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CommandBox 5.4.1 Released

Brad Wood September 17, 2021

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Brad Wood

September 17, 2021

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We are pleased to announce the release of CommandBox 5.4.1.  This is a patch release with 5 small fixes for the 5.4.0 release.   There are a few bug fixes, and a couple small enhancements in this release.

Get the update

You can download the latest version from our product page:

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

This update has no changes to the jar files, so if you are already on the 5.4.0 version, you should be able to use the "upgrade" command to get the 5.4.1 version.

CommandBox> upgrade

Release Notes

Bug

COMMANDBOX-1374 Some installs unnecessarily write to the box.json

COMMANDBOX-1370 ConfigService::settingExists() fails in race conditions due to non-varscoped variables in JSONService

Improvement

COMMANDBOX-1372 Support excludePaths in watcher DSL and watch command

COMMANDBOX-1369 Ensure Adobe wars have a seeds.properties file

COMMANDBOX-1368 Add tab complete for "env clear" command

COMMANDBOX-1367 Ignore empty startScript on server start

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