Modernize or Die® - CFML News for June 29th, 2021 - Episode 109

<p><strong>2021-06-29 Weekly News - Episode 109</strong></p><p>Watch the video version on YouTube at <a href="https://youtu.be/wllYx_nx3EA">https://youtu.be/wllYx_nx3EA</a></p><p><br><em>Hosts:<br></em><strong> </strong><br>Eric Peterson - Senior Developer for Ortus Solutions</p><p><em>Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions</em></p><p>The makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and almost every other Box out there. <br>A few ways  to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions:</p><ul> <li>Like and subscribe to our videos on YouTube. </li> <li>Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week</li> <li>Buy Ortus’s new Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (<a href="http://gum.co/coldbox-tips">http://gum.co/coldbox-tips</a>)</li> </ul><p><em>Patreon Support<br></em><br>We have 39 patreons providing 90% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions">https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions</a>. If you love our podcasts and all we do for the #coldfusion #cfml community considers chipping in, we are almost there!<br><a href="https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/we-need-your-help">https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/we-need-your-help</a> </p><p><strong>News and Events</strong></p><p><br><em>Lucee 5.3.8 Released<br></em><br>This has been a very long release cycle, a massive thank you to everyone who has been helping us test and address regressions and performance problems…<br>We have done a lot of work in 5.3.8 to optimise memory usage, the main two areas being improved was the template cache handling and parallel functionality.<br>Highlights:</p><ul> <li>structValueArray</li> <li>Array methods: shift(), unshift(), push(), pop(), splice()</li> <li>Reevaluate performance of locking overhead in pc.initApplicationContext() for every request</li> <li>Query of Query performance is very bad and single threaded for complex SQL</li> </ul><p><br><a href="https://dev.lucee.org/t/new-stable-rele