Ohh happy day! ColdBox 5.1.0 is now available. Using CommandBox just issue a simple update coldbox and you are done! This release is fully documented and you can find the what's new guide here: https://coldbox.ortusbooks.com/intro/introduction/whats-new-with-5.1.0. Below you will find the major areas of improvement for this release and you can visit the link for the full release notes.

We are very excited today to announce the immediate release of our first two extensions for Microsoft Visual Studio Code Our ColdBox Extension is very similar to our Sublime extension but better! I have to admit that VSCode is absolutely great and we have been able to not only release our collection of snippets but give you typeahead and scope recognition in this extension.

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We are excited to finally announce the availability of the ColdBox 4 printed and kindle book. Enjoy!

 

We are so excited to announce the general availability of 5 new Ortus Books in print and kindle format about our products.  We have been hard at work to produce high quality documentation and transition all our documentation to book format.  We only have two more in the works right now with a target release of May (ColdBox + ContentBox).  So without further ado, here are the 5 new books f...

We are proud to announce the general availability of the new LogBox 2.0.0 documentation in book format.  The book can be read online and downloaded for Free for all types of readers and mobile devices.  Enjoy!

 

ColdBox 4.0 is a major release for the ColdBox line. The most major since its original release in June 2006. To boost efficency and open up options, we've removed a lot of non-necessary items from the core installation and made them available through modular architecture instead. However, there are some thing that we've kept - and for good reason. This post discusses what we kept in the core of ColdBox 4.0 and why.

The Asynchronous loggers in LogBox have been removed in preference to the new async property that can be used in any logger. The affected loggers are:

 

• AsyncDBAppender -> DBAppender
• AsyncFileAppender -> FileAppender
• AsyncRollingFileAppender -> RollingFileAppender

In tandem with our ColdBox 4.0 release, we are publishing major releases of the core Box libraries as well:

CacheBox 2.0

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LogBox ships with a number of appenders for you to use including the File, Email, and Socket Appenders. These all have a default way that they format the data before its persisted. For instance, the FileAppender will write out each log event like so:

"Severity","Name","MM/DD/YYYY","HH:MM:SS","Category","Message"

If you need the data to be in a different format, or perhaps e...