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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.

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.

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!