New in BoxLang 1.8.0 - Say goodbye to verbose HTTP request building. BoxLang introduces a powerful fluent HTTP API that makes working with HTTP/S requests not just easier, but actually enjoyable.

The BoxLang team is excited to announce BoxLang 1.8.0, a massive release that revolutionizes HTTP capabilities, introduces comprehensive SOAP/WSDL integration, and delivers over 100 critical bug fixes for production-grade stability. This release focuses on modern web application development with fluent APIs, streaming support, persistent connection management, and extensive CFML compatibility improvements.

With the release of BoxLang 1.7, our primary focus has been on improving the performance of our parser and bytecode generation pipeline. This article presents a comparison of BoxLang’s compilation performance against the current CFML engines. Future benchmarks will include other languages under similar workloads, but our immediate goal is to deliver measurable performance improvements to the CFML ecosystem, helping organizations achieve greater efficiency while preserving their existing technology investments, and provide to them a modern alternative and future.

The BoxLang team is thrilled to announce the release of BoxLang 1.7.0, a landmark update that brings powerful new capabilities for modern web development, distributed systems, and AI-powered applications. This release introduces Server-Sent Events (SSE) for real-time streaming, a JDBC Cache Store for distributed caching, AST generation tools for code analysis, bytecode compatibility versioning, and significant performance improvements across the runtime.

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.