Ortus Content Digest for week of August 12th

CFCasts, Podcasts, Tutorials

Gavin Pickin August 12, 2022

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Gavin Pickin

August 12, 2022

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It's August 12th... what has Ortus been publishing this week? We have the CFML News Podcast, some CFCasts and YouTube Videos, lots of Ortus and ITB Blog Posts. We have a lot more planned for next week as well.

Podcasts

Modernize or Die® - CFML News Podcast for August 9th, 2022 - Episode 160

CFCasts

LogBox 101
- Episode 12 - Categories
ForgeBox Module of the Week
- Twilio-sdk v2.2.1 - ForgeBox Module of the Week - 07/19/22 - Episode 157
VS Code - Hint tip and Trick of the Week
- Emojisense - VSCode Hint Tip and Trick of the Week - 07/19/22 - Episode 157

YouTube

Ortus Solutions Blog

ContentBox v5.3 Released

We are so excited to bring you the release of ContentBox Hybrid CMS version 5.3.0. This might be the last release in this major series as we are beginning the push of the next major release of ContentBox v6. Here is our what's new guide with our full release notes:

https://contentbox.ortusbooks.com/intro/release-history/whats-new-with-5.3.0

Want native Redis Support in Lucee/CFML? Ortus Redis Extension v2.0.0 Released!

We are very excited to bring you another release for our Redis Lucee Extension. This is a major release spawning research of over 9 months. We have done great strides in this new extension to not only bring you the best scaling capabilities via Redis, but also now to introduce to the CFML world: Real-Time messaging with Redis Pub/Sub! Here is our full release notes in our brand new documentation book: What's New With 2.0.0!

https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/want-native-redis-support-in-luceecfml-ortus-redis-extension-v200-released

Discover the tools, tricks, and techniques every modern CFML and BoxLang developer needs!

Into the Box 2026 is officially on the horizon, and it’s shaping up to be our most impactful conference yet.

Our mission this year is simple: **Make modernization approachable for everyone.** Whether you’re a seasoned ColdFusion veteran or a developer just starting your BoxLang journey, we’ve priced this event to ensure the entire community can join us in person.

From Lucee to Modern JVM Architectures for German Enterprises

How German companies running Lucee and CFML can evolve toward cloud-native JVM platforms

Across Germany, many enterprises rely on Lucee and CFML-based applications to run critical internal systems, customer portals, and business workflows.

Germany has one of the most active Lucee communities in Europe, supported by long-standing adoption of CFML across industries such as:

Manufacturing
Logistics

BoxLang 1.11.0 Release

We're proud to announce BoxLang 1.11.0, a highly focused performance and stability release that delivers measurable speed improvements across every BoxLang application, with zero code changes required. The team invested deeply in bytecode generation, class loading, lock management, and type casting to produce one of the most impactful runtime optimization releases to date. Alongside the performance wave, this release resolves critical concurrency bugs, hardens DateTime handling, and ships powerful new developer tooling.

Blog