We are excited to bring our training Bootcamp series as a post-conference workshop for this years Adobe ColdFusion Summit EAST 2019 in Washington, DC from April 11-12th. Please note, that our training this year is AFTER the conference.

This training series will be led by Box creator Luis Majano at the Regus Franklin Square 5 minute walk from the conference center. Register as soon as possible as space is very limited!

We are very excited to bring you another release for our Redis Lucee Extension. This is our first minor release for this extension and it sports quite a few updates thanks to customer feedback. Here is a little introduction for those that are not familiar with our extension:

Overview

The Redis Lucee Extension allows you to natively connect to a Redis Server cluster and leverage it for distributed caching, session/client storage and distribution, cluster RAM file systems, and much more. It can allow your Lucee servers to scale and extend easily by leveraging Redis Server as the platform of choice for session/cluster managements, caching and virtual file-systems.

If you have ever asked yourself these questions, then our Lucee Extension can help you:

• Want to use round-robin balancing instead of sticky sessions?
• How do you deal with session/client information when you have more than 1 server in your cluster?
• How can I scale my Lucee servers when I am running out of RAM?
• Do you want your users to still be logged in even if a server in my cluster dies or is restarted?
• Do you want to have a cluster-wide file system?
• Are you using a container based deployment and need off heap peristence?
• Do you want to be able to cache data in a distributed and elastic fashion?

We are excited to bring our training Bootcamp series as a post-conference workshop for this years Adobe ColdFusion Summit EAST 2019 in Washington, DC from April 11-12th. Please note, that our training this year is AFTER the conference.

This training series will be led by Box creator Luis Majano at the Regus Franklin Square 5 minute walk from the conference center. Register as soon as possible as space is very limited!

What's New With 5.3.0

ColdBox 5.3.0 is a minor version update with lots of fixes, improvements and some new features not only to the ColdBox core but to LogBox and WireBox standalone versions alike. Below are the major areas of improvement and the full release notes. To update your installations just issue the commands below with CommandBox:

• update coldbox - Update ColdBox Platform
• update logbox - Update standalone LogBox
• update wirebox - Update standalone WireBox

ColdBox

The major areas of improvement for the ColdBox core where on tons of fixes, however there are some nice new features discussed below.

Bugs

• [COLDBOX-741] - Defining UDF as COLDBOX_FAIL_FAST no longer returns false
• [COLDBOX-750] - Fixed typo(s) in call of function prePend() on routing
• [COLDBOX-752] - base url not eliminating double slashes
• [COLDBOX-756] - Setter for valid extensions is setting the wrong variable
• [COLDBOX-759] - Cleanup the with closure on group routing to avoid leakage

New Features

• [COLDBOX-753] - Add new flag to router: multiDomainDiscovery that can be turned on/off

Improvements

• [COLDBOX-742] - Add trimming to asset loader to avoid spaces on links
• [COLDBOX-744] - InterceptorState + EventPool uses syncrhonizedMap that has locking issues: refactor to avoid these issues
• [COLDBOX-754] - set initiated bit for ColdBox after modules are activated
• [COLDBOX-760] - Performance improvements for interception registrations and discovery

LogBox

Improvements

• [LOGBOX-32] - Add test and fix for adding a LogBox category after the fact

WireBox

Improvements

• [WIREBOX-79] - Account for leading slashes in mapDirectory()
• [WIREBOX-80] - Throw a nicer DSL error if ColdBox is not linked
• [WIREBOX-81] - Performance improvements for the construction of transients

October has been a busy month, so we are late sharing this information, but with over a week left in October, you have plenty of time to earn your free t-shirt. HacktoberFest is celebrating it's 5th year this year, and will be giving away 50,000 t-shirts this year, to those contributing 5 pull requests to open source projects on github.

What's New With 5.2.0

ColdBox 5.2.0 is a minor version update with lots of fixes, improvements and some new features not only to the ColdBox core but to LogBox and WireBox standalone versions alike. Below are the major areas of improvement and the full release notes. To update your installations just issue the commands below with CommandBox:

• update coldbox - Update ColdBox Platform
• update logbox - Update standalone LogBox
• update wirebox - Update standalone WireBox

ColdBox

The major areas of improvement for the ColdBox core where on tons of fixes, however there are some nice new features discussed below.

