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Brad Wood

January 23, 2015

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In tandem with our ColdBox 4.0 release, we are publishing major releases of the core Box libraries as well:

CacheBox 2.0

Improvements

  • [CACHEBOX-25] - Deprecate Cachebox xml config support

 

Read the What's New guide.

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LogBox 2.0

Bugs

  • [LOGBOX-14] -Truncating of category data to avoid error on insertion on DB Appender

Improvements

Read the What's New guide.

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WireBox 2.0

Bugs

  • [WIREBOX-31] -Builder.buildDSLDependency does not use the custom DSL correctly as the default namespace kicks in

Improvements

  • [WIREBOX-32] -binder.mapDirectory now skips hidden dirs
  • [WIREBOX-35] -Remove coldbox:cacheManager DSL reference, it is no longer valid

New Features

  • [WIREBOX-2] -allow mapDSL to be altered at runtime by modules via new wirebox method: registerDSL()
  • [WIREBOX-30] -Support wiring new injection DSL = byType, which leverages the type to match to an implementation
  • [WIREBOX-33] -Add a force argument to the map functions so you can override if a mapping already exists
  • [WIREBOX-36] -New coldbox dsl to get a renderer reference: coldbox:renderer

Read the What's New guide.

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