ColdBox 5.1.1 patch update has been released today. This patch covers some major regresssions and improvements for stability. You can find the release notes below.

Bug

• [COLDBOX-703] - regression onmissingmethod on html helper method was public and changed to private
• [COLDBOX-704] - viewModule logic was not working at all yet again.

Improvement

• [COLDBOX-705] - REmove setting throwOnInvalidInterceptionStates, makes no sense anymore
• [COLDBOX-706] - Moved order of event manager states the injector provides to a ColdBox app so the binder can listen on itself

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.

Today we are very pleased to announce the final release of CommandBox 4.0.0.  This has been one of our most ambitious releases and closed more than 70 tickets over 6 months of development and testing.  

This release has gone through a month of testing that created two release candidates.  A big thanks goes out to everyone who helped provide feedback.  There are a lot of new features and libraries in 4.0 as well as a major overhaul of many of the UI aspects of the CLI. 

After 6 months of development, we are pleased to announce that CommandBox 4.0.0-RC.2 is available for your testing.  In case you're wondering, RC.1 was released at Into The Box last month, but I was super busy at the time and on the road for 2 solid weeks and didn't have the docs fully updated, so I didn't have a chance to blog it then.  A huge thanks goes out to everyone who help contribute ideas, pull requests, and testing for CommandBox 4.  This is truly a group effort.

We are excited to announce the release of TestBox version 2.6.0. To install just do:

box install testbox --savedev

To upgrade your current testbox installation just run the following:

box uninstall testbox && install testbox --savedev

TestBox 2.6.0 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 very excited to bring you a new commercial product release for the Ortus Family: Redis Lucee Extension  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?
• Do you want to be able to cache data in a distributed and elastic fashion?

We have been working with Redis Server for many years and it has been a true pleasure to not only build scalable farms with it, but also it is incredibly responsive when it comes down to key-value storage and caching transactions.

Capabilities

Here are some of the major features of our Redis Extension:

• Add Native Redis functionality to any Lucee CFML application
• Install at the server level (Available to all contexts)
• Create Cache connections in the Lucee administrator to connect to any network-accessible Redis cluster
• Set and get objects from Redis via standard CFML functions and tags cachePut(), cacheGet(), <cfcache action="get|put">
• Fully supports all built-in Lucee cache functions including wildcard filters
• Seamlessly distribute storage of the following to any bucket in a Redis cluster
  • Lucee session storage
  • Lucee client storage
  • Lucee RAM resource ram://...
• Seamlessly cache the following to any timeout-sensitive bucket in a Redis cluster
  • Results of database queries <cfquery cachedwithin>
  • Results of deterministic functions <cffunction cachedwithin>
  • Complex or simple objects in your application's code
  • Cached templates <cfcache action="content|cache|serverCache">
• Registers new CFML Built-In Functions (BIFs) for native Java access to Redis
• Extremely lightweight and fast

Purchase Extension

Resources

Please visit our Extension page for all the necessary resources.

• Purchase
• Capabilities
• Trial Version
• Professional Support

It is finally here! ColdBox 5 RC1 has landed with force! There are so many things to talk about, but we will focus on what RC brings and all the eco-system updates we have been working on. So let's begin this adventure.

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We are very excited that the Into The Box conference is coming back to the Houston are in April of 2018. Registration is now officially open and call for papers is now open as well. We have great many things planned for this year surrounding our conference mantra of: Modernize Your Skillz

• 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 awesome
• A warm and sunny city of Houston, TX
• Starting on April 25th - 28th
• Modernize Your Skillz

We are so excited to finally bring you the Ortus Certification program with our first certification; ColdBox Certified Developer. We have spent quite some time to get this program launched, but we wanted to make sure we had not only the process in place, but the correct evaluation metrics for our products. With that said, our first certification will be for our MVC platform; ColdBox. Much more will come for TestBox, CommandBox and ContentBox.

Please visit our certification page