We are pleased to announce a minor maintenance release of CommandBox. Version 4.4.0 is released just in time for CFCamp with a handful of fixes and a few nice features.   I'm writing this up on the plane on my way to Germany for CFCamp so I'll be brief :)  

Many of the cool new features came as pull requests for the community.  Thanks a ton to everyone who contributed!

We love Digital Ocean for many reasons, that list of reasons includes a big one - Digital Ocean is powering our Production Infrastructure.

For a long time, Digital Ocean has been a great way to get affordable, powerful and simplified Cloud computing up and running. For as little as $5 per month you can get a nice little droplet ( VM ) up and running in seconds, to host your ColdFusion app, wordpress site ( excuse my language ) or even Docker instances or a full Docker Swarm. Digital Ocean keeps improving its offering, and this year, we committed to moving our production infrastructure over to Digital Ocean, and now I'm happy to say we've been running on Digital Ocean for months now, and things have never been better. We get a lot of questions about how our setup looks, so this post will give you a little more insight into our Production Infrastructure, powered by Digital Ocean.

October has been a busy month, so we are late sharing this information, but with over a week left in October, you have plenty of time to earn your free t-shirt. HacktoberFest is celebrating it's 5th year this year, and will be giving away 50,000 t-shirts this year, to those contributing 5 pull requests to open source projects on github.

What's New With 5.2.0

ColdBox 5.2.0 is a minor version update with lots of fixes, improvements and some new features not only to the ColdBox core but to LogBox and WireBox standalone versions alike. Below are the major areas of improvement and the full release notes. To update your installations just issue the commands below with CommandBox:

• update coldbox - Update ColdBox Platform
• update logbox - Update standalone LogBox
• update wirebox - Update standalone WireBox

ColdBox

The major areas of improvement for the ColdBox core where on tons of fixes, however there are some nice new features discussed below.

Bugs

• [COLDBOX-597] - Function addAsset generate wrong link if asset path contains ".js"
• [COLDBOX-668] - Make implicit views case sensitive by default for linux systems
• [COLDBOX-677] - HTML HELPER - Fix a requirement for columnName if column is defined
• [COLDBOX-696] - Passing headers to `request` breaks RoutingService when in test mode
• [COLDBOX-724] - Add ENV overload in detectEnvironment() via ENVIRONMENT system setting/property
• [COLDBOX-726] - setNextEvent does not exist in coldbox.system.web.Controller
• [COLDBOX-727] - fail fast strong typed to boolean, update to allow custom closures/lambdas
• [COLDBOX-729] - getRenderData\(\) in base test case was not looking at the right request collection
• [COLDBOX-732] - Fail fast can't be turned off for original behavior of ColdBox 4
• [COLDBOX-736] - Module mappings disappear when not unloading ColdBox in base test case
• [COLDBOX-738] - Clear not working on string builders: Use setLength\(0\) since clear is not a method on StringBuilder
• [COLDBOX-740] - When using group\(\)operations with a handler and no explicit handler routing call added, route never registered the handler

New Features

• [COLDBOX-722] - New global directive: autoMapModels which if true, it will map all root models just like modules do.

This will allow root models to behave like modules where all models are registered automatically for you but with no namespace.

• [COLDBOX-737] - toAction() terminator is missing from the new router DSL

This terminator was missing from the new Routing DSL. This will allow you to build up routes that terminate at an action.

• [COLDBOX-720] - Register config/Router.cfc as an interceptor

The main application router and ALL module routers are now also interceptors.

Improvements

• [COLDBOX-730] - Implicitly pass args from renderLayout() into the rendered views
• [COLDBOX-739] - List modules which have already been processed when a module cannot be activated to help with debugging

LogBox

Bugs

• [LOGBOX-29] - when using async option on FileAppender, nothing logs, well now it does!

New Features

• [LOGBOX-31] - Add defaultValue arguments to getProperty() methods on abstract appenders

Improvements

• [LOGBOX-30] - Leave off text "ExtraInfo: " from console appender if empty string

WireBox

Bugs

• [WIREBOX-76] - Virtual inheritance not injecting generic getters and setters correctly on target objects
• [WIREBOX-77] - Virtual inheritance not inheriting init from super class

Improvements

• [WIREBOX-51] - Add method to binder to override alias of current mapping, by passing the current mapping to the influencer closure
• [WIREBOX-75] - Don't exclude path in parent mapping destinations
• [WIREBOX-78] - Simplify error message for missing dependency to be human readable

We are very excited that the Into The Box conference is coming back to the Houston are in May of 2019. Registration is now officially open and call for papers is now open as well. We have also added some great new workshops for your training pleasure!

• Full 2-day conference with over 30 different technology topics
• An additional full day of hands-on training available for a veritable 3 days of awesomeness
• A warm and sunny city of The Woodlands, Texas
• Starting on May 1st - 3rd
• Modernize Your Skillz

We are pleased to release at Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2018 the latest release of the CommandBox CLI, version 4.3.0.  This is a minor release and contains a handful of bug fixes and some nice new features including preliminary Java 9,10, and 11 support.  There were 25 tickets closed out in this release.

We are proud to finally release version 1.0.0 of CFConfig.  This library has been in development for nearly two years (20 months) and is already in use for production deploys and development setups.  CFConfig is a CLI tool built upon a set of services that can manage the configuration of your Adobe, Lucee, and Railo servers so you never have to manually setup a server again. 

We are incredibly excited to bring you the latest iteration of our PDF extension for Lucee CFML server. This release brings you Lucee 5.x support and lots of nice container and licensing updates. We have also published it to ForgeBox so you can leverage ForgeBox as your Extensions Provider Authority. Just add https://www.forgebox.io to your Lucee extension provider panel and install away!

Learn how to get a progress bar while downloading file as well as how to use the new generic progress bar for any custom application in a Task Runner or custom command.  

Today we are very excited to bring you the release of our latest Docker container for ContentBox v4.1.0. This is a major re-work of our container images as we now support over 6 different variations of our images, from warmed up servers to alpine versions of ContentBox. We have also added tons of new optimizations and environment variables to control container deployments. Ultimately, we have also updated our images to leverage the latest CommandBox 4.2.0 image!

Learn more about ContentBox at https://www.ortussolutions.com/products/contentbox and more about Docker deployment here: https://contentbox.ortusbooks.com/getting-started/installation/docker