In spirit of releasing more stuff, here is our next milestone for our 3.0.0 release Beta 3.  This beta keeps in spirit of innovation of the 3.0.0 series, but please note that if you are upgrading from previous releases you will need to follow our compatibility guide in order to get your application 3.0.0 compatible.  You can check out our What's New in 3.0.0 document and see all of the documentation of the new features or changed features of 3.0.0.  Please mark it as the documents are constantly being updated as release progresses.  We are still in transition in terms of documentation, tickets and all, so we will soon have all our docs migrated to our new wiki.  However, we will continue to update the original wiki documentation until our migration is complete.  Tickets are a little tricky since we are not touching our databases until the assembla move is complete and I am still waiting on their imports.

This is our current beta 3 tickets: http://ortus.svnrepository.com/coldbox/trac.cgi/query?group=status&milestone=3.0.0-Beta3 but more have been completed and an update on this will be done once our migration is complete.

Some enhancements not yet ticketed:

• Ability to now return simple data from event handlers in MVC mode and they will be rendered on the screen.  This gives in the ability to create reusable rendering events or viewelets by just rendering events: #runEvent('viewlet.X')#.  This also encapsulates the viewlet call and can even make the viewlet be rendered via Ajax or in a portlet. (ColdBricks anyone!)
• New XML Application loader that will load ColdBox applications that are configured via XML.
• Preliminary CFC Application loader that will have the ability to load ColdBox applications with no more XML (YEEEEHAAA!!), full CFC goodness! (Not yet functional)
• The ColdBox cache is now know as "cboxCache" and has a new configuration element: EvictCount which defaults to 1.  This means that when the cache evicts objects from the cache due to limits or thresholds it can evict a count that you set.
• The MailService plugin is now fully functional for Railo, Open BD and CF.
• The ColdBoxExtensionsLocation is now a setting that can be configured in your application file.  This setting points to a folder where you can drop plugins and internal ColdBox services.  These plugins will now either override CORE coldbox plugins or be available via "getPlugin()" calls.  The services are not yet operational but will give you the ability to extend the core framework via internal coldbox services which include even an internal coldbox event model.
• The majority of plugins and interceptors have been updated to leverage LogBox for logging capabilities and can be configured via the ColdBox configuration file.
• Includes LogBox 1.0
• Includes MockBox 1.0
• Overall stability and performance improvements.  Our load tests indicate a startup improvement of 15-20% and a overall request improvement of 15%.
• Stay tuned as ColdBox 3.0.0 continues with its milestones.  Expect another milestone release by the end of the year!
  

Here are some ticketed items: