Just Journal Developer Blog

JustJournal now supports JsonFeed for blog entries

2025-04-13T15:48:34.000Z

You can visit /users/YourUsername/json to get the feed. For example, "https://www.justjournal.com/users/jjsite/json" (https://www.justjournal.com/users/jjsite/json)

Grammarly + ckeditor issues

2025-04-05T20:52:06.000Z

I've had many issues on JustJournal with weird characters appearing in posts. The issue appears to be that Grammarly + CKEditor creates unprintable characters in the text to track spelling suggestions. I'm working on a solution to clean up the text.

Major backend update

2025-04-04T22:12:18.000Z

We released a new version of JJ with a lot of security fixes and improvements.Â The XML-RPC 'blogger' client compatibility had to be dropped as the library we used has been unmaintained for many years.Â The rtf export was also removed due to licensing issues with new versions.

Minor update

2023-10-26T15:55:38.000Z

Just Journal was updated to fix a number of CVEs in third party libraries.

Web Finger Support

2023-07-07T11:09:20.000Z

We've added web finger support to just journal as well as some rate limiting.

Bug fix release

2022-03-31T12:48:38.000Z

We just updated justjournal with a few bug fixes: 1. fix login issue with windows, command line clients 2. Add spring4shell mitigation.

Site back up

2021-12-11T11:06:01.000Z

We started getting a lot of attacks against log4j2 vulnerability and had to take the site down until a patch was put in place.

Just Journal update

2021-11-10T00:29:00.000Z

Just updated spring boot and a slew of other libraries. Initial testing looks good except for the pdf output. That seems to be broken.

JustJournal now using MySQL 8.x

2021-03-23T13:41:21.000Z

JustJournal has been updated to use MySQL 8.x from 5.7.x.

JustJournal 2.9.5

2020-07-31T21:04:47.000Z

Added a new feature in preferences to allow you to delete your journal. Fixed several bugs and updated several libraries for security updates.

JustJournal 2.9.0

2020-03-30T16:35:42.000Z

A new release of justjournal is available. It is mostly a security update to spring boot 2.2 but also includes some new trackback functionality.

JustJournal enhancements

2019-01-19T11:35:32.000Z

JustJournal was converted to spring sometime ago. Recently spring boot was updated to 2.x. Additionally the minimum version of MySQL is now 5.7.

JustJournal 2.2.1

2016-07-09T11:45:14.000Z

Happy to announce the availability of Just Journal 2.2.1. This release fixes many issues with the site including: 1. Comments are working again. 2. Favorites are working. 3. Performance has improved considerably. We can now handle 170 requests per second with the current hardware. 4. Issues creating new accounts have been fixed. 5. The application is now using spring boot

JustJournal is partially back up

2012-06-23T13:24:00.000Z

Last week, we did a major upgrade on the database server. A bug introduced in the latest MySQL release has broken a database component we used throughout the site. This was Sun's old CachedRowSet.

As a result, any SQL query using named parameters (something AS somethingelse) is broken. Some queries I can remove the offending as statement on, but others this is not possible due to ambiguity. I've decided to take this opportunity to migrate some of the site to an ORM called Apache Cayenne. I've used it with several other projects and it's quite good. This also has a side effect of avoiding the problem with MySQL.

Normally I would have migrated back to the previous version, but it was a little complicated this time. I appologize for the down time and will continue to fix things on the site as I get a chance. Remember, I have a day job.

Just Journal 2.0

2011-09-24T00:21:00.000Z

Work has begun on the next generation of Just Journal. I spent a few hours tonight working on the rewrite of just journal. The new version will take advantage of newer technologies that have come out since the site was created.

The current plan is to use much of the existing data access code and business logic (but refactored a bit) with a new front end. This will allow me to finally get the website design standardized after all these years. I'm going to drop Maverick and move to a newer Apache framework as well as drop JSP pages on the site.

Once this phase of development is complete, I plan on migrating to Apache Cayenne. A few things are already using it, but there is much to do yet.

I plan on keeping the old servlet around for some time to post blog entries as most of the gui and command line clients use this. The C clients uses the xml-rpc interface, and i may start migrating the .NET client and java clients in that direction.

This is a good time to put in for feature requests. I've already had several lately related to image handling and pictures.