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The bx-image module can now generate and read QR codes. Two new functions, a string member function, and two new bx:image actions. No extra dependencies for you to manage.

Ortus Solutions today announces CBSecurity 3.9, a major step forward for securing ColdBox applications. This release adds 12 ready-made security middleware that you attach directly to routes and route groups, with no firewall rules required.

Ortus Solutions today announces the general availability of bx-playwright 1.0, fluent browser automation and testing for BoxLang, powered by Microsoft Playwright. It ships alongside TestBox 7.2 and ColdBox 8.3, which bring real-browser testing straight into your specs. Drive Chromium, Firefox and WebKit, test full user journeys, render PDFs and images, and give your AI agents a real browser to verify the BoxLang applications they build.

Ortus Solutions today announces the general availability of ColdBox 8.3, a feature release focused on real-browser testing and route composition. Annotate a BaseTestCase spec with @browser and drive a real browser against your running ColdBox application, with named route helpers that know your routes. And with the Playwright driver behind it, the same browser can render PDFs and screenshots of your ColdBox views. This release also brings named route middleware with registerMiddleware(), route metadata shared by a whole group(), integration tests that run route middleware like a real request, and thread-safe WireBox scope wiring.

Ortus Solutions today announces the general availability of RuleBox 2.0.0, a modern, natural-language rules engine for BoxLang and ColdBox applications. It is a BoxLang-only rewrite, and it ships with rules as data, declared rulebooks, dry runs, an audit trail, and a built-in Rule Visualizer.

We've been building AI into the core of ColdBox since 8.0, because the applications teams are asked to build have changed. They talk to models, stream answers, expose tools to other AI systems, and increasingly host agents that act on behalf of users. None of that should require bespoke plumbing in every project.

Ortus Solutions today announces the general availability of cbGenesis 1.0, a production-ready ColdBox HMVC starter template for BoxLang, and the first one designed from day one to be built with an AI coding agent, not just by one.

Part 2 was about sending as little as possible. Today is the opposite: keeping a connection open and pushing data the moment it exists.

In Part 1 we moved security policy into the router. Today we do the same for caching, and we pick up one of the most underused performance wins on the web along the way.

The BoxLang playground at try.boxlang.io just got a major upgrade. You can now choose any released version of BoxLang and toggle CFML Compat mode on or off, right from the editor toolbar. No installs, no Docker images, no servers. Open a browser, write code, hit Run.

And the best part? The whole thing is powered by BoxLang Serverless on AWS Lambda, built and deployed from a single repository. Keep reading, because if you have ever wondered what BoxLang can do in the cloud, this is your answer. ☁️