A new year means focusing on new priorities and projects. With that in mind, we wanted to give FORGEBOX® the spotlight it deserves. Our goal is to make your job and your life easier, that’s why we have decided to bring down our pricing considerably!

On our first workshop of the year (March 11 - 12) we will get Up and Running with Quick. For those of you unfamiliar with the topic, Quick is an ORM (Object Relational Mapper) written in CFML for CFML.With it you can map database tables to entities (CFCs), create relationships between entities,query and manipulate data, and persist all your changes to your database. Quick helps you give relevant names to important bits of SQL code, compose queries at runtime to get exactly the data you want in the most efficient way, and gets out of your way when you need or want to write barebones SQL.

On January 12, 2021 we became aware of a security vulnerability in ColdBox Elixir. Read the details of what happened, how it may affect you, and how to mitigate the vulnerability.

Hi everyone, great news! Ortus is rolling out our new Ortus Community site to help consolidate all of our community support and interaction. As part of that effort, all our Google Group threads have been imported to the new Ortus Community and effective immediately, our Google Groups are closed for further posting.

After many many months of development, testing and waiting, we are finally able to release a major major update to our localization and internationalization library for ColdBox: cbi18n version 2.x. This release is a huuuge advancement for building localized applications and websites and partly thanks to Mr Wil de Bruin (shiftinsert.nl). This release introduces the ability to use json resource bundles, multiple bundles per module, cbStorages for tracking locales, property inheritance and so much more! There are a few compatiblity issues, so make sure you read them to upgrade to version 2.x if not you can easily update using CommandBox

install cbi18n
update cbi18n

Today we released ColdBox v6.2.2 as a minor path. Please update if you are affected by the issues shown in the release notes.

update coldbox

# If you are using standalone libraries, then update those
update wirebox
update cachebox
update logbox

Release Notes [6.2.2] => 2021-JAN-12

ColdBox HMVC Core

Bugs

• [COLDBOX-963] - Use Java URI for more resiliant getFullURL to avoid double slashes

WireBox

Bugs

• [WIREBOX-107] - wirebox metadata caching broken
• [WIREBOX-109] - Standalone event pool interceptData -> data not backwards compat

Improvements

• [WIREBOX-108] - WireBox not handling cachebox, logbox, and asynmanager instances properly

CacheBox

Improvements

• [CACHEBOX-65] - CacheBox not handling wirebox, logbox, and asynmanager instances properly

LogBox

Improvements

• [LOGBOX-60] - Ignore interrupted exceptions from appenders' scheduler pool

VS Code is the hottest IDE out there, and the most asked question I get at every conference I attend is: "What VS Code extensions are you using?". Since I got this question so much, we decided to dedicate a portion of our CFML News Podcast to VS Code Hints, Tips and Tricks. We had 50 episodes in 2020, each with a VS Code hint tip or trick, so we wanted to give you a way to see all of them in one place, so here they are.

ForgeBox is the NPM of the ColdFusion world, and with CommandBox, CFML's CLI, you can easily add new functionality to your project with a simple `box install packageName`. 

We dedicate a portion of our CFML News Podcast to ForgeBox Modules. We had approximately 50 episodes in 2020, each with a ForgeBox Module, so we wanted to give you a way to see all of them in one place, so here they are.

This week we debuted the Windows 2019+Boncode+Tomcat AMI. Complete with optimized Windows 2019 and Tomcat 9 settings, CFML applications will be highly performant and secure. This stack will also allow users to build high-performance production or development machines based on Lucee 5.3.6.61 CFML and with CommandBox 5 as the CLI companion.

This is another step completed in our initiative to build and offer several cloud server images to help our customers run scalable ColdFusion (CFML) applications in the cloud.  We have now an Ubuntu based image and a Windows image that will serve as the base for many other images we are currently building.

For the installation of an ec2 instance, a video and a new chapter on the Windows Based Images book have also been released to guide users through the process. Costs will be based on region and fulfillment options.

By end of Q1-2021 we will have highly scalable ContentBox AMIs that users will be able to deploy instantly over the entire AWS ecosystem.

For more, click here for our product page and here to find it on AWS.