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Victor Campos |  March 05, 2026

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.

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From Lucee to Modern JVM Architectures for German Enterprises

Cristobal Escobar |  March 04, 2026

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
  • <...
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BoxLang 1.11.0 Release

Luis Majano |  March 04, 2026

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.

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Ortus & BoxLang Feb Recap 2026

Victor Campos |  March 03, 2026

This month in the Ortus Solutions ecosystem was marked by major releases, enhancements to core tools like BoxLang and ColdBox, and strategic content focused on modernization, security, performance, and team optimization.

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What If the JVM Felt Lightweight Again?

Cristobal Escobar |  March 02, 2026

For two decades, the JVM has powered some of the most important systems in the world...

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SocketBox: Security, Authentication, and Authorization

Jacob Beers |  February 27, 2026

Welcome back to our series on SocketBox the premier WebSocket module for CommandBox and the BoxLang runtime!

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Why Legacy CFML Applications Block Innovation

Cristobal Escobar |  February 27, 2026

APIs, OAuth, SSO and Cloud Services in a Modern Architecture

For many organizations, legacy CFML applications still run core business processes reliably. They generate revenue, process transactions and support customers every day.

The problem is not always stability.

The problem is velocity.

Over time, older ColdFusion or Lucee environments begin to limit what the organization can build next. Not because the business lacks vision, but because the underlying platf...

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ColdFusion Security Isn’t Optional: 7 Hidden Risks Lurking in Mature CFML Environments

Cristobal Escobar |  February 26, 2026

ColdFusion applications are often stable for years.

They keep running.

They serve users.

They “just work.”

And that stability creates a dangerous illusion:

“If nothing’s broken, we must be secure.”

In mature CFML environments — especially those running Adobe ColdFusion 2021, Adobe ColdFusion 2018, Adobe ColdFusion 2016, Adobe ColdFusion 11, Lucee 5.4, or Lucee 5.3 or older — risk rarely appears as a dramatic failure.

It accumulates quietly.

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BoxLang Homebrew Installer Released

Luis Majano |  February 26, 2026

We're excited to announce the official BoxLang Homebrew tap — the easiest way to get BoxLang up and running on macOS (and Linux with Homebrew). One command, and you're in business.

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Is Your JVM Build Pipeline Slowing Down Your Entire Organization?

Cristobal Escobar |  February 25, 2026

The Problem Nobody Puts on the Roadmap

Most engineering teams using Java, Kotlin, Groovy, Scala, or Clojure don’t say:

“Our build system is the problem.”

Instead, they say:

  • “CI is just slow.”
  • “Gradle sometimes breaks after upgrades.”
  • “SBT takes forever.”
  • “Kotlin compilation is heavy.”
  • “Classpath issues again?”
  • “Why did this pass locally but fail in CI?”
...
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