Bugs

• [COLDBOX-597] - Function addAsset generate wrong link if asset path contains ".js"
• [COLDBOX-668] - Make implicit views case sensitive by default for linux systems
• [COLDBOX-677] - HTML HELPER - Fix a requirement for columnName if column is defined
• [COLDBOX-696] - Passing headers to `request` breaks RoutingService when in test mode
• [COLDBOX-724] - Add ENV overload in detectEnvironment() via ENVIRONMENT system setting/property
• [COLDBOX-726] - setNextEvent does not exist in coldbox.system.web.Controller
• [COLDBOX-727] - fail fast strong typed to boolean, update to allow custom closures/lambdas
• [COLDBOX-729] - getRenderData\(\) in base test case was not looking at the right request collection
• [COLDBOX-732] - Fail fast can't be turned off for original behavior of ColdBox 4
• [COLDBOX-736] - Module mappings disappear when not unloading ColdBox in base test case
• [COLDBOX-738] - Clear not working on string builders: Use setLength\(0\) since clear is not a method on StringBuilder
• [COLDBOX-740] - When using group\(\)operations with a handler and no explicit handler routing call added, route never registered the handler

New Features

• [COLDBOX-722] - New global directive: autoMapModels which if true, it will map all root models just like modules do.

This will allow root models to behave like modules where all models are registered automatically for you but with no namespace.

• [COLDBOX-737] - toAction() terminator is missing from the new router DSL

This terminator was missing from the new Routing DSL. This will allow you to build up routes that terminate at an action.

• [COLDBOX-720] - Register config/Router.cfc as an interceptor

The main application router and ALL module routers are now also interceptors.

Improvements

• [COLDBOX-730] - Implicitly pass args from renderLayout() into the rendered views
• [COLDBOX-739] - List modules which have already been processed when a module cannot be activated to help with debugging

LogBox

Bugs

• [LOGBOX-29] - when using async option on FileAppender, nothing logs, well now it does!

New Features

• [LOGBOX-31] - Add defaultValue arguments to getProperty() methods on abstract appenders

Improvements

• [LOGBOX-30] - Leave off text "ExtraInfo: " from console appender if empty string

WireBox

Bugs

• [WIREBOX-76] - Virtual inheritance not injecting generic getters and setters correctly on target objects
• [WIREBOX-77] - Virtual inheritance not inheriting init from super class

Improvements

• [WIREBOX-51] - Add method to binder to override alias of current mapping, by passing the current mapping to the influencer closure
• [WIREBOX-75] - Don't exclude path in parent mapping destinations
• [WIREBOX-78] - Simplify error message for missing dependency to be human readable

We are very excited that the Into The Box conference is coming back to the Houston are in May of 2019. Registration is now officially open and call for papers is now open as well. We have also added some great new workshops for your training pleasure!

• Full 2-day conference with over 30 different technology topics
• An additional full day of hands-on training available for a veritable 3 days of awesomeness
• A warm and sunny city of The Woodlands, Texas
• Starting on May 1st - 3rd
• Modernize Your Skillz

Two patch releases have gone out the door for ColdBox, check out the tickets:

What's New With 5.1.3 and 5.1.4

Bugs

• [COLDBOX-715] - Elvis operator inconsistencies on Adobe Engines, please Adobe, patch the engines and fix your compiler!
• COLDBOX-718 - Left one encodeforhtml in textarea that was missing.

Improvements

• [COLDBOX-237] - Some HTMLHelper method still need escaping as certain values should never be HTML
• [COLDBOX-716] - determine session/client state via CF getApplicationMetadata() instead of isDefined() to avoid load issues for flash ram
• [COLDBOX-717] - RemotingUtil converted to cfscript #367

We are excited to announce the release of TestBox version 2.8.0. To install just use CommandBox:

box install testbox --savedev

To upgrade your current testbox installation just run the following:

box update testbox

TestBox 2.8.0 is a minor release with some great new functionality and tons of fixes. You can find the release notes here and the major updates for this release.

We are so excited to announce two training workshops to occur before CFCamp 2018 this November 6-7 in Munich: https://cfcamp2018-box.eventbrite.com. Please note that registration is limited, so hurry!

ColdBox From Zero to Hero

by Luis Majano

In this workshop you will be introduced to the latest version of the most popular CFML MVC framework; ColdBox 5. We will go over the basics of installation, templating and configuration to the most advanced features like HMVC development with modules, RESTFul APIs, interception points and much more.

CommandBox Servers and Containerizing

by Brad Wood

Take a deep dive into how to standardize your server infrastructure from development to production using CommandBox, CFConfig, and Docker. These powerful tools help simplify the number of servers you have to keep track of and help you keep consistent settings and behavior across the board-- a must for a team of people all doing local development. We'll also do a brief introduction into what Docker is and how it can help you with a lot of deployment concerns.