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Release History

In this section you will find the release notes for each version we release under this major version. If you are looking for the release notes of previous major versions use the version switcher at the top left of this documentation book. Here is a breakdown of our major version releases.

Version 6.0 - August 2020
Version 3.0 - March 2011
Version 2.0 - April 2007
Version 1.0 - June 2006

What's New With 6.8.0

This release was a ColdBox minor bump with no tickets affecting LogBox

What's New With 6.7.0

June 21, 2022

Release Notes

Improvement

LOGBOX-68 Remove the usage of identity hash codes, they are no longer relevant and can cause contention under load
LOGBOX-65 File Appender missing text "ExtraInfo: "

What's New With 6.6.0

Updates where done to CacheBox, WireBox and the ColdBox Core. No significant changes where done for LogBox.

What's New With 6.5.0

July 9th, 2021

Release Notes

Improvements

LOGBOX-63 Allow for dbappender to have default column maps instead of strict maps and allow for all methods to use the maps

New Features

LOGBOX-64 Ability to add new appenders after config has been registered already

What's New With 6.2.0

LogBox 6.2.0 is a minor release with some bug fixes and some new nice features.

Release Notes

Bugs

[LOGBOX-56] - Missing line break on file appender control string

New Features

[LOGBOX-57] - new shutdown() method to process graceful shutdown of LogBox
[LOGBOX-58] - New logbox config onShutdown() callback, which is called when LogBox has been shutdown
[LOGBOX-59] - New shutdown() method can be now used in appenders that will be called when LogBox is shutdown

What's New With 6.1.0

LogBox 6.1.0 is a minor release sporting fixes and a few minor updates to make your coding life easier 😂.

Release Notes

Bugs

[LOGBOX-53] - Direct console debugging is left in the AbstractAppender and FileAppender

What's New With 6.0.0

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

What's New With 6.0.0

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 Config Path Init

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