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BoxLang 1.0.0 Beta 4 Launched

Jon Clausen July 05, 2024

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Jon Clausen

July 05, 2024

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We are pleased to announce the release of BoxLang 1.0.0-Beta 4! This latest beta version includes improvements and essential bug fixes.

What is BoxLang?

BoxLang is a modern dynamic JVM language that can be deployed on multiple runtimes: operating system (Windows/Mac/*nix/Embedded), web server, lambda, iOS, android, web assembly, and more. BoxLang combines many features from different programming languages, including Java, ColdFusion, Python, Ruby, Go, and PHP, to provide developers with a modern and expressive syntax.

How to get started?

Visit our docs at https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com and get coding today. If you want to try it out on the web then go to our online REPL at https://try.boxlang.io

Release Notes

Here are the latest release notes: https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/readme/release-history/1.0.0-beta-4

Improvements

  • BL-299, BL-300, BL-301, BL-302 Query caching improvements and compatibility updates
  • BL-315 Ensure request attributes are avaialable to the web runtime scope
  • BL-164 bx-compat CFML compatibility module updates to ensure null query column values are returned as empty strings

Bug

  • BL-305 Fixes compilation issue with variables name cfcatch
  • BL-309 CFML compatiblity for CGI.QUERY_STRING when not provided
  • BL-314 Fix null queryparam functionality

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