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Welcome to Beta 15! This release brings several significant enhancements aimed at improving the efficiency and functionality of the CLI environment and continued bug fixing to bring our CFML compatibility to several client applications and Ortus Libraries. Key among these is the introduction of the bx-web-support module, which allows the CLI to interface with web server capabilities, making it an excellent tool for testing and feature auditing. Additionally, the merge capabilities within module settings have been refined to support deep merges from the configuration file, ensuring greater flexibility and control.

Welcome to the first of 10 FREE tips and tricks in our "102 ColdBox Tips and Tricks" Book! In this post, we’ll show you how to easily access system environment variables within your ColdBox configuration files, making your app setup smoother and more flexible!

As your application grows, maintaining and evolving your API can become a challenging task. New features, updates, and deprecations often require careful planning and execution, particularly when dealing with a large codebase. This is where ColdBox's capabilities come into play, enabling you to manage your API's versions effortlessly.

Introducing Numeric Placeholders in BoxLang

We're excited to announce a new addition to our BoxLang parser—a feature that draws inspiration from several other languages but fits naturally within BoxLang. The conversation around which features from other languages m...

In this release, we are excited to introduce several new features and enhancements aimed at improving functionality and user experience. These updates include the creation of immutable query types, new server keys to aid on CLI tooling, and methods to identify runtime initiation modes.

Additionally, we've added an event announcement for dump rendering to enable better integration with external listeners. Read on to learn more about these features and how they can benefit your workflow.

Code Strong!

If you are attending the Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2024, this is what you need to know: As always, Ortus Solutions will be sponsoring this years event as Silver Sponsors, we are excited to meet all the new attendees and old friends of the community of Coldfusion developers

We’re excited to unveil a new feature that makes method referencing in BoxLang even smoother. Building on our recent update introducing functional static binding to built-in functions, we're now bringing the same ease to member methods.

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