Ortus Solutions today announces MatchBox 0.12.0, the Rust runtime for BoxLang, alongside the launch of matchbox.boxlang.io: a new website with a live in-browser playground, a ten-lesson course, and complete online docs. The release also brings a more capable JIT, prebuilt native modules, a richer web runtime, and a long list of BoxLang compatibility fixes.

The server restarted. The administrator shows the expected version. Your homepage loads, and a few familiar screens look fine.

Would you tell the business the upgrade is complete?

Consider an illustrative scenario: a customer submits an order after an upgrade. The application saves it and displays a confirmation page. But the confirmation email never arrives, and the scheduled process that sends the order to fulfillment has not completed.

From the browser, the transaction...

Keeping Adobe ColdFusion updated is an important part of maintaining a secure and reliable application environment.

But applying a ColdFusion update is not always as simple as installing the latest patch and restarting the server.

Updates can include security fixes, library upgrades, JVM-related changes, changes to the ColdFusion Administrator, updated packages, bug fixes, and changes in runtime behavior. Most updates will not cause problems for most applications. But when you'r...