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We’re excited to announce the release of BoxLang AI v1.2, a major update to the BoxLang AI module that powers intelligent applications with a unified AI abstraction layer across even more providers: OpenAI, Claude, Grok, Gemini, and more. This release packs new features for providers, tools, debugging, and customization — making it easier than ever to build multi-runtime, AI-driven BoxLang and CFML applications.

We're excited to announce the release of BVM (BoxLang Version Manager), a powerful new tool that makes managing multiple BoxLang installations effortless across Mac, Linux, and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Whether you're a BoxLang developer working on multiple projects or testing across different versions, BVM is designed to streamline your workflow.

The future of development isn't about choosing a single platform or runtime—it's about embracing the dynamic nature of our ever-evolving digital landscape. My presentation "BoxLang - The Future is Dynamic" from DevNexus 2025 is now available on YouTube, and I'm excited to share why BoxLang represents a paradigm shift in how we approach modern software development.

We're excited to announce a game-changing feature for BoxLang developers: Maven Integration! This powerful addition opens the door to the entire Java ecosystem, allowing you to seamlessly incorporate thousands of Java libraries into your BoxLang applications with just a few simple commands.

We're excited to announce the release of the Setup BoxLang GitHub Action – a powerful new tool that makes it incredibly easy to integrate BoxLang into your continuous integration and deployment workflows. Whether you're building applications, running tests, or deploying BoxLang projects, this action eliminates the complexity of environment setup and gets you coding faster.

🔥 BoxLang 1.2 is Here! 🔥

We're excited to announce the release of BoxLang 1.2, a significant milestone that demonstrates our commitment to delivering both cutting-edge features and exceptional performance. This release represents how much innovation the entire BoxLang team can accomplish in just 2 weeks of focused development, bringing you powerful new capabilities while dramatically improving the runtime efficiency that makes BoxLang a compelling choice for modern applications.

🔥 BoxLang 1.1 is Here! 🔥

We’re excited to announce the release of BoxLang 1.1.0, packed with powerful new features, critical bug fixes, and performance-focused improvements that make the language even more robust, secure, and developer-friendly.

Finally, the wait is over! After a lot of intrigue and almost 10 months of extremely hard work, we can finally tell you about the most important release of the year for us at Ortus:

BoxLang: Multi-Runtime Dynamic JVM Language

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.

BoxLang has been designed to be a highly adaptable and dynamic language to take advantage of all the modern features of the JVM and was designed with several goals in mind, check them out here!

We are thrilled to announce the release of BoxLang 1.0.0-RC.3, marking a significant milestone in the development of our dynamic JVM language. This release brings a major performance boost and over 100 bug fixes and improvements, making it our most robust release to date. We are now entering the final stretch towards our full release on May 1st, and we need your help to ensure everything is in perfect shape. Please test your applications and report any issues.

We are thrilled to introduce BoxLang Gen AI, a powerful and intuitive module that brings seamless AI generation capabilities to your BoxLang applications. With a fluent, functional API, this module allows developers to interact with multiple AI providers in a consistent and abstracted manner.