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Today we've released a new version of CFConfig-- your friendly neighborhood CLI for configuring Adobe and Lucee servers.  CFConfig sees a lot of little releases that we don't announce, but they are usually very small little releases adding a single setting here or there.  Today's release has a nice collection of brand new features that seemed worth talking about.

 

Today we are excited to release ColdBox v6.5.0 and its standalone companion libraries: CacheBox, LogBox and WireBox. This release has focused on stability and making sure all bugs are addressed especially when using our schedulers and asynchronous processes. As usual, here are the update procedures:

update coldbox

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

You can find our what's new document here: https://coldbox.ortusbooks.com/intro/release-history/whats-new-with-6.5.0. So let's explore the release notes.

Today we are pleased to announce the release of version 3.4.2 of our CommandBox Docker images, which contains a few small fixes and enhancements. We have also migrated our CI/CD process to leverage GitHub Actions, which provides us with faster build times and more flexibility in multi-architecture builds.

We are excited to announce a major version release of TestBox version 4.4.0. To install just use CommandBox: install testbox --saveDev or to update your TestBox installation update testbox. So let's explore this release!

Today we are pleased to announce the release of version 3.4.0 of our CommandBox Docker images, which bumps the CommandBox binary version to v5.3.1. This release primarily contains optimizations and updates to leverage the new environmental support options available in CommandBox 5.3.0 and above.

We are excited to announce a major version release of [TestBox](/products/testbox) version 4.0.0. To install just use CommandBox: `install testbox --saveDev` or to update your TestBox installation `update testbox`. So let's explore this release!

We've released a small update to our recent CommandBox 5.3.0 release.  This contains fixes for a handful of regressions as well as a couple new features.  You can access the new version on our Download page, our deb/rpm repos, or Homebrew.  

And of course, you can find the latest docs  and release notes here:

https://commandbox.ortusbooks.com/

I am so excited to bring you the release of cbValidation to version 3.1.0. This has been a great collaboration between Wil De Bruin and Eric Peterson. Thanks so much guys for all that you do for open source. You can see all of the release notes below with some of the major improvements of this release. To get this release make sure you are already on version 3.x and use CommandBox: box update cbvalidation. You can find the release notes here: https://coldbox-validation.ortusbooks.com/intro/release-history/whats-new-with-3.1.0 and you can view all the new documentation here: https://coldbox-validation.ortusbooks.com. Enjoy!

Our friends at TeraTech help put together a comprehensive survey of the entire CFML community to get a feel for how it's evolving, what new technologies are getting picked up, and what the current pain points are.  We use this data at Ortus to help us decide what CF engines to support and how to help the community.

Here's an example question from the survey that tracks the most popular versions of Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee Server:

https://teratech.com/state-of-the-cf-union-2021-survey

If you haven't taken the State of the CF Union 2021 Survey yet, please do so and pass it on to all your coworkers and friends who may not be on social media themselves.  The more responses we get, the better data we have.  And make sure you remember to check all the Ortus products you are using while you're taking it!

This week we debuted our first-ever Object-Oriented Programming Series in our CFML learning platform, CFCasts.