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...

It is a happy day here at Ortus Solutions as we bring you yet again a plethora of releases of all our major open source libraries.  This is the culmination of over 6 months of hard work to get you updates for all of our major open source libraries and even a new library, TestBox.  You can read more about our releases in our engineering blog:

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We are proud to announce LogBox version 1.8.0. You can read in detail about this release in our What's new with LogBox 1.8.0.

It has been a busy past few months here at Ortus Solutions and we have some cool new stuff to share with the world today.  We have updates for all our major open source libraries this week. Some are minor releases and some are cool enhancement releases thanks to everybody's feedback and contributions.  You can find much more about the releases in our ColdBox engineering blog or in our online documentation wiki:

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We are proud to announce LogBox version 1.7.0. This is a very small update release. You can read in detail about this release in our What's new with LogBox 1.7.0.

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We are proud to announce the availability of all our major products as Railo Extensions today.  Railo is an incredible open source ColdFusion engine that supports all of our products with 1 click installs.  The extensions that we have made available starting today are:

• ContentBox Modular CMS
• ColdBox Platform Standalone
• ...

We are proud to announce yet another ColdBox Platform release version 3.5.2. This is an important patch release that addresses many concurrency issues and gives you stability and of course some goodies. This release also encompasses a new WireBox release (v1.5.0) and a new CacheBo release (v1.3.2). ...