Ortus Monthly Newsletter – June Recap 2025
June was a transformative month at Ortus Solutions as we crossed the halfway point of the year. With major product updates, powerful community engagements, and continued improvements across the BoxLang ecosystem, our mission to modernize development and empower engineers took center stage. Whether you're a longtime member of the Ortus community or just joining us, here's everything we accomplished in June packed with announcements, tools, and opportunities to grow.
Product Releases & Tools
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Introducing the BoxLang Version Manager (BVM)
We launched the BoxLang Version Manager (BVM)—a CLI tool designed to simplify version management across all major operating systems. Whether you're running on Linux, macOS, or Windows, BVM gives you full control over local versions, updates, and sandbox environments.
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BVM v1.14 Released – Project‑specific Versions & More
With the release of BVM v1.14, developers can now define
.bvmrcfiles to pin BoxLang versions per project. Other enhancements include automatic update checks, snapshot refreshes, and a smoother install experience—streamlining multi-version development even further.
BoxLang Core Releases
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One of the biggest releases so far, BoxLang v1.3.0 introduced compression enhancements for JSON, smart byte handling, new collection utilities (
mapMany,reduceMany), improved async queries, response compression, and more. This release focused on performance, stability, and developer experience across runtimes. -
Also Released in May: BoxLang v1.2.0 & v1.1.0
While released in late May, these versions laid the groundwork for the improvements in June.
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v1.2.0 brought Maven integration, structured logging, CLI enhancements, and better CFML compatibility.
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v1.1.0 added parsing helpers, native support for
.envfiles, logging overrides, and security updates.
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Content & Resources
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Into the Box 2025 Replays Now on CFCasts
Couldn’t make it to Into the Box this year? You can now stream every session from Day 1 and Day 2 on CFCasts, featuring presentations from Ortus engineers and community leaders. Whether you’re looking to sharpen your skills or explore new features in BoxLang and ColdBox, the full experience is now just a click away.
June reminded us of the power of momentum. From releasing powerful updates like BoxLang v1.3.0 and BVM v1.14, to sharing our vision across international stages, the Ortus team remains fully committed to open-source innovation, performance, and developer happiness. Thank you for being part of this journey with us—and stay tuned for what’s coming next in the second half of 2025!
Ortus Upcoming Events & Webinars
- Into the Box 2026 - Modernization in Motion: Building a Dynamic Future! Our Into the Box 2026 dates are out and our events are now live and ready for purchase, we have our team packs available for anyone interestes in improving the skills of their overall staff.Into the Box comes with big surprises diving into cutting-edge topics like AI, APIs, WebAssembly, microservices, cloud-native apps, real-time UIs, security, DevOps, and more.
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Ortus at CFSummit 2025 leading some sessions and a Workshop + Silver Sponsorship The Ortus Solutions team of experts have been invited selected once again to be part of the speakers lineup for yet another amazing Adobe CFSummit edition in Las Vegas, Nevada. As upon request of some community memebers that will be joining us in Las Vegas, we have decided to led a 2-Day Workshop after the conference featuring Luis Majano and Grant Copley
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Building Reactive UIs with CBWire! Join Grant Copley and Luis Majano for a hands-on workshop where you'll build a modern web application from scratch using CFML and the ColdBox module CBWIRE. This session offers practical, code-driven experience with CBWIRE's HTML-over-the-wire technology and AlpineJS, to simplify web development and enhance productivity.
Register now and save your spot. Please note tickets are limited to ensure you get a personalized experince
- Upcoming Free Ortus Webinar:Build an App with BoxLang led by Raymond Camden Register and get all the details to access our upcoming webinar led by our BoxLang Advocate Raymond Camden with exciting insights and mini workshop on how to build your first web app in BoxLang, learn how easy is to get started for CFML developers and build modern development.
Ortus Past Events
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Ortus Solutions Invited to America Digital 2025
We were honored to be invited by Invest in El Salvador to represent the country at America Digital 2025, held in Mexico City. This prestigious event brought together the top minds in digital transformation, and Ortus showcased BoxLang, ColdBox, and our open-source innovations as key components of enterprise modernization across Latin America.
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Ortus and BoxLang Return as Gold Sponsors at Open South Code 2025
We returned as proud Gold Sponsors at Open South Code 2025 in Málaga, Spain—one of Europe’s top events for open technologies. Our team presented on BoxLang’s growth as a powerful dynamic language for the JVM and how it enables high-productivity development for modern apps.
As part of DevNexus 2025, Luis Majano delivered a visionary session on the evolution of BoxLang and its dynamic, multi-runtime architecture. This presentation highlighted the language’s support for the JVM, Deno, Node, and WASM—making it one of the most versatile tools for full-stack developers.
In this hands-on session, Luis Majano explored how to deploy and run BoxLang applications using AWS Lambda, demonstrating serverless strategies and cloud-native best practices. This edition of our monthly webinar series was packed with live coding, examples, and Q&A.
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