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Ortus & BoxLang August Recap 2026

Victor Campos August 31, 2026

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Victor Campos

August 31, 2026

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Product Releases & Tools

  • bx-toml: Native TOML Support for BoxLang

    This post introduces bx-toml 1.0.0, a new BoxLang module providing native TOML parsing and serialization. It adds simple APIs for reading and writing TOML files, with support for nested structures, arrays, dates, formatting options, and TOML 1.0 conformance.

  • Introducing BoxLang AI: Build Intelligent Applications with One Unified AI Platform

    This post introduces BoxLang AI, a unified platform for building intelligent applications with AI agents, RAG, tool calling, memory, structured outputs, and multi-agent workflows. It provides a consistent, provider-agnostic approach to integrating AI into modern BoxLang applications.

  • ColdBox 20 Years Strong: Building the Future of Modern Application Development

    This article celebrates 20 years of ColdBox, from its beginnings as an MVC framework to its evolution into a complete application development platform. It highlights the ecosystem's modern capabilities, including dependency injection, caching, testing, security, AI, and deep integration with BoxLang.

  • Community Spotlight: BoxLang Express Brings Node-Style HTTP to the JVM

    This community spotlight showcases BoxLang Express, a lightweight HTTP framework built by Robert Zehnder. It brings familiar Node.js/Express-style routing, middleware, and virtual-thread concurrency to BoxLang without requiring a servlet container or embedded server.


BoxLang Updates

  • BoxLang 1.16.0 Released!

    This release closes 50 issues with improvements across HTTP clients, error handling, response buffering, Java classpath reloading, and CFML compatibility. It delivers greater runtime control, reliability, and portability for modern BoxLang applications.

  • Introducing BoxLang AI Explorer: A Local Catalog for Every AI Pattern

    This post introduces BoxLang AI Explorer, a searchable catalog of runnable BoxLang AI examples covering agents, RAG, tools, memory, pipelines, MCP, and more. It helps developers explore real AI patterns with source code, guidance, and sample output.

  • BoxLang in Motion: Modern Web App Development

    This article explores how BoxLang is evolving modern web development through faster compilation, smaller deployments, expressive syntax, improved HTTP capabilities, and flexible runtime options. It highlights how these improvements help teams build, deploy, and modernize applications with less complexity.

  • Open at the Core. Ready for Production: BoxLang+, BoxLang++, and the Freedom to Scale

    This post explores BoxLang’s open-source foundation and its path to production through BoxLang+, BoxLang++, and premium modules. It highlights flexible licensing, professional support, enterprise capabilities, and the freedom to scale without artificial limitations.


Ortus Upcoming Events


Ortus Past Events

  • Your AI Chatbot Is Only as Useful as the Data It Can Safely Access

    This post recaps the Creating Simple and Complex Chat Applications with a Locally Based AI System workshop, held online on August 28, 2026, with Dan Card. The full-day workshop focused on building practical, secure AI applications with BoxLang, covering RAG, Ollama, Amazon Bedrock, database and document retrieval, AI tools, and the tradeoffs between local and serverless AI.


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