Today we are pleased to announce a minor release for our FORGEBOX suite of products: version 4.5.0. This release includes lots of fixes and some great additions. Keep reading for an in-depth review of the release.

We are excited to bring our training Bootcamp series as a post-conference workshop for this years Adobe ColdFusion Summit EAST 2019 in Washington, DC from April 11-12th. Please note, that our training this year is AFTER the conference.

This training series will be led by Box creator Luis Majano at the Regus Franklin Square 5 minute walk from the conference center. Register as soon as possible as space is very limited!

We are very excited to bring you another release for our Redis Lucee Extension. This is our first minor release for this extension and it sports quite a few updates thanks to customer feedback. Here is a little introduction for those that are not familiar with our extension:

Overview

The Redis Lucee Extension allows you to natively connect to a Redis Server cluster and leverage it for distributed caching, session/client storage and distribution, cluster RAM file systems, and much more. It can allow your Lucee servers to scale and extend easily by leveraging Redis Server as the platform of choice for session/cluster managements, caching and virtual file-systems.

If you have ever asked yourself these questions, then our Lucee Extension can help you:

• Want to use round-robin balancing instead of sticky sessions?
• How do you deal with session/client information when you have more than 1 server in your cluster?
• How can I scale my Lucee servers when I am running out of RAM?
• Do you want your users to still be logged in even if a server in my cluster dies or is restarted?
• Do you want to have a cluster-wide file system?
• Are you using a container based deployment and need off heap peristence?
• Do you want to be able to cache data in a distributed and elastic fashion?

# FORGEBOX v4.x Has Landed We are so excited to bring one of the biggest releases for FORGEBOX in over a year. We have been working and learning from all the community feedback and have major news to share with the ColdFusion (CFML) world. The full release notes of this major version can be found at the end of the blog post, so read on for all the details of this release. Below we will discuss the major areas of improvement for FORGEBOX ## New UI

The entire UI has been redesigned and updated and we are not even done yet. More is coming for the entire UI/UX experience of FORGEBOX including the CommandBox integrations.

We are pleased to announce the release of CommandBox 4.6.0.  This is a minor release that fixes a few bugs and adds a couple nice features.  We recommend you upgrade at your earliest convenience.  

The latest binaries are available from our download page.

The latest docs are here in GitBook.

The latest ASCI art is waiting for you in the CLI.

We've updated ForgeBox to have new updaters for the following Adobe ColdFusion versions:

• ColdFusion 2018 Update 2 - 2018.0.02+313961
• ColdFusion 2016 Update 8 - 2016.0.08+313934
• ColdFusion 11 Update 16 - 11.0.16+313933

Thanks to Jon Clausen as usual for getting this assembled.  For anyone using CommandBox cfengine like

CommandBox> server start cfengine=adobe@2016

you will automatically get the newest update the next time you restart your server.  However, please note this latest round of updates from Adobe have some serious known issues!  Please be very careful testing this release and make sure you backup your configuration with CFConfig first!

CommandBox> cfconfig export .cfconfig.json

Some of the known issues include breaking uses of queryExecute() as well as deleting all of your scheduled tasks upon upgrade.  Ouch.  Pete Frietag has compiled a list of the known issues here.  Please review them before trying the new updates:

Careful applying CF11u16, CF2016u8, CF2018u2

In this follow up screencast, we dive deeper into the advanced features CommandBox 4.5 gives you to manage the Java installations used by your CFML servers.

Screencast #1 (CommandBox 4.5 Server OpenJDK Version)
https://youtu.be/cZ_jSrzp5Dc

CommandBox 4.5 release note:
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/commandbox-450-released

Java Endpoint docs:
https://commandbox.ortusbooks.com/package-management/code-endpoints/java#installation-id

AdoptOpenJDK:
https://adoptopenjdk.net/

We are pleased to announce the public beta of ColdBox Elixir v3.

In this screencast we show you how to use CommandBox 4.5 to manage the versions of Java your servers use via the AdoptOpenJDK API.

CommandBox 4.5 release notes:
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/commandbox-450-released

Docs for managing Java versions via CommandBox:
https://commandbox.ortusbooks.com/embedded-server/configuring-your-server/custom-java-version#automatic-java-download

AdoptOpenJDK:
https://adoptopenjdk.net/

Today we are very excited to bring you the release of our latest Docker container for ContentBox v4.2.1. This is a major re-work of our container images as we now support over 5 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 4.5.0 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

Release Notes

v4.0.0

• Disabled directory browsing for security
• Added docker hostname to Application name in Application.cfc
• Added a rolling file appender for all app logs to go to > /var/log/contentbox.log
• Upgrade to latest CommandBox v4.5.0
• Updated healthchecks to permit load up times and consistency
• No runtime flags where ever being used, revamped it to warmup the server correctly and leverage environment variables for execution
• Removed support for lucee 4.5
• BE env variable was never working so you can test bleeding edge versions of ContentBox