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We're thrilled to announce BoxLang 1.6.0, a release that delivers massive performance improvements, intelligent developer tooling, and enhanced async capabilities. This release focuses on making BoxLang faster, smarter, and more observable than ever before.

We're thrilled to announce the release of two powerful new tools that will transform your BoxLang development experience: the BoxLang Developer Pack and BoxLang Theme for Visual Studio Code and Open VSX! 🚀

BoxLang 1.5.0 has landed, and it's packed with features that will transform how you build modern applications. This isn't just another incremental update—we've reimagined performance from the ground up, making BoxLang faster, smarter, and more scalable than ever before.

We're absolutely thrilled to announce BoxLang v1.4.0 🚀 – without a doubt, our most significant release to date! This isn't just another incremental update; it's a game-changing release that introduces revolutionary features, massive performance improvements, and hundreds of bug fixes that make BoxLang more powerful and developer-friendly than ever before. This is a culmination of over a month of feedback from clients and teams migrating their applications to BoxLang.

If you've been waiting for the perfect time to dive into BoxLang, that time is now. Let's explore what makes this release so special.

We're excited to announce the release of bx-jsoup, a powerful new BoxLang module that brings enterprise-grade HTML parsing and cleaning capabilities to your applications. Built on top of the proven Jsoup library, this module provides developers with safe, flexible tools for handling HTML content while maintaining BoxLang's signature ease of use. It also enhances the core document classes to provide you with a fluent BoxDocument result that you can navigate, query, and even convert your HTML representation to XML or JSON.

We're excited to announce the release of the BoxLang TextMate Bundle — a comprehensive development toolkit that brings world-class IDE support to BoxLang developers using TextMate, VS Code, Sublime Text, and other TextMate-compatible editors. With BoxLang 1.0 now stable and rapidly gaining momentum in the JVM ecosystem, professional tooling has never been more critical. This bundle delivers exactly that, providing everything you need to build modern, dynamic applications with BoxLang's powerful multi-runtime capabilities.

We're excited to announce the first release of the BoxLang Monaco Editor Support - a comprehensive language support package that brings BoxLang syntax highlighting, IntelliSense, and custom theming to Monaco Editor, the powerful code editor that powers Visual Studio Code.

We're thrilled to announce the release of BVM (BoxLang Version Manager) v1.15.0! This release focuses on three critical areas: security, visibility, and reliability. With SHA-256 integrity verification, comprehensive installation statistics, and enhanced system resilience, BVM v1.15.0 continues to make it easier to work with multiple versions of BoxLang.

We're excited to announce the release of BVM (BoxLang Version Manager) v1.14, bringing significant enhancements that make BoxLang development even more seamless and productive. What's crazy is that we have already released 14 minor versions of this amazing little version manager. This release introduces project-specific version management, improved snapshot handling, and powerful self-maintenance features that developers have been requesting.

We're thrilled to announce the release of BoxLang v1.3.0! This significant update brings exciting new features, substantial performance improvements, and critical bug fixes that will enhance your development workflow and application reliability.