🔥 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!

We are thrilled to announce the release of BoxLang 1.0.0-RC.3, marking a significant milestone in the development of our dynamic JVM language. This release brings a major performance boost and over 100 bug fixes and improvements, making it our most robust release to date. We are now entering the final stretch towards our full release on May 1st, and we need your help to ensure everything is in perfect shape. Please test your applications and report any issues.

We are pleased to announce the release of CommandBox 6.2.0, a minor release in our CLI, Server, and Package Manager.

Download

You can download the latest version by using the upgrade command from the CLI for an in-place upgrade.  It's also available on HomeBrew, and our download page:

https://www.ortussolutions.com/products/commandbox

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We are excited to announce the release of TestBox 6.3.0. This version emphasizes the all-new BoxLang Reporter, now with vibrant color outputs and seamless execution through BoxLang, improving the testing experience. To benefit from these improvements,** update now and ensure your testing remains reliable and efficient.**

In this release, we're thrilled to unveil a series of significant enhancements and upgrades to ContentBox designed to elevate your experience and considerably improve system performance. Our team has focused on integrating the latest CommandBox migrations and ColdBox Core, which ensures that the core system continues to operate with maximum efficiency and stability. This upgrade is part of our ongoing commitment to maintaining a cutting-edge platform that meets the evolving needs of our users.

We are thrilled to introduce BoxLang Gen AI, a powerful and intuitive module that brings seamless AI generation capabilities to your BoxLang applications. With a fluent, functional API, this module allows developers to interact with multiple AI providers in a consistent and abstracted manner.

We’re entering the final stretch of our pre-releases, and we couldn’t be more excited to introduce RC2! 🚀 This release marks a major leap in performance and compatibility, the result of over six months of intensive development. Beyond enhanced stability and seamless integration, RC2 delivers game-changing performance optimizations that push the boundaries of efficiency. Get ready for our fastest, most refined release yet!

After nearly a year of relentless iteration, rigorous testing, blood, sweat, lots of praying, tears, and over 1,000 resolved tickets, we proudly announce the first Release Candidate (RC1) of BoxLang! With 27 beta versions behind us, we are now on the final stretch toward the official 1.0 release.