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You know the drill. Someone opens a PR and half the review comments are about tabs vs spaces, where braces go, or why that one function has its arguments formatted differently from everything else. It's noise. And it's over.

We listen. A lot. And one message has come through loud and clear from our community: teams want a way to get into the BoxLang ecosystem with commercial licensing, real tooling, and actual support — without jumping straight to a full BoxLang+ subscription.

We're thrilled to announce the first stable release of bx-compat-soap, the official SOAP web services compatibility module for BoxLang web runtimes.

We're excited to announce the first stable release of bx-compat-rest, the official CFML REST compatibility module for the BoxLang web runtime. This release means that existing ACF and Lucee users, whose applications rely on CFML REST implemenations can now run on BoxLang.

BoxLang 1.13.0 is here, and it marks an important step forward for the platform. This release includes 48 tickets—every one of them completed—reflecting a focused effort on CFML compatibility, a more robust concurrency engine, a production-hardened miniserver, and meaningful tooling improvements.

Today we're shipping the initial release of the BoxLang Desktop Runtime — powered by Electron, BoxLang, and Vite. With one starter, one npm run dev, and one packaging command, you can build and distribute professional desktop applications for macOS, Windows, and Linux using the BoxLang you already know. 🎯

Today we're launching something we've been quietly building for months: skills.boxlang.io — a public, agent-agnostic directory for AI skills covering BoxLang, ColdBox, TestBox, CommandBox, and the entire Ortus ecosystem.

Today we're releasing cbMCP, the official ColdBox MCP Server — a BoxLang-only module that turns your running ColdBox application into a fully-compliant Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Plug in any MCP-capable AI client — Claude Desktop, VS Code Copilot, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode — and your AI assistant gets live, read-only introspection across the entire ColdBox platform: routing, handlers, modules, WireBox, CacheBox, LogBox, schedulers, interceptors, and async executors. 🎯

ColdBox CLI 8.11 is here, and it's one of the most significant releases we've shipped for AI-assisted development. This release wires the CLI directly into our brand new public skills directory at skills.boxlang.io, brings our AI tooling in line with industry-wide agent conventions, and introduces a wave of quality-of-life improvements that make AI integration feel less like setup and more like infrastructure.

BoxLang AI 3.1 is here, and it's a release that makes your agents smarter, faster, and more capable than ever. 🎉