More and more people are using CommandBox or our Ortus Docker containers (powered by CommandBox) for production deployments.  Commandbox uses JBoss Undertow which is very lightweight and fast, and capable of service traffic just as fast as IIS or Apache.  A lot of people ask me about running CommandBox in production and I always say it's find so long as you follow the same basic lockdown procedures you'd take on any web server.  If you have IIS or Apache sitting in front of CommandBox, most of this configuration can happen there, but for people who want drop-dead simply prod servers, here's some quick tips on locking down your CommandBox server.

We're proud to announce the immediate release of CommandBox 4.8.0 which is a minor release, containing a handful of bug fixes, new features, and improvements.  You can download the new release on our product page:

https://www.ortussolutions.com/products/commandbox

Please note this release is still using Lucee 5.2 to power the CLI due to unaddressed bugs still in the 5.3 series of releases.  We are still working with LAS to get those fixed, but in the mean time, we still recommend using Java 8 for your CLI to avoid errors.

In this screencast we see a demo of the new CommandBox Service Manager module running on Windows and Ubuntu Linux.

We are pleased to announce the first release of the CommandBox Service Manager 1.0.0.  The Service Manager is a commercial CommandBox module that allows you to create, update, and control Windows Services for your CommandBox servers with ease.  You can configure logging, auto-restart, and the user the service runs as.   This is ideal for a staging or ...

In this video, we show how to get started measuring the code coverage of your test suite with TestBox 3.0 and FusionReactor.

We are pleased to announce the general availability of CommandBox 4.7.0.  This is a minor release and contains a nice collection of small bug fixes and new enhancements to the CLI.  

Docs

All docs are updated and viewable here:

https://commandbox.ortusbooks.com/

Download

You can grab the latest version of the CommandBox via our download page here:

https://www.ortussolutions.com/products/commandbox#download

Our apt and yum repos are updated and Homebrew should be updated very soon.

Learn how to format your script CFCs with the CFFormat CommandBox Module.

https://www.forgebox.io/view/commandbox-cfformat

At Ortus Solutions we are known for building open source projects for the ColdFusion (CFML) community such as ColdBox, CommandBox, ContentBox Modular CMS, ForgeBox and many more. All of those products are licensed under the Apache 2 license and are completely FREE to use and extend.

Learn how to publish packages using ForgeBox's built in S3 storage that uploads your package for you.