info-graphic above shows you the supported engines the 6.x platform will support.

Logging Enhancements

LogBox has been entirely rewritten in script and a more fluent programming approach. It has also been revamped to leverage the scheduling executors and async programming aspects of our async package. All loggers now sport logging via an async queue and it is completely non-blocking. If you do heavy logging, the performance will be substantial.

LogBox Config Path Init

If you are using LogBox in standalone mode, you can now construct it by passing the path to your LogBox configuration file or no path at all and we will construct LogBox with our new default config file to stream logs to the console.

application.logbox = new LogBox();

application.logbox = new LogBox( "config.MyLogBox" );

Release Notes

Bugs

  • [LOGBOX-35] - FileAppender: if logging happens in a thread, queue never gets processed and, potentially, you run out of heap space

  • [LOGBOX-38] - Rotate property is defined but never used

  • [LOGBOX-45] - Work around for adobe bug CF-4204874 where closures are holding on to tak contexts

  • [LOGBOX-50] - Rolling file appender inserting tabs on first line

New Features

  • [LOGBOX-5] - Allow config path as string in LogBox init (standalone)

  • [LOGBOX-11] - Allow standard appenders to be configured by name (instead of full path)

  • [LOGBOX-36] - Added an `err()` to abstract appenders for reporting to the error streams

  • [LOGBOX-42] - All appenders get a reference to the running LogBox instance

  • [LOGBOX-43] - LogBox has a scheduler executor and the asyncmanager attached to it for standalone and ColdBox mode.

  • [LOGBOX-44] - Rolling appender now uses the new async schedulers to stream data to files

  • [LOGBOX-46] - Update ConsoleAppender to use TaskScheduler

  • [LOGBOX-47] - AbstractAppender log listener and queueing facilities are now available for all appenders

  • [LOGBOX-48] - DB Appender now uses a queueing approach to sending log messages

  • [LOGBOX-49] - Rolling File Appender now uses the async scheduler for log rotation checks

Improvements

  • [LOGBOX-37] - Improvements to threading for logging to avoid dumb Adobe duplicates

  • [LOGBOX-41] - refactoring of internal utility closures to udfs to avoid ACF memory leaks: CF-4204874

  • [LOGBOX-51] - Migrations to script and more fluent programming